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sitting at 30.5 on the season, still way off of climo for here, but last 5 years are 35.5, 63.4, 37.4, 41.2...and to date 30.5. Would be happy with another 20" to at least get more than half of climo, but we'll see. One big one would really go along way to making moods better here... crazy to think the first 4 years after moving here, we had about 90" except for 15-16, which is the lowest since 90-91 &94-95. Believe it or not, the 80s data for here had 4 seasons over 100", and 1 close.

done here... looks like that dxr up to orh max I said a few days ago kinda verified, took a painful route to get there but congrats on those peeps with double digits, and some down south who haven't seen anything in a long time... maybe we get lucky rest of the week and pick up a few more here and there with the clippers

what a gradient, 15.2 WeHa and 5.8 here, buddy in Long meadow said 3(not sure how official). but damn some impressive totals from central CT

5.2 of fluff here, vis is way down but growth ftl, and back edge approaches quickly, hey, better than last night when it appeared we may whiff completely up here...stat padding...

4 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Snowfall totals so far, send me your reports when its all over! Most of the state should end up in the 6-10 range and 3-6 in the far NW corner.

eyeballing about 5, I'll send you an official from the board when I go out

1 minute ago, Snowcrazed71 said:

I'm officially at 10.5" here in Plainville. I think we will hit 12" for sure ( I have pictures but for some reason I can never download them here, it always says two big of a file )

try taking a screenshot of your picture and attach it

absolute fluff here, vis about 1/4mi, flake size has eased a bit, but it's been rippin good since about 6

choking flakes right now out there eyeballing at least 4

ripping pretty good last 2 hours, 2" out there, but looks like back edge approaches quickly so maybe we squeeze another inch before we done here

this ranks to me with I think it was 2010, where we got suppressed, and south shore got something, but we were expecting about the same, although it wasn't as rapid as today's departure... that was the mid Atlantic season, where we hoped for something to break here and thought it was the one, can't recall the date, but I think DC got buried, multiple times that year

it's a little early but downstream radar looks good for that precip into Ohio Will was talking about, let's hope it pans out

watch the Euro bump north 100 miles

at this point, how does one trust the model output, I mean we all look at all the ingredients, telecons and levels etc, but for us amateurs who know more than some, but aren't degreed mets, modeled output is what we look at, if it wasn't for a handful on here with great expertise and explanation, it'd be a shit show just basing decisions like cancelling things on model output, which seemed locked, albeit some nuance, but you understand

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Schools all calling off.  Snow emergency at BOS. 

 

I do hope this comes north a bit overnight so we don't have to hear the inevitable "they blew it again.." comments.

such a tough job right now for something that looked pretty locked for a while, and a sig for a couple weeks now, hard job

Albany kept the Warning for here, for now but has downgraded all the advisory except my cty and south Berks and adjacent NY ctys

2 minutes ago, 78Blizzard said:

Imagine someone who signed off here late this morning and came back to see all these pages, picking up where he left off.  His joy turned into bitter disappointment as he began reading.

yeah I'm one of those...

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

I think we may be F’d HFD north 

12-18 to 2-4 in 12 hours...wow...who knows, maybe get a lucky mid-level band that puts some rates, but garbage antecedent airmass and now this? it's amazing

we need a last minute jump north or there's going to be a lot of toaster baths, what a difference 12 hours has been since I last checked, wtf...ALY not too concerned about my area and immediate Berks, but has taken amounts way back points NW, stating big gradient as this now looks to pass SE of the BM

18 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I still think the highest amounts will be in a 25mile stripe nw of 84 like new fairfield through nect/ema. Similar to what @weatherwizmap looks like. 

said earlier looked like a nice stripe from dxr up to ORH, appears legit still, +/-20mi, we take, nice regional event for SNE/CNE incoming!

outta here in a hurry huh? looks like all done by 1700hrs, quick hitter

3 minutes ago, Snowcrazed71 said:

How much are they going to reach criteria. You have to be in the 20s as well if I'm not mistaken, and I don't think that's going to happen.

thought they got rid of temp criteria a while ago?

nice AFD... wait for warnings to be hoisted this afternoon!

Deterministic and ensemble guidance(especially GEFS/EPS) have
come into better agreement regarding the significant winter
storm approaching from the central Appalachians and mid Atlantic
region Monday night into Tuesday. Surface cyclone deepening to
~980 mb or even sub-980 mb is expected as the cyclone center
tracks E-NE from near the Delmarva Mon night off the coast to
just south of Long Island and southern New England on Tue. While
still a progressive system, the upper trough is forecast to
become negatively tilted at 500 mb as the storm tracks just SE
of Cape Cod. Significant F-Gen NW of the cyclone should result
in pronounced mesoscale banding. Local CSTAR research from
UAlbany on mesoscale band movement resembles characteristics of
a pivoting band with a closed upper low and dual upper jet
structure. Typically pivoting bands can result in extreme
snowfall. However, the greatest challenge with this storm is the
anticipated relatively fast movement of this system, so extreme
snowfall rates would have to be realized for higher end
accumulations to occur since the residence time will not be as
long as storms with slower movement. Where the banding sets up
will be the location of the heaviest swath of snow, which could
be in the 12+", as evidenced by the high end (90%)
probabilities. The most favored areas are south/east of Albany.
Time frame is still just outside the scope of hi-res guidance,
so mesoscale details such as max snowfall rates will come into
better focus later today into tonight.

19 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Canadian still not biting fully, heavy snow up to pike only.. Weird how slow it's been to buy in 

I get weary when there's an outlier that is stubborn like that, almost like it's onto something

9 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

NWS Albany pretty aggressive into S VT.  I don’t get it? I’m skeptical. 

thinking the pivot sets up around the berks into SVT down to WCT perhaps

not sure why this doesn't match the box map fully, has a little 12-18 streak from say Beckett down to maybe Norfolk or me? thought they collabed on these maps... regardless I take