powderfreak

From a 50,000 foot view though, are they *all* wrong? There absolutely are going to be some instrumentation issues, siting issues, etc… but looking at the collective from afar, are they all wrong? Are mesonets and other climate recording sites that are deemed ok, showing conflicting data? What about sensors running too cold? Plenty of those too, but the focus here seems to be the warm ones… or is it just a general statement because of MSM latching onto the warm ones?

3.5” of waterlogged snow. Can squeeze water out of it.

Got home to 3.5” of waterlogged snow.

Yup and they are terrifying to ski up on fast. Cruising through the woods like off Chin Clip and one of the many drainages, and next thing you know there’s a 4-6 foot hole in front of you that you need to navigate. To get to the High Road site we do cross that drainage pictured, which luckily our snow bridge handles fine, but there are holes in there that are a legit 6 feet of snowpack deep. The photos don’t really do the scale justice, either. A six foot tall adult could stand in the hole and the snow is about head height.

Manifested that pretty well. 5” of dense stuff on probably 0.6-0.7” QPF. Pretty crazy we’ve gone from 55” depth back up to 70” depth in the past 4-5 days on 15 inches of measured snowfall. Zero settling. 15” snowfall over 4-5 days and 15” depth gain. Concrete.

We’ve gone to sleety snow with some freezing mist. Small bouncing IP mixed with some flakes.

1.5” at home so far. Snowing hard. 3” on upper mountain snow cam.

How has their urban development gone recently? Any population explosions to cause this?

I’m thinking 5” or so measured at the snow plot tomorrow. Hope it’s 6-8”, ha. This past one was 7” at 1500ft and 7.5” at 3000ft. Almost no change in snow totals with elevation once above roughly 1200ft. No range needed there. One whole stack at 1500ft. A 6” and 1.5” at 3000ft.

It’s 29F up here with snow caked trees.

Just got home, we are just about 5” on the level on colder surfaces and away from the evergreens. One inch less than up at the base of the mountain and a lot wetter.

I can’t remember an event that had nothing until like 12-1pm, then snowed a heavy half a foot, with brightening skies by 5:30pm.

6” in 3 hours at 3,000ft. Still heavy snow.

Almost 0.30” precip the last two hours in the ASOS gage that usually under reports, no fake fluff either, just a fast QPF dump.

Heavy snow.

Absolutely puking snow. The rare M1/4 visibility. METAR KMVL 201745Z AUTO 00000KT M1/4SM +SN FG VV006 00/M01 A2986 RMK P0010 METAR KMVL 201740Z AUTO 00000KT M1/4SM +SN FG VV006 00/M01 A2987 RMK P0008

Ramped up fast here. MVL went 36/23 to 32/29 and 1/2sm Mod Snow.

I’m still not sure what to expect. Models keep printing very heavy precip rates. Like 3 hours of 0.1”< QPF snowfall and like 0.60” in 4 hours this afternoon.

ICON with the follow up wave on Monday pasting SNE. I beat the cops and ineedsnow to it…

Feeling a bit better with the south trend for Sunday/Sunday night... figure there will be some marginal mid-level layers, so want to be on the northern end of the QPF. Some snowy couple systems for the mountains.

I always go back to Will/ORH's logic from the past two decades... might as well enjoy the weather hobbyist excitement of snowfall and root for it, because it's not going to magically be 70F and sunny instead. If the alternative to it snowing is a 35.7F degree, one inch of rainfall, it's sort of why not go for snow, provided you don't have to drive three hours in it or something. It'll melt soon enough. Either way it's going to get muddy, be it during an inch of cold rain or after the snow melts, guess the cold rain it just is muddy sooner, ha.

Ohhh GFS.

It was below zero and blustery this morning up at elevation in the northern mountains. We hit -4.5F at 3,600ft and 6F at 1500ft. That would be fun in September.

That and the person moving like they are a robot taking a shit lol.

That seems almost more impressive than the 60 dews.