powderfreak

Great shot. The past two days have been a bit too cold. Borderline obnoxious cold after the 40 degree sunshine on Saturday. Winter isn't over, it'll continue to be wintry at times, but the length of daylight increasing rapidly makes it seem like we will be more prone to mild interludes compared to the past few months. The temperature curve is starting to go up again, after a multi-stretch month of seemingly colder weather in the means. It's 0F outside right now. But you know these arctic cold shots are waning each week we move forward in the sun angle curve.

Going below zero again. The indoors heating demand this winter has been hefty.

-13F so far.

This current arctic outbreak is obnoxious after yesterday’s warmth. 5/-10 at 930pm. -6F already at SLK, ha.

Yeah and those fields will be warmest too in summer… vs a neighborhood with dense vegetation and evapotranspiration. Trades dew points for temperature essentially under the foliage canopy.

Yeah I’m always curious on this stuff, I’m not trying to be combative lol. Just trying to walk my mind through it… which I did amend to I could see like low-60s with full mixing up through 850mb. Like Tolland at 1kft at 54-55F, and BDL 60-62F. I balked at the 70+ but the point is yes, it would be warmer without the snowpack… no argument there.

BDL hit 48-49F? I guess we’ll agree to disagree based on 925mb and 850mb temps. Maybe low-60s with fully mixed boundary layer at max heating for BDL, I’ll give you that.

I’m not saying it wouldn’t be warmer, but there’s a reason we don’t take readings in Wal-Mart parking lots too. Put a sensor in an open field with snow, vs an open field without snow… maybe 5F more?

Your high there was what? 50ish? No way that snowpack lopped off 20 degrees.

That Laredo stat feels like similar to a 32F in the coldest rad pits up here in summer? I dunno, just asking the question.

Ok then, July, ha.

I’m always like damn, that’s nuts. But then they think the same when SLK and HIE are 32F in August.

That sounds like a miserable decade. We all love the huge events but we also have been on here long enough to know that winter is long and sucks when nothing happens. A lot of useless model watching. Its sort of like the sports debate of trading a championship run for a decade of last place finishes… that one season is the pinnacle of fun, but man the rest of the years are a lot of meaningless games.

Winter meets spring vibe in that photo… Sun angle evident, but ground frozen solid.

There’s a lot to dive into about that video of him driving around but some is best not said, especially when you don’t know where to start. Not sure what the point was… to validate your own disappointment or to say no one knows how to measure snow…

The old “blocking leads to meh snowfall” reinforcement up north, ha. CAR temps have been right around 0.0 departures for two months in the means too.

Reminds me of the graphics package used to wish 10 year olds happy birthday during a 1995 bowling party.

Average there is like 62” or something, so a good winter so far.

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Getting to be about time for a spring snowpack update with cores. Maybe early next week.

It is intriguing to think of the societal impact if that SE Mass firehose was a bit north and going from BOS to HFD… instead of like Long Island to PVD/TAN ENEward. I would’ve enjoyed that low tracking over PVD to BOS, lol.

We always joke with Scooter and TBlizz, but their snow climate really is like 5+ years of pain followed by the occasional absolute juggernaut. SE Mass can see the most brutal stretches and pain when 10-30 miles NW is getting buried… but when they jackpot it’ll be unlike anywhere else.

Tape measure?

What are the 24 hour records for Mass and RI? This seems like a candidate given how 24 hours ago it was like barely starting.

Looks like it’s still hammering the coastal areas, through Weymouth.