George001

I hope we can avoid big warmth, im planning to buy a rest of season ski pass for Wachusett and would like to ski into mid April.

Yep, runs away like a coward. So much arrogance just to be this wrong.

We were supposed to get nothing 4 days ago, therefore I would have been happy even if we only got say 6 inches. Im not sure how much snow there is now due to all the drifting, but it’s easily over 20 inches just eyeballing it. This is the best winter we have had since 2015 and I’m enjoying every second of it.

I just went back outside to measure. This is 2-3 inch an hour snow.

Just woke up to 8 inches of snow and whiteout conditions. Holy shit this storm is amazing, with that radar look 2 feet is not out of the question here. There will probably be areas on the south shore that break 30.

Im expecting 18-24 here.

So much for the canonical front loaded Nina Feb

Is this storm a Miller A or B?

Yeah, going to be tricky with the drifting but I’m going to clear the deck every few hours, going to take measurements when I do so.

Im going to set my alarm. This is going to be a historic burial here.

Yeah he looks to be ground zero for this one. He was downplaying this all week and is going to get absolutely buried. It’s been a rough stretch in SE Mass so it’s nice that we had things break right this winter.

A lot of this is over my head as a non met and more of a causal snow weenie (especially in such a complex setup like this) so I would like to learn more about your process. From what I understand you don’t just look at QPF, storm track, 500mb You see the entire system, notice patterns (eg your Miami rule, phase heavy bias in the mid range, teleconnections, anticipating where the correction vector is pointed based on the ensemble clustering etc) and lean on that pattern recognition rather than ripping and reading QPF and kuchera like people do on Twitter. It’s an old school approach similar to another met I follow, Bernie Rayno. We need more of this and less QPF ripping from twitterologists. Feel free to tweak or correct parts of this that are off base. About your game of managing nested anomalies idea, I want to make sure I really understand this right. Would things like an extreme arctic airmass, intense thermal gradient, rapid phase shift for NAO, ENSO mismatch (La Nina surface with El Niño subsurface), etc fall into that category? The arctic airmass isn’t as entrenched as it was in the heart of winter, but a 1050ish mb high diving into the Midwest is no joke. Then we have the SE well AN. What about the role that CC as a whole plays in this idea of nested anomalies? On a global scale we are a pocket of cold in a sea of warmth like you mentioned in an earlier post, I’m curious how that ties into this.

Sort of, I was doing weed and shrooms, now I’m doing shrooms.

Yeah, nothing against drugs (Im sticking to shrooms now) but when it becomes an addiction that’s a problem. I kicked my weed habit a couple of months ago, noticed my attitude and energy levels have improved a lot. Picked the perfect winter to do it.

When it comes to this hobby, this is as good as it gets. It’s snowing out right now and a blizzard is coming on Monday

Casually brushing off 10-15 inches of snow like it’s not that big of a deal and not higher end

If that phases in earlier on the Euro suite, that opens things up for northern areas that are also getting hit by today’s storm.

Absolutely amazing trends overnight and this morning. I’m feeling much better about this with the Euro and EPS now on board for a decent event.

Weed?

I haven’t been following this one too closely, was thinking we had a shot at 4-6 here. Yeah that’s not going to happen, holy shit this one trended way north!

I’m gonna stay up for the AIFS and Euro then wake up for the full 6z suite.

No defense mechanism here. I literally agreed with him that we need another bump NW, Euro is more east than the NAM. I would be saying the same shit if the NAM showed a monster 2 foot blizzard. We are on the same page about the Euro, I know some people here don’t like it but this close in it’s quite good.

NAM = garbage outside of 24 hours. Like you said in your previous post, we need another bump NW from the Euro at 0z. The Euro isn’t perfect, but no fucking way am I ignoring what it shows this close to the event.

Yeah, the Euro this close in making that kind of move is a huge deal. I didn’t like how consistent it was with an eastern solution, this re opens the door for a bigger hit than a coastal scraper.

But that’s just greed, most people didn’t expect winter to be anywhere near this cold going in. It has been a cold and snowy winter. When the models show a lot of eye candy people increase expectations. I recall predicting 55-65 inches of snow for Boston, looks like a good chance we do end up on the lower end of that range. 55 inches for Boston Logan would be about 130% of average, snowcover has been great, and it has been very cold (well BN temps). Going in, I would have taken that and ran and a lot of the people complaining would have too. I’d rather be happy with a cold and snowy winter than be annoyed that it didnt turn into 95-96, 14-15, or 10-11.