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Snow from Mexico to Canada.

Feel bad for the midwest crew. They've been screwed most of the year with snowstorms. Looks like this will be another one.

The ratios in massachusetts were higher than I thought. A few reports. Far SE Mass had lower ratios vs N/NE Mass where more cold air was. These are just from yesterday, most of these spots had snow reports the previous day too. 1.01=22" .85=27.5" 1.20=17.5" 1.17=15" .90=18" 1.81"=24"

Agreed. However, if what some of the modeling is showing is true, this anafrontal has an immense channel of gulf stream moisture overriding a very strong arctic high. It has crazy potential. It's a rare setup. You know how hard it is to get 2-2.5" of qpf frozen around WNY without the lakes? To see it possibly happen twice within a month would be pretty rare.

Tidbits has 6z Euro up to 90 hours now?!

Looks like sleet/snow mix with over 2.0 of liquid

It's not really that far out there either. The storm starts later Weds afternoon, main part of storm hits on Thursday. Obviously a lot of changes coming next few days. Should have a pretty good idea by Monday nights runs.

Give me the GFS/GEM, no weak sauce supressed like Euro.

The storm itself can go pretty far SE and have us still get hit hard. Since its so elongated the heaviest snowfall is pretty far NW. It never really closes off like our last one did.

Such a terrible model. Remember when it had our storm over PA and jackpot was cleveland to toronto?

Couple more runs and its an open wave with 2-4" lol

GEM is carbon copy of GFS. Would be a massive hit, maybe slightly further SE?

29" in Toledo Ohio 10:1. Going to hard sell that. That would be an all timer for them lol

GFS further SE, but not quite as much as Canadian/Euro

Literal beaches on the Atlantic ocean have done better than some upstate places this year. Just crazy.

Yes. I understand what a co-op observer does. There just isn't enough of them to cover localized lake effect snow to get a general idea of snowfall totals. When 10-15 reports are coming in from cocarahs and NWS employees of greater than 49" of snow in 24 hours. The NWS employee from Elma reported over 54" than that chart is wrong. Cocarahs has training classes as well, I've taken a few.

Awesome radar loop

Had fun lurking all day on this incredible storm! Here is a radar loop showing the crazy banding earlier this afternoon. Congrats to all!

That makes sense but we had 10-15 coop/cocarahs get over 49" in 24 hours. Here are just a few not including my own. The picture in my avatar is from round 1 of that event in south cheektowaga. Sorry to get too off topic. Back to the storm. …ERIE COUNTY… 4 S Cheektowaga 65.0 Lancaster 63.0 Gardenville 60.0 West Seneca 57.0 2 W West Seneca 51.0 Elma 51.0 Orchard Park 48.0 Wales Center 48.0 1 N Hamburg 48.0 …WYOMING COUNTY… Cowlesville 56.0

Not enough coop observers in the area. Now that map makes more sense. There were many towns in the Buffalo area that blew past that 49” total in 24 hours in November of 2014. Must have been cocarahs not coop.

What qualifies as an official spotter if not Cocarahs or coop observer? Weather stations have nothing to do with snowfall measurements. I measured over the New York State record posted above in nov of 2014 as well under 24 hours.

Did you see Logan’s qpf on its 24”? Has to be something wrong

No one had 3.10” of qpf near Boston today. Report of 31” in taughton

It averaged 1:15 to 1:17 if you look at Boston Logan is was even higher. Definitely not 1:10. Will know exact ratios in the morning

That map Is terrible for New York. 77” in montague in 1997 and a more accurate total of 65” in Cheektowaga in 2014 here in Buffalo, there were several reports of 65” in 24 for that event