ORH_wxman Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I was looking back yesterday on some snow events that were pretty darn good, but don't really get remembered that much because they weren't KUs or they just somehow get overshadowed by something else in close proximity timewise. Or they fade into history and only the biggest events get talked about the more time that passes. And just because its not a KU, doesn't mean its underrated either. We talk all the time about 12/9/05...that storm gets its due. Its not underrated (by most). Here's some of my favorite ones that seem to slip under the radar but were very nice events for a large part of SNE. And this list is pretty SNE-centric: Jan 26-27, 2005 - pretty decent 6-10" event...E MA special. Nobody (and I mean almost nobody) remembers it really because it happened 3 days after the blizzard. It seemed like flurries compared to it. Feb 7, 2003 - We've talked about it some on this board, but getting a surprise 12" when 3-5" is forecast is always a great event. It also had the most perfect snowgrowth. Gets overshadowed by PDII which occurred 10 days later. Feb 5, 2001 - interior special, but a very prolific snowstorm with a decent area seeing 18-24 inch totals and a few 30" jackpots. Gets lost in the hype of Mar '01 that year and also the big storms following shortly after in the '02-'03 winter. March 14, 1999 - This was a legit large storm for much of E MA/RI/Cape/SE CT...esp for mid March. Legit 6-12" totals widespread. Ray's area to my area and northwest got kind of porked though...mostly 4-7" totals, but SE of there it was a very nice storm. Jan 3-4, 1996 - This one was a few days before the blizzard of '96 and was a very big storm. A lot of 12-15"+ totals but for obvious reasons it gets overshadowed. It was storms like this that made '95-'96 so prolific...but the only storm people mention is the '96 blizzard...or the April snow that winter. It was also a system that lasted well over 24 hours. Very wintry appeal. Dec 29-30, 1993 - How do you start a winter where BOS gets 96" of snow? Turn a 2-4" forecast into a bust in the positive direction. It was an E SNE special on a late blooming Miller B...BOS had 10" of snow which jump started a record (at the time) season. Mar 4-5, 1993 - Another very big storm. 14" here and nearly 10" at BOS. Quite dense snow and great for snow pack. Gets overshadowed by the '93 Superstorm of course. Anyways, that's for just in the past 20 years or so...I have a few more to post, but can't do them all right now. For a few overrated storms while we are at it: Feb 12, 2006 - Amazingly hyped and for the narrow corridor that got into the megaband, it is deserved. But for those who missed that band, it was a pretty un-hype worthy 12-18" of snow. It didn't help that you could sneeze and blow it all off your car and that it melted in 4 days. December 2003 - Because I got screwed by a subsidence band. Purely selfish reason for being on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Dec 1993 was a great event. The driving in that one sucked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Dec '93 was great. What massive fluff bomb where I was in Brockton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Jan 26 2005 was weird. Actually started a a very wet snow in Marshfield and actually rasn mix in the Cape. Quickly went to moderate snow in Marshfield as winds went more NNE and a little OES came in. Just to my sw in Middleboro had 10". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnno Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Feb 5 2001 easily a top fiver for me, I just remember watching the bands on radar rotate through the state. I also remember it being a wet snow as well, very substantial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Feb 5 2001 easily a top fiver for me, I just remember watching the bands on radar rotate through the state. I also remember it being a wet snow as well, very substantial. Yea first one i thought of and oddly enough 12/03 was another, just the oppo of Will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted August 22, 2012 Author Share Posted August 22, 2012 Yea first one i thought of and oddly enough 12/03 was another, just the oppo of Will. I think Dec '03 gets its fair shake. It was a very good storm. I'm obviously joking about it being overrated, but I do not think it gets overlooked that much. Maybe slightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I think Dec '03 gets its fair shake. It was a very good storm. I'm obviously joking about it being overrated, but I do not think it gets overlooked that much. Maybe slightly. I am surprised you did not pick 12/23/97, you got what 18-20 out of a 3-6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted August 22, 2012 