SeanInWayland

2 minutes ago, ariof said:

https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap

I linked a couple of stations in.

Looks like it's pushing slowly east now. Back into Belmont/Arlington now. Will see if it crashes east soon.

Thanks! I just checked the closest station here in south Wayland about a mile north of the Pike and a similar thing happened here as well

41 minutes ago, ariof said:

Pretty impressive coastal front moving back and forth just around 128 based on the Wundermap weather stations. Moved through KBED around 0600 having steadily pushed in from the NH border near KFIT around 0000.

 

Here's Lexington, came through at 6, back out around 11, looks like it might be swinging back through. A couple miles east in Arlington it was only through for about 45 mins. East of there has been white rain with accumulation on grass/cars/well-insulated roofs until it pushes through.

Very nice illustration of your point. Thanks for showing. Where did you get the data, BTW?

I look forward to that...hopefully at least one of them takes a vested interest instead of looking at me cross-eyed like the general populous  God, just give one "the sickness" to take over the blog once I start drooling on myself lol

I’m really happy to hear this. I got the snow bug when we moved from TX to Albany when I was 7, and the first winter my Dad made it part of our routine that I would help him shovel the snow, which I had never seen before.

BTW, that was the winter of 69-70, and so I remember thinking this is just like Charlie Brown where I see people wading in snow up to their waists.


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1 minute ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

You will average close to 60” in Brattleboro, 

That sounds about right. As a testimonial, I grew up in Albany, which averages in the low 60's, and traveled frequently with my Dad to Brattleboro. The aggregate snow amounts seemed similar.

1 minute ago, Ginx snewx said:

I wonder exactly what the surge will be up North This storm is huge and has more generated energy than the big ones. Talking water for you landlubbers

That's exactly what I was wondering looking at your wave map. The southern tip of NS being ground zero.

13 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

 

Zzzzzzzz

 

From your computer screen to God's ears, I hope. Flying West early Saturday from Logan and am kinda nervous about getting out.

21 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Might be the heaviest snow I’ve ever seen. My aunt used to live right up near Alpine Meadows ski resort so we’d go there sometimes. Feb 1994 (ironically during the brief thaw in the east that winter) when I was on school vacation we went and there was a storm that dropped about 6-7 feet in 3 days but one of the days must have snowed 4 feet and during the peak of it I’m guessing it was like 7-8 inches per hour. Might have been slightly more even….it was actually kind of scary being out in it because you couldn’t see anything. Vis was maybe 25 feet?  This was well before normal people had cellphones so you could actually wander 20 yards in the wrong direction and have no way to get back or call for help. 

S+++++

Reminds of when my buddy, who worked at NCAR for a few years, sent me a screed some guy who worked there wrote about how S++ meant something very different to the upslope Colorado folks than to us mere mortals out East.

4 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Absolutely!  He got to do what he loves and still going strong.

And to think my wife used to babysit his kids. He still lives in the same house, BTW.

Harvey is the best.

9 minutes ago, tavwtby said:

are you using a venier caliper for measuring??

It's an average, you dolts. He explained that in his original post. This is almost as bad as the idiots who opine about how we can't know that the yearly average temperature for some location was 0.3F higher, cuz our thermometers only read in increments of 1F.

Sorry to pick you out, you were just one of several making this point.

OK, now I feel better.

If you want to make fun of him for significant digits, I'm with you. 

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

I haven't been paying attention to the temps, but just realized that this could be heavy snow at zero or below here? That's nuts. Never experienced that in my life.

In late January 1982 I was in Lyndonville, VT for a college XC ski race. We knew a storm was coming though it was hellaciously cold ahead of it, and when we woke up that morning it was -10F and snowing really hard outside. Did my race (which was a real pain given the conditions), and then we all piled into our coaches Subaru and headed back to Boston. Went through heavy snow and eventually ice, but somehow made it safely back to Boston.

One of the reasons I remember this so clearly is that when I got back to my dorm I heard that a plane had just slid off the runway at Logan, killing two passengers.

29 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Yeah but make sure you’re above the ground floor at the seaport 

And be careful where you park your car.

12 hours ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Blame New York…they’ve blocked the last handful of pipeline projects into New England. Endless supply of gas just down the road, but can’t get it here because New York is in the way.

Oh, how quickly we forget that New Hampshire just blocked Northern Pass, which would have brought hydroelectric power down into New England from Hydro Quebec.

2 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Hoosick Falls one of the worst snow spots around..sneaky awful. 

I think I really became aware of it in 1977-1978 (my last year in HS). We had a bunch of Noreasters that year and it seemed like every single time Albany got 10-12", and Hoosick Falls got like 3-5".

5 minutes ago, mreaves said:

I don’t recall ever hearing someone say they were jealous of Albany. 

Speaking as someone who grew up there, and now lives in Boston, it's actually a pretty nice place. Unless you want to live in a really big city like NYC, it's got almost everything you would want in terms of culture and access.

And as for the snow, I always found that the area that got the least snow was NE of Albany, say between Hoosick Falls and Greenwich. They often got shadowed something fierce.

10 minutes ago, Greg said:

Jet Streak and spacing influence of the storm to the north and strength of the SLP.

So, IANAM. WIth that being said, there clearly appears to be some kind of relative bias between on-hour and off-hour runs. Seems like that's something modelers would want to eliminate, so I'm wondering if that pattern is common.

16 minutes ago, JC-CT said:

Wow, that's a revealing graphic. Why on earth is that model doing that?

BOX has High Anus with 40% of >4 inches and 15% of >6.

That’s quite the description


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Heard a really loud thump just now, the house shook, and the lights flickered for about 15-20 sec. Thought at first it was the plow guy dinging my garage, but no, it was the really large 60' pine tree across the street from me coming down across the road and extending into my driveway. 

What a mess.

On the plus side, here at 300' elevation in Wayland, we likely have north of 14" and it's still coming down bonkers.

2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Delmar.  It borders the Albany city limits to the SW.

Sure, know it well. That's a great photo. BTW, my mom is waiting for my BIL to come over and snowblow her out. He has like a 100' driveway and is likely doing exactly what your Dad is doing right now

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

My parents have 23" on the level near ALB, just starting to snowblow.  My dad is 6'3" so that's pretty solid, ha.

Cool, I grew up there and my parents (well, my Mom) still lives right next to the University (Dad taught there). Where around Albany is that, if you don't mind me asking?

1 hour ago, weathafella said:

Original Legal Sea Foods!

The very first Legal I went to as a freshman in 1978!

1 hour ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Yup, it was just a little take out joint!  

I was only there once, as it burned down (right?) shortly thereafter. I remember three things: It was small. Jim RIce(!) was there that night eating alone and made it clear he wanted to talk to no one. And we had to pay ahead of time in cash.

Oh yes, almost 1" down here in Wayland about a mile N of the Pike

4 minutes ago, mimillman said:

Ugh. Total nailbiter for my flight. 

Move it up to Tuesday, if you want my advice. Why subject yourself to that stress?

14 minutes ago, SeanInWayland said:

Snow began to mix in about 15 min ago, more snow than rain now here in Wayland MA just N of the Pike at about 300'

And we're back to rain

Snow began to mix in about 15 min ago, more snow than rain now here in Wayland MA just N of the Pike at about 300'

19 hours ago, nycwinter said:

nyc is billions in debt now...

And by being in debt, they join most municipalities and state governments, all sovereign governments I'm aware of including the US, and every single corporate entity on the Fortune 500. So that statement means nothing unless you have something else to contribute besides drive-by one-liners.