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the big one for that was the massive HECS in January that buried the MA and NE, that one threw a slow moving conveyor belt of snow east to west across the state....we almost picked up a foot from that one and it was a complete surprise, even the morning of we were forecasted 1-3"

it would have been fun if this place and the internet existed back then....watching the Josh meltdowns would have been awesome. #darkjosh

Wow, no wonder you never mention that year....even Columbus beat Detroit 46".

And it’s not really so much about overall snow total for the winters but as you said, it seemed the snow cover persisted. We didn’t need to have 100 inches of snow because the snow we did get stuck around

That period really was amazing and is what really turned me into a snow weenie. It’s not my imagination or cherry picked memories. When we moved from the Philly area to Central Ohio in 1977 I was in 7th grade. We walked to school and in the winter months, the walk was through snow on a regular basis, sometimes with brutal cold. Those type of winters seemed to become normal as we would skate on our pond across the street build sled runs and dump water on them overnight so they would freeze up like a toboggan shoot and build ramps for our sleds to jump onto the frozen pond. When it did get warm enough during a January thaw, it often came with melting snow, fog, and drizzle, and that was what seemed to be abnormal… whereas winters since then it’s the snow and cold that has become abnormal. im just glad I was able to experience that. I hope someday my grandkids will get the same experience.

just messing with you....

You sound like an ole fashioned CMH snow weenie… …it’s happening Josh…you’re in denial right now but fear not, the next stage is acceptance

Saturn's ring going negative?

Ok that's embarrassing.... no wonder the snow gods hate me, I'm a damn ingrate.

I don't recall that much about '13-'14 here. Was that the year there was a big cutter that went up through eastern IN sometime between xmas and new years and that's what really kicked off winter? If so, we were on the warm side of that one, I remember that one was a kick in the nuts, especially since it was around or shortly after the holidays.

...todays map says don't bother wasting your faith

for the Central Ohio locals....especially the ones like myself who have been around a long time, sorry to see Bob Nunnally passed away. Back in the day he use to do the weekend weather on local NBC. I remember watching the Saturday evening before the March '93 superstorm, he was the first to mention we could see a blizzard out of this even though everyone else was keeping it much further east. Sure enough I woke up the next morning to blizzard warnings. Granted, we only got about 4" of wind swept powder here, but didn't have to go too far east to really get buried. I met him once too, he was a super friendly, good heart. RIP

these one day brutal cold shots interrupting our 40s and 50s are annoying as sh#t. Like getting a bucket of ice water dumped on you .

the positive pna is about the only thing thats keeping us from a full on Dorch.

DT is your man this winter. Riding the positive TNH pattern for the winter which is what drove the winter of '13-'14. Good luck!