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I see a small snowstorm forecast Sunday and a larger one Tuesday-Wednesday from wunderground. A bit too early to say much about either. NWS gives no amounts, its forecast discussio isn't that detailed on potential amounts either:
SAT AND SUN...
HIGH PRES REMAINS IN CONTROL CRESTING SAT NIGHT INTO EARLY SUN.
MID AND UPPER LVL TEMPS REMAIN GENERALLY BELOW -10C UNTIL SUN...AT
WHICH POINT SLIGHT WARM ADVECTION WILL ALLOW THEM TO REACH -6C OR
SO. THEREFORE...MINS FRI AND SAT WILL BE GENERALLY IN THE NEGATIVE
TO POSITIVE SINGLE DIGITS. HIGHS SAT WILL BE MAINLY BELOW
NORMAL...BUT THEN CLOSER TO MAYBE EVEN SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL ON
SUN.
SUN NIGHT INTO MON...
LOW PRES PASSING WILL TO THE N WILL PUSH A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE
REGION SUN NIGHT INTO MON. NOTING ENOUGH F-GEN WITH EVEN A
POSSIBLE SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE CONNECTION. THEREFORE...EXPECT
WIDESPREAD PRECIP ACROSS THE REGION. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THE
LOW-MID LVLS ARE COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW...ESPECIALLY GIVEN DYNAMIC
COOLING MAY BE ABLE TO OVERCOME DIURNAL WARMING MON MORNING. QPF
VALUES REMAIN AT ISSUE GIVEN THAT SUBTROPICAL CONNECTION WHICH IS
FEATURED IN SOME MODELS BUT NOT OTHERS. THEREFORE...SNOWFALL TOTALS
COULD STAY BELOW OR JUST EXCEED ADVISORY LEVELS.
TUE INTO WED...
WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON YET ANOTHER INSIDE RUNNER WHICH WILL
FORCE THE COLD FRONT STALLING OFFSHORE FROM MON...TO SHIFT N AS A
WARM FRONT. OVERRUNNING SITUATION GIVEN THE DEEP SNOWPACK REMAIN
ACROSS THE REGION AND COLD AIR LOCKED IN WITH 1035 HIGH PRES NEAR
NEW BRUNSWICK SUGGEST P-TYPE ISSUES WHICH WILL HAVE TO BE WATCHED.
THIS SYSTEM IS STRONGER AND HAS AN EVEN BETTER CONNECTION TO
SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE THAN DOES THE PREVIOUS SO THIS WILL LIKELY
BE THE SYSTEM TO WATCH AS IT APPROACHES.
Finally, let's take a final look at how this storm relates to snowfall events that occurred only in February. Looking through past weather records, it is rather hard to find many storms in February that have produced snowfall totals comparable to those on Wednesday. A snowstorm on February 13-14, 1960 produced 10.3 inches of snow in Vernon and 13.5 inches of snow in Haleyville. On February 2-3, 1985, 7.2 inches of snow was measured in Hamilton. Oneonta received 5 inches of snow during a storm on February 25-26, 1914, and Jacksonville received 5 inches on Feb. 14-15, 1958. Most other February snowfall totals during a single storm have been less than five inches. So, from this perspective, this was a rather historic February snowstorm for Central Alabama.
A warning that old snowfall records may understate snow:
This means that many of the storms from the 1980s or earlier would probably appear in the record as bigger storms if the observers had used the currently accepted methodology. Now, for those of you northeasterners with aching backs from shoveling, I am not saying that your recent storm wasn’t big in places like Boston, Portland, or Long Island. But I am saying that some of the past greats—the February Blizzard of 1978, the Knickerbocker storm of January 1922, and the great Blizzard of March 1888—are probably underestimated.
A warning that old snowfall records may understate snow:
This means that many of the storms from the 1980s or earlier would probably appear in the record as bigger storms if the observers had used the currently accepted methodology. Now, for those of you northeasterners with aching backs from shoveling, I am not saying that your recent storm wasn’t big in places like Boston, Portland, or Long Island. But I am saying that some of the past greats—the February Blizzard of 1978, the Knickerbocker storm of January 1922, and the great Blizzard of March 1888—are probably underestimated.
Ha. As with any records, there's always a concern with the "practice".
But I doubt pennies and nickles matter when you're taking about multiple feet of snow. What I mean is... Even if the measuring was different in the past.. a 10 inch snowstorm might of been reported at 8.5"? And multiple snowstorms do add up. I seriously doubt there was a huge difference. So with that said.. don't worry too much about it.
Article states the measuring used to be once or twice for the storm as opposed to now a few times and with a snowboard. Also states for a "20" inch snowstorm the difference would be 3.5". How many 20 inch snowstorms do we have? So the 10 inch snowstorms or 6 inch snowstorms that added up in the past being off 1-2 inches is nothing big.
Yes, compaction measuring is not a good way to know how much truly fell and I guess that's why they changed that. I had some folks tell me they'll go outside the day after to measure the snow and see how much fell. LOL. If you only want to do it once, do it right before a changeover precip or right after the snowstorm.(not hours after).
Now if an all time record is within a couple inches, then yeah, keep that in the back of your head on the close calls.
All I'm going to say about this is that our yews really took a hit this year. They're spread out all over the place, caked with hard ice and snow, and look ridiculous. They were great while they lasted.
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