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2.1" at 10:15pm Beautiful winter scene outside, heavy snow... baby steps back to yore

Increasingly confident of 5"+ for Boston metro 33F, roads covered completely, should see 1"+/hr rates next 3 hours

34F (down 5F in 30 min) We're beating the 8pm mark for good snowgrowth and accumulation Looking upstream, if 850 fronto is any prognostic, Boston metro into northeast MA will crank 9-11pm

35F, moderate snow (Coolidge Corner Brookline) Roads starting to whiten Temp dropped 4F in ~20 min

37F, snow Ground whitening, that was quick! KOKX / KDIX radar not anemic

Rain -> White rain in Coolidge Corner Brookline 39F Let's see how quickly we can drop... per HREF ≥1" /hr rates across eastern MA 8-11pm

somehow this post was even more true the following night 0z Euro seems an outlier relative to NAM/GFS / AIFS... not even consistent with it's own 12z run

Watches just extended to Suffolk, Norfolk counties for 4-8”

Was leaning 70/30 GFS/Euro for days, the JV models produce a lot of noise Expecting Watches into Boston by tonight if Euro/GFS hold

Enough support for watches to be extended east at this point

Almost identical to 12z GFS

Box (and neighboring offices) seem to be favoring GFS/Canadian blend:

NAM lost the lead piece of energy that was preventing better tilting of trough in its prior runs... that is one of the main reasons NAM has been further southeast compared to other guidance. 2 players shown below Euro / NAM weaker solutions than other guidance because (i) lead energy #2 (circled green below) was preventing better tilting of trough on NAM up to 12z run, and (ii) subsequent energy #1 is weaker on Euro compared to other guidance. Now that 18z NAM lost that lead energy #2, all guidance is very similar except for strength of followup energy #1. Canadians have energy #1 on roids and not sure I believe it compared to rest of guidance... all energy is sampled pretty well. I'm leaning 70/30 GFS/Euro at this point, which would be a great hit for most of SNE. 12z NAM top / 18z NAM bottom:

0z Euro a tick more NW and more juiced than 12z, towards GFS Euro and GFS actually not too far off straddling high-end advisory / low-end warning RGEM / NAM seem to be the outlier extremes, and opposite at that... lends more credence to globals

Great vertical lift and banding signature sweeping through SNE on 0z GFS... has had something like this several cycles

Logan 1.8" at 7:05pm Measured ~2" Coolidge Corner but lots of compaction I was happy to see those in South Shore that missed out on the Dec 20 event do well today!

Loving this discussion all. Tip, the bolded above seems like something you can objectively quantify and then show an association that supports this attribution... do we have data on "basal flow rate" in the past 5 years vs. other years and how that relates to cyclogenesis / snowfall? (Asking not out of skepticism, I've always found this a compelling theory)

Fortunately, whether because of limitations in input data +/- inadequate computing, my hunch is AI forecasting has a very long way to go before it can nail these highly impactful nuances. Which I'm ok with... this hobby would lose much of its suspense and thrill if we had perfect deterministic models.

x [probability of a goal-line interception to win a SB] = 1:100,000,000 ?

While we're reminiscing... That 2015 period always reminds me of that made-up term Dwight uses in The Office... "perfektenschlag" for when absolutely everything just goes right. I flew back from a certain football game played in Glendale AZ... and land to this at Logan:

The assumption is always better sampling -> better result lol

I posted in Banter, but I guess this thread is basically that until the Miracle of 0z... check out this reverse LES:

Well said. On Sunday I was bullish and tossed the Euro because it was "threading the needle to a non-event here"... I underestimated. Pretty sure this is correct looking at climod2: for KBOS and probably multiple SNE sites, 2022-2025 so far the worst 3 year snowfall in recorded history. And nothing comes close.

Almost looks like LES in reverse…

Haunts me that I wrote "Euro is threading the needle to a non-event" on Sunday... the way these streams were positioned and take-your-pick of vorticity boluses, this looked so promising over the weekend... now it's variations of a theme of fail Non-zero chance we get improvements with better sampling of northern energy, but yeah that S stream backing out makes this such a gut-wrenching miss... what a stretch for SNE