Eastern Mass Gets Their Swag Back - SWFE on Steriods - Region wide Major Snowfall - Jan 25-26, 2026 Nowcast/Obs.

[Warwick WX]

25 minutes ago, VivaManchVegas said:

Does anyone have a QPF map to this point?

I only know that the my local airport's official precip amount is 1.43".

[GuitarFreak]

Here's some longer timelapse videos from the start of the storm til this morning 

 

 

[WxWatcher007]

 

[dryslot]

Those are some decent 25dbz rates moving into the foothills sinking ESE.

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, WxWatcher007 said:

 

Two weeks ago winter was cancelled because the "lack of snow cover". My oh my how things can change. Only takes one storm to switch the tune

[WxWatcher007]

3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Two weeks ago winter was cancelled because the "lack of snow cover". My oh my how things can change. Only takes one storm to switch the tune

We did exactly what we needed to do in making this period work. More on the way. Deep deep winter is here. 

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, WxWatcher007 said:

We did exactly what we needed to do in making this period work. More on the way. Deep deep winter is here. 

Bring it on...let's let the remainder of winter go out with a bang. 

[Sey-Mour Snow]

Vernon CT, jack? I haven't seen anyone higher than 20-21"

[Great Snow 1717]

From Snowthuen:

First measurement last night shortly before 6;30 was 8.5...an additional 10.1 has fallen since then ...18.6 so far.

Very light snow falling...

[moneypitmike]

23 minutes ago, GuitarFreak said:

Here's some longer timelapse videos from the start of the storm til this morning 

 

 

Is that from Wiz's camcorder?

[jbenedet]

40 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said:

Yes, and the radar is showing the expansion of the field of precip. It is a good bit north of me, but we’ve started light snow here and I can see to my north the significant drop in visibility. Probably the wind’s blowing snow over this way and the radar of course miss estimates that. But I think it should be a snowy afternoon. Maybe 2 inches or if we’re lucky 4. 

2-4” is a good bet in eastern sections, regionally. More in east MA where I’d go 3-6”

With -NAO and strong mid level vort never discount these little events. They surprise

I’d get it if BL temps were marginal but it’s Alaska out there…

[The 4 Seasons]

16 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Two weeks ago winter was cancelled because the "lack of snow cover". My oh my how things can change. Only takes one storm to switch the tune

i wonder how the Mark Model did

10 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Bring it on...let's let the remainder of winter go out with a bang. 

Closer and closer to 100

[Damage In Tolland]

Radar filling in nicely . Will be doing driveway again tonight after a few more inches 

[WinterWolf]

18” here….great storm. Heavy snow for almost the whole thing, with varying snowgrowth.  Just finished digging out…18” is a lot of snow..forgot how much it really is. Buried. 
 

That brings us to 40” on the season now. Only 10” more for a normal snow season here. I think we can easily pull that off with a whole second half of astronomical winter to go. Obviously way above average here now YTD.  

[The 4 Seasons]

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Radar filling in nicely 

light snow here

[WinterWolf]

8 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

From Snowthuen:

First measurement last night shortly before 6;30 was 8.5...an additional 10.1 has fallen since then ...18.6 so far

This should keep you satisfied for a bit. Great storm for all of SNE. 

[MaineJayhawk]

10” at home in North Waterboro, so not a memorable storm there.  But I drove to Nubble Light in York and they had way more there.  Here’s a pic of Fox’s Lobster - wind was whipping.  Check out the drifts against the building 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

15”-16” in Greenfield, 

[CoastalWx]

This snow has meat in it here. My snowblower is having a tough time and there’s a blue tinge to it.

[The 4 Seasons]

Just now, WinterWolf said:

18” here….great storm. Heavy snow for almost the whole thing, with varying snowgrowth.  Just finished digging out…18” is a lot of snow..forgot how much it really is. Buried. 
 

