J Paul Gordon

Lookie! Lookie! Weather Underground is predicting 10.5" on Wednesday 12/16. I'm sold. Can only go up from here.

About 6.5" of slush/snow on the deck and grass. 33F/0C. Finally sanding the street. Will be nice to have snow on the ground on a moonlit night. Looks like it will stick for a few days. Kind of weird little storm with all its permutations of rain/snow lines. Early December in SNE.

What's it doing in Southbridge. Had to cancel an event one year when I was stuck in Worcester with 8" of the wettest, greasiest, snow ever (absolutely beautiful though). Southbridge got only rain. People thought I was crazy to cancel.

0C/32F light to moderate snow, smaller flakes now. Ground covered, parts of my steep Worcester street are getting some cover. Win picking up.

When it looks like the pattern change is always two weeks away..... 2001-2002....2011-2012.... whatever. We're here today. That's not nothing in 2020. Would be nice if our 2 weeks of winter encompassed Christmas and New Year, but then again, Christmas isn't about snow and getting 2020 the hell out of here counts more than any number of blizzards...

Tolland Massiff and NE/NW CT, NW RI, along 95-495 belt northeastward. Sometime interior SE MA can get a good icing in that kind situation in a generally BAH HUMBUG pattern. Have to count the little blessings in the midst of the larger storm.

Oh sure it can, at least where you are. We get monster slop/snow/ice storms in some scenarios under a regime like this even early in December. Maybe especially early in December. Ice storms especially. A transitory Quebec High can sometimes do wonders.

All it takes, though, is the right combo of cold air and precip to wind up a decent snowstorm in the interior even in lousy winters. January 2006 is a case in point of a significantly above average month (only 7 days with a high below freezing at ORH airport) with above average snow (24").

2011-2012, 2001-2002, looks like another memorable non winter?

Thanks for making the change. I was afraid it might be one of those, "Winter is lost because it snowed in October" whines. It is a great joke as a subtitle though. I well remember the superstition that followed the barren winter of 2011-2012.

could be worse. might turn out better. eventually the forsythia will bloom and we'll know that its over no matter what surprises may come up the coast. And then there is the hope that NEXT year it will be better. dr dews is like someone who loves to pull off band-aids. everyone's gotta have their fun. and nothing wrong with a little dose of "get real" counter-propaganda.

Sometimes jumping onto this site is like reading Joyce....total stream of consciousness. So what if March (aka "Morch" to some of the pre-teens here) blows? Winter is climatologically nearly over. On the other hand, if we get cold and snowy, its a gift. There is something to be said for a blizzard followed by enough high sun to help melt the stuff on roads and walkways in something less than two weeks. Anyhow. Looks like our 4 months of mud season will end before mid May this year. Be thankful for the small things.

When winter gets to be a long brown bore my eyes see the Maine coast in summer. Just gotta count the days. But when that ginormous set of storms rides up the coast come February I could take another six months of the Old Man. In other words, there is always something to look forward to.

Holden measured 25. Closest to me (2 or 3 miles as the crow flies); Airport (about 5 mi) 21". I'll go in the middle for 23. Seems realistic considering the height of the drifts and sheer volume of it. No complaints here.

Dude, you are welcome to join us. Just remember that New England is synonymous with crabbiness. It's not that we can't be friendly; some of us just don't want to be. Stick around, you'll get used to us. For instance, you would have been happy to get 4-6 inches today (and in a bad winter so wouldn't we), but when its seems like everyone around you got 20" and you got 4 or 6.....well it's sort of like watching the Patriots lose the Super Bowl.... kind of an entitlement issue.

I lived in Amherst and Northampton for a number of years. Truly the "happy valley", but we always seemed to get into the screw zone between the big hits east of us and/or west of us. A natural sinkhole for snowfall. Born here in Worcester and spent most of my years here. Rarely got screwed here unless it was a scraper/south of the pike deal or a rainer (like the first in this train of three). We almost always do well, even when we aren't the jackpot. A notable exception was the "Boxing Day" storm. The airport officially measured about a foot; here on the east side it was more like six inches of dust. I remember watching the bands to the left, bands to the right while we sat in the snow hole all night. I feel for the valley snow lovers; not as bad as CC for annual totals, but a lot of nickle and diming to get there.

This has to have been the biggest snowfall of the season here. Got a good hit in January 17" with lots of wind, etc., but the drifting and general depth of today's storm outdid that one.

Don't know if its off topic, but are those possible heavy bands of squalls they say may be coming tomorrow significant for further accumulations?

back her up a few more miles....still coming down hard on my side of town, though

Really ripping out there now...guess the band made it home!

still nothing to sneeze at...figured it would be a SE SNE monster, just hoped to get in on one of those bands...

Decent snow here...but not the mega-band type.... so close and yet so far....

Think it will make it to Worcester?

I see it too...looks like my side of Worcester should see it soon. Meantime snow has lightened but still moderate temp down to -3C/27F been going down slowly all morning. Wind here is 10 mph near surface, but stronger up in the tree tops.

Good to see you Southern folks enjoying an early snow. Stay safe on the roads. We expect a good snowfall here tomorrow (6-8") and the direction seems to heading upwards. You might not believe it but when the first snow comes, it seems like everyone forgets that we average 65-70" here in Worcester, MA and starts driving like its a snowstorm in Pensacola, FL! LOL