Comments on: Yep, it’s a blizzard

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:03:21 +0000

Physicsguy,

One of the reasons the 2011 storm so dispirited me is because it came two months after Irene which also left me without power for almost 1 week.

Both storms were eerie listening to the trees and large limbs breaking and crashing all around me. Not something I ever want to be in again.

By: physicsguy

physicsguy — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:48:36 +0000

Yancey: yep and also Irene was a lot of fun. Hope to get out of here in 2 years via retirement. When people ask why I want to get out of CT, I just reply “taxes and the weather”.

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 06:20:48 +0000

And, of course, there is the mid Fall storm in Connecticut in 2011 that happened a couple of days before Halloween. There were enough leaves on the trees still that the heavy wet snow knocked out power in most of the state for over a week. It was basically that storm that led to my final decision to leave CT- I left the next day and never really returned.

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 06:15:51 +0000

When I grew up in Eastern Kentucky, the heaviest snow we ever got came in the first week of April- 3 feet of of heavy wet snow, but if you drove just down the valley about 10 miles, it did nothing but rain those two days.

And, of course, there was the famous Blizzard of 93 which hit in the second week of March in the South and up the east coast. I lived in Atlanta during that one- just north of the city got over two feet of snow, while in city we got about a half foot- a lot for Atlanta.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:14:20 +0000

As neo suggests, it’s not really spring if you are hiding Easter Eggs in the snow. I always lose a few branches to “spring” snows in Colorado.

However, it was nearly 70 today. 🙂

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:53:11 +0000

Here in Wisconsin, we get the occasional snow in April. Those ones tend to be rather impressive snows, a foot or more, but they are gone within 2 days, when the warm temps come right back.

By: physicsguy

physicsguy — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 21:48:57 +0000

Fortunate here in SE CT, turned to sleet, and then rain. Kept our total down to 8.5″. Was predicted to be 16-24. All it takes is a bit of jog for the low by about 50 miles to make a huge difference in the outcome of a Nor’easter.

By: parker

parker — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:13:10 +0000

I hope everyone’s power stays on. March blizzards are not usual in the northern half of Iowa. April snow happens sometimes and ruins the fruit blossoms. Once in a while we get flurries in May. Mid continental weather is often extreme, especially when it comes to temperatures.

By: Cornhead

Cornhead — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:08:17 +0000

I recall a few years back a blizzard so bad that thousands of cows died in SD. No national media coverage.

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:00:24 +0000

It was/is insane out there. I’ve been out in it for hours, going to a funeral, dinner with the family and back home. There was so much ice on my windshield wipers, there was more ice than wiper. I got stuck twice, almost got stuck a third time. Ironically (literally – haw!), the only time I got really truly stuck for a while was when trying to get back into my apartment parking lot, having survived all the rest.

Now I’m in, having seen Don to his rest, and I’m not coming back out until (maybe) tomorrow.