Wounded Duck Strikes Back: Dec 26 & 27th Winter Storm Obs

[Amped]

1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said:

They managed to slowly claw their way to 4”+ with additional redevelopment late evening….wasnt pretty and the best was north, but that allowed the event to still be decent there. 

Long Island sound enhancement seems to have helped a bit. 

[weathafella]

Eyeballing about 4”.   I expected 2-4 so the top end of the range.  Beautiful looking snow.

[SJonesWX]

17 hours ago, SJonesWX said:

15/5 here, expecting 0.0”

ended up with 1.5”, somewhat unexpected

[das]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

1.0”/0.08”

Enough to cover the turkey shit. 

1.1” here in Charlotte, VT.  

1” would not be enough to cover the monstrous mounds of turkey crap my wife’s turkeys plop all over the yard whenever they drop a load.  The anatomical physics are hard to explain there.

[ineedsnow]

Damn it feels good to see that everyone did well with this storm! 

[CoastalWx]

Just under 4 will do it. Super fluffy

[CT Valley Snowman]

4.5" Nice start to the storm but not much after midnight. Looks awesome out there.  

[BrianW]

2 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Great December for BDR

Yeah.  A rare winter where I believe BDR is the leader for snow totals in CT right now...

[TheSnowman]

16 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

Damn it feels good to see that everyone did well with this storm! 

When even Cory is elated in the ultimate screw zone ova heeere with 4”, it Must have been good   

[Chrisrotary12]

I don’t measure. Guessing 1.5-2” of pure fluff. 

[bmj16725]

Final of 8.5" here - up to 10.25" for December.

[Brewbeer]

looks like a solid 4+ here, 23/17 

[The 4 Seasons]

Connecticut Snowfall Totals. This is just a first pass map, there will be a more complete one coming with a full SNE map when i get some time over the next day or two. If there are any additional reports or errors let me know and ill look into it and fix them. Thanks to everyone who sent a report. Overall the forecast was very solid. Pretty much everyone fell within the ranges and the ranges were appropriate for CT. A little too high for Hartford, Tolland counties but that's about it, ill have a full picture once all the maps are done but m feeling an A- ish.

 

[tavwtby]

6 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Connecticut Snowfall Totals. This is just a first pass map, there will be a more complete one coming with a full SNE map when i get some time over the next day or two. If there are any additional reports or errors let me know and ill look into it and fix them. Thanks to everyone who sent a report. Overall the forecast was very solid. Pretty much everyone fell within the ranges and the ranges were appropriate for CT. A little too high for Hartford, Tolland counties but that's about it, ill have a full picture once all the maps are done but m feeling an A- ish.

 

good call, nice rippage around North New Milford Kent area, lots of double digit reports from there, buddy in new Preston scored 10" as well 

[The 4 Seasons]

3 minutes ago, tavwtby said:

good call, nice rippage around North New Milford Kent area, lots of double digit reports from there, buddy in new Preston scored 10" as well 

lots? i saw 2. Thanks for the new preston report, i actually included a new preston report from cocorahs and it was exactly 9.9, maybe thats him

[Snowcrazed71]

12 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Connecticut Snowfall Totals. This is just a first pass map, there will be a more complete one coming with a full SNE map when i get some time over the next day or two. If there are any additional reports or errors let me know and ill look into it and fix them. Thanks to everyone who sent a report. Overall the forecast was very solid. Pretty much everyone fell within the ranges and the ranges were appropriate for CT. A little too high for Hartford, Tolland counties but that's about it, ill have a full picture once all the maps are done but m feeling an A- ish.

 

I wouldn't say you were too high for Hartford county. Maybe north and northeastern Hartford county fell just shy of 6", southwest-southern Harford county were well within the range close to the high end of that range. Great job

[nianticct]

7 inches on the nose here in Waterford! We did very well with the banding

[tavwtby]

46 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

lots? i saw 2. Thanks for the new preston report, i actually included a new preston report from cocorahs and it was exactly 9.9, maybe thats him

I have friends of kids I coached in and around that area that don't report but all were 9.5-10.5", probably 6 so far of the people I know over there 

[FlashFreeze]

Total snowfall for E Hartland was 5.5” Pleasant Valley 6.25”

[weatherwiz]

Will give this a C+/B- forecast 

The bad:

1. definitely was not far enough northeast with accumulating snow. Reason being I thought the drier air farther north and east would be a problem, which it was but not to the overall extent.

2. The re-development. I was not expecting much in terms of re-development but that was enough to give many an extra few inches. 
 

3. snowfall rates ended up being more than I was anticipating. I was in the thinking of up to 2-2.5” per hour while the reality was 3-4” per hour. This was a big factor in going with 4-7” versus something like 6-9”.

The good

1. was happy with the fact that majority of the snow fell in a 3 hour window. 
 

2. Was happy with the cutoff that occurred within CT between the heavier banding and when banding would begin losing some of its strength. 

[weathafella]

The one thing that was a bit surprising was the fact that once radar echoes reached me it started snowing at a good rate.  I thought I’d be fighting dry air but that seemed to be displaced 20-30 miles further north.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

8.25” southbury ct @ 550’. 

[sankaty]

7.5" in Middletown

[ma blizzard]

4.2” in shrewsbury

I’ve noticed some  in N grafton has been consistently a half inch to an inch more than me every storm this year in the PNS .. Lunenberg 2.0  

[WinterWolf]

9 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

8.25” southbury ct @ 550’. 

Very Good storm.  About the same here.  I measured a few spots that had 8.5” and a few with 8”, so went with the lower 8” amount.   Forgot how much 8 plus inches is and looks like lol. Good look. 

[Amped]

Just helped shovel some of 7-8" we had in Wesport. It felt pretty heavy for that amount. Not surprised given the small flake size, ratios were so-so.

Best event Ive had in several years though.

[WxWatcher007]

A grade forecast here. Very proud of it, though annoyed I didn't call the 5pm start time in western CT. Glad we didn't take the numbers up yesterday when the models kept ramping up. Wish we put more of New London in our 4-8 zone. 

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

I’ll give myself an A here. Verification was pretty good

[bristolri_wx]

Forecast:

Verification:

Grade B+

Biggest miss was Cape Ann area, where OES never materialized.  Using a blend of the 3K NAM and HRRR as a smart idea, as HRRR was a little low for eastern areas and the 3K NAM was a little high.

Forecast was accurate but would like to make a map farther out, maybe 24 hours, for the next one, as more of a challenge.  This one was issued 3 hours before start time in CT...

 

[mahk_webstah]

Was briefly in Norwell late this morning. 5 inches of nice fluff. When was cold coming from the north though with snow grains in the air. Brutal and raw.