Damage In Tolland

I get more effects from land/sea convergence than he does from noslope at 1k. 

That was really a firehose band though. I didn't notice any enhancement other than a mesoscale band that probably was nothing to do with low level processes. You are actually at the end of the higher elevations in NE CT so using your logic..you should receive less than Union.

When that wind direction it actually makes sense the higher totals were w and SW of Union as the enhanced echoes there fell downstream from wind direction.

There was no upslope really.

Maybe not in true sense.. But if you loop the radar from that storm.. It clearly shows the snow enhancing as that air hits the higher elevations of Eastern and then North eastern CT. Even over NW Ri a bit

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That firehose will always be in my top 3 faves. I remember worrying the whole time that the horrific dry slot over RI would make it here.. But instead we had some up slope component and kept pounding snow . I think it got very close to Central Windham county, but then filled back in relatively quickly

Xmas '02 was a great storm. We didn't get the jackpot in ORH like further NW did, but we had 13.5" of snow...started around 6-7am and went all day into the night ending in the overnight hours. There was actually a lot of sleet not too far SE...down in NE CT, N RI, and up near metro-southwest Boston.

Was sleet all day until late afternoon/early eve when it mixed and finally went to snow. Think we ended up with 7-8

Saving pictures of Jerry on a home PC?

You might have been getting worse downsloping in Somers than BDL. It seems just eyeballing that Somers would still be downsloping on a NNE wind as the storm progressed and winds turned...more than BDL would be. Perhaps that difference was enough to overcome the slight elevation advantage....esp with the winds being stronger and marginal temps.

 

It was a fascinating storm for mesoscale terrain effects.

Somers has very high points on the Tolland/Ellington line. In fact Soapstone Mountain which is less than 10 minutes from me is near 1,000k. It's crazy though..how fast you lose elevation as you go down into the center of Somers twds Enfield

 

That wxradio Herb/David had on in the background used to get signals from a transmitter on top of Soapstone. there's some great running/hiking trails there and a fire tower at the top with great views

Lol Kevin has trouble remembering his own name, great video, really tells the story well.

Not at all Stephen..I knew it wasn't Herb..but couldn't recall if it was John, Jack, or Dave

Great video John.. Brings back good memories. Which one is you? In the bomber Celtics jacket or the Russian hat?

DTs FB page is ruthless.  Seriously people, it's just snow.

When you put it on the line and go balls to wall.. you open yourself up to 2 things:

 

It's king of the world when you nail it and you are the greatest..but if you bust you are ripped to shreds..which in all fairness is acceptable

That radar from SE Ct stretching due SE out into the ocean looks beautiful. That is exactly what we wanted to see

so are you saying it is "maybe" trending south more? last night they (cnn/fox) was saying NYC could see 2-3ft? and now weather channel says 8-12 with blizzard cond. possible for nyc

I'm not going to say anything about NYC because a few posters assured us their heavy snow looked great .

 

I just mean I think the Euro/Euro ens idea of a widespread regional crushing with a massive jack in Se MA..might actually be the way to think here.

We'll agree to disagree on the Euro.  Doesn't matter for most and for some I think it's actually better in the sense that we should see the full bore moisture train right into SNE.  Can already see this is happening, some of these areas that were looking to get shorted by subsidence as bands setup further west...doubt that happens but who knows?   I bet somewhere between Ginxy and tolland is anoter max jack zone.... as this whole thing begins to pivot and firehose in.

I think you're along the right track ..I still think though that we are going to see a rather expansive area..perhaps much wider than you'd expect of some big 20-24+ totals that could encompass much of SNE .. Instead of one of those 30 mile wide bands..But we'll see how it all plays out

One thing that seems like a lock, is that this is a south shore jackpot. I could imagine totals in the lower 30s, Euro has got to be too juiced.

40-50 inch amounts in a few places there seems likely

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I think Will said earlier that in Nemo the RPM had the same thing the day of the event and had Ct almost no snow..only to have the megaband end up there.

NYC reporting over 5".

How much north and south of it?

oh mann,  Bliz can't you stay up just one nite!

I laid awake from 1-3 last night thinking about the storm..then got up at 4:10 and was out running by 4:45..I am tired. Gonna try and hit the sack around 8:00 and maybe get up 2:00

Look at that def. band coming onto the Cape stretching to the SW of LI>.that's the beast right there for central areas

I think we a much bigger deform band...like just a big blob of it for everyone, with minimal subsidence. 

Yeah I agree.. I've been on that train all afternoon. I don't think this is one of those 30 mile wide bands..There may just be 100's of miles of 24+

Also as Ryan noted the ENS mean was  somewhat east of the op

The Euro kind of just has one massive megaband..outside of Se MA. That's why those big 24+ totals are spread all over Ct and MA

The band on LI into NYC is OES/convergence zone..It really wasn't part of the storm

I think the RGEM is too far east also...but I think the Euro might be too far west by a little...I am still envisioning some sort of compromise.

Compromise is perfect for all of SNE