Is this the winter storm of this century for the Northeast???

[deadheadskier]

By me on the seacoast, outside of tonight's heavy rain and high winds.......nothing special.

but man. Greens getting pummeled Tuesday afternoon into yesterday, Catskills getting pummeled today, Northern Whites Getting pummeled tomorrow......who knows for the weekend.

I really can't recall such a long crazy ass winter storm system in recent memory.

Just MASSIVE heavy snow in places and HUGE winds.

I saw some news network title that said, "Northeast braces for a Snowicane". Pretty accurate description it would seem so far.......

 

[drjeff]

Because of the widespread areas that have seen very little (if any flakes) yet, I'd have to say that it's a "no" for the Storm of the Century for the Northeast. The last "Storm of the Century" back in March of '93 IMHO was more impressive in that it brought a HUGE AREA of MASSIVE snowfall totals basically from Georgia upto Maine, effecting way more people than this one is. If you're in the snow area for this one, yup, it's memorable, no doubt about it, but for many folks these last few days have been not much more than a typical Nor'easter type rain event

 

[riverc0il]

Nah. Just in recent memory, Valentine's Day dropped five feet in Northern Vermont. The ice storm last year was far more damaging and life effecting than a few power outages and some flooding, This is far more wide spread effecting everyone in the east from Maine down to Jersey but it has not had the mammoth snow fall of Valentine's Day 07 or the effect of the ice storm from last season. At this point, I don't think this multi-day event will be talked. At least at this point. Let's check back in after Sunday and see what the weekend brings on top of what has happened so far.

 

[billski]

Most people seem to measure "significance" on how much it impairs ordinary life. It seems that everyone has pretty much been out and about, save for the power outages.

 

[Euler]

Nah, last years ice storm in December was far worse than this.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Much ado about Nothing ------------------hell this storm isn't even a blip on the radar compared to the Valentine's day storm here .

As matter of fact our regional "North Country " weather pros are making fun of all the national hype put on this minor leaguer of a storm . Windy yes 2/3 ft in SOME locations , heavy wet slop. big time -- meh

Our regular LES puts this to shame frankly -- but i'm happy for you guys in the Greens and "Skills"-- go get after it

 

[deadheadskier]

Well......when I said century, I more meant decade as in 2000-2010. The Valentine's storm certainly wins looking back, but this one certainly has been a monster in locations from Northern Maine, all the way down to Philadelphia.

Perhaps I don't remember the Valentine's Day storm being so big as in Portland we only got about 10 inches and Sunday River was maybe 14-16 or so.

Looks like Stowe was the jack pot of that storm upon a quick web search. 48 inches.

Last years Ice storm was a douzy too. we lost power for 3 days. Going on 12 hours no power now.....

 

[SteveInCT]

Deadhead -- Any word on how Ragged fared yesterday? snow-forecast.com showed they were supposed to get 1.1 inches of rain yesterday, yet the Ragged web site claims "Wow.. great storm" with 44 out of 45 open. If the mountain took 1.1 inches of rain, I can't imagine it being all that great since they didn't have much of a base to begin with (from what I could tell from the trail reports). I have a couple of passes for Ragged and I want to use them. If they did well in this storm, I might just head up there for the weekend and pound those glades all weekend long. If it will be soup, I will wait a weekend or two, cross my fingers for some powdery stuff, and ski whatever is there. Any insight? You are our Ragged connection here! ;-)

 

[deadheadskier]

wish I had some inside......but I'm the dark on this one too. I won't be back until next weekend. hitting VT this weekend. I guess the best bet would be to call.

 

[SteveInCT]

wish I had some inside......but I'm the dark on this one too. I won't be back until next weekend. hitting VT this weekend. I guess the best bet would be to call.

I might do that.. I am curious if they will give me the "real scoop" or the "company line". I can understand the company line answer since this year has been crappy for snow and they need people on the slopes, but it would kinda suck to head up there and find glass.

