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December 19th-20 Storm Thread III


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Jan 25 2000. Greatest morning of my life. I never gave up on that one. The holy grail of surprise storms. It will forever give hope to radar hallucinators everywhere.

Sadly it seems to be fading out of tracking lore, as median weenie age gets younger.

WCBS radio on as Alarm clock, first words I heard, man have the weather maps changed overnight.

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Jan 25 2000. Greatest morning of my life. I never gave up on that one. The holy grail of surprise storms. It will forever give hope to radar hallucinators everywhere.

Sadly it seems to be fading out of tracking lore, as median weenie age gets younger.

did NWS do a write up on this one?

I would like to read about it tonite......it probably didn't have as many moving parts

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WCBS radio on as Alarm clock, first words I heard, man have the weather maps changed overnight.

I'd remember a lot more about that storm if I were the one actually getting the snow. If I recall it kind of stunk up here :(

One thing I'll say about that event. Every single time everyone gets all hot and bothered over a storm and it goes poof at the same 72-96 hour window I'm amazed that the interest just dies. I know there are times when that's it, the only energy and it's over. But sometime i suspect pretty soon we'll have a repeat on some scale where a Monday snowstorm goes away and becomes a Tuesday event etc.

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diane are drinking this evening? :P

yes sierra cement on the order of 15 feet would be great.......a shot of something for every foot that falls.

god i wish! lots of extras from the xmas party last weekend!!! i'd love to get buried in 15ft of snow! i wonder what that would be like...April 97 dumped 36inches at my house and i was in awe...that's the most i've i've gotten from one storm...i can't imagine 5x that!

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god i wish! lots of extras from the xmas party last weekend!!! i'd love to get buried in 15ft of snow! i wonder what that would be like...April 97 dumped 36inches at my house and i was in awe...that's the most i've i've gotten from one storm...i can't imagine 5x that!

After I talked to my nephew I was driving home and picturing my neighborhood with 12 feet of snow, literally most homes would have snow over their walls to roof level. That is sick

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After I talked to my nephew I was driving home and picturing my neighborhood with 12 feet of snow, literally most homes would have snow over their walls to roof level. That is sick

hahhaahaha, i started picturing what my house would look like buried in that much snow...how in the heck would i clear a path to the woodpile, well, would i even be able to find the woodpile? i gues you have to shovel every few hrs so that the doors wouldn't be buried...and what about clearing it off the roof? how do you find your car??? crap, the logistics of living in such an environment, how do people survive?

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Event Headlines

...A powerful winter storm dropped record amounts of snow across central North Carolina...

...The all time single storm snow accumulation record for Raleigh-Durham was set with this storm when the airport received 20.3 inches of snow...

...Over 100,000 customers were without power and many schools and business closed for several days...

...The storm was not well forecast by numerical weather prediction models...

...Following the event, research at NC State indicated that the inability of the operational models to resolve antecedent precipitation across the Deep South was a major reason for their forecast failure of the developing cyclone...

...This event reinforces the need for forecasters to maintain situational awareness of upstream conditions and to compare model forecasts with observations...

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~nwsfo/storage/cases/20000125/

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1/25/2000 was a big event in the Carolinas/Virgina?? Seemed to catch public/utilities off guard.

Don't remember it much here...

Huge event down there....nice one in Philly where I was. I looked at the radar and I was like "oh man that is coming straight up the coast. The Mets were scrambling....the pattern screamed storm but it was the 1st shortwave not the second as they had forecast. Dont' remember the model that picked up on it but it was one run and BAM! get ready snowstorm.

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hahhaahaha, i started picturing what my house would look like buried in that much snow...how in the heck would i clear a path to the woodpile, well, would i even be able to find the woodpile? i gues you have to shovel every few hrs so that the doors wouldn't be buried...and what about clearing it off the roof? how do you find your car??? crap, the logistics of living in such an environment, how do people survive?

Preparation, constant shoveling, hunker down, get drunk, get some lovin, it works.

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Event Headlines

...A powerful winter storm dropped record amounts of snow across central North Carolina...

...The all time single storm snow accumulation record for Raleigh-Durham was set with this storm when the airport received 20.3 inches of snow...

...Over 100,000 customers were without power and many schools and business closed for several days...

...The storm was not well forecast by numerical weather prediction models...

...Following the event, research at NC State indicated that the inability of the operational models to resolve antecedent precipitation across the Deep South was a major reason for their forecast failure of the developing cyclone...

...This event reinforces the need for forecasters to maintain situational awareness of upstream conditions and to compare model forecasts with observations...

http://www4.ncsu.edu...cases/20000125/

Yeah...the models blew it for that event. But the models today have much higher verification scores today than back then. The NOGAPS today gets higher scores than the MRF did in 2000.
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Event Headlines

...A powerful winter storm dropped record amounts of snow across central North Carolina...

...The all time single storm snow accumulation record for Raleigh-Durham was set with this storm when the airport received 20.3 inches of snow...

...Over 100,000 customers were without power and many schools and business closed for several days...

...The storm was not well forecast by numerical weather prediction models...

...Following the event, research at NC State indicated that the inability of the operational models to resolve antecedent precipitation across the Deep South was a major reason for their forecast failure of the developing cyclone...

...This event reinforces the need for forecasters to maintain situational awareness of upstream conditions and to compare model forecasts with observations...

http://www4.ncsu.edu...cases/20000125/

was just about to post that ...

."...Following the event, research at NC State indicated that the inability of the operational models to resolve antecedent precipitation across the Deep South was a major reason for their forecast failure of the developing cyclone...

...This event reinforces the need for forecasters to maintain situational awareness of upstream conditions and to compare model forecasts with observations"

in a multi quote with the poster who said they saw t-storms moving NE out of gulf. but i'm not smart enough . .................................lol

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