Looks like a few flurries at best here tonight. Our dense snowpack has settled back to 3". Hope we can add a few more inches later tomorrow night and Friday before the cold hits.
Very nice! I'd love to do one of those core samples if I had equipment or knew how, but since there's been so much melting from underneath it wouldn't be accurate anyway. The melted bottom layer likely soaked into the unfrozen top soil lol.
4.3" with a short while of light snow left. most models showed over 1" of precip so assuming we got that we effectively got 4:1 snow with compaction/melting. Even now you can hear dripping when outside. Felt like an October or April storm. Oh well, on to the next.
Congrats to Hawkeye and CR crew for finally (likely) getting their first footer.
Very disappointing outcome here with the extremely low ratios. Hard to complain though when areas southeast in the sub are getting a cold rain.
Should hopefully add another inch or so to bring us to near 5". Nice to have an all-day snow event.
1.8" here as of midnight with steady high-end light snow still falling.
New Euro still shows a bit over an inch of QPF for the QCA, but has shifted the heaviest weenie band south from previous runs. Many high-res model runs have 1"+ for the QCA as well. Ratios are <10:1, but much better rates with the stuff coming in around daybreak and through tomorrow should help. Think we'll end up with 8-9" of very dense/wet snow here.
Yeah looks like we'll both be outside of the heavy swath, but high ratio snows on top of what will already be a deep snowpack will be fun. Will just add even more ferocity to the incoming arctic blast.
A little over an inch here now. Ratios are definitely less than 10:1, a very dense snow. Gonna have a long lull later tonight before rippage sets in towards sunrise.
Wow, you're doing well there. Just a few tenths here but heavier returns struggled to get in here until just now. It's caking to trees so wondering if power outages could become an issue when the higher winds hit.
Model QPF for the QCA has really jumped up since yesterday. It's looking like a very good chance at 10"+ now if the latest model solutions don't back off.
Many of the 06z models have bumped up QPF, with some now 1" or more. New Euro now has a band of 1-1.3" across much of the DVN cwa, so double digit totals seem a little more probable now, particularly in northwest half of the cwa.
Been focusing so much on the storm systems kinda forgot about all the cold coming down for next weekend and beyond. The western sub may have a hard time getting above zero for highs Sunday the 14th. Good chance at -teens early the following week. Gonna be a cold slap in the face after the recent warmth we've had going back through December.
Whatever snow falls across the sub will be around for awhile it seems.