 

[WinnChill]

Deadhead -- Any word on how Ragged fared yesterday? snow-forecast.com showed they were supposed to get 1.1 inches of rain yesterday, yet the Ragged web site claims "Wow.. great storm" with 44 out of 45 open. If the mountain took 1.1 inches of rain, I can't imagine it being all that great since they didn't have much of a base to begin with (from what I could tell from the trail reports). I have a couple of passes for Ragged and I want to use them. If they did well in this storm, I might just head up there for the weekend and pound those glades all weekend long. If it will be soup, I will wait a weekend or two, cross my fingers for some powdery stuff, and ski whatever is there. Any insight? You are our Ragged connection here! ;-)

I can't imagine they got hardly any snow...if anything, they probably got a few inches for the summit. It was pretty much solid rain from about 1000-2000' down and from about Cannon south (according to the NH thread). Nearby Gunstock (closest in location/elevation) reporting 4" so perhaps they were very close if at all. (just in case folks don't know, the hyphenated snow-forecast.com is a different site from ours)

 

[Bumpsis]

I looked through a few different snow reports from NH this morning and despite the positive spin that they all try to put forth, I know that they all got got rained on and got maybe an inch plus some of actual snow.
Doesn't take much imagination to guess that the actual conditions are probably much less than optimal right now and going into the weekend.

I'm contrasting all that against the news headlines about huge snows and just decided to deal with the fact that at least for NH ski areas this storm hsa been a big bust. I think I may go hiking thie weekend instead. I haven't seen the Greenleaf hut in a long time.

 

[UVSHTSTRM]

I wouldn't say so....first this storm has nothing on the ice strom of 98, 09 as far as effecting life goes, as far as snow during this century I would say no also. This snow was heavy wet slop in many locations and rain in many more locations. I would say from a skiing/riding preference I would take a 18-24 inch storm of real powder over this stuff. Also we must remember this was two storms not one.

As far as base building goes this was a great pair of storms.

 

[WinnChill]

Yeah, considering a 3 day, 2 part storm, rain was expected for part of it. The mix line was expected to be up in the Whites where it hovered the whole day yesterday. In emails directly with Wildcat and Attitash staff, they were getting puked on yesterday with hardly any mixing if any. Same goes for Saddleback, so I'm sure those reports are legit. Other resorts in the borderline snow/rain area (Bretton/Black thru Sunday and Sugarloaf) were most likely the same with heavy snow...I just didn't contact them directly.

 

[WinnChill]

I'm contrasting all that against the news headlines about huge snows and just decided to deal with the fact that at least for NH ski areas this storm hsa been a big bust. I think I may go hiking thie weekend instead. I haven't seen the Greenleaf hut in a long time.

I'm sure you know that headlines broadbrush an entire region--and I agree the hype is horrible sometimes. Storms can't deliver big snows to everyone all the time.

Well, I'm heading out to assess local damage...should be fun.

Cheers

 

[SteveInCT]

I'm sure you know that headlines broadbrush an entire region--and I agree the hype is horrible sometimes. Storms can't deliver big snows to everyone all the time.

Well, I'm heading out to assess local damage...should be fun.

Cheers

Run over to Ragged for me! :lol:

 

[billski]

Yeah, considering a 3 day, 2 part storm, rain was expected for part of it. The mix line was expected to be up in the Whites where it hovered the whole day yesterday. In emails directly with Wildcat and Attitash staff, they were getting puked on yesterday with hardly any mixing if any. Same goes for Saddleback, so I'm sure those reports are legit. Other resorts in the borderline snow/rain area (Bretton/Black thru Sunday and Sugarloaf) were most likely the same with heavy snow...I just didn't contact them directly.

Today's Stowe report seemed to indicate grooming was mandatory, with lifts starting late.

 

[deadheadskier]

Just got off the phone with my friend. Rained HARD in the village last night in Stowe. Hopefully we see some refresh tonight.

 

[riverc0il]

Perhaps I don't remember the Valentine's Day storm being so big as in Portland we only got about 10 inches and Sunday River was maybe 14-16 or so.

Jay reported in at five feet for the V day storm. Though I think they might have stretched a few cm's into inches to get there. You know how they get confused with so many Quebecois and all. Though they are normally pretty accurate, they definitely stretched it for that five foot mark. Though as I recall, that storm was so windy, it was really hard to pin down exact amounts.

 

[deadheadskier]

confirmed. worst storm ever. no power at the liquor store on 93. :lol:

no power at my house either. Sister inlaw in Berwick, ME got it worse. Over a third of her roof blew off last night, no power there either. I have friends in New York that are being told that they shouldn't expect power until Wednesday.

No ice of last year, but this storm is certainly causing trouble for many. Over a million without power right now.