The blizzard of 78....My first of many BIG weather events!!

Guest · #41 Postby **Guest** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:05 pm

Ok.........Wanted to apoligize about the lack of updates here...........Been very buisy as most know............I will do a update to this soon.............

Again Thanks for checking them out!!!!!

HuffWx · #42 Postby **HuffWx** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:21 pm

Hey KOW...

From 87,..I have to challenge this comment..

These two systems dropped a total of about 40 inches of snow when all was said and done! What even made these two systems even better.

Nooone saw 40 inches combined in from the two systems. Coastal DE in the first event changed to rain. If you have the Kocin book refer to it. Second event did top near 20 inches in lower DE and 6-12 in New Castle County, with the highest total south of the C & D canal.

Huff

Stormsfury · #43 Postby **Stormsfury** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:29 pm

Sorry I missed the Blizzard of 1996 post earlier.

Here's a little animation of the surface features for the Blizzard of 96.

http://www.stormsfury1.com/Temp/TempLoo ... zard96.gif

therock1811 · #44 Postby **therock1811** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 4:15 pm

Well, here's one that I remember from the 1990's... this one began the day before halloween 1993... I lived in a trailer on the South end of the city of Florence, along US 25... I remember getting up that morning to hear we were expecting 2-4" of snow... I had to go to school that day...grr...lol...anyway I go and come back and it hadn't really snowed yet, so I thought, man, that's IT??? WRONG! When I got up Halloween Morning there was about 5" on the ground and it was still snowing... school shut down or delayed or something that day, so I went out for a while...came in and dressed to go T-o-T... went around the neighborhood and Mr. wheelman here goes up a curb and falls flat on my back...OUCH... that experience tho is one of the good childhood memories I have of snow, although I'm not a big fan of the stuff, but a good two day event nonetheless!!

Miss Mary · #45 Postby **Miss Mary** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:21 pm

Jeremy - I remember that Halloween! It of course snowed over here too, I think we got about 7 inches but it started melting soon since the ground wasn't frozen yet. We built a snowman and used a scary rubber old man mask, sticks for arms, and on the ends of the sticks we hung McBoo buckets. I had carved several pumpkins and we placed them around the snowman. What a sight that was! Have pictures of it somewhere....our scanner is broken, if it was working I could post a picture! We have about 27 homes on our street, and another street behind us with about 20 homes. Since our girls were little then, they could only go out for an hour usually. I stayed in and passed out candy and their dad took them around. It was starting to rain lightly, almost a mist, temps in the low 40s I think. Foggy too. Such lousy wx for Halloween! Well, they stayed out only about 20 minutes, I had a fire going and they all came in shivering something terrible. I made them hot chocolate. That is one Halloween they'll never forget! We had tons of candy leftover too, very few trick or treaters that year.

Mary

Stormsfury · #46 Postby **Stormsfury** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:30 pm

A couple of more awesome winter weather events ... the first, not exactly a snow event but noted for the remarkable arctic outbreak which spread across the Deep South and Southeast with all-time record lows set, some breaking almost 100 year records.

http://www.stormsfury1.com/Weather/Wint ... 985AO.html

Who can forget the Superstorm 1993? I know I won't ... just for the shear intensity that storm brought to 50% of the nation.

http://www.stormsfury1.com/Weather/Wint ... storm.html

The blizzard of 78....My first of many BIG weather events!!

First snow I remember... Oct. 30-31 1993

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