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Favorite Positive SNE snow bust since 2000

ORH_wxman

By ORH_wxman,
in New England

Favorite snow bust  

40 members have voted

  1. 1. ?

    • February 7, 2003 (MA pike south/RI)
      2
    • December 9, 2005 (E MA)
      8
    • December 16, 2007 (MA pike northward front end thump)
      0
    • Feb 22, 2008 (S and SW CT front end thump)
      0
    • Mar 1-2, 2009 (SE CT gravity wave snowbomb)
      0
    • Dec 20, 2009 (SE CT snow bomb)
      0
    • Dec 20-21, 2010 (Cape Cod ocean storm backs in)
      0
    • January 27, 2011 (Nowcast storm, crushes E CT/RI the hardest)
      5
    • March 6-8, 2013 (most of MA east of the CT River and NE CT...The Firehose Storm)
      13
    • February 12, 2006 (CT snowband)
      4
    • February 5, 2001 (SW NH, W MA, N CT mega snowband)
      1
    • Feb 28-Mar 1, 2005 (SE MA convective snowbomb)
      2
    • OCtober 29-30, 2011 (W MA, SW NH, NW CT mesoscale snowband)
      5

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wxmanmitch

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October 2011 is the hands-down winner out here.  28" of powder with hours and hours in the killer band.  Not as long as Mitch who had it pivot over his head and cleaned house with it, but several inches/hour rates are fun anytime.  Add it to the October date and you've got yourself something very special.

 

I had 24" with that one so you still did better than I did. Regardless, that storm gets my vote hands down. I'm hoping we do better this winter as we got screwed this past winter (I more than you).

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ORH_wxman

ORH_wxman

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Don't forget 12/23/97.

 

 

There is still no explanation to what happened in 12/23/97...I asked several people at BOX a few years ago and none of them had any answers...even the ones who were there for that storm.

 

 

BOS had a forecast of nothing except maybe some rain/snow mix (and light)...ORH forecast was 1-3/2-4 the night before. BOS had 7" (after rain...a lot more just west of the airport) and ORH had 18".

 

The low wasn't strong and the frontogenesis wasn't strong either. And there wasn't a huge firehose or anything either. Still the most inexplicable bust of time in the modern forecasting age for our area. The CF wasn't very strong either. Maybe 5-7F on either side. Nothing unusual.

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Ginx snewx

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There is still no explanation to what happened in 12/23/97...I asked several people at BOX a few years ago and none of them had any answers...even the ones who were there for that storm.

BOS had a forecast of nothing except maybe some rain/snow mix (and light)...ORH forecast was 1-3/2-4 the night before. BOS had 7" (after rain...a lot more just west of the airport) and ORH had 18".

The low wasn't strong and the frontogenesis wasn't strong either. And there wasn't a huge firehose or anything either. Still the most inexplicable bust of time in the modern forecasting age for our area. The CF wasn't very strong either. Maybe 5-7F on either side. Nothing unusual.

You are very wrong that there's no explanation. Hundreds of thousands of kids praying for a white Christmas.
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joey2002

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At least Kevin got dry slotted in the February super blizzard. 

 

The death band made up for it though... 6" per hour rates were just unreal. 

 

Never seen such huge "flakes" or hail in a snowstorm! 

 

Did that band survive as it pivoted towards you in West Hartford?

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CT Rain

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The death band made up for it though... 6" per hour rates were just unreal. 

 

Never seen such huge "flakes" or hail in a snowstorm! 

 

Did that band survive as it pivoted towards you in West Hartford?

 

Yeah it did - as Kevin rotted under 1" per hour junk lol

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Damage In Tolland

Damage In Tolland

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The death band made up for it though... 6" per hour rates were just unreal. 

 

Never seen such huge "flakes" or hail in a snowstorm! 

 

Did that band survive as it pivoted towards you in West Hartford?

It was so funny to see Ryan whine and complain about that storm. I'd say 70% of storms there in the valley screw him with downsloping lol

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Ginx snewx

Ginx snewx

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Will you peaked my interest in the 12/23/97 storm,

Strong warm air advection moved into western NY and over PA late in the day on the 22nd. Surface temperatures ranged from just below freezing, in parts of PA, down to the lower 20's in parts of NY. Secondary low pressure formed in advance of the approaching upper trough and strengthened off the Mid Atlantic coast early on the 23rd. This secondary storm brought a quick, but significant, influx of Atlantic moisture into parts of interior and northeastern MA and southeast NH. 

 I also used the climate weather toolkit and downloaded the entire nexrad animation, very cool stuff. The AVI is too big to post here 

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CoastalWx

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Will you peaked my interest in the 12/23/97 storm,

Strong warm air advection moved into western NY and over PA late in the day on the 22nd. Surface temperatures ranged from just below freezing, in parts of PA, down to the lower 20's in parts of NY. Secondary low pressure formed in advance of the approaching upper trough and strengthened off the Mid Atlantic coast early on the 23rd. This secondary storm brought a quick, but significant, influx of Atlantic moisture into parts of interior and northeastern MA and southeast NH. 

 I also used the climate weather toolkit and downloaded the entire nexrad animation, very cool stuff. The AVI is too big to post here 

 

I wonder how much better models now would be able to resolve that. There had to be some sort of forcing and unstable layer to get air to rise like that....along with a large layer where ascent is occuring in the DGZ.  

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Ginx snewx

Ginx snewx

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There was a great page that had Sat, 850 and 700 links as well as CHH soundings showing the saturated layer but all the links are broken, the text is still there. .  Chatham, MA 12Z Sounding (note deep saturated isothermal layer and SE flow)Here is a 7-frame Loop of the RUC Surface Pressure and Frontogenesis. (Note the strong frontogenesis just east of the axis of heaviest snow. Also, here's a look at the 12Z Surface Temperatures over New England.)  http://www.spc.noaa.gov/obswx/winter/

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CoastalWx

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There was a great page that had Sat, 850 and 700 links as well as CHH soundings showing the saturated layer but all the links are broken, the text is still there. .  Chatham, MA 12Z Sounding (note deep saturated isothermal layer and SE flow)Here is a 7-frame Loop of the RUC Surface Pressure and Frontogenesis. (Note the strong frontogenesis just east of the axis of heaviest snow. Also, here's a look at the 12Z Surface Temperatures over New England.)  http://www.spc.noaa.gov/obswx/winter/

 

That influx of rich early season theta-e certainly helped. Here is the CHH sounding that morning. I could not find Albany's sounding.  Notice the unstable layer right at the bottom of the dryslot which is very typical. It's certainly possible that had something to do with it. I mean get rich atlantic moisture and force it up by some sort of fronto and upslope with an unstable layer and things can happen. Still, I'm a little stumped as to what exactly went on...we only can speculate some of the pieces of the puzzle. 

 

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Ginx snewx

Ginx snewx

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Well minus the colder profile and extreme precip rates. It's not a coincidence that this event did not have very cold temps near 850. There was probably a sh*t ton of moisture injected into this system. 

It looked like crap on the sat loop until an explosion of cold high tops as the LP infused into it

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