ORH_wxman

The common really is awesome when there’s snow during Christmas season. Next few nights are gonna be really awesome for skating on Frog Pond with all the lights and snow.

Nice. You beat my area by a solid inch or maybe slightly more. Makes sense though as the best was to the east of here. Really solid event though compared to what it looked like a couple days ago.

I haven’t had one since 2019. It’s been pretty ugly. N ORH county i think had one in 2022.

Yeah seeing the city of Boston in the jackpot stripe was pretty cool. They’d been getting porked historically bad the last two seasons and this setup screamed of them getting porked again but not this time, they were just barely on the right side of it for once. And getting it just before a cold shot leading into Xmas was a bonus…locking in their first White Xmas since 2017.

Jan 1-2, 1987 was the syzygy storm. That one dumped 18-24” in a narrow band from your area up toward Nashua. ORH had something like 14”…but there was a nice weenie enhanced zone just NW of the ptype issues. There was, of course, an incredible storm tide with that. Not sure if you had previously mentioned you were on the North Shore for that or if it was another event.

EPS is full-on weenie mode the first week of January. We’ll see as we get closer but this is good @Typhoon Tip will like seeing the lower height anomalies piercing the gulf coast…reducing those hyper speed gradients we’ve seen when we have SE ridging…like bouncing a shortwave off a trampoline…more chance to dig on this type of pattern

Threw it in disgust.

You guys will get your due. Sucks for tonight though because I legit thought you could pull a couple inches once you flipped with those good echoes. But the lift just didn’t quite stay big enough there being on the wrong side of the CF combined with being right on the water.

Maybe it’s taking the juice again like it did during its Brady Anderson 2015 season when it nailed every big storm.

Winding down now with just weenie flakes. Don’t think we’ll get much more unless a rogue band forms. Solid event here. Between 3-4”. Can’t complain at all. Sounds like jackpot was from roughly Jerry’s hood near Brookline/Chestnut hill down southwest to Westwood (which might be the point-jack) to prob Foxborough…there was a ribbon of 4-6” (maybe a spot 7”?) in that corridor. Some of the guidance had that exact zone as the jackpot for multiple cycles so they did well. The RGEM had it multiple cycles I think.

Man that Westwood zone just getting hammered…slowly sinking south into that Foxborough zone. They prob have 4”+ there too.

Should pick up another couple inches there anyway…some really good echoes still for the Cape over the next couple hours

When’s the last time BOS had “M02” with “SN” KBOS 202322Z 36018G28KT 1/2SM R04R/2800V5000FT FZRASN FZFG VV006 M02/M03 A2998 RMK AO2 PK WND 36029/2311 FZRAB20 P0005 T10221033 $

KHYA 202256Z 03006KT 1/2SM SN FG VV005 00/00 A2988 RMK AO2 SLP120 P0000 T00000000 RVRNO $

It will only turn over to rain if it lightens up a lot. But anything that’s worth following on radar there will stay as snow until the end.

Yeah I’m not even in the meat of this stuff and it’s actually snowing really good here with good snow growth. I wouldn’t call it moderate but solid 3/4-1 mile SN-….it must be pounding in that stuff just east of me. I also might be getting a little bit of drift under the beam with the LLJ out of the east.

Roads totally snow covered in Boston looking on TV. Impressive. They stayed on the cold side of the CF most of this event.

You have a period of good lift in the next 2-3 hours so it’s now or never there. Hopefully you can grab a few inches of paste.

There was one year they did it on Deer island on the water treatment plant. I think that was 2018-19. Winthrop last season was 2017-18? Scooter would remember.

I turned the Xmas lights on for you @CoastalWx

Just over 2” now. Might be able to pick up 3.

CF has backed west into Milton now...it was previously just below the Braintree split but now its just west of 93 between Milton center and east Milton.

Hopefully it sags south soon...it's barely NW of Taunton

BOS with the moderate snow obs now and 30F KBOS 201854Z 36014KT 1/2SM R04R/3000V4500FT SN FZFG VV008 M01/M02 A3003 RMK AO2 PRESFR SLP170 P0007 T10111022

Yeah the LLJ is helping us from metrowest to 495 to keep blossoming that precip....ther'es about 30 knots of inflow from 950-850, but it's screwing you over at the moment. The snow does linger for a while right along the coast, so i think you'll prob get some goodies this evening after the CF finally sags SE. Hopefully its enough to grab 1-2" there