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Agreed, for now.... over 1" measured and covering everything including the roads. Will be fascinated by what Logan says at 7PM

BOS is an interesting spot for this one. Most TV mets going for with a marina influence effecting the Logan measurements maybe? Then seeing on here that some people don’t think the marina influence will not apply with this one. I’ll play conservative and say 3” here. Who knows what will be measured for Logan though

I’m pretty sure it’s done by some guy from Winthrop and actually in Winthrop from what I’ve been told in the past. He might be doing it right on the eastern beach for all we know so maybe that’s why some of these totals have been so low

I will be absolutely pleasantly shocked by 8” here. Don’t think it will happen but I will try my best to give a pprox amounts here as it happens. Hard to do officially being surrounded by triple deckers but there are some good spots. Either way, whatever the Logan observer decides to show will be interesting (and wrong most likely).

What's your elevation there?

No, not terrible for a week out but going by this winters trend, this will end up a NNE and/or Maine special and if we add in our luck, it'll be a Montreal-Quebec City special by the weekend. This winter sucks!!!

WSWatch up for Atlanta! Even though their criteria is a lot lower, they’re expecting 2” of snow. They’re going to get more than Boston not only for this storm, which is sad enough, but they’ll probably end up with a higher season total after this storm than Logan. This is getting really sad and pathetic

I bet Central Park does better than Logan with this one. In fact, I think the Euro snowmap I saw earlier gave DC, Baltimore and Philly 3-4in while less than half an inch for Boston. Just that type of winter up here. It just doesn’t want to snow

Wow, I didn't realize it was like that.I know there is a big difference between Rockford and Chicago when it comes to arctic blasts and UHI but I always assumed that Rockford wasn't part of the Chicago metro area (If that's what you guys even call it). I was just going off of general maps I've seen of the area. BTW speaking of Rockford, did they ever confirm that super record low back in 2014? I think it was something like -30 degrees or something like that and the NWS mets couldn't believe it so they went and checked the ASOS and I think even stayed overnight observing it or something to make sure it was calibrated properly.

Yeah you are a straight shooter but you're damn good at what you do. Anyway, hopefully you're right about February. I was staying positive until I came to realization that there will be a warm-up extending into the first full week of Feb after the arctic blast next week. Seeing that really put one foot over the ledge for me when it comes to this winter

Yeah, don't be hard on yourself. As someone said before, it's a tough business when it comes to long-term forecasts. Just look at Tom (Isotherm), he's one of the smartest guys on here plus he does it for a living with energy companies I think, and you two were pretty much in agreement on this winter. You've had an amazing run and will only get better.

Does Chicago really have that big of an UHI effect? I'm originally from Northern NJ just NNW of Central Park ASOS by about 10 miles and I used to see 15-20 degree differences sometimes. NYC has the worst UHI. When it comes to Chicago, idk for a few reasons, one being that where the arctic air is coming from (NW of Chicago usually) has nothing but pure flat land. Two, its official observing station is ORD, I think, which is NW of Chicago proper so the temps recorded there don't really reflect what it's like right on the lakefront in Downtown Chicago. UHI or not, I think you guys break many records with this upcoming cold. I'm hoping ORD and MDW set their all-time low maximum temperatures and you guys don;t get screwed with a "cheap" midnight high. Good luck!!!

Agreed but we need something to deliver big in Feb to get there and not just bank on March delivering. If we had into March with say only 3 more inches or so for all of February, this place is going to have worse morale than people working for the TSA or IRS lol

I’m doing my best to hold to optimism but what Snoski mentioned earlier concerns me. After the cold and dry next week, it looks like another warm up the first full week of February. Say that lasts a week, that leaves us with only 3 weeks of February left. I know March can bring the goods (like last year) but I never bank on that as moderating temps, sunlight angles and length of day, and of course climo. We shall see

Well that’s a better look on the MJO. Yesterday it had its usual BS of skipping over 7-8-1 and doubling back to 6-5 in the extended

I'll do my best to report to you guys what I'm getting at my place less than a mile from BOS. Last storm was absolute BS as I had a lot more (about 4in including compaction and sleet) than 1.8"

It looked like the storm dropped over a foot everywhere with the snowbanks on the side of the road and snowpacked streets and parking lots. That's what happens when 0 melting occurs the next day.

Sadly, I don't think it is fake or photoshopped or anything. Obviously being in Florida their criteria for things is a lot different. I think I remember seeing a Wind Chill Warning once for somewhere in Florida and it was for wind chill temps in the low 30's. Being in Central Florida these statements are kind of ridiculous for a high temp of 53, as you can see the temp this morning was 28 so it's not like these are temps that they have never felt before. Maybe they were targeting kids and their families playing on a playground all day as that seems to be the background picture. Still stupid nonetheless.

Thanks. Looks like Hartford, Worcester and Boston are going smash those records. Could you or anybody tell me when the last time Boston had a sub 10 degree high?

No we haven't been slammed all year here but the potential is there. And most of SNE has more than a few inches now. SE Mass has struggled though.

First off, winter is not over yet. Second, I've only been following Ray's blog for a few years but his amateur knowledge is a hell of a lot better than anything you can comprehend and he's nailed a lot more storms/patterns than he's missed. And third, it's not our fault you live basically on the coast in NJ in beautiful East Brunswick and you have 5in of snow on the year so you feel the need to come in here and troll. It's not just this, you've been doing it for years. Stick with your sub-forum and maybe you'll get lucky and catch a few inches on the back end of a SNE special, Miller B bombing blizzard.

Does anybody know the low maximum temps for the day at various stations in the area? I think a midnight high at Logan ruined any chance at a sub 10 degree high

Yeah unfortunately that's what goes down in the record books. I guess that's what fell in Winthrop where it's measured. I still have at least 3in of snow on top of cars with over an inch of sleet on top of that, and when you include compaction, even more fell. I guess that wasn't the case in Winthrop

The only report on BOX's Public Information Statement for Boston is a 4.5in report at 7am by "General Public". I guess they tossed the Logan report

It is. Easily over an inch of it now and coming down moderately. Pingers everywhere! I was expecting plain rain right on the coast up here. Heard on TWC a plow guy get interviewed in Downtown Boston. Said they were expecting flooding rains and rapid freeze. Then he said it only rained for 25 mins and a quick transition to sleet. I know Logan was reporting temps in the mid 30’s at some point this morning. I bet there was a pretty good temp gradient between Downtown Boston and the Logan ASOS which is at the end of one of the runways, right on the water if I’m not mistaken