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Remembering Snowpocalypse -- 12/18-12/19, 2009


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Don S. predicted around 18-24" for RIC. Would have been a top 3 storm all-time here.

I received 10-11" in the end...mixing during the night killed me.

The mixing during the night hurt totals, but they didn't hurt near as much as watching the deform band form 40 miles north of us the next day. If we hadn't gotten CRUSHED in the early few hours of that storm it would have been a real bust around here. Most of the snow was supposed to come Saturday and we got almost nothing.

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I remember this storm vividly. We lost power from Friday 12/19 until 12/24. It was restored at noon on Christmas Eve. So, it was a Christmas gift that we were happy to receive! It did look beautiful outside. Also, it was fun to track the storm. However, I could have done without the power outage, LOL.

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The mixing during the night hurt totals, but they didn't hurt near as much as watching the deform band form 40 miles north of us the next day. If we hadn't gotten CRUSHED in the early few hours of that storm it would have been a real bust around here. Most of the snow was supposed to come Saturday and we got almost nothing.

Yeah, I'm not as fond of this storm- ROA had 18, Amherst had 18. I had 14.5 if you do 6 hours but had 12 on the ground. Bands were JUST to my north 15 miles-- closer to route 60 than 460 near LYH. 14.5 wasn't bad, but even as the storm unfolded, the models had me getting 20-24 inches. I was hoping for 18.

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This one definitely had a lot of similarities to Feb '83...I remember thinking that too when the progs were about 72h out. Up here, it under performed compared to '83 due to more advection of dry air from the north...but definitely not down in that region.

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seems to be back now. tho i shared it then capitalweather reshared it and it's an 8mb file so we might have killed the server

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Well, isn't this a surprise....sleet and 39 degrees. About 25 minutes of pure sleet, just enough to whiten the elevated decks and car windshields, now back to a mix of rain and sleet. About 0.03 inches of liquid in gauge. Another miss on the forecast....48 and rain by afternoon.

Jeezus...you got screwed.

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seems to be back now. tho i shared it then capitalweather reshared it and it's an 8mb file so we might have killed the server

Fun stuff. It could have been the loop and the fact that my webcam was getting crazy hits too due to the snow storm up here, but yeah, I reached my bandwidth limit which was 10G, it's now 20G. Sorry for the down time! Snowpocalypse lives on!!

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Great storm. I do remember being a bit pissed at the beginning when the dry air kept eating away at the onset of the system...It took FOREVER for the snow to start that day, it finally began by late afternoon, and I knew we had likely missed out on the historic snowfall chances by that point in New Brunswick, NJ. We were modelled on the huge gradient so I thought it still could go either way day of. 11" later in new brunswick, but 18-22 one county to the south and east.

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