Ginx snewx Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Jan 27th 2015. 752 am. This flag is 15 feet from my front door. 29.5 inches of pure blizzard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 19 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Jan 27th 2015. 752 am. This flag is 15 feet from my front door. 29.5 inches of pure blizzard That epic band in that storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 2002-2003 winter in Albany, NY... glad to experience that one before heading north. 100+ inches of snow and two 18"+ events and another couple 12"+ events. For that Hudson Valley climate location, it was a fun final winter living there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Dec. 24th-28th 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said: That epic band in that storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 4/10/96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 10 minutes ago, Sugarloaf1989 said: 4/10/96 Epic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 NYC broke it's snowfall record with that storm. I'd take that Winter again in a heartbeat. Snowfall from November to April. Fantastic skiing nearly all season long. Snowfield skiing at Sugarloaf in January, waist deep powder skiing in March at Plattekill and Bobcat. Sugarloaf closed on 4/29 with top to bottom coverage and no bare spots. Nasty January thaw though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 11/12/87 - snow on my birthday in NYC. Rain and snow 11-12/87. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 11/23/89 4" of snow at my parents house in Bayside. I drove to my friends house in Dix Hills for Thanksgiving dinner and right into the storm. Near zero visibility and heavy snow. My car nearly went off the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 95-96 should be bittersweet to southern areas. It of course featured some incredible late season snows. It also features one of the most memorable meltdowns of all time. Locally interior SE MA, we had a staggering 30-35" pack that was obliterated in a short time. The most since 1978, when the snowpack was around 45" and drifts 10'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice1972 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Going from memory.....granted we are west coast natives and didn’t arrive until August 2004.....so.... 1: October 2011 easily..... 2: Nemo.....Feb 2013.....we got 30+ 3: Feb 2006 Blizzy 4: Jan 2005.....but that thing underperformed here..... 5: Irene.....Aug 2011..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 19 minutes ago, Dr. Dews said: 95-96 should be bittersweet to southern areas. It of course featured some incredible late season snows. It also features one of the most memorable meltdowns of all time. Locally interior SE MA, we had a staggering 30-35" pack that was obliterated in a short time. The most since 1978, when the snowpack was around 45" and drifts 10'. Extremely late snowfall in May of 1996. Snow on 5/12/96 in New York State and Vermont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 I've skied and seen it snow all 12 months in the Northern Hemisphere. I've seen Summer snow at Arapahoe Basin in June, July snow at Timberline Lodge, August Snowfall at Stubital in Austria and September Snowfall in Iceland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 16 hours ago, Sugarloaf1989 said: The last snow event was elevation dependant. I recall green grass and no snow OTG in Farmington when we drove home. While some grass was showing then, I'd guess the "green" was leftovers from autumn, not spring green-up. Probably lots of piles still around as you drove by. Farmington co-op, located along Rt 4/27 about 1.5 miles north of town center, had 7" depth on 4/17 and only a trace on the 18th, despite that day's 37/36 temp and only 0.25" RA. To me, that's far too little RA/warmth to eat 7" of snow, even ripe 2:1 stuff. At my pack-holding location, 4/17 had 15" (at my 9 PM obs time - don't know when the co-op measures) and then decreased 2-3" per day to reach "trace" on 4/23. Had 3" the evening before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 10 hours ago, Dr. Dews said: 95-96 should be bittersweet to southern areas. It of course featured some incredible late season snows. It also features one of the most memorable meltdowns of all time. Locally interior SE MA, we had a staggering 30-35" pack that was obliterated in a short time. The most since 1978, when the snowpack was around 45" and drifts 10'. Not just the southern (assuming that means MA and perhaps SNE) but NNE as well. Farmington co-op reached 40" depth on Jan. 13 despite whiffing on the blizz. Then 3 torch-deluges (totaled 4" RA at temps 47-53) crushed the pack down to 8", by far the co-op's greatest January loss of snowpack. Feb. snows brought the depth to 21" before late month thaws pushed it back to 7", then a cold snowy week-plus in March grew the pack to 23". Two weeks later it was gone, just traces, and the 20" of April snow lasted but a day or two. 11/23/89 4" of snow at my parents house in Bayside. I drove to my friends house in Dix Hills for Thanksgiving dinner and right into the storm. Near zero visibility and heavy snow. My car nearly went off the road. Only flurries that day south of Augusta, though I tagged a deer that morning. Much preferred the thunderblizzard two days earlier, which ushered in nearly 6 weeks of continuous BN temps with several 10-11" snowfalls.. Extremely late snowfall in May of 1996. Snow on 5/12/96 in New York State and Vermont. Co-worker living at 1200' in Frenchville had 36 hours of continuous snowfall that weekend, top depth reaching 12". 