ORH_wxman

Yeah the Euro schooled the GFS last storm in the medium range. We’ll see if it’s got it’s mojo back or if it’s still in a dogfight for supremacy.

One final hurrah in the final week of March? Heres 5 day EPS mean H5 and then 850 anomaly below…you can see cold source temporarily gets re-established for a winter threat potential…and yea, clown range ensemble caveats still apply

Ha, I prob went down those same trails a few days later. It was definitely an incredible ski weekend....some of the best conditions I've skied in when you combine the snow and temps. It was like mid to upper 20s and chalky snow on the groomers despite late March and the woods were just buried. Hopefully similar dumpage this year.

Yeah and I had zilch on the ground down here...one of the more impressive gradients I've seen. They just got crushed over and over again that month while we got shafted here despite it being a very cold pattern. But the March snow up there is great....best skiing month hands down in NNE IMHO.

Reminds me of the 10 day period in 2014 where they got like 3 feet between 3/13 and 3/23....I think you were at Sunday River for the 2nd of those 3 events....like a 12-16" paste bomb on 3/19-20/14. I arrived the next day and then we got a 3-4" clipper on 3/22.

What a weenie run for that area....they get pretty good snows on the clipper too. That plus the weekend deal puts them at like 2 feet of snow over the next 7 days, lol.....would be good for the ski areas though....SR and sugarloaf look to get smoked too.

Maybe....but that wouldn't explain the obscenely low numbers in the Allagash of Maine.

I'm starting to think it's just a 2021-2022 snowfall anomaly map using elevation contours attempting to represent the anomaly...it would explain why SE MA and coastal Maine are "higher" than areas to the northwest.....although I don't think they quite achieved what they intended anyway. Places like S VT are solidly below normal for snowfall but still show up high on the map. It's just a terrible and confusing map that doesn't give us much useful information.

I'm not sold on Thursday....could be 'rhea out of the east.

It also has my current location down to NW RI higher than the spine of ORH county. Lol Not correct.

Some good radar shots from that storm too

I forgot to post my fav pic from the 3/13/18 storm earlier…this was me on the deck after shoveling. Snow wasn’t done yet at this point either prob picked up another inch or two of fluff

All joking aside, I’ll vouch that Kevin’s totals are usually pretty good aside from tacking on an extra tenth or three at the end of an event when he needs to close the gap slightly on ORH or Ray. There’s only a couple that I legit questioned: Feb 2013 blizzard he measured a drift and claimed 36” when it was prob more like 30”. Even the NWS tossed it. October 18, 2009 he claimed like 2.5” when the pics were definitely more like 1.0-1.5”. I tried to get him to post a pic on a flat surface with a ruler but he just barked at me and logged off.

You get plenty of trash in April and May in IJD. It’s better than where I am but you are easily east enough to get in on them fairly frequently.

I had 1.6” in Holliston last night when it started slowing down. I may have had another couple tenths but I didn’t stay up…wind was crazy though when falling asleep. Classic spring day even though it’s cold out struggling to hit freezing. In the sun it’s torched away.

He means winter is over. We’re ripe for dogshit easterly flow misery list until mid June some years. I don’t see any frigid winter wx conditions for the remainder of this season though. We lose the cold source in Canada after the next few days. We could still get snow though as bowling ball season happens during the final week of March into early April. The ensmebles are trying to show a potentially favorable period late month….but we know the caveats that come with ensembles.

That strong NW flow is a brutal wind direction for North Conway and south of the notch. Usually they’ll do well in the synoptic stuff but that’s because synoptic precip also has a east or north wind but not in this storm. So it would make sense that Alex and Phin get crushed while south of the notch struggles.

Yeah quabbin isn’t big enough. You can get some low level very light snow from quabbin if conditions are perfect but it’s really rare. You only see it out in western ORH county and it’s basically flurries or stray flakes. I don’t know where the streamers came from. I guess lake Champlain could’ve done it on NW or NNW wind and it somehow get reinvigorated because of the upper level support. It was weird but they definitely acted like LES streamers and the snow was similar to what I’d see out in Ithaca off lake Cayuga. They did make for a good wintry scene last night.

Yeah that was funny. Was ripping moderate snow at 29-30F on Mother’s Day.

That was a great storm here (3/13/18)…measured 24”. That was on top of the 3/7-8/18 paste job…we had a monster pack after the 3/13 storm. Also today is the 29th anniversary of the 1993 superstorm. Hard to believe it’s been almost 30 years. I remember that storm well. I was in 6th grade and the official forecast was for 8-16”….we ended up with 20” despite not being in the CCB/deformation. It was the most ridiculous WCB I’ve been in. It was basically 12 hours of front-end heavy snow. The front end stuff started when the low was still down in the gulf states. It was so expansive.

Man, just went out to get firewood out back and it’s still pretty nasty out. Wind isn’t as strong as last night but plenty breezy and temps in the low 20s with snow still swirling around and off the roof. Prob the last taste of “true winter” type conditions this season barring one of those rare late season cold storms. (Ala 4/6/16)

The funny part is this will all be a dream in a couple days. Doesn’t feel like it right now though.

Lol. It comes and goes. I’m sure I’ll regress because it’s inevitable. But yeah…like Scott said, we’re not getting that much snow. Maybe 1-2” (spot 3 maybe)…but it’s the nasty wind/snow combo that’s making it such a great feel tonight. Ground blizzard with big gusts and the occasional heavier snow squall. It just feels like deep winter out there tonight. Not a passing spring storm.

This is honestly some of the “worst” winter conditions I’ve seen all year. These gusts are easily passing 40 every few minutes and the blizzard outside. Even when it’s light snow the wind is making an awesome ground blizzard.

The wind is insane in this streamer too. It was already windy but it’s like it got enhanced. Almost like a WINDEX squall.