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Its decision time for Mother Nature.

We are rolling with 1982-83 and '56-57 right now in the basement of winters.

Time to decide where we go from here...do we go '82-83 this spring or does this winter "bet the streak" and just crap out like '56-'57. But even 56-57 had a 15-inch event in early March, so have to assume we get a decent storm at some point here.

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Wow that must have been one hell of a blizzard in April 83!! Do you have any info on that?

I do not like seeing storms close to the coast in the long range. The WAR has been under forecast all winter. I would think it has to do with above normal water temps

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Wow that must have been one hell of a blizzard in April 83!! Do you have any info on that?

I do not like seeing storms close to the coast in the long range. The WAR has been under forecast all winter. I would think it has to do with above normal water temps

I'll have to check later. There were some big systems that spring.
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Wow that must have been one hell of a blizzard in April 83!! Do you have any info on that?

I do not like seeing storms close to the coast in the long range. The WAR has been under forecast all winter. I would think it has to do with above normal water temps

 

 

I'll have to check later. There were some big systems that spring.

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-35E39CCF-6605-4EFD-8A95-ECF61BE900DC.pdf

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Wow that must have been one hell of a blizzard in April 83!! Do you have any info on that?

I do not like seeing storms close to the coast in the long range. The WAR has been under forecast all winter. I would think it has to do with above normal water temps

 

Don't know about Mansfield, but in Ft. Kent I measured 18"+ total from storms on March 28-29, April 4, and April 11, at my 540' elev. home.  In the woods NW of Allagash Village, those 3 events dumped 30-40" at 1000-1500' elev.   (Then mid April had a week with about 6" of warm rain, though on roads and bridges.)

 

Love that gfs at about hr 252 - promising a two-footer instead of the usual (failed) one-footer.  Congrats CLE is probably more likely this year.

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It's not that rare. FZRA intensity is based on liquid equivalent rates...not ice accretion. IOW it's the same as regular rain.

 

+DZ/+FZDZ is different. Drizzle intensity is based on visibility like snow. So you would need a vis of <= 1/4SM to have +FZDZ.

 

oh you can get fantastic fall rates below freezing...  i can recall a couple of times in the plains there was lightning flashes/thunder every couple of minutes at 27 F with heavy rain coming down at a 45 deg angle pointed S.   

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