WthrJunkyME Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 They’re now talking about the kids doing assignments via computer from home to get rid of the missed snow days. I don’t know how many that don’t have computers nowadays, can’t be too many. I’m all for that. I miss the old days, I’m better now for having to rough it back then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJW014 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 We call them "virtual days". You still have to wake up at normal time and do like 3 times the work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBRI Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 1 hour ago, PowderBeard said: Glad to know the ski areas are not BS'ing. They all use the Jay ruler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 3 hours ago, weathafella said: Nothing like getting 23 flakes after tracking a system for 5 days. Looks to be done until the folks up north cash in for round 2. Powderfreak to alex to tamarack special. GYX "most likely" snowfall map has MBY in the steepest part of the gradient, showing 6-8" 15 miles NW and <1" only 15 miles SE. I'm in the 4-6 color, but both 1" and 6+ are probably in play. Had 1.3" on 0.11" LE at 6:30, may not have reached 2". At 5 it was borderline mod-hvy, but 30 minutes later it was little flakes and not many of them. I was 13, They rarely called off school back then unless it was 12"+, If the buses couldn't go, You either had to walk to school or stay home. This always brings back our Ft. Kent experience (which I've posted here more than once - ) - 1.5 days lost (both in 1984) to snow in 10 winters, which averaged 130"+ each, less at the once-a-day co-op which grossly under-reports. (about 20" less, on average, than CAR, while the eyeball test says FK should be 10-15" more. In my 9 full winters there, I averaged 134", CAR 118", FK 98".) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 1/4 inch of snow and sleet in Methuen, brings the total to a whopping 11/2 for the last 50 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 6 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said: 1/4 inch of snow and sleet in Methuen, brings the total to a whopping 11/2 for the last 50 days. I'm at 0.5" for the season myself. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 gotta watch for icing late afternoon into evening as a steady batch of precipitation works its way into the region around 7pm. Most meso models keep temps around 31 degrees almost inside 128 so things could become a bit dangerous another batch around 2-4 A.M. swings in as well with developing secondary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 1 minute ago, NorEastermass128 said: I'm at 0.5" for the season myself. What did you have for a total in November? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Just now, Great Snow 1717 said: What did you have for a total in November? 0.5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Wow... the 12z GFS jacked up the upslope event again. Just buries the northern Greens in northwest flow. Be interesting to see how this plays out. Quite the difference between NAM/WRF and GFS so far. RGEM has been more like the GFS though. Be an interesting event to see if Alex or J.Spin pulls off more. Alex has the elevation but J.Spin has the nod in orographic lift, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 43 minutes ago, WthrJunkyME said: They’re now talking about the kids doing assignments via computer from home to get rid of the missed snow days. I don’t know how many that don’t have computers nowadays, can’t be too many. I’m all for that. I miss the old days, I’m better now for having to rough it back then! That has come up in some schools in Mass as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 5 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Wow... the 12z GFS jacked up the upslope event again. Just buries the northern Greens in northwest flow. Be interesting to see how this plays out. Quite the difference between NAM/WRF and GFS so far. RGEM has been more like the GFS though. Be an interesting event to see if Alex or J.Spin pulls off more. Alex has the elevation but J.Spin has the nod in orographic lift, IMO. feeling sick for Wed/Thursday already. A lot of ropes will get dropped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Gfs definitely jacked things back up for mountains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 7 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said: gotta watch for icing late afternoon into evening as a steady batch of precipitation works its way into the region around 7pm. Most meso models keep temps around 31 degrees almost inside 128 so things could become a bit dangerous another batch around 2-4 A.M. swings in as well with developing secondary I'm not sure how steady the precip is going to be but it will be interesting to see if NE Ma stays cold enough to have frozen precip. Currently LWM is reporting 34. I have 32 at home. My home is a few miles for LWM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 11 minutes ago, Cold Miser said: That has come up in some schools in Mass as well. Yeah...I have friends who work in towns where this is done. Not sure how I feel about it as a teacher. Some packets done at home do not equal learning...plus, I would be getting paid for sitting on my arse. Foggy here in Leominster, near 30F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said: I'm not sure how steady the precip is going to be but it will be interesting to see if NE Ma stays cold enough to have frozen precip. Currently LWM is reporting 34. I have 32 at home. My home is a few miles for LWM. Ya we’ll see how the tuck works . id like to hear from Scott or will about this with regard to if temps have reasonable shot to stay a stitch below freezing. Meso’s highlight Boston west burbs and N and Nw not really Essex country , cept maybe extreme western portions Nashua is sitting at 28 now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 30.2F here and overcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 8 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said: Gfs definitely jacked things back up for mountains The RGEM snow