Arnold214 Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 * PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT National Weather Service Taunton MA 1102 PM EST Tue Apr 1 1997 Here are reports of snow accumulations for the storm event which Began around 9 AM Monday morning March 31 st. This should be the final report on this storm. Thanks to all media and coop observers for the reports. Our homepage is: Http://www.Nws.NOAA.Gov/er/box and http://bristol.Wbox.NOAA.Gov ...Nws offices... Time snowfall inches NWSFO Taunton /BOX/ final 23.3 Boston Logan /BOS/ final 25.4 Worcester Airport /ORH/ final 33.0 Blue hills obs /BHO/ 305 PM 30.0 3rd highest ever Warwick RI /PVD/ Bradley Intl /BDL/ ...Peak wind gust... Boston Logan /bos/ 53 mph Worcester Airport /orh/ 47 mph Blue hills obs /bho/ 72 mph Warwick RI /pvd/ 51 mph Bradley Intl /bdl/ 48 mph ...Eastern Massachusetts... Fairhaven Final 14.5 3.53 liquid Fall River Final 15.0 Attleboro Final 22.0 Randolph Final 27.0 Hull final 24.0 5.32 liquid Gust to 64 mph Acushnet Final 17.0 New Bedford Final 14.0 Newton Final 27.0 Norton final 22.8 Milton Final 22.5 Hingham Final 23.0 2nd highest ever Scituate Final 18.0 Onset final 15.0 Danvers Final 16.0 E. Falmouth Final 8.0 Pocasett final 8.0 Hyannis Final 6.5 Martha/s Vineyard final 5.0 Nantucket Final trace Winthrop 355 PM 23.7 Mansfield 345 PM 20.3 2.93 liquid West Cranston 345 PM 25.0 Manchester 340 PM 24.5 Marshfield 315 PM 20.0 East Woburn 200 PM 30.0 Woburn 200 PM 20.0 Walpole 100 PM 22.5 North Woburn 100 PM 27.0 Maynard 100 PM 24.7 Lynnfield 100 PM 21.0 Carver 100 PM 19.4 Hingham 100 PM 26.0 West Townsend 1245 PM 27.0 liq. Eqv. 2.75 Hanson 1240 PM 18.0 Littleton 1200 PM 26.0 West framingham 1200 PM 20.0 Acton 1155 AM 29.0 North Cambridge 1136 AM 25.5 Methuen 1130 AM 18.0 Cohasset 1130 AM 19.0 Wakefield 1115 AM 25.0 Swampscott 1115 AM 21.1 Marlboro 1110 AM 30.0 Wakefield 1110 AM 18.0 Tyngsboro 1026 AM 20.0 ...Peak wind gusts... Onset 64 mph West Island 55 mph Nantucket 55 mph New Bedford 42 mph Pocasett 46 mph ...Central Massachusetts... (Worcester county only) Milford Final 36.0 ties blzzrd 78' tot. Northbridge 110 PM 30.0 Grafton 1130 AM 29.0 Shrewsbury 900 AM 30.3 5 ft drifts at 6 AM West boylston 730 AM 24.0 ...Western Massachusetts... Worthington 730 AM 24.0 Charlemont 730 AM 17.0 Sunderland 730 AM 15.1 Westfield 730 AM 16.5 2.0 liq. Eqv. Munson 700 AM 17.0 ...Southern New Hampshire...(Hillsborough and Cheshire counties) Nashua 1040 AM 16.0 Wilton 900 AM 26.0 Weare 800 AM 19.6 Manchester 730 AM 14.0 Marlow 730 AM 14.0 Otterbrook 730 AM 12.0 Keene 730 AM 12.0 Surry Mountain Dam 730 AM 11.0 Francestown 700 AM 20.0 ...Northern Connecticut... (Hartford/tolland/windham counties) W. Suffield final 17.0 Union 1100 AM 18.3 Vernon 1100 AM 13.5 Farmington 1100 AM 15.5 Wethersfield 1100 AM 12.3 Mansfield 1100 AM 12.5 Putnam 1100 AM 21.0 Avon 1100 AM 14.0 East Granby 1100 AM 11.0 Bristol 935 AM 13.0 Mansfield 930 AM 16.0 Storrs 930 AM 12.0 Chaplin 930 AM 10.0 Scotland 930 AM 7.0 Windham 930 AM 12.0 ...Rhode Island... N. Foster final 24.7 3.58 liquid Middletown Final 4.0 Providence (downtown) final 19.5 3.06 liq. Eqv. Tiverton Final 14.0 3.08 liq. Eqv. West Warwick 415 PM 18.0 West Cranston 1245 PM 24.0 Woonsocket 1130 AM 21.7 Warwick 1100 AM 16.5 Burrillville 1100 AM 30.5 Cumberland 1100 AM 24.0 Johnston 1049 AM 16.0 If there's one storm that gets brought up on this board that i really wish i could have experienced, it's this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jconsor Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Low-resolution US radar loop for Mar 31-Apr 1: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/current/mcview.phtml?prod=usrad&java=script&mode=archive&frames=130&interval=15&year=1997&month=3&day=31&hour=7&minute=0 best storm after 78 imo. anomalous for time of year and qpf are there NO radar LOOPS of this thing? two feet fell in my town of raynham, ma (90' asl) and i could gauantee areas up by / N easton / /shaon around 300-400' had 28-30 or so.....i bet ashland and nobscot framingham milford bellingham wrenthem foxborough (300'+)got smoked silly as well. i believe there were many 30 amounts in those towns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 If there's one storm that gets brought up on this board that i really wish i could have experienced, it's this one. It was incredible, Mike. I still remember the "WTF" reaction I had when it I looked out the window during physics class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpickett79 Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 It was incredible, Mike. I still remember the "WTF" reaction I had when it I looked out the window during physics class. i'm trying to remember when it flipped to snow down in taunton/raynham area.....i think it was several hours of R+ later than boston ... (yet we still got 24"). i'm convinced many areas got 30.....and a lil above in some instances that didn't report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 i'm trying to remember when it flipped to snow down in taunton/raynham area.....i think it was several hours of R+ later than boston ... (yet we still got 24"). i'm convinced many areas got 30.....and a lil above in some instances that didn't report. I went to HS in Taunton (not Taunton High) and it was around 1pm iirc. Might have been a little earlier, but it was around 1pm when I really noticed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 If Logan airport got 25.4", then I'd bet that most of the area west of Boston Common got 28-30". Even an extra 50-100 feet probably really helped and of course getting out of the middle of Boston Harbor. I'd agree. Because most of it fell at night and initially it was heavy and wet I think by todays standards it was undermeasured anyway. I know when I look back the 24-27" I refer to OTG the next morning. I was otu walking in the thundersnows at night but I did not measure actively. In any case it was a unique storm in so many ways and one we will work very hard to see again in our lifetimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Awesome storm for me living in Foxboro. Was out of college and working and was not able to get out due to the roads being impassable. 