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It actually could be pretty ugly down this way...Euro has like 2-2.5" of rain and dews 40-45F for like 10 hours. Ughh. I will have to look at that NOHRSC site. Firehouse usploping some into the Southern Daks and Southern Greens

DDH came in with .43" precip during the event. I came in at 1.43"LE melted. -pretty big discrepancy for 2 western slope locations Pretty much exactly what this 3K nam run showed from a few days ago though. I feel like they had more than that though just driving through there and because of the wind factor. I dont know how those ASOS stations work in windy conditions, must have missed some of the precip, Maybe @dendrite would know about how they perform in the wind.

No 6 hour clears with this event, I couldn't even find my board when my marker blew over. Driveway was pretty uniform depth wise though 11.5" averaged out-dense stuff. Maybe more fell and compacted with the IP--who knows. Had some addt fluff this afternoon, so total was 12.7". My plow guy was surprised to see a foot in my driveway, mentioned other spots in town he plowed were less..not sure how much. ALY had I think 13-15" for here after it trended warmer and north, so pretty close.

Great event for you guys up through BTV.

Yeah, had some strong SE winds last night which are always bad here. I honestly didn't think they were going to be that strong.Should have almost been a high wind warning for the western slopes down here. Picking up a couple inches of some nice dendrites on the back end now.

Measured 4" at midnight, then all hell broke loose with the winds over night, seemed like 30-50 mph gusts all night and into early AM. Drifts and a few bare spots in yard. Hard to really tell how much..everything seems blown off the top into the woods, it was definitely coming down pretty good overnight with the winds.

Temp jumped from 7F to 14F in very short order. Wind picked up too before the main bulk of the WAA precip moves in.

.7" Moon and ridge line clearly visible with tiny needles coming down. 7F

Absurd downslope in DDH.....might be overdone, shows like .4-.5" total precip. Actually just north of DDH. 3k nam hates DDH, HIE, and other shadowed spots always.

Going to have to rip here pretty good to get to that 15" before the pellets. 8F cold drain oozing down with -SN.

Temp still slowly dropping, down to 12F with -SN starting in SVT.

I'm sure ALY will take the totals down, down, down next update at least for immediate capital region and SVT, NW MA. 17F/8F

Lol, it is kind of funny how PF and crew up there might jack. Definitely some taint concerns for Mitch and I down here in SVT now.

It seems to come down to getting into one of those fronto bands and racking up some high ratio stuff and getting some 15/18:1 ratios. Your right, the 2" qpf runs seem gone, so will need to have some nice snow growth and pile it up quickly. Dendrite mentioned it in the other thread and ALY mentioned it in their disco too some. Further north, expect snow rates to increase to 1 to 3 inches per hour with excellent pcpn efficiency in the dendritic growth zone based on the plan view graphics and the BUFKIT profiles. A fluffy snowfall is expected from the Capital Region/Berkshires north and west with 14-18:1 ratios

Exactly--east/NE wind here isn't AS bad as a SE wind, but still will downslope. Only way to get 2ft in any valley town from DDH up through RUT is to rot under a deform band for a few hours and pile up some high ratio fluff. It can happen, just don't think this is the event for it. One of those March storms last year I think dropped in 30" in Adams MA, so it can happen. I think that was the same event you had the 18" in 3 hours, cant recall for sure though.

Definitely taking the under on 22" here.

Yep, some decent squalls here as well. Fluffy dendrites mixed with some very rimed stuff.

That's down south somewhere. I think eyewall lives in NC now. Not sure where the pics are from.

Nice Shots! Love this one with the house and open field surrounded by forests of ice:

I know SNE has struggled, but ALB has been screwed too, evident by that map. Every event they are either downsloping or its an elevation event and they are screwed that way too. Think they are round 10"-12" maybe?

Right, its possible to get say 3" new snow and then it rains and at 7am you have 3" new and 0" depth. Regarding the bolded, I would only report the LE if I added a note in the observations notes section saying i only got the LE for 3" of the 5".

No problem. You would definitely lose a good amount of snow(data and reporting wise)always waiting to 7am like Dryslot said. Nice that your able to go measure easily.

Right, your not supposed to do it that way if you can help it. Seems like he was home and able to measure...so should have reported 1.5"

Actually if you are home and can do it---you should measure the 1.5" before it flipped to rain mid morning and note the 1.5" and LE, then report that as new snow the next morning. So new snow would be 1.5 to cocorahs with the snow LE. Now if you not home and couldn't measure the 1.5" and then it rained and it was .2" when you got home, then you would report .2" From Cocorahs One of the difficulties with accurate and consistent snowfall measurement is related to the melting, settling, or evaporation of snow before you have a chance to measure it (especially in the Fall and Spring). Please try to do a measurement as close in time to when the storm ends as possible. Don't wait until 7AM if the snow ended the previous day. During long-duration snowfalls, you may choose to measure and clear the snowboard every six hours. The total snowfall would then be the summation of the different measurements

When did you measure the 1.5" each day. Are you saying you measured 1.5 at night on 1/8 and 1/9 and then it sublimated down to .2 each morning when you measured?