Weather it's a mystery or not:

[RR]

In a bid to have something useful to do while the sleding is so poor, I propose we post weather stuff for Winter 2004-2005. Not too fancy, just look at weather indicators and stats in the way that suits us individually. Then we post here any results we get, in the format that suits us best. (no need to conform)

Let's accumulate data as long as we can stand it and then try to wade through it to see if we can make accurate predictions about snow and where it will be in New England (etc) between November '04 and July '05

Here's my first contribution, gleaned from NOAA:
(Accumulation in Burlington, VT expressed in inches
matched with the season and wheather it was a min
or max accumulation. I'm working on what a nominal accumulation would be.)
Tot Seas MinOrMax
132.00 1886-87 MAX
113.50 1887-88 MAX
42.00 1902-03 MIN
43.00 1903-04 MIN
32.00 1904-05 MIN
31.30 1912-13 MIN
38.70 1926-27 MIN
38.30 1928-29 MIN
40.70 1948-49 MIN
111.60 1965-66 MAX
104.60 1969-70 MAX
145.40 1970-71 MAX
108.90 1971-72 MAX
99.40 1977-78 MAX
39.60 1979-80 MIN
40.40 1988-89 MIN
42.50 1990-91 MIN
116.90 1992-93 MAX
107.20 1993-94 MAX
122.50 2000-01 MAX

[Justin]

This is fun. Great thread!

Although it will only act as a catalyst to further my utter dislike of the sticky months.


here we go-

'The storm' this past year:

http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/917northeast-dec5-8-pg-med.gif

2004
http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/917jfmpnp_04-med.gif

http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/917fmapnp_04-med.gif

obviously a crappy year

2002-3
http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/917jfmpnp_03-med.gif

http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/917fmapnp_03-med.gif

not great either

2001-2
http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/917jfmpnp_02-med.gif

http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/917fmapnp_02-med.gif

also...
http://timefortuckerman.com/photopost/data/500/91712cpcp0-med.gif

seems to me we are on a steady downwfall (interms of total precip). question is; was this past winter the low point of the upside down bell curve? :skiplow:

[M@]

From:
http://www.almanac.com/weather/region1.php

http://www.almanac.com/weather/graphs2004/graph.us.1.gif

This is the famer's alamanac. Other equally useful methods include coin flipping. (I mean HELLO? They use PHP as a scripting language...)

M@

[RR]

Anybody have a Western Hemisphere jet stream pattern almanac? or Japan Current pattern almanac?

[djangoski]

(I mean HELLO? They use PHP as a scripting language...)

Watch it M@
:p

[RR]

I found a very nice chart at: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/ensoyears.html

There's a bunch of data showing the extrems of temps related to El Nino/La Nina events since 1950. Now we need some accumulations and temps data from selected Ski hills for that period. I have captured the data in a table and have access to SAS and a bunch of other tools for working out some ideas....

data and ideas?

[BladeGirl]

I remember well that "24+" the first weekend in December 2003. Thats what drove me (or rather the fact that I couldn't drive) to get the snows. Then all that beautiful snow melted by the start of january. Major suck.

-BG