What an absolutely strange winter

Submitted by Psychological-Bad937 t3_11s04h4 in WorcesterMA

Like yesterday's storm has to be the biggest overall differences in the amount of snow throughout the Worcester area that I have remembered or seen ever. My house on the eastern side of town got about 6 inches of snow, while 5 miles to the west got like 15-20 inches more snow. And some places in worcester country barely even saw snow at all. Really hope that everybody who was in the jackpot is staying safe plus I'm hoping that this city won't flood once it melts likely in couple days for many.

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HRJafael t1_jcbajcx wrote

Meanwhile where I live in Fitchburg it was catching every snowflake like they were Pokemon. Fitchburg is in that weird spot being in the foothills and getting snow like Western Mass.

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Psychological-Bad937 OP t1_jcbbgq9 wrote

Yea I hope that area is safe, definitely one of the harder hit locations. I think alot of it had to do with specific temperature because it was just about a degree or 2 warmer than 32 during the majority of the storm. Then again idk for sure like I live in an elevated spot above 600' also just a completely bizarre storm.

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poutine-pal t1_jcf5g9u wrote

List of folks in Fitchburg/Ashby were still without power this morning.

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A_Man_Who_Writes t1_jcbn73u wrote

We’re literally always directly on the line between the greater and lesser amounts. And it really depends on whether you’re downslope or upslope in Fitchburg. Massive amounts of snow up by Oakhill every time.

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bbymummy t1_jcbrytk wrote

Having flashback of the burg's snow plows taking out my first car and mangling me in the process. Stay safe and enjoy the snow filling in the potholes!

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newpageone t1_jcbgnyw wrote

That rain/snow line was basically hovering over Worcester. I’m surprised it started snowing as early as it did by me. Oh well, sun’s out now, it’ll all be gone by Saturday.

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joebeast321 t1_jcb9j2h wrote

All those climate change warnings are catching up

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Psychological-Bad937 OP t1_jcc7ng1 wrote

Definitely, I could be wrong but it feels like the snowfall differences between the west of worcester and the majority of worcester are becoming somewhat more drastic over time.

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joebeast321 t1_jcchpoc wrote

Not a meteorologist but Worcester counties pretty big and there's lots of bodies of water and landscape that could alter the wind patterns.

Or it's something more serious.

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dpceee t1_jccnx09 wrote

Worcester actually is in two different climate zones.

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Psychological-Bad937 OP t1_jccpdmr wrote

Yea that's true, pretty certain most of the city is in the northeastern sea plain (for Massachusetts) Climate while I believe the areas above 800' elevation are in the southern worcester plateau climate. I feel like the terrains between 400-750 feet used to get significantly more snow than they have recently.

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Enragedocelot t1_jccxurp wrote

Yea my friend lives on Airport Hill and it's remarkable how much colder it'll be when I go and how much more snow they get.

I live on another hill in Southern Worcester, so it's quite interesting to me.

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dpceee t1_jcd2jqo wrote

I don't remember which is which, or even which zones are in Worcester, but I looked it up when I was buying flowers online. Wanted to make sure that my beautiful lilies could survive N. Worcester

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bemest t1_jcbql2w wrote

Temperature generally decrease 3.5 degrees F for every 1000 feet of elevation. Downtown Worcester is about 500’ above sea level, Holden is about 900. That couple degrees of temperature is the difference in this case between snow and rain. Also imagine it was 20 degrees and this was light fluffy snow it would be more like 3 feet. FYI at my house I got at least 24”.

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_life_is_a_joke_ t1_jcb99rt wrote

We got less than 2" in south county. It pretty much rained all day. Snow fell after 2pm, but didn't start sticking until around 8:30. It let up by 10. Even though the wind was freezing, the air temps never dropped below 32.

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Coachbonk t1_jcbfmgq wrote

Southern Worcester County here. Total snow accumulation all winter less than 10”. Barely a dusting yesterday.

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operator_1337 t1_jcbnhrj wrote

I'm In south Worcester near Holy cross and we barely got 6" of snow that actually accumulated.

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jpm01609 t1_jcdrf78 wrote

8 inches of snow on my truck at green hill later I was in S Grafton and ther3e was NO SNOW unreal

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frodiusmaximus t1_jcbm5h1 wrote

Got about 20” in Rutland, but not far from us folks got practically nothing.

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lcatlow t1_jcbmjxi wrote

The snow amount differences were insane!

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Kortrah t1_jccdn6w wrote

My wife and I were told that we brought the "unseasonable" weather with us when we moved up here from Louisiana last August.

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redawn t1_jcbqhmz wrote

was in a musical yrs ago whose rehearsal was at anna maria...had to drive between paxton and worcester for a few months that had snow...made me start to wonder how exactly they anyone descides to draw town line 'cause more than once the rain/snow line was literally the worcester/paxton line.

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bbymummy t1_jcbs46p wrote

I live off of Millbury and didn't even need to shovel the sidewalk. Thanks, foot traffic!

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JohnnyGoldwink t1_jcciz3v wrote

The most strange.. feels like something isn’t right. Hmmm.

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Enragedocelot t1_jccxl8o wrote

Downtown got maybe 4inches? i can't tell there was so much salt used and it's practically gone here

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Karaxxlee4785 t1_jcem13o wrote

I'm over on a street connecting burncoat st and west Boylston st. It feels like we got the whole 12inches they predicted in my area. Lol I had to snowblow once and shovel 1 more time at like 1am after that.

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darksideofthemoon131 t1_jcf4dp8 wrote

Reminds me of the ice storm in 2008. I was on Indian lake. My side was fine, my dad on the other side had trees down, power out for 2 weeks etc...literally a mile away.

Weather be strange.

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Psychological-Bad937 OP t1_jch4cwl wrote

It's possible that indian lake is a weather barrier as it seemed that it was a barrier to the significant snow during this storm, because when it was falling in the western parts of the city and the hilltowns consistently during Monday night it seemed that the rain/snow line was like a half mile/mile north of the lake usually and the traffic on 190 seemed to significantly level off once you got to the lake portion of it.

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New-Vegetable-1274 t1_jcgjua4 wrote

I've been around long enough to know that up until now there is no set pattern in our winters. They have been trending warmer but not consistently. So for some of us this winter has been a nice break from the usual cold and snowy. If the trend continues for a few more winters, I'd be concerned but it could still be New England just being New England. We are very fortunate to live here. The last major blizzard was in 78, hurricanes usually brush by us, we've had a couple of tornadoes but not a single earthquake.

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