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I feel like I get 2-3" more than him in every storm...we do much better in marginal setups also like Octobomb. I had 22" while he had 12. lol Norfolk seems to only beat me by 2-3" every storm too except they nickel and dime their way up a lot more often it seems. Probably snows a couple inches there all the time while I'm getting nothing. Cool stuff to have so close.

Yeah in storms that are pretty uniform for precip shield, but you have to remember the storms where you are too far west too such as Dec '09...in the end it ends up being a few more inches there vs Tolland.

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I feel like I get 2-3" more than him in every storm...we do much better in marginal setups also like Octobomb. I had 22" while he had 12. lol Norfolk seems to only beat me by 2-3" every storm too except they nickel and dime their way up a lot more often it seems. Probably snows a couple inches there all the time while I'm getting nothing. Cool stuff to have so close.

Yeah Norfolk/Goshen are the CT winners in terms of populated areas (there are other areas on the NY border and in Cornwall/Canaan that are unpopulated that do well). Hartland/Colebrook do very well too.

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Coastals get him more than you and sleet does add up too.

I realize he's in a better place than Storrs but the NW hills drummed the NE hills almost every season. I remember being really depressed calling home on a few occasions.

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I have been to Oakland, Citi field, Fenway, Yankee Stadium and Camden. But I want to see all of them in one season. I will do it.

I've been to Dodger Stadium, Anaheim Stadium, Candlestick Park, Commiskey, Wrigley, Shea, Camden Yards, old Yankee Stadium, Fenway. I'm heading to San Francisco Monday and have a good mind to check out the Yankees/Oakland game Sunday afternoon but I'd have t rearrange too many things.

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I've been to Dodger Stadium, Anaheim Stadium, Candlestick Park, Commiskey, Wrigley, Shea, Camden Yards, old Yankee Stadium, Fenway. I'm heading to San Francisco Monday and have a good mind to check out the Yankees/Oakland game Sunday afternoon but I'd have t rearrange too many things.

Which Commiskey?

Good list.

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I realize he's in a better place than Storrs but the NW hills drummed the NE hills almost every season. I remember being really depressed calling home on a few occasions.

Yup... more often than not the high terrain in Litchfield County does quite a bit better than high terrain in NE CT. Kevin's elevation yields him bonus snows in marginal events that screw the valley with warmth.

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I realize he's in a better place than Storrs but the NW hills drummed the NE hills almost every season. I remember being really depressed calling home on a few occasions.

The extra elevation really helps too... there may not seem like much of a difference between 985ft (quasi 1000ft) and say 1,300-1,400ft but it definitely adds several inches a year (just like the difference between say 400-800ft). The NW Hills are also part of a larger area of topographic uplift and have a higher average elevation, that's gotta help in upslope assist no matter if the wind is coming out of the west (Hudson Valley) or east (CT Valley). Also further away from any SE flow warm air coming in from the south coast or MA coast, dying lake effect putting down a few inches of 40:1 fluff every now and again... I'm surprised the difference isn't greater between the NE and NW corners.

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The extra elevation really helps too... there may not seem like much of a difference between 985ft (quasi 1000ft) and say 1,300-1,400ft but it definitely adds several inches a year (just like the difference between say 400-800ft). The NW Hills are also part of a larger area of topographic uplift and have a higher average elevation, that's gotta help in upslope assist no matter if the wind is coming out of the west (Hudson Valley) or east (CT Valley). Also further away from any SE flow warm air coming in from the south coast or MA coast, dying lake effect putting down a few inches of 40:1 fluff every now and again... I'm surprised the difference isn't greater between the NE and NW corners.

There's definitely a big difference. Even really snowy towns like Torrington and New Hartford can have up to several inches less than places a bit further up into the hills. I never loved my location because snow would drift in every event but the several hundred foot climb on RT 4 certainly helped. Thinking back I took for granted the view though lol.

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The new ine. Saw Bo Jackson hit one t.

