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[wxeyeNH]

VERY dangerous ice situation on NH big lakes today. Before this weekends cold wave most of the big lakes where still open except for sheltered harbors and bays. There the ice is thick enough to walk on. Wind kept the big lakes mostly ice free till Sunday night when calm conditions allowed large areas of the big lakes to freeze over thinly. I was around Newfound and Winnepeaskee yesterday and saw vast amounts ofvery thin ice that had just formed. The thicker snowcovered ice and thin ice lines were clearly visable. Last nights 1" snow covered everything up so today it looks like the lakes are well frozen but they are not. Anyone out on the ice will not know where the thin ice begins. I fear there may be some bad situations the next several days with people not realizing this. Perhaps Wednesday and Thursdays cold will thicken the new ice some but right now watch out!

[wxeyeNH]

29.8F Freezing rain. Ground is very cold so will glaze untreated roads rapidly!

[Allenson]

wxeyeNH, on 17 January 2012 - 02:43 PM, said:

29.8F Freezing rain. Ground is very cold so will glaze untreated roads rapidly!

Yep, sub-freezing here in Hanover, NH and it's raining.

Looks to be about the same up at home from what I can tell.

[ctsnowstorm628]

Mod to hvy freezing rain here...everythings glazed up. 28.4F

[powderfreak]

31F and ZR...icy roads and walkways.

[powderfreak]

I'm actually surprised we don't have an advisory for this. It is steady rain and now down to 30F. You can see the glare ice on paved surfaces which have been primed from days of subzero temps.

[dendrite]

34F and plain mod/hvy rain. Useless.

[klw]

30 and light rain here in St. J. Quite a lovely day.

[powderfreak]

Wow we are mixing back to parachute flakes..sleet now too.

[ctsnowstorm628]

Wow. At 3pm it was 28.8F with mod freezing rain and .05 glaze, now after my workout, its 29.9F and HUGE flakes mixed with sleet and accumulating fast. Amazing spectacle.

[klw]

Just looked out my window and it is snowing here in St. J. time to go for a run.

[hvysnow79]

Allenson, on 17 January 2012 - 02:54 PM, said:

Yep, sub-freezing here in Hanover, NH and it's raining.

Looks to be about the same up at home from what I can tell.

We have light rain and 32F here in Oford, trees and other objects are getting iced up. Noticed NWS has now extended advisory for Southern Grafton. Reports from a friend that just left that roads are iffy and interstate 91 is bad.

[Allenson]

hvysnow79, on 17 January 2012 - 04:21 PM, said:

We have light rain and 32F here in Oford, trees and other objects are getting iced up. Noticed NWS has now extended advisory for Southern Grafton. Reports from a friend that just left that roads are iffy and interstate 91 is bad.

Thanks man--just about to head home. Drive fast, take chances!

[ctsnowstorm628]

Beautiful scene here at LSC...huge flakes, but temps creeping upward. 31F at St J and 30F here...rain is in our future..but for now, WOW is it nice out!

[powderfreak]

LOL at all of us going back over to snow. Big parachutes for a time then goes back to a small icy flake type of snow. Fresh 1/4" in last hour.

[Dryslot]

FRZRN here now, Temps dropped back to 30F, We will see if we get the changeover back to IP then snow

[ctsnowstorm628]

powderfreak, on 17 January 2012 - 04:28 PM, said:

LOL at all of us going back over to snow. Big parachutes for a time then goes back to a small icy flake type of snow. Fresh 1/4" in last hour.

Whatever warm layer there is aloft is marginal with this ongoing WAA.

[klw]

Well that was a much nicer run than I thought it would be when it was 29 and raining earlier. First half it was mostly snow with a bit of sleet mixed in. The second half it was more sleet than anything else. At the end it was sleet/ lt rain - i think.

[powderfreak]

klw, on 17 January 2012 - 05:39 PM, said:

Well that was a much nicer run than I thought it would be when it was 29 and raining earlier. First half it was mostly snow with a bit of sleet mixed in. The second half it was more sleet than anything else. At the end it was sleet/ lt rain - i think.

Yeah same here. Ended up looking more wintery out the than when it started. I'll take that as a win lol. Snow didn't even shake off the trees so it still looks sweet outside. I was afraid we'd go back to looking like a thaw-freeze pattern and lose that fresh snow look.

[VtWxWatcher]

31.7F with light drizzle, my rain guage didn't register anything today so that's a good sign.

[J.Spin]

Event totals: 0.4” Snow/0.14” L.E.

It looks like we picked up some frozen precipitation at the house today, as there were a couple tenths of an inch of slush on the snowboard this evening. The slush contained 0.05” of liquid and the rain/snow gauge contained 0.13” of liquid.

