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Odd split in the guidance for lows tonight. GFS and all mesos except the RGEM showing we stay way above freezing while euro and rgem showing we go below. And it’s even stranger with the former group having seasonal cold biases….

Man. Gardener’s nightmare with a hard freeze on April 26. We do it one more time tomorrow…. The trees always know…. The landscape was brown with much anticipation of this shit…

Our AN weather in winter hasn’t translated to early spring. It’s like 6 months of mid to late March. Seeing how easily we freeze at night is a real spectacle on April 22 + after mid January taking an alignment of the stars to see a low below 35. April just reminds us all of how bad our climo is for outdoor activities, generally… But people are paying up to live here…Less snow but not less shit… I’m finding my ticket out. Fentanyl weather is for the birds. Life is short.

Bad forecasts need bad measurements.

I guess they measure in the plow piles on the sidewalks in Dover.

We’re going to get a good melt today despite the BN temps and clouds, given that the ground never froze up. Makes a big difference. Can’t melt fast enough for me though. April 5th man. I need spring.

Don’t know how anyone has been adding to totals MHT points south/east unless you have elevation. 34/35 throughout the area for lows last night. I’ve had probably had 30” of falling snow, but no more than 3” at any point to show for it. The trees even lost their thick white coats overnight, despite the persistent light snow falling throughout. We are now capping this event off with a flip to rain/drizzle.

Car doesn’t even need a clean off after parking at 9 a.m. Seeing ASH at 35/35. We never fell below 33 so the spring plants are still springing. A true April snow event.

What + 1.5F does to clown maps.

Even DAW didn’t drop below 34

1:1 ratios with snow snow atm profile; sleet ratios

Yup.

Snow. So wet. So much white rain…. In other news, the radar looks like poopy

The GFS cold bias is going to make a crescendo with this event to wrap up a season of BS 42 at PSM right now. GFS: past 8 runs; check out 40 isotherm from SE MA to Seabrook NH, and still too cold!

Good baseline. Now from this reference point add 1-2F to surface temps throughout. That's why I'm in much better agreement with NWS maps vs this output.

The precip rates will be impressive with the initial push Wednesday evening. But radar echoes will progressively weaken after 0-6z Thursday. Lots of “holes” developing in the echoes. For the big totals you’ll need to be stacking Wednesday, and that’s when temps are most marginal in eastern sections.

The depth of the ULL peaks 6z Thursday near *Indiana*. It’s weakening from there on out. I think what we’re missing more than anything with this is another UL vort to phase in as it makes closest approach to us. Decaying low isn’t gonna get us the consistent mod+ rates to stack in the marginal areas in SNE and SE NH.

East winds are ripping in eastern SNE up to PWM. SST’s are low 40’s in gulf of Maine. It’s not until after 12z Thurs that those areas gain a more northerly component and by then our ULL has really filled in and dynamics therefore significantly weaker.

6 trees and 6” of rain. The new persistence forecast.

Another early H5 occlusion….

Evolved into a look that favors West more than north (ex interior Maine). I like Scranton PA area and a big chunk of upstate NY from Binghamton up to Albany NY —much more than southern NH.

That’s a white rain goose egg in SE NH. PF has it right with the depth change maps. Much better baseline with that. GFS gonna burn us on the coast up until go time with these looks. I mean, it’s outputting 32-34 DP throughout, with 34 surface temps over same time frame. Assuming that’s correct you’d have melting exceeding rates with the qpf output. And if it’s 3 degrees too cold (as the GFS has been all season at these leads) it’s wet surfaces except for the coldest with those transitory dustings that melt whenever rates lighten. Seeing that 34 DP 18z Thurs on the backside of this <980 low is red flag we don’t have the cold conveyor hook up needed to positively offset “marginal”.

Rain in Portsmouth NH 34/31

100% sleet. Maybe had 3” before change.

Wrt SNE - whole thing synoptically looks like a rainstorm. More like a potent frontal wave riding a cold front NNE over eastern New England; no cold conveyor. I mean, the more I think about it this is fitting persistence perfectly, with 20% qpf to frozen, 80% rain to end in SE NH. Curveball was seeing this again in early spring. But then again our December to April 1st weather has been really more like continuous late March climo, in which case this also fits…. Snow boots remain in the closet… .