Juliancolton

3.7" here so far. Nice paste job, looks beautiful... and all this without ever having gone below 32.

I'll bite. 2" of snow during the day is much preferable to me vs. 4" at night, all else being equal.

Coming down really nicely at home. Hopefully some of those wispy echoes in eastern PA get shored up a little.

Had about a half hour of close to heavy snow with big aggregates in Kingston, stuck to almost everything almost immediately except paved surfaces. Much less intense now.

I'm always baffled by the nihilistic lamentations about snow not really counting for anything if it melts within a few days. How long does it have to sit on the ground before you allow yourself to enjoy it...

Strongest gusts of the night/morning here in the last few minutes, thanks to daytime mixing. You can definitely tell it's spring now because it's not frigidly cold after 8+ hours of turbo CAA.

Hah, that's awesome. Zevon is such an underrated artist. Even as my music taste evolves over the years his work still holds up for me. Excitable Boy is timeless.

62F under clear skies at 9 pm on March 6th. What a time to be alive.

https://www.psu.edu/news/story/humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought/

I can't believe it's March and we're still doing "the good pattern is 10 days away."

Skiing isn't even that great in the Catskills. It's pretty far down on the list of reasons one might go there.

Making Perth Amboy post in the Great Lakes subforum

Agreed, very much like a song and it helps to 'sing' it a little instead of just trying to rattle off digits. (At least at this level of memorization... the guys who can recite tens of thousands of digits are clearly on another plane.) I've had 101 decimal places committed to memory since I was a kid. After that last "double seven" my pattern mostly falls apart and it becomes a lot more rote which isn't my strong suit.

Hey, no rounding. That last digit is a 0. I did the memorizing pi thing in school, too. I had the best luck starting after the 3.14 and then doing a cadence in three-number blocks. If you do it that way, you end up with a bunch of alliterative benchmarks throughout the first hundred digits. 338 327, 939 937, 510 582, 494 459, 640 628 620, 899 862 803, 706 798. It works out almost scarily well. If I'm reciting and start to lose my rhythm, it's very easy to get back on track by figuring out where I am in relation to the "double nines" or "triple eights" or whatever. Was never able to find a similarly successful pattern in e, sqrt2, or the golden ratio... pi is just cool like that.

If it wasn't a bust, then did the models really all suck? I love a good paradox.

There was just a PetaPixel article the other day about a photog who moved to the far remote north for auroras, and he says the same thing that I've heard from a number of others who either live in, or frequently travel to, high latitudes - it never really gets old, but your standards for bundling up and venturing out do get much higher as time goes on. That tracks with just about anything in life that someone might want to see.

If you said this about Lofoten or the outlying islands of Svalbard, then sure, but c'mon..

0.76" liquid equivalent for the event. Certainly not a dry system.

Almost the same deal here, 2.1" of sleet and now ZR. There's definitely a little bit of novelty with the sleet and how it behaves so much differently than snow, but it's a short-lived curiosity.

It is rather frustrating. I still think it'll be hard to escape the first half of March without a nice snowfall in the interior (although this winter has never backed down from a challenge).

Seems like precip will be shutting off within the hour except for some spotty snow or freezing rain showers. Not too shocked by the earlier end time... that happens. What an abysmal performance by the global models though. I thought the warmer mesos had a clue but still expected a two or three hour thump of snow before the flip.

So much spiking and dunking, so little snow.

Doesn't seem like any big surprises are in store tonight. My half-assed call: HPN: 2.9" MGJ: 4.3" SWF: 3.8" POU: 5.1" ALY: 8.6"

Great series of posts tonight.

I'm still leaning toward a warmer solution, along the lines of Upton's current map. The NAM, HREF, and even extended HRRR have fared well in sizing up mid-level WAA this season. Since they all introduce mixing into the interior, and given what we know about SWFEs in general, I think expectations should be tempered. The upside is that rates will be good to start out - that's a solid NW-SE fgn signature coinciding with the best upper-air support. Even where changeover is delayed/avoided, though, ratios will get progressively worse as the event wears on, with moisture becoming shallower and riming more prolific. Could be a fun event for many, but nobody in this subforum should be expecting a blockbuster.