The 4 Seasons Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 4 years ago today. This ended up one of the biggest storms W CT has seen in a long time and a good chunk of the state received over 10". The forecast for this one worked out pretty well i remember. Most of it fell at night while during the day, at low elevations it was mostly white rain...then all hell broke loose. In my town we got the most intense CG thundersnow ive seen since 2001 with multiple strikes just a few hundred feet away. Rates reached up to 4" per hour. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 4 Seasons Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Radar from Mar 7-8th 2018. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said: Radar from Mar 7-8th 2018. Great storm. I could've sworn one of those lightning strikes hit in my neighborhood. Loudest thunder-snow I've ever heard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sey-Mour Snow Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 9 years ago, elevation storm of 2013. Some of you out east cleaned up with 20-30” of snow. I had about 14” with almost nothing a few miles away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastonSN+ Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 24 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said: 9 years ago, elevation storm of 2013. Some of you out east cleaned up with 20-30” of snow. I had about 14” with almost nothing a few miles away. Great storm down to the coast. Had 9.0 in Norwalk CT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastonSN+ Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 11 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said: Radar from Mar 7-8th 2018. 10 inches in Easton. However, tree fell on my house and my area lost power for 3 days. 28 inches total from March 1 to April 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 The 2013 firehose storm was great 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boston Bulldog Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said: The 2013 firehose storm was great All time favorite. Largest positive bust I’ve ever seen in Canton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said: The 2013 firehose storm was great I had to drive my wife to a doctor's appointment from Pepperell to Cambridge. Thought we'd be leaving in snow, but by time we got there it'd be over (at least that was the forecast). When we got to Cambridge it was still puking dendrites and I thought to myself....something is going on here. When we left here Doctor's and it was still just pouring snow, I knew something great was happening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 9, 2022 Author Share Posted March 9, 2022 2' where I live now, but about 18" in Dorchester. Awesome event. The famous washed away storm by a certain met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 March 13 2018. 18.5 inches. Started as paste which brought down trees then became a high ratio snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 29 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: March 13 2018. 18.5 inches. Started as paste which brought down trees then became a high ratio snow A storm that will live in infamy in my hood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 That was a great storm here (3/13/18)…measured 24”. That was on top of the 3/7-8/18 paste job…we had a monster pack after the 3/13 storm. Also today is the 29th anniversary of the 1993 superstorm. Hard to believe it’s been almost 30 years. I remember that storm well. I was in 6th grade and the official forecast was for 8-16”….we ended up with 20” despite not being in the CCB/deformation. It was the most ridiculous WCB I’ve been in. It was basically 12 hours of front-end heavy snow. The front end stuff started when the low was still down in the gulf states. It was so expansive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Didn’t do the 6hr cores back then, but we had 18”’of new depth. I remember watching TWC before it started up here and they kept losing their signal from power issues in Atlanta. We haven’t seen a storm like that since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 14 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: That was a great storm here (3/13/18)…measured 24”. That was on top of the 3/7-8/18 paste job…we had a monster pack after the 3/13 storm. Also today is the 29th anniversary of the 1993 superstorm. Hard to believe it’s been almost 30 years. I remember that storm well. I was in 6th grade and the official forecast was for 8-16”….we ended up with 20” despite not being in the CCB/deformation. It was the most ridiculous WCB I’ve been in. It was basically 12 hours of front-end heavy snow. The front end stuff started when the low was still down in the gulf states. It was so expansive. I saw a foot and had 5 inches of that as sleet. The worst pelting ever. Winds to 70 mph with sleet. Just incredible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, dendrite said: Didn’t do the 6hr cores back then, but we had 18”’of new depth. I remember watching TWC before it started up here and they kept losing their signal from power issues in Atlanta. We haven’t seen a storm like that since. This also was after a foot on March 3rd. Then another 3/4 inches the next week. That sleet snow combo survived 2 big rain storms. I distinctly remember laying on the quad at URI at the end of the month shirtless on the snow with temps in the 70s. Epic month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastonSN+ Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said: March 13 2018. 