Author Share Posted August 22, 2012 I am surprised you did not pick 12/23/97, you got what 18-20 out of a 3-6 I was going to, but its talked about a lot on here and BOX has a radar case study on it. I think the general public probably has almost no memory of that storm though like they would for the larger blizzards. It was indded a pretty big bust...even for areas outside of the 40-50dbz echoes. BOS had like 7" from it and was supposed to get almost nothing. The suburbs had 10-15" and of course that stripe from ASH to ORH that got 18-22" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 April 2nd??2005 South of pike special Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I was going to, but its talked about a lot on here and BOX has a radar case study on it. I think the general public probably has almost no memory of that storm though like they would for the larger blizzards. It was indded a pretty big bust...even for areas outside of the 40-50dbz echoes. BOS had like 7" from it and was supposed to get almost nothing. The suburbs had 10-15" and of course that stripe from ASH to ORH that got 18-22" Yea and the 8 per hour in Ayer area was insane. 323 AM EST TUE DEC 23 1997 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY TODAY... .TODAY...PERIODS OF SNOW THIS MORNING. SNOW TAPERING OFF THIS AFTERNOON. TOTAL ACCUMULATION OF 3 OR 4 INCHES. HIGH NEAR 30. LIGHT AND VARIABLE WIND. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION NEAR 100 PERCENT. .TONIGHT...CLOUDY AT FIRST WITH SCATTERED FLURRIES...CLEARING AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOW 20 TO 25. LIGHT NORTHWEST WIND. .WEDNESDAY...MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH IN THE MID AND UPPER 30S. .OUTLOOK FOR CHRISTMAS EVE...CHANCE OF SNOW OR RAIN. LOW 25 TO 35. .OUTLOOK FOR CHRISTMAS DAY...CHANCE OF SNOW OR RAIN IN THE MORNING ...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS DURING THE AFTERNOON. HIGH IN THE 30S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 April 2nd??2005 South of pike special Heavy flooding rain storm ? There was a storm end of march Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Heavy flooding rain storm ? There was a storm end of march Then maybe it was 2006 or 2007..Whichever yr it was it also snowed the day before that and it snowed in NY and the Yanks may have had snow OTG for a game against the Twins. I had 5.5 inches here while Will sniffed cirrus..It actually enabled me to beat him for totals that year.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 you know one of my favorite storms in Jan 11 was this innocuous region wide 4-8 inch snows on 1/21. In between two foot storms was this little storm that could despite it seemingly being a Meh storm. The month where if it could snow it would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Feb 95 Mar 05 Apr 96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Feb 11 1994 was a snow bomb for the New England south coast. That was a good 10-15" there. Even up to the pike got 6-10 iirc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Feb 12, 2006 - Amazingly hyped and for the narrow corridor that got into the megaband, it is deserved. But for those who missed that band, it was a pretty un-hype worthy 12-18" of snow. It didn't help that you could sneeze and blow it all off your car and that it melted in 4 days. Amazing storm is all I have to say....as you said....deserved for those in the megaband.....26" for me OTOH the Jan 23, 2005 blizzard was meh IMBY anyway.....I was so pumped for that storm as winter 04-05 was my first New England winter and I was psyched for my first blizzard but alas.....meh..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Feb 5, 2001 - interior special, but a very prolific snowstorm with a decent area seeing 18-24 inch totals and a few 30" jackpots. Gets lost in the hype of Mar '01 that year and also the big storms following shortly after in the '02-'03 winter. Will always be one of my favorites for the unbelievable intensity of the snowfall. Remains my biggest storm ever with 21 inches. The Washington/Lempster/Newport/Sunapee, NH area jackpotted with 38 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Awesome thread. Most of these storms are in my mind, but I can never seem to put the dates on them like Will does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dsnowx53 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Definitely March 8th, 2005 -- the flash freeze event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Will always be one of my favorites for the unbelievable intensity of the snowfall. Remains my biggest storm ever with 21 inches. The Washington/Lempster/Newport/Sunapee, NH area jackpotted with 38 inches. I was in Newry Maine that night and had an 11 inch per