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Miller A vs Miller B


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Were each of these actual events? Just curious.

Also, how does a SWF event look?

I'll let others portray the details of SWFE, but the multitude of storms was real.

Here's the tally. The Feb. 5-10 events were packed togather, with maybe 12 snowless hours (or less) between storms.

12/3-4...10.7

12/13-14...5.7

12/16-17...9.5

12/19-20...4.1

12/27-28..3.2

12/29.....3.7

12/31.....7.5

1/1-2....12.5

1/14....8.0

1/18....5.5

2/1-2....3.0

2/5....4.0

2/6....5.0

2/7.....5.5.....Edit: The 1.8" on 2/8 was separate event.

2/9-10...6.4

2/13....8.0

2/22....3.0

2/26-27...9.0

3/1....6.0

3/19...3.0

3/28-29...3.7

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good thread. i'm more a miller b fan but either one can bring the goods.

Miller Bs definitely bring it a little better for most of SNE...but yeah, most Miller A's we can get a chunk of, unless its last winter, lol. (though Dec 19 did hit SE SNE very hard).

Going through the top 10 snowfalls here, most of them were Miller Bs. I think the exceptions are PDII, Mar 1993 (this is #11 actually), and Feb 1899. Mar 1960 was a bit of a hybrid, but def. not a pure Miller A all the way.

The storm that most judge all storms by...Feb 1978...was a Miller B of course.

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Miller Bs definitely bring it a little better for most of SNE...but yeah, most Miller A's we can get a chunk of, unless its last winter, lol. (though Dec 19 did hit SE SNE very hard).

Going through the top 10 snowfalls here, most of them were Miller Bs. I think the exceptions are PDII, Mar 1993 (this is #11 actually), and Feb 1899. Mar 1960 was a bit of a hybrid, but def. not a pure Miller A all the way.

The storm that most judge all storms by...Feb 1978...was a Miller B of course.

would be cool to break them down by nesis score just for the fun of it to illustrate how the B event can score kind of crappy on the scale but be a history maker in new england.

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The "weak" B list:

1983-01-16, 1994-01-18, 2005-02-10, 2008-01-14, 1987-01-10, 2007-12-03, 2009-02-22, 2008-03-01, 2008-01-01, 2009-02-18, 2008-12-31, 2008-02-22, 2007-12-13, 2008-01-18, 2009-01-07

I'd argue (mildly) that the boldfaced ones were not weak by the time they got to central Maine, though they may have been for SW NH.

(Of course, this post is merely an IMBY opinion!) ;)

Effects on central/western Maine:

---1/18/1994: Lots of 10-15" amounts, with sleety snow at 5F, brief icing/RA near BGR that left I-95 almost impassable for a week.

---2/10-12/2005: 15-20"+, with thundersnow. 21" IMBY.

---1/14/2008: Lovely band of 30-35 dbz extending from Sebago thru AUG to upper Penobscot Bay, nearly stationary for about 6 hr of 2"/hr snow. GYX had 15".

---2/22-23/2009: Most foothills stations recorded 20-28". 24.5" IMBY, with 9" in 2:45 and 18" in 7:30. The deformation band triggered its own thread on Eastern.

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I'd argue (mildly) that the boldfaced ones were not weak by the time they got to central Maine, though they may have been for SW NH.

(Of course, this post is merely an IMBY opinion!) ;)

Effects on central/western Maine:

---1/18/1994: Lots of 10-15" amounts, with sleety snow at 5F, brief icing/RA near BGR that left I-95 almost impassable for a week.

---2/10-12/2005: 15-20"+, with thundersnow. 21" IMBY.

---1/14/2008: Lovely band of 30-35 dbz extending from Sebago thru AUG to upper Penobscot Bay, nearly stationary for about 6 hr of 2"/hr snow. GYX had 15".

---2/22-23/2009: Most foothills stations recorded 20-28". 24.5" IMBY, with 9" in 2:45 and 18" in 7:30. The deformation band triggered its own thread on Eastern.

Yeah this is also population weighted so the highest correlation is with snowfall in the SE third of NH.

I remember watching the radar with Feb 2009 and thinking, wow those guys are getting pounded! I got pretty screwed in SW NH with that storm. But the band in Maine was awesome!

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Miller Bs definitely bring it a little better for most of SNE...but yeah, most Miller A's we can get a chunk of, unless its last winter, lol. (though Dec 19 did hit SE SNE very hard).

Going through the top 10 snowfalls here, most of them were Miller Bs. I think the exceptions are PDII, Mar 1993 (this is #11 actually), and Feb 1899. Mar 1960 was a bit of a hybrid, but def. not a pure Miller A all the way.

The storm that most judge all storms by...Feb 1978...was a Miller B of course.

All but Phil?

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