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.  

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

On 1/28/2026 at 12:03 AM, The 4 Seasons said:

did you edit this or am i hallucinating? i could have swore it said 17.5 when i looked at it last time. Either way it's ok I used @Spanks45 16.8, they are very similar either way.

Finished with 17.5” but all good. Spanky and I within less than an inch so it checks out. 

[The 4 Seasons]

19 hours ago, radarman said:

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.  

In Franklin you mean? Yeah i was thinking about that when i was putting the map together. They do include both days from the cocorahs and COOP reporters, they measure every day and it included Jan 25-27th, i checked to be sure. I dont just go off the PNS i looked at the actual cocorahs and coop final numbers. There was a bit of a hole toward the end of the main part of the storm you can see on radar and most of Franklin missed that main band that developed on Monday, at least the best of it. I attached a full radar loop below. If it was just one or two reports id toss em but there were about a dozen 11-13.5ish reports around there. The only reports that were higher than 15 were in western Franklin from East Hawley and SW Conway. I decided to include them based on that, i do think about these things when putting a map together, sometimes i gotta trust the reports since i dont live there and when theres like 12 all around the same number, then ill include them. 

Individual days (these are 24hr snowfall usually ending at 7AM so the 26th is for the 25th, Sunday and the 27th would be for the 26th, Monday)

[The 4 Seasons]

This storm is now up as the 8th 3"+ event of the season in the Winter Storm Archive with snowfall maps, radar, sfc/upper air maps, satellite and more. It's also the first event to make it to the Historic Storms section since 2024.

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/jan-25-26-2026

[radarman]

2 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

 

 

Good post and not whatsoever knocking your assimilation.  The fact that Monday was missing on the 11" report in Shutesbury makes some sense.  Guessing they had minimum 3".   We were over 6" on Monday.

 

[The 4 Seasons]

2 minutes ago, radarman said:

Good post and not whatsoever knocking your assimilation.  The fact that Monday was missing on the 11" report in Shutesbury makes some sense.  Guessing they had minimum 3".   We were over 6" on Monday.

 

totally i get it, was just explaining. Shutesbury was the only one missing on monday (that i included, the other two i did not) should have left that one out. I can always update it, i must have looked over that one, the rest have both days. I was looking at the OKX map with reports and they have tons incomplete reports on there including mine at 11.5. BOX one is better, though it seems they also have that Shutesbury 11 in there.