You need to go to the new Yankee, awesome. My fav Bo moment, hit one inFenway, I was sitting by the camera well in center, the friigin ball was going up when it hit, sounded like a gun shot. Looked like a Tiger drive off the tee. I saw Dave Winfield hit one like that too.

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There's definitely a big difference. Even really snowy towns like Torrington and New Hartford can have up to several inches less than places a bit further up into the hills. I never loved my location because snow would drift in every event but the several hundred foot climb on RT 4 certainly helped. Thinking back I took for granted the view though lol.

It's funny how once you get west of Goshen/Norfolk how things drop off. Big shadow area in Cornwall (outside of Mohawk Mtn ridge line), Canaan, No Canaan, Salisbury, Sharon, etc. The higher elevations like Hartland/Colebrook do better than the far NW corner.

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lol... I realize it can get to be a lot sometimes with the posts about snow. I gotta cut back this winter a bit, but I really don't want to come off like Pete, bragging about snow and snow cover in every post (I like ya Pete but you know what I mean). I enjoy discussing it but try to do it in a way that isn't constantly shoving it down everyone's throats.

I will say I honestly wish more folks on here got upslope snow... I am absolutely fascinated by that phenomenon (orographic lift anywhere, Oregon to VT) and know we'd have some awesome discussions if we could just get it to happen regularly in the ORH hills :)

Lol I'm kidding. Why should you cut back if thats your passion?

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The extra elevation really helps too... there may not seem like much of a difference between 985ft (quasi 1000ft) and say 1,300-1,400ft but it definitely adds several inches a year (just like the difference between say 400-800ft). The NW Hills are also part of a larger area of topographic uplift and have a higher average elevation, that's gotta help in upslope assist no matter if the wind is coming out of the west (Hudson Valley) or east (CT Valley). Also further away from any SE flow warm air coming in from the south coast or MA coast, dying lake effect putting down a few inches of 40:1 fluff every now and again... I'm surprised the difference isn't greater between the NE and NW corners.

Two reasons, Coastals and coastal fronts.

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I can't believe you guys are ruining this thread with baseball talk. Why not just talk about the rate paint dries in various heat and humidity conditions.

You are missing the greatest thinking strategy game ever invented. Think about it. The bases are the same as they were 130 years ago, yet people still get thrown out by inches.

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It's funny how once you get west of Goshen/Norfolk how things drop off. Big shadow area in Cornwall (outside of Mohawk Mtn ridge line), Canaan, No Canaan, Salisbury, Sharon, etc. The higher elevations like Hartland/Colebrook do better than the far NW corner.

Yeah, driving around up there during winter you can definitely see little microclimates. I wish I had a DSLR before 2003 as other digital pics are lost and my film are packed in a box somewhere. Almost everything I have is near home 2003 and on, plus I was in Storrs most of those winters. Those first few sets of ridges on the east side of the hills get some nice totals in a lot of events. I don't really remember lake effect ever being much though I want to say we were often on the eastern most edge of those bands. I do recall one event that gave like 2-3", with a number of dustings to 1". If I ever move back to CT I'd be really tempted to go back to that area. Good severe as well. ;)

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Yeah, driving around up there during winter you can definitely see little microclimates. I wish I had a DSLR before 2003 as other digital pics are lost and my film are packed in a box somewhere. Almost everything I have is near home 2003 and on, plus I was in Storrs most of those winters. Those first few sets of ridges on the east side of the hills get some nice totals in a lot of events. I don't really remember lake effect ever being much though I want to say we were often on the eastern most edge of those bands. I do recall one event that gave like 2-3", with a number of dustings to 1". If I ever move back to CT I'd be really tempted to go back to that area. Good severe as well. ;)

If I moved to the hills... I'd probably move to North Canton or New Hartford. Nice towns, good snow, good severe, and things to do nearby. Goshen/Norfolk is out there... beautiful... but rural.

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Yeah Norfolk/Goshen are the CT winners in terms of populated areas (there are other areas on the NY border and in Cornwall/Canaan that are unpopulated that do well). Hartland/Colebrook do very well too.

I have a cousin who lives in Norfolk. It's a totally different climate much of the time in the Winter.

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