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March 2024 disco/obs


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Just now, dendrite said:

Tough to ever top that.

METAR KBOS 132300Z 06047G62KT 0SM +TSSN -BLSN OVC/// M01/M01 A2916 RMK R04RVR06-V06 TB50 SW MOVG N OCNL LTGIC DRFTG SNW PK WND 0670/33 PRESFR SNOINCR 3/10/11 SLP875 P0028 T10061006

70kts. 0SM TSSN. Thuds heard hitting my kitchen table as I read that. 

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Just now, dendrite said:

Tough to ever top that.

METAR KBOS 132300Z 06047G62KT 0SM +TSSN -BLSN OVC/// M01/M01 A2916 RMK R04RVR06-V06 TB50 SW MOVG N OCNL LTGIC DRFTG SNW PK WND 0670/33 PRESFR SNOINCR 3/10/11 SLP875 P0028 T10061006

I’ve never seen that ob before but that’s the holy grail for a METAR right there.  That’s got it all.

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No gust data, but the Nov 50 sustained winds are always fun to look at.

METAR KBOS 260000Z 09048KT 4SM -SHRA DZ 11/08 A//// RMK SLP089 T01060083
METAR KBOS 260100Z 09040KT 4SM -SHRA DZ CLR 11/09 A//// RMK SLP080 T01060089
METAR KBOS 260200Z 11049KT 3SM -SHRA CLR 11/09 A//// RMK SLP060 P0002 T01110094
METAR KBOS 260300Z 11043KT 11/2SM SHRA 11/10 A//// RMK SLP052 P0005 T01110100
METAR KBOS 260400Z 11047KT 11/2SM SHRA CLR 11/10 A//// RMK SLP033 P0006 T01110100
METAR KBOS 260500Z 11052KT 11/2SM SHRA CLR 12/10 A//// RMK SLP006 P0004 T01170100

 

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45 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

70kts. 0SM TSSN. Thuds heard hitting my kitchen table as I read that. 

Those confuse me some. There’s things in there that I don’t understand. 3/10/11? SLP875-Surface Low Pressure?  875?  Can’t be 875 mb…

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14 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Those confuse me some. There’s things in there that I don’t understand. 3/10/11? SLP875-Surface Low Pressure?  875?  Can’t be 875 mb…

SNOINCR 3/10/11 is 3” in the last hour and then I forget if the coding back then was 10” in the past 6hrs or 10” for the storm. And then I think the 11” is the current depth.

SLP is in every ob in tenths of a mb. So SLP875 is 987.5mb. I think anything coded as 500+ gets a 9 in front of it (low pressure) and anything sub 500 gets a 10 (high pressure). 

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4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

SNOINCR 3/10/11 is 3” in the last hour and then I forget if the coding back then was 10” in the past 6hrs or 10” for the storm. And then I think the 11” is the current depth.

SLP is in every ob in tenths of a mb. So SLP875 is 987.5mb. I think anything coded as 500+ gets a 9 in front of it (low pressure) and anything sub 500 gets a 10 (high pressure). 

Yeah 10” For the storm I believe at the ob time, but it pretty much fell in 6 hrs lol. 

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7 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Yeah 10” For the storm I believe at the ob time, but it pretty much fell in 6 hrs lol. 

Yeah I didn’t think it was 6hr since it was a 23z ob anyway. I think snoincr now is just the hourly rate if >= 1”/hr and then the pack depth.

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2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yeah I didn’t think it was 6hr since it was a 23z ob anyway. I think snoincr now is just the hourly rate if >= 1”/hr and then the pack depth.

Yeah you don’t see the triple number on the obs these days. 

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3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yeah I didn’t think it was 6hr since it was a 23z ob anyway. I think snoincr now is just the hourly rate if >= 1”/hr and then the pack depth.

So does snoincr stand for Snow increasing?  Or snow increments?  What do we see these days now if they don’t use the three number on the obs anymore? 

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2 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

So does snoincr stand for Snow increasing?  Or snow increments?  What do we see these days now if they don’t use the three number on the obs anymore? 

I always had it as “snow increasing rapidly” and here are the values.  It only gets posted if 1”+ per hour, so it’s piling up.

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47 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

So does snoincr stand for Snow increasing?  Or snow increments?  What do we see these days now if they don’t use the three number on the obs anymore? 

Snow increasing rapidly

Now you see something like SNINCR 2/24

2”/hr and 24” depth

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7 minutes ago, dendrite said:

You’ll sometimes just see snow depth in a METAR as well. Usually 0/6/12/18z. 
 

4/ddd

Where ddd is the depth in inches. So 24” would be 4/024. 

So 0/6/12/18z would be: 0” per hr, 6” for the storm so far, 12” for depth,  at 18z?

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5 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

So 0/6/12/18z would be: 0” per hr, 6” for the storm so far, 12” for depth,  at 18z?

No I mean that’s when they report the depth if they report it at all. 00z/06z/12z/18z. If it’s once per day it’s usually 12z. 

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6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

No I mean that’s when they report the depth if they report it at all. 00z/06z/12z/18z. If it’s once per day it’s usually 12z. 

Lol oh ok…it seems like they intentionally try to make it so dam confusing..like some type of special and secret code.  

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