40/70 Benchmark

42 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Ray has so much hatred for his friends  to the south. 

Because it's a recipe for a screw job here....how do you blame me after the past 4 years? How did you do in the Dec 2019 and 2/1/21 events? My only two great events of the period...I rest my case.

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

The ridge placement out west does favor SEMAATT.

Fixed 

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

This was a rare storm with little wind. Stacked up nicely as you said. Probably first time in 3 years I could measure on the car roof and be confident lol. 

You guys used to kill me for measuring on the car roof lol

Cosmic dildo penetration exhibit #4331434334338 from the past several years...this terd in the punch bowl out west prevents what looked like a sure fire phase here...instead, this run plays pin the pretend snow on the inverted donkey.

Right on cue, the OP Euro makes things interesting again....unfortunately, that has inverted trough written all over it IMHO.....time for the onside kick in Methuen.

Yea, I know the pattern looks decent, but guidance verbatim is relatively boring right now and has been for a few days in the long range. Will get killed for saying this, but oh well...

I know, I have 9" halfway through winter, so I shouldn't complain. 

I get it...lots more regression due now that Braintree got 12".

+6" for a 9" seasonal tally

24 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

When I woke up early this morning and saw all the CT posters doing naked snow angels again I figured Ray was either filling up the bathtub with toaster in hand, or in the fast lane on 93 furiously driving towards the Tobin.

If there’s ever a doubt, just pencil somewhere in CT for the mega band 

I set my alarm for 615, but I had a feeling the band was in CT and sw of Boston, the usual spots....so I went back to bed until 9am without even looking.

6 hours ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

ya I mean NW Corner CT W Berks and monads basically didn’t have a storm 

Not feeling so badly about my 6" lol

Just now, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I graded this effort an A-.

Although the forecast philosophy never wavered from the notion of a major storm  (frustrated posts on a message board not withstanding), in the end the flaw with the forecast was that I was not intensely concentrated enough with the area of deformation.

https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2022/01/verification-of-friday-major-winter.html

I graded this effort an A-.

Although the forecast philosophy never wavered from the notion of a major storm  (frustrated posts on a message board not withstanding), in the end the flaw with the forecast was that I was not intensely concentrated enough with the area of deformation.

https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2022/01/verification-of-friday-major-winter.html

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

That was actually well modeled.

I thought the Berkshires would ratio their way to a few inches of fluff...wow

Just now, HoarfrostHubb said:

Looks that way based on BOX

Dendrite had like 4"...strange

They only had 1-3" out in the Berkshires?

5 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I love how seymosnow and t4s landscaping constantly weenie each other.

Like Kevin and me....weenie war rivals lol

1 minute ago, eduggs said:

 

Great post. The last few GFS runs probably ended up being too wet. People love to complain about the models being inconsistent, but I thought the GFS - and guidance in general - was very consistent with both the placement and magnitude of precipitation, especially within about 72 hours.

Contrary to what most people will remember, this was a late developing storm that dumped most of its precipitation in the Gulf of Maine and the Maritimes. It did not end up significantly stronger or NW of where it was modeled several days ago. But it also clearly had a major impact because it didn't go OTS as a few model runs suggested several days ago. In the end, the high snow to liquid ratios resulted in a big overperforming snowstorm from NYC to BOS! A few people who called for big snow totals were right, but possibly not for the reasons that they thought.

Yea, I was just texting that to others...I had the totals pretty close on Tueaday, but I thought this would be hugging the coast.

I'm at 9" on the season.

26 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Sunset to finish today. Perfect timing too. Sun only popped out in the past hour

 

 

Stayed cloudy here

11 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I wasn't here when it stopped snowing, but I'm going with 5.0" final

A bit more than I had forecast 

I had you near the cut off for 5-10"/3-6"

6" final, 5" depth on driveway

Just now, Great Snow 1717 said:

If you had gone into work the band would have shifted north and then settled right over methuen...Chelsea would have had 1-2...

Probably right lol

3 hours ago, George001 said:

I don’t know if it means anything now, but the La Niña trending towards being more and more east based could be really good for later in the winter. The pattern looks to be really good for the rest of Jan on the long range models, could the East based nature of the Nina  help us in Feb and March?

Agree, George.

13 minutes ago, wxsniss said:

Per Box twitter:

As of 1 PM, here are how our climate sites stand in terms of snowfall from the season's first major winter storm: 

#Boston - 11.2 inches
#Worcester - 6.2 inches
#Providence - 5.9 inches
#Hartford - 5.4 inches

I'm pretty much in line with the other 3 sites. I should gone into work in Chelsea...they probably had like 10" lol

Just now, BombsAway1288 said:

6in is nothing to be disappointed at and well within your forecast.

I'm sure you'll clean up over 95% of SNE by April. Climo FTW for you.

I'm over it...its a beautiful winter landscape. Good for you guys in the deathband, though.

Just now, CoastalWx said:

Kids trampling pack ftl. 
 

You are pasty there....all powder here.

Glad the kids are enjoying