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I always kinda based that on water equiv. Basically 10” of 10:1 snow will eventually glaciate its way down to the equivalent of 3” of 3:1 sleet. Both would have the same 1.00” water equiv. It’s not a perfect relationship, but that’s always been my rough estimate. So 15” of snow should have more staying power than 3” sleet. There are some caveats though as fresh fluff has more exposed surface area so it can sublimate more quickly than solid ice can.

I got the least snow but will have the most left this time next week.

Yeah just saw vis. Blue bird afternoon up here. Glad we here. 35/26

Not real

Beautiful day. Lots of sun and lots of melting. Drip drip.

28.3° -SN We white

38F here. Enjoy your SE flow downslope. It'll be nice up there in April when you have SCT skies and 60F while it's 45F and drizzle down here.

Snow tables can be a big problem if you get wind and drifting snow. jspin is in a perfect spot to have one with his relatively sheltered location and big totals.

0.8" I think

MWN set their all-time November low last year with -26F. This is impressive for early in the month though.

Looks like it's going to go to town there through 11am. Nice band coming east.

Nice parachutes right now.

31.4° with -FZDZ Exhilirating

Any 100F heat indices tho?

36.6/29 Just wanna see some flakes today. Roof to the run is finished and now I just need to get the side panels up to keep the wind out.

Time to get your LSC blood back to handle the -30s.

0.0”

Freshets of yore here. October of 1785 sounds like fun. https://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/1779m/report.pdf

Just noticed a 71mph gust from the top of Gunstock this morning.

CON had some VIRGA obs in the remarks around that late aftenoon time. Maybe they reached the ground up here like in ORH. But I do like the weenie 29F -SHSN ob to finish off September. There's nothing on the Franklin Falls COOP forms for 9/30 or 10/1 so the observer apparently didn't see anything during the day, but I'm not sure they were looking for flurries up there at the dam back then either.

Here's the ORH snow obs. Looks like early evening. ORH,1992-09-30 22:00,METAR KORH 302200Z 34008KT 40SM -SHRASN SCT050 BKN080 OVC120 06/M03 A3000 RMK RSB40 BINOVC SLP170 T00611028 ORH,1992-09-30 23:00,METAR KORH 302300Z 32010KT 40SM SCT050 OVC080 05/M02 A3001 RMK VIRGA S-NW RSE2152 SLP173 T00501017 CON just barely snuck the snow in before midnight. Technically it was a T for 9/30 and 10/1. CON,1992-10-01 05:00,KCON 010500Z 00000KT 7SM -SHSN OVC040 M02/M03 A3006 RMK SB39 VLGT SLP181 T10171028 CON,1992-10-01 06:00,KCON 010600Z 19004KT 7SM SCT040 SCT070 M02/M03 A3005 RMK SE12/ SLP179 60000 8/570 T10221033 57005

Yeah it was later in the day up here.

Screen doors slamming shut in Ayer.

The great flurry of September 30, 1992.

Those localized downslope winds always amaze me. The evap cooling probably helps those winds mix down. Meanwhile it was raw and rainy here with mostly light winds until evening.