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how many double digit snowstorms have you lived through?

codfishsnowman

By codfishsnowman,
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NorthShoreWx

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It was easy enough for me to check the records I've kept at my current house.  We've had 18 double digits and one near miss in 18 years. which is a pretty good run for here:

 

 

2013 Feb 08-09  -  27.0

1996 Jan 07-09  -  22.3

2003 Feb 16-18  -  18.8

2009 Dec 19-20  -  17.0

2011 Jan 11-12  -  15.8

2003 Dec 05-06  -  15.5

2011 Jan 26-27  -  14.5

2010 Feb 10  -  14.5

2005 Jan 22-23  -  14.4

2004 Jan 27-28  -  13.5

2006 Feb 11-12  -  13.3

2001 Mar 05-07  -  12.2

2010 Dec 26-27  -  12.0

2010 Feb 25-26  -  12.0

1996 Apr 09-10  -  12.0

2009 Mar 01-02  -  11.5

1995 Dec 19-21  -  11.3

2000 Dec 30  -  11.0

 

Near miss:

1999 Mar 14-15  -  9.8

 

I kept records for 12 years (1974 - 1985) at another LI location and there were 6 during those years:

 

1978 Feb 06-07  -  24.0

1983 Feb 11-12  -  20.0

1978 Jan 19-20   -  17.0

1982 Apr 06   -  10.5

1979 Feb 19   -  10.1

1981 Mar 05   -  10.0

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danstorm

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On 10+, (* indicates 20"+ storms)

 

13-14     1

12-13     1

10-11     3*** (NYC and Ct)

09-10     3

08-09     0 (State College blows)

07-08     0 (")

06-07     1

05-06     2

04-05     1*

03-04     1*

02-03     1

01-02     0

00-01     3

99-00     0

98-99     1

97-98     0

96-97     1

95-96     2* (maybe 3, had a lot of 8-9" events)

94-95     1

93-94     2

92-93     2

91-92     0

90-91     0

89-90     0

 

... can't remember any prior, but there were some in the early 80s.

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jamesnichols1989

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13/14 - 1 (15"+ snowstorm)

12/13 - 1 (15"+ snowstorm)

11/12 - 0

10/11 - 0

09/10 - 1 (15"+ snowstorm)

08/09 - 0

07/08 - 0"

06/07 - 0"

05/06 - 0"

04/05 - 2 (15"+ snowstorms)

03/04 - 0

02/03 - 2 (15"+ snowstorms)

01/02 - 0

00/01 - 0

99/00 - 0

98/99 - 1 (15"+ snowstorms) don't remember this snowstorm, but HArwich, MA NWS records suggest we had 24"

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ice1972

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In 9 years here in West Hartford at least 9.....I feel like we get one double digit once a year.....its probably like 15 or so.....

 

Before I moved east I was lucky enough to wake up one Sunday morning at a cabin at Alpine Meadows, CA after it raged all night.....45" of snow....it was insane.....living in the Bay Area I would make frequent trips to Lake Tahoe to the many ski areas around the lake.....pretty epic up there....

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RUNNAWAYICEBERG

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Compared to home it rules......still i can remember some royal screw jobs here.....I think it was 2007-08 we got less than 30".....that royally blew.....but I'd rather West Hartford than New Haven, New London, or PVD.....taint city....

 

for overall snow in a season, yes....latitude helps. but for those big ones, i prefer just inland from the coastal plain.

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ice1972

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Did you live here?:

http://www.mammothmountain.com/Mountain/Conditions/SnowConditions/HistoricalSnowfall.aspx

If a board like this had existed in 1976-77, the toaster sales would have been flying off the shelves there that winter.

Oh man that place is unreal....been there several times....check out 2010-11 with total 668 inches and 209 in Dec alone :lmao: 209 in one month? Really?

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Hambone

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I'm 60 years old and have lived  on the South Shore, Merrimack Valley, Boston and the hills of Worcester County.....  How many do you think?  I remember some monster storms back in the late 50s, then there was the winter of 1969, I was in the belt between Weymouth and Providence during the blizzard of 1978....took me 6 hours to drive 30 miles from Waltham home.  I was literally the last car to get past the jackknifed tractor trailers on Rte 128 where it turns uphill bythe train station.  A guy I knew driving behind me got stuck there and ended up spending the week at the Morse Company Shoe Factory in Canton.. long story....

 

Wayyy too many to count.

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CoastalWx

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I'm 60 years old and have lived  on the South Shore, Merrimack Valley, Boston and the hills of Worcester County.....  How many do you think?  I remember some monster storms back in the late 50s, then there was the winter of 1969, I was in the belt between Weymouth and Providence during the blizzard of 1978....took me 6 hours to drive 30 miles from Waltham home.  I was literally the last car to get past the jackknifed tractor trailers on Rte 128 where it turns uphill bythe train station.  A guy I knew driving behind me got stuck there and ended up spending the week at the Morse Company Shoe Factory in Canton.. long story....

