wxmanmitch

29.6° F with light freezing rain. Gross. Models want to flip me a period of snow this evening for a bit under a deformation feature as coastal gets cranking. I'll believe it when I see it - both in terms of QPF and precip type.

38.8° F for the high today. Still about 12-14" of snow OTG, with an average 12.5-13" that is now beginning to crust over. Currently at 32.7° F. I'm thinking we get a couple of sleety snow inches tomorrow PM with maybe upslope on Monday. The NAM has is pretty strong signal even down here. Deep, deep winter. Now if we can only do something about that effing cutter Grinch storm on D5-6. They've pretty much become an annual rite of passage, unfortunately.

Off topic, but how did you put that Wunderground banner in your signature? I keep copying the code from Wunderground into my signature, but it keeps displaying the code and not the banner.

I had 1.2" of dendrite fluff from a seemingly random blob of lake effect moisture that drifted down from the WNW. It's amazing what happens when a little puff of moist air in the DGZ gets lifted over the Green Mountains.

0.7" last night here, so a nice little pack refresher. It looks like those streamers up north were definitely Lake Champlain enhanced. Once the surface wind goes N of NW, it's pretty much game over here for upslope. Thursday night, Friday morning could produce as a decent little northern stream wave comes through. 12k NAM putting out a couple of inches here. At least there's something to track as the late weekend, early next week storm looks like a classic El Nino low rider that stays to our south.

I just got a Davis VP2 with a FARS about 6 weeks ago and I agree with you on the console, but accuracy was the deciding factor in my purchasing a personal weather station. The console is dated, but the integrated sensor suite has been very good so far. Davis charges $295 (the cheapest I can find online is $210 on www.scientificsales.com) for the Weatherlink IP, which is essentially just an ethernet cord that connects your console with the modem to upload the data to the Internet. Why the console isn't Wifi enabled and just wirelessly uploads data to the Internet is beyond me, but I think Davis just does it to make more money and increase their profit margin. The price for the Weatherlink IP is out of line, but I will eventually cave and get one so I can share my data.

Pack depth down to around 14-16" after the "torch". High today was 38.5° F and it actually felt a bit warm outside while roof raking the snow late this afternoon. It was good day to roof rake since the snow was soft. The snow is pretty much completely gone except for some occasional plow piles down below 1K, patchy from 1K to 1.5K, and solid cover above 1.5K. Anyway, I'm glad to get the weight of the glaze and heavy, wet snow off the trees as it was causing them to bend and break. Maybe I can get a little upslope tonight to freshen the snow cover...

The NAM was right here. Started briefly as a few flurries, but it went to sleet once the heavier precipitation arrived from the SW. There's a bit of glaze and the snow from the last storm is finally beginning to fall off the trees as we are now at 32.8° F.

Figured I'd go ahead and do the honors of starting a winter NNE thread since today's the first day of met winter. Hopefully it'll continue to deliver like November did for us. I'm at 40.5" for the season, which is awesome for 12/1. Depth is down to around 20" or so after some compaction. HRRR wants to give us some front end goods overnight before flipping to mix and then rain. NAM on the other hand starts me as straight ZR, but still drops some snow to the north.

Thanks for the tip on clearing out my attachments. I had never done it once in my time here at AmWx. It was tedious to delete all 185 of them one by one, but all good now. Anyway, the difference between here and North Adams is simply staggering! You go from ~2 feet to nothing in ~12.5 miles with ~1,600' elevation drop. Interestingly, other parts of North Adams that aren't immediately downwind of the Mt. Greylock range had a couple inches of wet snow left, even at equivalent elevation. The enhanced downsloping off Mt. Greylock basically ate the snow alive on the south side of North Adams and Adams. That same area isn't quite as bad in easterly flow events. The worst spot in easterly flows is undoubtably Bennington over to Hoosick Falls, NY.

Well...I got home after a week away and found over 20" in my driveway. Measuring is hard, but my depth is between 20-25". How much of that's from before this event, I don't know, but it couldn't have been much. Accounting for compaction, I likely had well over 20" for the event, including the upslope. I'll try to get some more detailed measurements and dig through it tomorrow to try and gauge what's old vs. new. The journey back here from BDL was interesting. Partly cloudy and windy all the way to Greenfield with no snow except for some isolated piles left from 11/15. As soon as I start ascending route 2 west of the Greenfield rotary, you start to get into some snow cover. ~1K in Shelburne and Colrain looked to have several inches of crusty snow and there were pixie dust flurries in the high beams on Greenfield Road in Colrain even though the upslope was way to the west and skies were mostly clear directly overhead. It's neat how those flakes can get advected so far downstream from where they're generated. The flurries and snow pack gradually increased as I headed NW. There were lots of down branches and trees, many hanging precariously over route 112 and 100 and even on wires in west Halifax, Whitingham and Readsboro. Roads were snow covered by the time I got to Whitingham. It temporarily subsided to just wetness in Readsboro center as that drops to ~1.1K by the Deerfield River. The last few miles is where the upslope was most intense, reaching near moderate intensity here. It has since tapered off though. Tried to upload photos but it won't let me anymore since my file size was decreased dramatically from before. It used to be ~10 mb, now it's 0.9 mb.

