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The ultimate compendium of maps and satellite images showing just how bad it was in February
By adamg on Sat, 03/21/2015 - 8:19pm
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Beyond awesome
Thank you!
One minor correction
This year isn't the only year to have two storms that are still in the top ten: 1978 still has the big blizzard and the January storm on that list:
https://www.wbur.org/2015/01/26/boston-biggest-snowstorms
Note that Marcus landed at #7 on this list, just behind Juno, and bumping off the 1958 storm. The two 1978 storms are still on the list at #2 and (now) #9.
I noticed that too
I hope they correct it.
FWIW, I hate this new trend of naming winter storms!
Handy feature this year
I mean, it helps keep track of the repeated snowmowings in a three week period if they have names.
For marketing purposes only
"Marcus and Juno", yeah, right.
Invented by the Weather Channel to toot their own horn. No one else is using those names, or at least no one else should be. The NWS, and other private weather services don't use them.
Even the linked WBUR article doesn't use them. Don't know why Swirly did.
Named snowstorms
It's funny how universally reviled this practice of naming snowstorms is. I share in this feeling, and I refuse to use the names even though -- I have to admit -- the names might be useful for differentiating one storm from the other while complaining. At my house, it's "the blizzard," "the one right after the blizzard that wasn't supposed to be a blizzard but actually dumped more snow," "the one that screwed up Valentine's Day," and "the ones that came after we were too defeated to care any more" (I still can't tell those apart).
There has to be a better way. I'll forget them all soon, right?
I don't usually care, but ...
We got mowed five times in three weeks, and three of them were big effin suckers!
It does help to keep them straight.
That's a really cool link,
That's a really cool link, but take a closer look at that 1978/2015 image of Martha's Vineyard
http://bostonography.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/snowcompare.jpg
My first reaction was "Why does the island look so homogeneous in 1978... holy crap, that's a lot more water on the island in 2015!". If that picture isn't an illustration of sea level rise, I don't know what is.
Or maybe just more ice in the 1978 photo?
I'm wondering if it was just plain colder in 1978, resulting in more ice and less open water visible from the air.