March DISCO/OBS: Please End It

[Torch Tiger]

8 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Yeah for sure, wind events can be localized.  It might not be the most impressive event for a particular location, but the obs over a large geographic zone is a sign of a solid event.

Yeah not trying to yuck someones yum "" lol  I'm sure it really roared nicely in the high terrain and coastal spots

[ineedsnow]

2 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Winds just about calm now. Darkness FTL

still ripping here 

[#NoPoles]

Somebody went for a joy ride in a truck down a snowmobile trail and put themselves in Mt Deception Creek, right at the bottom of my street. Got to watch some live entertainment as they brought 2 flat beds down the snowmobile trail to try to pull the truck out of the creek. I'm gonna go take a look at the scene during daylight and see if I can tell what happened 

[Snowcrazed71]

5 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

With little to no rain next 7-10 days and warmth and sun combined with the winds drying everything.  Fires and steins coming soon 

I'm just curious, where do you get your information? Every time you make a comment, it's like a comedy fest.

[Torch Tiger]

20 mph wind iRN,  no big deal. T-shirt shorts 

[ineedsnow]

roaring here.. I thought these winds were going to die down tonight 

[mreaves]

1 hour ago, #NoPoles said:

Somebody went for a joy ride in a truck down a snowmobile trail and put themselves in Mt Deception Creek, right at the bottom of my street. Got to watch some live entertainment as they brought 2 flat beds down the snowmobile trail to try to pull the truck out of the creek. I'm gonna go take a look at the scene during daylight and see if I can tell what happened 

Happens pretty often. Usually a combination of stupidity and bad luck. Sometimes the trails use seasonal roads that can be driven in summer and people blindly follow their gps past signs that tell them to turn around. It usually an expensive lesson to learn. 

[H2Otown_WX]

Is it just me or does anyone else really want a April Fools '97 redux when looking at Torch Tiger's avatar?

[HIPPYVALLEY]

1 hour ago, H2Otown_WX said:

Is it just me or does anyone else really want a April Fools '97 redux when looking at Torch Tiger's avatar?

I think we all want April 97 redux regardless of any qualifications.

[Prismshine Productions]

I think we all want April 97 redux regardless of any qualifications.

Who says no

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[CoastalWx]

That storm was the GOAT. But something like that is highly unlikely lol.

[HoarfrostHubb]

3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

That storm was the GOAT. But something like that is highly unlikely lol.

I still wonder which is more of a rare one.  97 or the Rocktober storm

[Snowcrazed71]

8 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I still wonder which is more of a rare one.  97 or the Rocktober storm

If venture to guess the Rocktober storm of 2011. Although snow storms are super uncommon in April .. I would say we've had more Snow events in early April than we've had in October. 

[CoastalWx]

14 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I still wonder which is more of a rare one.  97 or the Rocktober storm

That’s a good question. I’d probably lean rocktober 2011. 

[CoastalWx]

5 minutes ago, Snowcrazed71 said:

If venture to guess the Rocktober storm of 2011. Although snow storms are super uncommon in April .. I would say we've had more Snow events in early April than we've had in October. 

But the amount that fell on 3/31-4/1 was absurd. At least in these parts. 

[Hoth]

24 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I still wonder which is more of a rare one.  97 or the Rocktober storm

Gotta go with '11. I think Hartford's all-time snowiest October prior to that was like 1.5" and they got a foot out of that one storm. Just destroyed records.

[kdxken]

25 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

But the amount that fell on 3/31-4/1 was absurd. At least in these parts. 

Only time I ever experienced unplowed roads in my 30 years living in the city. That includes 2015. I walked to a bar and you would see shoveled driveways that led to two feet of untouched snow on the road.

[CoastalWx]

Just now, kdxken said:

Only time I ever experienced unplowed roads in my 30 years living in the city. That includes 2015. I walked to a bar and you would see shoveled driveways that led to two feet of untouched snow on the road.

I was staying in Hyde Park at the time. Sneaky good area for snow in Boston. On a hill 200’ up. We must have had 8-10” before Logan flipped to all snow. 
 

