powderfreak

That mid-level stuff is solidly north of yesterday's guidance.

That's epic! lol what a bust.

Can see the jackpot axis quite clearly on CoCoRAHS.

Near Magic Mountain, VT.

My parents checking in with 18” so far in the Albany area on the driveway. 1.5” at Stowe though lol, while the family gets 18-36”.

My sister in Binghamton sent these... brother-in-law measured 36" on the ground (which is crazy if you include settling!). If you have 36" OTG, likely easily over 40" with any clearing at 6 hours. His big pick-up truck is reduced to a bump. That's a good sized truck right there that looks like a sedan. I can't get over that garage roof across the road too. That's a stack.

Another foot has fallen since this photo was taken... that's incredible. Binghamton area.

BGM ASOS is at 2.72" water so far. Truly crippling. That's incredible for temperatures in the teens in a snow column.

I love that wavy pulse firehose look that develops in these storms.... just bandlets (word? ha) of intense snows firing off south to north into SNE.

That is insane. I mean absolutely bonkers.

Even snowing harder than expected way up this way. Only an inch but we should be able to pull 3" when models had just clouds as of 18z yesterday. That band is much further north than expected it seems... even north of ALB.

That’s as classic a radar as it gets. Widespread 20-40” in that arc starting in PA and going ENE.

That’s the craziest nor’easter obs i think I’ve ever seen at those temps.

My sister near the BGM airport is getting crushed. Can’t wait to see the pics. 0.75” water in 2 hours. (0.40” and 0.35” in consecutive hours now).

ORH wind increasing pretty decently... ENE at 10G20mph. That's a classic flow. Just favorable obs all over the hit zones.

BGM with 0.21" water in the bucket over the past hour... at 18F degrees! That is an impressive cold column QPF dump.

This is as healthy as it gets for banding... Central PA. State College area. Has to be widespread 2-3"/hr. Maybe 4"/hr in the heaviest sustained echoes? That is an incredible signal.

I feel like it can be a security blanket though. Even if mid-level subsidence arises, you at least can maintain on low level lift but maybe that's more true for the NNE mountains. But yeah, the jackpots don't have to be the higher terrain in a system with strong mid-levels... the valleys are fair game. I just think of a spot like the Catskills that may jack with mid-levels and orographics... 4,000ft is 4,000ft. That's a lot of prominence from the Hudson Valley on ENE flow to begin with. That Eastern Catskill zone can rack up some ridiculous totals.

Sounds fun in PA. PAZ017-024-033-170130- Somerset PA-Clearfield PA-Cambria PA- 729 PM EST Wed Dec 16 2020 ...A BAND OF HEAVY SNOW WILL AFFECT SOMERSET...CLEARFIELD...AND CAMBRIA COUNTIES... HAZARDS...A slow-moving band of heavy snow which can rapidly reduce visibility to near zero. The snow intensity is extremely high and thunder has occurring close to Johnstown.

The Berkshire areas of Jiminy, Catamount and B-East should be awesome. I think everyone has a shot at 18”. They'll have much more natural snow than General Stark, Mansfield, or Jay for sure...which is always worth reveling in the backyard bounty.

Thanks for that man! I didn't know that's where Mittersill was... or at least never thought about it, figured it was all Cannon. Good info. I love trying to push the boundaries of a camera and seeing how far you can see. The winter arctic air views from the summits in lower angle light can go forever. Can see 80-100 miles away easy.

My sister's near BGM. She's at about 1,000ft there. That snow growth bodes well upstream into SNE/CNE.

So not 3-6” lol.

It’s a 10:1 snow map. The 12-18” forecast isn’t made at 10:1. We all know this .

It takes a lot to excite you doesn't it? lol. Widespread 8-16"... local amounts to 16+ gets a "meh" then you are in the wrong hobby for the northeastern US.