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Remember Nemo! February 8-9th 2013 Blizzard - 1 yr ago


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Conventional Miller BS have a dieing primary originating from a southern locale which then transfers energy to a newly formed center. This was a phase of two separate streams.The first low-pressure system, originating from the Northern Plains of the United States, produced moderate amounts of snow across the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada.[14] The second low, originating across the state of Texas, produced heavy rains and flooding across much of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic parts of the U.S. As the two systems merged off the Northeast coast on February 8, 2013, they produced heavy snowfall over a large region from North Jersey and inland from New York City through eastern New England up to coastal Maine and inland to Ontario.

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Conventional Miller BS have a dieing primary originating from a southern locale which then transfers energy to a newly formed center. This was a phase of two separate streams.The first low-pressure system, originating from the Northern Plains of the United States, produced moderate amounts of snow across the Great Lakes region of the U.S. and Canada.[14] The second low, originating across the state of Texas, produced heavy rains and flooding across much of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic parts of the U.S. As the two systems merged off the Northeast coast on February 8, 2013, they produced heavy snowfall over a large region from North Jersey and inland from New York City through eastern New England up to coastal Maine and inland to Ontario.

 

 

Whatever you want to call it, it had many more characteristics of a Miller B than a Miller A. There's always different flavors of each kind...its not 100% black and white...but there is a reason that most of the precip skipped over the Mid-Atlantic from philly southward...and its because the real dynamics processes didnt start going gangbusters until the primary energy in the great lakes phased in...and then boom...very typical of Miller Bs. This one just had a slightl more developed low as it came up from Carolinas but all that really did was just infuse more moisture for when the phasing occurred.

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Whatever you want to call it, it had many more characteristics of a Miller B than a Miller A. There's always different flavors of each kind...its not 100% black and white...but there is a reason that most of the precip skipped over the Mid-Atlantic from philly southward...and its because the real dynamics processes didnt start going gangbusters until the primary energy in the great lakes phased in...and then boom...very typical of Miller Bs. This one just had a slightl more developed low as it came up from Carolinas but all that really did wasthanks just infuse more moisture for when the phasing occurred.

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I will forever hate North Carolina til the day I die. My wife and i moved from CT to NC on Jan 31st lol... Worst timing! I was probably the only sicko weather nerd who stayed up all night for a snowstorm 800miles away. I was in shock, awe, jealous, envious, and downright pissed. Needless to say, when summer was over, we sold the house in NC and moved back. I cant live without the big bombs.

You guys were awesome during nemo though, this board was on an acidic high.

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Steve, all I can infer from that passage regarding your argument is that you don't feel this is a pure miller B because it was the result.of two different systems phasing, as opposed to a straight transfer? Most of our largest Miller Bs are results of phases that have some sort of southern contribution.

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This was the first time I ever chased a major snowstorm and the first time I've been to New England in the winter. I've always lived in the mid-Atlantic around Baltimore, but this time I couldn't stand seeing such an amazing storm evolve just above me while I would miss out completely. It wasn't just an ordinary Miller B, it was a HECS that was very often being compared to Feb 1978. In other words, it was way too good to miss.

 

Literally the evening before it started, I bought a train ticket to take me almost 400 miles north. I stayed with a very good friend who many of you know, and it was a blast. We got buried with 27", which was one of the biggest storms either of us has ever seen. The rates were amazing Friday night.

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This was the first time I ever chased a major snowstorm and the first time I've been to New England in the winter. I've always lived in the mid-Atlantic around Baltimore, but this time I couldn't stand seeing such an amazing storm evolve just above me while I would miss out completely. It wasn't just an ordinary Miller B, it was a HECS that was very often being compared to Feb 1978. In other words, it was way too good to miss.

 

Literally the evening before it started, I bought a train ticket to take me almost 400 miles north. I stayed with a very good friend who many of you know, and it was a blast. We got buried with 27", which was one of the biggest storms either of us has ever seen. The rates were amazing Friday night.

 

Jack Suslack?

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This was the first time I ever chased a major snowstorm and the first time I've been to New England in the winter. I've always lived in the mid-Atlantic around Baltimore, but this time I couldn't stand seeing such an amazing storm evolve just above me while I would miss out completely. It wasn't just an ordinary Miller B, it was a HECS that was very often being compared to Feb 1978. In other words, it was way too good to miss.

Literally the evening before it started, I bought a train ticket to take me almost 400 miles north. I stayed with a very good friend who many of you know, and it was a blast. We got buried with 27", which was one of the biggest storms either of us has ever seen. The rates were amazing Friday night.

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This was the first time I ever chased a major snowstorm and the first time I've been to New England in the winter. I've always lived in the mid-Atlantic around Baltimore, but this time I couldn't stand seeing such an amazing storm evolve just above me while I would miss out completely. It wasn't just an ordinary Miller B, it was a HECS that was very often being compared to Feb 1978. In other words, it was way too good to miss.

Literally the evening before it started, I bought a train ticket to take me almost 400 miles north. I stayed with a very good friend who many of you know, and it was a blast. We got buried with 27", which was one of the biggest storms either of us has ever seen. The rates were amazing Friday night.

just as good as the back to backs in 2010?
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Did anyone get any pics/vid from of the 6" per hour rate? Also we should ban the use of TWC names ;).

 

I was outside in the middle of it, but none of my pics came out.  Wish I had a video of it though... golfball sized flakes/snowballs were falling from the sky.  

 

it was really windy and actually painful getting pelted in my face by chunks of hail, lol.  

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I'll never forget the days leading up to the event either. Probably got 10 hours of sleep from Tuesday till Saturday. I was out to dinner on that Thursday night, the place was buzzing with talk about the storm.

It gets real when your 1-2 days out and forecasts remain for ~24 inches.

This will go down as probably a top 3 for me when I'm old and looking back.

Something I'll never forget

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Se Mass ferocious winds

 

 

Photo cred please!

 

 

Nope, I took it in Middleboro, MA on 2/9!

 

I am putting a PP show together on this storm, as well as a poster for the Northeastern Storm Conference next month.  Would like to us this photo.  OK, Ed??  Think your uncle would be pleased to see this in my show!  ;)

 

--Turtle  

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Jack Suslack?

Ray Spinazola?

 

nope, guess again   :whistle:

 

just as good as the back to backs in 2010?

 

if there'd been a second blizzard this time, then yeah

 

I am putting a PP show together on this storm, as well as a poster for the Northeastern Storm Conference next month.  Would like to us this photo.  OK, Ed??  Think your uncle would be pleased to see this in my show!   ;)

 

--Turtle  

 

That's really cool, good luck with the presentation.

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Ahhhh! Is it winter yet???

No doubt brother......this storm ruled in so many ways.....I sat in my sons room for a solid hour while he slept - it was 1 am I think - looking out his window cuz his room had a good vantage point to the road.....it was pounding snow....totally ridiculous......backlit by the street light.....no plows....no cars anywhere and probably a good foot accumulated on the road since the last plow....a line car - a Honda accord I think came strolling up the road and got stuck a couple houses down....really unbelievable someone was out in it....anyway I was about to go out and help dog him out but the neighbors go there and it took a good hour to get him out.....lots of shoveling....blowing pounding snow all the while....pretty epic really

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Hello folks...

 

I WILL be bringing my poster comparing the Blizzard of 1978 to the Blizzard of 2013 with me to the AmWx Conference in July in Baltimore.  I HOPE to see some of you weenies there!!  Plus, if possible, I'll bring along my laptop and show my PowerPoint show about the Feb '13 storm.  Got a good radar loop in it!!!!  #wxporn  hehe...

 

--Turtle  

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