HoarfrostHubb Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Any 60s tomorrow? I know guidance has it cooler but would not be shocked if some stations tickled 60 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 My top storms...not necessarily in order of rank but chronological order from oldest to newest. 1. 3/19/56. Still one of my all timers made great by the fact that 1-2 inches were forecasted. It was a Sunday and 2 days earlier on Friday we got quick hitting 4-6 giving us sledding snow. A whole bunch of us 9-10 year old boomers were sledding and having so much fun that we didn't realize how hard it was snowing until everyone's mother came to get them. The next morning had drifts up beyond 10 feet in spots with the storm still raging. 2. 3/3/60 A sub par winter. In the final days of February a strong front cleared the coast producing rain during the day. The next couple of days were mid winter cold and I remember thinking-if only we can get a storm! On 3/3 snow began at 7AM and watching the white wisps blow across the street I sensed we were in for some fun. Of course school wasn't cancelled and we were let out at Noon at the height of the storm. 2. 12/11-12, 1960 A week after near 70 degree wx which made me quite downhearted, I awaken Sunday to a forecast of possible heavy snow. Giants/Washington game on in very heavy snow in DC. Meanwhile, light snow began around 3PM but only accumulated an inch by 9. Then things started ramping up and by 5am a foot had fallen in NYC (I was in NNJ) and it kept on going-ended up officially with 17 inches but it felt like a lot more where I was. 3. 2/3-4, 1961 After a couple of very cold weeks-I made a weather station for my 8th grade science project and it was easy to set gradations on my thermometer-it was near 0 the morning of the due date and I left it out all night. I set 70 degrees the previous afternoon after setting the indoor thermostat. The storm started on a Friday and by Friday night it was snowing so hard you could actually observe the accumulation rise. ACY ended up with 2 inches + of rain so this was 2 feet of heavy wet snow. The storm as the pattern changer-the cold pattern was over but we still had more snow but the winter had showed us its best already. 4. January 1966-can't remember the date but it was the blizzard of 66 and I was in college-Ithaca, NY. It snowed with LES a little bit every day until the big one dumped what seemed like feet. Those were some great years! 5. 2/9/69-the so called Lindsay Storm Forecasts were for 3-5 inches and a change to rain. I happened to be home for the weekend and shadowing this optometrist in his office for the day. I remember that Saturday as overcast with temperatures in the low 40s-not exactly what you're looking for leading up to a big snow. Late that night snow began with marginal temperatures and I went to bed. The next morning and throughout the day it was a raging blizzard-and totally unexpected. Modest snow to rain expected-18-24 resulted. That Sunday I realized my Dad was a weenie. He insisted we got out at the height of the storm to get something we didn't really need...lol. We both weenied out together-and I think both of us realized we missed my childhood doing it.... Heading back to college the next day and Ithaca got fringed-maybe 4 inches max. 6. 2/2/74 A foot of overrunning snow unexpected. A rare Saturday night you didn't have to wait in line at the old Hilltop Steak House. 7. 1/15/76 (unsure of exact date but it was January 76. A very cold period culminated in the biggest Boston dump in quite a while. I was living in Cambridgeport and decided to walk into Harvard Square at the height of the storm. I stood in the middle of Harvard Square-the only human in sight-and prayed for my work to be called the next day. I was working at a neighborhood health center and thankfully they closed. I started my move to California 11/15/76 and stayed for 15 years. I missed the 78 blizzard and everything leading up to it. I did return for a visit a month afterwards and experienced an 8 inch dump which Bostonians treated as snow flurries given the prior major events. All of my subsequent big events-winters we've talked of in the early through mid 90s and the stretches since 2000 have been covered by many others.... That's some serious memory recall. I can't remember what I ate for breakfast 3 days agoSent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 4 minutes ago, Lava Rock said: How did ME get shafted on that one? Sent from my SM-G981U1 using Tapatalk You know it’s a biggie when 10-20” is shafted. I don’t know but my guess is it occluded and bombed out too early… and it had some sort of inverted trough mixed in there as well. But mostly it looks like it occluded and just hammered the area SW of Maine. Similar to the biggies in the Mid-Atlantic that still hit New England but the main conveyor belts are gone. LBSW I think is the technical term for it . 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan2 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 24F to start here in the Last Green Valley; Mud season is underway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Any 60s tomorrow? I know guidance has it cooler but would not be shocked if some stations tickled 60 interior SEMA 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbenedet Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 59 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Any 60s tomorrow? I know guidance has it cooler but would not be shocked if some stations tickled 60 I think we will wake up tomorrow finding multiple stations in east MA already 57-60. The timing of the fropa is poor to maximize daytime temps but the airmass behind it is also AN, so temps probably don’t climb from the morning, but don’t fall either as sun and compressional heating offset the cooling aloft. Looks like a great day for a fleece and a walk in the park. