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Looks like even elevated parts of N. Wor county (Ashburnham area) getting in on the goods. I didn't think any part of central/east MA was getting snow out of this one.

Neighbor up north says 2" (about 1/2 hour ago). Weather station 31.5F. Probably an overproducer as it seems to be snowing even in the valley.

Ended up with about 3". It's got decent density, so will linger around for the weekend. Thursday's hi/low up north is 9/0. Hoping there's enough snow to ski natural trails. 

Been snowing in Lowell past hour give or take. About an inch 32.2/31. Sticking everywhere, even main roads.

Weird system. I just took the dog out and was surprised to see wet flakes mixing in. Still about 90% rain, but the occasional mangled flake. Temp down 1/2 degree 34.5/33

Probably snow above 500'

35.0/34 here in Lowell. All rain. 

Pretty awesome to have such great conditions so early. I don't think there's enough snow to ski trees in my neck of the woods, but I hear folks are skiing the Sherbie on sufficient cover without any rocks. So after Tuesday/Wednesday 3-6" I guess it might be possible... I'm guessing there will be enough to ski on some trails that traditionally hold more snow on one favored side, but we're only a decent storm or two away from dropping ropes on natural trails. 

Friday going to feel like mid winter skiing in single digits. 

Edit, the trail that comes to mind is Vista. Just saw this posted on Cannon's website:

Cannon will kick off our 80th season Friday, November 23rd. Cold temperatures and a little help from Mother Nature will have us skiing and riding on at least 20 trails with the potential for some turns on natural snow. So far, we've seen a total of 14" of new snow and could pick up another 3-6 inches of snow tomorrow.

Late to the party but holy smokes, we got some serious potential seemingly out of nowhere. 

Flipped back to snow here in Lowell as well. Glad I shovelled the driveway last night but now the plow pile is back breaking wet concrete. I just gave up. I'm too old for this sh!t.

9 minutes ago, geo1 said:

Wonder if we can reach double digits. Still coming down hard.

Just shovelled the drive measured 7-9" Light snow. Prolly in the 15:1 range. Unbelievable overachiever! These are the best storms.

Yeah, we were missing out on the goods earlier, but this last band has been incredible. Probably 2" in the last hour. 

Might be some very heavy fronto over our area now Ray, if we can somehow hold off the sleet until 2 we may join in on the festivities.

6" sounds about right for here as well. Looks like 4 or 5" now and back edge approaching. Maybe we can squeeze out another 2" in the next hour. It's ripping harder now than all tonight. An overperformer for here, but nothing like others are getting. 

First flakes in Lowell 28.8/21

Similar situation here Gene. Could only drive up to about 1600' before the road was impassable (2 cars off road) with about 4" of slop, down to just remnants at around 1000'. Nice to see it fall mainly as snow, but only ended up with about an inch or so last night at 1100, it's pretty much gone now. 36.8/36.

Amazing how much of a role elevation played in this event. Been snowing all night but I only got an inch to show for it (cue the punch joke) but just came from the lodge at 1300' and was maybe 3-4", and I'm almost certain there's nothing at the valley floor at about 700'.  Credit to the models and technology. 

3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Dropping through the 30s here, but raining. Snowing I presume at 1300ft and up in the western part of the county in New London and Newbury.

Rain definitely had some grain to it between exit 22 and 23, was surprised it didn't flip earlier. But since there wasn't really any snow at all when I got here, I assume it flipped to snow just moments before. Snow is now dry and no longer wet and temp has remained at 33.1/32 since I got here about half hour ago.

I will say it did feel pretty awesome to see it falling as snow as soon as I got to my cabin, but I was and am still worried it's only a matter of time before it flips back. Hoping to hit Wildcat or Sunday River tomorrow. 33.1/32

Rain the entire way up until I got off 93 at exit 28 and gained some elevation. Seems to be around 1000'

From my limited free ECMWF info, it looks like it came in a little warmer. But I can't tell if it's maybe just a little slower? The meso low in GOM looks a little west of where it was earlier.

Anyone have any ECMWF totals?

Edit, thanks Dryslot! you read my mind.

23 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Things very few on here care about, but the meso-models are surprisingly cold tomorrow evening for the Adirondacks, Greens, Whites, etc.  RGEM and NAM even want to snow into the NNE valleys for a good burst of QPF on the front end.  850s are surprisingly cold too.

If something like the NAM/WRF/RGEM panned out, could be more interesting than it seemed a day or two ago.

Need to see soundings as I suspect there's some marginal layer just above 850mb but it's got SFC temps of 33F widespread with this look. 

NAM had a warm layer up around 700mb which NWS discussion mentioned, but it appears that warm layer is less of a factor. Northern mtn areas look to be mostly snow/frozen now compared to earlier. I know the GFS has been pretty consistent with my area sounding which has been snowing snow down to at least 2000', and if it's coming down hard, I think it will be snowing in the valley's too.

Even if we do get snow in the mtn's Friday and next week, I'm not sure it survives the warm-up Thanksgiving week. James, I don't know how you do it living on the outer Cape. That's literally the warmest/wettest place to be (barring ACK). More often than not (seems like way more often than not) you're dealing with rain and sloppy mess, especially this time of year with ocean temps in the low-mid 50's.

I also heard last nights Euro favored a colder solution?

NAM coming in colder, but still shows warm layer around 700. Looks like snow to sleet in the mountains, prolly finish as drizzle.