HIPPYVALLEY

Even a lot of frozen here to start. I could really go for some sleet because obviously haven't had enough of that this year.

Looks like any squalls will be well to my south today. Maybe a fresh coating in SW CT and southern Berks?

It's cloudy here so feels like a mid-January day with "squeaky snow" in the woods when I walked the dogs.

18z FV3 wants to lay a few inches down over the interior Sun/Mon before any change over.

Now they are dealing with some anomalously cold temperatures and no power.

It would be fascinating to back track what the atmospheric patterns might have looked like then for that particular decade of climate extremes.

It's not the only model leaning that way.

Fake snow? Those coastal totals sublimate fast. ; ) He rocketed out of nowhere. I saw I am now in a dead heat with Ray.

Fuk, there can be 1-2" differences between my house on the far N side of Greenfield (almost in Colrain) and far S side (almost in Deerfield). In fact, for quite a while, when I was submitting my NWS reports I would state exactly where I was because downtown could often have 1" less snow (or sometimes 1" more) even though I am only about 200' higher.

Yes, I've driven by that a bunch an when I first saw it I thought it was a mistake and was supposed to be 1938 not 1936 because I did not know about the 1936 flood at that time. Every time I go that way I wonder how some of those old farm houses even survived.

There was devastation across all of New England. The high water marker on the Millers River along RT 2 in Erving is 6' over the highway. Bratleboro, Turners Falls, Holyoke, Hartford were all devastated. Deep snow pack with high water content and a screaming Sou'Easter sending water down ice jammed rivers gets it done. If that happened this year we have the water content in the pack but maybe not as much ice to damn the rivers, at least down here.

https://www.weather.gov/nerfc/hf_march_1936 http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/great-new-england-flood-1936/

That's where I'm at, the last thing we need is below average temps with cutters priming the L.E. of the snow pack. I like mud season to last days not weeks. Should be a decent maple season with these projected temps.

GFS has temporarily abandoned any anomalous warmth it had been advertising. Let's get one of those modeled cutters to come under NE.

Long range doesn't exactly look warm as we head through mid-month. Honestly if it's not going to snow lets just go warmer and drier, well below average temps interspersed with cutters does not interest me in the least.

We all know there should be a weather station and snow board in a little fenced area on Boston Common, just need to find somebody on Beacon Hill to walk down and take the measurements.

It can be infuriating. NWS almost always uses my reports for Greenfield because they know I'm pretty conservative with my measurements. I had to complain a few years ago when they used a "media" source for a few storms and they were way off from my totals both on the negative and positive side but almost every Greenfield report over the past 8 years is mine.

Dude, you're nuts! You need a front load tractor or p/u with a plow for a driveway like that.

How the hell did the guy in Sterling only get 8 - 9"???

This can happen -

My friend in Colrain says about 7.5" there, I had about 6.5" here. W MA totals: Franklin County... Greenfield 6.0 604 AM 3/04 General Public Sunderland 5.9 700 AM 3/04 Co-Op Observer 2 ENE Ashfield 5.8 700 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Ashfield 5.5 656 AM 3/04 NONE 1 SE Sunderland 5.3 730 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Heath 5.1 654 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Shelburne 4.5 630 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter ...Hampden County... East Longmeadow 8.0 741 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter Wales 8.0 551 AM 3/04 Media Southwick 6.0 800 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Ludlow 6.0 526 AM 3/04 Media Springfield 6.0 721 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter 2 WSW Ludlow 5.8 700 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Holyoke 5.3 714 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter Chicopee 5.0 555 AM 3/04 Media North Chester 4.8 745 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter Longmeadow 4.5 355 AM 3/04 NONE West Springfield 4.5 735 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Westfield 2.0 1153 PM 3/03 Ham Radio ...Hampshire County... 1 WSW Williamsburg 6.5 645 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Huntington 6.0 554 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Ware 5.5 719 AM 3/04 Ham Radio North Amherst 5.5 832 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter Easthampton 5.5 700 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Amherst 5.4 715 AM 3/04 Co-Op Observer 2 SSE South Hadley 5.1 755 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Northampton 4.8 605 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Cummington 4.5 728 AM 3/04 Ham Radio South Amherst 3.7 637 AM 3/04 Fire Dept/Rescue South Hadley 3.2 300 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Westhampton 3.0 1

In an hour or two Scoot's elation about getting a foot and a half of snow will wane and he will be in here responding to your posts with umbrella emojis. I think we have a shot at one more advisory event, just need things to break right in the next 7-10 days.

I would have never guessed you and I would get the same amount based on you being about 25-30mi E of me. Pretty morning.

I haven't had one since March 2017