ORH_wxman

Normally 2015 would’ve blown all this out of the water but we had one day in early February (wanna say 2/5) where we got a light snow event but it started kind of warm. BOS snuck to like 37-38F and ORH got to 34F I remember vividly. Because otherwise I think ORH would’ve gone like 5-6 straight weeks below freezing from second half January until late February that month.

ORH has an outside chance of breaking their sub-32F streak too but they’d have to survive a marginal day or two later this week. Don’t think they will but still pretty impressive they have a shot at all. Kind of matches what we’ve all felt…it’s been very consistently solid cold even though the very high-end airmasses have been a little less than you’d expect out of a prolonged cold pattern.

BOS threatening their 1918 sub-34F high streak.

Yeah that was a brutal one. First week of the month I think ORH set 3 daily records. We had like a 10-12” frozen glacier. Then we finally torched mid month before the cold returned for the St Pattys day storm

Yep. Maybe we get a couple cutters or rainers and that’s the beginning of the pack disintegrating but at this point, might as well roll the dice with a milder but more active pattern and try to increase the snow pack with some juicier events. I don’t need highs of 24F and stein watching it sublimate. That would remind me of the 3 weeks after Mid-Feb 2014. That was painful watching such a monster pack just slowly sublimate in the late winter sun every day even though it stayed very cold.

Yeah hard to get CAA below 0F temps into SNE after mid February. But I honestly couldn’t care less about that crap….unless it’s really high end where records are threatened. I’ll take moderate temps with lots of chances over deep layer CAA and stein.

And that includes ensembles. Literally 2 cycles ago we had a ton of hits on ensembles for next week and most of them evaporate within a run or two. Conversely, we have seen some events come back after losing them (1/18-19 did…AI remained more enthused and was correct)

There’s this weird pendulum in here where one group tries to push “end of winter”, “back broken”, etc etc…and then another group that pushes deep winter until 4/1. Let’s just call it what it is…moderation on temps (Second half of February does this most years) but 90% of this forum only cares about snow…so what about snow? Well, next week maybe a light event mid-week and then the weekend remains in limbo. If model performance since late January is any indication, I wouldn’t feel comfortable about saying anything beyond D5-6 right now. It’s been really bad consistency.

ORH used to have that problem. Not as much these days but check out some of their old reports from the 2000s and 2010s. Some of the storms are like 50 to 1 ratios.

Yeah unless they change the F6 data then I’d go 5.4. Id prob hedge higher anyway since they had 4.2” at 1pm and got smoked for a while. I thought they’d finish with 6”+.

Euro rotates an IVT down too over the Cape…but the main event is pretty paltry. Maybe an inch.

Yep not quite done yet on south shore and cape

4.5” but this is without clearing. Might have maybe squeaked 4.8-5” if I cleared after the midnight-6am batch.

Upper Cape about to get it. Tblizz too

Absolutely nuking still but about to slip east

Absolutely nuking in this 495 band (just inside 495). Best rates of the day. Should blow past 4” soon if we haven’t already

This band back by 495 is pounding

Weymouth walloper

2/15/15 look on the radar there. Kind of convective like that system.

Scooter gonna get 5-6” in 90 minutes out of that. Lol Nice band ramping back up for 495. Snowing really good back at home here

Has a bunch of threats in clown range…what a cold pattern in the 11-15.

BOS getting crushed now. Scooter will get that stuff too

At a birthday party with my youngest in Franklin MA and it’s ripping in this band in western Norfolk county

That obscene convective blob near Cape Ann and Marblehead is trying to drift into BOS. Wonder if they can go to poundtown for an hour or two

Metrowest between 128/495 trying to light up now. @ma blizzard just east of or ORH getting destroyed Still can’t get over Cape Ann…that convective thing is not moving very fast