December 9, 2017 - Storm Observations/Nowcast

[weathafella]

Today on the streets near me in the neighborhood-taken near sunset.

 

 

[CoastalWx]

6.1" at Logan. A great event there. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

Verification....this was one of my better efforts

http://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2017/12/12-9-verification.html

Feels good after the miserable failure to end last season, which represented my worst showing.

[WinterWolf]

7 hours ago, SJonesWX said:

ride one, you won't care one bit about what the nose looks like lol

the new models are making my '09 XP look old school. i would upgrade, but i only have 3500 miles on it. maybe next year if i can get close to 5k miles.

Bought a new 18 Yamaha Sidewinder RTX.  Picking it up in two weeks...so I’ll be riding that.

[OceanStWx]

I would've wagered 4-5" at my place, but I'm surrounded by so many 6+ reports that my estimation game must be rusty.

It was pure fluff though. No wonder when you look at the 00z GYX sounding. While the DGZ is a narrow area, well above 700 mb, there is a huge chunk of our sounding that was within a few degrees of -10C. With salt nuclei, good enough for dendrites. So it was a pseudo-deep DGZ, with next to no wind below 850 mb. 15-20:1 ratios were pretty common it looks like.

[tamarack]

From cocorahs, it appears that Franklin was the only one of Maine's 16 counties without any sites reporting 5"+; Temple was tops with 4.7".  No complaints, though, as barring a super-Grinch disaster, we should maintain snow cover thru the winter after this one.