Greg

Many areas will be around freezing this evening and late tonight. The real key to the forecast for final accumulations rest on those bands hanging over you. Once it lets up, it becomes very showery in nature. So a very precipitation rate intensity driven storm. The storm track is fine, the airmass is debatable.

Track looks really good.

Center of the storm is still off shore just south/southwest of Nantucket moving northeast. Dryslot over the outer elbow of the Cape. Hopefully this Banding sets up just right so we can get some good snows to fall within this relatively short period of time left.

No, A dryslot. The center is still off shore, just barely south, southwest of Nantucket. You can see it on the satellite image.

Boston Weather Service seems to think the track is staying mostly off shore and not over the Cape and Islands as some but not all the models have. So that may be where the difference in thinking is. Which may translate to the potential heavier amounts shown.

It actually could on the low end of the scale of that. This will have better dynamics than the 4.3" storm before Halloween.

No. Different track, longer duration storm.

Tightly packed and wound-up system.

That's a little aggressive with the forward speed of this thing. Thinking Boston area Northshore 4-8", Higher Elevation from Central-Eastern CT, Worcester to Southeast NH to Eastern ME 8-12". Normal Measuring technique.

Not sure I totally agree with that statement. The - NAO depending on how far back with weather data you go generally indicates a fairly even percentage on that.

I saw a 1.5" reported in Charlestown at 10:36AM on the National Weather Service site. Been snowing at a decent clip since then.

These are some very good and honest reports. I really hope with this weak La Nina we can get a decent amount of blocking to get a good winter out of it. Here's to to keeping the hope alive.

3.0" inches of snow here on the glass porch table as of 12:05 PM. I did not expect this here. Still snowing.

Very rare inland October Bombs don't count.

Had about 2 inches on the nose here in Wilmington, MA as of 10:40 AM. Still coming down nicely. Highly unusual for October 30th.

Very nice to see this. Gets you into the holyday spirit.

Not bad for October 31st. Snowing here since 7:30 AM. Hope this La Nina winter turns out better than the last few we've had.

I know. I just don't know why. It looks fine from my computer terminal here. Oh, well.

They aren't that bad with their forecast. Sometimes they see things a little bit before others. Not saying it's correct but you have to wonder what they see to post this by 8:11PM tonight.

Closing in on 2.0" here in the backyard. Nice little ending to the Winter that never really got going.

1.6" inches exactly before light snizzle began.

I do hear what some are saying about March snow on here. I guess unless you get a storm like March 19-20 1956, 3-4 1960, March 12-14 1888,March 31-April 1 it won't quite have the impact with storms that happen earlier in the season. Yes, 1888 is the super extreme outlier to say the least, but it does show you what can happen even in what seems to be a weak winter so far...

Man, I wish it was 42 years ago on this date in the 1978. Happy anniversary!

Unfortunately, the "Colorado Low" track pattern we have been in so far also known also as Miller "C" storms or Hybrid Lows as some may call them, are not the best pattern for New England in general. Even as far north as past Concord, NH it has been a benign winter so far. Unless you get the Colorado Lows tracking like December 22-23 1975, what you see is what you get. The highs are way too transient this season to allow any storms to stay underneath us for good solid snows. So again, all I can say is " It is what it is."