LaGrangewx

3 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Back to that Ski Patroller at Okemo... she’s posted some great stuff on FB this morning.

If her time stamps are correct (no reason not to believe it), they were getting 8” per hour rates.

Actually, they were getting 6” SNOW DEPTH increase in 45 minutes... at those snow depths, there has to be settling.  I wonder if this was measured on a cleared area if it was actually 8” in 45 min or even more?

I mean this is some of the highest documented rates I’ve seen.  But to have snow depth increase 6” in 45 minutes is a 8” per hour rate.

 I wonder if they had rates of 10”/hour on a cleared surface?

3 inches in 13 minutes is almost 14 an hour. I bet you’re right they would’ve Had 10 if they measured the hour of peak intensity on a board

40” depth with that fluff they had to have  4 feet+ maybe 50

1 minute ago, Hitman said:

Valentines ‘07 had more than 4 feet up in vt.  I want to say there were 5-6’ in spots.  I was up there afterwards and it was bat shit crazy.  So much snow.

Yup I knew Vermont and Adk in New York absolutely crushed with 3-5 feet but I don’t think it made it over quite the same to NH and Maine like this has. 

Just saw Albany reports. No shot someone in Hopewell Junction had 25.5 that’s bs. 15-17 at most here with clearing. They must have Slant sticked a drift.

Widespread reports of prolonged 6+ inch per hour snow in that band for 3-4 hours. That is Unheard of outside of lake effect 

11 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

I’m melting what was in the Stratus but there’s no way to know it’s true accuracy. Maybe later if I feel ambitious I’ll do a core sample too. 

Cool I’d be surprised if it ended up much better than 10-12 to 1. Snow growth was mediocre for awhile. The weenie band up north probably had 20+ to 1 ratios. NH, VT, and NY all with 40+ reports. I can’t remember a storm like that. March 2017 didn’t and I don’t think valentines 2007 did either. Relatively short duration storm as well. That could’ve been one of the all time great snow bands in a noreaster.

23 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

Drifting is actually pretty minimal around here. I drove around for a while and while it was clearly a windy storm based on the lack of snow on roofs and in trees, there are really no big drifts to report.

Agreed. Any ideas what the liquid equivalent was? Started off real fluffy but very dense in the middle and a bit lighter on top with this mornings snow.

13” depth in driveway and 14”depth in the yard. I cleared 8.5-9” last night and there is 7.5 new. So around 15-16 is my estimate.

5 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

 

Good storm here can’t complain. Eyeballing At least a foot out there easy. Missed out on Absolutely historic just to our north. Looks like widespread 2-3ft+ Max About 4ft near Binghamton. 

20 minutes ago up in dutchess county 

Beautiful night. dumping snow again but not as fluffy as that initial band was. I measured A 9” depth in the yard 

5 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

Agree that more goodies are on the way, but would caution that those impressive looking echoes are being enhanced quite a bit by sleet/melting and will weaken as they push north. Probably won't reach the snowfall intensities that many of us saw a few hours ago. 

Can’t complain really enjoying the event so far. Ski areas are getting crushed right now. Epic start to the season for them. I tried buying tickets today for Friday and hunter/belleayre were sold out already. Ended up settling for Jiminy peak, looks like they’re gonna do ok lol. 

19 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

The radar is filling in nicely to our south, I think it pounds again soon enough. 

Yup Looks like some of the convective precipitation that was being modeled earlier to hit around this time.

4 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

That last band, albeit brief, was phenomenal. 1" in under 10 minutes. Shame it had to blow right through so quickly. 

3.9"... a little breezy at times but not enough to affect reliable measuring. 

Wow a nice 6-7 inch an hour burst. If it snows another 12+ hours here I don’t see how I don’t blow well past a foot If things work out 

Wow incredible here. Very heavy snow and great growth. I just measured an average of 6.5 inches Already. Very light fluffy powder. Similar to the lake effect powder I saw in South bend Indiana in college. I don’t know what the ratios are but I would guess they are significantly above 10-1 as of now.

Ulster, Greene and Columbia counties Have consistently been modeled as a jackpot zone I bet there’s a 30 spot in there tomorrow. Haven’t went outside yet to measure but definitely snowing heavily. 

Light snow just starting here 

7 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

There's some discussion on Twitter about why it prints out sleet colors despite totally frozen forecast soundings. Some good info/speculation in the replies here:

Thanks. Great info. I’ll let you guys know how I do. Ill be on the western side of Lagrange tonight should be an awesome night. 

Question. HRRR seems all over the place run to run with the sleet line. Is it struggling with the dynamics of the storm a bit?

5 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Two buns are a given.

Haha thanks I like the confidence 

1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said:

Jackpot for New England might actually be in Litchfield county and adjacent SW MA....combo of big WCB hit before it fizzles and also getting clipped by the ML goodies.

 

Do You think 2feet is possible. Dutchess county NY. I border Litchfield county

12z GRAF would make a lot of people jump with joy