WxWatcher007

It looked like an extremely fine fog but it wasn’t particularly dense. Hmm…I mean I’ve seen us snow in virtually clear air conditions so idk. I’m new to all this so it’s pretty cool learning about what to spot.

Good map and explanation. Totally reasonable.

Ha, well like I said, I don't think it's terribly substantive unless the 3K wins the battle. Even then, folks get smoked. I have to do my final call and I don't think I'm changing anything.

I know lol, but I was clear across the lake. Way too far away. I don’t think my car exhaust was responsible either. Like you said before when talking about what to look for, it was like a very fine cloud over the lake and at home. You couldn’t see it on camera without zoom. I’ll figure out how to appropriately document it someday but appreciate you being willing to take a look and ask questions.

Nothing zoomed out. I was trying to figure out how to capture it on camera. Here's a video from when I was at Lake Flower. I had to look toward the sun to be able to see it. https://i.imgur.com/7HwZkTu.mp4

Even if the coast gets pingers, I strongly believe it'll be after they get obliterated. So that's even better for you. I don't think you or my place in EH mixes. CT coast in a few miles inland SE CT, sure. Just don't think it'll be substantive.

Let's just fukkin go. It's about chips fall mode now. Frigid but beautiful morning here. Cold like the surface of the moon.

Shrooms? You will be fine. All of CT will be fine.

Low of -20.2 here at WXW2, the coldest temperature I've experienced. Wind chill easily in the -30s. SLK looks to have hit -29, which is a win for the GFS I think. It had temps near -30 in most recent runs. Now we wait to see how warm it gets today. I've never experienced a full 24 hour period below zero. Low of 3.2 at WXW1 (East Hartford, CT), coldest of the season so far. Definitely diamond dust in the air this morning @dendrite

Bring the juice. Sling it up and in and don’t stop.

KART -35 ob with -53 WC Watertown always delivers.

I think that’s going to be a critical part of whatever happens out my way since we’re likely on the lowest side of the QPF gradient. If we can get a robust presence of ML magic we’ll pile it up. I think. Funny how this is my first real synoptic event here.

My VP2 had a moment where it stopped reporting for about 10 minutes. Seeing Watertown hit -33 with a -45 WC is nuts.

Yep, especially down in SNE. Great run there.

I'm just ready for it to get here. At some point, enough is enough. Of course, I'm up for the euro and tracking temps.

No explosions yet but the night is young. -10.0/-16. Since this isn't a radiational cooling night I've been tracking close to KSLK. They're -11. Wind chill -28.

Well in a season of firsts, here's a new one. Coldest snowfall. It was snowing here at -5.7/-11.0 and it was actually ripping a bit briefly. Just under an inch for the day. Incredible stuff.

Well I don't love that out here. Maybe you were onto something MPM

I know that we have several threads going now, and mods, if this doesn't work I won't be offended if you take it down, but we have multiple blasts of Arctic air that will produce a long duration cold snap for much of the U.S., including New England. The first burst is happening as I write in advance of our major winter storm, and models continue to show a significant period post storm of frigid lows and very cold daytime highs. Looking specifically at CT, while we have certainly been colder, some of the ensemble progs put us in territory of some of our longer below freezing cold snaps. I think the Tuesday through Thursday right after the departure of our storm may over perform with possible radiational cooling and a fresh snowpack. I am not saying the numbers below will verify exactly, but I wanted to break this out from the January tracking thread and winter storm thread because I think the anomalous cold is the foundation for the wx we're seeing in the coming week or so and worthy of dedicated discussion. Let loose the Arctic hounds.

Yeah BTV hinted at the possibility yesterday that the front would trigger snow showers/squalls over the course of the day. Yesterday we over produced. Today not so much. It has snowed every day here since the 13th.

Psychologically it’s gotta be so much better for people if things amp incrementally to game time than if you start high and don’t budge. I mean some people here enjoy the chase more than actual snow falling. Classic dopamine drip.

Feeling good. It's nice to just watch a storm unfold without worrying too much. It's about damn time. This is going to be a big one for many, not just in New England.

I don't watch the news really so idk what they're saying, but this is probably going to be a legitimately high end to historic storm. Anyone getting .75-1" of ZR down in the south is going to have their grid collapse.

4.1° here at WXW2. 9° in Amarillo with -SN and a wind chill of -9.