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jbenedet Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Sunday also has 50 F potential if we can hold the sun. Andover MA area to PSM that narrow sweet spot. Even PWM upper 40’s potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 8 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: Southbury 1888 poor Scooter I might have mentioned this before but growing up in the Albany area I had someone in my family who I remember as "Cousin Marsha" (I don't recall the relationship, but she was on my father's side of the family) who lived to be over 100 years old (maybe 106?). When I was 9 or 10 (79, 80) she was over 100 years old and she would tell stories of the great storm of '88. I think she was 10 or 11 years old during that storm. She had some awesome photos of Albany. For years I had been trying to find that photo album with no luck. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 20 minutes ago, Modfan2 said: 24F to start here in the Last Green Valley; Mud season is underway. Mud season started around Christmas time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbenedet Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 DAW and PSM waking up to 29/23. 4-5 degrees from normal high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 15 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said: Visually, it’s right up there with a paste event. This is from a few years ago I believe: Ha. This was my hood back in my early days of living in Columbia County NY. Go back about 3 miles, and my house was on the right, only about 50 feet from the highway, not too far from the NYS, Berkshire Spur Toll booth which has since been taken down. I would go to sleep to the sound of I-90. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Euro did a bang up job with the superbowl system. King indeed 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said: Euro did a bang up job with the superbowl system. King indeed You’re talking like a 40 mile difference. That’s far out, I wouldn’t totally write it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: You’re talking like a 40 mile difference. That’s far out, I wouldn’t totally write it off. Could still be a nice breezy Rainer for SE mass . 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: You’re talking like a 40 mile difference. That’s far out, I wouldn’t totally write it off. I believe he's referring to snow potential it showed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 LBSW and we're left with rank/stale airmass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 7 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: I believe he's referring to snow potential it showed. Well then that someone’s problem if they believe 10 to 1 ratios on a borderline event. I’m strictly referring to precip or no precip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 11 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said: Could still be a nice breezy Rainer for SE mass . I wouldn’t bank on much of anything now, but it’s still pretty close this far out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 7 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: I believe he's referring to snow potential it showed. I'm at the point where anything is gravy....while I still think there is some potential, I am done talking it up and holding my breath. My expectations are virtually non existent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 Just now, CoastalWx said: Well then that someone’s problem if they believe 10 to 1 ratios on a borderline event. I’m strictly referring to precip or no precip Quite a few were talking about snow with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Just now, Baroclinic Zone said: Quite a few were talking about snow with it. Yea, I never saw the appeal with the Super Bowl crap. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 Just now, 40/70 Benchmark said: I'm at the point where anything is gravy....while I still think there is some potential, I am done talking it up and holding my breath. My expectations are virtually non existent. Yup. Congratulations btw. Wishing you all the best. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 1 minute ago, Baroclinic Zone said: Quite a few were talking about snow with it. Yes, if it were to move further north west, then there is potential. I think that’s what was being referred to. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 I would have a mild interest following that Sunday nite / Monday deal if I was in elevations /hills of CT/ RI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: Yup. Congratulations btw. Wishing you all the best. Thanks, bud...he is why I am up right now haha. Wife not up to the night shift baby duty yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: Yes, if it were to move further north west, then there is potential. I think that’s what was being referred to. Makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Close the shades Winter is over 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 12 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: Quite a few were talking about snow with it. Because why not? Instead of coming on this forum and being super negative and pessimistic every day. I don't know how many people realistically thought it would snow for sure. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 2 minutes ago, TalcottWx said: Because why not? Instead of coming on this forum and being super negative and pessimistic every day. I don't know how many people realistically thought it would snow for sure. I think you guaranteed it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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