coastalplainsnowman

Heard that during the storm too, but just assumed it was snowman19's tears.

I decided to look for the famous Kocin/Uccellini Northeast Snowstorms Vols 1 &2 that are often referenced here. I always assumed that you need a strong meteorology background to have a chance of getting through it, but seeing some excerpts online tonight it seems to be in more layman-friendly language than I expected. Would having a modest statistics background and reasonable reading comprehension skills be enough to be able to digest these volumes? From what I saw it seemed doable and very interesting. Would appreciate any insight.

I just re-read this. A 20-40% chance of heavy snow which starts inside 7 days from now already. Oh boy.

Actually, I was about to ask when we are starting a thread for Thursday. I kid.

Today was definitely one of those storms in which the official measuring approach yielded very different results from the average citizen putting a yardstick in the snow after the event. I have no reason to doubt the official numbers. I'm just saying that the "average of multiple yardstick measurements" approach for me mid morning as things were tapering down averaged about 18", a far cry from the 2 feet measured officially. Sometimes I wonder why the yardstick in the snow after the fact isn't the way to go. If you're going for some consistent measurement of what fell, you might as well go with liquid equivalent before you go with wiping a board periodically, which to me results in a number that means almost nothing to the public. Even wiping a board is going to be impacted by some compaction, so what's the point?

Eastern Rhode Island STILL under dark green echoes.

I think he gets a bad rap. He was optimistic when there was reason to be, and was just matter-of-fact when it wasn't great news. When this thing was largely written off, the comeback started with him posting some 'hey check out this model, seems to be hinting at something' type of posts. Like Zooey Deschanel singing Santa Claus is coming to town all by herself in Central Park before everyone else joined in, he held strong until Santa's sleigh could fly again. Well done.

I don't want to sound greedy after a top 2 or 3 snowfall here, but what's the deal with that nice green radar blob sitting over Nassau the last 90 minutes? Is that producing for anyone, because after being true to what was actually falling until then, I've been under snowless and somewhat brightish skies the last 90 minutes or so.

I believe it. I held off posting about it earlier since I figured maybe it's not our forum area (wasn't sure), but was going to say that RI was under seemingly eternal dark green echoes which have been parked there for hours and hours and hours. Only now is it looking like the west side of the state has lightened up a bit.

@RJay put it well in one of the model review threads a few days ago: 'it just snows itself out.' It sure looks like when this does end some day, that that's how it ultimately ends, rather than pulling away.

I used to run a poll asking something along the lines of would you rather get 9" and be in the jackpot, or 12" when Boston gets 20", and the results were heavily in favor of 9" and the jackpot. I appreciated the honesty.

Old snowblower died this year after lack of use and upkeep (shame on me), so I went out and shoveled the 8" I had by midnight last night to get a headstart. I knew it'd get blown around somewhat, maybe even lose 50% of my work. I did not expect it to look exactly as if I had done nothing.

Thanks. I figured February would be king, but for December to be ahead of January surprised me.

This dry pattern is terrible.

Nobody named winterwarlock really means that Edit: They may even want to mean it, but in their heart, they don't lol just kidding around

That power could go out and then actually be restored during this, whatever the reason, seems impressive.

It's 12:18 AM EST

Well you definitely have the right account name if you're going to have a thread named after you. If your name was like, for example, that guy @SleetStormNJ, this could have turned out very differently.

1 out of 2 ain't bad

Measured in a few spots and I think I'm at 6, give or take 0.5". Beautiful out. So bright, snow sticking to everything. Not sure if my memory is accurate on this, but I feel like as few and far between the storms of the 80s were, they mostly looked like this. As the kids would say, this is great "packing" snow. You could make a full fort in 5 minutes out there right now. I'm nearly at Upton's 6-23" range lol. Edit: USA Hockey gold this morning, 6" OTG, lots more to come. Give me an Old Milwaukee, because it just duddunt get any better than this.

Sorry, last post like this. From the WeatherStar3000 app I linked to earlier.

If you really want nostalgia, try out this link. Uses your location and current NWS forecast to create a spot-on 1980s TWC local update. Amazing. https://weatherstar3000.netbymatt.com/

It's ok, nothing crazy yet. Hoping before this is all over to rival the best I've ever seen here (12/30/2000.)

"People be crazy." Well there's something we can all agree on.

Speaking of which at some point would love to get you and other mets / technical folks take on what you think about on air mets increasingly showing the models and kind of deferring to them, rather than interpreting them along with all their other inputs and making a forecast. Just showing me, for example, that the GFS gives us a foot and the Euro gives us 2" doesn't really tell me anything, other than that it might snow or it might not.