tunafish

4 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

baiting 

Master?

1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said:

EPS says she's not gonna let us out.

How's the week of the 27th looking?

Asking for an observer abandoning his post 

Snow depth measurement is a conundrum this time of year, as you all describe here.

My NWS stake is in a shaded area  (you can see it to the right of the precip can in the second photo I posted above).  I use it as a data point, but not as the data point for depth.  I take a handful of manual measurements in that general-but-less-protected area.  It gets tricky as I don't want to disturb the snow anywhere near the stake.  

I think this is the recommendation from NWS, but the gradient does become significant this time of year.  At the end of Feb,  when we were just about melted out, I was reporting 3-4" as a depth.  As you drove around town, the exposed areas were T-1".  My stake was at 5", and most of the other readings were 2-3".  Apparently a member of the public contacted GYX to ask about the validity of my readings (like I said, around in non-protected areas it was relatively thin).

3.8"/0.44" | 11" depth with the 7AM obs.

32/31F, SN

13 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Thunder!!!! I think I just had thunder!!!

You better run. You better take cover.

Up a degree in the last hour.  32/22.

Dendrite/Mahk..   you guys have flakes in the air yet or are those radar returns virga?  Trying to figure out if that's going to make it here before midnight.

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

Snowing into Meriden CT along 91

 

Ahead of schedule?

31/19, OFC

43.6" STD

Current depth 7"

Feeling a @MaineJayhawkjack.  Maybe he fires it up.

No changes from GYX

Except they did bump up the 10% probabilities 

12 minutes ago, weathafella said:

This one works..

 

 

run out of my basement.

coincidentally, that's where we let my alcoholic uncle stay when he got evicted from his apartment.

7 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

The child was hit by an SUV that was being driven by a female student of South Portland High School, the release said.

The driver of the SUV is being charged with passing a stopped school bus with flashing lights, a class E offense, authorities said, adding that the driver said she didn't see the boy, nor the flashing school bus stop sign.

 

ffs. maybe stop texting and pay fkn attention

100%  The roads were shitty yesterday morning, too.  all the more reason to put the phone down.  the road where it happened is full of kids walking to the high school or getting on busses to go to the middle/elementary schools.

6 minutes ago, dryslot said:

These flakes are gynormous, Parachutes.

Flipped about 15 minutes ago down here - same thing, yuge flakes.

4 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said:

Wunderground just bumped up to 3 to 5 overnight. I don’t buy that, but it was fun to see.

You getting any precip now?  

I've noticed on the clown maps, especially GFS, most of the QPF stays south of Maine - really sharp cutoff north of York County.  What's driving that?  Is it the confluence to the NE?

5 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

Sneaky, under the radar for tonight?

 

GYX not feeling it at that latitude (yet)

36 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said:

‘Merica #1!

My older sister used to call Friday night snowstorms “cozy” storms. We’d all watch TGIF, eat crinkle fries, drink hot chocolate, play Nintendo, and lay out our stuff to go sledding in the morning. Those were the days. 

90's kid FTW.  The best part about Friday night snowstorms is you could have/go to sleepovers - and do the same thing you describe.

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Timing of this looks to have slowed down a bit, and duration extended.  Nature of moving towards a Miller B vs. SWFE, I'm assuming.

6 hours ago, tunafish said:

0.5/"0.09" with the midnight obs in PWM.  Maybe another tenth or two on the way out.

6.2" event so far

Finished with 6.4"

0.5/"0.09" with the midnight obs in PWM.  Maybe another tenth or two on the way out.

6.2" event so far

2 hours ago, dryslot said:

The easterly fetch will not be denied,

Meaning, the system is getting its juice off the water, with the wind out of the east?

Holy shit!  I hadn't paid any attention to Thursday, focused on today and Friday night > Saturday.   Assumed Thursday was rain for me.  Whoa!

17 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

It's a snowy pattern.  It wants to snow north of the gradient.  Another 5-7" for Mitch to Dendy to the ME crew?

54 minutes ago, NW_of_GYX said:

That ocean enhanced band GYX mentioned multiple times is rotting over me, seems to have positioned itself further north than forecasted. 

Just when I think it's done a other one regenerates.  Amazing.

2.8" new on 0.29" LE with the 7PM obs in PWM.  32°, -SN.

5.7" on 0.60" LE for the event so far.

Puts me at 42.0" for the season.  

Remarkably consistent ratios with this event - in my 5 years at this locale and I can't recall an event this consistently close to 10:1.

GYX totals so far

I think Brooklyn alluded to this yesterday - is that confluence/retrograding block combination too much of a good thing for C/NNE?  Favors NYC area & SNE moreso, correct?