30 miles SE and almost 600' lower, CAR recorded 5.7". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 58 minutes ago, tamarack said: Not just the southern (assuming that means MA and perhaps SNE) but NNE as well. Farmington co-op reached 40" depth on Jan. 13 despite whiffing on the blizz. Then 3 torch-deluges (totaled 4" RA at temps 47-53) crushed the pack down to 8", by far the co-op's greatest January loss of snowpack. Feb. snows brought the depth to 21" before late month thaws pushed it back to 7", then a cold snowy week-plus in March grew the pack to 23". Two weeks later it was gone, just traces, and the 20" of April snow lasted but a day or two. 11/23/89 4" of snow at my parents house in Bayside. I drove to my friends house in Dix Hills for Thanksgiving dinner and right into the storm. Near zero visibility and heavy snow. My car nearly went off the road. Only flurries that day south of Augusta, though I tagged a deer that morning. Much preferred the thunderblizzard two days earlier, which ushered in nearly 6 weeks of continuous BN temps with several 10-11" snowfalls.. Extremely late snowfall in May of 1996. Snow on 5/12/96 in New York State and Vermont. Co-worker living at 1200' in Frenchville had 36 hours of continuous snowfall that weekend, top depth reaching 12". 30 miles SE and almost 600' lower, CAR recorded 5.7". I don't remember specifics day to day for that winter, was only 17. I do remember skiing in VT up at Burke (toured Lyndon) and it was mediocre. Drove home to bare ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Different skiing experience here, March was epic in the Catskills, really deep powder. Sugarloaf closed on 4/28 with 100% of the mountain still ski able. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 3/8/96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 2 minutes ago, Sugarloaf1989 said: 3/8/96 Had 15.8" in Gardiner, 3rd biggest of my 13 winters there. #1 came 11 week earlier, 17.5" on Dec 20-21. My top 5/top 10 entries that come from my Gardiner time don't involve snow. (Other than its contribution to the 1987 flood) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Saddleback 4/14/07 A day before closing day and just before the start of the 4/14 - 17 Nor'easter. This remains the most snow I've ever seen in April. Previously I'd seen a few inches of snow here and there, but not feet. Saddleback closed on 4/15/07 with a 60" base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 2/11/83 - I remember really loud thunder and lightning with the blizzard. I was 11 years old at the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 Some of these look like meh events. Stick to the top 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 The great flurry of September 30, 1992. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 36 minutes ago, dendrite said: The great flurry of September 30, 1992. The violent backdoor of April 2002. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 May 18th 2002 was pretty good. Had like 4" iirc sadly no older folks mentioned the desert dry of '65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 2 hours ago, CoastalWx said: The violent backdoor of April 2002. Screen doors slamming shut in Ayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 3 hours ago, dendrite said: The great flurry of September 30, 1992. However, on 9/30/91 locations from PQI and points north recorded 2-5". Ironic, because 5 years earlier (9/30/86) brought the largest convective-caused blowdown I've seen in my 46 years in Maine, 600 acres in T16R6 and T16R5, ending by tossing spruce into the NW end of Square Lake. (The Telos blowdown in October of either 1979 or 1980 was 3,000 acres of flattened spruce that from the air looked like an August oat field squashed by a thunderstorm. However, that was a synoptic system, SE gale.) sadly no older folks mentioned the desert dry of '65 Driest year on record for 6 states - DE, PA, NJ, CT, RI, MA. Skipped NY because of a drier year in the less wet western counties, but NYC's 26.09" in 1965 is nearly 7" less than their #2 driest, which was the year before. 1963 comes in at 4th driest but only a 4" RA in early November kept them from the #2 slot. And 1966 was running only 0.7" less dry than '65 thru August. ('66 remains NYC's driest met summer and is 2nd only to 2010 for hottest.) Then 9/21/66 recorded 5.54" and the drought was broken, though only the following months' being near/above norms confirmed the end. Wx trivia: Some locales in western VA got more RA in 5 hours from Camille's remnants than NYC had for all of 1965. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 7/10/89 While I didn't experience the tornadoes first-hand, I did see the extreme damage done to Mohawk Mountain. You could see it's path for many years afterward. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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