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

[Damage In Tolland]

9 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

light snow here

It’s been snowing lightly here all morning. Spent 3 hours this morning doing driveway 

[subdude]

1 hour ago, ineedsnow said:

Went to cumberland farms. And looking around thats probably pretty close.. Goodluck to the people who didn't keep up with it.  

Glad I went out at 8:30pm last night to clean out. Made today's cleanup of an additional 4-5" a cake walk. 

[Damage In Tolland]

Where did that 21” report from Vernon come from?

[wxeyeNH]

Approaching 8".  Light snow has begun again.  

[WinterWolf]

7 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

Oh yes, for sure. Most of the snow was falling as you say at 5 and 6 degrees here. Even in the evening it was still only 8-9 degrees…frigid for sure.  We escaped any sleet here…that was the difference between 14-15” and 18”.  It was great.  Deep winter out there..gorgeous. 

[Sugarloaf1989]

14" here. Overcast and 16F.

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, WinterWolf said:

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

Oh absolutely. 

Just pointing it out more for the science behind the scenes aspect. So this isn't anything to knock down or play down the storm or intensities ordeal but it just goes to show how extremely difficult it is to get a storm where you have a consistent ratio. Now, at the end of the day, total wise it may not truly matter (except when talking about very high end stuff)...so it was a factor in why we didn't see widespread 20-30" type stuff but for those forecasting it's something that really needs to be given thought when making a forecast. 

We all won on this one  

[dryslot]

This snow is dry powder if there is such a thing.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

7 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Where did that 21” report from Vernon come from?

NVM he said 18-20" in Vernon with 21" pack, so no 20's in CT .. 

[Damage In Tolland]

2 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

NVM he said 18-20" in Vernon with 21" pack, so no 20's in CT .. 

Who reported that ..someone on here?

[weatherwiz]

The end of the driveway probably has 3-4 feet of snow. I almost don't even want it touched, it's like a Van Gogh painting; master artwork. You just want to stare at it, and admire it and think dirty thoughts 

[jbenedet]

Pretty cool seeing the radar juice up around Albany, collocated with the 850 mb fgen

[Sey-Mour Snow]

2 hours ago, CT Valley Dryslot said:

I'm estimating between 18-20 right now. That pushes my snow depth to 21-25 (leftovers from last week)

 

[ORH_wxman]

15.8" "new" storm depth (that is not including the few inches still OTG from last week)....18.1" total for the storm clearing every 6 hours. 

Hoping to grab a couple today to make it a 20 burger

[Damage In Tolland]

1 minute ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

 

Oh I thought he was in Coventry 

[tamarack]

Snow arrived at 4:30 yesterday afternoon and by my 9 PM obs time we had 2.0" from 0.17" LE, with small but sparkling flakes.  Cleared another 9.5" off the board at 7 this morning, with 0.41" LE, about doubling the ratio.  About 3" of feathers since, no core yet, making this our 2nd biggest January snowfall here - the 20" in 2015 seems safe.  Temp stayed zero-2° until about 8 AM, 2nd coldest significant snowfall (behind the -1 of 2/2/15) since moving from Fort Kent.  Stake level has gone from 13" to 27".  Not much wind, but even a 10-15 mph gust produces a white-out as the trees shed.

[SouthCoastMA]

1-2" should do it for later. Spot 3"?

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Just shy of 20”. Last six were really dense 

[Baroclinic Zone]

Belly to belly snow here as well. Colder models won out. 

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

I’m skeptical we get any more accumulation here 

[metagraphica]

17 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Where did that 21” report from Vernon come from?

Vernon.

[codfishsnowman]

11 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

The end of the driveway probably has 3-4 feet of snow. I almost don't even want it touched, it's like a Van Gogh painting; master artwork. You just want to stare at it, and admire it and think dirty thoughts 

What's our storm total from this? I'll go with what you have. Way too many trees and houses here plus blowing and drifting to get an accurate read and they still have not plowed.  Must be close to 18 with the old snow for total depth?

[bristolri_wx]

14 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

15.8" "new" storm depth (that is not including the few inches still OTG from last week)....18.1" total for the storm clearing every 6 hours. 

Hoping to grab a couple today to make it a 20 burger

[NoCORH4L]

15 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

15.8" "new" storm depth (that is not including the few inches still OTG from last week)....18.1" total for the storm clearing every 6 hours. 

Hoping to grab a couple today to make it a 20 burger

I thought it was looking shitty? Only Pontifus Maximus seems to still be on board. 

[bristolri_wx]

8 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Belly to belly snow here as well. Colder models won out. 

I don’t believe we got “true” sleet here either. What fell after 9PM was just very icy snow with normal flakes mixed in. I’ve seen sleet here before, and what was coming down was not sleet.

Maybe closer to the coast it was more of the normal pinger variety…

[SouthCoastMA]

12 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Belly to belly snow here as well. Colder models won out. 

Yeah I didn't really notice any sleet. Maybe a few pelllets mixed in when it didn't matter overnight. 

[weatherwiz]

3 minutes ago, codfishsnowman said:

What's our storm total from this? I'll go with what you have. Way too many trees and houses here plus blowing and drifting to get an accurate read and they still have not plowed.  Must be close to 18 with the old snow for total depth?

It was really difficult to get a final measurement because once the winds picked up the snow began blowing around. When I measured around 7:30 (had 11.5") and went back out before bed around 9:30, there was minimal additional accumulation and that's during the period when the winds started picking up. But judging by how it continued to snow through I went to bed I have to say the total was about 13-14". Depth is probably very close to 18".

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

NAM FTL… way too warm. Should retire that model 

[wxsniss]

Any thoughts on snowgrowth issues yesterday (and maybe relatedly SLRs)? Looks like generally 1-1.5”/hr so decent rates anyway, but the flakes were small for almost entire event.

Was the DGZ not optimally saturated? Best omega above/below DGZ?

CoCoRaHS seem generally 1.4-1.7 qpf so estimating maybe 10-12:1?

[WinterWolf]

7 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

NAM FTL… way too warm. Should retire that model 

Yup, it was wrong in this one..colder scenario won out more than not.