Rise of the Machines: January 18-19 Winter Storm Obs Thread

[SouthCoastMA]

Giant flakes. 

[Baroclinic Zone]

Temp here has crept up from 30F at 6am to 33F currently. Steady light snow continue. Eyeballing about 1”

[Ginx snewx]

1 inch new moderate 

[Modfan2]

Up to a 1/2” and steady snow, temp up to 32F

[Hoth]

Short of a two foot pack, we are approaching peak winter aesthetics with this event. Every branch and twig is caked in snowy vestments, every footfall squeaks pleasingly, and big fluffy dendrites drifting down. This snow has excellent purchase as well. I just floated through a six mile run in the woods, replete with deer and cardinals and one barred owl. The temperature is ideal for being outside as well. Give me this vibe for a month and I won't care at all if we fall short of our average snowfall.

[Ginx snewx]

1 minute ago, Hoth said:

Short of a two foot pack, we are approaching peak winter aesthetics with this event. Every branch and twig is caked in snowy vestments, every footfall squeaks pleasingly, and big fluffy dendrites drifting down. This snow has excellent purchase as well. I just floated through a six mile run in the woods, replete with deer and cardinals and one barred owl. The temperature is ideal for being outside as well. Give me this vibe for a month and I won't care at all if we fall short of our average snowfall.

Beautiful prose and so true. Its not always quantity 

[Bryan63]

Up to 33 and rates slowing down now.

[moneypitmike]

26 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

That band in SE MA is crushing

 

 

 

Right on my noggin.  Heading down there now.  Stay tuned.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

4 minutes ago, Hoth said:

Short of a two foot pack, we are approaching peak winter aesthetics with this event. Every branch and twig is caked in snowy vestments, every footfall squeaks pleasingly, and big fluffy dendrites drifting down. This snow has excellent purchase as well. I just floated through a six mile run in the woods, replete with deer and cardinals and one barred owl. The temperature is ideal for being outside as well. Give me this vibe for a month and I won't care at all if we fall short of our average snowfall.

 

[Sey-Mour Snow]

Nice band settting up near BDR. Should be widespread 1-3” in southern ct into SE MASS from round 1

[Ginx snewx]

2 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Nice band settting up near BDR. Should be widespread 1-3” in southern ct into SE MASS from round 1

Over an inch up to Mass here 

[CarverWX]

What time do you think round 2 comes in?

[metagraphica]

Everything is white again. A little over an inch so far. 31/30

[Damage In Tolland]

Just shy of an inch . Leaving for UConn 

30.6

[DavisStraight]

9 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

 

Right on my noggin.  Heading down there now.  Stay tuned.

You coming back to Maine for the second half?

[Damage In Tolland]

That band over SW CT looks solid heading up 

[Typhoon Tip]

this morning's band down there was supposed to be roughly SE NY to SE NH  ... it's been in the models, even as near as yesterday.  It seems to be situated a considerable error from where it was modeled to be, certainly for just 24 hours - 

little leery of this being an omen for all this business ending up SE. 

 at this point i have issue fatigue with this event.  almost suffice it is to say that i just give a shit what it does anymore.  hahaha.  no but i think even a 3 or 4" thing is still a relative win - obviously being that it is not a complete whiff, and it would pull those ai solutions back to reality.  kind of a compromise 

we'll see

[Sey-Mour Snow]

4 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

this morning's band down there was supposed to be roughly SE NY to SE NH  ... it's been in the models, even as near as yesterday.  It seems to be situated a considerable error from where it was modeled to be, certainly for just 24 hours - 

little leery of this being an omen for all this business ending up SE. 

 at this point i have issue fatigue with this event.  almost suffice it is to say that i just give a shit what it does anymore.  hahaha.  no but i think even a 3 or 4" thing is still a relative win - obviously being that it is not a complete whiff, and it would pull those ai solutions back to reality.  kind of a compromise 

we'll see

It seems to me there were two bands modeled , this one albeit stronger than modeled, then the one to our NW, which still verified, so I feel like it’s going as planned. 

[Hoth]

9 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

That band over SW CT looks solid heading up 

Very nice departing band. Big fluffy dendrites.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

1 minute ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

It seems to me there were two bands modeled , this one albeit stronger than modeled, then the one to our NW, which still verified, so I feel like it’s going as planned. 

Here’s 00z Nam and the current radar, those 3”. Totals on PA verifying where the Nam had it.. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

28 minutes ago, Hoth said:

Short of a two foot pack, we are approaching peak winter aesthetics with this event. Every branch and twig is caked in snowy vestments, every footfall squeaks pleasingly, and big fluffy dendrites drifting down. This snow has excellent purchase as well. I just floated through a six mile run in the woods, replete with deer and cardinals and one barred owl. The temperature is ideal for being outside as well. Give me this vibe for a month and I won't care at all if we fall short of our average snowfall.

This is from yesterday.  Great looking snow

[ineedsnow]

14z HRRR coming west again hopefully the east trends are done

[LSC97wxnut]

Running a couple errands, but mod snow and untreated surfaces being covered quickly.

[ORH_wxman]

Just now, ineedsnow said:

14z HRRR coming west again hopefully the east trends are done

14z run def looks healthier. Hopefully it’s catching a real trend. 

[ORH_wxman]

This is what I was talking about earlier on a lot of these runs this evening. That heavier stuff is slamming the DGZ pretty hard…this is the latest hrrr but NAM has been showing it pretty consistently for several hours….so there could be some pretty efficient QPF to accumulation ratios if that pans out (and as a rule, you can lower that DGZ a little for us in SNE since we tend to have a lot of salt nuclei in the clouds here versus much of the country further away from the ocean)

[tavwtby]

almost half inch new, light snow and dim sun, hoping later is better once the sun goes down and it gets closer, think it may shunt east for my area anyway for anything meaningful 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Those returns over ENY kind of rotted and got wrung out W of the Berks.  
Mostly just light mood snow here this morning. Very wintry morning nonetheless. 

[Sey-Mour Snow]

Just about 2” here as round 1 is ending .. another 2-4” later 

[mahk_webstah]

30 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

this morning's band down there was supposed to be roughly SE NY to SE NH  ... it's been in the models, even as near as yesterday.  It seems to be situated a considerable error from where it was modeled to be, certainly for just 24 hours - 

little leery of this being an omen for all this business ending up SE. 

 at this point i have issue fatigue with this event.  almost suffice it is to say that i just give a shit what it does anymore.  hahaha.  no but i think even a 3 or 4" thing is still a relative win - obviously being that it is not a complete whiff, and it would pull those ai solutions back to reality.  kind of a compromise 

we'll see

I was just about to post that it looks to me like the radar down in the mid Atlantic is heading more northeast. I’m sure it will still give a good snowstorm to southeast New England but I don’t think I’m getting one to 3 inches up here unless there’s some sort of inverted trough.

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Bout a half inch so far. Need better rates. Currently the type of snow that is bare under trees