Joker January

[WinterWolf]

16 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

 

Wolfie quick to counter snowy, but what about RadarMan’s area?  30 burgers are tough.  I think October 2011 in the northern Berks?

Ya, I didn’t know exactly where he was in Mass? Thought he was from interior SE Mass. Out in the Berks…ya they’ve been getting boned. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

Jan 2015 and March 2018 gave my spot 30"+

[radarman]

7 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Ya, I didn’t know exactly where he was in Mass? Thought he was from interior SE Mass. Out in the Berks…ya they’ve been getting boned. 

We wish we lived in the Berks. 

[dryslot]

4 hours ago, dendrite said:

Let’s not get the pattern too epic. No offense to our Mid Atlantic friends, but I could do without 5 degree cirrus while DC and PHL are getting pummeled. The snow has been respectable up here the last couple of seasons despite the difficulties down in SNE. Let’s just get it a little colder and a little more active and roll with that. 

Yeah, Lets not.

[Prismshine Productions]

*sits in the corner with mental circuits melting trying to phantom 30" of snow...*

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[GCWarrior]

27 minutes ago, radarman said:

The Octobomb (2011) I think you might well have got 30" up there.  Not sure if you pulled it off in December 92 as well?  The valley floor sure didn't haha.  They hardly got anything.

Yes 2011! That was so much snow easy 3’.  March 2023 was insane.  Feb 2010 had well over 3’ about 10 miles from here. April 1997 in 9th grade was big.  I’m always too busy skiing to measure the biggest storms.  

[WinterWolf]

3 minutes ago, GCWarrior said:

Yes 2011! That was so much snow easy 3’.  March 2023 was insane.  Feb 2010 had well over 3’ about 10 miles from here. April 1997 in 9th grade was big.  I’m always too busy skiing to measure the biggest storms.  

Feb 10?  That was the historic Mid Atlantic snowmaggon year.  Suppression depression for everybody north of NYC. You sure it was Feb of 2010? 

[HoarfrostHubb]

2 hours ago, MJO812 said:

8 years for me

A year and a half for me (ducks)

[radarman]

4 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Feb 10?  That was the historic Mid Atlantic snowmaggon year.  Suppression depression for everybody north of NYC. You sure it was Feb of 2010? 

It was.  The snowicane, 2/26/10 I think. We all got rain.  N Berks/ S VT got destroyed with snow.  Logan in ENY had like 44 or something nuts IIRC

 

[ineedsnow]

28 minutes ago, radarman said:

We wish we lived in the Berks. 

March 2023 was close

[ineedsnow]

5 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

A year and a half for me (ducks)

we can only hope that happens again.. awesome storm

[ORH_wxman]

1 minute ago, radarman said:

It was.  The snowicane, 2/26/10 I think. We all got rain.  N Berks/ S VT got destroyed with snow.  Logan in ENY had like 44 or something nuts IIRC

 

It was really two events back to back but somehow got classified as one. I had nearly a foot of paste in ORH in the first one on Feb 23-24 and then almost all rain in the Feb 25-26 system. Berkshires got slammed with 2+ feet in the first one but had some ptype issues in the second but managed to grab a foot of sludge before grabbing additional snow after the storm occluded. Where it stayed all snow just west of Berkshires in the Helderbergs and Catskills they got 4 feet plus out of the two systems. 

[GCWarrior]

12 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Feb 10?  That was the historic Mid Atlantic snowmaggon year.  Suppression depression for everybody north of NYC. You sure it was Feb of 2010? 

Absolutely! Snowicane I think was what it was called.  Heath, Savoy, Florida Mass got easy 3 feet.  Total elevation bomb above 1500’. I was up at Saddleback for the storm, waist deep powder and young legs. 

[ORH_wxman]

30” storms are exceptionally rare for a single spot but there’s some climo favored areas and then climo disfavored areas. 
 

East slope of the northern Berkshires is prob the most climo-favored area in SNE. Next would prob be N ORH county. Both regions can do really well on deep layer easterly flow events. Next is prob interior SE MA. The one thing those 3 areas have in common is they can often be big QPF maximums in coastal storms. The first two are due to orographics and SE MA can wring out a bit extra due to the frictional low-level convergence of sticking out into the ocean. You’re not far displaced from the moisture source as a bonus. 
 

But I think the 2010s prob set the bar unrealistically high on the expectations of frequency on these storms. It’s still very hard to get…even in the climo favored areas. 

[Prismshine Productions]

Just how much snow did southern Vermont get during Snowmeggedon

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[HoarfrostHubb]

8 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

30” storms are exceptionally rare for a single spot but there’s some climo favored areas and then climo disfavored areas. 
 

East slope of the northern Berkshires is prob the most climo-favored area in SNE. Next would prob be N ORH county. Both regions can do really well on deep layer easterly flow events. Next is prob interior SE MA. The one thing those 3 areas have in common is they can often be big QPF maximums in coastal storms. The first two are due to orographics and SE MA can wring out a bit extra due to the frictional low-level convergence of sticking out into the ocean. You’re not far displaced from the moisture source as a bonus. 
 

