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Your top 5 Winter events! (Snowstorms-Frozen Precip Events)

#1 Postby Guest » Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:27 pm

Well seeing how things are somewhat quiet at the moment figured i would give everyone a chance to share thier top5 winter events or top ones. I know some may not have 5 especially those in the south so just share what your favorite winter event or events.

For me it goes like this.

1. Best of all time is the Blizzard of 83 DC area. Thundersnow and lightening with two feet of snow to boot.
2. A very small scale event but one in which i happen to be in the Jackpot which was very localized at the DE coast in the winter of 96 AFTER the Blizz of 96 which btw didnt mae this list because i got the mixed precip at the hight of that storm but this storm after it more then made up for it to me because after all was said and done the total snowfall from this system was around 40inches but because it took about 3 or so days to fall had about 30inches on the ground because of compacting.

3. Blizzard of 79. Original Presidents Day snowstorm/Blizzard DC area. Hard to beat 20+ inches of snow and a week off of school.

4. Snowstorm at the MDcoast 89. This snowstorm was awesome for the drifting it left outside my front door. (See my stories which the link is below to get to them for better details on this.)

5. Back to back snowstorms at the MD/DE coast. I lived on the state line at the time but on the DE side of it next to Ocean City, MD. About 40 or so inches from both storms total.

For more info on these snowstorms see the link below and as well some other great stories of storms i have expierenced.

http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=4729


I edited the topic because i see non winter type events and i wanted to make sure people know that this thread relates to Winterstorms and its precip (Frozen Related ONLY). I will do another thread for top 5 WEATHER EVENTS.
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#2 Postby Anonymous » Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:36 pm

Blizzard of 96 was so good for me, it was snowing for days. I can remember TWC said expect 1 foot in there local forecast and in the next one, no lie, they said 2 feet, and that's what we got. I loved it.

My next favorite was last years Blizzard, I was in the sweetspot with 24+, huh just praying for the same this year. :D

Those are the only 2 I can remember, because I'm only 16.
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#3 Postby Kelly » Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:42 pm

mine would be the march 1993 superstorm. it was like three storms in one. severe weather, heavy snow, and intense storm surge.

then andrew 1992.
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#4 Postby senorpepr » Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:59 pm

1) Floods of '93
2) Floods of '95
3) Tornadic Outbreak in MO/KS of May '03
4) Hurricane Gordon '00
5) Tornadic Outbreak in Srn MS of Aug-Sep '00
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#5 Postby Guest » Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:05 pm

senorpepr wrote:1) Floods of '93
2) Floods of '95
3) Tornadic Outbreak in MO/KS of May '03
4) Hurricane Gordon '00
5) Tornadic Outbreak in Srn MS of Aug-Sep '00



HUH???????? THESE are your top 5 WINTER EVENTS??????Mind sharing how those relate to winter other then the floods perhaps???Perhaps i need one of these top 5 in the severe forum as well?????????
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#6 Postby senorpepr » Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:10 pm

Oh dear... it's been long day. I think I need a nap or something of the such.... Geez
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#7 Postby senorpepr » Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:14 pm

my top 5 WINTER

1) Snow season of '03-'04 in Omaha
2) "Winter Surprise" in Oct '96 in KC
3) Ice storms in Jan '01 in KC
4) Snow storm/Cold outbreak in Dec '01 in Germany
5) Snow storm in Jan '97 in KC
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#8 Postby Guest » Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:15 pm

Its ok senor. :) I did up another thread for peoples top 5 Weather events in the severe forum. Which that relates too all types of weather events from Canes, Blizzards, Tornadoes, Floods, ETC.
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#9 Postby Chris the Weather Man » Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:26 pm

1996, 27 inches

And PD2, 21.5 inches

Dec 2003, over 15 inches here

Dec 30th 2000. About 15-16 inches here

My Favortie snowstorm currently, PD2 of 2003

And, 1993 Superstorm, dropped 13 inches here, before changing to rain...............
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#10 Postby Lindaloo » Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:29 pm

