NeonPeon

Snow is gone. Only the shady man made piles remain. Torch never really torches here, but it's beautiful out and walkable without a jacket.

It's definitely the case that it's a completely subjective thing, but this winter gets an A+ from me. More than a month of continuous crosscountry skiing around here is nuts. My primary exercise for the month of February.

And an all timer storm.

I needed it too. My dad passed away. My team is shyte. It all blows away for a moment if you pile drifts up to the windows.

4 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

The irony too is that for the area south of PVD..that was the screw spot in March 2013. Literally exorcised the demons with this storm.

For Neonpeon in Newport....I know he mentions getting porked there a lot, but Jan 2022 and this past Monday definitely redeemed there. 

Two records in a row here, yes. Two awful seasons in between. A+ winter this year from two events and 2 months of snowpack. I'll shut up for a while. I mean, realistically I'll shut up until next season. 

35 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Yep but now the pack is highly condensed with a bullet proof layer below it. I will take the under on snow being gone by the 6th. My station yesterday 

It's very situational, we had got down to grass across all slopes and sunny spots, so there is no bullet proof anything under those parts. On the other hand, the shady spots still did have, it was definitely higher moisture when the snow started, and the compacted shoveled piles are rock solid.  There's also already grass in places, where they were scoured out by drifting. A huge part of the median next to the beach this morning is grass.

I think it'll be winter on one side of the street and spring on the other by tuesday, anyway, bar the ploughed spots, but we will see. I find it substantially more interesting watching it stack in 26 hours than to melt over the course of a week.

Because the drifted snow was the driest fluffiest stuff, the speed with which those drifts have settled and melted, especially after the rain, is insane. I have a 4 foot wall across from my house that runs for most of the block along the sidewalk. It was enveloped by a 6 foot drift, you couldn't see it. There is maybe 2 feet there now. Late Feb means most of this snow is gone mid next week. 

16 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

hair dryer

I know an alternate source of hot air.

You have to admire the dedication to the con. I mean, all the heavy equipment they used to construct 12 foot tall snow piles all around Newport. They should have just used a leaf blower. 

15 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Pack is gonna die a slow death. Nothing worse then heading into early March with no events and dying pack. Soon you’ll be heading home the “shady” way to avoid the bare spots.

It's not going to die a slow death at this rate. Between settling, the bit of rain, and the sun, it looks like half what it was all fluffed up.

Newport schools closed for the week.

I know the bottle neck is availability of heavy equipment to deal with drifts, but this is one of the weaknesses of car dependent civic architecture.

All the main roads are cleared. 

My older kid is off school tomorrow. My youngest in Pre-K is out till Friday. This is obviously not related to any additional snow down here 

Obviously it's ruining my ability to do work. But on the other hand we made a 6 ft snow fort and it's got a flag on it. My kid turned 9 today and has had three days off. For all the talk of jacks on here, that's a 9 year old jackpot.

2 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

a dusting at most, similar to Billerica. It barely snowed 

"RI bust"

2 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

i dont wanna think about it

Neither do I.

7 hours ago, bristolri_wx said:

Updated Public Information Statement with Snowfall Totals and Wind Gusts is up:

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=box&issuedby=BOX&product=pns

Heh - gusted to 65 MPH here as well in the AM.  Looks like my 30 burger holds up to the spotters in my area. Amazing.

My best guess was 28 or so at the end, Newport ap says 32 but that's Middletown basically, and also tends high.

It's the all time storm for me living here, 14 years. It's storms like this that make me love the winter here. The floor is low, as we've seen in the last years, but the ceiling is high, and dramatic. 

What did you see around Bristol for downed trees?

In my tour around town yesterday I didn't see much wind damage. Downed branches, not downed trees. The trees weren't plastered as much as in 2013, and my power never went out. I also found the wind here impressive but not crazy in the context of Newport. They were also very straight line. 

One last note, these big big snow storms are such an event. There were lots of people out walking around town, just taking it in. Every snow shoveler you pass will stop and chat, if only to take a break. I see people helping each other out. I see community. 

It's frighteningly rare.

28 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

The Other Strange thing - I Shoveled a path at 11am.  In the 9 Hours SINCE 11am, I have 1.25” on that path.  And that’s with help from the winds giving it fake measurements with snow from the side.  

To Confirm it, My Snow Depth went from 22” to 23.5” (Again, 10” OTG was before the storm with a hard crust that is in tact).  13.75” Compact Total at best, which is Confirmed again by what I see.  That’s not29, and The 6 hour measurements weren’t 20 either.  

Does it just Refuse to Snow over me?  It’s been going on since 2020.  

So I know everyone is saying “CORY YOU HAD to get 24”!  Smithfield and Attleboro and Pawtucket got 26-30!”

But I have Zero Proof that I got more than maybe 19”.  You guess shouldn’t be Furious with me; you should be Happy I’m not saying “I got 30”!!  Woo Look at Me!  I’m Awesome!” LYING to you all.  

