dryslot Posted February 28, 2011 Author Share Posted February 28, 2011 Thanks Jeff. Discussion starting in the March 5-8 thread. Seems like this will shift and change a lot, especially with the gradient so nearby. I don't understand enough about what the teleconnections would suggest in terms of how this would trend. Yeah Mark, We will be following over the next few days, This will change around some and it won't take much of a shift east for this to be a snowstorm up here, Its not like its out by the great lakes and has to trend 500 miles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 28, 2011 Author Share Posted February 28, 2011 Well, This system turned out quite well here, We will end up with a net gain we received 3.5" of snow before it changed over to IP then -RN on the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Looks like about 1" of sleet here before the ZR/ZL/R/L. The high is 32.6F so far, but it has been above 32.0F since about noon. Latent heating from the ZR quickly warmed us up and now there is a little latent cooling from the slow melt. End result is we're hanging around just above 32.0F. Such is the life of an insitu-CAD event in the foothills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Looks like about 1" of sleet here before the ZR/ZL/R/L. The high is 32.6F so far, but it has been above 32.0F since about noon. Latent heating from the ZR quickly warmed us up and now there is a little latent cooling from the slow melt. End result is we're hanging around just above 32.0F. Such is the life of an insitu-CAD event in the foothills. A lot of people don't know that. Good to bring up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Yep, we got up to 49" otg by early March of 2008. Couldn't quite get to 50" but damn wasn't I tryin'. 30" at the stake this morn..... Probably was 50-51" at the stake (24.5" atop a solid 27) as accum ended on 2/23/09, but the thing was so plastered I couldn't read it, and I knew that making 2' deep snowshoe tracks out to it would mess with subsequent readings. By my usual 9 PM obs time the snow had fallen off the front of the stake, but had also settled to 49". Hanging at 32 in AUG, and visibility suggests something is falling (,don't think it's all fog), but I can't see what - prob dz or frz dz. BY area still in the 20s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Latent heating from the ZR quickly warmed us up and now there is a little latent cooling from the slow melt. End result is we're hanging around just above 32.0F. Good stuff, right there. Probably was 50-51" at the stake (24.5" atop a solid 27) as accum ended on 2/23/09, Just looked at my numbers for that day--picked up 11.9" of snow yielding a 39" snowpack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Good stuff jay Must be close to 40" otg at the house now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 A lot of people don't know that. Good to bring up. Yeah...little meteorological processes like that always fascinate me. I know you know this, but it explains why we tend to have isothermal 0C layers aloft too and those 32-33F snow bombs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 6pm and I am at 31.8F. Stayed below freezing all day. It always seems to happen, I hold on to the cold air so well in my location. 2.5" of snow with 2" falling in about 45 minutes with an extremely heavy snow burst. Heaviest snow of the year outside of brief squalls that can lower visablilty more. There is a ton of snow outside and I would say that this is my winter snow depth peak. Warmer and increasing sun angle should start the melting process tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 After dropping back down to 32.0F the CAA has set in and now we're mixing out a bit and temporarily warming. 33.4F and slowly climbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 After dropping back down to 32.0F the CAA has set in and now we're mixing out a bit and temporarily warming. 33.4F and slowly climbing. Been stuck here at 35F since around 1 pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Good stuff jay Must be close to 40" otg at the house now. That would be an accurate number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Storm total was 3.5" on 0.51" LE, all snow except for the tiny bit of frz dz at the start and a light cap of zr at the end, apparently no IP. Temp hanging at about 30, max for the day, and snowstake had 28" at dusk, highest so far this yr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Down to 34.2F after spiking to 35.5F. Getting some -SHSN now with a little dusting. The official snow/sleet total from this morning goes down as 1.2". Water equiv for the day is 0.46". Had a gust to 36mph an hour ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Scraped 2.7" of frozen pellets off the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 16F here this morning with -SN. Less than a half inch overnight on the snow board here at the base, goes down as a trace. Snowing lightly but huge, upslope fluff flakes. If this keeps up we could pull an inch or so of dust this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 Wind has really picked up here out of the NW, Temp has dropped 7 degrees in the last hour..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 After dropping back down to 32.0F the CAA has set in and now we're mixing out a bit and temporarily warming. 