Being from the Deep South I do not have a top 5. But I do remember the Blizzard of 93. Arrived on my birthday. Biggest flakes I have ever seen. Great birthday present. Seeing snow down here was an event all by itself. :)

Now I do have a top 5 severe weather events, but KOW will throw a fit if I post it here. :)
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#11 Postby Guest » Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:31 pm

Lindaloo wrote:Being from the Deep South I do not have a top 5. But I do remember the Blizzard of 93. Arrived on my birthday. Biggest flakes I have ever seen. Great birthday present. Seeing snow down here was an event all by itself. :)

Now I do have a top 5 severe weather events, but KOW will throw a fit if I post it here. :)



na. But i do have a thread for that in the severe forum :wink:
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#12 Postby therock1811 » Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:40 pm

1) PD Storm 2003-mainly ice for me, but as noted, some got almost a foot and a half!
2) 1993 Halloween Snowstorm-6.2"
3) Feb 98 1.5' storm-18.1"
4) Jan 6-7 1996 Storm-14"
5) 1989 October 18-19 Storm-5.9"
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#13 Postby Anonymous » Sun Feb 08, 2004 8:51 pm

5. Dec 5, 2002 (7")
4. Jan 14-15, 1999 (3/4" ice)
3. Mar 9, 1999 (11") *
2. Jan 24-25, 2000 (12") *
1. Feb 15-17, 2003 (22")

*completely unforecast 24 hours in advance

Keep in mind I've only lived here since 1997... you know it's pathetic when Dec 2002 is in your top 5 list for winter events you've experienced in your lifetime :lol:.

As far as the top 5 events for any season, I'd have to think about that more. I lived in OKC from 1994-1997 and saw some pretty incredible stuff there... can't really put them in order, but here are some...

*High temp of 113F in July 1996
*Low temp of -6F in winter of 1995-1996
*Severe thunderstorm with 100+ mph wind gusts in Jul 1996... power out across Oklahoma County for 3-4 days... with no AC my indoor temp exceeded 90F!
*Multiple severe thunderstorms w/ quarter to golfball sized hail and 70+ mph wind gusts
*Nov 9, 1995: record high temp of 83F at about 3PM... my dad and grandfather went and played golf... that evening we took my sister out to dinner for her birthday and when we came out at 8PM it was snowing and 30F! You would not BELIEVE some of the cold frontal passages they have out in the plains.

In the end PDS2 has to be the number one weather event in my lifetime, but I still credit the wild weather of Oklahoma with getting me obsessed with meteorology. I hope to go back to major in meteorology at OU for college.
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#14 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:53 pm

therock1811 wrote:2) 1993 Halloween Snowstorm-6.2"

An interesting note: The Halloween Storm of 1993 was (obviously) two years to the day after, "The Perfect Storm" of Monday, October 31st, 1991... one was larger than the other. But the 1993 storm was take seriously as well.
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#15 Postby timNms » Sun Feb 08, 2004 11:02 pm

1. superstorm March 93 (9" of snow on top of enough sleet to cover the ground. Local met said it would snow, but would melt without accumulations since the ground was so warm....good thing the ground wasn't warm. we'd still be diggin out! lol)
2. 80 or 81 ice event. (4 days of freezing rain/drizzle with 1/2 inch snow afterward)
3. surprise snow in '78. I was on the school bus almost home when suddenly, the rain changed to huge snowflakes. In an hour or maybe a bit longer, we had a couple of inches of snow on the ground. It stayed for a couple of days.
4. December 93 surprise snow. People were calling the radio station reporting snow and the DJ didn't believe them until it started snowing there. lol. The flakes were HUGE. We got about 2 inches. Sadly, it melted before the next morning.
5. Severe cold in the early 80's...can't remember the year...but we had a high of about 16 that day. It had been cold for a few days. The pond across the road from our house was iced over. For about 3 feet out from the edges, the pond was frozen almost solid...of course, I had to check it out and slide around on it...until i busted my....... :)
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#16 Postby ninmaven » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:58 am

