December 29th Storm Obs

[dendrite]

5 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said:

Surprised at the intensity this early.  Maybe not <1/4 mile yet but getting close.  Flake size not bad...not sand.  27/24

Large snow growth. When they look this big on cam and they aren't aggregates I know the growth is big.

[weathafella]

Snow commenced here 10 minutes ago.

[CoastalWx]

Few flakes here. 

[#NoPoles]

wind is starting to get feisty...unfortunately, I had no where to mount my weather station that would provide no obstructions from all wind directions...for this event the wind has a southerly component and the anemometer is on the north side of the house...sitting in my room, the wind is strong enough to moan, and the house has taken a few decent gusts

[mahk_webstah]

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Large snow growth. When they look this big on cam and they aren't aggregates I know the growth is big.

Rest so you can get out in it tonight!  Looks like almost an inch now and good radar look.

[moneypitmike]

6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Large snow growth. When they look this big on cam and they aren't aggregates I know the growth is big.

 

I was guessing these were aggregates, but maybe i's just good growth here too.

[moneypitmike]

Pretty much stopped for now, just very light snow.  Need.  More. QPF.

[mreaves]

11 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Heavy snow at the mountain with great snow growth.  Closing in on an inch.  Vis definitely 1/4sm or even less at 1500ft.

Coming down at a good clip here too.  Now, if we can just squeeze out another 20-22 hours at this rate.  

[eekuasepinniW]

extreme snow in progress.

started a timelapse on my ipad and now I'm annoyed because I want to use radarscope too.

I need a fleet of ipads.

[Whineminster]

Pushing a 1/2" here in FIT, coming down nicely. Roads slick.  Belts being unbuckled and loosened. 

[Bostonseminole]

37/29 with flakes flying


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[dendrite]

6 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

 

I was guessing these were aggregates, but maybe i's just good growth here too.

You can get the wet aggregates where the flakes are wet and stick together forming large 1-2" flakes or the dry aggregates. The dry ones are typically dendritic because you need the "feathered" flakes typically to get them to cling together like velcro. Plates and needles don't aggregate (verb?) very well. I took a quick check outside and they were definitely individual crystals that were falling and not clumps of dry aggregates.

[NorEastermass128]

Light snow and 38F. Must be cold aloft. 

[geo1]

First flakes in Wilmington.

[dendrite]

The Canterbury and Sanbornton RWIS sites hit 0.24mi and 0.25mi vis respectively so my eyeball test of 1/4SM was right on. Back to -SN again. 26.2F

[rimetree]

32F and snow getting underway

[Patfan1987]

Snowing moderately right now. Road is almost all snow-covered. Temp up to 33.7

[moneypitmike]

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

You can get the wet aggregates where the flakes are wet and stick together forming large 1-2" flakes or the dry aggregates. The dry ones are typically dendritic because you need the "feathered" flakes typically to get them to cling together like velcro. Plates and needles don't aggregate (verb?) very well. I took a quick check outside and they were definitely individual crystals that were falling and not clumps of dry aggregates.

Thanks.  If/when they commence again, I'll check.  Now we're just sitting with some meh flakes as we sit in a sn- lull.

[J Paul Gordon]

Coming down at a good clip in downtown Worcester. Accumulating in parking lot at my office and on roofs. Wife says side streets are getting slippery where we live (2 miles north and about 250'/76m higher).

[ROOSTA]

Not that I'm rubbin it in, (love snow) BUT it's T79F/Td 70F here.

Yah I'm rubbin in! Good luck for all those getting the dumpage!

[backedgeapproaching]

28F- Been dumping pretty good here past 45 mins.

Roads went downhill quickly--evidence is a vacationer from NJ sliding off the road hitting my wife's car.

FWD + bald all season tires FTL big time-and he was heading up to Okemo--good luck with that drive.

[Nikoss427]

Just hanging on to snow here, flakes are getting big now... I feel the rain is near..

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, ROOSTA said:

Not that I'm rubbin it in, (love snow) BUT it's T79F/Td 70F here.

Yah I'm rubbin in! Good luck for all those getting the dumpage!

Someone sounds a little jelly.

[Sugarloaf1989]

Light snow starting up again.

[moneypitmike]

2 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

28F- Been dumping pretty good here past 45 mins.

Roads went downhill quickly--evidence is a vacationer from NJ sliding off the road hitting my wife's car.

FWD + bald all season tires FTL big time-and he was heading up to Okemo--good luck with that drive.

That sucks.  Perhaps we should reopen the snow-tire discussion.  I was a little wary of all the CT/NY'ers heading to Mount Snow this morning.,

 

[eyewall]

I hate missing this one being in NC through New Years. BTV has not had a warning level event since Feb 2015 and I have been waiting since then. With an inverted trough they may get there with this one. These days it is hard to say if there will be another shot at some point this winter. Nothing is guaranteed.

[mostman]

Moderate snow in Westford. Really impressive snow growth. 

[Damage In Tolland]

Massive flake size now 

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[wxmanmitch]

Not doing much of anything right now after a nice burst deposited around 1"-1.5", but there are good echoes W and S of me, so hopefully we'll get going again. Temp up to 32.5°F thanks to a SE wind and downsloping.

Although I don't think downslope will play a big role with regards to QPF, it will act to warm my BL temps enough to reduce ratios. 4-6" should be about it here I think...as this thing will end around 00z locally. 

[moneypitmike]

Crappy radar notwithstanding, snow's still coming down pretty steadily.  Meh flakes.

Continues to warm.

26.7*