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Feb. 20th - ? Possible Storm


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Here you go...This Video perfectly explains the Groundhog Day Blizzard. We all knew in the back of our heads that storm would somehow screw us in SEMI and sure enough....Well watch this vid..:devilsmiley:

Sad...but true somehow someway Detroit avoids every major Snow event.. We are the KINGS of 2-4 inches and the mysterious sleet that cuts down on totals or massive drysloting.

Heres all the Major Cities thats had a 15"+ event in the last 10 years North of I-70

Boston

Montreal

Toronto

Chicago

Milwaukee

Minneapolis

Columbus

Cleveland

Pittsburgh

Philly

Wash DC

Baltimore

Buffalo

Denver

Ottawa

New York

Hartford

Albany

Syracuse

Not 100% sure if Indianapolis has or has not had a 15"+event. The only event I can think of that may have been flirting with 15" occured in 2005

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Very nice link. Nice that you can see what the teleconnections were exactly. Is there analogs for every 6 hour or 12 hour interval for each gfs run? Or just an analog for each system.

It changes every 12 hours.

Here's a list of the most continuous analogs showing up (for the entire 120hrs of the past 4 runs of the GFS). December 19th, 2008 hasn't made the list yet, but it's still early.

http://www.eas.slu.edu/CIPS/ANALOG/continuity.php

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Sad...but true somehow someway Detroit avoids every major Snow event.. We are the KINGS of 2-4 inches and the mysterious sleet that cuts down on totals or massive drysloting.

Heres all the Major Cities thats had a 15"+ event in the last 10 years North of I-70

Boston

Montreal

Toronto

Chicago

Milwaukee

Minneapolis

Columbus

Cleveland

Pittsburgh

Philly

Wash DC

Baltimore

Buffalo

Denver

Ottawa

New York

Hartford

Albany

Syracuse

Not 100% sure if Indianapolis has or has not had a 15"+event. The only event I can think of that may have been flirting with 15" occured in 2005

Its a good thing we don't live in Detroit.

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Sad...but true somehow someway Detroit avoids every major Snow event.. We are the KINGS of 2-4 inches and the mysterious sleet that cuts down on totals or massive drysloting.

Heres all the Major Cities thats had a 15"+ event in the last 10 years North of I-70

Boston

Montreal

Toronto

Chicago

Milwaukee

Minneapolis

Columbus

Cleveland

Pittsburgh

Philly

Wash DC

Baltimore

Buffalo

Denver

Ottawa

New York

Hartford

Albany

Syracuse

Not 100% sure if Indianapolis has or has not had a 15"+event. The only event I can think of that may have been flirting with 15" occured in 2005

Detroit (and St. Louis) are also the only cities with the longest standing biggest snowstorm record, at least in the Midwest.

As for Cleveland, Syracuse and Buffalo, if their 15"+ event(s) came from lake effect then I don't think it would be fair to include them.

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Detroit (and St. Louis) are also the only cities with the longest biggest snowstorm record, at least in the Midwest.

As for Cleveland, Syracuse and Buffalo, if their 15"+ event(s) came from lake effect then I don't think it would be fair to include them.

All 3 of those cities got pounded on the March 08 storm...I could be wrong but I think Im right

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You had a 15"+ event in the last 10 years?

I measured 15 exactly with the Dec 18 2008 storm. As always dtx snow maps were off. We almost always do better here with snowstorms north of m59. Detroit is just too far east. Well west if you look at noreasters. Either big storms track right over us, track west or a noreaster. I think the apps screw us. Also transfers happen alot when we get a favorable track so an extended time into deformation bands is less likely. Just a tough geographical location for big snows.

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I measured 15 exactly with the Dec 18 2008 storm. As always dtx snow maps were off. We almost always do better here with snowstorms north of m59. Detroit is just too far east. Well west if you look at noreasters. Either big storms track right over us, track west or a noreaster. I think the apps screw us. Also transfers happen alot when we get a favorable track so an extended time into deformation bands is less likely. Just a tough geographical location for big snows.

And then when we do get that perfect track, moisture content and dynamics with a storm (November 13th, 2010 and November 13th, 2008) it's the wrong time of the year for snow.

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I measured 15 exactly with the Dec 18 2008 storm. As always dtx snow maps were off. We almost always do better here with snowstorms north of m59. Detroit is just too far east. Well west if you look at noreasters. Either big storms track right over us, track west or a noreaster. I think the apps screw us. Also transfers happen alot when we get a favorable track so an extended time into deformation bands is less likely. Just a tough geographical location for big snows.

We had a dream track in April 2005 that would have brought us 20-36 inches across the area but there was a catch...............it was to late in the year! So it can happen, when it does there always a catch

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We had a dream track in April 2005 that would have brought us 20-36 inches across the area but there was a catch...............it was to late in the year! So it can happen, when it does there always a catch

Yup. This year was the block. When that went it was leftover confluence and vortexs. Could be worse. We could live where Henry lives.

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Sad...but true somehow someway Detroit avoids every major Snow event.. We are the KINGS of 2-4 inches and the mysterious sleet that cuts down on totals or massive drysloting.

Heres all the Major Cities thats had a 15"+ event in the last 10 years North of I-70

Boston

Montreal

Toronto

Chicago

Milwaukee

Minneapolis

Columbus

Cleveland

Pittsburgh

Philly

Wash DC

Baltimore

Buffalo

Denver

Ottawa

New York

Hartford

Albany

Syracuse

Not 100% sure if Indianapolis has or has not had a 15"+event. The only event I can think of that may have been flirting with 15" occured in 2005

Last 15"+ event for Toronto, either downtown or at the airport, was in January 1999. So Detroit has some company.

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State college got hit hard a couple times last winter.

Yea but they are always so close to the monsters off the coast. I can't really complain. Folks on the east coast go in longer droughts. Prior to last year the mid-atlantic went some 8 years without a storm. NYC had a long drought too prior to this year. Prior to this winter we had 60 more inches than msp the last 8 years. So while we don't get the 15+ storms, which don't come around often in the midwest, we still do pretty well. I'd rather have 30+ (some 60+ mixed in) almost every season than 80+ one season mixed with some really dry winters like the east coast gets.

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Discounting Pearson Airport's ridiculously low 6", generally 8-12" depending on the obs site. Just to the NW of the city saw 12-18".

Just read on the storm 15-35 cm around the GTA up to 50 cm around Ottawa and the Niagara area. So I guess I can throw in Toronto in the Mix. So the 401 Corridor from Detroit To Toronto is OVER do.

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