RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Meh Sleep walking and posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Thanks Scott! I was reading about Pizzeria Regina, but it's nice to get a local endorsement. Go to the one on Thatcher St in the North End. You are staying nearby. The North End is our little Italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR Airglow Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Yeah Reginas is great -- it's a small chain but they do a good job at staying true to their roots and haven't lost what makes them good by branching out. The north end locale will be packed but it's worth it. For a burger and a beer, it's a bit out of your way, but I love Boston Burger Company on Boylston Street in Back Bay. Take the B, C, or D branches of the Green Line to Hynes station and it's a half a block down Boylston from there. http://bostonburgerco.com/ Another spot in that area that I like a lot is Audubon on Beacon Street -- excellent burger(Solid "upscale" bar food menu as well) and a pretty good beer selection. http://www.audubonboston.com/site/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Go to the one on Thatcher St in the North End. You are staying nearby. The North End is our little Italy. Grab some tasty pastries too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I've really enjoyed today's discussion about NNE/WNE drought of significant storms. Ironically some of today's models have shown how the CT River could once again be a dividing line of haves and have nots next week. Do we continue a trend...? lol Sure you enjoyed it, sure you did. Lol. It has just made me more dour and gloomy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Pizzeria Regina. Hands down. Probably the most authentic pizza around. It's always crowded though. ...Except when they tried opening them up in some of the malls. Not sure if they still exist in shopping malls around the state anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chietanen Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Yeah Reginas is great -- it's a small chain but they do a good job at staying true to their roots and haven't lost what makes them good by branching out. The north end locale will be packed but it's worth it. For a burger and a beer, it's a bit out of your way, but I love Boston Burger Company on Boylston Street in Back Bay. Take the B, C, or D branches of the Green Line to Hynes station and it's a half a block down Boylston from there. http://bostonburgerco.com/ Another spot in that area that I like a lot is Audubon on Beacon Street -- excellent burger(Solid "upscale" bar food menu as well) and a pretty good beer selection. http://www.audubonboston.com/site/ Grab some tasty pastries too. Thanks gents. Might check out Boston Burger Co on Sunday. Looks great. Pulling for you guys to get some snow on Friday. Sitting at just under 2" for my seasonal total here, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 ...Except when they tried opening them up in some of the malls. Not sure if they still exist in shopping malls around the state anymore. Yeah. Those were pretty terrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Yes that is right PF. We did bias the NAO pretty negative between 2000-2013. Then starting in 2013-2014 winter (the shift really happened in late spring of 2013 IMHO) we saw a different regime take hold. Who knows of its just a fleeting run of 3 or 4 years or if this will dominate for most of the next decade. If you look at your great winters, several of them were big -NAO years. Not all of course but several. Years like '70-'71, '00-'01, '69-'70 to name a few. Not saying this one would have been great with a -NAO but you would have a heck of a lot more snow for sure. This event is a poster child example. You probably get like 10" of dense snow followed by a bit of IP before flipping back to fluff on te upslope as the sfc gets squeezed over LI or something and the ML center goes over ALB to Maine. Yeah I agree...and those are built into our climo. This morning it is currently: 4,000ft...19F 2,600ft...23F 1,550ft...27F And its been pouring sleet from the start an hour or two ago. Not a flake to be found as its torched well above 850mb. We are still making snow right now at all elevations out of the snow guns, but Mother Nature can't even figure out how to snow, ha. Its these events that don't drop 4-6" of dense snow before glazing that are really hurting our numbers the past few seasons. Western Mass would do well in those too...the front enders where Hippy doesn't go above 32F but puts down a good dense base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I have a secondary twitter account. Using it to talk weather and threats for the bigger systems. Would appreciate any follows and retweets @BostonWxCast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 A way I would view the -NAO in powderfreak land is "protecter of snow". While it may turn on you once in a while keeping things suppressed, it truly does stop the rain up there. Really tough to rain and it can turn some storms that might have been rain into big snow events. Love the analogy. We never get all our climo snow from coastals (probably nor does anyone from the ORH hills westward) which is pretty much been the only game in town for snow. Normally it snows all different ways, but it seems lately its solely coastal storms and you have to rest your faith in them. Ginxy to BOS and environs probably get the vast majority of their seasonal snow from coastals, maybe some overrunning or clipper from time to time, but most of it is from lows over the ocean. Probably Hubb Dave down to DIT and westward gets a portion of seasonal snow from coastal storms, but as you head that direction climo is also clippers, overrunning, SWFE, front-enders, etc in addition to coastals. Remove everything else and have coastals be the only way to snow (coastal or cutter), and you get what's been happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Love the analogy. We never get all our climo snow from coastals (probably nor does anyone from the ORH hills westward) which is pretty much been the only game in town for snow. Normally it snows all different ways, but it seems lately its solely coastal storms and you have to rest your faith in them. Ginxy to BOS and environs probably get the vast majority of their seasonal snow from coastals, maybe some overrunning or clipper from