18.5 inches. Started as paste which brought down trees then became a high ratio snow Surprising storm here in SW CT. Was expecting 1 to 3 of slop but received 9.5 of fluff. That western band over performed for sure. Feel bad for CT valley though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 No 10"+ snowstorm is bad, not even late Feb 2010, but the Superstorm was a bit of a disappointment at our (then) Gardiner home, 10.3" of heavily rimed 6:1 flakey things, among the lowest totals in New England. Far more had been forecast and it was supposed to continue well into Sunday, but it tapered to occasional flakes well before dawn. Warm nose then dryslot? One memorable observation was at 8 AM Sunday, when BGR was flat calm while Mt. Desert Rock was gusting near 70 about 50 miles SE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 I forgot to post my fav pic from the 3/13/18 storm earlier…this was me on the deck after shoveling. Snow wasn’t done yet at this point either prob picked up another inch or two of fluff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 Some good radar shots from that storm too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 17 hours ago, ORH_wxman said: I forgot to post my fav pic from the 3/13/18 storm earlier…this was me on the deck after shoveling. Snow wasn’t done yet at this point either prob picked up another inch or two of fluff Great pic. "Only" 16.5" here, but a tick under 20 the week before, earlier-month version of 2001 when 35" fell 3/22-31. Odd temp trend considering wx and calendar, as 3/1-15 was +5.6° and 16-31 was -3.6°, and was nearly 3° colder than the first half. Would not be surprising in Jan/Feb but even here March snowfall amounts are moving from midwinter qpf-dependent to springlike temp-dependent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 4 Seasons Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 3/13/18 was one of the biggest busts of all time that i can remember here in central CT. Stuck between banding is a gross understatement. E CT did very well though, one of their biggest storms there since 2015. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 4 Seasons Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Today is the 5 year anni of the Pi Day storm. Ended up trending NW last minute and took major snowfall NYC/LI/CT off the table. We pounded snow for about 6 hours then mixed with and changed to sleet around 1030AM. Snow/sleet mix was some of the heaviest ive ever seen with rates up to 3-4"/hr. Ended with 9.9 in just a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ORH_wxman Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 The 2017 storm was one of the better front enders I’ve been in. We had about 14-15” and most of it fell in about 5-6 hours. Very good rates. We never actually changed over to sleet even though I thought we would. Just got mid-level dryslotted and went to cruddy flakes and snow grains. It was a very meaty snow though. Prob 10 to 1 ratios at most. The snow pack easily stuck around until the very end of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx2fish Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 On 3/13/2022 at 4:39 PM, ORH_wxman said: Some good radar shots from that storm too Man those loops are epic. That was the fluffiest big event I can remember. I had over 2ft, but we lost a few inches of pack before it even stopped snowing. Less than week after getting the 15" paster. Heck of stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 18 minutes ago, wx2fish said: Man those loops are epic. That was the fluffiest big event I can remember. I had over 2ft, but we lost a few inches of pack before it even stopped snowing. Less than week after getting the 15" paster. Heck of stretch. Yeah that was a sweet couple of storms. I rode that snowpack into the first couple days of April iirc. prob my best March since 2001. Though 2013 was close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Wow, only the 2017 event was 10-11 inches here...the rest all much less Just mind boggling how well most of CT and eastern and central mass did In 2018 we basically went 1 for 4 on the March and April stuff...I was in awe of what was going on elsewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 14 hours ago, ORH_wxman said: The 2017 storm was one of the better front enders I’ve been in. We had about 14-15” and most of it fell in about 5-6 hours. Very good rates. We never actually changed over to sleet even though I thought we would. Just got mid-level dryslotted and went to cruddy flakes and snow grains. It was a very meaty snow though. Prob 10 to 1 ratios at most. The snow pack easily stuck around until the very end of the month. Meaty for sure - we had 15.5" from 2.12" LE of all snow at 15-22°. Dendrites looked decent but maybe the wind destroyed them at ground level; there certainly was lots of wind slab to challenge the snowblower. 10" fell 4-9 PM with vis 1/8 between gusts, 50-100' in the wind. Only have had 4 events meeting all blizz criteria and this was the most recent and had the strongest winds. We're well sheltered in the woods but this storm had to have featured gusts near 50. Our Lab-mix rescue from TX had arrived Feb 4 and quickly learned to like snow, but wind and noise of this storm terrorized her -on her evening poop-walk she tried to glue herself to the storm door but I coaxed/dragged her far enough from the house to do her business. 2016-17 featured 4 wintery events with ~2" LE, one in each month Dec-Mar. The Jan storm was 4.5" of kitchen sink but the others brought 21" (twice) and the blizzard. I doubt I'll ever experience another winter with 4 storms totaling 8.15" LE and 62" snow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 I was in Winooski, VT for the Pi Day storm 3/14-15 2017. It was the single greatest snowfall I have witnessed. I wish I still lived there. It was the first and only time I have witnessed a 30 inch event. Peak snowfall rate was 5 inches an hour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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