mostly rain / sleet now in metro west .. mby in Shrewsbury at about 420' got ~3" of slush. Driving around looks like above ~600' accumulations picked up. Took a weenie drive to the highest spot in town at ~750' and look like easy 5"-6" up there with roads still slushy.
looking at the 18z NAM (for example), you can see drier air getting advected in from the east as the low lvl centers begin to ramp up / tighten. Can see this on the radar a little bit too as the precip hasn't been able to advance much past a TAN - BOS - LWM axis. Probably why the sleet is over-performing right now haha
This time of year, the correlations to those indexes and weather are weaker. Wavelengths are shorter, easier to get those cut-offs and coastal bombs despite the teleconnections values. Also index value isn’t as important as rate of change.
back in metro west today, snow cover down to patches / grass in the sun torched areas and 3"-6" of concrete I can still walk on top of in the shadier spots
after 2001, which years had the most snowpack going into April locally? 2007 and 2015 had pack into April but are there any other years up there? Too young to remember how ‘96 was before the April storms so could that be up there?
ingredients aren’t really there for the true big dog eruptions (VEI 6/7) .. maybe they do a VEI6 like once every couple hundred years. anything larger prob has a return rate 10x that .. won’t have to worry about it going “boom” .. altho id love to see it happen. From a scientific perspective, would be very interesting to see the climatic impacts .. and some crazy weather.