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New England 2012/13 Snowfall Contest


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On what date will all the major climo stations report their first inch of snow. This is the list I have of all the major climate stations in New England out of the various forecasting offices.. Please correct me if I missed any. I think a deadline of Aug 31st at midnight is good.

Taunton, MA (BOX)

BDL

ORH

BOS

PVD

Gray, ME (GYX)

KAUG

KCON

KGYX

KLEW

Burlington, VT (BTV)

KBTV

KMPV

KCDA

KMVL

KVSF

KRUT

Upton, NY (OKX)

KBDR

Albany, NY (ALY)

KPSF

Caribou, ME (CAR)

KBGR

KCAR

KHUL

KMLT

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While this depends somewhat upon on how you're defining a "major" climo station, for ALY you missed AQW (North Adams) and DDH (Bennington). I'm not quite as familiar with the other zones, so I'll leave it to others to chime on on this.

Good contest, I'll come out with my guesses a little later on.

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While this depends somewhat upon on how you're defining a "major" climo station, for ALY you missed AQW (North Adams) and DDH (Bennington). I'm not quite as familiar with the other zones, so I'll leave it to others to chime on on this.

Good contest, I'll come out with my guesses a little later on.

Thanks for chiming in Mitch. I was thinking places that have daily/monthly F6 data.

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First inch of snow since 2000 (meaning first event that gave 1 inch or more):

Year.........BOS.....ORH.....BDL....PVD...

2000.......12/14....12/8.....12/8.....12/8

2001.......12/8......12/8.....12/8.....12/8

2002.......11/27....10/23...11/27...11/27

2003.......12/5......10/23...12/5.....12/5

2004.......11/12....11/12...11/12...11/12

2005.......10/29....11/24...11/24...11/24

2006.......2/14.......1/18....2/2.......1/22

2007.......12/3......12/3.....11/20...12/13

2008.......12/7......12/16...12/19...12/7

2009.......12/5......10/16...12/9.....12/5

2010.......12/20....12/23...12/26...12/26

2011.......10/29....10/27...10/29...10/29

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First inch of snow since 2000 (meaning first event that gave 1 inch or more):

Year.........BOS.....ORH.....BDL....PVD...

2000.......12/14....12/8.....12/8.....12/8

2001.......12/8......12/8.....12/8.....12/8

2002.......11/27....10/23...11/27...11/27

2003.......12/5......10/23...12/5.....12/5

2004.......11/12....11/12...11/12...11/12

2005.......10/29....11/24...11/24...11/24

2006.......2/14.......1/18....2/2.......1/22

2007.......12/3......12/3.....11/20...12/13

2008.......12/7......12/16...12/19...12/7

2009.......12/5......10/16...12/9.....12/5

2010.......12/20....12/23...12/26...12/26

2011.......10/29....10/27...10/29...10/29

PVD BDL didn"t have an inch 11/2/10?

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First inch of snow since 2000 (meaning first event that gave 1 inch or more):

Year.........BOS.....ORH.....BDL....PVD...

2000.......12/14....12/8.....12/8.....12/8

2001.......12/8......12/8.....12/8.....12/8

2002.......11/27....10/23...11/27...11/27

2003.......12/5......10/23...12/5.....12/5

2004.......11/12....11/12...11/12...11/12

2005.......10/29....11/24...11/24...11/24

2006.......2/14.......1/18....2/2.......1/22

2007.......12/3......12/3.....11/20...12/13

2008.......12/7......12/16...12/19...12/7

2009.......12/5......10/16...12/9.....12/5

2010.......12/20....12/23...12/26...12/26

2011.......10/29....10/27...10/29...10/29

:axe:

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Thanks for chiming in Mitch. I was thinking places that have daily/monthly F6 data.

While I like that you included the BTV climate spots, of those, only the BTV airport reports snowfall on it's F-6 climate report because the WFO is there.

All the others are ASOS stations that do temps and melted precip.

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Wow are those 2006 numbers for real? No idea it took that long to get an inch.

Don't you remember how pathetic that year was through mid January? Even up in BTV they were under 20" until after mid-January. The pattern turned better after that (esp for NNE), but it was a horrific beginning.

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While I like that you included the BTV climate spots, of those, only the BTV airport reports snowfall on it's F-6 climate report because the WFO is there.

All the others are ASOS stations that do temps and melted precip.

That's cool. I can modify as needed. Input is good at this point.

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Don't you remember how pathetic that year was through mid January? Even up in BTV they were under 20" until after mid-January. The pattern turned better after that (esp for NNE), but it was a horrific beginning.

Oh yeah it was awful but 2/14 for BOS is amazing....I mean getting through all of Dec and Jan without even a rouge snow shower or something is impressive for a SNE site. It was awful up north too obviously but it's hard to fathom how rare it is to go that late without even a WINDEX inch or dying squall or wet 1" coating after rain, etc.

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Wow are those 2006 numbers for real? No idea it took that long to get an inch.

It didn't. In the 2006-07 season, BOS reached one inch on Jan 23, 2007. It is true that it took until Feb 14, 2007 for the first event to deliver one inch or more of snow, but as far as seasonal totals go, BOS surpassed the one inch mark on Jan 23 with 0.6 inches of snow to add to their 0.8 seasonal total at that point.

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While I like that you included the BTV climate spots, of those, only the BTV airport reports snowfall on it's F-6 climate report because the WFO is there.

All the others are ASOS stations that do temps and melted precip.

PSF is an ASOS and they no longer measure snow there manually. At one point there was a reliable weather observer who meticulously measured snowfall there for many years, but that is no longer the case.

As such, the local paper bases their snowfall measurements off of modeled snow depth and it's frequently wrong. Usually it's an under measurement, especially the lake effect leftovers and upslope events. Many times we'll get an inch or two of this stuff and the modeled snow depth reports little or no change for some reason. Even in storms, it is sometimes too low.

That said, I think that only sites where a human measures snow should be used. I'll bet we get some upslope event in November where we get 2" of snow and the paper will record it as 0.4".

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It didn't. In the 2006-07 season, BOS reached one inch on Jan 23, 2007. It is true that it took until Feb 14, 2007 for the first event to deliver one inch or more of snow, but as far as seasonal totals go, BOS surpassed the one inch mark on Jan 23 with 0.6 inches of snow to add to their 0.8 seasonal total at that point.

The table I posted specifies this point.

Its about the first 1 inch event.

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Don't you remember how pathetic that year was through mid January? Even up in BTV they were under 20" until after mid-January. The pattern turned better after that (esp for NNE), but it was a horrific beginning.

NNE for sure... Had 19" thru Jan 31, 2007 (historically the 1st half of winter, for snowfall) and 76" from there on, including 37" in April. Only 2001 has had a better 2nd half since I moved here in May 1998. (And only 1993 joins it if one includes 1986-98, my years in Gardiner.)

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Taunton, MA (BOX)

BDL - Dec 9

ORH - Nov 13

BOS - Dec 9

PVD - Dec 9

Gray, ME (GYX)

KAUG - Nov 13

KCON - Nov 13

KGYX - Nov 13

KLEW - Nov 13

Upton, NY (OKX)

KBDR - Dec 31

Here are my WAG's for the 1st 1" snowfall of the season for the above sites. Going with an interior NOV storm that gets ORH and NH/ME followed by the rest in DEC.

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