 

Wayyy too many to count.

 

Your account from the Blizzard of '78 was awesome considering a lived a couple of miles from you. I wasn't born yet, but I know the area you described.

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78Blizzard

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I'm 60 years old and have lived  on the South Shore, Merrimack Valley, Boston and the hills of Worcester County.....  How many do you think?  I remember some monster storms back in the late 50s, then there was the winter of 1969, I was in the belt between Weymouth and Providence during the blizzard of 1978....took me 6 hours to drive 30 miles from Waltham home.  I was literally the last car to get past the jackknifed tractor trailers on Rte 128 where it turns uphill bythe train station.  A guy I knew driving behind me got stuck there and ended up spending the week at the Morse Company Shoe Factory in Canton.. long story....

 

Wayyy too many to count.

I remember those 2 big snowstorms in February, one of which went on for days and days.  That one may have held the record for many places until the blizzard of 1978.  I may be wrong, but I think one of those storms was the infamous one that Don Kent had predicted flurries.

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DavisStraight

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I remember those 2 big snowstorms in February, one of which went on for days and days.  That one may have held the record for many places until the blizzard of 1978.  I may be wrong, but I think one of those storms was the infamous one that Don Kent had predicted flurries.

I remember those back to back blizzards in 69, I believe they were one week apart. Don't remember Don Kents prediction though. I'd have to look back through records to see how many I've been through but it has to be close to 100.

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I remember those 2 big snowstorms in February, one of which went on for days and days.  That one may have held the record for many places until the blizzard of 1978.  I may be wrong, but I think one of those storms was the infamous one that Don Kent had predicted flurries.

 

 

The Feb 22-27, 1969 storm had the record for biggest snowstorm at BOS until Feb 1978 broke it. It still has the record at Blue Hill and also several coops in NE MA like the Reading site near Ray....I believe Blue Hill got something like 39.5" from that storm and Reading got 36.1". It is an underrated storm, and most people probably don't know that it holds the record in several plces still in E MA.

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JBG

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The ones I remember, which checking statistics, and for the New York suburbs within 5 miles of Connecticut border.

  • February 1958 (too young to remember, about 12");
  • March 3, 1960, about 15"  (great pictures of me as redheaded almost 3 year old building snowman);
  • December 11-12, 1960 (too young to remember, about 15");
  • January 20, 1961 (too young to remember, about 10");
  • February 3, 1961 ((too young to remember, about 18");
  • January 1964 (too young to remember, about 12");
  • February 7, 1967 about 12";
  • February 9, 1969 about 15" KNYC, really a fair amount more, probaby 20";
  • February 10, 1975 (only good snow of awful winter), about 10";
  • Boston December 1981 surprise storm, about 15" (I was in law school in Boston at time);
  • April 6, 1982 (visiting home for Passover and job hunting, shoveled 10" of powdery fluff in April, and thundersnow. One of my favorites);
  • February 11-12, 1983, 24" (watched snow crawl its way north from Verazanno to mid-town, early close, 23" of thundersnow);
  • January 1996, about 23" (who could possibly forget?);
  • December 30, 2000, aboiut 12" (cleared driveway with then 3 year old son);
  • PD II, February 2003, about 20" (who could forget? and went to Court next day, all lawyers in Court in Appellate Division in snowboots);
  • December 2003 (about 12", though said to be more);
  • January 2005 (about 12");
  • February 2006, 27" KNYC, about 20" in suburbs where I was (record for KNYC, who could forget? Went cross-country skiing during height of storm);
  • February 25-26, 2010, about 20" (snowicane, who could forget?);
  • December 26, 2010 "Boxing Day"; about 20" (probably my favorite storm, dispelled canard that blizzards and La Niña don't go together, along with two January 2011 storms); and
  • January 26, 2011 (I think), aboiut 20"
  • February 8, 2013, about 10".

I am sure I missed some, and I did not include some events such as December 26, 1990 which dropped around 10" in a quick hit before turning to rain, or December 26-27, 1969 whcih were double-digit if one counts the snow at both sides of the turnover to rain.

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DavisStraight

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The Feb 22-27, 1969 storm had the record for biggest snowstorm at BOS until Feb 1978 broke it. It still has the record at Blue Hill and also several coops in NE MA like the Reading site near Ray....I believe Blue Hill got something like 39.5" from that storm and Reading got 36.1". It is an underrated storm, and most people probably don't know that it holds the record in several plces still in E MA.

Will, how did Worcester and the surrounding area do in that storm? I was only 7 but I remember my mother making a big deal of it.

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Hambone

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I remember those 2 big snowstorms in February, one of which went on for days and days.  That one may have held the record for many places until the blizzard of 1978.  I may be wrong, but I think one of those storms was the infamous one that Don Kent had predicted flurries.

 

 

We only went to school for like 5 days that month... Back to back 20"+ storms.

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