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New England snowstorm memories.


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41 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

October 2011 pics anyone?  

I was looking for mine to no avail.  I started taking those as soon as it started (noon or si, IIRC).  We were piling it up right out of the gate with incredible rates.  Mitch cleaned up being in the pivot point. Didn't he wind up with 30+?   Pete and I were sitting in the band for hours and hours racking up totals in the mid/upper 20's.

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Seeing all these pics makes me regret not taking any on Blue Hill that day what a complete paste job. Downed tree and several limbs whole way up access road. Then again I didn't have a smart phone with a camera just my Samsung Intensity keypad phone lol.

I do need to dig up my pics from Jan 26-27, 2015 blizzard though. I was part of the jackpot band in Boxboro at the time. What a great storm.

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17 hours ago, Hoth said:

The last blast of Feb '15. Probably the high water mark for winter in my lifetime.

u mean the last good stretch? Jan 11 was way better.

Even though 14-15 was good overall it was very frustrating in our area. We watched E CT RI and MA pile up feet of snow while we got blue balled, especially the Jan 26th blizzard.

As far as Feb, it was frigid cold with snowcover all month but we had a lot of busts and near misses.

Feb 1st - Good 11.5 (front end 6" change to sleet and was supposed to be over then the low blew up over E LI and dumped heavy snow over central CT during the day with 2-3"/hr rates. We added another 5.5 in just 2 hours) 

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Feb 7-9th - "100 hrs of snow" pretty lame non accumulating mess until the final push on Feb 9th, we picked up 4.5" from that, while interior CT even just as north as Chesire walked away with double digist

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Feb 14th - VDay blizzard. Weird situation with a low in a good position but developed too late and crushed E MA and even gave good warning snows to NE CT. We ended up with 2" on the front end WAA snows but completely missed the development of the low bombing out. We were literally under a blizzard warning with calm winds and clear skies, NWS wouldn't pull the plug.

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Feb 21st - Light event with snow changing to rain. Pretty uniform 3-6 across the state. Ended up with 5.5"

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Then Mar 1st solid 6" er all snow. Feb was a bit frustrating but still good nontheless. The deep snowpack that ranged from 6-20" all month and the record breaking cold really made it memorable. 

 

 

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1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

u mean the last good stretch? Jan 11 was way better.

Even though 14-15 was good overall it was very frustrating in our area. We watched E CT RI and MA pile up feet of snow while we got blue balled, especially the Jan 26th blizzard.

As far as Feb, it was frigid cold with snowcover all month but we had a lot of busts and near misses.

Feb 1st - Good 11.5 (front end 6" change to sleet and was supposed to be over then the low blew up over E LI and dumped heavy snow over central CT during the day with 2-3"/hr rates. We added another 5.5 in just 2 hours) 

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Feb 7-9th - "100 hrs of snow" pretty lame non accumulating mess until the final push on Feb 9th, we picked up 4.5" from that, while interior CT even just as north as Chesire walked away with double digist

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Feb 14th - VDay blizzard. Weird situation with a low in a good position but developed too late and crushed E MA and even gave good warning snows to NE CT. We ended up with 2" on the front end WAA snows but completely missed the development of the low bombing out. We were literally under a blizzard warning with calm winds and clear skies, NWS wouldn't pull the plug.

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Feb 21st - Light event with snow changing to rain. Pretty uniform 3-6 across the state. Ended up with 5.5"

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Then Mar 1st solid 6" er all snow. Feb was a bit frustrating but still good nontheless. The deep snowpack that ranged from 6-20" all month and the record breaking cold really made it memorable. 

 

 

Jan '11 was awesome, but I lived in Boston in '15 and it blew everything else away. 

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10 hours ago, powderfreak said:

That storm was truly ridiculous.  Time of year and coverage of heavy, heavy snow amounts.  That will be a hard one to top for just spanking climatology.

