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13 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Crushed

 

Gonna be a lot of 30 burgers in RI and adjacent SE Ma

 

they already close, some obs of 26+ around Narragansett 

I've got to say, I still had about 10-12" OTG before this, glacier piles on the roadside, going to be fun clearing this later, some sick drifts between the cars and the normal spots in any NE wind driven storm... seems more N-S now, my anemometer is now frozen, highest gust I had was just over 50, that was like 3 hours ago, visibility decreasing again I'm thinking about 1/2 should be done here to get cleaning up.

flake size increase but not as low vis, about 1/2sm now but still piling up, wonder if that NE banding just comes down this way or starts to rotate on east as this moves away.

4 minutes ago, butterfish55 said:

8 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

13” here now or so (very tough to measure but it’s def close to that. Might be more but staying relatively conservative) 
 
Epic over SE MA. 
 
Im on the northwest edge of the good stuff but nothing like RI and further SE
 

Can confirm it's epic here. Just relentless

looks like that far west band I've been under is reinforcing, not sure if it'll make it here but that would be epic and push towards 18, I'm about 15/16 very hard to measure average with snow pelting my face, it's glorious!

Just now, SouthCoastMA said:

wtf 

rotation??

14 minutes ago, MegaMike said:

There are two observations in Foxboro of 19.3" (~9am) and 16" (8am). That checks out.

Not directed to you, but the Taunton/Norton/Mansfield observations (circled below) need to be updated. They must be approaching 16+" by now.

E. Providence w/a 20" observation now too. Good for them!

saw a few 24" reports from s.kingstown, New Bedford and PVD (looks like a city ob) but lots of 18-24 coming out of there.

that west band has really been productive, just when it eases up, the wind gusts and it snows harder, gotta be at least 15" here now, watching a 70' pine in front of the neighbors house reach it's limits is amazing, how many storms has that tree seen like this and is still around.

briefly white out conditions here choking flakes and vis down to feet 

that west band is really producing goods, albeit not like that one over RI and SEMA, good lord.

eyeballing about 11-12 out there, will do an official measure at 9 but damn that band out east holy 

looking like the western extent of the goods is about the HRV, bands seem to die out there 

eyeballing about 4" and choking flakes right now, hopefully this rate continues for a grip and I'll definitely hit at least a foot here, good luck all I'm falling out soon...

3 minutes ago, klw said:

Another factor re roads is that nowadays so many people have AWD or 4WD vehicles.  I remember even with the 96 storm there were calls out for folks with AWD to help people get to hospitals.  After that we had the SUV explosion.   The odds of thousands of RWD cars getting stuck is so much lower today simply because what we are driving has changed.

I was one of those who volunteered to drive hospital and home nurse type folk in, I had just bought a 4WD AWD vehicle and it was glorious driving around, after I dropped a few off, my buddies and I went Waterbury dive bar hopping, still I think the heaviest I've seen as far as rates was that night driving by the glow of the street lights, I think 2013 was better but I didn't see it personally as I was asleep 

14 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

So fun to watch

Boom!

windy and snow picking up, Woodford and a splash of ginger to get started right, game on folks! so far about 1/2" since this morning but it really just started, hoping to stay up as long as I can 

wind is starting to whip up here with some random decent flakes, game time folks, LFG!

anyone checked the pressure drops recently? bouy data etc? just curious 

Just now, Lava Rock said:

Electric Blue is hiring

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it's going to be an entertaining 24 hours huh

CT SOE in effect now as well in case anyone didn't know, cause I didn't until I got the notification...

4 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

MAUL means “Moist Absolutely Unstable Layer”….it is usually an area of steep lapse rates aloft that can enhance upward lift (like in a thunderstorm)….its why Scooter was joking about an EML getting advected in aloft. When you see that, it increases the chances of thundersnow and very heavy rates. 

sort of like CAPE value? I've wondered myself the difference. TIA

nice band forming along 84ish, main stuff looks like it's about over LI right now, Tom's River radar is lit

Just now, Ginx snewx said:

Shot hour every 6 inches!

Woodford is ready... usually not until after 5 tho, I can't wait for some good rates later like NJ and DE now... hopefully 

6 minutes ago, chuzziii said:

Yah and the shit storm that followed slowly stopped this effort over the years to the point that towns either put pressure on them to scale it way back or stop all together.   Three towns near me are so overgrown that i expect at least 40% outage rate, double the normal rate.  We haven't had a really good tree clearing storm in a while 

Jesus seriously? I do remember people bitching about it when they started, taking the "charm" away from some neighborhoods etc, but they also complained when that charm was all over the wires and roads in 2011 and beyond.. anyway still lightly snowing here, looks good south, as this deepens 

3 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Our town was proactive and pruned/removed trees after Isaias I think. it's helped for a lot of other storms but this is the biggest test yet. 

was that the tropical storm that zoomed through here at like 60mph? yeah we lost a couple limbs on that one damaged the garage, but I remember after 2011, Irene and the storm in Oct, the state set aside billions, eversource also, to trim all residential and main trans lines. I've got people yelling at me that it's no big deal, it's not even snowing... I can't win with people who don't have any weather knowledge whatsoever and rely on Google p/c forecast or don't listen when I say "overnight" tonight... unbelievable 

6 minutes ago, butterfish55 said:

I think I'm ready. Had to fight off some old ladies, but I'm ready for the 30" BOX is giving me

yo this is no joke I went to the store around 1 I think and it was a mad house, people were actually valet jogging to get items...so, bread milk eggs and TP...are they going to just make omelettes and go to the bathroom until the coast is clear?