hour megaband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 you know one of my favorite storms in Jan 11 was this innocuous region wide 4-8 inch snows on 1/21. In between two foot storms was this little storm that could despite it seemingly being a Meh storm. The month where if it could snow it would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Hard to tell how others rate it, but I thought of Christmas '02 immediately. Really slow mover, crawling up the coast inside the benchmark. Tainted early, before changing over to a straight up white paste blizzard near and just south of Boston by late afternoon. Pounding rain on the south shore. Bigger story in NY and I'm sure they don't underrate it, but the 10-14 that most of SNE got seems to slightly understate than the overall impact that storm had. Worst drive I've ever had to do, and I've driven to ski country in the middle of some of the biggies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted August 22, 2012 Author Share Posted August 22, 2012 Then maybe it was 2006 or 2007..Whichever yr it was it also snowed the day before that and it snowed in NY and the Yanks may have had snow OTG for a game against the Twins. I had 5.5 inches here while Will sniffed cirrus..It actually enabled me to beat him for totals that year.. It was April 2006....it wasn't really a "storm"...it was a ULL with instability snow showers. I actually had 1.5" in that...not sniffing cirrus. But you got into a little bandthat stayed stationary long enough to get 5"+....the same thing hit Framingham I remember. I could probably bring up several of these types of weird setups, but they don't really qualify for what I was looking for...otherwise I'd put stuff like Feb 22, 2007 in there and such. Feb 27, 2010 had a setup like this just north of me (after the retro-rainstorm occluded) where hubbdave and those towns literally got 8-10" of snow that day while I got 2-3". I drove up Rt 31 just to see for myself and within 5-6 miles I saw over 7" of snow that ramped up to around 10" near Wachusett and westward through Westminster/Templeton/Hubbardston/Royalston, etc. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 It was April 2006....it wasn't really a "storm"...it was a ULL with instability snow showers. I actually had 1.5" in that...not sniffing cirrus. But you got into a little bandthat stayed stationary long enough to get 5"+....the same thing hit Framingham I remember. I could probably bring up several of these types of weird setups, but they don't really qualify for what I was looking for...otherwise I'd put stuff like Feb 22, 2007 in there and such. Feb 27, 2010 had a setup like this just north of me (after the retro-rainstorm occluded) where hubbdave and those towns literally got 8-10" of snow that day while I got 2-3". I drove up Rt 31 just to see for myself and within 5-6 miles I saw over 7" of snow that ramped up to around 10" near Wachusett and westward through Westminster/Templeton/Hubbardston/Royalston, etc. . No no..that was a day or 2 before . i had like 1.5 from those snow showers..this was a day or 2 after that and produced WSW south of the pike,,esp in higher elev. I remember Joe D upped the advisory to a warning that morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted August 22, 2012 Author Share Posted August 22, 2012 No no..that was a day or 2 before . i had like 1.5 from those snow showers..this was a day or 2 after that and produced WSW south of the pike,,esp in higher elev. I remember Joe D upped the advisory to a warning that morning Oh the storm you are thinking of wasn't April...it was March 2, 2006. Yeah I had absolutely nothing from that while Webster MA had like 4" and N CT over to RI and SE MA had 6"+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Oh the storm you are thinking of wasn't April...it was March 2, 2006. Yeah I had absolutely nothing from that while Webster MA had like 4" and N CT over to RI and SE MA had 6"+ That storm sucked. I had a blizzard at 8000ft aloft, even on the s-shore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted August 22, 2012 Author Share Posted August 22, 2012 That storm sucked. I had a blizzard at 8000ft aloft, even on the s-shore. Terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Terrible. I suspect we may be seeing a few of those beauties this winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 But no..that wasn't the storm..I remember that one. This was early April..and it snowed 2 x in like 3 days..It snowed IN NY and I recall Matsui hitting and you could see his breath and there was snow on parts of the warning track that hadn't melted. It was def April..and it was an organized system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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