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I ended up with 3 inches of snow & sleet in Marysville that were compacted into cement by the time I shoveled this evening. This stuff was heavy & provided quite a workout. My back is barking already!

Been seeing some flurries here as well this evening.

You sure its not 17" in Lunenburg?

Some of the heaviest rates on the day about to move over the area as SPC has issued a bulletin for 1/2-1"/hr rates.

Reports of 7” in Fitchburg and Lunenburg

21 and still falling in Wolf. Picked up just over an inch now. It's bright outside tonight! Sent from my SM-S908U using Tapatalk

Just a cold, wind driven rain event here..nothing out of the ordinary for early December in these parts. Beautiful pics from the snowbirds to the far north. The fluffy powder really does brighten things up this time of year.

5” of amazing fluff. Wish I could have skied it today. Still snowing lightly but steadily.

Nrly ageo flow at the surface and then ripping srly from 950-850. With a low south of ACK. In all my career I cannot recall such an event.

I don't know if there's any actual significant correlation between these two variables, but it seems like you need a deep and rapidly intensifying low pressure in order to have a successful backend "flash over". Mbs in the 990s, tilted mid levels, and rapid forward progression just won't cut it. Kind of a weird SWFE hybrid rather than a true coastal. Big warm nose etc... If you can't stack the lows, the dynamics just aren't as good for the development of a cold conveyor belt

Finished up with a nice slow soaking of 1.09" of rain (had planted the last of my bulbs yesterday so they got rained in). Made it up to 40 as a high this afternoon once the precip. was over, after a low of 30 that happened just after midnight, after which the temp started slowly rising. Currently 34 with dp 33.

3.0 to my NW. A hair less here.

Patterns like this you can tell in the weather social media world who just rips and reads SLP charts. All of a sudden the models at D3 will develop a QPF blob and people will go, "where did this come front, models didn't have this". Meanwhile that possibility was there for several-plus days.

32/30 -FZRAPL 3.8" total accumulation with a light glaze on top now

This was a really weird sleet event. Not common you get sleet with a warm layer around 900mb, lol. But I agree it was probably not-fully melted flakes refreezing quickly into pellets.

Damn, great stuff tonight folks, thanks

That makes sense, but as Cape alluded to with the flow stretching the vorticity apart is it best for a developing low to be displaced from the strongest winds? I know that oftentimes the jet isn't able to "round the base" of a trough and once it does it indicates a matured/max developed storm and is that the logic behind it or am I mistaken?

Peeling paint off the windows now

3K Nam didn’t really have a sleet look. Probably half ass flakes that melted a bit and refroze.

Never ignore the NAM sniffing out a warm layer above the surface. Not sure anything else had sleet up this way.

Left exit and right entrance regions, where upper level flow diverges. Conservation of mass and surface boundary dictates that air must lift to replace the diverging flow.

All right that's enough of the gloating. Powderfreak South.

Yeah, we’re in good shape. We’re continuing to trend cold, and we’ll have ample shortwaves rolling into the region. Just give me chances. I don’t need to see D7-D5 nukes that trend to nothing. Danced that dance plenty.

I guess I wasn't in that zone.

Nice event for your area Dave.