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Snowpack taking a big hit obviously. Still have 4” in the shade. Bare spots popping up in the sun. 43 feels phenomenal. 60 on Wednesday is gonna have me breaking out the shorts.

stand erect, or be made to stand erect....marcus aurelius...

Lol, .49 for ITT!

Man a little compromise from Euro AI models and Euro legacy models would be real nice.

For this, I recommend the Nutty Professor remake, along with the Klumps sequels

Models still working things out, but the 1st one in a series could be a good hit my way. Was anticipating some good stm potential this month for the sub, but thought it would start a little earlier. Better late, than never.

You meant “icy”?

Half-chub.

But nothing takes the cake for CoastalWx than the Bliz of 05. Scott has the radar loop archived for that I think! So which is it for you, Bliz of 97 or 05? Does Bliz 13 round out the top 3 for you? From both a meteorological set up and personal experience event, the Bliz of 97 takes the cake for me. Why? 1) Being so mild that weekend leading up, and strong tstms later on Sat across SNE. Then a pleasant Easter Sunday for the region w/ temps in the 60s. That just makes the stark contrast to what was coming even better, It is the "let's freak out the general public as much as possible" wx swing! 2) I was off on Monday, and I recall the forecast was not for a flip to snow until later in the aftn. Yet it started as a R/S mix in Woburn MA at 1030am. I was like "oh boy...." 3) The struggle for accumulation during the day due to marginal temps. I had 4" but it was only on certain areas, like on the car top or mulch. 4) Then as night fell, remarkable transformation occurred. I went out at 6pm for some errands, and it was not too bad, by the time I finished them by 8pm, it was nuts. Temp dropped from the low 30s to mid 20s, snowfall rates 2-3" hr, and blowing and drifting everywhere. Even the 128 was a total mess. I could see transformer explosions in the distance. Got home and then a brilliant LTG strike. And the poundage continued. Got 4" in one hr 2-3am. You'd never think it was April 1 w/ what was going on outside. 5) My car was completely drifted over the next morning. Never had I had that happened before. 6) BOS struggled R/S mix all day into the early evening, and then BLAM!, went to S+ right around 00z, and they got 25" in about 12 hr. I really think that BOS had it all-time record snowfall w/ this storm, but access and drifting issues prevented the observer 1 mi away from Logan that took the airports obs at the time from getting an accurate measurement. 7) BOS DPW was taken by surprise by the rapid flip to S+ that evening, and the rates were so crazy, the city was snowed in bad, and some part of the city remained unplowed for 3 days. I recall I front page story from the BOS Herald, and it said "TICKED OFF" and showed a resident hold a clock 1201pm standing in his unplowed street, stating the city promised his street to be plowed by noon (still had the paper). 8) The satellite image morning of 4/1...absolutely epic. I attached it. Look at the enormous size of the storm, and how far wrapped it was with a classic giant mesh of instability CU over the ocean! After that, I said to myself, I've got my fill for big snowstorms. Since it had been so good since 1992-93, I was "sated" so to speak. Nothing could top this event on multiple levels as I noted above (not all meteorological). Not that I did not enjoy what happened later as the epic period continued, capped off by the crazy Jan-Feb 2015 snowblitz, but I no longer got "CoastalWx mad/in a snit" when snowstorms did not work out, or mild/snowless winters occurred. All my hardship from the lame winters of the mid 80s to early 90s was excised, so to speak, after the Bliz of 97. Maybe CoastalWx should take note of this, and not get so miffed when winters do not cooperate! Not like you've never experienced epic winters, and 1991-2020 was the snowiest 30 yr normal period for much of SNE on record, w/ truly an exceptional snowblitz Jan-Feb-2015, unlike anything on record for SNE. This does to mean I do not welcome big snowstorms and get into weenie mode when one is imminent, but there is more to wx than that. And really, it nice to have breaks sometimes! Also, always swinging for "home runs" (blockbuster snowstorms) you are going to be disappointed very often. Who needs that emotional roller coaster from something no one has control over?

Haha I was actually going to chime in to say the same, that you are probably juuuust outside of the blue dot.

Still a little dicey in CT

Yeah could be.

Yeah that 00z torch run was just a blip

Here in Carlisle just after 1:00pm, the skies are mostly sunny and the temperature has risen to a balmy 48.7 degrees. The last time the temperature was at or above this was on January 13th with a high temp of 50.2 degrees. So, we managed to stay below 50 degrees for an entire month. My snowpack continues to fight off the warmth and is still at 3" solidly everywhere. This is just about a 50% decrease from the Jan 25th storm. That 1" of sleet I had at the end of the storm has helped to put on the retention fight.

Let’s bring it on home lots of ways this can go wrong… but it’s looking right now like 1-3” region wide with the potential for maybe more or nothing. With the event 36 hours out, I think it’s safe now to say there will be an event though. Final amounts tbd. I’m trying to manifest 3.6” though to get to 30” on the year. 48F right now.. cooking this afternoon. Outside in a T shirt lol

Like to get 20' in one shot.

should I be erect or not .

Friday looks fun too

didn't even know we were getting anything today but lightly snowing

Couple inches of mashed potatoes to break the terrible .20" run Not into this one because it's snowing as the warm up arrives

Just another wrinkle like Newman said is that accumulations are going to be rate dependent. It’s cooking out there today, temp here is 48F. A long duration light event won’t do, we will really need rates for it to accumulate. Timing is on our side being overnight. I think 1-3” is a safe forecast for now, bust potential high on both ends though. It won’t surprise me if I have 6” Monday morning or it’s raining lol

Don, does historical snowfall data exist for any points like State College or Williamsport? When I was young, it seems that we had tracks that hugged the coast or ran up the spine of the Appalachians. Those tracks would hit central PA hard. FD ps Love your posts, here.

Euro has a bit of a mix over to snow mid week.

I don't mind snow, sometimes it's nice sometimes not. But after two months of cold and dark I'm ready for Spring that's a couple weeks ago

51 on my home Marysville station. Felt great to go out without a coat!