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Heavy rain here.

Yeah we’ve lost wednesday lol. Euro and gfs are flirting with zr here in the afternoon.

I don't want to be careful

Yeah, i was thinking same thing. I checked my station and it said surprisngly said 0.60”. I was expecting a complete failure. .

We got a bit more over by the Bedford line, around 1.75” total. Sleet with a layer of snow on top.

I'm skeptical given the chilly waters off the coast-granted the snowpack will be all but gone by next Wed

Well that was a dud. When I woke up and heard pinging at 3 am I knew it was over. On to sping.

Hopefully, the EC-AIFS will score another win over the OP Euro like it has been doing all winter with the backdoor further north allowing the first 70s of the season for the usual warm spots in NJ.

Coating.

I was thinking that if we had the cold weather we had back in January, man. Just snow on snow on snow.

The stool-softener last night put me over 70", anyway....

Seems like cold could last into early April before we turn milder.

Wpc kinda hinting at that on its winter weather maps for Wednesday into Thursday. If the season holds to form that will trend colder. I’m guessing we’re not out of this until the MJO goes through phase 8 and we get rid of the polar vortex being near to us. Maybe we get an end to winter by the end of the third week of March? I hope so, there’s things to plant.

Moving this to banter, I installed a 8.5 kw system about the same time you did and also have 1 for 1 net metering. I don't have a minimum charge and have a large credit with the POCO, system generates more power than my family uses on average. The credit was up to $1,200 last summer but the inverter died and was replaced (under warranty) and lost 2+ months of good generation (August-October). This winter has also been bad, November December and January are usually net negative months, and this February was the lowest generation month I've recorded since install, persistent snow and cold kept the panels covered. I still have 7 panels with some snow on them even now. I would consider a heat pump but I don't like forced air heating. When the badly designed and installed forced air heat system in my house died 10 years ago, it was replaced with a high efficiency warm water baseboard system. That system operates at less than 130F and could be run off a warm water heat pump some day. But for the now the gas boiler installed 10 year ago has been economical and has operated flawlessly and also provides hot water.

For me this week pushed this winter to an A. I think we’re now above our seasonal average and probably more snow to fall. The snowpack has been relentless and quite deep for a long stretches. We’ve had good cold. I don’t need to have a record breaking cold to rate the winter and A, just solid, long, lasting cold that gives us long periods of time where rain isn’t even a possibility. This is really been the best wall-to-wall winter in quite a long time for up here

Got some nice rolling boomers this morning. Love it.

We had good cold aside from 10 days or so. And CT was able to cash in a bit on smaller events so I can see why people from there would rate that period better than you or I.

Of course it nailed this stool-softener of an event, but whiffed on the blizzard getting up here.

Mid DEC until late JAN wasn't great. Mostly dry with a couple rain events, and a couple torch periods.

2 hour delay for my daughter here in Methuen.

NARCAN was coating to 2" last night....should have known, but + depth change maps were still like 2-5". Oh well....1.5" of mostly sleet......heavy as fu(k.

The Nino 1+2 based RONI was much higher and is better correlated with the global temperature jump since early 2023 with the Nino 1+2 ONI peaking over +3. The global temperature rise around the 2023-2024 El Niño was of a greater magnitude than just using a Nino 3.4 based RONI. This may be part of the reason that the winter of 2023-2024 had the atmospheric response and North American warmth greater than past even stronger El Niños .Plus the warmth extending west of the Dateline set records for those regions also. So the totality of the warmth gave a weaker RONI reading in 3.4. It also highlights the weakness of relying on RONI for El Niños is a warmer world. As RONI seems to be more relevant when we get La Ninas due to the SST gradient between the WPAC and EPAC. We still aren’t completely sure why the warming started so much earlier in 2023 than any event without the El Niño warming lag that we got in the past.

KBOS doesn’t have an on duty observer. Just someone that reports snowfall.

A drier week Today - Mar 12, still think we need to watch the front Wed 11th.

Low of 39. Did much better than I thought here with .77" of rainfall. Off to have some beers with the fellas and head to The Giant Center this afternoon. Happy Friday, all.