dendrite

Big midwest tors…70s and 80s…dews…t’storms in SNE

What a March

He’s just weenieing that 1 extra inch for 70”.

That late 90s period was messy with the ASOS transition and observers were reduced. I’m pretty sure East Granby would be the BDL obs. The airport property runs into E Granby anyway.

Heat is on here. AC in Tolland?

On 3/9/2026 at 9:12 PM, Torch Tiger said:

pack absolutely obliterated locally.  Woods have snow but open areas are 50/50 at best

Just now, ineedsnow said:

Some knew 

What do you have left? You still have some dews tonight. 

4 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Deep summer evening out there . We take 

Your dew is 17° higher than my temp

Have a +1

Tomorrow looks pretty meh. Maybe a little flip to snow as the dry air really begins advecting in. Mesos aren’t wild about it. Looks like a half inch at best east of the high terrain, but I wouldn’t be surprised if even that fails. Western upslope areas may get a sneaky few?

On 3/9/2026 at 12:41 PM, vortex95 said:

So for the dedicated snow weenies here, what is your take on when ASOS reports UP?  I always thought it was IP, but can it be a mix of R/S/ or R/IP or S/R/IP?  Never ZR?

I’ve found it’s usually sleet. I suppose it technically can report it in other scenarios, but I feel like you usually just see it defer to the alternate ptype when there’s a mix…or the dom type in a RS scenario.

I’ve just seen it report S with a jump up in vis too many times when there’s ptype goes from straight S to an obvious SIP mix.

Unfortunately ASOS is pretty bad with L/ZL detection. 

48° and sunny. What a win today. I like the tenor.

8 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

He needs to be grounded.

Are you going to let him chase scud with Wiz this year?

2 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I wonder if the extreme shallowness of this airmass back door) should have been a flag that the NAM was overstating the impact too much. The airmasses with backdoors are generally shallow but this one seems even more so than your usual. There is no secret that this time of year (and 99% of the time) you toss the NAM temperatures. But when you have situations like CAD or BDCF potential...well the NAM deserves alot of weight. But the low-level airmass in place is quite unseasonably warm and I guess even for early March, we have enough solar heating and mixing to either halt the BDCF or weaken it. 

If you follow MSLP evolution on SPC mesoanalysis you can clearly see either the boundary weakening or even kind of retreating. Despite the stronger heating though, we're clearly having trouble mixing so there is definitely something going on within the BL. 

It’s there. It came through. It’s not warming up much despite the sunshine NoP. It’s just functioning more like a weak seabreeze with slightly higher density sfc air than a classic stratus NE shat fest.

Not complaining 

35 minutes ago, dendrite said:

The stratus is moving onshore now. I’m sure there will be a secondary push of raw taint with that.

Man that ran out of steam quickly.

The stratus is moving onshore now. I’m sure there will be a secondary push of raw taint with that.

+28 for ORH yesterday…that’s the highest departure since April 2023.

I had to go back to Jan 2020 to find one higher. Of course they’re all positives. 

Whatever you want to call it…it has more momentum on the BD angle of the front. The “cold” over upstate NY gets bullied out pretty easily by the WAA push.

And he thought he could protect his pack.

https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=G3147&hours=168

4 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Kevin was 60 at 3a. That’s awesome. 

He hasn’t been below 45° since Saturday. 

For areas with bare ground and sun I wonder how difficult it would be to mix out this shallow POS. If you look at the first few vis images of the day you wouldn’t even know one was through…it looks like a pure warm sector. The shit stratus is way offshore in the GOM and the cloudiness with the main boundary is up around the international border. 

Well the backdoor came through a couple of hours ago but skies are SCT/BKN. We’re still wedged and hanging around 40° too while other areas mixed out to near 50° before falling again.

Looks like it may end up being warm SoP.

Underrated melt night despite it not being overly torchy…45/38.

Of course Ditty is still 62….wtf

40° with 1/2” hail at Midway

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9 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

9-13" on the level...17" drift...dont ask me how, but I lost 2" Hi of 76.6* recorded on the station located right where I measured.

DP is 44.1

Most resilient pack I can ever recall.

Still 12-14” here

19 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

So you’re saying you will break into the warm sector? Or no? 

Won't

8 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

High of 68° today but back down to 49° with the clouds.  Because even on the sunniest days, somehow the clouds find the upper Valley.
The DP‘s are going to take their toll so I’m guessing I’ll be down too 50% snow pack by Thursday. Probably about 90% right now.

It'll be interesting to see how strong the wedge holds tomorrow night. I think I'm SOL here. The cold front will be my warm front.