MarkO

2 hours ago, wxeyeNH said:

We just had a heavy rain shower with either small hail or graupel.  No thunder or wind.  Would today's "ice pellets" be considered as hail?  It's 48F but has been snowing today above 3750 in the Whites

Had a few hail showers here as well. Raw day, low/mid 40's. It's snowing up above about 3500'

Where the sun did break out in S VT, temps are in the 60's

We had about 1/4" of accretion and temps didn't break 32 until about 2 hrs ago. Sounds like it's pouring rain in the trees. 

light glaze out there 30.5/24

Nothing better than an over producer. 3.5"

2 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I was dissapointed with my call close to the coast.....I wasn't wrong because of thermals, either....we just didn't get the big finale that was advertised, which is why from 495 points east came in several inches under my forecast. It actually flipped to snow earlier than I had thought, if anything.

Not sure when you flipped Ray, but we were getting some mangled flakes in the early pre-dawn hours, but it took a couple hours to finally flip to accumulating snow. Maybe somewhere in the 8:30AM time frame, snowed medium to heavy until early afternoon. I cleared 4" off the driveway twice of really heavy snow. Took a core off the picnic table and it had nearly 1.5" of LE. Got another 1/2" overnight, so I'd call it at 8.5" for the event total.

I'd say 7". Close to 1.5" from core. Lawn is only about 4 or 5", picnic table different story

Pounding 2" in last hour. Closing in on 5

Gonna be some power issues. The white pine in my front yard is getting the lower branches close to the ground. That's usually when they begin to snap from above.

Transitioned about 1.5 hrs ago. Nice rates now, about an inch OTG, but most of that came in the last 1/2 hr. 32.4. Looks like about 5" up north

Oscillating between rain an snow as the temp ever so slowly drops. 35/2F. I know it's snowing just to the west of me. I can see it.

3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Mixing layer definitely lowering and crashing south in NE MA. 

It's crashing over my fanny. Mostly white rain, but some parachutes mixing in

2 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Wet flakes.  Sticking to non paved surfaces

what's your elevation?

I guess if there's any hope keeping my chances alive, it's that it's a few degrees colder than I expected at this time. 

Lowell

37.2/34.8

Snowing at Wachusett. No surprise there. 

https://www.wachusett.com/the-mountain/media-center/webcams/

37.6/35.2

The herpes drop off in the Worcester area is insane. Somewhere there's going to be a massive drop in totals similar to the late season storms we get up north where there's literally nothing on the valley floor at 700' and 18" two miles (and 1000' in elevation) away.

Just now, CT Rain said:

BOX map looks OK to me though not sure about E Mass.

I don't get it. Ray and I end up with same as New Bedford?

I just threw up in my mouth with that new NWS map. My P&C still says 7-15"

8 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

If this verifies hopefully Ray will fish my corpse out of the Merrimack

I think we're good Ray. We'll flip just after daybreak when it starts cranking. 12 hours of 1+" rates.

15 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

WTH is this map 

March is woman's month. I think this is just NWS attempt to expand their audience.

My P&C is 8-16. Seems reasonable. 

48 hours out you can usually have some confidence in a 50/50 ECM/NAM blend, but they're kind of out on their own with the high totals for my area (in Lowell for this one). But even if you take a 20% reduction for ratios, it's still pretty high. NWS has been bumping up there maps all day. So that's a good sign.

Anyone have a link to Walter Drag? I'd love to hear what he's thinking