“Cory’s in NYC! Let’s HECS!” Feb. 22-24 Disco

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, moneypitmike said:

I just passed one of the electronic highway message boards and it read “wicked big storm coming Sunday night prepare now”

Real sign Hurricane Sandy in RI

[Baroclinic Zone]

I’m just exhausted at this point.

[Greg]

Just now, EastonSN+ said:

Any suggestions for measuring in 50 mph gusts with snow already on the ground

The old-fashioned way. Take several measurements around the yard (Best ability one can) and average them together. It will at least be a good round total instead of nothing.

[vortex95]

9 minutes ago, Greg said:

Nothing special? East Springfield got 22.5" (Pumping Station), 19" in Holyoke, 20.5" in Chicopee. This was outside of the down sloping/shadow effect of the River Valley. Those numbers were recorded by Coops back then. They are pretty solid.

20" or more in single snowstorm in the Pioneer Valley is big, considering they get precip shadowed a lot!

[codfishsnowman]

10 minutes ago, Greg said:

Nothing special? East Springfield got 22.5" (Pumping Station), 19" in Holyoke, 20.5" in Chicopee. This was outside of the down sloping/shadow effect of the River Valley. Those numbers were recorded by Coops back then. They are pretty solid.

I thought they said cef only had 13 inches on the news

[EastonSN+]

Just now, Greg said:

The old-fashioned way. Take several measurements around the yard (Best ability one can) and average them together. It will at least be a good round total instead of nothing.

The tough part id I have full snow coverage still, with the windows the driveway will be a bowl and fill up and the deck will have snow from the roof.

[ma blizzard]

I feel dirty for posting this but .. 

[Greg]

Just now, codfishsnowman said:

I thought they said cef only had 13 inches on the news

The origianal Coops data has it. It is in faded marker but one can read it if magnified a bit.

[WalpoleJoe]

4 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

I’m just exhausted at this point.

So true! My neighbor was talking to me about the storm today and I told him we've been watching it for a week. Then I dropped Friday to him.

[vortex95]

10 minutes ago, WalpoleJoe said:

Not to derail, I think '78, for everything written about it, is still underdone.  The drifts were amazing, 10 to 15 feet easy. I was from a family of 6 and only two of us, my mom who was home and me who could walk home from school (5th grade), made it home Monday. 3 of my siblings, who were in high schools in neighboring towns, did not make it home and my dad, whose work was in Pawtucket, was stuck on 95 and made it to a gas station were he stayed. He made it home Thursday with the big equipment from the Army Corps when they started to plow...it was amazing. This was for Cranston, btw.

40" was common in eastern MA and RI, just did not have the degree of spotter/co-op observers back them.  A fairly reliable measurement from someone I know got about 44" total in an open field in Woburn MA.  Given the how the area between 128-495 NW of BOS tends to have a local precip max in many nor'easters, this is not unreasonable. 

[Baroclinic Zone]

@EastonSN+

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

2 minutes ago, ma blizzard said:

I feel dirty for posting this but .. 

Be dirty. Embrace it.

[Greg]

1 minute ago, EastonSN+ said:

The tough part id I have full snow coverage still, with the windows the driveway will be a bowl and fill up and the deck will have snow from the roof.

Remember to measure it about 20' from one's house so roof snow won't count in the total amount/accumulation. Check the snow depth on the ground before the storm starts. Just subtract that amount from whatever storm total one gets as a final. It should be fairly accurate to the best of one's ability.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

5 minutes ago, vortex95 said:

20" or more in single snowstorm in the Pioneer Valley is big, considering they get precip shadowed a lot!

I believe Greenfield had 22 inches in the February 2013 storm.  
Easily the biggest storm since I moved here in 2007. 

[Baroclinic Zone]

1 minute ago, WalpoleJoe said:

So true! My neighbor was talking to me about the storm today and I told him we've been watching it for a week. Then I dropped Friday to him.

lol, I haven’t even invested a nano second in the last few days looking beyond this storm.

[Baroclinic Zone]

21z SREFs are filthy. 

[TheSnowman]

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

There was/is a limit to how much this surface reflection and it's integration with the mid level could actually migrate NW and we're probably just bouncing now along that limit

Can you expand on this?  Your insight is unlike any other!  

[moneypitmike]

22 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Rap da da Rap they call me the Rapper 

i would call 8 a huge win.

[codfishsnowman]

Just now, Greg said:

The origianal Coops data has it. It is in faded marker but one can read it if magnified a bit.

I want to be wrong about these things. When I got the KU books I was mortified at how often Springfield got stuck at  10-12 inches with totals often double that just to the east south and a few times west. But I have seen personally close to two feet once here so I know it can happen. One can only hope. These opportunities only come along once in a while.

[Damage In Tolland]

1 minute ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

21z SREFs are filthy. 

Naughty?

[Torch Tiger]

7 minutes ago, ma blizzard said:

I feel dirty for posting this but .. 

nice SE cluster

[Baroclinic Zone]

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

Naughty?

10/10 

[bristolri_wx]

2 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

Can you expand on this?  Your insight is unlike any other!  

You may need to purchase a larger computer monitor.

[Ginx snewx]

19 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

when all is said and done, most likely outcome is similar to that that POS in 2022?  jmo

9 hrs of blizzard conditions. 24 inches I concur

[moneypitmike]

2 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

nice SE cluster

Was thinking the same thing.

[WalpoleJoe]

3 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

lol, I haven’t even invested a nano second in the last few days looking beyond this storm.

Nor have I other than what I read here, can't focus on that one yet.....but this is the time of year, as you know, where people will start to call uncle on winter, they are so tired of it....I have enjoyed throwing Friday out to let them know that after 18-24, it's not over yet....I love their hopelessness

 

[Baroclinic Zone]

Best run of SREFs.

[J Paul Gordon]

In Clinton, MA. 12 - 18 here? Are we in a good place for banding? This is our 4th winter here and the first with serious snow. So, still new to the microclimate here compared to Worcester Burncoat. Only a few miles away but we seem to consistently do better at least in terms of snow depth.

BTW Lived in Belchertown MA in 78. The drifts came up to the roof on the windward side of our 2 story apartment building. It was amazing even that far inland. Amherst got 12 from that storm, if I remember correctly. We got considerably more to the east and a few hundred feet higher up. Don't ever recall seeing drifts like that before or since. The apartment complex looked like it got caught in a storm at sea.

[Ginx snewx]

5 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

Can you expand on this?  Your insight is unlike any other!  

Wait you divorced Raymond  ?

[Torch Tiger]

1 minute ago, Ginx snewx said:

9 hrs of blizzard conditions. 24 inches I concur

that storm made many folks quit the hobby for a while iirc