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these certainly typically have two max areas. I like your idea of BGM to BDR for the main max zone. Hell, you can even see that on the GFS too

Ultimately I think you're in a great spot...and kudos to those who have mentioned that to you over the past day or two. I thought the hope was low for such a big bump northeast, but alas here we are. There are still lots of uncertainties with this, but that is going to make for a fun (but stressful) forecast.

You know what's going through the mind right now...what if the banding actually occurs even farther north then what guidance has (which we know is something that is rather common)...that could essentially put like along or south of the MA Pike through BDL and kevin into the jackpot zone lol

yup...damn trees and hills and valleys wrecking havoc on the radar beams. If I ever won a billion dollar powerball (well I would have to play the lotto first) I would pay to have a radar installed at BDL

I would have to think we see winter storm watches expanded through much of CT...maybe the trigger is pulled for a warning in Fairfield?

It's fairly unstable too into the DGZ. That could certainly argue for some rates locally approaching 3"/hr but I don't think those rates would be sustained for a full hour or multiple hours. Such a tough forecast...you almost have to have a large swath of something like 5-8" or 6-9" and then just use text to emphasize that swath ma be a bit more narrow as those totals are highly dependent on where the banding occurs and how wide the banding is.

NAM bufkit is out! So far looked at a couple locations (Waterbury and New Haven with New Haven shown below). Beautiful crosshair signature for a good 3 hours. But note...the duration of the snow, particularly the heaviest snow is going to be short lived. This is something that is going to cut back on the upper ceiling with this. It could really be difficult to pull off more than 6-7" but there are many factors to consider here. NAM bufkit even looks solid through Hartford. But it should be stressed that this is solely tied into the banding...meaning if you are not under the banding, its probably going to suck and may be difficult to accumulate more than a few inches (though most should be happy with that).

2014-2015 winter? That might be what I am thinking of then.

Early 2010's? Edit: Maybe 2013 or 2014?

Is the NAM starting to pick up on where that fronto band will traverse? But you can see with this one...its essentially where that fronto band occurs. Outside of that band precip is pretty meager. The cutoff is going to be wild

NAM coming in hot and heavy. that is a crushing even through Hartford. Hefty fronto band

Explains that jackpot of totals. I don't know if 4-5" per hour is happening but that would be absurd lol.

Holy shit..that might rip 2.5-3" per hour with thunder

Where the best of heaviest snow occurs max totals should be upwards of 7-8-9" or so. 10 might be tough just because of how fast the system is moving but it will probably dump 2" per hour under the band for a time.

Just have to hope we remain with positive trends at 12z

Please NAM verify…please

Kind of seems like dry air and some subsidence would be an issue on the NAM. This would be a verification mess. You would probably get some spots getting 4-6” and then some spots barely getting 1-2”…and probably within close proximity. But can’t really buy this yet or take any value from it. If the GFS/Euro hold serve this can probably be tossed. Wonder where RRFS will go

Sucks sounding on cod don’t work but the precip looks kinda all blotchy. This is so weird

Well…lol

I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a tick back south. If anything, I am hoping the mesos start improving 0z otherwise that could be a big flag concern

Yup…you can see this poking around bufkit. Under the lift, ratios could exceed 15:1. Well away from the lift quite a bit below 10:1

Pretty hefty 3 hr bump for sure. probably some thunder in there too...a bit of a MAUL

The one I remember best was November 2018. NJ into SW CT got absolutely crushed...that was with a SWFE I think but that was wild. I think Newark got something like 6-7" of snow. What made this event worse was it occurred during evening rush hour.

I was just looking at the RRFS...that and the 3km are like what event lol. I guess thankfully we are a bit out of the time range for the mesos but I think they should yield some degree of concern. They both sort of hint at the potential for basically a narrow band of precip and that is it. I'd have to hedge them being underdone in terms of precipitation but they may have the right idea on the narrowness of the heavy snow.

This is going to be a nightmare right up until go time