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A little nowcast obs from up here in NW VT. 36ºF with light showers. The cold press is certainly delayed. Just now seeing the first evidence of it crossing the border. This is 2+ hours behind hi-rez guidance, which had already delayed it 4-6 hours starting last night.

It’s 35°F, partly sunny and the dripping has begun. Have not heard that in a looooooong time.

4" of sleet in MD (2.9" liquid equivalent) in late February lasted until mid-April back in the 90's. It was glorious.

A town.

4ºF was the low here in the valley overnight. While, at the same time, it was 21ºF at the top of Whiteface at 4,800ft., 35 miles west of here. I could almost see the impinging warmth looking up. We've rocketed up to 22ºF already today. Should see 30ºF for the first time in a while later this afternoon.

A big, fat goose egg. I’m at 300’, 3 miles from the eastern shore of Lake Champlain. That said, a whopping 3” or so of my 22” this year has come from blocking. So, I watch the Froude numbers closely. One day, it’ll pay off.

This is my first time living in a place that is largely cut off from Atlantic or pacific moisture. I’ve spent this entire winter forlornly looking south for any real transport from the gulf. What a waste of cold air it’s been for the past 45 days. This one holds some promise…

OMG,you nearly made me fall off of the treadmill.

+100. Quasigeostrophic motion FTW. Confluence at the lower levels, a strong right rear quad jet and and Gulf moisture transport from the decent lower level jet just might come together really well here Thursday night.

This makes my hair hurt.

I don’t know why but the snow blower stripe on the tree trunk cracks me up.

I’m at a whopping 22.4” for the season but, at least, it’s looked like this since the middle of December. (taken just now out my front door). I do miss the big coastals from MD but I love the constant cold and snowpack.

The cold was indeed legit. Here in the Champlain Valley, we were a tad below (horizontal advection) ground blizzard criteria with 6 hours of steady north winds of 16-21mph with gusts between 24-31mph for the duration. There was only two hourly obs of snowfall for the entire storm (some lake-enhanced diamond dust) and the high was 1°F with a low of -8°F. I’m about 18mi south of Burlington. There were some vertical advection components to the storm here with numerous 100m snow devils, likely terrain and lake-enhanced induced since I am just southeast of the lake.

Was the same in the valley. 2 hours, 2.5”, 3/8mi visibility.

How was it down in MD? I think the house in Clarksburg got to 4.5" before the flip.

Just passed 6" here in the valley with the ULL starting to channel some convergence. Looks like the flow continues to waiver just east and west of south which is really helping to mitigate any shadowing. 29ºF and steady for the last 4 hours here at 300' with visibilities ranging between 1/2mi and 3/4mi as the waves move on through. Just have to make it to ~4pm after which any risk of mixing goes away.

Hush, you. Remember, guidance picks up the big ones early.

2.8” was the final all the way out here on the west coast of New England. Was sitting at a paltry (and expected) 1.4” when the wraparound picked up some moisture off of the lakes and dropped another 1.4” over 2.5 hours late afternoon.

I’ll just have piles after the rain down here in the valley. It’s been a miserable year so far, for sure.

And, something more weather related: look at these mesovorticies in the eye wall, two hours after “landfall”. Incredible.

Now that the storm is ashore, a slightly banter-ish comment: that WebCam in Grand Isle deserves the storm chaser of the year award. It’s getting sandblasted from the backside now that the water has receded.

It's snowing all the way down to 300' here in the Champlain Valley. Woo!

Like my old mentor used to say: “never ever ever predict a record and you’ll have a fine career”.

omg. OMG. O. M. G. The black flies are horrific. Never have I ever been in a place where I can't outrun a freakin' fly. They draft behind your head, ala NASCAR, and then make you go yelping down the path at top speed flailing your arms about like an absolute lunatic when they bore a hole in your neck. OMG. And the bite itches and hurts for hours. The idyllic Vermont scenes on the Hallmark Channel never prepared me for this BS.

31F / 21F here in the Champlain Valley. Snow started 30 minutes ago. 1/2mi visibility. Mostly individual dendrites with some conglomerated groups.