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Steady light snow for a while now, it was tiny flakes for the first hour but picked up a few minutes ago and it's accumulating now. 31/26 wind generally out of the east and light. Very nice mood snow for sure.

Berkshire East too. I want to do a tour of places like those and Upstate NY is filled with them. It won't happen this year but it needs to happen soon. Another good sized area popped onto my radar this year, Bristol, and with all the extra time I ended up going down the google maps rabbit hole and sorta laid out a trip. If you could hit it on the right weather cycle there are some pretty kickass powder areas around NY like Bristol or McCauley that fly under the radar even better than the New England areas other than a couple. Pico is great, totally gets you that high peaks experience but at this point you'd be more likely to find me at Middlebury Snow Bowl, another one of those killer powder hills.

I love that place.

I saw +4 at KDXR but nothing lower than 12 within a few miles of my house.

Ha! Don't worry, it's wrong

Here it's 4-6* below forecasted highs.

It's not going to be a cutter/rainstorm. This is one of those years where it wants to snow. Watch...

This new NWS radar product sucks.

I'm whining about my hands after shoveling for over 2 hours and you guys are hurtin' after snowblowing? I have what, 10 years on most of you... Yeah I went there.

Oh and my hands fkng hurt from hours of shoveling. I bet I'm gonna be sore by the morning.

Pack building? Yeah, I don't see it. Looks warmish and dry for a while. I did move the snowbanks as far back as I could just in case though I was so right about how that long duration wind direction would affect the snowfall amounts here, a few miles west along the Taconic spine got significantly more than I did and IMO it's all due to the exposure and duration. It certainly isn't because it saw a band that the rest of the region didn't since the higher amounts are only along the easterly faces and fall off immediately as you pass to the west. I didn't expect how dramatically the amounts fell off going E and SE but I'm not all that surprised as it seems to happen that way pretty often.

A few miles made a huge difference here. I went for a drive and I got right about a foot, 3-4 miles west got at least 4-6" more than I did and 4 miles east is easily 4" less. The combination of elevation and exposure was the determining factor in how much you ended up with. As you go east it drops off pretty quickly and is much more sheltered, west of me you head into the Taconic high country and I live on a standalone hill in between. The sheltering below me sometimes helps in windy storms but not this time and west of me it ramps up and catches the snow when the wind is out of the ENE/NNE for so many hours as does my hill. I went through a few spots along the spine that were easily 16" and the banks along the roads are a foot higher than on my hill while east the snowbanks peter out to almost nothing pretty quickly. Danbury seems to have gotten about the same foot as I did but it's much denser and has set up and compressed down to 6-8" in most places. The wraparound snow at the end gave me another 1.5-2" and covered up the bare ground and grass that was showing on northeasterly exposures that the sind had scoured clean all night so that was nice. This was a rare storm where my winds stayed out of the ENE/NNE the entire time and they're still persistently staying out of that direction so the temp dropped of quickly. It popped up to 30-32 under bright sun but is down to 22 and dropping fast.

Snow is done finally, cloud deck is thinning and the wind is over. Ended with about a foot, tough to measure when it goes from bare ground to 3' deep within just a few feet. Half of my front lawn still has grass showing and the other half goes up to 2' so, yeah... That warm layer made a mess, I would almost definitely have made it to 15+ without the weight and density of sleet and pellets compressing the pack. Good storm, I'll take 3 or 4 more just like it. See what ya can do about that would ya

With the extra fluff this morning I definitely got to a foot. Good storm. Another 3 or 4 like this and I'll be happy.

Tough to call it 12" but it's definitely more than 8. I was spot on with the pack compressing sleet/pellet mix and my overall depth call. For such a cold storm this is some dense stuff and it's still coming down at about .5"/hr. I had drifts almost 3' deep just feet from bare ground. There's no way to get decent measurements with this storm.

Why don't they have snow climo at POU anymore?

Hey new neighbor. I fell asleep and missed what looks like it was a good storm. The wind did a heckuva job smoothing everything out, it goes from nearly bare ground with grass showing and clean cars to drifts 3 feet deep filling in all the holes. Measuring this one is gonna be fun. Radar looks like there's an ugly dry slot that wants to shut me off and unless this thing pivots now its over soon. Is that about right? I haven't had coffee yet.

Fell asleep Looks to be at least 8-9" but the wind has smoothed everything out nicely so good measurements are gonna be tough. A whole section of my front lawn still has grass showing and the other side looks to be at least a foot deep and the cars are pretty much clean (which is nice). Looks like I missed a fun one when I fell asleep

I've been able to hear it hitting the front of the house glass for a bit now. That doesn't usually happen with just snowflakes. It's hard to see the pellets but you can see them bouncing off things so yeah, that warm layer is real and doing it's thing. Visibility is back up to a quarter mile or more and the flakes are broken and small. Backside snow? I won't count on it...

It's officially dumping. I can't see my corner ~400 feet away.

I just did the first scrape. The new pusher shovel works nicely I'd be comfortable calling it 4", if it's not it will be in a minute or two. It's officially dumping, I can't see the corner about 400 feet away. SN++++? The wind is whipping, it's cold and it feels pretty good to be out in a storm like this again, it's been too long. Ya think that NAM 3k above has potential? It looks like it has me around 18". Oof

Where'd it all go? While it would sorta suck it wouldn't surprise me if it just fizzled away. I mean, it is still 2020.

This stuff is so light and fluffy I want to go use up the last of the gas in the leaf blower and clean the driveway

I'm exactly the opposite end of the county and right on the Putnam line (literally, just 1k feet from it) and expecting ~15/16". It's coming down for real now. 1/4mi vis is optimistic. Bring it...

Yup DP up to 18 here too and the snow is much heavier, down to about 1/4 mile already.