JC-CT Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Probably up to a C- now. Nice little late season stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 I'd give ORH a D...could be revised to a C- if there's another decent even in April. For snowfall, this season's total of 37.2" is about a 1 in 6 result...quite bad. The warmth was very real as this is a top 5 warmest winter...though it was mitigated a bit by a historical cold shot where ORH produced their single coldest reading in almost 6 decades and their coldest February reading in over 7 decades. So that counts for something. There was also a 12" snow event for the 6th consecutive season. You have to go back to 2009-2010 when they failed to have one. I would reserve the grade of F for a winter like the late 1980s or early 1990s when there were no double digit snow events and no real notable arctic outbreaks...sans the amazing month of Dec 1989. Revised to a C-. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR Airglow Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Will be revising upwards but holding off until after the weekend as I'm not sure we're done yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 If it ended, based on snow. C- close to D. C+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Yeah this would definitely be worth almost a full grade increase for those that got around double digits for the 2-day stretch here in April. I'm starting to agree with eyewall that if there was a grade lower than F, this winter would get it. Its like getting your eye poked with a sharp stick at this point. Obnoxious cold on bare ground in a "suppression depression" pattern in April. JFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Yeah this would definitely be worth almost a full grade increase for those that got around double digits for the 2-day stretch here in April. I'm starting to agree with eyewall that if there was a grade lower than F, this winter would get it. Its like getting your eye poked with a sharp stick at this point. Obnoxious cold on bare ground in a "suppression depression" pattern in April. JFC. Hey the folks in NW MA got some love today...maybe you guys next week. Who knows in this pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthCoastMA Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 went from a C+ to a B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Hey the folks in NW MA got some love today...maybe you guys next week. Who knows in this pattern. He'll jackpot next month in a synoptic deformation rain band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 He'll jackpot next month in a synoptic deformation rain band. We can circle back and have a good laugh next year when I'm on my deck sipping cosmos in January while he's nipple deep in powder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 D. Unless we get a foot tonight and the. It goes to C-. I suspect that's not in the cards. Strangely enough, it didn't bother me in the least. C-/C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Yesterday and today elevated it to a D- just for the novelty. Still only 20" or so on the season. A third or less of average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 He'll jackpot next month in a synoptic deformation rain band. We can circle back and have a good laugh next year when I'm on my deck sipping cosmos in January while he's nipple deep in powder. Its possible both of these are true. What a season though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Even for you guys down there who have done well the last two days, it still has to feel a little like scoring two touchdowns late in the fourth quarter after being down by four td's most of the game. Up here, we use a basketball analogy, we feel like Oklahoma after Saturday night's beatdown from Villanova Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Even for you guys down there who have done well the last two days, it still has to feel a little like scoring two touchdowns late in the fourth quarter after being down by four td's most of the game. Up here, we use a basketball analogy, we feel like Oklahoma after Saturday night's beatdown from Villanova If you get a big dog dropping 29 inches in the next few days trust me your grade will change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 up to a D, yesterday's mid winter like event did it without any help from that nonsense of the day before we are now at about half of normal seasonal snow and there are plenty like this in the annals i still cannot fathom areas in vt or nh with not one event over 3 inches, yikes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 If you get a big dog dropping 29 inches in the next few days trust me your grade will change. To me, it sort of feels like watching your football team go 3-9 but then win several games at the end to get back to 7-9 or 6-10...so it leaves you with a better taste in your mouth and more optimism for next season going into the summer even though the season overall was still crappy. You at least salvaged some dignity at the end and had some entertainment rather than keep losing each game 41-10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 If you get a big dog dropping 29 inches in the next few days trust me your grade will change. Nope. My main winter avocation is snowmobiling. I sit on the board of directors of the state snowmobiling association. In a decent snow winter, our groomers will groom about 140,000 miles across the state, this winter they