WxWatcher007

With another screwjob here. Man, glad I now have a place in SLK. Damn the double mortgage.

I still think that despite losing the deep cold (which was gone after our big period earlier this month) we are far better positioned to rock than we were at any other point in the season. I'm doubtful of early spring like warmth in after whatever next week, but even if it happens, I think we're going to be padding all the way to the end of March. Not all will hit, not all will be wintry, but we're not done by a long shot.

Floods for one floods for all?

Are you sure you want to spend your retirement with us lunatics?

This. One of the best life lessons people can learn. I'm ecstatic. This is the second 12"+ event here this season, and the first time I've had anything like that in over a decade. Sure, I didn't do as well as I'd hoped, but I'm happy. I'm happy for everyone that cashed in. I don't feel that way about snow events, but when I'm chasing high end tropical, I've felt that afterward. Less that the storm is ending because it's so intense when you're in it, but to the point @wxsniss made, it's more about the chase being over. I'll never forget coming back after hitting Helene dead center and I'm walking down this airport hallway alone in the middle of the night on my way back to the car. Just hours ago I was Superman, standing in the eyewall of one of the baddest storms to ever hit the U.S. and doing what very few people on the planet can do, and then the next thing you know I'm just a guy with a suitcase walking to his car. Even with the letdown, I can't get enough of it.

12.6" East Hartford

Thanks. I'm glad they recovered some. That's at least respectable.

I was pretty surprised when I saw that. I felt like I was on the razor's edge earlier when I had 11.6 and South Windsor to the north was reporting 7.5. That corridor from Enfield to SW seemed to be the sucker zone. Just to the west and east towns were reporting double digits from what I saw.

That's absolutely awesome. Hoping I can pick up a little more from this final part that's about to pass through. Not nearly as good as other parts of the state, but I lucked out. To be honest though, it kind of pisses me off that the only time I do better than West Hartford is when we're getting screwed to begin with.

26.5" reported in N Stonington

I need more negativity in my life. I measured 19.9". I stuck my ruler all the way in the ground. Does that count??

Up to 11.6" .6 in the last 2.25hrs is crap, but we're just trying to get over the top now. Feeling pretty good about that given the conditions outside. Snow keeps piling up by the door!

We rip.

WOW

Just hoping to get as much as I can in these next few hours as the spigot turns off for good. I knew you'd get crushed. As you lighten up, things are picking up here.

Like what I'm seeing down here on the 700mb fronto evolution.

Looks like a band is trying to regenerate over us as the other weakens over SE CT. I like seeing that. Wonder if we get some convergence with the western CT band and then it rots as it moves east.

At 11" as of 9:15. Pretty significant gradient too. I'm at 11 and there's a report of 11 in Manchester in that 9am hour, while just to my north in South Windsor they have a report of 7.5 and just of that Enfield to SW corridor Ellington and Vernon are at double digits. Models were deadly with that shadowing effect. Picking back up down this way too. Trying at least. HFD was very very close. Hit it at the 7:53 and 8:53am obs, but not 9:53. Not sure if they'd count any of the 5 min obs in that hour. Doubt it. Thanks. I consider myself very lucky. Hopefully we can all get a couple as this rotates out. We still have a few hours to go.

WPC has 968 as of 12z. https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/#page=sfc

And that's all we need. Keep piling up whatever we can with the time we have left.

Someone posted about the pressure earlier?

16 will be tough. I'm just glad I should be able to go over 12". HFD has been gusting good. Might fall just short of blizzard criteria with that 9:50am report.

Haven't seen you post all winter. Glad to see you posting and hope all is well. Yeah, hard to imagine that MA action coming too far west at this point, but the stuff in western CT still looks solid to me. Hopefully that can migrate east later and give us a few more inches of backside fluff. I'm in a minimum, but as I thought it's not as bad as it could be. Did a couple mile walk around the neighborhood in the last hour or so. I'm at 11" here as of 9:15. Drifts between 18-24". Good gusts, low viz, great storm.

What do you think of hi res like the HRRR trying to eject a band west back this way later in the morning/afternoon?

We knew the risks here, though it seems like my area is just enough south to escape the worst of it. Let's see what this jebwalk looks like though.