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34.8F  light rain howling winds. 

Just had a gust on the old Davis Anemometer to 41mph.  Temp is the high for the day.  About 1/2" of snow/sleet on the ground remains.  Rain and sleet on top of snow made it durable.

Again the lesson for me is cold air over preforms.  Temp started at 9am at 32.7F and has climbed only 2F in 12 hours.  Wind was more impressive than I thought.  Being in the cold air I didn't think it would be roaring like this.

33.6F  Parachutes, falling leaves with wind driven moderate ice pellets.  1" OTG.  Interesting to me that the dew has stayed at 28F.  Forest is making that roaring groaning sound.  Nasty day for sure...

True noreaster conditions right now.  Moderate snow 32.7/29.  Forest is making that roaring sound up here on the hill with my northeast exposure.  Parachutes mixed in.  About 1/2"

32.8/28  Moderate  snow  (parachutes).  Snow was very light this morning and rapidly picked up intensity over past 10 minutes.  Snow sticking on all surfaces including dirt road.

LIght snow 33.8/29F.   Temp has dropped from high of 35.2F about 30 minutes ago.  Starting to stick on most surfaces.  Bright yellow band on radar.  Wonder if that will be icepellets when it gets here or is it heavy snow.

34.9/29  Light snow  vis 1 mile.  Coating on surfaces even though above freezing

34.4/25  first flakes.  Vis is good to the sw,  I can see 30 miles but tops of ridges are becoming slightly obscured so its saturating top down.  

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33/23  dew point supression should knock me down to about 30  I would guess. Still wondering if I could score a quick inch or two of snow  and some freezing rain before I go over to rain

32/19f wouldnt dews this low cause the temperature to drop a few degrees when precipitation starts?

1 hour ago, alex said:

Temps are really plummeting tonight. Down to 26 already. I think it's the coldest evening we've had so far. 

Im 31/19F.  Just checked and your down to 24F.   Clouds will come in soon to stop the radiational cooling but the air is dry.    When precip starts the temp should drop a bit.  I think we will get quite a bit of frozen something.  

Alex took a great picture of the Presidential Range.  Really nice to see everything white almost down to base level.  With the bare foreground and blue skies this picture is a keeper

1 hour ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Pre season nor Easters are the worst bc 98% of the board has no chance, yet it still detracts from winter outlook chatter.

Uh oh.  I'm that 2%.  I'll try to post in the NNE forum tomorrow.  

Seems like the model trend has been slightly colder.  18Z NAM reversed course and is a bit warmer than 12Z.  Slight changes will make all the difference for me.  By the way the White mountains were beautiful today against the blue sky.  Very white down to about 2000 feet in elevation.

12 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

That would be so awesome to get a big damaging icestorm like that so early in the season. Really hoping that works out up there. Jealous as can be 

I always thought that very early season or late-season ice storms are improbable because of high Sun angle and insolation. We now have a late February sun so I would think probabilities of icing increase rapidly over the next coming weeks with a right setup.

12Z NAM.  Clown stuff.  Nice 10-15" for the Berkshires north.  Could this be off a bit or should I take it to the bank?

Thanks for the input guys.   I have learned living up here that CAD almost always overperforms.  I see it happen over and over and over.  Good radiational cooling the first part of the night to cool near the surface.  No early morning sun to warm it up.  Snow comes in.  I guess the key would be the initial intensity before any changeover.  A dusting or a few  quick inches?.  Then do I warm and rot at 32F with ZR/IP or go to 34F cold rain?  Will be fun to watch it unfold. Could be a very slippery, slushy morning.  Joe Public has no idea as forecasts/TV up here seem to be focused more on Manchester/Concord which will certainly be liquid after any quick start of frozen.

Our trees are still 75% or more in leaf.  ( See webcam pic I just took) My birches could take a hit with a couple of inches of glop or some ZR.  I have been trying to figure out why my area is lagging behind others with leaf drop.  My new theory is in the fall Newfound Lake keeps me a bit warmer.  Lake is just to the west by 1 mile so prevailing winds could raise my averages just enough to make a difference??.  I don't know.

Our 1000 person town doesn't have the sander/plow on our trucks.  Our town road agent is an old time geyser tough type of guy. His name is Buck, that tells you everything you have to know.   I have stopped by in situations like this to give the highway dept  (3 guys) a heads up.  Buck  just nodes at me dismissively and tells me they follow accuweather.

Anyhow a fun morning weatherwise for the few of us AMWX posters up here.

It's starting to look more interesting up here in central New Hampshire. I don't know if it would be snow to ice to rain but it looks like the first part could be frozen one way or the other.

31 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Nam like some ice for Dendrite it seems. Congrats on th slick cox.

Most of the time CAD overperforms in North Dendriteland.  Wonder if I'll get stuck at 32F for some time on Saturday?  Sure unbelievably cold up here today.  Only got up to 35F with flurries most of he day. Back to freezing now.  Expected it to get up to at least 40F today.  

I got to chime in on the cold today.  I'm south of most of you guys.  We had the nanoparticle snow showers like Alex had.  It looked like fog for 10 minutes the particles were so small.  Gave us a sugar dusting of snow.   Temp struggled to climb and only reached  35F at 11am. Since then it has been drifting down even with a few minutes of sun here and there.  Back down to freezing now.

VERY impressive for Oct 25th.  

Curious to see what happens Sat. morning.  Can we score a couple of inches of snow before the changeover?

44 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Snow showers moving through again at 32F in the valley at noon.

This has been some ridiculous cold in October with all this daytime flakeage.  

This is the 5th day with flakes falling at home this month.

3rd day of flakage for me and Im way south of you.  Im going through wood really quickly for October.  Normally the house is warm enough during the day that I only have to fire up the stove in the evening to warm it up.  Another cloudy day up here.  Looking on the south horizon I see lots of breaks.  Up to 34.9F.  This mornings dusting finally has melted away.

Sneaky snow showers this morning.  Coated everything white.   I can add my .2" of snow to my .5" the other day.  Building up the numbers.

Im good to go, delete all for me. thanks

7 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I can mass delete in ACP, but that doesn't do you a lot of good. If you want every single one of them canned let me know and I can do a quick mass delete.

Brian,  I keep getting the same problem as Alex and others.  What I do is delete several each week as I upload.  As the board gets older more people will hit their quotas.  When you say a mass delete I assume you have to do it for each user?  If it is please go ahead and delete all the images I have posted so I can start fresh.  Thanks so much.

Temp drifting down.  37.6F  Light rain mixed with a few cat paws.  Looking at the ridges looks like the snow is falling above 1500-1700 feet.  .80" storm total.  Wish my drone was waterproof.  I would fly it up and be able to get into the flakage.  Total weenieism.

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Pretty creepy cloud formations with the setting sun as tue rain winds down. We were still getting some stray CGs about 10 minutes ago while I was outside. It almost looked like low level mammatus that you could reach out and touch. 

The sunset was very strange up here in Central NH.  People were commenting on it down at our country store.   As the sunset, it looked like it was reflecting through falling snow perhaps 2500 feet above the surface creating unusual lighting.  Then I saw the mammatus too but they were much lower than summer storms.

Sunset timelapse showing them here.   https://video.nest.com/clip/eaadb0f6ff884a77b26ed4eeaec7d938.mp4