I only ended up with 7" but this was a 2X better storm than Jan 7th despite getting 11.1" that storm. Wind, cold, long duration, daytime, near blizzard conditions..its way more than just about the final number
lol, well im just beginning to compile numbers but its going to take some time for PNS and CoCoRahs to update tomorrow morning. What was yours, 9" you said?
Yeah, nothing we get i dont think will ever compare to that. So many factors put that in its own league, including the fact it was the 1970s and people were caught off guard.
i couldnt agree more i was just out there for about an hour and a half and i think i have frost bite. Measuring is near impossible. The best reasonable estimate i have is 7" from measuring 6 to 8" in many spots that i considered to have "relatively low" drifting...
I'm fine with whole numbers in events like this, not super accurate but its really impossible. These were some of the strongest winds i've seen in a nor'easter here in quite a long time. Sustained at 15-25 and gusts to 30-40 the whole day. I can't even imagine what it looked like on the outer cape and the islands. ACK was sustained in the 40s most of the day with gusts to 70 with SN/+SN. That's a real blizzard.
It's not like half of tolland is going to get 6-12" and the other half will get 12-20". It doesnt work like that either. It's there to show a transition between ranges. The line also cuts through north haven and a lot of other towns in the NE. The line has to be somewhere and wouldn't look right if it followed town outlines. I just think its more noticeable because we have all the towns on the map itself. Snowfall maps rarely work out to be 100% perfect for every specific town, its there to show the general idea, which i think is about the same as our first call with a more SW to NE tilt.
get me a good CT/MA/RI base map and ill do it lol. We started with Connecticut but are expanding areas to include Tri-state NJ/CT/NY based on client needs. I'd definitely like to add a southern new england focused map next.
Final call. We kept our original forecast pretty much the same with amounts just tilted the axis of snowfall a bit to orient it more SW to NE. Tri-state area stayed very similar with the 12-20" range extending farther west across long island.
CT:
Tri-state:
CT warnings:
At 12Z it was the #1 analog and at 00Z it was the #3 analog on the NAM runs and based on what i've seen with this storm and that it's pretty similar at multiple levels. I hate to say it and i know some on here will nail me to the cross for that but its hard not to see it. Not saying it plays out exactly like that but something similar wouldn't surprise me at all. East CT does great, even better than expected and a sharp cut off somewhere in central CT with low end warning snowfall gradient.