Comments on: What happened to the Blizzard of 2015? https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:55:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: The Great March Storm of 2017 – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475289 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:55:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475289 […] a couple of years ago, a big storm was predicted to hit much of New York and New England, with the possibility of significant snow in New York City? Hardly any snow fell in New York City. […]

]]> By: Jonas: The Giver Of Really Crappy Weather – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475288 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:54:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475288 […] Also, people will get this wrong, and some will use that wrongness for evil purposes. Remember when the Great New England Blizzard of 2015 (almost exactly one year ago, and it too had a name but I forgot it) was predicted to hammer New York City and didn’t? Climate science deniers and other morons went apoplectic over that. But what really happened is that a storm larger than most countries arrived as predicted, dropped about the amount of precip as predicted, but was about 10% offset to the North, sparing the greater New York City area, with it’s New York Ideals and all, from any major snowfall. In other words, that storm was actually very accurately predicted, but because one tiny bit of the landscape that happened to be occupied by 20 million people got several inches less than expected, the science of meteorology was declared dead by the usual nefarious anti-science yahoos. (See this for an account of that.) […]

]]> By: Jerett https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475287 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:01:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475287 Thanks

]]> By: GC https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475286 Sun, 26 Jul 2015 03:50:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475286 First of al this is not secret data and anyone can get it. Look up Weather COOP Data, looked up Massachusetts and you will see places like Norton, Ma with 39″ and ever the person measuring indicating that they did not use the 6 hour measurement wiping off the snowboard like so many others do these days.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475285 Sun, 17 May 2015 09:13:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475285 Mapping snow is hard.

A careful read of that paper will probably tell you why NOAA has a slightly different map. If not, contact the authors.

It seems pretty obvious that large coastal winter storms became more common with 78 bring a kind of boundary marker. That’s when homes started getting wiped out on a regular basis in new England and New York. Think every body by surprise, and has been happening since.

]]> By: J. Pollack https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475284 Sun, 17 May 2015 03:57:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475284 Regarding #23, not sure why the discrepancy from the snowfall graphic above, but in Snowstorms Along The Northeastern Coast Of The United States 1955 to 1985, Kocin and Uccellini show a much larger area of 20+ inches in the 1978 storm, most of MA and CT, with 30+ inches for northern half RI and adjacent southeast MA. Maximum 38.0″ at Woonsocket RI.

]]> By: GC1977 https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475283 Sun, 17 May 2015 02:44:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475283 Blizzard of 2015 deeper than the Blizzard of 1978. I don’t think so… The Blizzard of 1978 was a general 30-40″ of snow for the Boston and Providence RI areas ( That includes Suburbs) Not to mention the snow in ’78 was not measured every 6 hours and wiped off a board, it was solid snow fall from the sky.

[I am impressed with your access to secret data no one else has. -gtl]

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475282 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 21:33:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475282 According to ‘Michael 2’, since several people have felt a need to write about Superbowl XLIX, it means that the game wasn’t much of a story on its own merits.

Further, he tells us that if we want to know about last Sunday’s game, then sportswriters should be writing about another exciting game that occurred decades ago.

]]> By: Bjorn Lomborg WSJ Op Ed Is Stunningly Wrong – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475281 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:12:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475281 […] spend enormous amounts of money and expend considerable effort in reducing deaths through storms. See this for an example of the difference between the deadly effects of storms in New England and how that changed over […]

]]> By: GY https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/28/what-happened-to-the-blizzard-of-2015/#comment-475280 Sat, 31 Jan 2015 04:03:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20844#comment-475280 Scratch the last post. I was looking at the wrong monthly average.

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