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It’s pounding here now but it’s still struggling to accumulate on warmer surfaces.

The 81 storm here was incredible. One of my favorite storms. Got about 2 feet of wind blown paste. Wind stayed NNW which prevented any changeover.

Still amazes me how well Gloria was forecast about 1 week out in ‘85. All forecasts had it hitting somewhere on the E coast 1 week+. And here we are in 2023 with such uncertainty about Lee.

Second night of heavy storms around 4:30 AM. Both with quite the light and sound shows. Drenched.

Best storm we’ve had in awhile in these parts. Worse day for it to happen of course.

Yankee Mag webcam in Dublin, NH looks like everything is coated. Should be fun up there.

11 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Lol nam slays. This is hilarious.

Was supposed to see Springsteen tonight so reading these posts has been my entertainment. Hoping to be pleasantly surprised here.

9 minutes ago, cleetussnow said:

Its happening already.  Cali lost a couple of congressional reps and had to do some redistricting. Same with NY.  Each have lost probably 200,000 since the last census.  

And it has nothing to do with climate.

Just had worst gust of the entire storm here, and probably worst than any recent storm.

Check out Buffalo webcams. Whiteout!

Snowing here.

Of course we had a huge snowstorm in early December that was all snow even here. I remember Burbank saying it would stay all snow even to the coast because the wind stayed northerly.

3 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Dec '81 is actually not a terrible analog either for this pattern. I think late Dec '10- early Jan '11 is a better one, but Dec '81 had that block dominating the pattern for weeks.

Parts of Dec 1995 are a good match too.

The 81-82 winter was much better for central and NNE. I remember being in central NH in mid Jan. and there was a ton of snow. We had a lot of mixing issues down here, but seemed to get much better just north of 128.

2 hours ago, dryslot said:

SE ridge doesn't bother me.

Wouldn’t bother me too much if I were in ME. Down here, it’s more of a concern.

I know people bash Burbank for saying Eduoard couldn’t miss while he was acknowledging it was turning east. He was actually referring to its wind field expanding as it passed. My memory is that the outer Cape/Nantucket had gusts over 90 with pretty widespread power outages.

We got deluged around 6:00. Some pretty intense lightning and thunder. Some light showers now.

Nothing here as usual. Narragansett Bay really prevents anything convective from getting here with any semblance of a Southerly wind.

Was still sleeting as of about 30 minutes ago. But some legit snow falling now.

Official reports I’ve seen for Fall River and Tiverton, of 22”. Just came in and that seems very reasonable.

6 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Good for you, that area gets porked in almost every event, even the good ones. 

Yeah. That band went right from the S Shore across you through here in Fall River  and all the way to Newport. Doesn’t often work out like that.

Has lightened within the last half hour after heavy to moderate for hours.  No idea how much so far. The drifts are pretty incredible.

‘78 Blizzard. Nothing like being out of school for 3 weeks when you’re 11 y.o. The conditions, drifts, societal impacts made it the storm of my lifetime.

Feb. 8-9, 2013 is probably next best.

And for a surprise storm Dec. 6, 1981. Foot to foot and a half was completely unexpected. Wind stayed Northerly the whole storm to avoid changeover. Everything was pasted.

I’m sure that this is the last time I jack this winter compared to just about everyone else on here.

Yep. Coming down real good here in FR.

Coming down good here. Accumulating well on colder surfaces.