MarkO

Rub it in, haha

Another inch fell last night, so a total of about 3" here in Lowell. What remains on the ground is only about 2", but that first inch is probably half water. I know Ray think's it's going to disappear, and the top inch of fluff certainly will, but i's not going to in areas to the north and west of me. We just both got screwed being less than 10 miles from the goods and you can sense it in the posts. I remember making a post years ago about drawing a map of New England of where a snow "pack" usually builds. I don't believe Lowell nor Methuen is in that area, but you go just west side of Nashua (10 miles to my NW) and I believe you're in the southeast edge of it. It kinds goes where snowmobile trails exist. Maybe I've gotten a little soft/less worrysome about these shitty events because I spend about 1/2 the time at my cabin, and this time of year, it's all about pack building. We might get an inland cutter that drops 2" of rain, but a good majority of that ends up building the pack. Sure, sometimes there's bare ground on Christmas, but that might be 10% of the time. Go 10 miles to my N up there and you're in elevated land and it's probably closer to 1% of the time. That post about storm anxiety made me laugh though. I never really get true anxiety, but a lot of people do including my wife, holy fu@#, I just get angry, lol. They may have been referring to the "milk and eggs" people, which I'm certain exist, but I think anyone posting here has gone through met anxiety. I could name names, but I think we all know who we are, lol. I certainly did/do, and that probably has a lot to do why I built my cabin 100 miles north of here. My friends and fam are like "We're so glad you built this place for us to come and enjoy" and I just chuckle inside to myself. I packed my shit and was ready to leave last night around 8 to get some runs in, but I have a job to do around here, and I hope the snow does melt a little because it actually involves a drone and the top inch melting away.

RI is the tropics. Still probably mowing their lawns.

I feel your pain, but it looks like winter out there. There's nothing really wet at all. I mean, yeah, it's light freezing rain, but it's freezing to everything, and I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon. There's still more qpf on the table. Holding steady at 31.5F

Just noticed rain drops on the window. Freezing ran/sleet 30.7F in Lowell. Looks like we got between 1.5 and 2" before hte flip.

I hope for you it doesn't, but it seems to be marching north. I just hope it remains below freezing at the surface. OF course I'm still holding hope it could bomb out but this system just lacks the dynamics.

Yup, just looked out the window and realized it's a mix of sleet and snow, almost all sleet now. 30.0/29.3. I wonder if this is going to turn into a mess?

Yup, you can see the battlezone marching NNW on radar. It's about 10-15 miles south of where I expected it to be. Temp has crept up almost 2 deg since I bottomed out at 27.9 around 11AM. That r/s line should continue NNW for a few more hours before it might collapse back towards 128. It's been mainly light snow 1.5" OTG 29.7/28.7.

Weren't you sleet just an hour ago?

1/2 mi vis. About 1/2" OTG 28.2/26.7. The latest HRRR would be an epic overproducing bust for the 495/MV area

Antecedent cold should help keep this snow until mid afternoon. Hoping for a positive bust. Dusting, 27.1/21

Woke up hoping for some model guidance resolution. I first checked the NAM with 2" dang it, GFS still showing 10. Talk about a now cast. NWS split the difference. Still holding out this thing bombs this afternoon. I'm good with whatever happens. Looking to ski this weekend, but I also got a lot of surveying fieldwork, but it aint gonna get done today.

Us folks on the 495 belt need as much help as we can get. It's down to 32F here in Lowell, and the Davis is reporting 22 at the cabin. Sounds kinda nuts, but I think the action is better here in Lowell. A dry 8" of snow up there is kinda meh, but if we can out an over producer in the 495 area, it will be a sloppy mess with power outages.

Ahhh, fk'in toaster bath for me. The 1800 NAM has got the dual lows that the Euro had. I'll be on the wet side of this one. At best, I forsee a Halloween 2011 redux. Heavy wet snow that accumulates to 3".

Wachusett should be all snow, but it's still going to be a wet snow.