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Raymond C Martin Jr Raymond C Martin Jr is offline
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Default My Favorite Winter Storms

A bit out of season, I know... But its a nice thread over at Wright
Weather, so I thought I'd borrow my part and bring it over here

March 13-14, 1993... What can I say? Winds to nearly 60 mph RECORDED
AT TTN!, plus about a foot of snow and 2 or 3 inches of sleet on top
of that... the next day after some freezing rain and then light snow,
it was frozen so hard you could walk miles without slipping through!

January 7-8, 1994... Biggest Ice Storm I ever lived through... over an
inch of accrual, almost got killed by falling branches litterally
SECONDS after I walked under them...

February 8, 1994.... Burst of heavy snow and the funnest 2 mile walk
home from middle school ever....

February 3-4, 1995... Almost the heaviest snow I ever saw, piling up
at 3+ inches per hour, ended up with 14 inches total after just 10
hours of snowfall, most of that actualy fell between 3 and 7 that
morning...

November 28-29, 1995... what a lovely way to start the winter, with a
snowy surprise at the end of November... while everyone was mentioning
the chance of it going to all snow, most official forecasts just had
some mixing with no accumulation... But when I heard the pitter-patter
of sleet at 11PM the night of the 28th, I knew that it was the start
of something special... not just a special storm, but a special
winter!

January 7-8, 1996... The only *PURE* Blizzard I ever experienced, with
true blizzard conditions (including the now defunct temperature
requirement)... plus by far the heaviest snowfall at 28 inches... For
it to be snowing and blowing so hard that I can hardly see the
neighbor's house across the street.... just amazing...

March 31-April 1, 1997... another surprise, plus a mega bomb off the
coast (which WAS expected) that dumped up to 3 feet of snow in parts
of Massachusetts and New York. I only had 8.8 inches, but by far
that's awesome for the end of March/beginning of April... not to
mention how the forecasts were calling for only some mixing less than
24 hours before... another one of those forecasts that just kept being
revised upward!

April 18, 1997... Surprise! Heavy rain on the back side of a
developing coastal changes to snow, and we get 1.5 quick inches...
that was hardly forecast to occur (most TV's didn't even have a
mention of snow!)... Latest accumulating snowfall ever experienced...

March 14-15, 1999... last big snowfall before going to college the
next fall, almost 6 inches of sloppy wet snow that stuck to
everything! oh you don't know how much I regret not having access to a
camera or camcorder for that one...

January 25, 2000... Surprise! Didn't have snow in the forecast til the
night before! Also the first major snowfall while I was at Rutgers!

February 5, 2001... Blam! Only 5 or so inches at Rutgers, but came
crashing down at the worst possible time, early rush hour... I walked
from Piscataway to the other side of New Brunswick getting back from
class to my apartment, and that was FASTER than traffic was going!

December 25, 2002... First thunder snow I can remember! Too sweet!

February 16-17, 2002... probably the last mega storm I will ever
experience at home (came home from Rutgers for this baby)... though
this was actually dissapointing: no +SN at all, and only 15.1 inches
of snow...

April 7, 2003... +SN in April! Even the other April storms I've had
didn't have that!!! 4.6 nice inches, then -PL.

December 5-6, 2003... First thunder snow in the TTN obs!!! Plus just
an awesome way to start winter, more snow than any other storm that
winter... came home from State College to get a piece of that one!


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Raymond C. Martin, Jr.
Associate Meteorologist, AccuWeather Inc.- http://www.accuweather.com/
New Jersey Expressways and Tollways - http://www.njfreeways.com/
Ray's Winter Storm Archive - http://www.njfreeways.com/weather/