"Don’t do it" 2026 Blizzard obs, updates and pictures.

[Damage In Tolland]

This is epic right now. Viz maybe 10 feet 

[moneypitmike]

What are the rates in that insane area in PVD/Foxborough?

[bristolri_wx]

[tavwtby]

eyeballing about 11-12 out there, will do an official measure at 9 but damn that band out east holy 

[George001]

Just woke up to 8 inches of snow and whiteout conditions. Holy shit this storm is amazing, with that radar look 2 feet is not out of the question here. There will probably be areas on the south shore that break 30. 

[Baroclinic Zone]

1 minute ago, moneypitmike said:

What are the rates in that insane area in PVD/Foxborough?

2-3”/hr

[butterfish55]

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

This is epic right now. Viz maybe 10 feet 

It's crazy right now.  Maybe 100 yard visibility.  

 

[Kitz Craver]

Hoping that east band can back up a bit more, or I might be done with the heavy stuff stuck in the middle.

[Mj-pvd]

1 minute ago, moneypitmike said:

What are the rates in that insane area in PVD/Foxborough?

Severe lol can’t see the house diagonal from me

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

This is epic right now. Viz maybe 10 feet 

Can you see your  outside?

[moneypitmike]

Just now, Baroclinic Zone said:

2-3”/hr

Wow--I was expecting that was even higher.   Looks like you and PVD are ground zero for this event.  Congrats!

[Damage In Tolland]

Just now, dendrite said:

Can you see your  outside?

Where do you think pivot point will be?

[OrangeCTWX]

Sitting in subsidence. Time to get some more sleep lol hopefully in two hours I somehow wake up to another band rotting over me. 

[Diggiebot]

Just lost power in Dennis. It’s been flickering for hours 

[ineedsnow]

this is nuts

[NeonPeon]

9 minutes ago, bristolri_wx said:

Not sure what the hell is wrong with the HRRR, but it's been wrong since 10PM last night with the placement of the heaviest bands.  Total failure in terms of short term prediction of wtf is going on outside.  In this case 40-50 miles is making a huge difference.

You've been onto this since yesterday. Initializing wrong?

[radarman]

ENX showing a very impressive Hudson Valley shadow.  Echoes just disappearing over the Taconics. Interesting case study.

Ct Valley shadow not quite as bad but the radar is higher off the ground too.  UMass radar shows decent snow across the adjacent couple towns.  Already better than Boxing Day probably.

Anyway, relatively windy by our standards, some decent banding moving into Btown locally.  

[Henry's Weather]

5 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Holy moly 

Hope this can keep pushing west

[CarverWX]

Can barely see neighbors house across the street. Power keeps flickering. Great storm so far

[dendrite]

4 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Where do you think pivot point will be?

I haven’t really looked at any modeling this morning. I will say radar sucks over you right now so it goes to show how much this is drifting below the beam from the wind. You’re probably getting the goodies from the band that passed over you and is over Springfield now 

[NeonPeon]

My neighbors have a sick 9 or 10 foot drift going on. It can't go any higher, it's blowing over the top of the fence.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

2”-3” in Greenfield.  Ouch.  
Called it though, glad I didn’t get sucked in. Hopefully power stays on…

[Boston Bulldog]

Easterly firehose look is beginning to set up over Massachusetts Bay

[Vinny Findley]

Lost power for the first time in the 30+ years I've been here! At 1:00AM had about 3 inches with a narrow strip of heavy snow coming through. Street was plowed. Went to bed and wake up to no power and close to a foot in the street wind high wind. Had to be 3 to 4 inches an hour at some point between 1:00AM and now. Probably still hitting 1.5 to currently! Radar showed a death band winding down.

[mahk_webstah]

26 minutes ago, wx2fish said:

~4" so far. Well see how many more scraps we can pick up nesr the MA/NH border. 

We scrap

[bristolri_wx]

2 minutes ago, NeonPeon said:

You've been onto this since yesterday. Initializing wrong?

I don't have a level of expertise to explain it.  Not sure it can initialize wrong for 8 hours straight.  Maybe just a level of physics that's outside of the models understanding is occurring causing everything to be deflected southeast.   It's something I would expect more from a global that a high resolution meso model.

[dendrite]

Wellfleet 98mph LFG

[Vinny Findley]

Just now, Vinny Findley said:

Lost power for the first time in the 30+ years I've been here! At 1:00AM had about 3 inches with a narrow strip of heavy snow coming through. Street was plowed. Went to bed and wake up to no power and close to a foot in the street wind high wind. Had to be 3 to 4 inches an hour at some point between 1:00AM and now. Probably still hitting 1.5 to currently! Radar showed a death band winding down.

1.5 to 2 inches an hour!

[LSC97wxnut]

Just hammering down.  S+ and 700' or so on the northern edge of the 30dBZ.

[ineedsnow]

1 minute ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

2”-3” in Greenfield.  Ouch.  
Called it though, glad I didn’t get sucked in. Hopefully power stays on…

ctrv shadow? its rocking here