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I might even try to find the twitter thread of this Cranky fellow.... what a terrible way to go down swinging by trying to minimize this. Need some good entertainment, I’m assuming Twitter has lit the guy up. Not sure what’s more impressive, the air mass or the fact that a weather personality thinks this is run of the mill.

Squalls up here this time of year, pretty cool and impressive. But squalls like your photo, in the time of max diurnal temperatures, along the Long Island Sound is absolutely bonkers for this time of year. Guess that’s what happens when 850mb and 500mb are near the minimum climo values on the NAEFS ensemble.

Squalls are fun. Localized whiteouts moving through an otherwise bluebird day, ha.

Crazy that a couple spots like 40 minutes from ALB woke up to 8-12" too. I'd expect it more up that way in maritime bomb cyclone land. Just an awesome day weather wise all around.

These squalls have been going pretty much consistently for like 8 hours now. Pretty impressive to have this steady stream of snow showers and squalls under the cold pool for so many hours on end. Sun then snow then sun then graupel then sun then snow, etc.

It's obviously worked for Tolland for a while. I mean if you have a State barracks in the town, that pretty much covers it. Troopers always going to and from the barracks is enough to keep enforcement up in a small town.

Had some massive graupel on my hike... stuff was like the size of BBs. A general 4-5” fresh inches above 1800ft made it through the day with no melting. Still getting snow showers at home and some snow has made it through the whole day on the north side of barriers. Crazy to get an inch and a half to not fully melt out everywhere at this elevation in May.

Holy shit! Hope they were ok. That has to be terrifying. Also noticed the State Trooper is the only one with a mask on...those guys don’t fuk around, they are all business.

These squalls are nuts! Even have anvils like thunderstorms. Viewing them from high country is impressive. Just walls of white moving across the landscape.

Just slightly below average right? Nothing like bouncing around between 30F and 33F at midday with snow showers at only 750ft of elevation in New England on May 9th. I don't think it can be understated how obscene it is to drop to 30F when snow showers roll through down here in the valley at 1pm the 2nd week of May. Plenty of mid-winter days that look like this screenshot. So today is really just like a mild January day.

The reported snow accumulation map BTV put out is pretty telling in those meso-scale details. There was the larger mid-level fronto that went from NY State, up through Central/Eastern VT and into Northern New Hampshire. But within that fronto band, the two really enhanced areas are areas that would do well on blocked NW flow... upstream of the southern Greens high country and then again upstream of the Whites. So there's this general 2-6" snowfall within that better mid-level frontogenesis but underneath that two areas really looked to get lit up from blocked NW flow under that mid-level lift. That same set-up sort of shafted us in the RT 100 corridor up here at 0.5-2.0" from Jay Peak down to almost Sugarbush on this east side, as we were too far NW for the meat of the frontogensis but since we are east slope and the flow was blocked, we also missed out on an assist from that last night.

Best looking lawn though for sure, might be the sun but the green is really popping. Looks almost fake, like someone sprayed foam on the bushes and stuff.

Oh I wasn't being serious. Is that a real thing? Its all just water that falls from the sky.

Ha! I think we've had enough clouds to keep snow on the trees but the grass looks the greenest it's looked yet this spring. Little snow fertilizer. Funny to have green lawn and 1-2" on all the bushes and evergreens. Very odd look. I give it another hour till that falls too.

12" at 1,300ft 8.0" at 760ft That fits nicely and my brain likes nice fitting obs, ha. Good call on the low level NW winds through the *entire* event. I thought there was some SE flow early but nope, it was all NW. The craziest part is that 3-4 town zone around Bennington there, seem to get shafted in a large percentage of memorable storms (you can find them on the model mins usually).... its awesome that they got probably their biggest positive bust in May. Definitely the jackpot there along the NY/VT border and the two neighboring counties of Washington and Bennington.

That’s nuts.

6” in Kirby, VT (next to Lyndonville) Looks normal for this time of year.

Ah nice grab. Looks like that mid level band ran from like east/central NY up through Mreaves to Alex...then Washington County NY had some good blocked flow upslope. Looks like 1.4” will do it here for now, we’ll see if some squalls can fire up.

Yeah must be some weird convergence. You are right, it is legit, there’s enough 8-9” reports right in that area. Crazy as it’s literally 3-4 times the amount of melted precipitation as everywhere around there. It’s not even close but there it is in several different reports.

Seems low for him, Woodford at 2000ft with 8.5” just to his west. But some weird banding as we are seeing in that area and adjacent lower elevations east/west of SVT.

Wow that’s insane. And they aren’t mountains either, Washington County usually downslopes bad in a lot of synoptic storms but pulls 8-10” on May 9th.

I saw 8.0" inches in Granville, NY on 0.68" water. Was there some weird stuff going on last night? This stands out like a sore thumb but it's got 8.0" snow depth. At first I thought they meant 0.8" but the precip is nuts.

There are some crazy ratios coming in this morning for this time of year... Danville, VT 0.37" for 5.5" snow Ryegate, VT 0.29" for 4.2" snow Greensboro, VT 0.21" for 3.5" snow Landgrove, VT 0.16" for 3.0" of snow East Calais, VT 0.20 for 3.0" snow Who would've thought places would be ripping 15:1 ratios on May 9th.

Holy shit! Man, we just missed to the south by a county. Cold enough, just not enough precip! Not too often you can say that in mid-May.

It is dumping dendrites now. This isn't even wet snow. Just upslope cotton candy. Crazy town. This would add some quickly.