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Warning flags were there. That elevated warm nose was just warm enough to produce mostly sleet CON-south. I think all models underestimated it a bit, but some of the mesos were a little more sleety looking. It was so thin on forecast soundings just above the cold wedge that models may have needed more vertical levels to really “see” that full +1C in there…just guessing there. I thought 2m temps looked fairly spot on although I didn’t focus on what mesos had for everyone.

Just north of it, yes.

probably the first solid significant (>0.75") rainer all winter, at least since Jan 1. Dec had a couple.

Over 1.5" of badly needed rain at Central Park. Not bad at all.

1.10" in the gauge .. nice event for the stein worries

any reports in N MA? nothing is plotted yet on the interactive map...im guessing there was about 1-3 N of RT2?

no. 18.

Pretty impressive how the record ridge out West which began back in November is continuing into March. But the Northeast trough isn’t quite as strong as it has been. So it looks like a weaker reflection of the pattern in the Northeast at least. This corresponds to the typical backdoor pattern that we see in the spring.

I'm sayin'

ORH?

Yep. Decent western ridge progged and some good cold to tap into. Hopefully the synoptic pieces line up as we get closer but the longwave pattern will want to give us a couple chances I’d think. 11-15 is actually reasonably snowy. Esp northern half of New England but I think everyone is fair game.

We’ve skated by so many big ice storm opportunities over past 10 years; just goes to show how rare these events are…

Temps were borderline for ice here. You can tell by the amount of drippy icicles on everything, rather than a thicker radial coating.

Wish we could fast forward to May.

Predicting significant ice is for fools. I’m one of em. Seems like only areas to receive signicsnt freezing rain is in central Ma. Low level cold underperformed, 950 to 850 warmth overperformed. Even had mostly sleet up here, with poor rates throughout. Not much out there, maybe an inch. At least this largely verified in my book; not the sleet but the paltry qpf.

Did Boston get the 10 inches or not?

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Starting to ice up now. Of course snow never happened but now it drops below 32 when nothing showed it.

Everything iced. A little sleet here but not much.

33-30 when I left the house this morning. A very tiny bit of scattered ice. Thankfully not more!

Uhg, solid .50” of sleet, 30°. Not even gonna try to clear. It will melt off the driveway eventually.

Ended up being pretty much all sleet here. 1.4" total. Appears to be snowing now, but the flakes are heavily rimed. 19" at the stake.

22.4° -SN Pretty good growth despite nothing on radar overhead. Probably a last hurrah.