time to time, but most of it is from lows over the ocean. Probably Hubb Dave down to DIT and westward gets a portion of seasonal snow from coastal storms, but as you head that direction climo is also clippers, overrunning, SWFE, front-enders, etc in addition to coastals. Remove everything else and have coastals be the only way to snow (coastal or cutter), and you get what's been happening. Well coastals can mean storms that hug too. I would argue a lot of interior snows come from coastals that are snow to rain in BOS etc. I think you mean the 40/70 tracks that aren't favorable for the far interior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Well coastals can mean storms that hug too. I would argue a lot of interior snows come from coastals that are snow to rain in BOS etc. I think you mean the 40/70 tracks that aren't favorable for the far interior. True, yeah I have no idea how much of like Hippy or MPM or Codfish or Lurker's snow comes from coastals... I guess I just think the climo there has a lot more types of storms built into it. It shouldn't be a total reliance on coastal storms. That area gets a ton of like 2-5" then IP/ZR events that maybe are 2" or less on the coastal plain before rain depending on the situation. Also clippers that drop 3-6" have been completely absent. I guess I was thinking that with solely coastal storms to get snow, its no surprise the biggest departures will be back towards the west because we are missing like the other types of systems that say make up half the seasonal snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 30F. -FZRA Heh, kind of caught me off guard. I walked out to cover the wood pile and almost went down on me arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 True, yeah I have no idea how much of like Hippy or MPM or Codfish or Lurker's snow comes from coastals... I guess I just think the climo there has a lot more types of storms built into it. It shouldn't be a total reliance on coastal storms. That area gets a ton of like 2-5" then IP/ZR events that maybe are 2" or less on the coastal plain before rain depending on the situation. Also clippers that drop 3-6" have been completely absent. I guess I was thinking that with solely coastal storms to get snow, its no surprise the biggest departures will be back towards the west because we are missing like the other types of systems that say make up half the seasonal snow. Coastals obviously produce here but I definitely appreciate the reliability of SWFE's for this area even if they are not blockbusters. A freight train SWFE can be on the models 3-4 days out and hold course without me fretting too much over track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JC-CT Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Nice temp gradient going on with cold holding on west of the river. 32.9 in North Granby, 39 here and 42 in Somers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 3, 2016 Author Share Posted February 3, 2016 Started as plain rain here too. At least I won't have to wash the truck now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 growing up in central ct and living in western mass plenty of our snow has come from changeovers whether from swfe or coastals that hug and more often than not the best rates witnessed in a season more often than not come from juiced up swfe even if its only for a half our or so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 the only coastal in recent memory that really had great rates for a few hours or more was feb 13....even jan 11 was more inch an hr, occasionally a bit more but that was a good event here with 18-19 inches total just wish feb 13 had been during the day lol...the crushing part that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 the only coastal in recent memory that really had great rates for a few hours or more was feb 13....even jan 11 was more inch an hr, occasionally a bit more but that was a good event here with 18-19 inches total just wish feb 13 had been during the day lol...the crushing part that is ? some may not have been in an actually CCB ... a real, true one, where ever it is they happened to have been in recent years, during bigger events. most of the memorable nor'easters have frontogenic meso banding that pukes snow rates to 4" or more per hour, amid a general 2" /hr comma head. granted, we did seem to go through some winters in these early 2000's that featured more overrunning type set ups. but solidly constructed winter storms of the coastal ilk snow hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 you know what would be funny ... - is if that week ending wave somehow snow 4-6" E of I91 and then both the those next two things missed. ha ha ha-ha ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 you know what would be funny ... - is if that week ending wave somehow snow 4-6" E of I91 and then both the those next two things missed. ha ha ha-ha ha at this point they can have it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 i wonder if anyone has less than an inch of real snow on the season in nw mass or hv....someone who missed the coastal and squalls etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eduggs Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 i wonder if anyone has less than an inch of real snow on the season in nw mass or hv....someone who missed the coastal and squalls etc Yes if you don't count sleet as snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eduggs Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Later today, inches of rainfall will likely pull ahead of inches of snowfall since Dec 1 at Albany airport. Might as well be Albany, GA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Later today, inches of rainfall will likely pull ahead of inches of snowfall since Dec 1 at Albany airport. Might as well be Albany, GA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 i wonder if anyone has less than an inch of real snow on the season in nw mass or hv....someone who missed the coastal and squalls etc that is exactly what i meant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 that is exactly what i meant It's close here. Maybe a tie. 2.5" snow, 2.5" sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Nice temp contrast. 36F here, RA. My least favorite weather is 30's and rain. #whoestolemy50's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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