weatherbo Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Boston doesn't interest me (than again either does Detroit or Chicago) as I will take my current location over Boston (&Detroit &Chicago) hands down. If I had to live in Mass then I would be near Worcester. Honestly if I had to live in NE then I would prefer New Hampshire over Mass.I considered N/NW Maine for a while but Michigan is my home state and I like the great lakes too much But VT, NH, and Maine along the Canadian border has mountains and nice deep system snowpack in any average Winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I know the Indiana crew won't like it... But I really want to see SW Michigan get in on the LES bands. I planned on possibly going to Allegan to ride in the next few days, really need some fresh snow on those trails. Nowhere to ride in Indy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Yea Boston destroys Detroit on the snow department. Not even close. IMO Let me put to you guys this way. Boston is taking Detroit's top 3 snowfalls and repeating them in a 3 week time period. The only thing Detroit has over Boston is the more frequent 1-2" snowfalls and its on the ground longer.which is why as a winter enthusiast overall id choose here. More true winter. Average snow is the same, climate is totally different. Boston actually destroys any city I can think of for big storms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I could. I have to check that list again but I think only a few are truly horrific (like sub 15"). And if you live in the western suburbs, with a bit of elevation, you can probably avoid the clunkers all together. Truly an urban snow lover's paradise.meh i know I couldn't. I mean if I had a crystal ball I may live in a different city every winter .We had an epic, historic winter here last winter.....and started November off snowy and cold. Then December hit a brick wall of snowless hell and the weenies were already restless. Its easy to say now...but the true winter lover couldn't handle clunkers, no matter how fond the memories of recent winters are. Now a storm chaser like so many here could in a heartbeat (mild and sunny or whopper snowstorm would satisfy them, doesn't matter which) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Boston is looking At its snowiest winter ever... and you still see these stupid posts. Snowiest 2 weeks OF ALL TIME... "Typical Winter in 1970's" hahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 old white men have been making that post about literally everything since al gore invented the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 old white men have been making that post about literally everything since al gore invented the internet True, but I thought maybe this winter might have moved outside normal just enough to end the meme for a little while. Fireballs could be raining down and this guy would still proclaim it weak sauce compared to his childhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtrackertf Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Yea Boston destroys Detroit on the snow department. Not even close. IMO Let me put to you guys this way. Boston is taking Detroit's top 3 snowfalls and repeating them in a 3 week time period. The only thing Detroit has over Boston is the more frequent 1-2" snowfalls and its on the ground longer. Boston also destroys most of Antarctica in snow climo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Boston also destroys most of Antarctica in snow climo.As does pretty much everyone north of I80. So sick of the Boston fetish. They have a better snowstorm climo than just about everyone. They have less "winter" than most of this subforum. Its a totally different climate, totally different circumstances, its a dead horse thats been beaten over and over...it is what it is. Want to plan a trip there next January? You may have so much snow you cant get out of your hotel...or it may look like spring with not an ounce of snow around. No way to tell. Thats Bawstin. Cant think of any city Id like to see be on this HISTORIC month any less than them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Boston also destroys most of Antarctica in snow climo. Cute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 As does pretty much everyone north of I80. So sick of the Boston fetish. They have a better snowstorm climo than just about everyone. They have less "winter" than most of this subforum. Its a totally different climate, totally different circumstances, its a dead horse thats been beaten over and over...it is what it is. Want to plan a trip there next January? You may have so much snow you cant get out of your hotel...or it may look like spring with not an ounce of snow around. No way to tell. Thats Bawstin. Cant think of any city Id like to see be on this HISTORIC month any less than them. No need to get hot over it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 As does pretty much everyone north of I80. So sick of the Boston fetish. They have a better snowstorm climo than just about everyone. They have less "winter" than most of this subforum. Its a totally different climate, totally different circumstances, its a dead horse thats been beaten over and over...it is what it is. Want to plan a trip there next January? You may have so much snow you cant get out of your hotel...or it may look like spring with not an ounce of snow around. No way to tell. Thats Bawstin. Cant think of any city Id like to see be on this HISTORIC month any less than them. Do you hate Boston that much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Boston is looking At its snowiest winter ever... and you still see these stupid posts. Snowiest 2 weeks OF ALL TIME... "Typical Winter in 1970's" hahah dumb poster.jpg lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Josh needs to move to the sw side of Grand Rapids.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I think it is also safe to say nobody in this forum wants to see another +pna winter like we have had ever again.