MarkO

Power outage expectations.

Anyone, please help me out. We've got our annual BOD meeting up in Waterville Estates Sunday at 11AM. Not expecting much up there. Maybe 6" and a little wind. But 75% of the owners are 2nd home owners, most of which primary residences are within the Blizzard Warning area. My thoughts are that it would be prudent to postpone the meeting due to power outages. With the high winds forecast through Sunday AM at least, I believe power companies may not even be allowed to work on the lines. 

Any thoughts form the experts about anticipated power outages appreciated.

I should mention the meeting will be available via Zoom, but I'm concerned they will not have prepared to log in.

Groton, 37"

Reed Timmer heading to the Cape.

1 minute ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I mentioned in Wednesday's write-up that blizzard conditions east of about a ORH to ASH line, so makes sense to me

Do you (or anyone) remember the last time it was west to Worcester?

That's quite an expansive area of BW. For posterity. Updated to include coastal CT (just upgraded)

Not sure I'm buying this double barrel. 

No doubt blizzard warnings hoisted for coast and inland 20 or so miles.

Posting the Kuchie, 495 belt will get screwed. Shame on me

3 minutes ago, MuddyWx said:

my bad, more like 4 miles. just inside of 128 in E beverly

Grew up in Peabody. You're in a great spot. Enjoy!

1 minute ago, IowaStorm05 said:

There are a few folks on here who don't agree with you.

agreed, you wash that dirty little mouth out with soap!

2 minutes ago, MuddyWx said:

Beverly, like 6 miles east of danvers, just east 128

6 miles east? Bakers Island?

congrats Ray

The moment you realize you're going from 6th to 26th in NE snow

Not sure if this has been said, but got to give Ray credit

0 hr will certainly be entertaining, especially if that second meso becomes the primary sooner. 

Major hit up '95. This will affect millions.

48 hours out and...

... and here we go with the NAM. 3, 2, 1 go.

Still only 4 in the stink, 1 in the pink up here.

ECM 18HR helping some off the Tobin

959mb on the GFS. What a bomb, too bad it's not a hit for most of us.

Interesting high temps today

Lowell: 44.8F

Thornton: 20.2F

Conditions were the best I've skied all winter. Hit some non-snowmaking natural trails. A bit windblown, but stashes were found despite limited terrain as most of the lifts being on wind hold. Still not enough snow for woods at WV, but we're getting there. 

Ended up with about 6". I think it might have been a little more, but really no way to get a good measurement. It never flipped to rain here, but when I was down in the valley it was more of a white rain for a bit. Temp hit 36 around 3, slowly creeping back down. Some density to this snow, so good for the pack which is probably around 10" or so, and must have about 2.5" of liquid. I'll do a core later.

3 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Kinda interesting to hear people talking about the wind. Nearly dead calm here. BW is closed today due to 70+ gusts on the summit.

Always neat to see these microclimate differences around here. 

I'm not sure if it's because I'm on the side of a hill, but it's been ripping all morning with windblown drifts. My anno is only reporting a max gust of 28MPH, but it's protected from the winds with a lot of mature trees. I was also without power for a couple hours, and also dealing with transmitter battery issues. The wind has been more exciting than the snow. I think I got only around 6", but it's all drifts out there, so I'm going to have to report a guess on the New England snow website.