OceanStWx

Check out the mid level WV loop. You can really see some vortices ripping back westward north and west of the main surface low, in the shear zone of the cold conveyor. I love me some GOES-16.

Mid level magic FTW. 700-500 f-gen seems a good proxy for this band right now, and the RAP is only slow to pull that east over the next several hours.

Saw that, but 5 min obs show it's been less than predominate. Sort of dumb luck with the top of the hour being at criteria.

It actually takes a crap load of work to weed out the bad reports and reports that make the map look stupid. So resources are better used updating the forecast, briefings, and taking in reports. It's a treat that BOX even puts the effort in mid storm.

It's harder when we don't own the trees.

Great @CoastalWx, Diane almost quit the board.

This is just a map based off the PNS totals. So if the report hasn't been updated by the spotter, it doesn't change.

Even Kevin's screaming sou'easter in October couldn't take 'em all down up on this hill. When they built the thing 20 years ago, apparently nobody thought the forest would grow up to block the radar.

Interior SNE trying to beat J. Spin for the season.

I don't know exactly where you are in relation to the label of Dover there, but there is also a tree blocking our radar beam along those radials, so the power returned is showing something less than it should.

Didn't really get going until after 8 AM at Maine Med, but once it did it was immediately pretty heavy. By the time I got back to my house on the other side of town at 11 AM we had 3" easy.

I’ve been pretty checked out on this, but I have the swing shift for all the fun.

Wait until I come in and take ‘em down.

Let’s get that pivot up here.

I think the bright lights they usually reference as Whitefield.

I saw this one from IA. The DVN radar even picked up fragments of the trail on one elevated scan (lucky considering the volume scan in clear air takes about 10 minutes). https://www.space.com/8243-meteor-fragment-wisconsin-fireball-discovered-farmer.html

Nice, pics or it didn't happen! That looks like a pretty legit 20+ though.

Lots of telegraph wires down.

Grandpa Wood measuring snow in backyard drifts, where the people live, not some wind swept train station.

He does note it fell over the night of the 12th, but I'm more concerned with the 1.35" turning into 34" of snow. That's awfully dry for 32 SN.

30" also reported in Newport, over 20" at Pinkham, Keene, West Leb, Hanover, Plymouth. So probably a great-great grandfather slant sticking, but I'd say plausible.

PWM had 2.32 liquid, and 11.4" so it's not insane I guess.

PWM has reports from the Jetport since 1931 ('31-'40 overlapped with Exchange Street downtown to verify consistency). 1940 officially moved to the Jetport, and moved twice with the terminal building, once in 1940 and again in 1988, then automation began in 1994 when we moved to GYX. The Jetport itself is pretty susceptible to west winds for blowing/drifting. I can't seem to find the info prior to 2010, but the current snow observer is 2 miles NE of PWM (Deering neighborhood). It's not the best snow location in the sense of obstructions, not like Winthrop sticking out into Boston Harbor.

They also had snow up to knicker levels in Feb 1894, 45" for three days after Valentine's Day. Started the month with 23" OTG and packed on another 24.9" to reach 45". Records do look a little sketchy at that time, just add new snow to current snow depth to get new snow depth. There's also Feb 1983 that hit 40 and 41" within a couple days of each other late in the month. But 1970 looks like the first modern era 40" snow depth.

Looks like these were taken in the 60s or 70s. A little sepia quality to them.