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Early Spring Snowfall/Rainfall OBS and Disco


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Can someone explain to me what on earth happened w/ the "potential" of this storm.... What was suppose to be a blockbuster storm (even if it were rain on the coast) was suppose to cause lots of wind, rain, and a lot of snow inland... The storm turned out to be a complete dud....

If this were to have happened during the blitz we received back in late December and January - we'd be crying our eyeballs out at this point..

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Can someone explain to me what on earth happened w/ the "potential" of this storm.... What was suppose to be a blockbuster storm (even if it were rain on the coast) was suppose to cause lots of wind, rain, and a lot of snow inland... The storm turned out to be a complete dud....

If this were to have happened during the blitz we received back in late December and January - we'd be crying our eyeballs out at this point..

Simply, things developed later then models first thought.

Its as simple as that.

Euro had H5 low and 850 low passing and closing off South of us, and therefore bombed out the low in a perfect spot to create high amounts of precip.

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There is so much wrong with that write-up that I don't know where to start, but I'll start with the fact that Boston had no snow in the Presidents Day 1979 storm.

This site has a lot snow info: (it needs to be updated though)

http://davep1nj.trip...deluxe/id3.html

BLIZZARD!!!

History has had many historic blizzards

in the northeast with severe storms in

1778, 1811, 1857 (COLD STORMS),

GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1888 (50"

snow and 20 foot drifts NY), 1899 The

Great Eastern Blizzard from South to

North....

In the 20th Century there were Blizzards

in 1905, 1910, and 1935 at NYC. In 1920

a GREAT SNOW AND SLEET STORM

struck with 17" of mixed precipitation

that defied removal and caused the army

to tackle it with flame throwers. In March

1941 a blizzard occurred in the east on the

7th-9th period.

In DECEMBER 1947 a snowstorm blitzed

NYC with a crushing 26.4" snow and 32"

in suburbs as the Christmas season was in

progress..

In the late 50s and early 60s there were

a series of Blizzards including the

Pre-December Storm of 1960 which

dumped 20" at Newark, Nj with 50mph

gales...followed by the JFK storm in 1961

and a month later by a mega-snow...

There was also a January blizzard in 1964,

a widespread storm; A Blizzard in 1967 that

hammered the after Ground hog day, and

the Lindsday Snowstorm of 1969 that

brought 15"-25" of paralysis to the big

apple...it was a suprise..

In the late 70s there was a January near-

blizzard in the east that also brought

heavy snow unexpectedly to NYC, with

17" in places..FOLLOWED BY THE

FAMOUS GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1978

in February that year...2 to 4 feet of snow!

In February 1979 the President's Day

Storm struck and DC to Boston had 1'-3'

of snow...also a suprise of sorts..

The 1980s featured the rare April 1982

Blizzard, and the Megapolitan Storm of 83'

that brought 1'-3' snow and thunder to

the big cities...breaking records...

The 1990s featured the MARCH 1993

Superstorm a combination of BLIZZARD

and ICESTORM that dumped 12"-24"

in the east...IN JANUARY 1996 a HUGE

BLIZZARD DUMPED 20" on NYC and

30" on the suburbs...worst since 1947..

The Millenium Blizzard of Late December

2000 brought 12"-25" snow to NYC/NJ,

and the PRESIDENT'S DAY 2003

BLIZZARD brought as much as 20" to

NYC and close to 30" in Boston, the

equal to 1996!!

A recent December 2003 blizzard dumped

15"-20" in a two-day stretch in early

December....

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37 here with wet snowflakes beginning to mix with the rain.

Do you think that heavier stuff north of Philly makes it here? It's intermittently light snow here right now-- I mean, so light, you could count the flakes lol.

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Do you think that heavier stuff north of Philly makes it here? It's intermittently light snow here right now-- I mean, so light, you could count the flakes lol.

12z NAM has it weakening as the day goes on and only .10"-.15" of total precip to fall.

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12z NAM has it weakening as the day goes on and only .10"-.15" of total precip to fall.

Ugh man, that totally reminds me of the Tax Day Noreaster when Philly and south Jersey got up to an inch but it weakened before it got here.

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Ugh man, that totally reminds me of the Tax Day Noreaster when Philly and south Jersey got up to an inch but it weakened before it got here.

It sux because 6z NAM had it staying together and dropping more then .30" .

Still good to see flakes falling, I guess.

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