33.4F and slowly climbing. Same thing happened here yesterday. Stayed <32 until the northwesterlies mixed down a little warmer air and we got up to 33 for a while...but dropped back down fairly quickly. 1.7" of pure sleet with a LE of 0.45". Tough stuff to plow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Same thing happened here yesterday. Stayed <32 until the northwesterlies mixed down a little warmer air and we got up to 33 for a while...but dropped back down fairly quickly. 1.7" of pure sleet with a LE of 0.45". Tough stuff to plow! I gave up on shoveling it. I'll let the increased sun angle do its job. For the next several days, though, it will be an icy mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 I gave up on shoveling it. I'll let the increased sun angle do its job. For the next several days, though, it will be an icy mess. Yeah, it was pretty brutal--I had to at least get the end of our road where the town guys leave quite a berm and around the mailbox so we don't get the nasty note again. I didn't finish though. The truck was still chugging along but I ran out of gas! Get back on it later today.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Here are some pictures from yesterday... Estimated 1.25" on the 1,500ft snow board around 10am yesterday morning... we picked up another half inch of sleet/snow mixture after that. Total at 1,500ft was just under 2". Board cleared. Around 10am also during one of the times it had gone back to pretty much all snow. It snowed hard at times but ratios were horrible even during times of all snow. Very dense, icy flakes. Snow depth yesterday at 1,500ft was 31"... this picture was from Sunday (not yesterday) but the snow depth remained unchanged after adding just under 2" of sleet (you can barely make out the numbers, but that is a 31). This was yesterday at the 3,000ft snow measuring area... 55" at the snow depth stake: And an action shot... sleet skis surprisingly well. Its like sand but doesn't mess up the surface conditions. We really dodged a bullet with this storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Yeeha PF!! Yeah sleet is a kick to ski, all consistent and creamy with just the right amount of resistance that you can take slightly straighter lines than you normally would allowing you to hit wee pockets of untouched fluffies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 And an action shot... sleet skis surprisingly well. Its like sand but doesn't mess up the surface conditions. We really dodged a bullet with this storm. Great shot...and yes, sleet does ski pretty well--solid and firm under foot and yet fairly easy to dance through. Headed to Smuggs on Saturday with some old college buddies. We'll see what the weather has in store.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mica Vim Toot Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Snowed light but consistent along Rt 95 from PWM up to HOU last night. First flakes chased me to my door here at 0300. Honkin' out of the SE and dumpin' down now. Had to dig the wife out from a lady driver mishap on the slope/curve part of our driveway. I tractorized and she Passatted off to her nursely duty. This storm is a tough measure because of wind but I'm aiming to take the cake on this. My call- 11" here in PQI/CAR for the Tootsiepop. Vim Toot! Deserved the weenie Ray gave me on this yesterday. Predicted 11". Got 7". Nothing but snow at least.. I'm gettin out of the predictions end of things here and sticking with my strengths- impoliteness and middle-browed gags. Time to go looking for my buried trails. Vim Toot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Deserved the weenie Ray gave me on this yesterday. Predicted 11". Got 7". Nothing but snow at least.. I'm gettin out of the predictions end of things here and sticking with my strengths- impoliteness and middle-browed gags. Time to go looking for my buried trails. Vim Toot! Just take the line going horizontal at the top of the 7, put it next to the other line in the 7, tilt them so they are both standing straight next to one another and voila! You are a seer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 Deserved the weenie Ray gave me on this yesterday. Predicted 11". Got 7". Nothing but snow at least.. I'm gettin out of the predictions end of things here and sticking with my strengths- impoliteness and middle-browed gags. Time to go looking for my buried trails. Vim Toot! I had 5-10" for you up there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 It's March. Spring is here. No more snow talk below this line --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 Looks like a slight chance of snow tomorrow morning and another shot Friday night and into the weekend. Heavy heavy ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 Looks like a slight chance of snow tomorrow morning and another shot Friday night and into the weekend. Heavy heavy ... If trends continue on the weekend storm, A lot of folks up this way will be pushing 100"+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 If trends continue on the weekend storm, A lot of folks up this way will be pushing 100"+ I haven't looked at anything (yet) but if you say trends have been favorable then huzzah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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