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14.6ºF for the low here in Charlotte. Nice. I'll run in the afternoon, thankyouverymuch...

Greetings from the Gold Coast in Australia! I’m missing all the glorious Vermont Fall weather since I am down here for 3 weeks. Popped in to say that even after a wee being here, my mind still struggles to orient on cyclone and airmass movement here in the southern hemisphere. I have to think (hard) when I am looking at maps and radar. It’s reminded me how hard the basic parcel physics can be for people new to the study/hobby.

4.1" here in the Valley. Very picturesque.

No slush. First hour was massive aggregate dendrites that took 15 minutes to accumulate. 2nd hour is individual dendrites even here at the valley floor at 32-38dBZ volumes. Temp down to 33°F.

Flipped to snow at 3:16am here in Charlotte. 1.3” in the first hour. It was 54°F at 10pm on gusty south winds and now it’s 34°F on light SSE winds.

Looking at 66°F today. Thousands upon thousands of canada and snow geese flooding north throughout the day. Should be down to just dirty snow piles after today. We’ve had full snow cover (of varying depths) since December 19th. That’s one of the things I e liked about moving up here. Last winter snow cover pic, from a moment ago:

3.8”. They’ll go over 4” as this moves through.

I’ll have my daughter measure in a minute. Steeling myself for some serious “aw, c’mon dad, really?” when I ask.

@CoastalWxYep, visibility down to 3/8 mile. This is Clarksburg, in upper Montgomery County in MD right now. IMG_0736.MOV

Central MD often does well in this setup. I’ll get some webcam shots from my place in MD as it rolls through in the next hour.

Accumulating snow in Northern Louisiana, all of Arkansas and Northern Alabama and Mississippi in mid March. Pretty cool. Just passed 4” here in Charlotte, VT.

Pretty consistent across all guidance for here. Even at 300'.

54°F!!!!!

Yep, here too. I saw something last week I'd never seen before. After our 1.7" of (cold) sleet, when the post-storm NW winds kicked up, it was blowing and drifting the sleet around. And, the same happened two days later when the winds channeled from the south. It's interesting around here to see storm after storm and many of the fields are largely bare for large parts of the winter due to the strong, channeled south and north winds.

This is what it’s like here in the valley on the other side of the Greens right now. It’s so hard it doesn’t even crunch when you walk across the top of it.

I am assuming you are kidding. There is zero chance Randolph gets only 3" of snow out of this. 8-12" is nearly a lock at this point. Edited to add: on top of a glacial sheet of ice that will be really fun for sledding.

0.7” of warm advection snow here in the Champlain Valley ahead of the squall. We’re in the calm between right now.

Here’s the storm report from Charlotte last night: 1.7” IP, 0.1” ZR and 0.2” SN. Water content for the lot is 1.3”. Suuuuuuper dense. Snowpack was down to 3” at the flip and probably has a couple of inches of water content since it melted down fro 7” and captured the initial rain. It’s like a glacier out there now.

It was pretty impressive when it went thru just past midnight last night. 5° drop in 3 minutes and 15° in 10 minutes. No real gusts as the wind shift happened. It just sorta oozed through.

Good cold air example of Spectrum Width use tonight. You can see the cool air surging in in the lowest levels on a long loop of BTV radar. It’s usually used for TBSS and turbulent flows but tonight’s loop is a good example of a leading edge use, albeit not for a convective complex. Radar tech / remote sensing is absolutely amazing these days. IMG_0069.MOV

I'm down to 4" off of 7.3" to start. High today is 48ºF so far with rain on the doorstep. Normally, the rain would drag cold air down so that's where we'd top out today but the inversion overhead is sick. BTV afternoon sounding showed 19ºF at 1,800ft. and 36ºF at 3,800ft. So, 48º-->19º-->36º in the bottom 3,500ft. Will be interesting to see what the result is as the rain starts. Cold at all levels will get here just as the deep moisture is shutting off. We might eek out an inch of snow/sleet on top of the ice from overnight tonight. Here I am as the rain starts just now:

@jbenedetWhat model(ed)snow depth is that? It’s quite wrong here, 18 miles south of Burlington. It piqued my curiosity for MBY. 7.1” OTG with the 0.6” of fluff from the LES this morning.

I strolled into the gym this morning in my shorts instead of the usual sub-zero mad dash, trying to avoid stinging skin. It felt odd.

Snow showers took one look at New York and said, “no way, I’m not going there”. Eh, nevermind. I can't get the longer loop from 5:30am to save as a .gif in RadarScope. It showed the showers advancing from the ESE and then reversing course right at the border.

Light snow showers pushing thru from the ESE. 27°F. Coating so far.