snowgeek Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: Nice, you broke the drought thus year! This is your second storm over a foot right? Yes! Had a 13" and now this. Should bring us to normal for the year!!! Hoping to hit 2' today....need stuff out west to rotate back through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted March 14, 2017 Author Share Posted March 14, 2017 1 minute ago, RobertSul said: Wow, that's a gorgeous shot! You should have hired someone to sit there with a news paper on one of those bentches in cargo short and a short sleeve shirt - man, that image would have gone viral! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Too bad this is happening during the day. Blinding snow is so much more fun at night under the warm glow of streetlights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 So Boston schools are closed again tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiktock Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Nice little band marching north from essex county...hoping for a few more inches. Already at about a foot here...wind still whipping and power flickering. Contemplating when to snowblow.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 1 minute ago, CoastalWx said: March, and also storm started to draw in lower level warmth. What does that have to do with it? Yes, all we heard about was how frigid the antecedent conditions would be, but is was seasonable cold leading into this storm. It was not arctic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo1 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said: What does that have to do with it? Yes, all we heard about was how frigid the antecedent conditions would be, but is was seasonable cold leading into this storm. It was not arctic. I'm surprised we are still mostly snow we must be around a foot now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Looks like jack will be just east of Utica, NY....may see a 3' total out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Ended up with about 9.5". Very light rain for a while now. 1.5hrs to clear driveway. Although not forecasted very great i can see that it was a tough one to do. Looking ahead I hope we're not done down here for the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Just now, geo1 said: I'm surprised we are still mostly snow I never expected much in the way of precip type issues here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Paul Gordon Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 0C, 32F, wind still roaring, 42 kph/26 mph, higher gusts, fog/freezing drizzle and snow (snizzle?), visibility less than 1km/.6 mi hard to tell depth with all the drifiting earlier, 1 ft/ 31cm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo1 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 1 minute ago, 40/70 Benchmark said: I never expected much in the way of precip type issues here. Nice call the wind is nuts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Rain snow mix. mostly rain. wind was roaring while i cleaned car off. I'm soaked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomNH Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 I'm thinking 13.5'' is final here. Snow went light quick and never really picked back up. Should've stuck with 12-20'' but fell for the very consistent model signal of 1.75''+ of liquid. When the Euro corroborates NAM QPF it's hard to say no. Awesome storm overall though. Don't see a lot of foot+ storms here. And certainly don't see 3+''/hr rates often, especially with average at best growth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 About a foot in Southborough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Gusting to near 40mph now. Time for another near impossible measurement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 In a system so intense as this where there is so much going on it's extremely unlikely that any one model will handle the storm great. There are just too many complexities and too much mesoscale aspects for that to happen. Have to look at each and every model and try to find what that model has been the most consistent with, know what each model's biases are for similar setups, climo, etc. IMO, when dealing with these setups which show potential you have to look back at other monster events and see exactly how things transpired. If looking at the setup and there are numerous flags that is a big eye opener that it may not pan out. Trends are very important and its silly to use statement's like "oh its the NAM" or "its the GFS" to discount potential outcomes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo1 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Just now, sbos_wx said: Rain snow mix. mostly rain. wind was roaring while i cleaned car off. I'm soaked I'd expect at least some rain but it looks like we will be spared a bunch here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 13" in Winooski! Absolutely nuked 5 inches per hour plus in a deathband! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowgeek Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said: Looks like jack will be just east of Utica, NY....may see a 3' total out there. It's crazy how far west the deform band set up! We prayed to the snow gods in ALB for a west shift. Must have prayed to hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 1 hour ago, Dan said: Much wetter snow than I expected, probably why the totals are a bit lower. Some pretty crazy house rattlers out there tho. Really impressive gusts at times. 10.5" here so far. Biggest single storm total of the season, perviously 9.5" Hi Dan, I just got back in from shoveling outside of my home in Methuen. A reasonable good estimate using a measuring stick is 12-13. Somewhat of an underperformer snowfall wise, but a overperformer sleet wise. A lot more sleet than what any forecaster had this morning for our area. Very heavy snow to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geo1 Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Holy **** the gust that just hit has to be the strongest I can remember here!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Paul Gordon Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 wonder if we'll see any more significant snow here later or are we done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 11.25 here as of 4:30. Looks like dreaded dry slot is coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertSul Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, kdxken said: About a foot in Southborough. Awesome, originally from Southborough here! Glad there's someone local putting up pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterWxLuvr Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 7 minutes ago, kdxken said: About a foot in Southborough. Love that pic. To an outsider, that just looks like what I think of when I think New England. The church, the stone wall...good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxsniss Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 9 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: Re #1 ...it depends on what aspect: The models handled the advent of a system remarkably well...picking up on a storm way in advance and despite some arguable more or less impacting model cycle depictions, they persisted. If we want to get into details and particulars... like timing rain vs snow and amounts --- Oy yoi yoi.. Perhaps some of that ambiguity could have been cleared up by a pure phase.. We got into trouble with this guy because he wasn't really shaking hands between steams too well, and that sort of tilted the system and maybe for warm layers and dry-slots and other migraines. Re #2 ...probably should let the system truly wind down before assessing but ... yeah, it appears 1 to 1.5" should do it; perhaps half ? I'm less than certain about the exact numbers and that's also yet to be determined.. It may be the source region for the southern component having a hefty PWAT source. QPF is not a very good metric in atmospheric modeling though anyway? It's actually not uncommon for x-y-z locations to bust high or low regardless of predictability of event. Re: #1 model failure: That's true. We were commenting what an incredible consensus there was for a significant coastal as far back as 4-5 days before. But still, I feel like we've encountered complexities of a partial phase and tilted lows before... I'm surprised how lost guidance was even 12 hours before onset. The one blockbuster solution we had (all-timer at least for eastern SNE, but really a huge hit for most on this forum) was Euro 12z Friday. It was a slow discombobulated downhill from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherWilly Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 and death lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Now that is man snow. Just finished shoveling. Started at 2:30..The way it was blowing i thought it would be powder. It was cement. Driveway is covered again as it still snowing lightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 5 minutes ago, dendrite said: Gusting to near 40mph now. Time for another near impossible measurement. The wind is great. Just scored a 43 mph gust a few minutes ago with a 10 min average of 26 mph. Pretty impressive for my anemometer with northeast wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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