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Busting at the seams lol...what is your most memorable storm where you were promised the world and got royally boned?

codfishsnowman

By codfishsnowman,
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Johnno

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These dates tend to make me toss

Jan 20, 2000

Jan 22-23, 2005

Dec 26-27, 2010

2009-10 every event

Jan 05 was depressing watching the radar, don't remember Jan 2000. 09-10 was depressing too. The dryslot during Box Day was

a fail but the wind that night I won't forget, the rest of that winter helped too. I'd have to add March 01, we were forecast 20-30"? Ended up with around 10" I think, meh,... that winter was awesome though otherwise.

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ORH_wxman

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Hey...that was almost a lynch mob.

 

 

That was actually a pretty disappointing storm here too. 10" that fell very quickly and then a hellecious dryslot. We never got another inch while the deformation band set up over NNJ and E NY. We were forecasted to get 12-18" so it wasn't an awful bust, but it did leave a bit of a bitter tatse in my mouth....but considering how the rest of that epic winter went, by April, that "bust" was a distant memory. Still recorded my deepest snow depth ever while home on March break that year. Had 46" on the gorund in mid March.

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I was expecting 6 inches of snow on Dec 3, 2000.  I got 0.  The snow stayed in interior NENC and never made it past the James River. 

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/20001203/

 

 

That was the huge bust with the ETA model which had issues with the SST initialization offshore. It had like September or October SSTs offshore there and tormented the model for like a month or several weeks. It had a pretty bad set of forecasts up here aorund Dec 20 and Dec 22....calling for wya more snow than other models.

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ORH_wxman

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I remember 12/30/00 fondly even though it was only 10" then dryslot here too. That was the storm that ended 3 long years of snow misery.

 

 

Yeah you guys got totally hosed in the Feb '99 storm. We got 10" in that one but back in the valley to the west they only got a couple inches.

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That was the huge bust with the ETA model which had issues with the SST initialization offshore. It had like September or October SSTs offshore there and tormented the model for like a month or several weeks. It had a pretty bad set of forecasts up here aorund Dec 20 and Dec 22....calling for wya more snow than other models.

Wow, Will.  You really know your stuff.

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Dec '92 was an epic bust here too....just in the opposite direction, lol.

 

Dec '92 was a bust in my neighborhood, but just my neighborhood.  I was living in Somers at the time and I think I was the very last place to change to snow around 6PM on the second day.  We had 2 or 3" (I don't have my records handy) but the hills around me had 12"+.  I had spent the day driving between my house and Hull so I saw it all during that storm.  I have every right to feel royally screwed, but it was such an amazing storm that I really can't.

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You want to know which bust I hate the most.  1/25/00.  It was fantastic to watch  and it's a positive bust.  I like all times of weather and that was awesome to watch evolve...that said...it stunk that our area really didn't get in on the best of it as the system wrapped so tight and just exploded.   To watch something that amazing take place and then have it kind of fall short here was a bit of a bummer. 

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codfishsnowman

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Late February 1989...I am pretty sure they cancelled school ahead of time as the heavy snow was suppossed to arrive by mid to late morning..I was 16 at the time and was excited about a "sure thing" snowstorm in a winter where snow was absent.

 

I remember thinking we were in trouble when the dim sunshine through the cirrus clouds kept getting slightly stronger. But even midday the snow and six to ten inches of it was still on the way just delayed a few hours they said.

 

It never came and by mid to late afternoon the sky had cleared considerably and acy was in the process of being buried. I think even the coast missed most if not all of it, maybe a little in se sne??

 

the sting from a bust like that one was tough to take as a snow loving teenager, there was a bust earlier in mid to late December of that winter as well.

 

another one in later jan of 87 was pretty bad too where mid atlantic to se sne got smoked and forecasts were for 8 to 15 inches of snow and blizzard warnings...we got one inch of snow quickly in the morning and then it was over.

i think it was sunday night into monday thing.

 

oh and one more I forgot all about was in feb or mar of 92. there was some kind of localized heavy snow thing which set up just fifteen miles or so east and south of bristol ct, i remember a quick four to six inches fell from newington to cromwell and then down towards east hampden something insane like 15 inches fell in four hours or so. I wound up with a coating.

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Probably 12/26/02, when the forecast was 10-14" and we got 1".  It was close, though - 8" in Belgrade Village, 12 miles away, and 15" in AUG.  The 3/93 superstorm was a disappointment, too, even though we got over 10".  Forecast was for several feet, with "life-threatening conditions".  We got 1.70" LE but 6:1 gritty snow even with temps in the upper teens.  That Sunday morning the forecast was for continuing periods of heavy snow with heavy accum, but we got only flurries.  I could find no other station in Maine which recorded less than my 10.3".

 

Getting nothing but high winds in Gardiner from 12/92 while ORH got buried was a bummer, but the forecast for the AUG area was for only light snow, so not much of an actual bust.

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Probably 12/26/02, when the forecast was 10-14" and we got 1".  It was close, though - 8" in Belgrade Village, 12 miles away, and 15" in AUG.  The 3/93 superstorm was a disappointment, too, even though we got over 10".  Forecast was for several feet, with "life-threatening conditions".  We got 1.70" LE but 6:1 gritty snow even with temps in the upper teens.  That Sunday morning the forecast was for continuing periods of heavy snow with heavy accum, but we got only flurries.  I could find no other station in Maine which recorded less than my 10.3".

 

Getting nothing but high winds in Gardiner from 12/92 while ORH got buried was a bummer, but the forecast for the AUG area was for only light snow, so not much of an actual bust.

thats pretty wild about the 93 superstorm..i wonder why those things happen like that in storms...seems like you should have had at least a foot and a half

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