HIPPYVALLEY

My friend in Dover VT just texted me he had 12-14" there as of midnight with light snow still falling.

That's what you should tell them.

Maybe a Met could explain to me the dynamics out here. I understand the reasons the valley did poorly even under that great band all day but how come the high elevation spots out here didn't do very well either? Radar said it was snowing hard for hours but highest total in Franklin Co. was 11" and most 1000' + locales were less than that.

MPM made the right choice going to Maine. Probably only 8-9" at his house in Shelburne according to my friend up that way.

Just make sure you replace it with the real thing ASAP otherwise you are risking your gearbox.

That I-91 banding was wasted on the Valley, it probably would have much better served the hill towns to the east or west. The Euro QPF was probably pretty close to reality out here, .6-.7" is what it showed consistently. We wasted a lot to poor growth and thermal profiles that were likely a degree or two higher than modeled.

I made two measurements today on a cleared picnic table to come up with my 6" but only have 4.5" otg. Anybody measuring on pavement or waiting all day is probably under reporting what they got in the valley.

Parents and sister say 22"+ in Chelmsford. Looks like the big totals cut of sharply W of ORH. N Quanbin towns have joined the land of commoners the past few seasons

The map is often not updated late into a storm. Amherst will be lucky to break 6"

You nailed it. Up here SWFE are more reliable. I too am am just about climo fir the season. 3 NorEasters in 3 weeks but almost no SN+ to show for it. There is always the next one!

5.5" - 6" here since midnight. 4.5" or so otg. Heavy and wet. 32F -SN A little disappointing relative to forecast but we probably wasted some qpf and never got into better rates despite them being overhead. Still looks pretty!

Moving pretty fast, and tons of banding, going to be tough for anyone to realize over 18" in SNE. AWT.

Areas between Erving and Gardner have been getting screwed today and that was actually modeled on NAM and a few other models.

Nowhere in the valley despite a sick look on radar. I have -SN/SN with gorgeous dendrites but can't really get beyond that.

Yeah, it must be some phenomenon with the radar, precip rates in the mid level and topography because you would think that the entire I-91 corridor had an insane band parked over it but nobody I know up and down the valley is seeing SN+.

3-4" (4" on non-paved areas.) here due to varying snow growth and borderline temp but I bet your house is 5-7" right now.

Wow, much less than that in areas to your West I'm guessing.

We call that baking powder in these parts. It brings meager totals but difficult shoveling.

3" or so here. 31F SN little windier than I thought it would be. There are going to be a lot of disappointed weenies with this banding. People get way too worked over the robust models. Radar looks great here but I think I am right on the edge of the good banding, literally going from arctic dust to beautiful dendrites every 2 minutes. Central MA and parts of CT look awful on radar right now.

30F Moderate Snow about 2" on non-paved surfaces. Snow growth is decent for the time being. Really sticking to everything so power may be an issue.

32/30. Steady light snow. Small flakes.

Interesting, that stuff is either isolated or under the beam. 34F overcast but looks like a bit coming up from the S.

Do you have any maps of January 23, 2005? Still in my top 3 behind 2/78 and 4/97. Over 30" in Cambridge/Somerville death banding. Entire cars covered up and down snow choked streets. Glad I was still in Boston for that one because iirc W MA did not do nearly as well. I just remember people walking around monday morning shaking their heads at how they would dig their vehicles out that had been buried by plows and drifting. Sidewalks in the city were a complete disaster and some side streets were not plowed for hours after the last flakes.

I think we had about 3" here while parts of ORH Co. 25mi from here had over 20". Toaster bath.

I'll be camping at 2000' on the East Slope of the Berks tomorrow night with no light pollution, just hoping the clouds aren't rolling in.