Some details from the 6:00 P.M. Waterbury observations are below:

New Snow: 0.2 inches
New Liquid: 0.05 inches
Snow/Water Ratio: 4.0
Snow Density: 25.0% H2O
Temperature: 33.1 F
Sky: Cloudy/Mist
Snow at the stake: 8.5 inches

[Ginx]

High winds incoming

[Dryslot]

Ginx, on 17 January 2012 - 09:52 PM, said:

High winds incoming

WA are already up here, Gust 50mph+

[powderfreak]

This wind is pretty gusty all the sudden here, windows rattling.

Massena, NY is getting rocked,




So are the Adirondacks. SLK now gusting over 45mph. Mansfield meso-west station is over 65mph up high.

.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING/...
AS OF 1148 PM EST TUESDAY...QUICK UPDATE- BASED ON STRENGTH OF
WINDS - INCLUDING GUST TO 57 KTS AT POTSDAM NEW YORK
AIRPORT...HAVE UPGRADED TO A HIGH WIND WARNING ACROSS THE NRN
ADIRONDACKS...AND EXPANDED WIND ADVISORY ACROSS REMAINING ZONES IN
VERMONT. IT APPEARS THE HIGHEST WINDS ACROSS NRN NY - UP TO 65 MPH
- WILL OCCUR NEXT 2-4 HRS...AND SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD POWER
OUTAGES CAN BE EXPECTED FOR THE ST. LAWRENCE VALLEY AND NRN
ADIRONDACKS OVERNIGHT. ISOLD/SCT POWER OUTAGES ALSO POSSIBLE
ACROSS VERMONT WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH EXPECTED.

[Allenson]

Well, found some icey roads on my way home last night. Temps were right at 32 or 33 depending on where I was driving through. Came home to a temp of 32 and things glazed up a little bit but not bad. Had some barely freezing drizzle for a while last night and then at some point overnight, the temp spiked up to 36. Back down in the upper 20s now and the wind woke me up this morning, ha-ha. It looks like there was a sleety accumulation here sometime yesterday too.

Some fluff tomorrow night?

[eekuasepinniW]

I give this wind a 7 out of 10.

Peak gust 45mph @ 4:50am.

[Dryslot]

Dead calm here so far, But its coming

[MaineJayhawk]

Dryslot, on 18 January 2012 - 08:06 AM, said:

Dead calm here so far, But its coming

Really? It was whistling pretty good when I got up at 4 this morning.

[Dryslot]

Just starting now, It had been calm

[mreaves]

Local radio forecaster Roger Hill said that the Mt. Mansfield site reported an 80mph gust before cutting out.

[borderwx]

didn't bother to open my eyes to see what time it came through, but man, house a shaking this AM. had to lean into a bit walking the dog. breezy by Newfie standards.

15F

I imagine there will be some funny vids up on Mt W. with the newbs trying to make the walk in 100mph

[eekuasepinniW]

129.3 mph gust for MWN... very nice.

I wish they'd build a standard construction house and drop in some trees on top of the observatory deck.... would make the webcam more interesting. Curious how much of the house would be left by spring.

[powderfreak]

mreaves, on 18 January 2012 - 08:15 AM, said:

Local radio forecaster Roger Hill said that the Mt. Mansfield site reported an 80mph gust before cutting out.

Absolutely ripping up there last night. Max gust recorded looks like 80mph but plenty of 60-70mph+ stuff in there, too.

80mph is pretty windy even at 4,000ft. Last winter we saw a SW gust of 103mph in December but this is tops so far this winter.

7:45 UTC (not sure why it says AM) was the 80mph gust.

[powderfreak]

eekuasepinniW, on 18 January 2012 - 08:29 AM, said:

129.3 mph gust for MWN... very nice.

I wish they'd build a standard construction house and drop in some trees on top of the observatory deck.... would make the webcam more interesting. Curious how much of the house would be left by spring.

I love this idea. Now who can we talk to to make it happen?

[tamarack]

It's windy in AUG, but nothing special (yet.)

Yesterday's little event was kind of a trifecta. Light fluffy snow 8-noon (1.0", 0.07" LE), sleety snow mess 5-9P (0.5", 0.13" LE), then 0.04" zr 9P to about 1A. Temp never passed 30, unless it briefly bumped up this morning after I left for work. Last night's commute was routine, tho slow; this morning's had a few icy spots in AUG.

06z gfs has 0.3"+ qpf for this area, and GYX is thinking nice 15:1 stuff, which would make for advisory level snow. Nice if it happens.