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14 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

I actually remember the snow on 9/30/92. I was outside playing and it started as a shower and quickly went to graupel and then some legit flakes mixed in at peak intensity. It was pretty awesome. 

Kind of like my seeing catspaws on the windshield in late August at 1,000' elevation in Fort Kent.  Not all that wintry, but slushy drops during that month are noteworthy.

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9 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

I wanna say late afternoon? 

Here's the ORH snow obs. Looks like early evening.

ORH,1992-09-30 22:00,METAR KORH 302200Z 34008KT 40SM -SHRASN SCT050 BKN080 OVC120 06/M03 A3000 RMK RSB40 BINOVC SLP170 T00611028
ORH,1992-09-30 23:00,METAR KORH 302300Z 32010KT 40SM SCT050 OVC080 05/M02 A3001 RMK VIRGA S-NW RSE2152 SLP173 T00501017

CON just barely snuck the snow in before midnight. Technically it was a T for 9/30 and 10/1.

CON,1992-10-01 05:00,KCON 010500Z 00000KT 7SM -SHSN OVC040 M02/M03 A3006 RMK SB39 VLGT SLP181 T10171028
CON,1992-10-01 06:00,KCON 010600Z 19004KT 7SM SCT040 SCT070 M02/M03 A3005 RMK SE12/ SLP179 60000 8/570 T10221033 57005

 

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1 minute ago, dendrite said:

Here's the ORH snow obs. Looks like early evening.


ORH,1992-09-30 22:00,METAR KORH 302200Z 34008KT 40SM -SHRASN SCT050 BKN080 OVC120 06/M03 A3000 RMK RSB40 BINOVC SLP170 T00611028
ORH,1992-09-30 23:00,METAR KORH 302300Z 32010KT 40SM SCT050 OVC080 05/M02 A3001 RMK VIRGA S-NW RSE2152 SLP173 T00501017

CON just barely snuck the snow in before midnight. Technically it was a T for 9/30 and 10/1.


CON,1992-10-01 05:00,KCON 010500Z 00000KT 7SM -SHSN OVC040 M02/M03 A3006 RMK SB39 VLGT SLP181 T10171028
CON,1992-10-01 06:00,KCON 010600Z 19004KT 7SM SCT040 SCT070 M02/M03 A3005 RMK SE12/ SLP179 60000 8/570 T10221033 57005

 

That makes sense. 22z would be 6pm and it was still light out so that matches my memory. Doesn't get dark until closer to 7 in late September. Looks like it started around 5:40pm. 

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CON had some VIRGA obs in the remarks around that late aftenoon time. Maybe they reached the ground up here like in ORH. But I do like the weenie 29F -SHSN ob to finish off September. There's nothing on the Franklin Falls COOP forms for 9/30 or 10/1 so the observer apparently didn't see anything during the day, but I'm not sure they were looking for flurries up there at the dam back then either.

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4 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

That makes sense. 22z would be 6pm and it was still light out so that matches my memory. Doesn't get dark until closer to 7 in late September. Looks like it started around 5:40pm. 

I forgot how late it was, it seemed to be just before sunset in SE MA. I think what helped at the time was the sun was setting, not sure it would have snowed a few hours earlier.

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On 10/24/2019 at 4:32 PM, Sugarloaf1989 said:

4/18/07 The day after the Nor'easter ended. Snowcats dug out the Timberline Lift, easily 10-15' snow depths at the summit. Just incredible amounts of snow for late April.

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I ws there too. Drove up the night before...rained all the way until Ayotte's,  that's where it turned to snow.  Almost nothing was open in the am because there was a skeleton crew and everything was buried. Amazing couple days of skiing once they dug out.

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1 hour ago, NECT said:

I ws there too. Drove up the night before...rained all the way until Ayotte's,  that's where it turned to snow.  Almost nothing was open in the am because there was a skeleton crew and everything was buried. Amazing couple days of skiing once they dug out.

The snow was so deep , that the snowcat digging out Spillway broke a track and got stuck on 4/17. Just an amazing week of skiing the week before, just feet of snow.

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Couldn't find another place to put this (not sure if there's a dedicated thread to the Worcester tornado or not), but these aerial images that I've never seen before of the damage path of the tornado are incredible, and are at multiple locations along the path.

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1 hour ago, andyhb said:

Couldn't find another place to put this (not sure if there's a dedicated thread to the Worcester tornado or not), but these aerial images that I've never seen before of the damage path of the tornado are incredible, and are at multiple locations along the path.

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Wild stuff

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On 9/7/2019 at 7:55 AM, dendrite said:

No particular order...

Mar 93
Oct 11
Mar 01
Dec 08

Torn on 5th...May 06 rain, Jan 98, Feb 94, Jul 95 heat, Jan 94 cold, Gloria 85, April Fool's 97, Feb 01, Jan 11...

Tough one

No uncertainty on the top 5 now.

Dec 20
Oct 11
Mar 93
Mar 01
Dec 08

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13 hours ago, Hoth said:

1. July '89 Hamden tornado 2. 2018 Hamden/North Haven tornado. 3. 2020 Hamden/North Haven tornado. 4. Feb '13  5. Multi-way tie: Sandy, Jan '15, Jan '96.

damn hoth you gonna do our area like that? Tornados before Feb 13? I mean your in Hamden, ground zero for Feb 2013. 40", CG thundersnow, 6"/hr rates... Probably never happen again in yours or my lifetime. 

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1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

damn hoth you gonna do our area like that? Tornados before Feb 13? I mean your in Hamden, ground zero for Feb 2013. 40", CG thundersnow, 6"/hr rates... Probably never happen again in yours or my lifetime. 

I was being kind of facetious with that list tbh. July '89 F4 absolutely retains my top spot, though. My godmother's house got completely wrecked in that tornado. I remember one of her slate shingles was driven several inches into the trunk of an oak tree next door. Feb '13 would take my number two spot if I had been in Hamden for it. Sadly I was in Boston (it was still pretty epic up there).

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