ORH_wxman

An inch or two and maybe some sleet/ZR to finish....seems like south of pike will warm aloft.

May have to watch some glazing in S CT for Sunday....sfc temps aren't going anywhere even if it warms aloft.

We need a 2015 pattern where the lows are swinging north a little better....Maine got crushed during that too, not just SNE. Recently storms have been getting shoved east at the last second before they can get further north. At least this next storm looks like it will gain latitude a lot better than previous ones.

06z EPS cooled again

NAM is warm aloft south of the pike too.

Canadian sort of partially phased the arctic shortwave with the southern stream deal so it ends up as this long stung out wave. No other guidance pseudo-phases them, though the 06z NAM looks like it would come close (but still not do it)

EPS quite bullish for Tuesday...almost trying to go a little more coastal than SWFE. It’s still more of the latter but the thump would be greater and change over take longer when coming in like that

18z Euro looks ugly again for Sunday after 12z looked better.

If you can, I’d look into buying a small condo. It sounds daunting at first but the mortgage payment on it would prob be similar to rent you are paying...and at least you’d be building up equity in the condo rather than lighting money on fire each month with rent. Even if it’s a small dumpy little condo that doesn’t seem “worth it” to buy. Still way better than renting assuming you know you’ll be in the area for s few years. You don’t even have to save up a ton either if you have decent credit. You can prob put like 3% down. But anyways, this would allow you to buy a house down the road a lot easier than waiting until 50. You sell that condo after 5-10 years and prob have a 100+ grand pocketed.

GFS still kind of hideous for Sunday. V16 looks a little better.

Prob before yesterday....they are 6.0" above average to date with 32.7".

Keep the block into mid March....that way it will be timed perfectly to change regimes once we get into late Mar/April. The last thing we want is the blocking to break down at the end of February only to return April 5th and then torment us for another 4-6 weeks.

I lived for years (and grew up) on the northern side of the city which is generally pretty nice (and so is the western parts around Tatnuck Square and Worcester St College...straight northern ORH near Indian Hill/Greendale/Burncoat area is a little more blue collar than west side but still pretty nice). But yeah, they never have addressed actual downtown. Hubbdave mentioned how the canal distrcit is making a comeback too which is nice....but this is pretty localized. The new stadium will be near there, so hopefully it helps expand the growth. They really need to revitalize Main Street between like the Police station and Hanover Theater over to Pleasant St south of Park ave. So much of that is still pretty dumpy. They've made slow progress, but there is a ton of potential there.

NNE gets snow from that system too but it's lighter. Prob like 1-2".

The Euro looks a lot like 12/16/07.

Yep, that is a classic higher end warning SWFE look. Absolutel frigid antecedent airmass and the whole system slams into an arctic high situated near CAR or just north of them.

Vday looks a little better on Euro. Maybe like 2-5" type event instead of 1-2" on last night's run....looks best southwest again.

ORH is eventually going to explode in value. They've "skillfully" managed to keep themselves a low-cost dump through the years, but it's becoming hard for even them to stop the tide coming in from the east. It's already getting really expensive in places just east of them like Shrewsbury, Boylston, etc. If they could ever fix the downtown area of ORH, the city real estate is primed to like double or triple in value over the next 2 decades. Biggest problem right now with the city is that the downtown area is still a dump and the places anyone wants to visit with bars/restaurants are usually east of downtown on Shrewsbury street....though it will be interesting to see how the new ballpark for the AAA team changes things.

Euro says congrats hoth to weatherX to snowman21 on 1-2" tonight.

I was back in ORH by 1989....don't worry, I was back here in time to personally witness the historic ORH snow drought....one of my earliest memories though is our pipes bursting in Xmas 1983 in San Antonio. That was an epic cold outbreak.

Ukie has a big one developing on 2/16-17 too. Good antecedent airmass in that setup.

I always said that personal finance/budgets should be a required course in high school....so many have no idea how to manage finances and its what gets people into trouble.

Ukie was decent for Sunday. Like 3-5" for most of SNE, though maybe a few ptype issues far S/SE areas. It also got like an inch or two into SW CT tonight.

GEM is a coastal for 2/16....not a SWFE like GFS/Euro.

Seriously.... Though I've known a lot of people who buy houses a bit our of their income range. They can technically "afford" it, but it's not smart financial planning. Barely scraping by each month. A lot of people do that. The mortgage brokers will finance you up to like 43% of your monthly income. When we were first getting pre-approved years ago and we made a lot less than we do now, I couldn't believe when they were like "yeah, we've pre-approved you up to 500k"....I was like "why in the hell would we take out a 500k loan we can't afford?"......but they only look at pure debt and not recurring large expenses like childcare, etc.