But I think the 2010s prob set the bar unrealistically high on the expectations of frequency on these storms. It’s still very hard to get…even in the climo favored areas. 

Before the 2023 storm, I don’t recall a 30+” event since the 3/31/97 one here.  A few came close…

[DavisStraight]

23 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

30” storms are exceptionally rare for a single spot but there’s some climo favored areas and then climo disfavored areas. 
 

East slope of the northern Berkshires is prob the most climo-favored area in SNE. Next would prob be N ORH county. Both regions can do really well on deep layer easterly flow events. Next is prob interior SE MA. The one thing those 3 areas have in common is they can often be big QPF maximums in coastal storms. The first two are due to orographics and SE MA can wring out a bit extra due to the frictional low-level convergence of sticking out into the ocean. You’re not far displaced from the moisture source as a bonus. 
 

But I think the 2010s prob set the bar unrealistically high on the expectations of frequency on these storms. It’s still very hard to get…even in the climo favored areas. 

We actually did ok that year, but the Snowicane soured us on the year.

[ORH_wxman]

24 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Before the 2023 storm, I don’t recall a 30+” event since the 3/31/97 one here.  A few came close…

Yeah there’s definitely a difference between getting like 20-27” and 30”+. It’s really hard to break 30. 

There’s a reason you see so few of those numbers at first order sites. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah there’s definitely a difference between getting like 20-27” and 30”+. It’s really hard to break 30. 

There’s a reason you see so few of those numbers at first order sites. 

Yeah. Those are pretty amazing events. I’m fortunate to have been in 3. 2023, 1997, and the biggest of all, 1978.  
I didn’t live in N ORH for Dec 1992, but that must have been incredible. 
 

I was in Foxboro for 1978.  
 

The one last March was kind of “meh” in comparison. Plus so few others got to enjoy it. 

[Ginx snewx]

3 hours ago, dendrite said:

I haven’t had a 30”+ event in 4 years. 

Had 2 huge 29.5 29 but been since 78 for a 30 banger

[GCWarrior]

We had some biggies near here in the early 2010s.  Boxing Day, Jan 2011, Oct 2011. Pretty substantial. 

[Ginx snewx]

Blessed to have many many epic storms and two exceptional 18 hr blizzards. And of course 2015 the granddaddy of all winters.

[WxWatcher007]

1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah there’s definitely a difference between getting like 20-27” and 30”+. It’s really hard to break 30. 

There’s a reason you see so few of those numbers at first order sites. 

I don’t think BDL or BDR has a single 30”+ event aside from yore events like 1888? 

Obviously places in CT can do very very well but I think we’re in rarefied air for anything over 20” at either of those official sites. 

[Snowcrazed71]

42 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I don’t think BDL or BDR has a single 30”+ event aside from yore events like 1888? 

Obviously places in CT can do very very well but I think we’re in rarefied air for anything over 20” at either of those official sites. 

You're forgetting about Nemo that hit in 2013. Bridgeport received 30 in, and Hartford received 27 in.

[WxWatcher007]

1 hour ago, Snowcrazed71 said:

You're forgetting about Nemo that hit in 2013. Bridgeport received 30 in, and Hartford received 27 in.

Wow didn’t realize BDR hit 30. That’s absolutely incredible. GB ‘13 is certainly one of the all-timers. I do wonder where it fits in with the rest of the official record. I don’t remember many 20+ hits at official stations growing up. 

[H2Otown_WX]

3 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Wow didn’t realize BDR hit 30. That’s absolutely incredible. GB ‘13 is certainly one of the all-timers. I do wonder where it fits in with the rest of the official record. I don’t remember many 20+ hits at official stations growing up. 

February '06 I'm sure Hartford hit over 20" since I know W Hartford had like close to 30. Perhaps Feb '01 and January '11 came close but probably a bit short. For BDR I would guess they had over 20" in the Blizzard of '96 and probably PDII.

[Snowcrazed71]

2 hours ago, H2Otown_WX said:

February '06 I'm sure Hartford hit over 20" since I know W Hartford had like close to 30. Perhaps Feb '01 and January '11 came close but probably a bit short. For BDR I would guess they had over 20" in the Blizzard of '96 and probably PDII.

So after checking on both storms... Feb '06 Hartford received 21.9".  The blizzard of 1996, Hartford received 15.8". Bridgeport received 16" ( less than I would have thought ) as Fairfield received 27.8" and West Hartford received 27"!!! 

[UnitedWx]

3 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Wow didn’t realize BDR hit 30. That’s absolutely incredible. GB ‘13 is certainly one of the all-timers. I do wonder where it fits in with the rest of the official record. I don’t remember many 20+ hits at official stations growing up. 

I was living in East Windsor at the time, 35 inches there and 34 in Simsbury. By FAR the toughest storm I ever had to plow.

[klw]

11 hours ago, dendrite said:

I haven’t had a 30”+ event in 4 years. 

I have only topped 24" in a storm once in my life and that was when we got 24.5" this March (see signature).

[Patrick-02540]

I would love to see an aggregated snowfall map of New England for 2000-2020.   Wonder if that's available.