I know @JACKASS and @bristolri_wx will think I’m “An Insufferable D-Bag” whether I Lie or I complain about the truth of 60% of My Tiny State having The #1 Storm All-Time and it being blah 3 Miles away, even If I go give them a free concert in their driveway.  

Now a storm like this Very well may Never happen again in my lifetime, And I couldn’t even pull 20 in it.  MEANING the next time I Do get 24”, it’ll be a more Normal storm duran where everyone from Will to Kevin to Ray gets 36+.  This storm JUST 10 miles north would have completed and fixed Every Gripe I have had the past 11 years.  And it euros have been years before I complained hard again.  Now I better just live in Northern Japan next winter.  

Oh Right, and there’s chance I get a criminal record tonight when I go out driving.  Because EVERYONE ELSE got 24”-36” and we have a Communist Government “No Civilians Allowed On Roads!” apparently even though the Governor is a long time friend.  But Insurance worry is Insurance worry.  Not to mention making sure to look like We’re in Need of Help to the Feds.  

Again; here’s the video from 11am, and it’s almost Unchanged since then.  

 

 

I probably had one of the lower totals for Rhode island as well, to tell the truth I'm not really sure because it wasn't measurable for me, and it was great. I'll be honest and say it looks like you probably did get significantly less but I don't know. It's hard to say based on that video though to be honest, because I don't understand the topography, and I couldn't take listening to the tone.

The thing is, if we swapped positions you'd still be wandering around with a ruler, having unhinged rants, and complaining how x y and z got more, and id still have been in the best fucking mood, made a snow fort with my kids, and cross country skied for miles with my wife.

Snow and weather is cool. For me it's cool because it enables different activities. Walking around with a chip on your shoulder can be done in all weather.

Do you know how embarrassing this looks to someone who lives where I do. I've had storms where I got 2 inches where literally everywhere around me, including fucking block Island and Nantucket, got many times that. That's a bust. I've come on here and looked at cool pictures, and had a gripe or two, and moved on. 

There are people on this forum who were forecast to get feet who got a few inches. That's a bust. Not your 19 inches. 

Nobody gets to bitch about 19 inches of snow.

5 minutes ago, Cold Miser said:

hopefully they know how to take proper measurements in wind, becuase I don't.  I had spots that didnt have any more than an inch from the beginning of the storm through its end.  Tops of our cars had almost no snow on them for the entire storm.  No idea how you measure and account for that kind of stuff.  I fear that some of those readings tomorrow will say 8 or 10 inches, which is probably not a good representation of what really happened.

Agreed, I gave up. I don't think it's actually possible in my environment to take proper measurements with drifting and plowing and walls and fences and houses in close proximity. I tried to go into the cemetery to take measurements. Half the snow had blown hundreds of yards away through a chain link fence making 6 foot drifts and burying cars.

I also don't give a shit. I don't believe the measurements from the 2022 blizzard here and for me, even if this was actually the same or less, it just wasn't. The snow is so heavy and caked. That was powder.

5 minutes ago, mcglups said:

No tracks on many side streets in Newport, a great storm for all!

 

Oh, there were some tracks.

Can anyone knowledgeable shed some light on the wind element of this storm for me, locally?

This storm had impressive but not crazy straight line winds here, but the gusting element was nowhere near what I expected, and nowhere near anywhere east of here. I know a big part of that is just friction, but normally in this sort of a storm, especially given the rest of the intensity, I'd expect more wind, and certainly more gusts. 

It certainly was beefy elsewhere, I'm wondering why not today. Also, normally I'm getting wind in relative subsidence, does being part of good lift in a band like this actually cause less mixing, and the wind just stayed aloft, or what is going on there?

I just skied right down Broadway and to Washington square in Newport. 

Unreal scenes of the deepest winter 

My side entrance looks like a ski chalet.

Jesus this band just wants it to snow in Newport, the utter pervert. There is a 4 foot wall across the street from me that has been completely eaten by a drift.

30 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

Neon!  Come Here and Measure!  I walked around other neighborhoods too!  It’s Fine. It’s an ok storm.  There are No 15” Measurements, and they have 26-30 JUST south of me.  

That is MORE Willfully Miserable.   This is the Biggest Storm in RI since 1978 and it’s Whatever here in far northern RI.  Worse For Boston though so.    

I'm not questioning your measurement, so much as your philosophical outlook. You think about the ideal thing you don't have rather than the very good thing you have. 

2 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

Oh This Winter is F- now.  

This Storm has done the Impossible.  

1. Giving me LESS than the SWFE I missed.

2. YET, is giving 24-36 INSIDE the smallest state in the Union which I’m in, where people are talking like it’s the Biggest and Baddest Storm since the Blizzard of 1978.  And I STILL Missed it.  I truly might not even get 20”.  

 

That, THAT is More Impressive than my 3 World Championships.  

You are being willfully miserable.

The band is just about done here. What a run.

I'm saying 25 inches here but good lord is that impossible to be scientific.

2 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

40” Charlestown! 

What I don't get is how anyone is measuring.