maps have like the metric equivalent of 1.60" QPF as snow near Jay and Mansfield on those CMC maps that you can get past 48 hours. That's a good shot of moisture for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 3 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Yeah...I have friends who work in towns where this is done. Not sure how I feel about it as a teacher. Some packets done at home do not equal learning...plus, I would be getting paid for sitting on my arse. Foggy here in Leominster, near 30F Many school districts now have the packets for when school is called off. Schools are now closed on a more regular basis than ever before. When I was going to school it took a significant storm for school to be called off. And rarely was school called off the night before. That only happened during the Blizzard of 78. And there were no delayed openings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 19.9F Few snow grains... Lastest runs have perked my interest again in part 2 of this event. Awful lot of cold air that needs to be scoured out. About .6 or more qpf to come as model trends seem to be jqcking precip. Really marginal. Will this be freezing rain to snow for my area north of Dendrite? Really hard to tell how this will play out. Curious to see the Euro! Good luck to you guys further north. Alex and I talk about his area. So many local orographics with him. Sometimes he really gets screwed during the event and makes it up on the backside upslope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 31 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Wow... the 12z GFS jacked up the upslope event again. Just buries the northern Greens in northwest flow. Be interesting to see how this plays out. Quite the difference between NAM/WRF and GFS so far. RGEM has been more like the GFS though. Be an interesting event to see if Alex or J.Spin pulls off more. Alex has the elevation but J.Spin has the nod in orographic lift, IMO. If by chance nothing changes over the next three weeks, we need to create a new NNE thread for all four of you before someone strangles the upslope crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 47 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said: 1/4 inch of snow and sleet in Methuen, brings the total to a whopping 11/2 for the last 50 days. I only have 9.5"....congrats on the banding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 5 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said: I only have 9.5"....congrats on the banding. 10” isn’t horrific for January 8 the coastal guys are really hurting w about an inch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 27 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said: Ya we’ll see how the tuck works . id like to hear from Scott or will about this with regard to if temps have reasonable shot to stay a stitch below freezing. Meso’s highlight Boston west burbs and N and Nw not really Essex country , cept maybe extreme western portions Nashua is sitting at 28 now There's still a mesolow that looks to go across the coast of E MA around late afternoon/early evening...we will have to see if there's still enough cold air to tap into in S/C NH to tuck it south. Cold air is currently hanging tough, but it is still slowly rising and has several more hours to do so. It's not a very strong mesolow...so not sure how far south the tuck will go...it could be pretty weak, but we'll see. Nowcast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 47 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Wow... the 12z GFS jacked up the upslope again What’s surprising to me is the BTV WRF verbatim gives ASH to MHT back to snow between 6-7am Wednesday and has at least .25 QPF for that period seems a possible surprise is again “on the table” for SNH this is not quite dead to me lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 5 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said: 10” isn’t horrific for January 8 the coastal guys are really hurting w about an inch It is pretty bad when you consider that the majority of it fell by 11/20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said: There's still a mesolow that looks to go across the coast of E MA around late afternoon/early evening...we will have to see if there's still enough cold air to tap into in S/C NH to tuck it south. Cold air is currently hanging tough, but it is still slowly rising and has several more hours to do so. It's not a very strong mesolow...so not sure how far south the tuck will go...it could be pretty weak, but we'll see. Nowcast. Will is that modeled precip “burst” (showing on gfs between 7-10pm/ and nam as well) associated with weak meso low or something else for N /NE mass / S NH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 16 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said: It is pretty bad when you consider that the majority of it fell by 11/20. It is if your looking for a block buster winter but our climo is not like CNE where snow cover from late nov to early March is sometimes near constant (even if just an inch) . We almost never have a blockbuster winter and we almost always have several week periods of crap in SNE. Yes we do get hit hard for several week periods on many years and often we have a decent pack for a month or so at a time . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Snow 1717 Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 3 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said: It is if your looking for a block buster winter but our climo is not like CNE where snow cover from late nov to early March is sometimes near constant (even if just an inch) . We almost never have a blockbuster winter and we almost always have several week periods of crap in SNE. Yes we do get hit hard for several week periods on many years and often we have a decent pack for a month or so at a time . I never viewed this winter as one that was going to be a blockbuster. It's been a really bad stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Still 28F at home. Car picked up a nice glaze on way to Northampton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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