Ain't No Foolin'...Winter Is Over (never started) Wrap-Up And Review Thread

[Cold Miser]

Since winter weather is finished for most on the forum (for many it was finished in mid-January), with the exception for places like Moose Knuckle, Maine, Deer Toe, Vermont, and Bear Claw, NH, it’s time to recap.

The grades (all items are equally weighted)

Overall Seasonal Snowfall: F (farce)
With a paltry 11” total for the season I didn’t even come close to my seasonal average.  This is the first time in my life that I have lived in an area that received less than a foot of snow for a season. This includes 4 winters in the mid-Atlantic, and 5 winters in R.I.

Snow vs. Rain: F (futility)
There were so many rain events I lost count. 

Staying power/ (number of days) of pack: F (forlorn)
Pack? Pack my bags and moving to the Sierra Nevada’s for winter next winter…or possibly next week to capitalize on what continues to be a beyond epic winter for that region.

Local winter enjoyment: F (foolish)
Cold days with zero walkable ice on the lake, and now on the ground made for a miserable depressing, brown landscape of death and despair.  

Temperature: C
There were plenty of cold days, but with bad system timing, and atmospheric dynamics (is such even a thing?), any cold was pretty much useless.

Snowstorms/ events (quality/ quantity): F (feeble)
2 events brought about 4” each (mid dec, and late feb).  Big fu.cking deal.   

Overall Grade: F (f.uck you winter 22/23)

The pros here will say that there was so much potential…I say, fuc.k potential. It’s all about results.  Potential is like hiring the fresh-out-of-school kid because the hiring team sees so much potential in him, By the time his 90-day probationary period is over they find out that he was hanging out at his desk watching gamer girls on Twich play video games in hot tubs, and goat porn most of the time. But it’s too late because the days, weeks, and months were lost, having zero production.

[Torch Tiger]

B+

[Chrisrotary12]

C-

[MJO812]

F-------

[radarman]

Pond skating A- (two high end stretches with multi year return periods)

Local skiing B+ (very good early and late with an extended period of suck)

Snow in the back yard, D (3rd lowest seasonal total of the last 20 years, several counterfeit front end snows immediately wiped out, and multiple painful just misses)

Pleasantness, D-.  (some garbage winters have a lot of nice days, like 11-12 for example.  22-23?  Yeah no)

 

[512high]

Going with #Chrisrotary12,   C- (borderline D), Nickle and dime shit, we had chances, etc. We pick up our marbles and play again later this year.

[HoarfrostHubb]

Let’s see….  For my area

one really cold day.   Caused some damage due to burst pipes etc

two high end damage snow events.  Tons of trees and wires down. Power outages. 
 

One 30” event

Above normal snowfall  

Long stretches of boring   Lack of a pack until late in the game   Above normal temps  (which helped with heating bills)  lots of rain  

Maybe a C here?   This is a tricky one to grade

[Hoth]

This winter gets a lower grade than I did in P Chem. Failing doesn't begin to describe the disaster.

[Damage In Tolland]

F+. The + being the big, damaging icestorm 

[powderfreak]

Maybe a B?

Not great but snowfall at home is just a touch below average around ~115” and snow cover was prevalent most of the winter including a good chunk of November.

Temps we’re very warm but it snowed, which actually raises the grade for me. Very pleasant for skiing with few brutal cold days.

One very brutal record cold shot with coldest temperature in January or something like that.

Strong past 5 weeks after discussion that winter might be done in early/mid-Feb also leaves a better vibe to end the season.

[CoastalWx]

Fucking F 

[dendrite]

A

[TalcottWx]

F winter here. That's a hard grade to earn from me, and this winter got it. 

This winter had a very difficult, an exhausting character. There were many threats, and many opportunities to cash in, and it never happened. 

Some portions of elevated Southern New England cashed in nicely. Unfortunately, that's where the least amount of our population lives. 

Also, some of the mix events were not 50F cutters; but events that were off by just 1F-2F, teasing us with white rain for hours and hours. 

At the end of the day, these winters are going to happen. This one was just far worse than most below average seasons. 

The way I look at it, you have to be mentally prepared to strike out. It's a pretty simple part of this game, that many winters will not be all that good. 

Just remember you are getting a ratter out of the way, and next winter will be better. 

[WxWatcher007]

It’s the worst winter I’ve ever experienced. Not even close. It’d be hard to do worse. Truly unparalleled in the lack of snow relative to climo, spectacularly failed potential, and utter stupidity. The only thing that gets it on the board are two very impressive brief arctic outbreaks.

Literally this winter in a nutshell. A real photo I took in my town a few days ago. 

F (25/100)

[mreaves]

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Maybe a B?

Not great but snowfall at home is just a touch below average around ~115” and snow cover was prevalent most of the winter including a good chunk of November.

Temps we’re very warm but it snowed, which actually raises the grade for me. Very pleasant for skiing with few brutal cold days.

One very brutal record cold shot with coldest temperature in January or something like that.

Strong past 5 weeks after discussion that winter might be done in early/mid-Feb also leaves a better vibe to end the season.

I’m probably going C or C-.  The lack of cold to freeze the ground really impacted the snowmobile trails. On the other hand, heating fuel usage wasn’t crazy and I’m up over 90” for the year. Some of my negativity is also a result of my winter activities coming to a screeching halt after my kidney abscess issues. So while it’s been a memorable winter, it’s not all for the right reasons. 