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 lol....we finally know what pushes Josh's buttons.... snow envy . Wow that post was basically Jebman on valium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebo Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I think it is also safe to say nobody in this forum wants to see another +pna winter like we have had ever again.. You mean no one wants a dry dusty snowfall winter where if you don't get lucky you end up like the 70 corridor, where most places are under a foot for the year. Yeah I will pass on a +pna winter for the rest of eternity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Do you hate Boston that much? Not to get WAY OT with it...but since you asked..... Its basically a 2-parter. Yes, the snow obsession thing with Boston has always annoyed me. Not talking about this year so much....any idiot who is not stuck in their bubble of "this is typical/average...in the 1970s blah blah blah" has to realize whats going on there is nothing short of historic...but since these boards have started (talking way back when there were NO subforums, it was all one) it struck me odd what I called the Boston fetish. They could get a 16" storm in Boston and thats all everyone would talk about....I mean....Buffalo could get buried under 5 feet of LES and it would get talked about for a few days, or any other number of east coast cities could get buried and it would get talked about for a few days...but Boston would get buried and then everyone was all over it for months. Still, I always thought Boston would be a cool place to visit with all their historic sites and such - right up my alley! But about a year ago I met and became friends with someone who just moved to MI (from FL) whose job requires constant travel all around the country, with frequent stops in some of the big cities...and he is ALWAYS talking about how rude, pushy, and stuckup people are in Boston. I would have always thought it was NYC or LA, but he says hands down people in Boston are the WORST, and its a shame because the city itself is pretty sweet. Not saying there arent nice people there lol, there are nice people and douchebags EVERYWHERE, but I have no reason to doubt what he always says (and again, if anything he loves the city itself). I just guess all those things combined just annoy me about Boston. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I think it is also safe to say nobody in this forum wants to see another +pna winter like we have had ever again.. Is there a way to look up PNA of past winters? Id be curious to know some of the other +PNA ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 which is why as a winter enthusiast overall id choose here. More true winter. Average snow is the same, climate is totally different. Boston actually destroys any city I can think of for big storms. There's always Moncton, New Brunswick or St. John's Newfoundland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottawa Blizzard Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Boston is looking At its snowiest winter ever... and you still see these stupid posts. Snowiest 2 weeks OF ALL TIME... "Typical Winter in 1970's" hahah dumb poster.jpg The person who posted that is a moron. Honestly, people just don't realize how historic this February is turning out to be. This could potentially be one of the top five coldest months ever recorded at Toronto Pearson airport. Obviously that's nothing compared to what Boston is going through, but still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc76 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 St. John's Newfoundland. Powerballs dream city Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowstorms Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 0z GFS has another East coast special next week. Give me a break, please? They've had enough!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 You mean no one wants a dry dusty snowfall winter where if you don't get lucky you end up like the 70 corridor, where most places are under a foot for the year. Yeah I will pass on a +pna winter for the rest of eternity. Pretty much.. The storms just keep coming in too far east and don't have a chance to develop till they reach the coast. The only difference involves the NAO as that has been + which benefits New England where as if it had been negative then those down the coast in the Mid Atlantic/se would be cashing in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I text that pic of the Abcnews comment section to Josh, I know he would go bananas over it. I was pretty annoyed by the comment too. Gotta stomp down people being wrong on the Internets at every chance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 What else are you gonna do on a Friday night when you aren't feeling well enough to go out? Valparaiso has had lake-effect events that produced at least 10 inches of snow in (at least) December 2004, February 2008, November 2008, February 2009, December 2010, and January 2011, this not including any synoptic-scale systems that happened to produce significant lake enhancement. Since I arrived in the fall of 2011, there have been precisely zero. Barring some fantastic model bust tomorrow night, or some other unforeseen event in the roughly ten days we have left in the season, my class will be the first since *at least* the class of 2004 to go all four years without a big lake-effect event. And I only looked even semi-exhaustively back to 2007. This record could easily go back into the 1990s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 What else are you gonna do on a Friday night when you aren't feeling well enough to go out? Valparaiso has had lake-effect events that produced at least 10 inches of snow in (at least) December 2004, February 2008, November 2008, February 2009, December 2010, and January 2011, this not including any synoptic-scale systems that happened to produce significant lake enhancement. Since I arrived in the fall of 2011, there have been precisely zero. Barring some fantastic model bust tomorrow night, or some other unforeseen event in the roughly ten days we have left in the season, my class will be the first since *at least* the class of 2004 to go all four years without a big lake-effect event. And I only looked even semi-exhaustively back to 2007. This record could easily go back into the 1990s. I remember some of those that you mentioned. Valpo was certainly on a roll several years ago. Lake county has had a couple monsters in the past 10 years...Jan 2005 and Jan 2014...both of which turned sour for Porter as it drew closer. One you didn't mention for Porter county was Jan 2003. I think it may have been the 17th but I'd have to double check. Not sure about Valpo's total but I think the heaviest might have fallen just west of there. I chased that one...I think there was like 20" in Porter (the town). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertSul Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 ....Buffalo could get buried under 5 feet of LES and it would get talked about for a few days, or any other number of east coast cities could get buried and it would get talked about for a few days...but Boston would get buried and then everyone was all over it for months. True, but a lake effect storm hits one very localized area and may impact a couple hundred thousand people, whereas the east coast blizzards smothers multiple millions. Not to mention the hurricane force wind gusts and house-destroying storm surges (comparable to strong tropical storms and in the more severe cases weak hurricanes), along with the congestion of such an old city makes for some pretty serious problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerball Posted February 14, 2015 Author Share Posted February 14, 2015 Powerballs dream city Nope. I need my severe weather fix... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 00z gfs doesn't have us cracking freezing thru 384 hrs. And a total of .23 qpf snow.... worst nightmare possible for late winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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