1. Jan 1996 Blizzard (lived in Brooklyn, NY)

2. Feb 2003 President's Day Storm (lived in Union, NJ)

3. 1993 Superstorm (I think!) - I hope I'm thinking of the correct storm, but there were 2 storms, 2 days apart. I believe the first one dropped 11" and then 18" fell two days later. Until 1996, I had never seen piles of snow that big in Brooklyn. If that's not what happened during the Superstorm, then I'm thinking of two other back-to-back big snowstorms, which I don't ever remember happening before or since. I could swear this happened in Feb. though, and the superstorm was in March so maybe it wasn't the superstorm. The two storms I'm talking about could even have been in 1994...sorry I don't exactly know!

4. Feb 1978 blizzard (lived in Brooklyn, NY) - I was in HS at the time and I remember trudging about 3/4 of a mile through piles of snow with a couple of friends to the post office (after the snow stopped falling), because the mail wasn't delivered (what ever happened to..."Neither rain nor snow, nor gloom of night....") and one of my friends insisted she get her mail (we had a lot of pen pals at the time related to a musical group...lol).

5. Feb 1983 - I don't know the exact date but I was at my first job in NYC. The storm came during the day and was much worse than predicted. I was in lower Manhattan and looked out of my building that was near the Battery and could see dozens of stranded cars on the FDR Drive and then realized that no one was around in the office. I found out from someone who was still there that we had been told to go home but no one had said anything to me! I was lucky the subway was still running (my line went outside when it got to Brooklyn). I remember a lot of sparrows flew into the subway station (in Manhattan) to get out of the snow.

Special mention - Dec. 1992 Nor'Easter. I didn't include this storm because it rained in Brooklyn, but many Northern areas did get snow. Otherwise, this would be #2 on my list. Prior to and since this storm, these are the strongest winds I've ever experienced. Not even when we were brushed by Gloria or a couple of other hurricanes/tropical storms did I experience winds this strong. I was woken at 4AM from the noise of the wind and everything banging around outside and I couldn't get back to sleep because I had to watch the storm and the horizontal rain. A house in the Seagate community in Coney Island fell into the ocean from the storm surge.
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#17 Postby Stormsfury » Mon Feb 09, 2004 8:57 am

Obviously for me ...

1) December 22nd-24th, 1989 (Christmas Snowstorm) in which almost a foot of snow fell here ... 11.7" to be exact over a three day period ... it started as heavy sleet around 6 pm, but quickly changed to snow 30 minutes later, and continued to snow ... sometimes heavy all through the 23rd, and into the 24th early ... Charleston, SC WFO picked up 8" over that period (not enough to break the 24 hour record of 7.1") ... There were drifts as high as 4' here ... and this event was NOT forecasted 24 hours beforehand ... during the morning, the official forecast was for 1"-3". In fact, the snowfall amounts were upped after the snow had already begun ... then during the afternoon, it was bumped to 4"-6" ... then upped to 6"-12" during the evening.

2) Gotta be the surprise Jan 24th-25th, 2000 Carolina Crusher ... another total surprise ... The storm itself was very interesting, and in reviewing maps, the first wave actually hovered offshore and waited for the 2nd wave to phase and bring the storm DUE NORTH... The first wave with brought rain and thunderstorms on a Monday morning, and afternoon, included thunderstorms at times ... with temperatures in the mid 30's. By evening, the temperature fell and the precip changed over to sleet/snow ... and continued until about 3 am in the morning ... 2" of snow/sleet/slush here. The next night, an upper level impulse rounded the base of the trough that was carved out by the Carolina crusher and brought a localized area of snow across the Central Coastal Counties of Charleston, Dorchester, and Berkeley Counties ... 3" fell here in just 4 hours, and 2" fell at CHS ...

