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

[Baroclinic Zone]

2 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

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

Remember this portion of storm was a bonus. Real stuff is tonight.

[Baroclinic Zone]

That 14z HRRR looks solid for this area later this afternoon. Gonna rock for quite a few hours.

[Snowcrazed71]

Just came home from church with our daughter. Everything looks like Currier & Ives. Light snow now... Looking forward to the steadier and heavier snow later today and tonight.

[SouthCoastMA]

@moneypitmikeHi Res Canadian likes this area tonight. 

[ORH_wxman]

6 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Remember this portion of storm was a bonus. Real stuff is tonight.

 

5 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

That 14z HRRR looks solid for this area later this afternoon. Gonna rock for quite a few hours.

Yeah I think you guys will stack decently between 00z and 06z. Prob will be slow going until then. That’s true for most of us actually. Central’ and western CT folks a little earlier on the meat of the stuff. 

[ineedsnow]

RAP also increasing 

[weatherwiz]

15 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

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)

12z NAM looks solid for BOS this evening

[Damage In Tolland]

There’s an inch new snow here on campus . Looks like they had about 3” yesterday 

[moneypitmike]

That band crushed Mattapoisett!

 

[Sey-Mour Snow]

HREF is extremely bullish layer.. widespread snow rates around 1”. With 4-8” for all of SNE. And the much needed jack for Scott 8-10” along the emass shore south of Boston 

[CarverWX]

1 minute ago, moneypitmike said:

That band crushed Mattapoisett!

 

Wow we got an inch out of it. What is the temp down there?

[hooralph]

Forgive me for asking "how much in Drake's back yard?" but I can't sort this out - what's the 3-6 PM forecast for Foxboro?

[Sey-Mour Snow]

3 minutes ago, hooralph said:

Forgive me for asking "how much in Drake's back yard?" but I can't sort this out - what's the 3-6 PM forecast for Foxboro?

Flakes first half, mod snow 2nd half

[Massplow]

What time does this look to wind down in the Mansfield area tonight ? Trying to get an idea for planning for plow crews. 

[EastonSN+]

Just reached 2.0 inches Easton CT.

[moneypitmike]

1 hour ago, DavisStraight said:

You coming back to Maine for the second half?

I'll be heading up tomorrow morning to clear what came down the prior 48 hours.  I anticipate I'll have something to clear here at Pit1.....

[Sey-Mour Snow]

Round 2 building nicely near the Delmarva 

[Modfan2]

1” so far and now snizzle 35F. Shoveled already to get the heavy stuff out of the way

[tavwtby]

4 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Round 2 building nicely near the Delmarva 

i suspect around 4/5 we should start to see the meat of round 2, I'm not expecting more than a couple inches, you should be good for about 4 down there I think 

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

Deep winter weekend.

[moneypitmike]

15 minutes ago, CarverWX said:

Wow we got an inch out of it. What is the temp down there?

33*.
 

As we pulled into town, I told my wife that this is what I’ve meant about living here.  At least we get good summers.

 

[metagraphica]

Still flurries coming down.  Melting commencing however. 33/31.   1.3" from round one.

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Reggie is 4-6” south of Boston. We take 

[Spanks45]

15 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Round 2 building nicely near the Delmarva 

Just showed my kids this....we had a 10 minute lull here, snizzle with flakes mixing back in now. Can already see it building to my west and south.

Total 1.3" from the first round....

Total is 5.7", just measured 4.5" in the yard, so some loss and compaction, but not too bad

[TalcottWx]

I've got a half inch after 4" in Simsbury yesterday. 

[WinterWolf]

1.25” from Round one this morning.  2” yesterday.   

[FRWEATHA]

 

34 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

33*.
 

As we pulled into town, I told my wife that this is what I’ve meant about living here.  At least we get good summers.

 

Welcome to the bayous of New England. Been snowing here all morning with nothing to show. I hope temperatures drop when the heavier stuff arrives.

[bristolri_wx]

Maybe about an inch from this morning in Providence.  Light snow at the moment but not really sticking.  If heaviest bands can hold off until surface temps drop a few degrees after sunset, then I'm optimistic the 3-5+ will happen down here, but I feel it's very temp dependant on this storm...  even when it was snowing heavier earlier this morning, it was having trouble accumulating at 32/33 on the way in to work.  Also a slight warning sign that the kuchera accumulation ratios are lower than the 10-1 accumulations on most of the snowfall output maps (taken with a grain of salt, of course)...

[Franklin0529]

Thinking about betting the game. Gonna be snow enough to effect the game or no?

[bristolri_wx]

1 minute ago, Franklin0529 said:

Thinking about betting the game. Gonna be snow enough to effect the game or no?

I'm taking the over that @Franklin0529 will likely lose some money today.