NeonPeon

On your average snowfall, you can add an inch for every town further away from the ocean. If Newport gets 3, Middletown gets 4, Portsmouth gets 5, bristol gets 6, Warren gets 7. The snowstorms that don't obey this rule are my favorite. There has been one of significance in the last decade here. We got 13, Barrington got like 3 inches. Those were the day. Sometimes I've seen triple the snow just from the south end of Newport to the north. Anyhow, two days of sledding, we made it count, bare grass incoming tomorrow.

Good lord that is typical. I ended up with about 3.5 inches. Cement then a powder puff on top. Drive in any direction and the snow immediately gets deeper.

Ok, well. I'm enjoying Dave Eggers "the every" for a nice dystopian laugh.

Wait, you are complaining that you are alone? I haven't been alone in years. May I recommend... Drugs?

Nice little rate at the end here. Enough to go sledding, it's all I wanted, heading out now and the kid is bouncing off the walls. I went from radar watching and sulking to a four year old saying "daddy, daddy, the snowflakes are landing in my mouth." Perspective, I guess?

So you got a decent snowfall but didn't jackpot. Look to your SE and weep for them.

SICORIOAM Smack in center of RI on any map?

Band disintegrating a bit so that it's ready pass through Newport. Every storm is the same here.

You need cross country skis.

Nice. It's picking up some here now.

What's your total so far? My snow is melting as fast as it accumulates at the moment. Still don't have an inch. Honestly, I'm more angry with myself more than anything. A while back I started just looking at all the modeling, seeing what people on here thought, and then arriving at a very conservative number, the lowest of possible bounds. Then, I cut that number in half for Newport. Every winter I have to relearn the lesson.

Less than an inch so far. Hoping without expectation that I can get under something as the bands rotting to the west realign.

Well, I woke up to a look on the radar that I've seen many times before. Still don't like it. Nice little storm for most.

What do you mean we don't know whether it'll be real. You think the satellite is doing performance art? Is it a metaphor?

Why on god's green earth would we want that dump?

This is the attitude we beggars must have.

Try driving off one of the bridges like the tourists do, and everything is illuminated.

You forgot white rain in the bay, but yes.

Agreed with that.

If you draw a line through the middle of RI as far as its longitudinal boundaries, it won't split the state in half in terms of land mass either, because the state isn't a square. Luckily? Glacially, the bay already does that, and it does a serviceable job of splitting the population, since almost nobody lives in the Northwestern half of the west bay. I've been living here for over decade, and I've never heard anyone speak about east and west with regard to RI other than in terms of relation to the bay. Perhaps this is something that people on the west bay do, but people on the east bay don't. Which would only underscore the valid distinction, haha. I don't think Charlestown is in the best place for this, but you're in a good spot and don't have to fret the P-type as is our wont. Enjoy the snow over there. I feel like early January snow is almost a bonus here.

If I get 4 inches of snow it'll smash all of last season! I'm just hoping it's not too clumpy to sled on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_(Rhode_Island) Narragansett Bay divides the state of Rhode Island into two parts. The term East Bay refers to communities on the east side of the bay, including Bristol, Warren, Barrington, Tiverton, Little Compton, Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth and Jamestown. The term West Bay refers to communities on the west side of the bay (the mainland), such as Warwick, Cranston and East Greenwich. Jamestown and the towns on Aquidneck Island are sometimes known as "The Islands" along with Block Island. Mainlanders are welcome to go edit their own personal truth!

A semi autonomous collective.

Yes, we are really arguing petty semantics about geography, that's about 10% of what this board does, near as I can figure it. I'm not really that invested, however, you are wrong. The east bay is Little Compton, Tiverton, Bristol, Warren, Barrington, and Riverside.

Yes, both by pedants and very large bodies of water. I'll leave you to determine which I am.