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New England snowstorm memories.


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7 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I'm pissed I don't have any pics of that stretch leading to 12/21/08. What a great stretch that was from 12/19-12/21. 

I have two photos from 12/23/08, a couple days after the back to back 12/19-21/08 events.....pretty solid pack....and a lot of mangled trees form the ice storm the week before.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

I have two photos from 12/23/08, a couple days after the back to back 12/19-21/08 events.....pretty solid pack....and a lot of mangled trees form the ice storm the week before.

 

 

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It was pretty deep down here before it changed over as the CJ the day before really gave us deep snow. Even after the flip the pack was like 15” deep in the Dorchester  where I lived. 

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1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said:

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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Hope we can get that this winter 

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5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Ice in ORH and 33 rain for you?

Ok, I'm in 2009-2010....pretty frustrating winter, but at least it gave us this.....LOL:

 

MLK storm pics, and then the snow pack a couple days after. How ridiculous is that gradient just S of the pike? Those two pics I posted are what caused the epic Kevin nuclear meltdown.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Ok, I'm in 2009-2010....pretty frustrating winter, but at least it gave us this.....LOL:

 

MLK storm pics, and then the snow pack a couple days after. How ridiculous is that gradient just S of the pike? Those two pics I posted are what caused the epic Kevin nuclear meltdown.

 

 

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That’s an insane gradient. Wow. 

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3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

This was from yore when I lived in Auburn. We lost power for 2 days from this.

 

 

 

Must have been frigid when you took those....I remember that storm and temps just absolutely plummeted behind it....the 19th I think struggled to reach 0F there. We had like a high of 3 or 4F.

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5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

That’s an insane gradient. Wow. 

Kevin was already on edge after seeing pics of me in the jacket with the might-mac zipper in like 8" of paste from round 1....but then when I posted those round 2 pics, he absolutely lost it. An all-timer.

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Just now, ORH_wxman said:

Must have been frigid when you took those....I remember that storm and temps just absolutely plummeted behind it....the 19th I think struggled to reach 0F there. We had like a high of 3 or 4F.

Yup...thank goodness we found a place where we could rent a genny. It was their last one.

It was well into the -20s when the power came back on around midnight of day 2. I think that's the last time I ever saw CON report IC.

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2 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Kevin was already on edge after seeing pics of me in the jacket with the might-mac zipper in like 8" of paste from round 1....but then when I posted those round 2 pics, he absolutely lost it. An all-timer.

I def lost it.  I’d equate it to how you lost it on the ECMWF folks and then charging for all their maps .You absolutely flipped out

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2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yup...thank goodness we found a place where we could rent a genny. It was their last one.

It was well into the -20s when the power came back on around midnight of day 2. I think that's the last time I ever saw CON report IC.

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4 hours ago, EastonSN+ said:

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.

Let's keep going, shall we..

Mar 1st - Solid plowable event. Very similar synoptic setup to the last storm on Feb 21st. This time all snow, no change to rain.Warning shore, Advisory inland Ended up with 6-7" in North Haven. Snow stuck to roads during the day 

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Mar 3rd - Overruning event with a heavy burst of snow changing to sleet and freezing rain. Advisory statewide for 2-4. Ended up with 1-3" for most. 

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Mar 4th - Anafront situation with rain changing to snow, possibility of big snows for CT ended up being near nothing for interior CT, advisory southern CT, and low end warning for the extreme shore. NYC and LI picked up 6-10". Ended up with 2.5" for this one.

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Mar 21st - Finale event for the season. Coastal storm. Clipped CT snowed during the day with white rain, stuck at night but pretty much only to grassy surfaces. Adivsory statewide. Ended up with 6.6". 

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35 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Must have been frigid when you took those....I remember that storm and temps just absolutely plummeted behind it....the 19th I think struggled to reach 0F there. We had like a high of 3 or 4F.

That was the light-pillar storm at our place in Gardiner - vertical beams above the streetlights.  We were getting rimey SN+ at 5° while 30 miles east RKD had 40s and SE gales.  Then temps rose to 30 then dropped quickly to the minus teens.  On I-95 south of BGR it had briefly risen above freezing and the snow plus cold froze lumps of stuff so solidly that one dared not exceed 10-15 mph, or risk having one's fillings shaken out.  Even a grader was having trouble getting it off the pavement.

That 12/12/2008 map is reminiscent of the "layering" during the Jan. 1998 ice storm:
NYC area - 50s/60s and some RA.
SNE - 40s and more RA.
Southern Maine - 30-35 with cold rain and/or light/moderate ice.
Central Maine (IZG-AUG and on downeast between Rts 1 and 9) - disastah, 27-31 with 2"+ ZR.
Western Mts/foothills - mid-upper 20s and mostly IP, with some moderate ice.
Aroostook - singles to teens, 18-27" of 8:1 cornmeal over a 5-day period of near constant precip.

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5 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

i wasnt around for that. you mean positive bust? it looks like you got 2 feet+ by the pictures

yea he did Pete B and the rest of the Boston stations were clueless. We had it here and Messenger and Will nailed it. That standing wave in RI , yo. Literally on the RI Ct line you went from 8 to 10 to 0

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24 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

i wasnt around for that. you mean positive bust? it looks like you got 2 feet+ by the pictures

Yeah the forecast from most TV outlets over ORH county was in the 5-8" range with some lower in the 2-4" range. NWS was a little more bullish with like 8-12" and I was hammering it even harder, but I still busted pretty heavily. I went 10-15" I think.

I had no idea why everyone was so skittish on that one. I wonder if they were all worried about a bust like DC had in that one (they had a WSW for like 6-10" and got basically zilch in DC with a few sloppy inches in the suburbs....you had to go well west into the foothills to get big totals there. But the temp profile was totally different here...we had these -4C to -5C 950mb temps funneling down the Maine coast right into the CCB/Firehose.

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