40/70 Benchmark Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Right about now I was in Medford, chewing on my steering wheel. I was in the middle of a 3 hour commute home from UML lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 oh i can't complain. especially with the "cold tuck" in the evening hours and the light snow (OES enhanced?) continuing into Sat. As well as the snow event that Sunday. It was defintely a very underated 3 day period You are confusing 2007 and 2008. Both had snow events on Sunday...but the 2007 event occurred on the Thursday and ended Thursday evening while the 2008 event started on a Friday near lunchtime (much like the '07 event did on a Thursday near lunchtime) but lingered with the inverted trough/OES enhancement into Saturday. The events on Sunday were a bit different...the '07 event was a big SWFE that was progged to turn to sleet after a few inches...but it held on long enough to give a widespread 8-10" along and north of the pike. The 2008 event was a late blooming coastal...almost like a SWFE early on but popped a coastal E of MA and saw a CCB tail get NE MA and into SE NH and Maine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold214 Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 You are confusing 2007 and 2008. Both had snow events on Sunday...but the 2007 event occurred on the Thursday and ended Thursday evening while the 2008 event started on a Friday near lunchtime (much like the '07 event did on a Thursday near lunchtime) but lingered with the inverted trough/OES enhancement into Saturday. The events on Sunday were a bit different...the '07 event was a big SWFE that was progged to turn to sleet after a few inches...but it held on long enough to give a widespread 8-10" along and north of the pike. The 2008 event was a late blooming coastal...almost like a SWFE early on but popped a coastal E of MA and saw a CCB tail get NE MA and into SE NH and Maine. Even more interesting anniversary coming up in 2 days...S+ in New Bedford MA while Kevin was pelting away, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 15, 2012 Author Share Posted December 15, 2012 Even more interesting anniversary coming up in 2 days...S+ in New Bedford MA while Kevin was pelting away, lol. Who can forget your 2" of evergreen assassinating snow you had that season? For some reason, that still makes me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSUVball09 Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 You are confusing 2007 and 2008. Both had snow events on Sunday...but the 2007 event occurred on the Thursday and ended Thursday evening while the 2008 event started on a Friday near lunchtime (much like the '07 event did on a Thursday near lunchtime) but lingered with the inverted trough/OES enhancement into Saturday. The events on Sunday were a bit different...the '07 event was a big SWFE that was progged to turn to sleet after a few inches...but it held on long enough to give a widespread 8-10" along and north of the pike. The 2008 event was a late blooming coastal...almost like a SWFE early on but popped a coastal E of MA and saw a CCB tail get NE MA and into SE NH and Maine. I remember that epic week pretty well when I was living in Marlborough and working in Bolton. 9-10" thumper for 9 hours or so on Thursday. Tracked the sunday snow/sleet storm that turned into another 9-10" snow. I recall you were on top of the mix line that sunday morning and posted radar images of the line moving south after precip rates increased. Then I believe another 10-12" from a norlun trough the following Thursday. I recall at least 2 and half feet on the ground after the thursday event. Hell-of-a week and a cold/snowy December that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Couple pics I had that evening when the storm was 80% done or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Couple pics I had that evening when the storm was 80% done or so. nice Will, you can tell be the cut in the snow, sugar powder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 nice Will, you can tell be the cut in the snow, sugar powder. Oh for sure...that was a cold storm and the stuff was like baking powder falling from the sky. It was like someone opened a box of arm and hammer and we had quarter mile vis of that stuff for 6 hours. I think almost the whole storm we had temps of like 18F....very cold storm for Dec 13th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Oh for sure...that was a cold storm and the stuff was like baking powder falling from the sky. It was like someone opened a box of arm and hammer and we had quarter mile vis of that stuff for 6 hours. I think almost the whole storm we had temps of like 18F....very cold storm for Dec 13th. I remember how crappy the snow growth was but there was so many of them it was piling up instantly. We had a similar period in the Jan 27th 11 storm where for hours it was sugar. I still am amazed how deep those snows get, no air space at all either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 I was in your neck of the woods for that storm. Tried getting from Logan to Bedford just as the snow started. It took me 7.5 hours to get there. Absolutely insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 The funniest thing about this storm was that it wasn't anything notable in terms of snowfall....we've had countless other 8-10" events in the past 5-6 winters, but the timing just made this one a brutal nightmare for traffic. The warnings were there too...the AFD, the local news guys all said this would come in like a wall around lunch time. Still, biggest traffic disaster in years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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