I can't remember if it was April 2012 or 2013 but Franklin county had a storm dropped almost 3 inches of sleet and there were over 30 accidents across the county that day, mostly minor luckily.
Yeah, based on mid-level warm push we might need to knock a 1/3 off. Interestingly our "expected snowfall" and "max potential snowfall" maps from BOX are the same up here.
Greenfield made the early dismissal call for tomorrow at 1pm today to give parents plenty of warning. Not much else they could do if it moves in like a wall at lunch time, don't want buses on the road.
RGEM and NAM combo rocketing the warm mid-levels in is certainly pause for concern but I would still hold out for 0z/12z Euro, HRRR and various WRF models to confirm the trend tomorrow.
Oh' yeah, can be epic but very elevation dependent. Sierra's and Cascades are float in the pow or sink in the cement (sometimes swim in the puddles).
Rockies = consistency. Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming are often safer bets for conditions.
Let them go. Winter goes until mid-March in NW MA and since I'm resigned to a cool and possibly damp spring, we may as well have snow chances into April. I mean jeez, my ski season doesn't generally start until February.
Hopefully we can follow it up with a day or two of freight train winds to close the upper lifts.
I should know better than to make ski plans for Presidents weekend since the Grinch loves to visit then. His 2nd favorite ski holiday to ruin.