24"+ fell. I due recall my dad and I heading out around town in the afternoon and the roads were literally one plow width plowed. Surreal experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin W Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Attleboro-22" In 18 years at the same company, that was the one and only time I got a call telling me not to come in. All that snow was pretty much gone the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 The hour after hour of tsnow falling at 3/hour was something that is almost a once in a lifetime occurence. Fabulous event only tainted by the calendar placement meaning it melted quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Figures, the closest ASOS site to my location OWD went down just before 8pm on the 31st http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KOWD/1997/3/31/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA and did not come back online just before 7am on the 1st http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KOWD/1997/4/1/DailyHistory.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I'd agree. Because most of it fell at night and initially it was heavy and wet I think by todays standards it was undermeasured anyway. I know when I look back the 24-27" I refer to OTG the next morning. I was otu walking in the thundersnows at night but I did not measure actively. In any case it was a unique storm in so many ways and one we will work very hard to see again in our lifetimes. Where did you live during this storm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/NARR/1997/us0331.php http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/NARR/1997/us0401.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarveyLeonardFan Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I was in Queens and only had an inch. I'm glad I wasn't home knowing I had only 4 inches while areas 10-15 miles to my north in Tiverton and Fall River had 14 inches plus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 I was in Queens and only had an inch. I'm glad I wasn't home knowing I had only 4 inches while areas 10-15 miles to my north in Tiverton and Fall River had 14 inches plus. That middletown total looks suspicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 If there's one storm that gets brought up on this board that i really wish i could have experienced, it's this one. it was Spring Break from LSC...I was home for this...3 feet of cement! i would love for this to happen again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Here's the Kocin map that was online years ago, though I don't think it is anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Even though the radar is sort of low resolution, it depicts the firehose coming off the Atlantic rather well. Also, I bet the close up shots from BOX between 2am and 10am do it better justice. That was some of the heaviest snow, occurring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Imagine if this storm occured in February? same dynamics? it would truly be like February '78. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Imagine if this storm occured in February? same dynamics? it would truly be like February '78. This storm was almost on the level of '78 in terms of snow for many. In some areas like ORH, it was bigger. The time of year also allowed for this type of storm to happen. It probably wouldn't have been as prolific in February..in terms of QPF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subdude Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 i'll never forget it. My 30 mile 45min commute took 2hrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 i'll never forget it. My 30 mile 45min commute took 2hrs. 3/31/97 was my worst Farmington-Gardiner commute, about twice the usual 55 min, and that was just in the weaker day-before event (7.5" in Gardiner.) The big dog whiffed on central Maine. (But the pics, especially CoastalWx's, are perhaps my favorites of all I've seen on this forum or Eastern.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Well my 4/1/97 pic thread is there on Eastern...but without the pics. It might be some bug, but hopefully they can salvage it. http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?/topic/194418-april-fools-blizzard-40197/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Nice, they're back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HoarfrostHubb Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Nice, they're back! Hey, that's a nice piece of strapping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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