have done 7,800 miles. There is no amount of snow in mid-April that can make up for that deficit. Additionally, in the warm months I golf. It's a double whammy if late season snow delays the opening of my home course. Sort of like the worst of both worlds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 To me, it sort of feels like watching your football team go 3-9 but then win several games at the end to get back to 7-9 or 6-10...so it leaves you with a better taste in your mouth and more optimism for next season going into the summer even though the season overall was still crappy. You at least salvaged some dignity at the end and had some entertainment rather than keep losing each game 41-10. Yes, I agree with that analogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 If you get a big dog dropping 29 inches in the next few days trust me your grade will change. If you could arrange the cold HP to camp north of Maine and direct Thursday's storm thru the CC Canal and up to St. John, NB, that might be possible. Unfortunately, we get a repeat of this winter's whiff-cutter-whiff-cutter sequence, instead. Seeing SNE get two advisory-criteria snowfalls in April while watching the brown ground freeze here just dropped my grade to F- -. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 To me, it sort of feels like watching your football team go 3-9 but then win several games at the end to get back to 7-9 or 6-10...so it leaves you with a better taste in your mouth and more optimism for next season going into the summer even though the season overall was still crappy. You at least salvaged some dignity at the end and had some entertainment rather than keep losing each game 41-10. Yeah that sums it up I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 29.8" on the season here. Not great but not a disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 If you could arrange the cold HP to camp north of Maine and direct Thursday's storm thru the CC Canal and up to St. John, NB, that might be possible. Unfortunately, we get a repeat of this winter's whiff-cutter-whiff-cutter sequence, instead. Seeing SNE get two advisory-criteria snowfalls in April while watching the brown ground freeze here just dropped my grade to F- -. Yup that was the final dagger...finally getting a suppression depression pattern in April. Some folks in SNE will remember how frustrating that is as a couple Marches lately have seen PHL-NYC get snow while blanking New England. Nothing more infuriating than cold/dry in the spring. 6F and brown ground this morning argues for a lower than fail grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 To me, it sort of feels like watching your football team go 3-9 but then win several games at the end to get back to 7-9 or 6-10...so it leaves you with a better taste in your mouth and more optimism for next season going into the summer even though the season overall was still crappy. You at least salvaged some dignity at the end and had some entertainment rather than keep losing each game 41-10. It's like what we talked about a week or so ago... the late season events are more psychological winners than the early season snows when grading a winter or going into summer. This same event in early November would be noteworthy but by now no one would care and it wouldn't have an effect on the tenor of the season. Even the same snowfall, but this on April 4th makes a bigger impact than November 4th when remembering the winter, even though November 4th would probably be more anomalous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Seems as if Morch and Napril have switched with Morch being a spring month and Napril being winter 105 out of the last 113 April's have featured snow in SNE..I believe at BDL if I read it correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Extra credit has brought this winter for me up from a D to a C-. If there are any more after school make-up sessions that Old Man Winter decides to participate in between now and May, the grade could easily be bumped up to a C or even C+. Accumulating snow in May alone could bump up to a C+ right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Seems as if Morch and Napril have switched with Morch being a spring month and Napril being winter 105 out of the last 113 April's have featured snow in SNE..I believe at BDL if I read it correctly How many March's have included snow? Probably a higher number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 The grade here is definitely below an F. Call it an F--- at this point or a G for God awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Seems as if Morch and Napril have switched with Morch being a spring month and Napril being winter 105 out of the last 113 April's have featured snow in SNE..I believe at BDL if I read it correctly Someplace in SNE - that I can believe. Looking just at BDL (and measurable snow only, traces not counted), it's a bit less than half of the years, 1949 on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Yeah this would definitely be worth almost a full grade increase for those that got around double digits for the 2-day stretch here in April. I'm starting to agree with eyewall that if there was a grade lower than F, this winter would get it. Its like getting your eye poked with a sharp stick at this point. Obnoxious cold on bare ground in a "suppression depression" pattern in April. JFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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