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94 was silly cold. i remember the 4-6" of pure sleet. for about 2 minutes it changed to heavy snow toward the beginning in the street lights and then i turned away, came back minutes later and it was back to sleet and pretty much stayed that way. biggest sleet storm i'd seen though i was in ny in '07 and remember a pretty good one there, but it wasn't like the one in '94. the freezing rain event that season was crazy. i remember there was definitely about an inch of ice. one of the few true ice storms i can recall here.

good point regarding road accumulation. i felt like with 96 and 03 it was a legit snowed in situation. instant accumulation on all surfaces during both storms. i gotta give the edge to those over 10 even with the sleet because of just how cold those first two were. doesn't diminish feb '10, which was still a great storm here.

the next 3 years after that were comical.

Terrible storm if you dont like 24+ hours of continuous snowfall with 20"+ totals.

Still have feb. We can score this month. Not saying we will but it's too early to throw in the towel. Maybe we are corrales in round 10. Down but not out.

Lol we need more storms to track though I guess there's something to be said about how this area gets few HECS but they do happen from time to time. Of all the storms feb 87 May have been my favorite or up there as a sleeper top 5 pick. Those rates in that short period of time were ridiculous. I was too young to remember the others before it but I do vaguely remember seeing a ton of snow on our patio at the end of 83.

96. It was a better snow producer here than 93 and impacted more area than 03 and 10.

4 years ago. that's a long time, and seems like yesterday because aside from the storm right after that one, we've had a lot of nothing since.

i was too young for 79 and 83...so i'd probably go 03 (lived in upper moco), 96, 93, 10, 09, the 87 storms, 00...and that might round it out. lived in lower moco for the rest of the storms which is probably why 03 was tops for me...felt like there was at least 2 feet of powder with that one.

dec 09 and feb 10 were bigtime, but i still think 96 and 03 were the cream of the crop here and of course 93 was the godfather of east coast storms. personal opinion.

i just started leasing a jeep which will only fuel this hobby. i had never really driven in snow until i got one of these...they really are made for this stuff. what i remember about this storm was that the pattern from fall up to that point and most of that season was just a perfect combination of southern stream waves and blocking. if the pattern stayed it was clear it was just a matter of time that once it got colder we wouldn't be getting nickel and dime'd like we are now.