Pretty much zero melting here the past 2 days as I only got to 33° F today briefly. There's still some snow on the trees and the snow cover is still pristine and beautiful. The mountains are rimed above 2,500 on the N and W slopes; I'll try to get the drone up tomorrow. A far cry compared to the valleys where there's about an inch or two of ripe slush that was melting. Kids were sledding on a mostly leafy hillside with only scraps of snow left while here there are some snowmobile tracks. I think they're just testing their sleds out as the VAST trails aren't open until 12/16.

5.4" from the storm...a definite disappointment and underachiever as the big front end dump really started running out of gas as it moved north of the pike at this longitude. I only had ~4" before we dry slotted and went to sleet around 12:30-1 AM. I was thinking 8-10", maybe 12". We're getting some upslope fluff now, so that may add a little more, but for bookkeeping purposes I'm counting this as a separate event.

19.0° F/6° F. Snowblower is gassed up and ready to go. This is a midwinter type snow incoming. I had a low of 9.3° F, which is more typical of January not November.

I care about it! I was looking at that too on the 3k NAM and I may upslope down here as well. Final call for IMBY is 7-9" tonight and tomorrow AM since I expect some IP here after about 1-2 AM and then maybe another 1-3" here tomorrow evening???

The west slope midlevel warm tongue of doom is showing up on a lot of the models. The NAM is the most robust with it and even gives me a lot of pingers. It's possible that a place like Granville, MA gets more snow than Granville, NY with this setup as the latter location gets a sleet fest while the former stays snow longer despite the latitude difference.

About an inch or so of slush beginning to freeze up, 30.6° F. It poured rain at 33-34° F for several hours. Latitude FTL. Davis recorded 0.64", but I think we got > 1" as there's still some snow atop the bucket. I was combing through local ASOS obs and there was no snow recorded at PSF, but both ALB and DDH did go to brief snow after starting as rain and then wet bulbing. AQW was offline earlier, but there was still a little bit of slush in North Adams, even on the valley floor at 650'. I was later down by Pittsfield and went over a hill on the north side of town at 1,350' and there was no hint of snow. As such this was a 80% a latitude gradient and 20% elevation one.

I had a quick 2.3" before changeover to freezing rain just after 4 AM. Now just a 33° F rain and everything is slush. It's not really enough to snow blow and it's going to be a skating rank later today once the cold gets here. This event definitely was less elevation and more latitude dependent than last Friday's. Very little wind too, so orographic effects are pretty much nil this go around.

Tonight looks colder in the low levels than Friday's event here. I think timing is in my favor as I'm now getting some radiational cooling under a thin cirrostratus deck. 31.6° F with a dew point of 20° F, so I may not need to "waste" some snow QPF as 34° F slop like I did on Friday. Instead I look to start as a 30-31° F snow and possibly rip 1/2" to 1" per hour for a few hours before changing to rain around 10-11z. The other difference with this event is the fact the warm air is initially coming in the lower levels (below 850 mb) as opposed to up around 750 mb. My location does better at holding low level cold than mid level cold, so maybe if I can stay snow an hour or two longer than the HRRR depicts, I will get an extra inch or two. Regardless, I still think I get 2-3" tonight with an outside shot of 4-5".

I'll take the 12z Euro with a side of fries please... That would be a solid 10-15" snowstorm IMBY verbatim, assuming 10:1 ratios. 18z ICON would introduce big QPF worries for NNE, but no one should be putting too much stock in a particular solution at this point. The GOOFUS seems oddly warm right now, as it seems to be doing a lot lately. The fact that there's near universal consensus for a coastal storm should be enough to get anyone excited right now. I never made it out of the 20s today with a high of 29.4° F and a low of 21.1° F. I think I'll likely get my first teens tonight. There's still about an inch of crusty snow leftover from Friday night, but by the time you get down to about 2K it's bare ground. Tuesday looks similar here with a quick 1-3", maybe 2-4" event before changing to rain.

33.5° F and light drizzle. Drip, drip, drip... Whatever's left of my 2.5" will likely be a small glacier by tomorrow AM. Not a bad appetizer before what will hopefully be an all you can eat buffet this winter.

Over to sleet now. 2.5" on the board, so not quite snow blower threshold. It was fun while it lasted...

+SN, 32.1° F. Probably 1-2" per hour stuff. You can see the high CCs dip south on the east slope to about the Mass Pike right now, which could be good for me if I can keep it snow a bit longer. Gusty E to SE wind is plastering the snow against the trees in said direction.

Dumping...about 1/2" OTG. 32.5° F. We'll see how long I can keep the party going until the midlevel warmth gets here.

We snow. Moderate to at times heavy snow now. 32.5° F. Around 1/2" down.