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prepare for a Hoosier December 24th 2002 comment coming in t minus.........

I recall you warning me about the possible bust with that. Remember back then i lived just up the road in Mt Vernon. Bust or not i was happy as officially it was still my first white Christmas i had seen. If i recall we got a bit from the backside of it after the crap/dry slot. Well up where i was did.

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In terms of a last minute mileage shift, today's event has to rank up there pretty closely.

but trust me, in terms of heartbreak or ranking on a 'give a sh/\t scale'....NO comparison. This was expected to be a scrappy system here to begin with. '02 was supposed to be a Xmas Eve snowstorm with nearly a foot.

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I recall you warning me about the possible bust with that. Remember back then i lived just up the road in Mt Vernon. Bust or not i was happy as officially it was still my first white Christmas i had seen. If i recall we got a bit from the backside of it after the crap/dry slot. Well up where i was did.

I don't doubt it, around these parts you learn early 'bout dry slots and warm tongues.

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I will admit though, out of all the busts/dry slots/warm tongues you guys in Ohio have had, I really don't feel sorry for you all after the March 2008 Blizzard and the Valentine's Day 2007 storm.

Really, while we've been doing better up this way with nickel & dimes, the lacking of a storm like the two I just listed is still leaves much to be desired. I thought the Groundhog Day storm would suppliment that (And it did for the Quad Cities-Chicago-Grand Rapis-Saginaw corrdor) but it fell short here.

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I will admit though, out of all the busts/dry slots/warm tongues you guys in Ohio have had, I really don't feel sorry for you after the March 2008 Blizzard and the Valentine's Day 2007 storm.

Really, while we've been doing better up this way with nickel & dimes, the lacking of a storm like the two I just listed is still leaves much to be desired. I thought the GGoundhog Day storm would Suppliment that (And it did for the Quad Cities-Chicago-Grand Rapis-Saginaw corrdor) but it fell short here.

hmm I didnt get anything from the valentines day storm.. Nothern OH did, I think central ohio got like 2-4"

And the march blizzard happened in MArch in OH. It didnt stick around long.

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i hear ya, but about a week later then you. My interest is still piqued about the coming week. After that bring on the torch baby!!

I don't expect that the pattern that's been producing nothing but misses all winter is going to suddenly switch gears and nail us before a real pattern change sets in within the next 10 days or so. Just not going to happen. If I was on the EC or up in the Lakes, I'd be feeling pretty good, though. We'll probably end the season around normal, and that's actually pretty good considering just how many ways we've been screwed. My 1962-63 analog was pretty good, actually. Constant cold but no big snow events and only slightly above normal snowfall. It's been like that, only a few degrees warmer.

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I don't expect that the pattern that's been producing nothing but misses all winter is going to suddenly switch gears and nail us before a real pattern change sets in within the next 10 days or so. Just not going to happen. If I was on the EC or up in the Lakes, I'd be feeling pretty good, though. We'll probably end the season around normal, and that's actually pretty good considering just how many ways we've been screwed. My 1962-63 analog was pretty good, actually. Constant cold but no big snow events and only slightly above normal snowfall. It's been like that, only a few degrees warmer.

March 08. Whole winter sucked until that storm.

We still have sunday and monday and then Thursday/Friday so still time to get at least one 6 incher.

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I will admit though, out of all the busts/dry slots/warm tongues you guys in Ohio have had, I really don't feel sorry for you all after the March 2008 Blizzard and the Valentine's Day 2007 storm.

Really, while we've been doing better up this way with nickel & dimes, the lacking of a storm like the two I just listed is still leaves much to be desired. I thought the Groundhog Day storm would suppliment that (And it did for the Quad Cities-Chicago-Grand Rapis-Saginaw corrdor) but it fell short here.

Valentine's Day 2007 was 6" of snow followed by slop and rain that compacted and melted part of it. It wasn't that special here. It's been better the last 5 or 6 years as far as snowfalls, but that can be said for everywhere. I still think we live in an awful location for good winter weather, probably the worst place at 40N anywhere in the country.

