40/70 Benchmark Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Imagine if you will being in a season and a foreign land in which winter does not suck and KU set ups will not produce rain...you unlock the door to another dimension of winter ecstasy with the key of weenie imagination...beyond it is another dimension of snow, a dimension of wind, and a dimension free of subsidence, Hadley Cells and deconstructive wave interference. You are moving into a land of both deformation and CSI banding....you are crossing over into the Winter Weenie Twilight Zone- You have ONE storm to replicate in your back yard....what will it be? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 March 5, 2001 for Methuen, MA April 1, 1997 for Wilmington, MA. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Boxing Day 2010 Post super bowl storm 2014. 9-10 of mash potatoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Dec 1992 for ORH. Prob Feb 1978 for Holliston but Dec ‘92 was sneaky good here too. So was April ‘97. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthCoastMA Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 That's a tough one...but gotta be Jan 22 2005 close runner up, especially for my current residence, would be Jan 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 1 minute ago, SouthCoastMA said: That's a tough one...but gotta be Jan 22 2005 close runner up, especially for my current residence, would be Jan 2015 Yea, it would be Jan 22, 2005 on the cape for me. My sister had a summer house in Falmouth at the time....and I stayed home in Wilmington. Will never forgive myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 December 26 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRWEATHA Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 ‘78 Blizzard. Nothing like being out of school for 3 weeks when you’re 11 y.o. The conditions, drifts, societal impacts made it the storm of my lifetime. Feb. 8-9, 2013 is probably next best. And for a surprise storm Dec. 6, 1981. Foot to foot and a half was completely unexpected. Wind stayed Northerly the whole storm to avoid changeover. Everything was pasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 I'd choose December '05 because it was the most exciting/furious, but Jan. '05 on south shore and '15 in NH had much more snow. I was also in Canton for '03 and we had around 25" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 February 78. Me living in LA and missing that storm is a bitter pill that goes to the grave with me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 we NEMO! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apm Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Feb 78. None like it since. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connecticut Appleman Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 October 2011 - incredible damage. Not much winter after that, but that one left a mark. 1978 was crazy as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 Suprised no Feb 2013 mentions yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 2 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said: Suprised no Feb 2013 mentions yet... Ineedsnow chose that one. But he called it by its TWC name Nemo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 I think over by Rockport and Goucester, I would pick the January 1978 event...before the OV and SNE blizzards. A bit further down by Peabody, Danvers and Lynn....toss up between 12-05-03 and 1-22-05, but I would have to go with the latter bc there was already a deep antecedent snowpack. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Not picking one I already experienced firsthand...so I'll go with Feb '69. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimetree Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Blizzard of 78 from my childhood in Mass would be number 1. Up here in Portsmouth I might go with the Jan 2015 blizzard... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted January 15, 2022 Author Share Posted January 15, 2022 11 minutes ago, dendrite said: Not picking one I already experienced firsthand...so I'll go with Feb '69. Interesting take....I'd have no problem reliving 2001 here, and 4/97 in Wilmington haha. That makes sense, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 The Great Blizzard of 1888 It sits in the Parthenon of CT blizzards with 1978 and 2013. Long duration monster with exceptional drifting. Runner up would be February 1899 While not the biggest event we've seen here in the region, the combination of snow and extraordinary cold across much of the US would be a sight to behold today. To see -2 in Tallahassee just defies logic today. Hell it's hard for me to even imagine a place like HFD going -5 now lol. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wefo/3/4/1520-0434_1988_003_0305_tgaoae_2_0_co_2.xml?tab_body=pdf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Feb 78 1st Nemo 2nd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Of those that I’ve experienced first hand.. 3/19/56 followed by 2/3-4/1961 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Feb 13, but starting at 7am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalpoleJoe Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 2/6/78 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 February 6, 1978 I wish I was a little bit older (I was 10) at the time and had a decent camera (and film) Absolute weather pinnacle for me so far National Guard front end loaders clearing the streets. Walking 2 miles to the grocery store dragging a sled. Best snow forts ever. Extended school break since the roof collapsed. Amazing storm as it was happening too. Thundersnow. Roaring jet engine overhead for hours. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said: February 6, 1978 I wish I was a little bit older (I was 10) at the time and had a decent camera (and film) Absolute weather pinnacle for me so far National Guard front end loaders clearing the streets. Walking 2 miles to the grocery store dragging a sled. Best snow forts ever. Extended school break since the roof collapsed. Amazing storm as it was happening too. Thundersnow. Roaring jet engine overhead for hours. No real memories of it personally. Just stories. My mom was picked up at the end of our street and was at Norwood hospital working, leaving my dad to take care of us. Was the same walk to shaws up oak street for food. I remember the talk of the school roof collapse. Was the one up on mechanic? Don’t recall name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: No real memories of it personally. Just stories. My mom was picked up at the end of our street and was at Norwood hospital working, leaving my dad to take care of us. Was the same walk to shaws up oak street for food. I remember the talk of the school roof collapse. Was the one up on mechanic? Don’t recall name. Lewis School. And it wasn’t Shaw’s then. It was still BPM. Lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthCoastMA Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 If I had lived in interior SE MA, 2/78 may have been the one to live through - but that was before my time. I believe my family lived in W. Medford at the time, so i'm sure they killed it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 52 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Lewis School. And it wasn’t Shaw’s then. It was still BPM. Lol. Yes, the Lewis School. Name was skipping me. I played CYO basketball there. Just looked up BPM, name change must have occurred shortly thereafter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 8 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: Yes, the Lewis School. Name was skipping me. I played CYO basketball there. Just looked up BPM, name change must have occurred shortly thereafter. Prob right after. Yeah. Brockton Public Market 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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