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Got Snow?
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YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Moderator<br>A/V & Home Theater<br>Elite member
Is that santa?
(8th pic on top row)
(8th pic on top row)
sharkeeper
Lifer
Not really.
Missed the "big one" of Jan 22. Missed the "big one" of this past week. All I get to see is pics from the surveillance cameras. Of course winters are nowhere near they were years ago. 1977 and 1982 come to mind.
All I see now is water. Makes me miss the white stuff even more. If I were to decide whether I'd take an apartment on the sea or a cabin up north where you have snow cover until Mother's Day I'd probably take the latter. Of course sleeping at sea is the best there is. Reminds me when I was surrounded by sharks minus the 100+ dB noise of the MLFS.
You call that snow?
Pfffff.
Come to Canada and we'll show you what snow is all about.
YankeezXBA
Senior member
I live in phoenix, az ill never see snow here 😀
chuckywang
Lifer
That happened every winter when I lived in the UP of Michigan.
YankeezXBA
Senior member
woah crazy double post split glitch?!?!?! 😀
sharkeeper
Lifer
First, I lived in the DC area most of my life so yes that is a lot of snow.
Second, this is in ME and is not new snowfall. This is from past snows that is still hanging around. According to the person that took and posted the pictures, this winter has been miserable. He's a snow dog like myself. So a good winter is one with a lot of snow. 2003 was actually a good one for us in MD. In Feb of 2003, only six days out of the whole month did we NOT see flakes falling out of the sky. I couldn't believe it. On February 17, we had a solid 33" on the ground. (Clarksville)
I'd move north in a heartbeat but the reality is I have family members getting older in FL and have decided to move down there. All you Floridians will be happy though. I have a reputation: wherever I am the severe weather seems to miss. When I left MD on Jan 22, flakes were falling when I was getting on the plane. I remember the Capt. remarking how lucky we were getting out before the snow! GRRRR!
imported_Phil
Diamond Member
Heh, I was in Winnipeg a few years ago for Christmas- now that's snow! 🙂
We were seeing just under a foot a night- remember that I come from the UK, and over here, two inches = chaos... :roll:
CrackRabbit
Lifer
Been there, Done that, won't happen again here for another 75 years. 😀
meltdown75
Lifer
yep, that's snow.
bluewall21
Golden Member
I want snow.
cavemanmoron
Lifer
we have had some snow here this year,but 2 winters ago there was a lot more.
Albany NY area.
http://www.wrgb.com/wx/historical_data/...ate.asp?Year=2003&Month=1&Type=Summary
January 2003 will be remembered by most in the Northeast as a month producing almost continuous severe winter snow and cold.
A one two punch of winter weather slammed the region beginning after a mild start to the day on the first. By New Year's day evening a taste of the colder air that would grip the region later in the month moved in helping to create an ice and sleet storm that left a thick coating of glaze over eastern New York and western New England. With no time to clean up after the icing, the month's largest snow storm dumped on average one to two feet of snow on the region beginning on the third and ending on the fourth. (Remember, our area had been plastered by the two foot snow storm on Christmas day, about a week earlier...see the December 2002 monthly summary for details on that storm.) The storm total of 20.8" was good enough for the second heaviest January snow storm since records have been kept at Albany in the mid 1800's. This storm also fell immediately behind the Christmas day 2002 storm into 10th place for all time heaviest snow storms in any month on record at Albany. So, the number nine and ten all time heaviest snowstorms on record at Albany occurred only eight days apart from each other in late 2002 and early 2003.
After the early January Nor'easter, the strong southern branch jet stream responsible for energizing and propelling the large storms into the Northeast, weakened and retracted to the south. (This weakening can be related to an observed peaking of the weak to moderate El Nino in the equatorial Pacific. As the El Nino began declining, it's influence on the southern jet relaxed allowing the very cold polar branch of the jet to become strongly dominant over the northern United States during January.) As the northern polar branch jet became the dominant feature after the Nor'easter, all big snow making storms ended, instead being replaced by weaker, moisture starved clipper system that traversed the region almost every other day from the 7th through the 20th. The clippers brought dribs and drabs of snow, but enough so that Albany measured at least .10" on each day from the first to the 13th. That was a thirteen consecutive day stretch of measurable snow at Albany! In all, measurable snow fell at Albany on seventeen of January's days, with a trace of snow on an additional nine days, leaving only five days completely dry. The 32.2" of snow that was measured at Albany for the month was 15.6" above normal and good for the 6th all time greatest January snowfall on record at Albany.
