dendrite Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 1 minute ago, eekuasepinniW said: No snow, 3/4" of sleet. Purple finches are back. ! I just put more thistle out yesterday too. What are your cedar waxwings attracted to? I've never seen one here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineHillsWx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Just now, Ginx snewx said: cool, heated driveway? That's the pool :). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 1 minute ago, Snowbelt said: That's the pool :). how cool is that, would have never known, I see the diving board now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 16 minutes ago, dendrite said: lol...a hair over 1" of sleet here. I got beat by Nashua and Lowell. What a useless storm. Useless is right. This crap is hard enough to predict as is. When you have a +1C 300 foot deep layer at 775 mb at 06z, and the precip comes in all FZRA. Then we warm to +4C and it flips to PL and SN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 That is a serious fetch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winging_it Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 4 minutes ago, Snowbelt said: My backyard, just taken.... Just now, Snowbelt said: That's the pool :). Weird storm. In the eastern part of Townsend we miraculously stayed mostly snow - 4" total. There seemed to be a pocket from Nashoba Valley through eastern ORH county that escaped most of the sleet that dominated large areas to our north and west. It just seemed to be a continuation of the light snow that fell all day Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I think we're also getting mainly PL because of the low level cold wedge. Not because of the depth of it, but because we're generating ice crystals in it. It's hard to maintain supercooled water droplets if they are colliding with ice crystals on the way down. So we could be starting as something that would be FZRA, but it collides with an ice crystals on the way down and flash freezes to PL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 28 minutes ago, dendrite said: lol...a hair over 1" of sleet here. I got beat by Nashua and Lowell. What a useless storm. Your victory was your forecast. Good job sniffing this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, dendrite said: ! I just put more thistle out yesterday too. What are your cedar waxwings attracted to? I've never seen one here. Berries, though I don't have any anymore. They were probably looking for my mountain ash tree, which used to be where I'm sitting right now. They don't seem to want to give up hope that it will spontaneously grow back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 one inch of sleet...last time we had this much sleet was during the second part of the two part storm in early Feb 11 that ended that amazing 5 week stretch it can melt now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 29 minutes ago, DomNH said: Lol has to happen sometimes. Its happened many times recent years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 For Ginxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 44 minutes ago, White Rain said: They took down the 4.5 reading in sterling on latest pws from 500am. I measured 5" total an hour ago. Even with compaction since this event started on the 22nd, I have 4.5" on the ground here. I think the nws is reluctant to have that kind of a total here since the reports north of here have been for the most part less. Legit legit....just measured 4" in N ORH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 25 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: Sleet day 32.9 http:// A fine scene, but your piles need sculpting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said: Your victory was your forecast. Good job sniffing this out. Well I lucked out a bit for our backyards. The NAM was too warm, but the GFS and Euro were too cold. SE NH and parts of N MA scored some snow with the extra lift. I don't think that would've happened had the NAM thermal profile fully panned out. The 6z NAM analysis sounding cooled to completely below freezing here yet we had all sleet...so go figure. You had sleet back to ALB and BTV so the warm models were more right than wrong. Maybe some salt nuclei and stronger low level lift in the cold layer helped closer to the coast with onshore flow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Some impressive rainfall. Drought dented ********************STORM TOTAL RAINFALL******************** LOCATION STORM TOTAL TIME/DATE COMMENTS RAINFALL OF /INCHES/ MEASUREMENT MASSACHUSETTS ...BARNSTABLE COUNTY... MASHPEE 2.70 614 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO EAST FALMOUTH 2.52 700 AM 1/24 NONE WOODS HOLE 2.41 600 AM 1/24 CO-OP OBSERVER POCASSET 2.22 602 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO BREWSTER 2.06 603 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO WAQUOIT 2.05 605 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO NORTH TRURO 1.75 631 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO HYANNIS 1.70 628 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO CHATHAM 1.16 700 AM 1/24 CO-OP OBSERVER ...BRISTOL COUNTY... NORTH ACUSHNET 1.73 639 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO EAST FREETOWN 1.67 648 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO FAIRHAVEN 1.56 659 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO TAUNTON 1.45 700 AM 1/24 NWS OFFICE ...DUKES COUNTY... WEST TISBURY 2.60 637 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO EDGARTOWN 1.68 634 AM 1/24 HAM RADIO ...ESSEX COUNTY... IPSWICH 1.47 612 AM 1/24 TRAINED SPOTTER ...NORFOLK COUNTY... NORTH WEYMOUTH 3.50 721 AM 1/24 TRAINED SPOTTER NORWOOD 1.58 700 AM 1/24 NWS EMPLOYEE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 A few more: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomNH Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 36 minutes ago, dendrite said: I actually expected it, but was hoping for a euro/gfs win with more snow. We were always progged to have less QPF so convert it to all 3:1 sleet and it's a meh 1-1.5" of salt. Looks like you guys in S-SE NH got into the stronger omega overnight. You basically had me beat with the OES alone though. Yeah I actually think most of what I have is from the OES stuff. It looked like this area was in a bit of a hole til I went to bed at like 11:30 and it doesn't look like I have much more accumulation now than I did at that point. It's hard to get an isothermal blue bomb with such a warm tongue at 750-800mb so a couple inches with a lot of sleet was always the safe non-weenie call. Hoping for a GFS coup was just a weenie dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomNH Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said: A few more: ORH just does it time and time again. Never bet against an ORH jack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Just now, DomNH said: ORH just does it time and time again. Never bet against an ORH jack. I'm wondering if we got lucky with the combo of good lift and he easterly flow helping. It was snowing well into overnight. Was usually mixing with sleet but it still piles up a lot better than pure sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 All snow now here in Winooski with some blowing snow so ratios have improved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Just now, ORH_wxman said: I'm wondering if we got lucky with the combo of good lift and he easterly flow helping. It was snowing well into overnight. Was usually mixing with sleet but it still piles up a lot better than pure sleet. I thought the higher res models had a pretty good handle on the ORH Hills being a relative jackpot. I'm surprised BOX went as bearish as they did, given the way they tend to lean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomNH Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said: I'm wondering if we got lucky with the combo of good lift and he easterly flow helping. It was snowing well into overnight. Was usually mixing with sleet but it still piles up a lot better than pure sleet. The GFS and NAM both pegged ORH for impressive lift so not surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 4 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: I'm wondering if we got lucky with the combo of good lift and he easterly flow helping. It was snowing well into overnight. Was usually mixing with sleet but it still piles up a lot better than pure sleet. All of our snow/sleet has blown off the trees etc. glad yours stuck around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 28 minutes ago, OceanStWx said: I think we're also getting mainly PL because of the low level cold wedge. Not because of the depth of it, but because we're generating ice crystals in it. It's hard to maintain supercooled water droplets if they are colliding with ice crystals on the way down. So we could be starting as something that would be FZRA, but it collides with an ice crystals on the way down and flash freezes to PL. Yes, Lt zr at the start, And PL ever since Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Wow nice pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Close to 2" of sleet! Just pelting for hours. My neighbor came and plowed front 2/3 of my driveway just now probably saving me at least an hour of blowing and shoveling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 25 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: For Ginxy sweet Davey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Pounding sheet rains from land sea conv here. Got some good coastal flood video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 I mean models want to develop a little deformation up here later this afternoon/evening. Reflectivities are coming down now in the main band of precip, so it's probably flipping back to snow up in the mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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