J Paul Gordon

In a perfect world we'd have one 4-8 inch snow fall every three or four days. The fluffy kind, no wind, gentle rates. Sorry to be off topic. Been b----ing about the amounts predicted for here just because I'm getting old and find lifting the wet stuff a bit scarier than just a few years ago. Sorry to be off topic. 

25/23 SN, windy but not too ferocious for my neighborhood.

3 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Damn, glad the CT peeps are getting smoked!  Glad @WinterWolf and @RUNNAWAYICEBERG are getting their storm they have been waiting for!

Me too. And I'm glad to give them that 9 inches additional BOX is forecasting for here. 

25/22 About 6 inches here. Just shoveled. Still light and fluffy. Wind makes it hard to tell amount, but it was more than I expected. Saw 9" in BOX snow amounts but then realize they were saying 9 more inches. Upper end is about 16", lower end is 10. If it keeps up we'll probably exceed the lower end unless there is a dry slot hanging around out there.

24/19 temp is rising now. Tiny flakes, but low visibility. Probably fog. I'm going to go for around 8" here if this keeps up. That will be just fine. Can't stand being cooped up.

23/19  Snow, fog, wind. Maybe 2" since start. Hard to tell with all the wind.

23/16 light to moderate snow, windy

Just now, das said:

Does not compute.

The earlier NWS forecast for us had a change over to freezing rain and sleet. I'll take partly cloudy and 40 over that any day.

1 hour ago, Tiktock said:

Looks good for ORH since I'm not looking forward to 15 inches of semi frozen water.

The worst of it here will come when the snow turns to slop tonight. It will be the third time this winter where I have to exchange my snow blower for a shovel so I can lift water logged garbage. Only hope is that the CT valley snow hole extends eastward. Guess I'm getting too old to enjoy this kind of storm. Was surprised to see temps in mid 30's tonight with a changeover to mixed. What a change from last night!

17/10 here. Very light snow. Hard to believe it will be raining before its over in ORH. Just had a feeling last night. Gonna be a messy storm.

Good night. Let's see what the morning brings. Should be an interesting couple of days.

Any major dry-slotting in ORH area? If not, why not? It seems like the CT valley is consistently getting ruined with ORH county (especially central east) getting slammed. I remember living in Amherst many decades ago and watching my hometown get 15" while Amherst squeezed in 6". Is this common, though? Or, is this an especially weird winter with the December storm dropping 4 feet in Central NH while other areas got diddly. I don't seem to recall two major storms doing this in recent years.

31 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Nowhere near you.

Thanks. The idea of a foot plus of snow sodden with another inch of water on a steep Worcester hill like mine  is a terrifying thought. LOL. Snow blower can't handle it and at 65, I'm not so sure I can count on my ticker either.

Rain/snow line? BOX discussion mentions mix and changeover for Eastern MA, Eastern CT, and RI.

Small flakes coming down heavily. Grass covered. Road still wet. Temp 30F

I mean the 6 weeks from the end of January to the end of February 2015 defined the entire winter. Meantime, December and January (until that last week) were awful. March was OK. But we recall just that one stretch as if it ran from Halloween to May Day.

5 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Quick update on the pattern moving forward.....

https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2021/01/mid-month-pattern-change-signals-active.html

I'll take a couple straight weeks of winter. Hopefully a good couple of hits during it. If its good enough the memory of it will make many of us consider it one of those winters of yore.

And yet winter continues. Enjoy what you have while you have it. Big melt wont be until the traditional Christmas Eve, Grinch Storm. Meantime, enjoy

6 hours ago, Henry's Weather said:

For once, I'm glad to not be in ORH

Hey we managed to squeeze a foot out of it. Looks a lot like Christmas out there. Very happy with it. While 40" is an awesome event to measure it would be a pure nightmare in a city. 2015 was bad enough in terms of snow removal, to get it in an 18 hour period would be devastating. Keep sending those crazy pics from the area that was originally supposed to get skunked by this storm! Amazing.

Looks like we underperformed here on the east side of Worcester. Still a good 8",  I'd say. Hard to tell with the wind. 18F/14F.  Maybe another inch or so before it ends?

6 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah I can see that. Someone is gonna get 2 feet...best chance is prob west in Catskills but there is an unignorable chance it creeps into N litchfield county and parts of adjacent W MA.

What about the Worcester-Tolland Massif, surely orthographic factors favor us for up to 18 inches

Its coming south? Like outside the BM? Oh no!??? Yes!???

HMIMBY?

The map is at 10:1 ratio. ORH won't be anywhere near that low. I'd say 15-1 up to 18:1. I'm referring to Worcester City including the airport.

It looks pretty good for us in Worcester County, too. If this was tomorrow morning this time I'd be looking at 2 feet of snow. But so much can change...

HMIMBY? OK so maybe 8-12 in Worcester city.