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I don't expect that the pattern that's been producing nothing but misses all winter is going to suddenly switch gears and nail us before a real pattern change sets in within the next 10 days or so. Just not going to happen. If I was on the EC or up in the Lakes, I'd be feeling pretty good, though. We'll probably end the season around normal, and that's actually pretty good considering just how many ways we've been screwed. My 1962-63 analog was pretty good, actually. Constant cold but no big snow events and only slightly above normal snowfall. It's been like that, only a few degrees warmer.

meh, i'm not sure I buy into this whole scenario that early screw jobs telegraph the rest of the winter being the same. Today's event was actually a different animal then we've seen. It just did the last minute nw trend jump. The chicago blizzard was never really progged to get us inside of 144 hrs. I think people who got screwed the worst in that storm were the ones that were expecting heavy snow inside 48 hrs and ended up with a sleet storm The icestorm ended up being a bit of a surprise....albeit an icestorm.

We'll see what happens mon-tues and later in the week..... i'm still interested but admit my desire to have a snowstorm vs seeing the first 70 degree day is beginning to switch in favor of the latter with each passing day.

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March 08. Whole winter sucked until that storm.

We still have sunday and monday and then Thursday/Friday so still time to get at least one 6 incher.

No, it didn't. We had a nice clipper in December of 07, had a few small events in January, more in February with a particular incident of thundersnow, and were running near normal before that storm hit. And considering the extreme rarity of that event, I'm not even going to entertain the thought that we'll have anything like that again within the next 25 years or more.

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Indeed it was! :thumbsup:

Remember all the crap i got from the i95 weenies over the snowfall map i did for that? Probably one of my best calls ever which made it even sweeter. :popcorn:

i still remember watching the mos runs come in after the first wave hit. We were supposed to be missed to the southeast with the second wave and then all of a sudden the blues started shifting north dramatically....that was :snowman:

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meh, i'm not sure I buy into this whole scenario that early screw jobs telegraph the rest of the winter being the same. Today's event was actually a different animal then we've seen. It just did the last minute nw trend jump. The chicago blizzard was never really progged to get us inside of 144 hrs. I think people who got screwed the worst in that storm were the ones that were expecting heavy snow inside 48 hrs and ended up with a sleet storm The icestorm ended up being a bit of a surprise....albeit an icestorm.

We'll see what happens mon-tues and later in the week..... i'm still interested but admit my desire to have a snowstorm vs seeing the first 70 degree day is beginning to switch in favor of the latter with each passing day.

Yea until you see that model showing a 12" snowstorm, then I am sure you go back to being a fullblown snow weenie. LOL. Aside that i dont post here in the summer, because typically the weather is boring in OH any time but winter, and winter isnt that great lol..

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No, it didn't. We had a nice clipper in December of 07, had a few small events in January, more in February with a particular incident of thundersnow, and were running near normal before that storm hit. And considering the extreme rarity of that event, I'm not even going to entertain the thought that we'll have anything like that again within the next 25 years or more.

you could get 8" and have a worse storm. We may not see another 20" snowfall in the next 20 years(I think we will) but we could most definitely have a worse storm. The winds never really done much in 08 and the impact of the storm wasnt very great. I remember schools didnt even close down in Fredericktown. 2 hour delay that monday was all. So the impacts of 08 wasnt that bad at all. PD2 had worse impacts imo.

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I will admit though, out of all the busts/dry slots/warm tongues you guys in Ohio have had, I really don't feel sorry for you all after the March 2008 Blizzard and the Valentine's Day 2007 storm.

Really, while we've been doing better up this way with nickel & dimes, the lacking of a storm like the two I just listed is still leaves much to be desired. I thought the Groundhog Day storm would suppliment that (And it did for the Quad Cities-Chicago-Grand Rapis-Saginaw corrdor) but it fell short here.

that was a disaster here. 12" forecasted and ended up being a sleet storm. Can't use that one as reason not to feel sorry for us. Might have to refer to Hoosier, he got an epic blizzard from that

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