CT Rain Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 FWIW, I measured 34" SND as well (only 16.0" new though) in Stafford Springs. That ties my previous record of 34" on 10 & 13 January 1996. How long back do your records go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Newport certainly was the screw-zone. In this area when storms track this close to the coast...if you don't cash in on the front-end thump you won't get much at all....because once the heaviest precip. from the front-end thump moves north...you're left with the dry slot or lighter precip....and once the heavy bands move east from CT and LI they always weaken when they reach Newport. Other than Block Island and SOME parts of the Cape, I probably had the least snow out of this. Little over 2 yesterday, and maybe 3 overnight. I honestly think this time it wasn't really the track that got you, it was the little spin rotating around the m/l. The NAM for some reason flipped over it, did kind of recognize the dry punch we saw on the water vapor but greatly overplayed it north of the canal. Minus that little spin I think everything would have been 10-15 miles further south and you'd have been fine. I dont ever remember there being 2, sometimes 3 mini circulations in each system aloft. it's like we cannot quite get all the vorticity to phase but instead have independent tiny centers rotating around. As that little one spun west south of long island - that's when it was just insane in CT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leesun Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 In the end, the Euro verifies pretty well in the days leading up to the event. Too bad it abandoned ship in the last 24 hrs. It does much better in the medium range than in the short range (strange). One run of the GFS had it pretty well, while all the other runs failed. The NAM was an epic FAIL. Say what you want about the 2 separate areas of moisture, fact is, it still tracked the storm OTS (convective feedback). To me, Euro is still king (especially 3 days out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpickett79 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Can someone please post the link for the radar loop for this storm? please and thank you http://vortex.plymouth.edu/nids.html for station ID type in; BOX under" type " switch to "21 frame" then adjust hour between 7 and 12z especially. i love doing this after each storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 impressive looking map. Unless one lives in N. Maine, where they're trying to patch the biathlon trails with snowmaking, for the upcoming World Cup event. Probably too late to move the races to CT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 12z GFS is just endless winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Eleanor...see you lurking down there... 4.5" in Yarmouth Port if it matters for the PNS. phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Hopefully we see a KU up this way sometime soon, Its been many years............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 12z GFS is just endless winter. Isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 12z GFS is just endless winter. just posted about next week briefly on John's thread. Looks nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan11 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 OBS: 0.00" ...though I got .6" from some lake stuff this morning. It was fun driving through the white out down in the lower HV though yesterday on the way home from Long Island. If I had been an hour later I may have been stranded down there. Maybe next week's storm with throw us a few inches. just posted about next week briefly on John's thread. Looks nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Euro performed poorly up here. Kept giving out 0.75" QPF+ and in the end nobody around here saw that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan11 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 It all depends upon your IMBY perspective vis-a-vis the Euro. Here it started with a mixed precip. cutter event at day 7, shifted to a coast hugging track and major snowstorm by day 4, then shifted to a BM or CC track for a few days with still significant qpf depicted here. Then slowly cut the qpf from .75 to .5 to .3 to Zero over the last 48 hours. In the end, the Euro verifies pretty well in the days leading up to the event. Too bad it abandoned ship in the last 24 hrs. It does much better in the medium range than in the short range (strange). One run of the GFS had it pretty well, while all the other runs failed. The NAM was an epic FAIL. Say what you want about the 2 separate areas of moisture, fact is, it still tracked the storm OTS (convective feedback). To me, Euro is still king (especially 3 days out). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Euro performed poorly up here. Kept giving out 0.75" QPF+ and in the end nobody around here saw that. The models that performed the best were the ones that showed almost a total miss up here.....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 How long back do your records go? 1985....I wish I had earlier data, but I was too young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooralph Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I have to go to Denver Thursday/Friday. Hopefully the timing on that mid-week system holds up so I get in and out OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Interesting... 15" Colchester just north of me but only 8.5" Norwich 10 miles east of Colchester. Also 17.5" in Lisbon just 6 miles NE of Norwich. Don't believe the Norwich for a second.. that must just be round 2. Even then it is still very low. 8.5 vs 17.5 within 6 miles of each other.. and there was no gradient/banding visible on radar that would explain it. An impressive 12" even in Groton. Old Saybrook 13" just across the river and south of me. Sleet contamination not too bad on the shoreline.. I thought I would have a lot more than KGON. The radar capture I posted tells why, Norwich was slotted during the epic five per hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC48 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 48" on the month.....only behind Jan 2005 (51.1") and Jan 1966 (50.5") 29" depth is my 3rd highest, behind only 30" in Feb 1978 and 40" in Feb 1969. EPICEPICEPICEPIC 37" was on the ground after the Blizzard of 1978. At least 5" old left over from the (White Out of 1978) January 19-20 then.... 32" from the The Blizzard of 1978! The 36-40" sounds about correct after the Big Snow of 1969 (4 Days) of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 brutality pure brutality, 8 hours of nonstop pain, heavy wet snow, clients dug out, must sleep, never seen anything like this in my life, sw ct is the snow mecca of the world. goodnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leesun Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 What is it this year with these short duration intense storms? We were supposed to be in a blocky pattern. Let's get one of these to hang around a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherMA Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 What is it this year with these short duration intense storms? We were supposed to be in a blocky pattern. Let's get one of these to hang around a while. We seem to be getting higher totals with these short intense storms then the long drawn out ones, so I say keep them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpickett79 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 We seem to be getting higher totals with these short intense storms then the long drawn out ones, so I say keep them. I think late feb will be ripe for a slow crawling record breaker.....the big daddy so to speak. 30-50 FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 What is it this year with these short duration intense storms? We were supposed to be in a blocky pattern. Let's get one of these to hang around a while. No nitpicking allowed in the wake of overachievers. This is a rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Just finished my driveway after starting around 8:00.. Wait till you guys see the snowbanks.. I'll post them in the pics thread after i get some lunch. I had people driving by and taking pictures of therm lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Yeah that's just beyond nuts. That is probably one of the highest depths since 1888. I took some measurements all around the yard and I got 32,33,35,38 and 42!! which is probably somewhat drifted.. So we'll call it a 33-35 inch snowpack in the yard. I told Will I thought it was 36 and certainly over 30. Just insanely deep..That map someone posted confirms it too of snowdepth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 Just finished my driveway after starting around 8:00.. Wait till you guys see the snowbanks.. I'll post them in the pics thread after i get some lunch. I had people driving by and taking pictures of therm lol :weenie: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Just finished my driveway after starting around 8:00.. Wait till you guys see the snowbanks.. I'll post them in the pics thread after i get some lunch. I had people driving by and taking pictures of therm lol Dude I am wooped, LOL I saw a guy with huge banks in Sterling, thought of you, can not wait to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambone Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 This is a shot of the gazebo in our front yard. We totalled15.5" here in the "Little Town of Mendon". Makes sense, Northbridge to my west checked in with 15 and Milford a couple of miles to my east jackpotted at 16.4". I'd put total snow depth at over 25". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Wow... Staffordville has a 34" depth!!!! 19.2" new Shocking they came in with the highest total again..Shocking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattb65 Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Just finished my driveway after starting around 8:00.. Wait till you guys see the snowbanks.. I'll post them in the pics thread after i get some lunch. I had people driving by and taking pictures of therm lol Submit them to the globe! They even created a section for crazy snow mountain pics! Boston Globe Snow Mountain Pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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