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Aside from random piles, most of the snowcover will be gone by tomorrow here, and I'd imagine most of SNE. Hard to call the cutter a grincher now, unless theres some damage to be done up north.

50 at 4 pm.

Have yourself a merry little miserableness .

Serious question: What does it do? is it redundant? Personally didn’t vote for him and don’t deny a warming climate, but what do we lose? Not asking snarky questions so not fishing for snarky responses; just wonder if it’s not something that’s already done elsewhere. (e.g., we have a ton of overlap elsewhere in government that’s used inefficiently) .

Temp dropping and flipped to snow here

High of 43.2°, currently 40.4°.

Fell short of the forecasted high of 51, only made it to 48.

Exactly the same 14.6" here in the western Maine foothills, but with 6" depth and about 0.8" LE.

some of them here in parking lots lasted til around May 1st

According to the Watch Duty app, no new fires today so far. Fingers crossed. Up here it hasn't been too bad yet as my max gust has been 54mph. Cruising the nearby Estes-area Davis stations on WeatherLink, the max I can find is 60mph.

One site, only 27 winters, percentage of total winter snow: n Oct-Dec Oct-Jan El Nino (8) 24% 51% La Nina (7) 25% 48% La Nada (12) 37% 59% SSS, but the outlier seems obvious.

Wind Advisory hoisted for the area.

NOAA is rolling out new AI models, including a hybrid model combining the GEFS and the AI GEFS https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-deploys-new-generation-of-ai-driven-global-weather-models

It's the iciest model in the world. Always disregard unless something similar is shown by literally every other model. Whole GEM suite is usually too cold at the surface at range (and pretty close to gametime)

Considering how dry it had been in the weeks and months leading up to the snow blitz, it's nice to see some stored water being built up. Now lets hope we don't lose a lot to run off on frozen ground.

Seems more like base climo at this point. It’s been cloudy, too, in this fast flow. My buddy confirmed that he’s only made 398kwh this December compared to 1100 last December.

ive noticed that GGEM has alot of digital ice this year. IS that model broken?

Understood, was just hoping such outliers wouldn't be in the snowfall maps you guys generate. Speaking of the PNS's I get while there are "partial" reports before the end of a storm when the storm is still going on, but I always wondered why the partial reports are usually still in the final PNA 12-24 hours after the event is over. For example, with Sunday's storm, there are partial reports from 6 or 7 am, when the storm wasn't over for the vast majority of people in our area until 9-10 am. Why not take these out? By the way, these are minor nitpicks. As I've posted earlier, thought you guys did a great job with this storm and much better than many other media sources, especially in going with 3-5" amounts along 95 and even up through 78 (and saying the most would likely be between 95 and the coast) when many kept with their 1-3" predictions for those areas.

That was an impressive block. I remember Bob Chill, PSU, and CAPE called that pattern about 10 days out. The pattern happened perfectly. Then I remember the first model runs that showed the storm. The GFS dropped the first bomb. The others followed. That was about a week out. That was the cleanest tracking event I can ever remember. Models just kept showing that huge hit over and over until it hit. I received 20" here.

2010-2011 was some of the biggest snow piles my whole time in Long Beach where the old amusement park used to be.

impressive hydrostatic correction with that front, no doubt. 20 dm in 6 hours, the bulk of which happens faster than that, too.

I wonder if we could see some snow squalls into western areas late Friday afternoon

It wasn’t just luck, we had a classic west based -NAO in a strong El Niño. Super Ninos are usually warm and boring unless we get that ideal setup, then a HECS is in play.

Natural gas closed up nearly 4%, easily its best day since Dec 5th. This is largely based on today’s forecast speculation that the forecasted dominant warmth may not be as widespread, intense, and/or long lasting in the E US as thought yesterday thanks largely to the newly forecasted strong -NAO.

The upcoming -NAO (Christmas week into New Year’s week) is projected to be east-based, in addition, the PAC looks like straight garbage and you have a huge omega ridge dead center of the CONUS, an Aleutian ridge (-WPO) with a +EPO and a very strong -PNA. So if you are looking to stay cool and avoid a “torch” in the east, that will work out fine then, the -NAO will keep the east cool, no “torch”. If you are looking for east coast snowstorms/nor’easters, it looks absolutely awful