backedgeapproaching

Yea, everytime I see that topo map I forget to bookmark, its great. 

That Mitch post got me curious as I haven't checked my Nest cam in a while, and actually had my first coyote on camera Sat night....came right up to the back door looks like.

#caughtonNestCam. https://video.nest.com/clip/49674337227e4a97b1c1233f901ce0cf.mp4

#caughtonNestCam. https://video.nest.com/clip/3529ebaf58c44104b8a62ed0dcdac384.mp4

50.1F here..think the grass got a shade greener...lol.

ALY radar back up...some nice DEC torrential downpours...

12 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Didn’t stay cold long. 37 already. 

Parakeets will be chirping this evening..

3.7" at 7am. .Couple fluffy inches last night, with some residual big flakes this morning..maybe add a tenth or two. 

19 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

This new stuff will evaporate quickly when it warms up, but I will say there’s been at least some snow cover for many of us the past couple weeks.  The sales team at Snow.Inc has had auto-replenish set to on with several light events that keep the ground white.

Yep, certainly not epic, but there has been that wintry vibe past few weeks, even down here. 

Been some decent flakes past few hours, first snow on the powdery side of the season.  Prob 2-2.5" with the unofficial eyeball measurement.

Can't help but laugh though at Saturdays forecast of 58F, wind and 1" of rain 

Nice torch today..not much snow to lose..2-3"....but its gone. Think got up to 55F or so.  Gusted low 40s last night.

Ice box up north last night--not sure if it was clouds, wind or what, but my low was only 25F last night. 

1 hour ago, wxmanmitch said:

Still have a crusty 5-6" of snow pack that survived yesterday's "torch". In addition to the 8.0" of upslope from last Friday and 1-2" from the multitude of weak clippers, I had 3.1" of WAA snow early yesterday AM before rotting in CAD fog in the high 30s all day so the melting was slow. Even Woodford reached 43° F when I was only 38° F. 

I didn't mix out until the thunderstorm in the evening. It went from a calm fog to a sudden freight train from the W and NW with rain, pea sized hail, and graupel. It ended as some wet snow, yielding a 1/2" of small hail, graupel, and wet (now frozen) snow. Season snow total is 18.5". Not a bad start. Too bad Monday's stronger cutter probably wipes out what is a nice solid base for the snow mobilers and cross country skiers. 

Interestingly even being on the western slopes I only got to 40.3F yesterday--which is pretty decent for here CAD wise (as Tamarack laughs)

 Still rock hard crust coverage, although will be long gone Monday like you mentioned.

13.5" season so far...pretty respectable, probably above average i would think.

25 minutes ago, dendrite said:

What is up with ENX radar?

Looks like that line will be going through here soon. Maybe that will mix it out a bit? 

I think I saw something that it was going to be down for a while....like 2 weeks. Been out for a few days now.

34 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Outdoor dining here and snow covered in central NH. Crazy.

 

4-5" of snow on the ground here with thunder, lightning, rain and hail..or sleet or graupel or something.  Think that might be a first for me to have that combo platter.

32 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Ginx knows

Nice call. 2.4" of wet paste here. Looked like almost some S+ on my cam in the 4-5am range.  

45 minutes ago, J.Spin said:

Event totals: 0.7” Snow/0.01” L.E.

 

Today’s earlier event finished up this afternoon, so the above totals should be the final values.  Radar suggests the next system is right on the doorstep though, so we’ll see what that one has in store.

 

Details from the 6:00 P.M. Waterbury observations:

New Snow: 0.3 inches

New Liquid: Trace

Temperature: 27.3 F

Sky: Cloudy

Snow at the stake: 5.0 inches

Similar to what I had today. Didn't see ALY mention much in the way of flakes today(outside of the system tonight), but had mood snow pretty much all day.

Some really nice snow growth with this batch moving through..nice little refresher. Definitely higher ratio than the last event.

1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah I noticed the radar echoes definitely were maxing out west of where they usually do on those upslope events. The Hudson valley was all lit up and just barely east of them looked like the max. 

I wonder if backedgeapproaching in Manchester VT had better ratios than you. 

My ratios were in the 10-1 range, so not great. These really low froude events actually aren't the perfect setup for here either, the Taconics in SVT to my west block a good amount of the moisture, hence you noticed the radar building up in ENY down through the Rensselaer Plateau and south of there.. Briefly had some really good growth, but it certainly wasn't perfect dendrites like it can be alot of times.

1 hour ago, wxmanmitch said:

8.0" of dense, windblown snow here and measurements were all over the place, but ranged between 6-10". Snow growth was poor to mediocre here. Woodford was very similar and reported 8.5" earlier.

It was a strange event with the heaviest totals along the NY-22 corridor and on the Rensselaer Plateau due to low Froude numbers and the primary upslope snow cloud being just east of the Hudson River. The most reported on ALY's PNS was 13.5" 3 N of Austerlitz, NY, but I did see an unofficial 18.5" report on Facebook at 1,500-1,600' in Taborton, NY, which I think may be legit based on the photos, location, and radar imagery in that area. They were probably puking dendrites for hours on end out there.

Pittsfield, MA (~8-9") had more than 2K in Savoy, MA (5.5"). This event was similar in some ways to the 11/20/16 NWFE, but this one was a little more blocked and not as long lasting.

I was thinking this was like a poor man's NOV 16 event too as it was unfolding. IIRC alot of those same areas did well too, but this seemed even more blocked as even Woodford didn't do that well in this, which is unusual.  Think they got crushed in NOV 16.

Weenie ARW model run from before the event ago nailed pretty much the exact spot in ENY that jacked. Although most mesos were pretty good in depicting the backed up blocked flow. Certainly interesting from a meteorology perspective.

6.5" final here. Saw a 12" report in ENY on ALY PNS.  

Definitely feels mid winter with wind and 21.7F

2 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

Eastern New York just west of the Berks look good too.

Yep, the Taconics in ENY have been getting crushed for a while. They can do pretty well in these blocked flow setups. 

40 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Mitch is 25.5F

Lol....Im actually down to 29.3F in the lowlands.

3.9"  as of a little bit ago.  

Temp slowly dropping now at 31.8F with some decent flakes/snow growth. Seems like a Woodford/Mitch jack..

3 hours ago, powderfreak said:

It would be funny if after all of this, @backedgeapproachingends up the jackpot.

I could definitely see it happening too.  The deeper secondary low does leave a more favorable flow down in the S.Greens and keeps it a bit more northerly in the N.Greens.  Lowers the Froude a bit, blocking it up.

Models have seemed to ramp it up a bit down here over recent runs..be interesting to see how it plays out. ALY put out a WWA for most of Bennington County looks like.

2 hours ago, PhineasC said:

Both 18z NAMs look good. 

12k beefed up a bit, which is good to see. The 3k is always hilarious because of its undying affection for orographic lift. I mean weenie maps printed out 16-20 for SVT at high elevations.  Personally for me here 1-2" is a win IMBY.

 Where is that moisture even coming from? Definition of a NVT moose fart snower..lol.