54 minutes ago, VIRGAMAN said:

I had lots of damage from that storm, i first had 2.8 inches of rain then a wind whipped snow that snapped many tree limbs, measured 12.6 inches of snow.  it is a myth when you hear the day before it can be in the 60s or 70s and the next day NOT accumulate snow, it happens, a split personality weekend April 8th 9th 2000, on april 8th had sunny 75 degrees wearing a t shirt and shorts with winds over 40 mph, next day april 9th blizzard like conditions 6 inches of snow and temps in the low 20s.  I remember hearing Winter storm watch, and wearing a t shirt and shorts washing my car the day before

Oh yeah places out west have been in the 80s and accumulate snow the next day.

GFS, EURO, ICON all say no more snow rest of march

3 minutes ago, VIRGAMAN said:

GFS, EURO, ICON all say no more snow rest of march

Can you post in the right thread one time 

45 minutes ago, Analog1888 said:

Oh yeah places out west have been in the 80s and accumulate snow the next day.

Front range of the rockies for sure-denver has had storms like that even up into Wyoming

1 hour ago, JM said:

Can you post in the right thread one time 

AT LEAST I did not mention the RGEM oh wait I mean the GGEM oh wait or is it the CMC 😆

AH YES THE FAMOUS BLIZZARD OF MARCH 12, 1888 137  YEARS AGO TODAY

17 minutes ago, VIRGAMAN said:

AH YES THE FAMOUS BLIZZARD OF MARCH 12, 1888 137  YEARS AGO TODAY

imagine seeing something like that modeled today...

18 minutes ago, VIRGAMAN said:

AH YES THE FAMOUS BLIZZARD OF MARCH 12, 1888 137  YEARS AGO TODAY

yes the good ole days...other than the blizzard of 88 only 1959 had more than 2" of snow on this date...the official totals...

16.5" in 1888...seems low...

..5.5" in 1959...snow changes to rain...

..1.6" in 1987...a long very light snow...

..1.1" in 1964...light wet snow on cars and grass...

..1.1" in 1924...to young to remember...

..1.0" in 2005...sleet and ice too...

10 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

imagine seeing something like that modeled today...

if it was forecast this year Florida would have gotten 20"...it was the first of two el nino years...1887-88 was weak...1888-89 was strong...most of the storms that year were inland runners...NYC had above average rainfall and very cold temperatures before and after snow/ice/rain events...then came March...1992-93 was a little similar with storm tracks...

2 hours ago, uncle w said:

if it was forecast this year Florida would have gotten 20"...it was the first of two el nino years...1887-88 was weak...1888-89 was strong...most of the storms that year were inland runners...NYC had above average rainfall and very cold temperatures before and after snow/ice/rain events...then came March...1992-93 was a little similar with storm tracks...

There have been a lot of big storms (not all snow) around Mar 13.

2 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

imagine seeing something like that modeled today...

it was back in march 2001 almost, it had the famous slow loop exiting  Long island, but of course the ULL never caught up in time to pull it back as originally modelled

2 hours ago, uncle w said:

yes the good ole days...other than the blizzard of 88 only 1959 had more than 2" of snow on this date...the official totals...

16.5" in 1888...seems low...

..5.5" in 1959...snow changes to rain...

..1.6" in 1987...a long very light snow...

..1.1" in 1964...light wet snow on cars and grass...

..1.1" in 1924...to young to remember...

..1.0" in 2005...sleet and ice too...

I was a ripe old age of almost two months old LOL

40 minutes ago, VIRGAMAN said:

it was back in march 2001 almost, it had the famous slow loop exiting  Long island, but of course the ULL never caught up in time to pull it back as originally modelled

1888 had a front that straddled present day I-91-to the west was heavy snow and teens to the east 30's and 40's with wet snow and rain....weird setup

March 1962 and 2001 had huge    Storms that busted in nyc…

1 hour ago, VIRGAMAN said:

I was a ripe old age of almost two months old LOL

I was in the fourth grade then…that was the big snow that winter…59 had more snow after that…58-59 was a long cold winter without a lot of snow…13” total…

32 year ago today the so called storm of the century hit our area, march 13, 1993

22 minutes ago, VIRGAMAN said:

32 year ago today the so called storm of the century hit our area, march 13, 1993

The biggest disappointment for that storm which a lot of people forgot was not the fact that it changed over to rain, that was supposed to happen and it did. But what really disappointed is the fact that we were supposed to get another 6 to 10 inches with the backlash which has we know now is virtually impossible with 99% of storms but back then I really thought it was going to happen. Whatever snow there was with the backside just completely dried up by the time it hit New York City. I believe parts of Central Southern New Jersey got another 2-4 inches. 
 

The only thing I got was a very heavy snow squall that didn’t even whiten the ground early that next morning before temperatures plummeted through the teens and turned all that wet snow into concrete. 

2 minutes ago, Andrew said:

The biggest disappointment for that storm which a lot of people forgot was not the fact that it changed over to rain, that was supposed to happen and it did. But what really disappointed is the fact that we were supposed to get another 6 to 10 inches with the backlash which has we know now is virtually impossible with 99% of storms but back then I really thought it was going to happen. Whatever snow there was with the backside just completely dried up by the time it hit New York City. I believe parts of Central Southern New Jersey got another 2-4 inches. 
 

The only thing I got was a very heavy snow squall that didn’t even whiten the ground early that next morning before temperatures plummeted through the teens and turned all that wet snow into concrete. 

I believe I had 1" of new backlash as the storm departed overnight, because I remember a new 1" of snow on places we had cleaned off.

9 minutes ago, Analog1888 said:

I believe I had 1" of new backlash as the storm departed overnight, because I remember a new 1" of snow on places we had cleaned off.

Do you remember those forecast once snow change to rain and we get into that dry slot do you remember how the backlash was still supposed to get us in a major way? I even remember one of the guys at the weather channel said that for New York City that it’s far from over that we are going to get blizzard conditions overnight into the morning of the 14th that is going to be blowing and drifting snow on top of what already fell. I was so excited for that I was in my glory and then when I looked at the radar and just saw that backlash continuously eroding I just knew that it wasn’t going to happen. 

 

that 10 inch pack of ice was impressive though. You were talking 2 1/2 inches of water in a 10 to 12 inch snowpack now just completely frozen solid by temperatures in the low to mid teens.  There was so many cars that was stuck and you couldn’t get them out. You had to jackhammer the ice out. The snowplow wakes were also solid ice so there were places that had 3 foot high walls of solid ice.