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Heh...so they’re the Danbury ob and they’re marketing it. Their SWE is way off so I still don’t trust the numbers.

Yeah I was just waiting for your update.

Looks like some diamond dust at CON this morning too after a low of -8° and a drop in vis down to 3/4SM and -SN being reported.

heh...so 15.2” new and only 2” depth increase at the following 24hr obs time. I lost 8” from my peak depth to the following morning so it’s reasonable to think their depth was around 40” when the snow ended.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/coop/coop.html

34” sticking out like a sore thumb. Final total was 36.0”.

I always thought the old airport observers used to lowball it a bit. It’s measured by a nearby COOP observer a bit away from the ASOS since the contract airport observers got terminated. Since then we’ve seen some bigger numbers by CON in that list.

34.4” I still don’t like that Danbury total. The water equiv is way too high. The observer better have a valid reasoning for it.

So this (24.2") will end up being CON's 2nd largest snowstorm on record and the biggest since the blizzard of 1888.

12° but it never went calm. LEB is the coldest in the state right now with -2°.

Down to 9°. Wonder if we go below zero with the deep fresh pack.

39.1" lol at seeing my name #1 and even ahead of jspin. I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

I posted about that from cocorahs this morning. I don't trust the obs.

Feb 1969...35.5" and 32" at the 2 Franklin COOPs (depths 56" and 62"). Lakeport 35.9" (depth 57"). Wolfeboro 40" (depth 68"). Apr 1933 was huge around here. Franklin had 35". Newport 31". Wolfeboro Falls 26". Plymouth 26". I'll have to dig for more. Honorable mentions would be Feb 2001 and March 2001 with some totals over 2ft.

Too bad you couldn’t get up here yesterday. I mean the snow is still impressive, but I’ve already compacted from 30” to 21” imby. btw...that rest area on the Northfield/Canterbury line has the Canterbury RWIS in front of it. Pound city yesterday... https://vortex.plymouth.edu/mapwall/cgi-bin/display_rwis.php?id=10008&yy=2020&mm=12&dd=17

A new before and after with an image from when the event was over. And then one with compaction included today (didn't want to taint the previous one )

There's a lot of undercatch with snow and the 4" can and it can stick to the rim in paste events. I've tried using it to catch and measure new snowfall in windy conditions in the past and it fills up at a slant and makes it impossible. What's the size of those antifreeze HADS weighing gauges like at SLSN3? Are there any sites in the northeast that use snow pillows for w.e.? I know Hermit Lake has a SNOTEL.

I had an ice layer underneath on the driveway so I measured from there. My 2 huge 6hr samples I had to jab the outer Stratus gauge in straight down to the ice to compact it in. The 19” sample was real fun. Then I just bring it in and get the tap water really hot and pour in a measured amount from the inner stratus tube...just keep adding until all of the snow is melted. Then pour it back through the funnel into the inner tube in increments without overfilling and spilling over the 1” line. That’s why most of my numbers are around 3/4” just to be safe. As for the core outside, I clear the snow around the tube on the board (this case ice) and I have a large mason trowel that I slide under so I can lift the core up without spilling anything. I cleared a large area on the ice after this for the next 6hr sample since I was concerned about wind contamination. The wind actually never got that bad after the first sample. You could see in my pics how the dendrites just stacked up perfectly. So despite a 34” fluff bomb I’m actually very confident in my measurements.

Not sure if I’m still in the system up there for Northfield 1W (pretty sure Mike made me an ID), if it wasn’t seen I’d like to add my 34.4”/1.89” for historical purposes. The official scorecard.

Seems low. Center Sandwich 18.1” and Meredith 36.8” in cocorahs. Where in CH is your parent’s place?

28.0” 2.00” 22.0” 1.82” 48” 3.82” Yeah there’s a problem with that. Blow off from the roof maybe? That would pack it down and create a huge total.

Some interesting and fun comments in the NH cocorahs obs this morning. I see obs from people with less w.e. than me, but 40-48” of snow. I find that hard to imagine considering I was already clearing every 6 hours and pulled 34.4” with 1.89”. I hope no one was clearing more rapidly than 6hrly intervals.

34.4” The high-res RDPS definitely performed the best with the band. In nailed the location for multiple runs. I wish I could see soundings for that. Does any site have them?

My back spasms have been so bad that a few weeks ago I needed Lisa to help me walk and get to and from the bathroom. Was in bed for 2-3 days straight. It’s getting a little better, but I can still feel it act up sometimes. I had to shovel around the run and that’s where it starts to twitch out. Thank god for the snowblower and the armorskids over my shitty, uneven, dirt/gravel driveway.