Funny, usually when most of us think of Southeast Mass, we just refer that to Plymouth and Bristol counties. Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket are usually just referred to just the Cape and Islands, not just Southeast, MA in general..
Nah, for us we need a track a few tics south of what the 18Z GFS says, then we'll have something a little more interesting for this time of year on our hands.
It can happen but it is rare. Not sure about 125 years of weather records being an anomaly, but it does show you the state of what the climate in November has been since then. Both Boston and Worcester can get, as we have seen once and a while, 3"-6" and 4"-8" storms. Those are more potentially viable with the right set up as you have alluded to. The only storm in history I have seen in records is the Portland Gale of November 26-27 1898 with a foot or so in Boston proper and about 20" in Worcester.
I remember the news saying they recorded 40" in Hamden. Not sure how accurate it was with the blowing a drifting. Not sure if people used the six hour snowfall increment method or not in that, that makes a difference, but a very potent band was over them for several hours which can be seen on past radars imagery. Very intense!
You want to really know who's going to see some Sci-Fi action with this storm? Try being right on the Great Guana Cay north of Abaco Sunday at 1PM. Now that is a place to be to see Dorian it's most deadliest. Try your best to take pictures a BE SAFE!!!
I know for sure he measures at the end, which is good for the most part but where the person is measuring in Winthrope needs to be way more representable for the Boston Metro Proper. As discussed many times on this board, Boston Common seems to be the most reasonable and representable place.
I believe you. I think now that most who are in the "know" understand to let it settle if not measure it every 12-24 hours like many did before the 1995/1996 winter. Elevation and mesoscale features that you indicate here however can create these types of deviations. Not large deviations but somewhat noticeable as you have observed.
That foot that was on the field (My uncle is airport manager there) probably is the truth at the waters edge before any settling. So yes, the 12" amount is probably the truth but will the official books call it? We'll see.
I know from the 7AM snow reports from Burlington, MA got 13.4", Reading 13.0" (Ryan). So I'm not sure if we can squeezed out another inch until the storm end but we'll see. It's absolutely awsome that the heart of our viewing area got nailed like this. This is what the winter should have been like starting December 3-4th instead of March 3-4th.
Not sure I totally agree with that statement. I've see many benchmark storms with a cold High pressure in place have a heavy snow swath track that extends from Worcester, east northeast to 128, Boston and the immediate North Shore down to where Scott is, Weymouth (Immediate South Shore). But in terms of the banding structure of the storm is a whole other story.
That does look a little more jucy. I wonder if there will be a 10-13" ribbon somewhere in there according to that model. If so, it would go from a general direction from NW CT through Worcester to just north of Boston to Bedford MA. Just to the south of Boston around Weymouth has a little ocean enhancement.
Nobody was going to see 6-8" out of this after seeing the midnight models and trends. This was a 3-6" (6") is the max on the estimate locally on the far South Shore.
No Ray, we've talked about this. I went to the pumping stations in north Wilmington. The man showed me the book. 32" for storm, 37" on Ground. No 6 hour measurements back then. Hell, both Burlington, Ma and North Andover came in with 30". Again no 6 hour measurements back then.
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