Solstice

MRG changing over to heavy snow

33 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Think he means in the wind. A snowboard won't do you any good. Take ten measurements in the most undrifted areas and average, of course you need to measure in a cleared area unless you take depth measurements religiously.  

^ I would also suggest to measure in drifted and undrifted areas to get a range of the snowpack. Unless you don't want to posthole. Lol

1 minute ago, alex said:

How do you measure snow at times like this? If snowed all day but I think we only got a couple of inches (I wrote down 1.5) but honestly, I have no idea. That's based on the grill shelves which I cleared this morning but it's been blowing all over the place. Is there a methodology to get an accurate measurement when it's like this?

Use a snowboard. White piece of plywood or anything that is white essentially. Read up here for more

https://www.weather.gov/media/coop/Snow_Measurement_Guidelines-2014.pdf

6 minutes ago, J.Spin said:

Event totals: 20.0” Snow/1.56” L.E.

 

In Burlington this afternoon there were bouts of snow, but when I left around 4:00 P.M. or so, it was fairly light.  It continued to ramp up in intensity as I headed into the mountains – it was moderate in Williston, and already quite heavy by Richmond.  That heavy snow hung right through to Bolton Flats, and I couldn’t believe it, but as I approached the pass by our house it intensified even more to the point that visibility was just a couple hundred feet.  It has to be a couple inches an hour during that period, and there was no way that the plows would have been able to keep up with it.  Our road had several inches of snow on it, and even in the Subaru, getting up the driveway was tough.

 

Details from the 5:00 P.M. Waterbury observations:

New Snow: 7.3 inches

New Liquid: 0.22 inches

Snow/Water Ratio: 33.2

Snow Density: 3.0% H2O

Temperature: 19.6 F

Sky:  Heavy Snow (2 to 10 mm flakes)

Snow at the stake: 26.0 inches

That's literally more than 1/2 the snow I would normally get in a YEAR  
When I go up there it's 50 degrees and raining, when I go back down to CT it's snowing up north and down south. Maybe I should tell you all my travel plans so you can plan ahead for the crappy weather

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always nice to see the cold vs warm battle hopefully i will see a snowflake but it probably wont stick well to anything before the eventual change to rain barring any other long or short tracking shifts.

Still haven't had my first frost in SW CT 

Interesting period coming up. First double digit days of October will be a period worthy of watching. Signals are there!

Quite the aggressive crew 'round here