Snow was only half the story. Extreme cold arrived for the first time in three years to the region beginning on the 13th with the passage of the first in what would be a series of arctic cold frontal passages. Temperatures declined steadily after the 13th, generally ranging from the mid 10's to the mid 20's during the day, with a handful of days only measuring afternoon temperatures in the mid single digits. Minimum temperatures crashed to below zero for the first time in three years on the 17th, with the coldest morning in seven years occurring on the morning of the 18th, when Albany's low temperature was -12 degrees. Temperatures fell below zero on a total of ten days in January between the 17th and the 30th. WxNet 6 reports indicated that especially on the mornings of the 18th and the 28th, that the temperatures in the colder more sheltered valleys ranged from -20 to -30 degrees in the region. In all, the daytime high temperature only reached or exceeded 32 degrees three times the entire month, on the 1st, the 8th, and the 9th, which meant that the region endured a twenty two consecutive day stretch of sub freezing weather. (The longest stretch of sub freezing weather on record at Albany was back in 1945, when thirty six consecutive days below freezing occurred from January 5 through February 9.)
Albany NY area.
http://www.wrgb.com/wx/historical_data/...ate.asp?Year=2003&Month=1&Type=Summary
January 2003 will be remembered by most in the Northeast as a month producing almost continuous severe winter snow and cold.
A one two punch of winter weather slammed the region beginning after a mild start to the day on the first. By New Year's day evening a taste of the colder air that would grip the region later in the month moved in helping to create an ice and sleet storm that left a thick coating of glaze over eastern New York and western New England. With no time to clean up after the icing, the month's largest snow storm dumped on average one to two feet of snow on the region beginning on the third and ending on the fourth. (Remember, our area had been plastered by the two foot snow storm on Christmas day, about a week earlier...see the December 2002 monthly summary for details on that storm.) The storm total of 20.8" was good enough for the second heaviest January snow storm since records have been kept at Albany in the mid 1800's. This storm also fell immediately behind the Christmas day 2002 storm into 10th place for all time heaviest snow storms in any month on record at Albany. So, the number nine and ten all time heaviest snowstorms on record at Albany occurred only eight days apart from each other in late 2002 and early 2003.
After the early January Nor'easter, the strong southern branch jet stream responsible for energizing and propelling the large storms into the Northeast, weakened and retracted to the south. (This weakening can be related to an observed peaking of the weak to moderate El Nino in the equatorial Pacific. As the El Nino began declining, it's influence on the southern jet relaxed allowing the very cold polar branch of the jet to become strongly dominant over the northern United States during January.) As the northern polar branch jet became the dominant feature after the Nor'easter, all big snow making storms ended, instead being replaced by weaker, moisture starved clipper system that traversed the region almost every other day from the 7th through the 20th. The clippers brought dribs and drabs of snow, but enough so that Albany measured at least .10" on each day from the first to the 13th. That was a thirteen consecutive day stretch of measurable snow at Albany! In all, measurable snow fell at Albany on seventeen of January's days, with a trace of snow on an additional nine days, leaving only five days completely dry. The 32.2" of snow that was measured at Albany for the month was 15.6" above normal and good for the 6th all time greatest January snowfall on record at Albany.
Snow was only half the story. Extreme cold arrived for the first time in three years to the region beginning on the 13th with the passage of the first in what would be a series of arctic cold frontal passages. Temperatures declined steadily after the 13th, generally ranging from the mid 10's to the mid 20's during the day, with a handful of days only measuring afternoon temperatures in the mid single digits. Minimum temperatures crashed to below zero for the first time in three years on the 17th, with the coldest morning in seven years occurring on the morning of the 18th, when Albany's low temperature was -12 degrees. Temperatures fell below zero on a total of ten days in January between the 17th and the 30th. WxNet 6 reports indicated that especially on the mornings of the 18th and the 28th, that the temperatures in the colder more sheltered valleys ranged from -20 to -30 degrees in the region. In all, the daytime high temperature only reached or exceeded 32 degrees three times the entire month, on the 1st, the 8th, and the 9th, which meant that the region endured a twenty two consecutive day stretch of sub freezing weather. (The longest stretch of sub freezing weather on record at Albany was back in 1945, when thirty six consecutive days below freezing occurred from January 5 through February 9.)
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