HIPPYVALLEY

The smaller topographical nuances are always interesting. I would guess latitude more than elevation is what gives the N side of Greenfield more snow than let's say Deerfield but my being 200' higher than downtown Greenfield does sometimes make a difference of an extra 1" or whatever. The bigger difference seems to come with being in an elevated valley on radiating nights. At 400' in the tight little Green River valley I radiate as well as anywhere in SNE. One thing about elevation that I have noticed out here is if you like snow, you have to go over 1000'. I have two different snow loving friends at @ 800' - 850' range in Bernardston and Colrain. Both of them wish they lived a little higher since they are often on the wrong side of the R/S line. My friend on Rt 112 in Colrain can literally walk a mile up his road to 50% more snow during some storms. That would drive me absolutely crazy. As it is, I am less than a 10 minute drive to better snow totals.

Tonight/tomorrow should be my 3rd wintery event in 5 days.

If Greenfield can get 2" tonight it will put me over 10" for November.

A little over 1" here.

The obligatory, semi-annual, pre-Christmas Grinch storm generally brings fodder for a psychological case study on certain forum members.

I'm counting about 20 flakes/minute in the outside flood light.

Yeah, it's very light here. --SN

This is right now after some compaction so maybe we were closer to 7" who knows.

Tuff!

You had school today? Everybody out here cancelled.

About 6.5" here including what fell this morning. I don't think we got a single pellet of sleet here. Snow is dense but pretty plush and no slush or crust.

WUT?

Heavy snow, should break 6" in the next 10-15 minutes.

I don't think anyone could have predicted you and I getting the same totals out of an early season system like this.

Close to 5" now, radar and current obs say we never see sleet here and just shut off to some light snow or freezing drizzle.

Motivated! Enjoy the powdah"

That is usually not a gamble in this type of set up. Cold storm relative to climo and mid-levels were slow to torch.

26F Heavy Snow.

Hammering medium flake, mountain type, powder, just need and hour or two of this...

The instant winter thing is a little surreal to be honest. I noticed lot of people, including myself, scrambling with various yard pick up chores the past 2 days.

I'd say guaranteed 2 hr delay, at least extended walk with the dog.

25/24F 4" down. +SN

Well yeah that was on another scale. This will be epic Nov event for S of Pike and coastal crowd but will be equal to or maybe a little better than Nov 2014 for a lot of us.

You can see the dry slot ripping N through E NY. I would be psyched if we had 4" of snow, dry slot and just a light fzra coating. It will be so much easier to clear in the morning than rain on sleet on snow.

3.25" here and dense, I just threw a couple of shovels full. I think S of Pike is going to be the big overachievers. I fear once that ML warming starts ripping N the pingers will advance too quickly for areas N of RT 2 to play catch up. We'll see, either way we will easily reach the low end our zone forecast of 4-8" so any personal disappointments wont necessarily mean a forecast bust. Great early season event regardless.