I'd put that next to 3/1888 in the Hudson Valley, with April 1982 not far behind.  2/78 is right up there as well.  (Not quite old enough to have seen 1888 but I'm 1-of-3 for the others - 2" in Ft. Kent from 2/78 and 4.5" from the Octobomb, while 4/82 blasted Aroostook.)

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2 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

u mean the last good stretch? Jan 11 was way better.

Even though 14-15 was good overall it was very frustrating in our area. We watched E CT RI and MA pile up feet of snow while we got blue balled, especially the Jan 26th blizzard.

As far as Feb, it was frigid cold with snowcover all month but we had a lot of busts and near misses.

Feb 1st - Good 11.5 (front end 6" change to sleet and was supposed to be over then the low blew up over E LI and dumped heavy snow over central CT during the day with 2-3"/hr rates. We added another 5.5 in just 2 hours) 

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Feb 7-9th - "100 hrs of snow" pretty lame non accumulating mess until the final push on Feb 9th, we picked up 4.5" from that, while interior CT even just as north as Chesire walked away with double digist

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Feb 14th - VDay blizzard. Weird situation with a low in a good position but developed too late and crushed E MA and even gave good warning snows to NE CT. We ended up with 2" on the front end WAA snows but completely missed the development of the low bombing out. We were literally under a blizzard warning with calm winds and clear skies, NWS wouldn't pull the plug.

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Feb 21st - Light event with snow changing to rain. Pretty uniform 3-6 across the state. Ended up with 5.5"

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Then Mar 1st solid 6" er all snow. Feb was a bit frustrating but still good nontheless. The deep snowpack that ranged from 6-20" all month and the record breaking cold really made it memorable. 

 

 

Great write up and radar!

That winter in SW CT was overall a great winter with great March snowfall, even with the Feb. dissapointments. It's funny how the mind works, getting a solid 7 inches in the blizzard but feeling ripped off due to a poor forecast. Getting a solid 10.5 while eastern areas get 16. 

Snowfall ended up 166% of average.

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5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Yep..lol. What a loop though. And a more N-S coastal front. Snow in Newport RI and rain in Boston. Middle finger centered at BOS.I lost it when Will said it flipped to snow just at the end of the Pru tunnel. I was in Dorchester at the time. 

Nice paste job

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I took this pic of Morses pond in Wellesley while on the train on the way into work.....it's an unremarkable pic of a frozen pond, except the date is 4/7/15. Totally frozen ponds are not normal right near BOS in April. Something you'd expect to only see in the deeper interior.

 

 

 

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Speaking of '07-'08....might as well pull up the old 12/16/07 images....first couple is the radar showing the sleet washing out SW of ORH continuously....of coure this was pre-dualpol, so we had to estimate where sleet was looking at the base reflectivity....then the next image is the amazing CF that system had....then ofcourse the sfc plot is my favorite where its ripping S/S+ in SE MA and pinging in Watertown, NY and the Tug Hill.

 

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4 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

LOL look how fast the dryslot is moving in. Just when people flip it shuts off and turns into nuisance mixed precip.

I think I had maybe an hour of IP/ZR at most. It was like 8.5" of snow in 4 hours and then a quick bout of ZR/IP and them some FZDZ for several hours. High was like 23 or 24F until FROPA spiked it to 31F, lol.

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3 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

I think I had maybe an hour of IP/ZR at most. It was like 8.5" of snow in 4 hours and then a quick bout of ZR/IP and them some FZDZ for several hours. High was like 23 or 24F until FROPA spiked it to 31F, lol.

Yeah even down here we had over 7" in that before we flipped. Fun stretch during that week of the 13-20. 

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Have to post these in here....when I was going back to 2007-2008, I passed the 2008-2009 stuff and here's the ice storm.

I love the mesonet map the next morning with all the temps missing in the interior where the ice was epic. Also, check out that temp gradient near/just north of Ginxy. That low slices right through SE CT/RI/SE MA and brought that gulf air with it. Monsonx_wx (I think that was his handle?) posted a comparison from the night before of the map that I saved.

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