Caeldeth
Noble
Amazing picture. Look at that perfect eye. Look at the size of that goddamn thing too. It's almost in South America!
Amazing picture. Look at that perfect eye. Look at the size of that goddamn thing too. It's almost in South America!
SOUL-DRIFTER
Life Long Researcher
I wonder just how low mb in theory a storm can produce? 900? 800? lower?
What would an 800 mb look like?
What would an 800 mb look like?
Caeldeth
Noble
870mb is the lowest ever and that was with Typhoon Tip. In theory I would say the lowest a storm could get to is about 800 or so. Mainly because the storm would be bound to hit land, wind shear, or dry air somewhere. The ocean is only so big and storms need ocean to grow and intensify.
But an 800 would flatten everything in its path. Whatever is in its eventual path would be gone. No ifs, and, or buts. You would be talking a storm the size of the Pacific packing 400mph winds.
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Caeldeth
Noble
Very fortunate. It would have been catastrophic if it came more inland. Snow totals would have been biblical too.
Caeldeth
Noble
Amazing. This storm was so large it stretched down to the equator and was pulling moisture from the Pacific and Alaska. Largest storm of all time in terms of area covered and size. Simply incredible. This storm is the new benchmark for winter storms and storms in general. This is what happenes when a storm triple phases. I wasn't kidding, was I?
Not to toot my own horn either. But I did a damn good job at foreasting this storm. I spotted the disturbance far before anybody else.
Not to toot my own horn either. But I did a damn good job at foreasting this storm. I spotted the disturbance far before anybody else.
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Castle-Yankee54
Celestial
We had about a foot or so of snow......it wasn't that bad compared to some past storms.
Caeldeth
Noble
Where are you located? How were the winds? Any thundersnow?
She moved fast and got out in a hurry. If any blocking set up you could have tripled your amount.
Castle-Yankee54
Celestial
I'm in CT......there was a lot of drifting but the winds weren't that bad.
No thundersnow........but I've seen that a couple times before.
Caeldeth
Noble
Awesome. You must have been hit by that band I pointed out that was pushing 8 - 10 inches an hour. That must have been fun. Glad you made it out with no damage my friend.
Biggest storm I can remember for me was The Great Valentine's Day Blizzard of 07'. I got 33 inches in about 10 hours. That storm was absoloutly insane. Cars were stranded on the roads for a few days.
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Caeldeth
Noble
Just incredible how clearly that eye was defined. It was the "perfect" storm. Everything was perfect about it. All three jets on play and that beast just exploded like a nuke as soon as all three jets were feeding into it. It dropped almost 60mb in 12 hours which is a world record. I will never see it again in my life. I can see my old met professor right now, he probably is laughing hysterically because he said we will never see a storm like 93' again. I guess we did and then some.
CasualBystander
Celestial
Caeldeath, your reporting on this was pretty good.
The New England states and some of the south got smacked fairly smartly.
DC got mostly high winds and bitter (for us) cold out of this.
We had about as many slippery streets from broken water mains as from precipitation.
The New England states and some of the south got smacked fairly smartly.
DC got mostly high winds and bitter (for us) cold out of this.
We had about as many slippery streets from broken water mains as from precipitation.
Caeldeth
Noble
I thought for sure you were going to be hit by the deformation band. The infamous "DC snow hole" saved you and the storm decided to take a NNE jog.
