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I obviously can't say much about the coop reporting itself, but I have no reason to seriously doubt it. But if that assumption's true MWN is probably closer to 350+" on average but loses a great deal to estimation/blow off. It actually works nicely if you use the near 200" average at Hermit Lake (only 3 season's worth of data) or Pinkham Notch's 147" average.

I look at the POR for MWN, and they (full season) range from 140" to 566", Hermit Lake Shelter at the bottom of Tucks has only been providing snow obs for a couple seasons now but that will be fun to compare. In the last three seasons MWN has been at least 100" more than Hermit Lake. Jay Peak on the other hand had a (full season) range of 100" to 350". If they are going to have lower low seasons, they have to have higher high seasons to make up the difference. And I just don't see "mid-slope" sites pushing 600" a year.

See that makes it less believable to me then. In order to average over 300" I think you would have to be including all snowfall, not just ski season.

Even if you considered obs sites slightly down the mountain that might be better at "catching" snow that blows off the summit, the shoulder seasons where MWN is below freezing and pounding snow while 1000 ft up from the parking lots is 33 and rain makes a huge difference. MWN has some 500" seasons in the record, so if another ski resort is claiming a higher average you would be talking their record seasons being in the 600" range. I have a hard time believing that.

When BTV had Jay Peak as a coop, they averaged 205", elevation between 1875 and 1840 ft. Assuming the lat/lon is correct at NCEI that is off one of the trails about halfway up the mountain.

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.