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35 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

taking latitude into consideration, what's more impressive? 9/10 in the mid atlantic or 14/15 in the bos area?

Tough call. '09-'10 in the MA was a pretty epic winter from start to finish. '14-'15 was a three week wintergasm, replete with extreme cold, but bookended with boringness. I believe we were discussing futility here until Juno came along, and when the snow shut off after Feb 15, it pretty much stayed shut off for the rest of the season. Still, to go from futility to a 100"+ season (in fact I think Coastal did 100" in that 3 weeks alone), totally insane. An MIT statistician reviewed Boston's climate data and concluded the event was a 1 in 90,000 year thing.

Edit: I should also add that several sites recorded their coldest February on record in '15. Sometimes gets buried under the snow stats, but that in itself was pretty incredible, especially if you take a warming climate into consideration.

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15 minutes ago, Hoth said:

Tough call. '09-'10 in the MA was a pretty epic winter from start to finish. '14-'15 was a three week wintergasm, replete with extreme cold, but bookended with boringness. I believe we were discussing futility here until Juno came along, and when the snow shut off after Feb 15, it pretty much stayed shut off for the rest of the season. Still, to go from futility to a 100"+ season (in fact I think Coastal did 100" in that 3 weeks alone), totally insane. An MIT statistician reviewed Boston's climate data and concluded the event was a 1 in 90,000 year thing.

Edit: I should also add that several sites recorded their coldest February on record in '15. Sometimes gets buried under the snow stats, but that in itself was pretty incredible, especially if you take a warming climate into consideration.

I agree the MA was more anomalous snowfall wise but let me correct you on one thing, the MA was not epic start to finish  3 KUs but winter ended basically Feb 10th. FEB 2015 in totality was the most anomalous month ever recorded (by a lot) for snow and cold at this latitude.

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Did some places in the Mid-Atlantic top 100" on the year that season?  I also remember like 4-foot snowpacks in the BWI suburbs....I think that would win in terms of anomalous winter.

The thing Feb 2015 had though was the cold.  Probably the most wasted cold air in the history of the interior, lol.  But whe coastal areas are getting 100" with teens for temps that's impressive.

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7 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I guess?

The MA had 3 amazing KU's that winter. 1 occurred in late Dec the next 2 the first 2 weeks of FEB. Jan was void of storms. Putting it all together they basically had a winter like Boston did from Jan 26th to the end of Feb in 3 weeks. Definitely more anomalous snowfall wise for total accumulation in the MA but as a whole, winter for long term sustained they have had better 

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6 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

The MA had 3 amazing KU's that winter. 1 occurred in late Dec the next 2 the first 2 weeks of FEB. Jan was void of storms. Putting it all together they basically had a winter like Boston did from Jan 26th to the end of Feb in 3 weeks. Definitely more anomalous snowfall wise for total accumulation in the MA but as a whole, winter for long term sustained they have had better 

What winters were better down there?  I'm not well versed down there haha.

I'd expect BOS to have better wall to wall winters but down there it's gotta be real hard to keep 2-3 straight months of winter.

I just think 2009-2010 was an anomalous winter in that how many times has BWI beaten a lot of the state of Maine for snow?  Just the ridiculous NAO block and pattern overall was crazy. 

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