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Remembering a blizzard that I believed to be epic was not so long ago where I can't remember any details. This one was two about to be three winters ago. The winter of 2014-2015 was boring and dull as well as rarely cold to start, the first month of that winter was warm and boring. Christmas Day was warm, it was raining and in the 50s, cleared by the afternoon. Cape Cod winters are not promised a thing snowfall wise. However, since the winter of 2002-2003 winters have been kinder to the snow lover living on the Cape Cod peninsula. Since then I have witnessed numerous 18"+ snowstorms, and even before that winter, but not the frequency we have since that winter. Our two best winters for snow loving people were in 2004-2005 and ten years later 2014-2015, both winters we received 98" in 04-05 and 72" 14-15. In both of those winters we received two comparable blizzards, in the 04-05 winter we received an 18" snowstorm the day after Christmas and in 14-15 we received a 15" snowstorm two weeks into the month of February. So onto witnessing the blizzard. I now had a blizzard to compare this current behemoth too. Back in 04-05 we never experienced more than 2 feet of snow from any one storm. However, the Jan 05 Blizzard brought almost three feet of snow, we missed three feet by one inch. Numerous locations along the Eastern MA coastline received more than 35", Sandwich received 35", Falmouth got 38" and Salem, MA got 38". The blizzard three winters ago brought a grand total of 32" to Harwich, MA, my front yard. What was so fascinating with the Blizzard Juno was that it kept coming with the heavy snow bands across the Outer Cape and Nantucket. The rain/snow forecasted to come as close to Hyannis as possible Tuesday afternoon cutting our snow total in half. However, that night Tuesday early morning hours, I woke up and the NWS point click forecast brought the afternoon high temperatures down from mid 30s to 32F, that day, the temperature didn't break 31F. Why did the forecasts break so badly for the pros? Because simply they overestimated the EURO model's temperatures. If they went with conventional wisdom, they would have seen that the EURO was overamplified and too far west with the low track, I saw the low tracking eastward of the benchmark, not west. SO I went for the overhaul in the forecast snow totals, I told Cape Cod residents to look out, we are getting 30"+ from this storm. It felt like the Blizzard of 05, the local tv mets brought our totals down in both epic storms. Following the storm on this forum was nothing but a bunch full of awesomeness. Great radar recognitions by our mets, and Will (Orh_wxman), and Scott N. (Coastalwx) they did a fabulous job updating the weenies including myself on the latest radar trends for Juno. Mike Seidel on the TWC and his amazing footage caught on camera in Plymouth, MA wow. And RIP Clinchwood, miss you man. He brought an certain attitude towards his observations that you could just resonate towards. Man what an epic storm. That forum keeps me going during the non snow months. From the early its going east to the no its coming posts to the oh man 12" is nothing to the 30"+ amounts over Worcester MA. To Scott's (CoastalWx) posts about "Its not gonna happen James", that put the icing on the cake. Thanks guys for a wonderful time, let's do it again this winter.