That brings us to 40” on the season now. Only 10” more for a normal snow season here. I think we can easily pull that off with a whole second half of astronomical winter to go. Obviously way above average here now YTD.  

yea the snow growth went up and down by the minute, very strange. Also by far the coldest storm ive ever witnessed. 6-7F the whole time during the day

[George001]

42 minutes ago, Henry's Weather said:

Think many of these spots will end up closer to 10:1. I think it was a mistake to assume higher ratios from WAA setup

Yeah, surface temps != ratios. I remember a few years ago those kuchera maps gave me 10-12 in a WAA event, I ended up with around 7 and was disappointed. I like the approach old school mets like Bernie Rayno use. He uses models as tools to help make forecasts, but his #1 tool is the depth of knowledge and experience he has as a meteorologist who has been doing it for decades. I recall him mentioning in a video a week ago he believed the storm would take more of a northern track due to the overall setup and his previous experience as a meteorologist who has seen this setup before. 

[Layman]

10 hours ago, rimetree said:

This has been a pretty constant dumping. Snow is so light it’s just rolling off the roof and piling up at the front door…2015 style.

Thinking we’re probably over 20 now.

 

10 hours ago, jbenedet said:

Yea I was just out snow blowing. It’s incredible out.

Easily near 20”. Wind is ripping too.

Amazing storm.

 

1 hour ago, Layman said:

Hopefully more coming today…? Looks like 11” after settling overnight. Confidence seemed high for twice that. 

Crazy that you guys got near 20"!  I'm within walking distance from Adam's Point (not directly on the water) which isn't too far from either of you.  Maybe the bay has some sort of influence to chronically keep numbers down? 

[HoarfrostHubb]

17 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Vernon CT, jack? I haven't seen anyone higher than 20-21"

Sterling MA reporting 22.2”.  A couple of towns over from here. 

[WinterWolf]

Not a pellet of sleet with this one here…which kept the accumulation going nicely from beginning to end.  I figured we’d do well here from what was being shown.
 

The huge huge totals never played out in far eastern areas…kind of figured that was gonna be the case, due to the uniform nature of the qpf being shown in modeling right up to, and into go time. modeling had 1.5-1.6” of precip here , and only marginally more out east…I knew we were in the game for similar amounts.  
 

Even south shore with the sleet did well (12-15+ inches)with it washing out more than expected. Great storm. We back. 

[weatherwiz]

3 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

yea the snow growth went up and down by the minute, very strange. Also by far the coldest storm ive ever witnessed. 6-7F the whole time during the day

I am not shocked about this really. Using the obb method on bufkit you could see the snow ratio line looking like that of a seismograph when there's an Earthquake lol. On any profile, there never really was a good consistent duration where snow ratio was constant...it was very jumpy. 

[mahk_webstah]

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

This snow has meat in it here. My snowblower is having a tough time and there’s a blue tinge to it.

My God just the opposite here. I thought about running the snowblower last night but there’s gonna be so much wind overnight so I just am finishing it now. Light fluff.

[subdude]

2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I’ll go with 18” here but super hard to measure.  Could be more. Could be less. 
 

we just don’t know

Ya this was a tough one to measure. I came in at 17"

[WinterWolf]

1 minute ago, weatherwiz said:

I am not shocked about this really. Using the obb method on bufkit you could see the snow ratio line looking like that of a seismograph when there's an Earthquake lol. On any profile, there never really was a good consistent duration where snow ratio was constant...it was very jumpy. 

But it was EFFICIENT for sure. We take that anytime. 

[mreaves]

14 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Is that from Wiz's camcorder?

Has Ginx finally been let off the hook with the poor photo quality jokes with the emergence of the Wiz camcorder cracks?

[weatherwiz]

5 minutes ago, George001 said:

Yeah, surface temps != ratios. I remember a few years ago those kuchera maps gave me 10-12 in a WAA event, I ended up with around 7 and was disappointed. I like the approach old school mets like Bernie Rayno use. He uses models as tools to help make forecasts, but his #1 tool is the depth of knowledge and experience he has as a meteorologist who has been doing it for decades. I recall him mentioning in a video a week ago he believed the storm would take more of a northern track due to the overall setup and his previous experience as a meteorologist who has seen this setup before. 

I was watching some map discussion video lectures from my professor last night which he posted Thursday and Friday doing model analysis. In his discussion from Thursday he talked about several things which hinted that not only the storm would take on a more northerly track but why the GFS initially was a bit far south and east than some of the other guidance was at the time. He pointed things out in model guidance Thursday and gave his opinion on how he thought the storm would unfold and he was pretty spot on.