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12.6" doesn't even crack the top 20 for me. I may start counting down until May 1st.

Simulated reflectivity looks like a summer squall line.

Last year or so, yes. The science is definitely there for these concentrated discussions now but I wouldn't expect to see any around here soon.

I get it. I don't want to be working this Friday night either...

I'm a little surprised by that. We issued an advisory with the 10 AM update, so it's not like there wasn't time to get out there and pre-treat or even get ready to treat.

Nothing like getting sea sick with your feet up on the coffee table.

Front is already through PWM.

Fog all sitting north of the surface warm front. Waiting for that to blow through GYX.

Just no hint at mixing at the moment across the CWA. Winds pegged at 00000KT.

The snow eater fog has arrived at GYX.

Anecdotally I always zeroed out any accumulation at >= 37, and really limited it above 35.

Definitely not my first choice for a fake cold radiational night.

What a drive to work this morning, I have to say I'm coming to grips that I'm a hoar frost guy.

I thought our forecast was a optimistically warm yesterday, but I was not thinking -10 at AFN that's for sure.

It is infinitely more snow than forecast...

The kids must know by now not to bother daddy after the news reports the official BOS snowfall.

I mean I don't think it counts if I only lived through Scooter running naked through the streets does it? I could add the 10/18/09 snow at Foxboro coupled with the 59-0 thrashing of Tennessee.

I'm pretty comfortable with Bob, 7/23/08 RI tornado, and Feb '13 blizzard. While I missed the best parts of the storms October 2011 and Sandy for the shear anomaly were pretty cool.

Went to a Kp 5 last night, with forecasts around 6 tonight. It was very faint on the horizon here at GYX last night, and a 6 is typically good enough for us to see it clearly at the office.

Tip is right about one thing, measuring as close to the end of the snowfall as possible is ideal (and recommended by the way). But if you think about this all in an impact sense, what makes more sense: plows waiting until the snow stops and removing snow, or plows nearly continuously keeping roads clear? I would argue a plow operator is much closer to observing the 6 hourly snowfall amounts than the 24 hourly. It's one thing we've discussed internally about the 6" in 12 hours vs 9" in 24 hours warning criteria. If anything the lighter, longer duration 9" in 24 hours is more impactful because road crews are out longer.

Starting to look that way.

Obviously a long way to go, but even a moderate snow storm next week would give PWM a shot at top 3.

I mean there is probably a fair chance that sea scroll era measurements were just depth increases. I sincerely doubt some knickered colonist was clearing a patch every 24 hours to measure new snow.

Well the observation is the airport, not downtown anyway. So Winthrop is far more representative of that than downtown. Of course many argue about Tarmac observations and not where people live, but that's the way it's done. ASOS is BOS officially, and Winthrop is an acceptable distance from the ASOS and has an observer. Outside of Winthrop their closest active site is Franklin Park Zoo, and that's way too far away for climate purposes.

Hmm, 2.75" with 27" on the ground for 3/14. That does seem suspiciously like a snow core not a melted precip.