HIPPYVALLEY

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 

17 minutes ago, w1pf said:

I'm no meteorologist, but if Amherst MA ends up with the 11" that this latest NWS map predicts, I'll eat my snow shovel.

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

5 minutes ago, CTValleySnowMan said:

 

For every 10 storms around here it seems as though 6-7 underperform,  2-3 meet expectations, and 1 suprises and that might be generous.  I can't blame the western mass guys out of Springfield for being so conservative sometimes.  It's usually a zero sum game around here.  Either the CCB banding parks itself right overhead or we get a perfect deform for hours or things just crap out and it's arctic sand and when temps are marginal early and late season there is no margin for error. .  With most of the biggies it seems as though the beginning of the storm usually starts slow and you feel behind the 8 ball trying to catch up. Just about at climo for the year now so I guess I should be grateful for that.  

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!  

1 minute ago, JC-CT said:

@Damage In Tolland we probably have until about 4pm to make hay until this pulls out to our east.

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

AWT. 

1 minute ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

For real? We had one lull in the last hour, but it was brief...I’m closer to the Gardner side of town

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

5 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

It's not snowing hard there yet?

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

8 minutes ago, met_fan said:

Radar shows it directly over Easthampton but it’s light snow here and not accumulation much at all

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+.

1 minute ago, moneypitmike said:

IT's been ripping here for about 2 hours with the wind howling.  Deck, car and street are all blown free of snow.  I hope people can measure someplace to see what actually comes down.  No measurements will work here.

 

Looks like Pit1 and Hippy are doing great in this.

 

SN+ and 29* at Pit2

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.  

1 minute ago, Hambone said:

I just measured 9" on my front walk.  We had a really heavy band move through with another one building in.  Stuck at 31/29.

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

Just now, Cold Miser said:

Just a real fine snow here.  Visibility is not the best, but the snow is just not amounting to much.

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.

25 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Mitch balls deep again.

He may get more than most folks season average in 2 storms.

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.

So many models have placed good banding over parts of the Pioneer Valley with subsidence a bit to the E.  Usually I would dismiss it as models misreading topography but maybe we end up getting smoked in a decent snow growth zone here. 

If folks don't mind keeping obs in the other thread that would be awesome. 

32/30. Steady light snow. Small flakes. 

2 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

2 of the big time models too... hope that’s wrong. Globals vs mesos?

A hair East is not a "jump East" you are crushed no matter what. 

5 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Greater Good Greylock IPA has made tonight even more enjoyable

That stuff is strong,  NAM drinking the same brew?  

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

We'll meet in the middle. The 5ppd is going back after the storm. Have at it James, but don't go too crazy. lol

 Christmas in March for James. 

18 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Ripping here.  Already a new coating.  Hubbardston, MA. 9:20PM

 

Interesting, that stuff is either isolated or under the beam.  

34F overcast but looks like a bit coming up from the S. 

Just got the robocall cancelling school in Greenfield.  They rarely cancel this early, superintendent must be following the NAM.

3 minutes ago, weathafella said:

3k buries a lot of folks.

Entire SNE forum really. 

1 minute ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

BOX’s range map...

Bullish!

1 minute ago, Sugarloaf1989 said:

6" that takes 24 hours to accumulate?

I'm keeping emotions in check.  6" of baking powder if we are puffing exhaust will be the LE of 12" of fluffies.