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- Bill Watterson (Calvin / Hobbes / Snow Crow)
NOV-38
♫ Places to Go ...
Adolf Fassbender - 1937
Adolf Fassbender (9:11 AM EST 24-JAN-25)
Alfred Stieglitz (22-FEB-1893)
Adolf Fassbender - 1932
Léonard Misonne
Pappa Fassbender - 1937
1915
NYC - 1890
Adolf Fassbender - 1937
1919
1930
Westchester, NY
Market St., Wilmington DE
Springfield, MA
Newport Harbor...RI c.1925
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Louis Stettner - 1956
Snowfall forecasting contests for 27 stations across New England and the Mid-Atlantic regions ... since 1999
Contest Status ...
Today/s Snow Cover
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===> Contest Info <===
- ☼ Enter Your Forecast
- ☼ NEWxSFC web site
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- ☼ What/s A 'contest-worthy' Snow Storm?
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- ☼ Past Contest Winners
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10¢ in the lottery
- Bill Watterson (Calvin / Hobbes / Snow Crow)
Snow Crows
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- Season-total (158)
- Snow Crow (55)
- Snow International (42)
- Teleconnections (287)
- Upper Air (111)
- VCP 32 (45)
Empire State Building ... NYC
NOV-38
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Ice Serpent
Adolf Fassbender - 1937
StatCounter
Total Eclipse (Bronx Park ... NYC)
Adolf Fassbender (9:11 AM EST 24-JAN-25)
5th Avenue ... Winter
Alfred Stieglitz (22-FEB-1893)
White Night
Adolf Fassbender - 1932
Short History of NEWxSFC
99/00 - spawned on USENET/s ne.wx newsgroup to discover which poster(s) made skillful forecasts for synoptic-scale snowfalls in the NE and Mid-Atlantic. No formal entry process. Forecasts gleaned from newsgroup posts. Contest storms: 5
00/01 - Permanent station list created. (RDU - CAR). Rules and scoring formalized. First Contest 12/30. Contest storms: 10
01/02 - 'Season-total' forecasting contest launched. Twenty-five forecasters predicted each station/s 'total snowfall' for the winter. First Contest storm 12/9. Contest storms: 9
02/03 - First Contest storm 11/27. Contest storms: 10
03/04 - Web site launched. Developed online entry forms. Streamlined forecast reporting and verification processes. Added two forecast stations (BGR, BGM). First Contest storm 12/14. Contest storms: 10
04/05 - First Contest storm 12/20. Contest storms: 9
05 /06 - First Contest storm 12/5. Contest storms: 4
06/07 - Regular season starts late with first Contest storm 2/14. Contest storms: 5 (last one in April)
07/08 - Record number of forecasters (36) enter 'Season-total' Contest. Regular season starts 12/3.
08/09 - 10th anniversary!
00/01 - Permanent station list created. (RDU - CAR). Rules and scoring formalized. First Contest 12/30. Contest storms: 10
01/02 - 'Season-total' forecasting contest launched. Twenty-five forecasters predicted each station/s 'total snowfall' for the winter. First Contest storm 12/9. Contest storms: 9
02/03 - First Contest storm 11/27. Contest storms: 10
03/04 - Web site launched. Developed online entry forms. Streamlined forecast reporting and verification processes. Added two forecast stations (BGR, BGM). First Contest storm 12/14. Contest storms: 10
04/05 - First Contest storm 12/20. Contest storms: 9
05 /06 - First Contest storm 12/5. Contest storms: 4
06/07 - Regular season starts late with first Contest storm 2/14. Contest storms: 5 (last one in April)
07/08 - Record number of forecasters (36) enter 'Season-total' Contest. Regular season starts 12/3.
08/09 - 10th anniversary!
18/19 - 20th anniversary!
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NEWxSFC appreciates greatly the on-going support from Senior Forecaster Donald Rosenfeld who began sponsoring the Contest/s web site in 2003 and enabled the development of our online entry forms.
Chemin enneigé (snowy path - 1930)
Léonard Misonne
Snowy Path
Pappa Fassbender - 1937
Steel Pier - ACY
1915
The Dakota
NYC - 1890
Figure 8
Adolf Fassbender - 1937
How Much for Philly?
1919
Washington Monument
1930
Great Blizzard of 1888
Westchester, NY
Great Blizzard of 1888
Market St., Wilmington DE
Great Blizzard of 1888
Springfield, MA
Ice Harvest
Newport Harbor...RI c.1925
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Blue Hill Observatory
Massachusetts
Car in Winter on 7th Avenue
Louis Stettner - 1956
5 comments:
I miss it... which is why i keep checking back hoping for some science followed by opinion of what it means.
Please do the contest again, maybe you can post on the American Weather Forum newsgroup
Mitchel Volk
I hope we do it again.. it is a lot of fun!
Ira
I hope that we can do it.
Best wishes,
Don
Thanks to everyone for their comments and expressed interest in continuing the Contest.
Will make an announcement about the Contest's future later today.
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