The morning of 4/1 a jeep tried to plow and maybe moved 5’ before giving up. They came the next day with a front end loader. 

[wxeyeNH]

24F  Heavy snow squall just ended.  1".  I wasn't expecting that.

[Ginx snewx]

Just now, wxeyeNH said:

24F  Heavy snow squall just ended.  1".  I wasn't expecting that.

Just a different world.

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Winter has been over for weeks here. Starting to green up a bit 

[CoastalWx]

11 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Winter has been over for weeks here. Starting to green up a bit 

Not sure about weeks, but a few plant shoots coming up in the sunniest spots. I had that late January last year lol.

[CoastalWx]

Euro wants my late season event haha.

[klw]

17 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

24F  Heavy snow squall just ended.  1".  I wasn't expecting that.

We got an inch as well.  Just enough to freshen the look of things.

[dendrite]

20 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

24F  Heavy snow squall just ended.  1".  I wasn't expecting that.

Getting some flakes here now, but thankfully the brunt is staying north of here. 

Do not want. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

But the amount that fell on 3/31-4/1 was absurd. At least in these parts. 

For my area I had 36” in ‘97. Rocktober was 22” of powder.   Both incredible unicorns.   

[NoCORH4L]

1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

For my area I had 36” in ‘97. Rocktober was 22” of powder.   Both incredible unicorns.   

The March storm a few years ago was almost a 36 incher as well.  Pure moisture bomb 

[HoarfrostHubb]

20 minutes ago, NoCORH4L said:

The March storm a few years ago was almost a 36 in her as well.  Pure moisture bomb 

Yep.  My first 30” storm I’ve had at my house here since I bought it in 1998.  I was living in Gardner in ‘97

[cleetussnow]

11 hours ago, #NoPoles said:

Somebody went for a joy ride in a truck down a snowmobile trail and put themselves in Mt Deception Creek, right at the bottom of my street. Got to watch some live entertainment as they brought 2 flat beds down the snowmobile trail to try to pull the truck out of the creek. I'm gonna go take a look at the scene during daylight and see if I can tell what happened 

Boy I have seen this happen numerous times on seasonal roads turned sled trails.  Always amusing - usually a hefty groomer had to go in there and make the recovery. I always laughed at these dumbass rookies everytime….

…until it was me.  Tug Hill - all backroads are snow covered all the time in good winters so hard to discern in many cases whats a seasonal road turned trail and whats plowed - you have to just know.  I had me and my kid and a buddy along on the trip, one sled on a single place trailer.  The truck was a 2000s vintage explorer.  We were on our way to a remote bar/motel/sled rental to grab a rental sled.  Made a left turn according to GPS and shit here we go!  Instantly knew I had just made a galacticly stupid mistake apparently sitting on my brain at the time.  I just kept my foot in it and squirreled around the trail in 4x4 and jesus h christ we made it the 1/2 mile to the bar to this day I have no idea how.  Moderate ruts on the trail.  Sleds saw us on the trail just shaking heads but no one saw us pull in to the parking lot (easily accessible from another direction). We sheepishly and quickly unloaded, grabbed the rental and split on the sleds, abandoning the truck.  We were staying at another hotel about 50 miles away which I was glad for.  Came back to the truck a few days later and hightailed it outa there feeling dumb as shit - more than normal anyway.  Red face went away a week or so later.  
 

sidebar - in the middle of nowhere sometime later, my buddy lost the key to his rental sled.  We were properly fucked.  I lost it.  Exploded to 11 blind with rage.  Melted right down.  Then I opened the cowl, looked at the ignition, unplugged the key connection (like a 5 prong plug), rotated it 180 degrees leaving one prong outside of the ignition plug, prayed, then it started right up.  Jubilation.  Polaris 600 from the 2000s.  Key was useless, and thank the almighty for his interventions looking over our dumb asses that day. No other explanation.

[dryslot]

Usually winds under perform but they were quite impressive yesterday with frequent gust in the 50's.