More about this here.
http://wchs.csc.noaa.gov/StormCouriers/ ... 2000_2.htm

3. February 16th, 1996 ... an upper-level impulse produced NO LESS than 3 separate thundersnows in the same day! ... a running tally of an inch of snow occurred that day ... The first thundersnow came and went within 20 minutes, but produced 40 mph winds, lightning, very heavy snow AND Graupel (temps instantly dropped from 40º to 36º AND THE SNOW Stuck on Grassy surfaces, and cars quickly since it fell so fast.)

4. February 1979 President's Day Blizzard --- Major icestorm in CHS ... 1"-3" of ICE/IP ... Central SC received SN/IP/ZR ... and Upstate received up to a foot of snow...

5. Superstorm of 1993 ... Combo day ... severe thunderstorms in the morning followed by 5 hours of snow (less than a ½" accum), and blizzard conditions (45 mph winds gusts to 60 mph during the afternooon) and the ONLY storm I can ever remember that CAA occurred with SOUTHWEST WINDS....

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#18 Postby JCT777 » Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:17 pm

1) Feb. 11, 1983 aka "The Blizzard of 83". 22 inches of snow. Saw/heard thundersnow. The local forecast at the start of the day was for 8 to 12 inches of snow, but they kept upping the amounts throughout the day. My favorite snowstorm of all time. 8-)

2) Feb 16-17, 2003 aka "President's Day Storm II". 24 inches of snow. Had a blast following this storm for the days leading up to it. Chatted and posted at wx message boards throughout the storm, which was incredibly fun. Made a 6 foot high pile of snow while shoveling that took 5 weeks to melt.

3) Jan 7-8, 1996 aka "The Blizzard of 1996". 30 inches of snow. Walked out onto what is typically a very busy Route 63 during the first day of the storm and did not see a single car on the road. Amazing.

4) Feb 6-7, 1978 aka "The Blizzard of 78". 21 inches of snow. I recall walking through my backyard as an 8 year old and I was waist-deep in snow.

5) Feb 22-23, 1987. Went to bed the night of the 22nd thinking we were going to get 2 to 4 inches of snow. Woke up to 19 inches on the ground by 7 AM on the 23rd. There were several local reports of 5 to 6 inches of snow per hour between 3 and 5 AM.

Honorable mentions to March 13, 1993 (The 1993 Superstorm - 14 inches of snow followed by some freezing rain) and February 19, 1979 (President's Day Storm I - also 14 inches of snow).
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#19 Postby Dave C » Mon Feb 09, 2004 2:42 pm

1: Blizzard of "78" Feb 6-7 1 week off from school, 2 feet snowfall, hurricane force wind gusts coastal areas, snowed 38 hrs straight.
2: Dec 6-7 1981 Local forecasters called it off the day before, ended up with 15 inches very wet snow with 60 mph wind gusts.
3: April 6-7 1982 Blizzard which hit at tail end of late season Arctic air mass, dropped 20 inches with thundersnow and 2-3 inch per hr. rates.
4: Feb 23-24 1983 Another thundersnow event with incredible 3 inch+ snowfall rates during height of storm. 2 ft with 15 ft drifts and temps in low 20s (unusual for extreme SE New England). also occured at end of long Arctic cold spell.
5: Jan 6-7 1996 Long duration (36hrs) with 28 inches and yes more thundersnow :lol: That was our 3rd consecutive snowfall that year without any melting which gave us 3+ ft. on the level!!!
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#20 Postby Anonymous » Mon Feb 09, 2004 2:53 pm

5. 1996 - heavy snow (24 inches) and then heavy rain a few days later (Flooding)

4. 2003 - President's Day - 28 inches

3. 1993 - Storm of the Century - 36 inches

2. 1983 - Heaviest snow I've ever seen - 40 inches

1. Still waiting for the BIGGEST STORM EVER
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