Best Winter Storm Of Your Lifetime?, Which Winter Storm Treated Your Area The Best? Options

[Beck]

I can update mine to December 17th-22nd, 2010 - over 10" of nonstop torrential rains from Pineapple Express storm train!

I think you guys on the east got the leftovers of what we got here

[Louieloy102]

2/1-2/3 2011.

[The Snowman]

Definitely the 2011 Blizzard.
Feb 1.

[Fire/Rescue]

For here near Baltimore:

I will have to go with the Blizzard of "93"

and also a close runner up was last years Blizzard on Feb 5th and 6th 2010

as BOTH blizzards gave my area close to 30" per storm.

[South of the Pik...]

There are a lot of candidates for me.

Blizzard of February 1978: I was just 5 years old, but the snow was so deep me and my sister were jumping off the roof into the snow. To this day it is the storm all others are compared with in southern New England.

December 1992: This storm broke the all-time record of 32.1" for Worcester, Mass. I was coming out of my last class of the day and what had been heavy rain had turned into huge snow flakes. My Dad picked me up to go home for the weekewnd. Bad idea as I ended up stuck at home with no power, heat, or water for three days. This was the start of the snowiest ever winter in Worcester with 120" - ten feet!

March 1993 Superstorm: While not the biggest storm IMBY, at 20.1" it was a top ten snowstorm in Worcester. I remember following the forcasts all week on the Weather Channel. This storm lived up to the hype.

April Fools Day Blizzard of 1997: Officially the most snow ever in Worcester: 33.0". It was in the sixties the day before the storm began and the forcasts of a storm really did seem like a joke. The storm ended up being much worse than predicted.

December 23, 1997: It was a couple days before Christmas and the forecast was for just 2 to 4 inches of snow from this storm. The storm ended up exploding and instead it was snowing 4" an hour. It was all over by noon, but we ended up with 18". It was a complete surprise. Traffic was an obsolute mess.

[USA Weather]

Easily the Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011. No question about it. Nothing like 2.5' of snow with 15' drifts (I am not even lying-I measured them!) The fifteen footer was on the south side of my house. On the north side, there was 'only' about 12-18" of snow on the ground, while there was snow up to my chest on the south side of the house. Very interesting day, and a very photogenic one too.

This post has been edited by USA Weather: Nov 19 2011, 08:40 AM

[WMDWXNUT]

Not the biggest in terms of accumulation (received 18" +/-) but certainly most impressive for MBY. Feb. 10 2010. Came 4 days after we received 26" from the Feb 4-5 storm.
Check out this video from my back patio.

Video

[snowrawrsnow]

I can't remember exactly what storm it was, but we were suppose to get four to eight inches and I was going to sleep outside in a sleeping bag. I ended up not, and we got 26 inches of snow or so. It was awesome!

Oh, and this year we had a convective snow squall move right through our area. I'd never seen anything like it, it looked like on Radar, a line of thunderstorms that were...well, snow. It came through with thunder and 60+ mph winds. The ground was bare before it came through, when it ended we had four inches in an hour or so. it was INSANE.

[Jet Developer]

I don't remember exactly when this storm happened, but I think it was in the winter of 1997-1998. An El Nino storm hit one night. I think it started in the evening but most of the rainfall was over night. I remember a few hours that night where rain that sounded like a waterfall outside the window continued non-stop. By the morning, Lake Forest had received more than 7 inches of rainfall. Never at any time in my life do I ever remember getting anything even close to 7 inches in one night. That is basically half the annual average for precipitation!!! When I woke up there was flooding everywhere and our creek which is usually about 15 feet wide and 1 foot deep had become a raging river probably at least 15 feet deep and a couple hundred feet wide. Large parts of the concrete path well above the creek got washed away and carried who knows where. There was other damage to the creek which there is still evidence of today.

In December 2010, we got a 7-day period of rain that brought us about 12 inches with maybe 3 inches in one night, but that was nothing like that crazy storm that I just described.

This post has been edited by Jet Developer: Mar 17 2012, 06:28 PM

[jdrenken]

I've got a few...

New Years Day storm of 1999 in Central IL Shut down Central IL for days and some areas of Peoria didn't get snow removed for weeks. They also started to dump snow in the Illinois River due to the amount.

November 30th-December 1st 2006 in Central MO. I was in the National Guard and we were tasked to help stranded motorist on I-70 which was closed from Kingdom City to Booneville. Also had Thundersnow with CG strikes.

Add GHD '11.

20" average of snow in my yard measured 5 times to make sure.

[thundercloud]

This one is pretty easy for me too. Definitely the Blizzard of '96. Or the "Great Blizzard" as I call it. For the life of me I don't understand why a lot of people don't even call it a blizzard. Winds were gusting well over 60mph in that storm here in eastern Long Island. We bagged at least 24" of snow and had countless drifts in the 10 to 15 foot range. The power was out for at least two days, the pipes froze, shingles were missing, we had siding damage, and we had frost on the interior walls inside the house because temps the night after the storm dumped to the lowest level in at least the last 20 years (-5ºF to -10ºF). One of the neighbors had a drift halfway up their second story window, they actually had no other way of getting out of their house than to climb out that window and slide down that drift! It was by far and away the worst storm I've ever seen.