[rclab]

Good morning all. No grade, I dropped it before midterms. Stay well, as always …..

[tamarack]

The winter that wrecked my grading system.  

DJFM temperature was the mildest of my 25 winters here and had only 2 days with true bottom-of-winter cold.  However- - - there were no extended thaws, no freakishly high temps, one of the few DJFM periods that failed to top 50.  " to Even the 3.25" mega-Grinch only dropped the pack from 15" to 12.  Normally that avg temp would rate an F, but the avoidance of long thaws, or serious RA after 12/23, probably merits a D.
Snowfall is at 115% of avg thru this morning.  The 22" dump in mid-Dec is the 3rd largest snowstorm here and all but guaranteed continuous and AN pack - SDDs are running about 20% above avg, depth peaked at 36" and stayed 19" or deeper for 10 weeks.  Snow total, assuming little/no more, would be a B+ but the big storm and good pack will raise the grade a bit.

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

F and not close 

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, rclab said:

Good morning all. No grade, I dropped it before midterms. Stay well, as always …..

Ha

[Ginx snewx]

55 minutes ago, tamarack said:

The winter that wrecked my grading system.  

DJFM temperature was the mildest of my 25 winters here and had only 2 days with true bottom-of-winter cold.  However- - - there were no extended thaws, no freakishly high temps, one of the few DJFM periods that failed to top 50.  " to Even the 3.25" mega-Grinch only dropped the pack from 15" to 12.  Normally that avg temp would rate an F, but the avoidance of long thaws, or serious RA after 12/23, probably merits a D.
Snowfall is at 115% of avg thru this morning.  The 22" dump in mid-Dec is the 3rd largest snowstorm here and all but guaranteed continuous and AN pack - SDDs are running about 20% above avg, depth peaked at 36" and stayed 19" or deeper for 10 weeks.  Snow total, assuming little/no more, would be a B+ but the big storm and good pack will raise the grade a bit.

Good winter for the Mainiacs

[Ginx snewx]

F as Garth and I sat in the back shooting spitballs at Dendrite and Dryslot. We tied PFs sneakers together, pulled Diane's hair and tied her backpack to her chair, spent hours dissing smarty pants JSPIN and his tenths. Will retake the class next year and sit in front. Screw all ya Northerners we take it back next year.

[tamarack]

30 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Good winter for the Mainiacs

Especially away from salt water.

[gonegalt]

Great season.

Still much to go here Up East. Got 1-2" this am now just snotty but good lockup cold here tonight.

Steady increasing snowpack after mid-Jan. Nethers deep in the woods.

River ice came late and after early Jan high water left 8' ice walls on the banks access was difficult. Made my river crossing first on snowshoes around late January then by sled until my last crossing yesty before ice opened up late afternoon. 

Took this from my pond yesterday. My hideout up top.

[SJonesWX]

C. I put a lot of weight on the pack. The pack sucked for most of the year. We had a great March, but March snows don’t help with the pack

[Chrisrotary12]

18 hours ago, 512high said:

Going with #Chrisrotary12,   C- (borderline D), Nickle and dime shit, we had chances, etc. We pick up our marbles and play again later this year.

Was thinking D+ but the damaging snowstorm and year-end thump got it into C-.

[klw]

 an A here

111" so far

20+ in one storm of the first time since  96

two other storms over a foot, 4 other storms of 6+"

generally mild but one snap of -22f, coldest at current house

 

sorry

[dendrite]

24 minutes ago, klw said:

 an A here

111" so far

20+ in one storm of the first time since  96

two other storms over a foot, 4 other storms of 6+"

generally mild but one snap of -22f, coldest at current house

 

sorry

Don’t be sorry. Rub it in. 

[STILL N OF PIKE]

I rate my winter different than most with respect to the fact ( I can’t live with my climo ) and my goal is to enjoy as much snow as possible (large systems)thru supplementing my experiences with chases .
 

When not chasing , i split time between Nashua and Bedford so I’m there for the majority of the time for the nickel and dimers. I also don’t love bitter cold weather.

So with that out of the way I grade the total Winter I experienced this year as a B. The thing keeping it from being higher was the 15-18 rain events I had to endure and frankly can’t stomach . Usually with that many rain events I would be grading Significantly lower . However,  I did make 4 chases this year And 3 got me storms of over 2’ each and then one to concord nh last moment (end of January got me a foot) .
 

Jackpot in Dec 16 Nor’easter at Pinkham notch area . Buffalo xmas chase and most memorable weather event I’ve been thru and then the elevation snow event in March where I went to Jaffrey NH. Without these chases it would have been a D/D- but with them it’s a solid B. Since I travel for storms i don’t grade nearly as heavily as most regarding climo , and I must also say I did enjoy much of early to mid February that had many sunny comfortable days 45-49 f in SNE.

[NorEastermass128]

F

Saving grace?  Next year can’t get any worse, right?

[WxWatcher007]

4 hours ago, klw said:

 an A here

111" so far

20+ in one storm of the first time since  96

two other storms over a foot, 4 other storms of 6+"

generally mild but one snap of -22f, coldest at current house

 

sorry

Don’t be sorry! I’m glad you had a great season.