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I get a smile on my face just because your excited to finally get to see some snow. Hope it works out for you and is an over achiever!

My folks didn't like my obsession with weather. Back in the day it always came on around 620pm on the evening news. My mother would call for dinner right at 615pm just to spite me. I also was always sneaking on the spotlights at night to see if it was snowing and they would yell at me that it is wasting electricity. I remember once they turned on the spotlights in the evening and there was a cold rain. Cat paws were mixing in from time to time with a mangled flake or two. I would get excited and they would look outside and just see rain and told me it was all in my head. Lots of stories like that.

Nice day......sun, clouds passing flurries but I didn't expect so much wind. Maybe it was so strong on my property because it was more WSW than the NW. I'm sheltered from the NW but not from this direction.

Not that I should complain up here having an average snowfall of 85" but the last big storm gave me about 2-3". Next one the same unless the NW trend contines. Snuck in a quick 2.25" today however.

24.5F Light snow ending 2.25" Nice refresher. The snow ended up being much dryer than I thought. I figured this would be a 30 to 32F snow down here but ended up staying in the low 20's. Snow depth up to 10". 45.5" for the season. Snowmobilers have really been hurting this winter down here. We have had snow cover but since the Grinch storm not enough to snowmobile with ease. They will get there chance this weekend. Next...

I usually put more emphase on trends than individual model runs. The trend is our friend. SNE definitely looks to be in the game for Sunday but still more work to get it up here, at least the heavier stuff. This storm looks nice for the Mid Atlantic and the NE cities. Colder down there than the last storm. Meanwhile today's event has been a nice refresher. Still light to moderate snow and almost up to 2". Bit more to go.

Snow has become heavy. It will not last long but vis is down 1/4 mile. Looks like about 3/4" or a bit more

NAM delivers 1" qpf from Boston SW to Hartford.

Snow came in quick and became moderate very fast. With temperatures starting out so cold I should have a pretty good fluff factor. Maybe I can break 2"?

Snow is moving right along. Just started here too. 19.4

3" of snow overnight. Lull this AM. Snow started again this afternoon but has ended with some breaks. Another 1/2" GFS was right as it predicted about this amount for me. I will learn next time that the up and downslope amounts on the GFS are not necessarily overdone. I have not had time today to look through tons of pages on the forums. Other than the Cape did anyone in New England have less than me? Arrggghhh

30.3F Moderate snow. Just getting clipped on the extreme bottom part of the echoes moving NW through NH. Great snow growth

I'm watching the echoes in the Atlantic. Will I get in on the action? Areas north of me in NH look too but Im right on the southern edge.

Well the GFS snow hole forecast was basically right for my location. About 3" of snow through 9am. QPF was forecasted to be .20" in Plymouth

25.1F Moderate snow/blowing snow

First flakes. 47 minutes to move 17 miles north

Wonder how long it is going to take the snow line to get the 17 miles from your house to mine? 25.8F cloudy

Here you go. GFS goes out further but there is no real snow after hour 240 so it is a side by side comparison. (Note the crazy amounts down in the Mid Atlantic on the Euro)

Hum Euro? just your average 967mb low coming through New England at hour 160. Both Euro and GFS have crazy snow amounts coming up for NNE

Just for total fun here is the total Kuchera snowfall for today's GFS run. Cut it in half with a 1:10 ratio. After a quiet January synoptic wise it looks like we are going into an active pattern with all kinds of possible outcomes. J Spin, PF, Phin and Alex have 50" plus totals

18Z Euro continues the trend of intensifying the storm in the Gulf of Maine. Down now to 979mb. Throws back alot of precip. Kuchera clown maps are nuts. Seems the jack is around Phin south to Eastern NH. Over 2 feet. I know they are over done but a nice storm.

Phin, it always seems to exaggerate the upslope and downslope qpf. Euro is much better in my opinion for the mountainous areas. In general Plymouth NH is a bit of a snow hole with the Whites to the northeast

Reggie has me over 30" and GFS gives me under .25" of qpf!

Maybe someone has already posted this but this is impressive. Winter Storm Warnings for the entire NE population centers.

Question for you guys. Here is the 12Z GFS qpf output. It seems the GFS always way over does upslope and downslope regions. Heck it gives me less than .25" for this storm. The Euro is much more evened out with precip. How much does the GFS over enhance? Lots of have's and have nots. Clear day going but cirrus slowly moving north on the southern sky. The old time meteorologists use to call this a weather breeder day