Layman

26.1, Blue skies and snowless grass down here. I hear DAW is mid-sixties and beautiful today.

This is actually observable? Curious if it can be seen with the naked eye or if it is viewed via film or high speed camera? I can't say if I've actually looked for this or seen it at any point over the years or not, but it's interesting to consider this happens.

She's definitely mistaken. Wasn't the kitchen thermometer - it was outside on the way home from school, trudging uphill all the way back.

It's a balmy 15 degrees off a low of 1.6. Wintry.

Judging by the YTD (lack of) snow map for the area posted yesterday, I’m inclined to believe there’s a subterranean lava flow or caldera running from SE’rn ME into the Lowell/Methuen area. 7.2/-2.2 for the morning low here.

Is there a reason, theory, explanation or otherwise to explain that hole of nothingness that spans from SE NH into Northern MA? I may be completely wrong, but it feels like that's been happening for the past 2-3 years or so. Is it terrain based? Just seems odd that this particular spot is kept snow-free while there's at least some snow all around it.

I have some experience with these. Always a disappointment.

Ended up with easily (almost) a tenth of an inch from this last night. You could still see some of the individual flakes doing their best to avoid touching each other on our porch roof this morning. Completely gone by early afternoon and I question if it actually even happened.

I enjoyed the early analysis thread of the long lead up to this last storm and would encourage you to run another for this threat if you found a benefit to it. My only request would be to do your best to delay this arriving until around 1/10-1/20 as we'll be up at Bretton Woods

I noticed the same thing on Route 33 out my way. Kinda weird. Nobody getting too crazy. Except for that Subaru behind me - Dude! Give at least a couple car lengths!

I envision your own personal stacks are gray and dry from top to bottom, cherry-picking each piece with a moisture meter in hand savoring the best hard wood hearty warmth all season long. I'm not jealous, you're jealous!

26.1 currently at home. Never got above 29 today. Out and about earlier in Stratham and 33 got SLICK. Lots of traffic but most folks keeping their wits about them.

There's a thread for that

I was thinking that either came out wrong, or just right LOL

Slide that NE a touch and you jack and I get to work with more than just the tip of that pink zone.

Without high resolution Kuchera snow maps posted, these posts are becoming extremely difficult for the layperson!

Thank you both for the info and details, I appreciate it.

"I feel great, no head-throb here!" @40/70 Benchmark Am I doing this right?

Thanks. What's parking like at Assembly Row? I don't mind a further ride especially if there's more to do. I also don't mind paying up for parking if it's valet, reserved, protected, etc. That Methuen theater was going to show it and I kept clicking to buy tickets but it kept saying something was wrong. 24ish hours later I try again and it's like the place has been fully shut down. LOT'S of rodent comments in those reviews LOL

Have any of you been to the IMAX theater at the Liberty Tree Mall in Danvers, or at Assembly Row in Somerville? Is one better than the other? There's a limited release movie coming out and none of the nice friendly New Hampshire theaters are carrying it so I have to make the trek down into the mean streets of Massachusetts. The last movie I went to was either the Phantom Menace or one of the Matrix movies so it's been awhile! I'm trying to find a place that isn't rat infested (the reviews of some of these theaters literally call out rats running across the floor!) and where my car will still be waiting with all 4 wheels attached when the movie's out.

When you guys talk about some of the storms in the past that showed up on modeling then disappeared, only to come back again and be decent storms, were there any characteristics in the patterns that had you saying "No way, that storm can't simply disappear"? Or alternatively, do you recall statements like we've seen recently where people are saying "It's a garbage airmass", "the flow is too fast", "it's not digging deep enough out west", etc? As an observer it seems that everyone has given up on anything happening here. Just curious if the sentiment was the same with other storms in the past that materialized out of nowhere at the last minute or if it was obvious that something could and should happen.

13.3 for the low. Coldest of the season so far.

As simply an observer and consumer of this information, I really appreciate and enjoy reading the meaningful and in-depth analysis from the seasoned and knowledgeable folks in here devoid of the emotional hand-wringing due to as-yet-unknown outcomes that seem to control the frantic posting of many. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas as this evolves into whatever it may ultimately become.

If and when it does snow, I’m envisioning more than a few posters here “enjoying” the event like this