Superstorm

High mountain snow is like lake effect snow to me. Feels fake. Loved it when I lived in Boulder area….Great to snowboard in.


Just don’t get the same feel as a coastal plain snowstorm.


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That second week of March to end of March will be interesting.

Need to make sure we get those lows to cut underneath.


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Got down to 19F.


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21F for low.

Saturday looks like last winter day. Phil was right.


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MA forum talking about the President's Day Blizzard of 1979, which happened to also be on 2/19 like today. You are probably one of the few on here with me who might remember that storm...do you have any notes or memories? I was 14, and went to bed on Sunday night with snow falling lightly and about 1" OTG. Forecast was for 2-4". I woke up around 5am and there was a bush outside my bedroom that was about 18" tall...it was buried. Ended up with about 20" on a forecast literally that night of 2-4". 

Like 3 days ago I said “we should ignore the south band and focus on the north, history says that’s where the goods will be and the south max will be disappointing”  I let my desire for us not to be shafted influence me too much yesterday. For a time the guidance kept the fgen displaced south of the arctic boundary and indicated two separate legit heavy snow bands. But things converged on a more historically typical outcome with the fgen shifting north with the better thermal gradient along the arctic boundary. I should have seen that coming. I did from 3 days then kidded myself when crunch time came. 

Got about 3.5” of snow here in Willow Street area of Lancaster. A lot more than I would have thought.

Very little on concrete and asphalt surfaces.

Cars, roofs and grass covered in white gold.

Colder concrete and road surfaces starting to whiten up.


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That heavy snow band in Ohio that there is a special weather statement for is 10 miles wide, haha

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Blowing and drifting snow tomorrow.


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Thundersnow in St. Louis. Where that lift sets up will be pounding.


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Ready to file this in the "what can go wrong, will go wrong, and then there's even more" cabinet.

HRRR is not my favorite model. I can remember it showing 6 to 10 more inches of snow to go one storm and we ended up with maybe another inch.


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That’s a legit look 

Winter Storm Watch issued for Lanco.


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I really liked this event. 5” of concrete paste. It sucks its down to 2” already but the rates were impressive.


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I really liked this event. 5” of concrete paste. It sucks its down to 2” already but the rates were impressive.


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Man, I had 1.95” of equivalent precip in the gauge. I can’t imagine what this storm would have been with a good cold airmass in place.


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Just wish we had gulf connection.


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I’m liking the look of that weekend storm on GFS.


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Warning criteria met in Lancaster and York and still no warning.


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What I love the most about this storm:

1. We went from “pattern does not fit a snow event” to warning level snows.
2. South shift does exist.


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