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[Virgaman]

march 3 to 5th 2001 biggest bust ever , we were suppose to get over 25 inches of snow and many of us got very little lol

[Hurricaneff]

weren't they saying this could be worse then the blizzard of 78 with snowfall,winds,and coastal flooding?

I remember be so psyched for this storm,but quickly turned to dissapointment

[Mike_The_Golfer]

They were hyping it up 5 days out...leading newscasts with the imminent armegeddon, putting "crawls" every hour or so across the bottom of the TV saying 2 feet of snow was coming causing a massive panic for no reason. I remember the TV mets being very defiant afterward, not admitting it was a bust - Sam Champion in particualr. People on here were complaining about the mets being too conservative with the last storm...you can thank March 2001 for that.

[jetfan58]

i remember lee goldberg saying the low was going to do a lap in the atlantic ocean near our area and it was going to snow for 2 days with blizzard like conditions. never happened. one of the biggest dissapointments in my life. lol.

[icehater]

Virgaman, on Mar 3 2010, 07:07 AM, said:

march 3 to 5th 2001 biggest bust ever , we were suppose to get over 25 inches of snow and many of us got very little lol

2-3' to be exact. No wonder why today's storm never had a chance.

[shark253]

I remember it very well. I could not work for days from that frustration.

[EastEndSnowMan]

I lived in eastern Suffolk County in a town called Manorville, which is about 5 miles south east of Upton, when that storm hit. We got 13" of snow from that storm. It retrograded west from the ocean. It was a strange storm. My father who lived 20 miles west of me at time got 2".

[robbbs]

I was on business in Spain and called Stefano for an update. I remember him telling me that behind the scenes, the NWS was actually discussing the possibility that our area in northwest NJ could get 3 or 4 feet. I left my trip early to try to beat the storm. In Madrid where I switched fligths, the planes heading to the New York area were even allowed to taxi in front of other planes so that they could make it to NY before the snow, and just before landing the captain was warning people to think twice about traveling far from the airport as the storm of the ages was forecast to begin shortly. You know the rest. I should have stayed in Spain.

[bm55]

I did get 13" here, but nowhere near what was forecast. Here are the totals:
http://www.erh.noaa....=pns/030701.txt

[weatherman1]

I remember this one a lot. I was a sophmore in highschool and my mom said I was going to have at least two possibly more snowdays. I had a midterm in 2 days and so I did not study. The principal announced the day before the storm (and my midterm) that we were probably not going to have school. Then I woke up the next day to like 3 inches of snow and I had school (and my midterm). I got a 32% on my midterm (and that was high for the class because no one thought we would have school)

[metfan4life]

5 inches here. Horrible bust.

[devilsfan0405]

Awful, just awful. I remember watching Paul Kocin on TWC that Saturday afternoon and he was so excited about this storm. There was talk that 30" may have been the low end of the snowfall; some were speculating that as much as four feet could fall. That night on WCBS-TV, Craig Allen said that there was a 60-70 percent chance of this happening. I think the wheels came off that night with the 0Z runs. I remember hearing on the radio a few hours later that we weren't going to get nearly as much as anticipated, per the latest computer guidance. It was nuts. The link someone provided said Newark got 6" but I don't remember having that much. I think there was a very sharp cutoff; I remember having 2 or 3" at the most.

[njblizzard]

devilsfan0405, on Mar 4 2010, 08:55 AM, said:

Awful, just awful. I remember watching Paul Kocin on TWC that Saturday afternoon and he was so excited about this storm. There was talk that 30" may have been the low end of the snowfall; some were speculating that as much as four feet could fall. That night on WCBS-TV, Craig Allen said that there was a 60-70 percent chance of this happening. I think the wheels came off that night with the 0Z runs. I remember hearing on the radio a few hours later that we weren't going to get nearly as much as anticipated, per the latest computer guidance. It was nuts. The link someone provided said Newark got 6" but I don't remember having that much. I think there was a very sharp cutoff; I remember having 2 or 3" at the most.

I remember telling all my relavtive that we are going to get equal or greater then 1996 blizzard. They told me that mets are always wrong and they dont know what they doing. I was so excited and confidence that i was laughing at them but you know who had the last laugh.

[icehater]

njblizzard, on Mar 4 2010, 09:14 AM, said:

I remember telling all my relavtive that we are going to get equal or greater then 1996 blizzard. They told me that mets are always wrong and they dont know what they doing. I was so excited and confidence that i was laughing at them but you know who had the last laugh.

I think I knew who had the big cry and depression too. The red flag before that storm was that temps were well into the 30's before that miseed storm vs the teens and 20's of the blizzard of 96 and also it was a March storm. I remember Mets telling us that temps would drop to the mid 20's in the storm and there definitely was cold air around. But still, 35-40 in early March as a lead-in with a maritime storm was the one thing in the back of my mind that I feared. However my fear wasn't of a miss but that we might start as rain on the coast and cut seriously into the accums. We got wet snow on that Sunday morning with temps in the mid-upper 30's here and NYC but then it quit as the loop shifted much further north. It then snowed on Monday night into Tuesday if I remember right and we had 3-5" but the roads here stayed wet even though temps were in the upper 20's. Here they did what the do a lot before a big storm and that's throw salt and sand Saturday night (storm was supposed to start Sunday afternoon) to keep the surface from getting icy under the snow accum. So that and sun angle kept the surface wet when it finally did snow.

BTW - most models had 3" liquid for that storm and some had 4-5", all supposedly expected to fall into 25-30 degree air and they had it consistently for days. I d'ont remember precisey what caused the miss but I think it had to do with a strong SE ridge shfting more north pushing the ULL that was going to capture the ocean surface storm as well as the maritime storm itself more NW.

[robbbs]

icehater, on Mar 4 2010, 03:44 PM, said:

I think I knew who had the big cry and depression too. The red flag before that storm was that temps were well into the
BTW - most models had 3" liquid for that storm and some had 4-5", all supposedly expected to fall into 25-30 degree air and they had it consistently for days. I d'ont remember precisey what caused the miss but I think it had to do with a strong SE ridge shfting more north pushing the ULL that was going to capture the ocean surface storm as well as the maritime storm itself more NW.

That's pretty much the reason. The ULL was much further west than modeled, so it missed the capture of the ocean low in time to crush our latitude.

[NittanyLion]

Storm Total Snow/Sleet:

[Hurricaneff]

http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dl...howEvent~435391

[metfan4life]

I was so anxious to get those snow amounts. They closed schools the morning before the storm lol. What a horrible bust.

[metfan4life]

http://greatlakes.salsite.com/Phasing/2000..._vort_loop.html

[FreezingDrizzle]

NittanyLion, on Mar 4 2010, 12:46 PM, said:

Storm Total Snow/Sleet:

Too bad you weren't in Lyndonville, VT then!