PWMan

Winds have died down here for the most part. I’ve certainly had my fill.

Ripping here now. Best-looking snow so far.

Damage done. Fortunately no cars or humans were in the driveway.

Just kind of a flizzard here at this point. Best banding north of here as noted.

I always get a kick out how CMP’s public messaging pivots from the pre-storm “we’re preparing so we’ll be ahead of things and can efficiently restore power” to “this was an extreme event and we’re scrambling to assess things but it could be days before we fix everything.” I know it’s a huge, challenging job and I wouldn’t want to trade places with them. I’m guessing this could be a longer recovery than the recent ice storm since the damage seems much more widespread across NE (as opposed to the relatively narrow band that saw significant icing).

Snow and wind picking up again. Will be interesting to see how much accumulates during daylight with these marginal temps.

Classic April snow - everything caked, birds chirping.

32, -SN. Eyeballing about 3-4”. Winds were really roaring most of the night, but seem to have backed off a bit. Lost power at around 4:30.

34, going over to white rain

37 with light rain - 0.18 so far. Taking the under on those beefed up coastal snow totals from GYX.

36 with rain. Howling

38F. First drops/pellets. Wind picking up.

I was tempted to spam my friends and family with the 1-in-10 high-end map showing 21" for Portland. That BTV precip onset map really is something. And of course the whole purpose of products like that is to help the general public plan. Yikes.

My favorite part of these threads is people pretending to be rooting against snow when they sense that model trends might be going against them.

I'm not worried about sitting in traffic for a while. I do it for ski weekends, sporting events and occasionally driving to/from Boston, and this is a obviously a unique opportunity.