January 25-26th, 2026 Final Storm Totals

[Ginx snewx]

You are the man!!! So so awesome and thanks for your hard work. This is awesome we have access to data many don't. You rock 

[UnitedWx]

Just realized I never posted here. We measured 19 inches in Simsbury and 18 in Westfield. I've seen a couple reports of 21 inches in Simsbury... Maybe the west side of town

[H2Otown_WX]

3 hours ago, UnitedWx said:

Just realized I never posted here. We measured 19 inches in Simsbury and 18 in Westfield. I've seen a couple reports of 21 inches in Simsbury... Maybe the west side of town

Fake jack FTL??

[UnitedWx]

8 minutes ago, H2Otown_WX said:

Fake jack FTL??

Maybe reported by TalcottWx?? 

[codfishsnowman]

16 hours ago, H2Otown_WX said:

So much for the cold temps = high ratios. I had a feeling we'd be stuck with needles and columns or whatever.

Im in my early 50s and have been taking notes and or keeping records since the mid 80s. I have only seen good snow growth with temps at or below ten degrees once and that was back in an event during Feb 1996. The first part of the storm began with a burst of heavy beautiful feathery dendrites but after a quick 4-5 inches it was back to poor snow growth until it was over and 8 inches lay otg.

[CTSkywarn]

13.5 inches 5 miles S of Durham in North Madison, CT

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[The 4 Seasons]

On 1/29/2026 at 6:14 AM, Ginx snewx said:

You are the man!!! So so awesome and thanks for your hard work. This is awesome we have access to data many don't. You rock 

Thanks steve. These take a while to do after the storm ends i have to wait a day later (next morning) just to get CO-OP/CoCoRaHs data then it takes many hours to plot everything and this storm was especially difficult, though not as bad as something like March 2023. So it takes a couple/few days after the storm is over to get everything completed, sometimes it feels like it goes unnoticed and lost in the sauce after people moved on to the next threat. Glad you enjoyed it and find them useful. The full storm with radar/sfc/upper air maps will be on the site in the next couple days once the NCEP stuff comes out.

On 1/29/2026 at 6:38 AM, UnitedWx said:

Just realized I never posted here. We measured 19 inches in Simsbury and 18 in Westfield. I've seen a couple reports of 21 inches in Simsbury... Maybe the west side of town

I can't remember if he tagged me or not with the 1K+ reports ive looked at i forget but i know it was in the PNS. Maybe it was him, not sure. But it lines up with Bloomfield and the other report i got from here in Canton at 21" so it definitely felt legit. 

[The 4 Seasons]

Snowfall Totals Alt Map (NESIS Scheme)

[The 4 Seasons]

Comparison to PDII. The ranges are the same so you can compare them 1:1. Ended up being very close to PDII numbers for SNE, though i'd say a couple/few shy across the board on average, but close! Obviously PDII was much much greater considering the whole DC-BOS area and not just SNE. 

This was a big dog @TheSnowman18" in Cumberland!

[UnitedWx]

34 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Thanks steve. These take a while to do after the storm ends i have to wait a day later (next morning) just to get CO-OP/CoCoRaHs data then it takes many hours to plot everything and this storm was especially difficult, though not as bad as something like March 2023. So it takes a couple/few days after the storm is over to get everything completed, sometimes it feels like it goes unnoticed and lost in the sauce after people moved on to the next threat. Glad you enjoyed it and find them useful. The full storm with radar/sfc/upper air maps will be on the site in the next couple days once the NCEP stuff comes out.

I can't remember if he tagged me or not with the 1K+ reports ive looked at i forget but i know it was in the PNS. Maybe it was him, not sure. But it lines up with Bloomfield and the other report i got from here in Canton at 21" so it definitely felt legit. 

Could be. We were trying to figure out yesterday when we took our last measurement. I was so dead tired from snow plowing that I might have missed the last couple inches

[The 4 Seasons]

11 minutes ago, UnitedWx said:

Could be. We were trying to figure out yesterday when we took our last measurement. I was so dead tired from snow plowing that I might have missed the last couple inches

yesterday you took a last measurement? Oh it's definitely going to be lower than the final total at the end of the storm, especially if you were doing 6-hour clearing...even if you took a depth measurement at the very end Monday night theres going to be sublimation/compacting/settling especially with that much snow. 21" would probably end up being a couple inches lower by Thursday even with temperatures well below freezing. You can see the snow depth drop a couple or so at BDL from Monday. BDL dropped from 18" depth on Monday to 15". 

[UnitedWx]

1 minute ago, The 4 Seasons said:

yesterday you took a last measurement? Oh it's definitely going to be lower than the final total at the end of the storm, especially if you were doing 6-hour clearing...even if you took a depth measurement at the very end Monday night theres going to be sublimation/compacting/settling especially with that much snow. 21" would probably end up being a couple inches lower by Thursday even with temperatures well below freezing. You can see the snow depth drop a couple or so at BDL from Monday. BDL dropped from 18" depth on Monday to 15". 

No, we were trying to figure out while talking yesterday when we had taken our last measurement at the end of the storm.

[radarman]

I know you can only go with the data you have and don't blame you at all for doing so, but those 11 and 12" reports are definitely wrong.  Were suspiciously low just for day 1, and certainly don't include day 2 where it snowed most of the day and hammered fluff late afternoon and most of the evening.  In general the reports for day 2 were very sparse I think.