CoastalWx Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 That was more organized than this will ever be. NGM was the more aggressive model. 16” fluff at my locale now from that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 2 hours ago, CoastalWx said: That was more organized than this will ever be. NGM was the more aggressive model. 16” fluff at my locale now from that. There is zero resemblance really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 24 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said: There is zero resemblance really Correct The 2003 system had a more southern track progged to nearly whiff us. The facet that was poorly forecasted was the deformation band sitting over us well west of the progged system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Well, I managed 4 days straight of snow. Picked up a couple inches in central PA this afternoon, was snowing pretty good when I left with perhaps 6 by the time it's done. Back at PIT now (the real PIT) awaiting my return to BOS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 3 hours ago, CoastalWx said: That was more organized than this will ever be. NGM was the more aggressive model. 16” fluff at my locale now from that. Looks like a little more than just a innocuous clipper: Deform right over Boston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I miss those TWC sfc maps. I was always tracking the bright white back in the mid 90s. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Tip pulled that from Freuds rearend. Not a semblance of similarity. Drunk by noon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 8 minutes ago, dendrite said: I miss those TWC sfc maps. I was always tracking the bright white back in the mid 90s. Ha, definitely. The 90s, a great decade as TWC was consistently on in the background. The best was when I analyzed the r/s line from 5 days out and when it moved unfavorably...berate them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Yeah the dentist chair music was great when local on the 8's came on. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 13" with .55 w/e in that 03 clipper. Looks like mood flakes tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleetussnow Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I used to love the TWC crawler on the local on the 8s. Also when you saw *s all over there was trouble. The crawler I think was NWS advisories etc. YouTube has a bunch. One time I DVRd an hour of TWC during a winter storm, and saved it for April Fools. I turned on the DVR and left the room and waited until the family got worked up. we got a similar thread discussion down NY metro forum. Obs here: 32, winds calm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 6 minutes ago, dryslot said: Yeah the dentist chair music was great when local on the 8's came on. Kenny G and The Rippingtons while waiting for the hourly current conditions update around the top of the hour. The music of my childhood. And you always wanted to see the big snowflake in the extended forecast (obviously the current conditions too). 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted December 5, 2019 Author Share Posted December 5, 2019 5 minutes ago, cleetussnow said: I used to love the TWC crawler on the local on the 8s. Also when you saw *s all over there was trouble. The crawler I think was NWS advisories etc. YouTube has a bunch. One time I DVRd an hour of TWC during a winter storm, and saved it for April Fools. I turned on the DVR and left the room and waited until the family got worked up. we got a similar thread discussion down NY metro forum. Obs here: 32, winds calm. Patrick ohearn..Zappa, missing persons, etc. Good memories 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Not to get too off track from the disco, but someone from the boards created a WxStar 400 emulator back in the Eastern days. I believe it was someone from Maine. Anyway, a version of it is still available. It runs on your PC and retrieves NWS wx information. Knock yourselves out. http://www.taiganet.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 TWC was the only way we all got our fix between local news back then. There was no real internet weather. Even once in the dial-up days by the mid-1990s, there wasn't anything in real time....satellite and radars were like 30 minutes behind if you even got them to load on your 28k bps modem. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I had a weather radio that broadcast nws forecasts. They would give a little discussion then the forecast. Then the marine forecast. I can hear the crackly voice...”from manasquan inlet to cape henelopen and 40 miles offshore...” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Just now, ORH_wxman said: TWC was the only way we all got our fix between local news back then. There was no real internet weather. Even once in the dial-up days by the mid-1990s, there wasn't anything in real time....satellite and radars were like 30 minutes behind if you even got them to load on your 28k bps modem. The TWC radars had basically 2 colors in the winter back in the early 90s. Light green was your light snow and the medium green was your mod/hvy. Dark green was damn near impossible, and I think yellow would've required an avalanche. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 7 minutes ago, dendrite said: Kenny G and The Rippingtons while waiting for the hourly current conditions update around the top of the hour. The music of my childhood. And you always wanted to see the big snowflake in the extended forecast (obviously the current conditions too). Tuning in just praying for that double snow icon..They had a different one for "Snow" before that one I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 2 minutes ago, dendrite said: The TWC radars had basically 2 colors in the winter back in the early 90s. Light green was your light snow and the medium green was your mod/hvy. Dark green was damn near impossible, and I think yellow would've required an avalanche. Yeah those were the old WSR-57 and WSR-74 radars before all the 88-Ds had been installed. Getting into that dark green shade was really hard...you're right. I remember doing it in one of the 1994 storms but it was very fleeting. Lasted like one or two frames. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I was on TWC in Jan 96 with Cantore by phone during the Blizzard the first week. My phone rang off the hook after the interview. RI state Climatologist who I had interned with gave him my number. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Was that radar type around in December 23, 1997? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleetussnow Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 30 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said: I had a weather radio that broadcast nws forecasts. They would give a little discussion then the forecast. Then the marine forecast. I can hear the crackly voice...”from manasquan inlet to cape henelopen and 40 miles offshore...” My parents had a CB radio base station with that. TWC replaced it. Both were the soundtrack of many winters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 22 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: Was that radar type around in December 23, 1997? It was the 88-D by then. I think when NWS consolidated to Taunton, by 1995 they had the 88-D installed there. IIRC they brought the old radar and used that for a year after the consolidation? I think the consolidation happened in mid/late 1993 but I distinctly remember the old crap radar still in the '93-'94 winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSC97wxnut Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 This was also about the time of the year you started to hear Manheim Steamroller. I know I have a few of their CD's floating around somewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 I can’t remember exactly when my local cable system got TWC but it was like 87 or 88. I remember visiting friends who went to UVM but lived off campus. We got back to their place and I remember passing out on their couch with it on TV. Even in my liquored up, foggy condition I was immediately hooked. Every time I would visit I would turn it on if I had the chance. Watching Local on the 8’s while playing beer pong before hitting the bars. Needless to say, it wasn’t a chick magnet. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 11 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: It was the 88-D by then. I think when NWS consolidated to Taunton, by 1995 they had the 88-D installed there. IIRC they brought the old radar and used that for a year after the consolidation? I think the consolidation happened in mid/late 1993 but I distinctly remember the old crap radar still in the '93-'94 winter. This may offer a long sought explanation to a question I never got an answer to, from years ago .,, It was around that time that I started seeing higher tier DBZ during snow events and I wasn’t sure if that had always been the case or were storms suddenly got more severe. I guess I just assumed the technology got more sensitive so that does sort of confirm that. But case in point the morning of the 23rd 1997, there was a massive area 50 to 55 DBZ returns over Eastern Connecticut and Southern Worcester County moving north north east toward us in Middlesex and I thought for sure it was sleet bright banding. 15” to 23” of immediate history in the making Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go Kart Mozart Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 49 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said: I had a weather radio that broadcast nws forecasts. They would give a little discussion then the forecast. Then the marine forecast. I can hear the crackly voice...”from manasquan inlet to cape henelopen and 40 miles offshore...” Did you grow up in the NYC area? I can remember that voice...there was one window in our home where I could get reception. I remember him saying "broadcasting on a frequency of 162.55 megaherz" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 54 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: TWC was the only way we all got our fix between local news back then. There was no real internet weather. Even once in the dial-up days by the mid-1990s, there wasn't anything in real time....satellite and radars were like 30 minutes behind if you even got them to load on your 28k bps modem. My mom use to take the weather channel away from me when I was bad lol 1 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: This may offer a long sought explanation to a question I never got an answer to, from years ago .,, It was around that time that I started seeing higher tier DBZ during snow events and I wasn’t sure if that had always been the case or were storms suddenly got more severe. I guess I just assumed the technology got more sensitive so that does sort of confirm that. But case in point the morning of the 23rd 1997, there was a massive area 50 to 55 DBZ returns over Eastern Connecticut and Southern Worcester County moving north north east toward us in Middlesex and I thought for sure it was sleet bright banding. 15” to 23” of immediate history in the making Oh yeah...the 1997 event would have shown up yellow even on the old garbage radar. Nevermind the bright reds on the Doppler. That one is in a league of it's own for intensity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 7 minutes ago, Go Kart Mozart said: Did you grow up in the NYC area? I can remember that voice...there was one window in our home where I could get reception. I remember him saying "broadcasting on a frequency of 162.55 megaherz" Delaware. I had the same problem with reception! Find the right spot and stay there all night before snowstorms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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