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

[NeonPeon]

18 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

One good thing about these high wind events is you don't have to clean off the car. It's underrated how much having to clean off the car adds to cleaning up the driveway, especially in the area of the car and if you have multiple cars next to each other

Hrm. I saw multiple cars barely distinguishable from the 6 foot drifts that enveloped them. It's a give and take.

[JJBASHB]

This has to be close to 1/4mi vis now.  Snow has that wavy look in the pulses of wind.  Most fun yet.  

[jbenedet]

The mid level track appears further north than guidance had it, seeing the slot flirt with the islands.

[Chrisrotary12]

1 minute ago, DomNH said:

Didn't we pull a 30 burger in January 2015? That's probably as close as we'll get. 

Oh I have many snow storms that rival or exceed 78 in terms of snowfall. But the closest I’ve come from a snow and wind perspective is January 2005.

We’ll never see another 78 because we won’t have the mass societal impacts because 78 happened.  

[Lava Rock]

3 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

Brian,  not a flake here.  I can see all the way south to Kearsarge and it has been in and out of the snow.  No wind either. HRRR says NADA for me.  Globals still say some.  When would you say the furthest NW the sheild will get in our area?

GYX, knocked us down from 4-8" to 3-5". Be surprised we get 3". That's ok looks like 3-5" weds night. 

[ROOSTA]

Should be a snowdrift scale for Extreme Winter Events...LOL

[dendrite]

3 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

Brian,  not a flake here.  I can see all the way south to Kearsarge and it has been in and out of the snow.  No wind either. HRRR says NADA for me.  Globals still say some.  When would you say the furthest NW the sheild will get in our area?

That deformation band may try to get up here briefly. But with the N flow you’re going to need it to get a little north of you on radar and that may be a tough task.

[CCHurricane]

+50% of Cape without power…and it’s not hard to see why.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

Southbury CT USA

First pass: 8.5”

Second pass: 8.25”

Storm total: 16.75”

 

[weatherwiz]

Maybe we can get the hole to fill in a bit or maybe even converge the two a bit

[Hoth]

Bummer to be stuck in this subby hole, but it was great earlier this morning. Can't complain one bit.

[codfishsnowman]

22 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

We knew the risks here, though it seems like my area is just enough south to escape the worst of it. Let's see what this jebwalk looks like though. 

I guess we really never were in it . I just hoped really hard.

[NeonPeon]

17 minutes ago, Hoth said:

What a month there. Didn't they snag like a foot in that norlun?

Western Rhode island. 

[butterfish55]

Temp has dropped over the last hour as well. Down to 29 from 31 a couple hours ago. Will make drifting even more epic

[ineedsnow]

19 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Yay. I’m in between!

take a drive    this is nuts 

[The 4 Seasons]

6 minutes ago, Hoth said:

No idea how much I've got. Jammed my yardstick in various spots across the driveway and got between 15-19" at 7 a.m.

considering i had 16 slightly to your east at 745A that seems about right on. 

[dan11295]

multiple 18-20" reports in S RI now, and those were from 7 am

[mahk_webstah]

10 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

i love the smell of subsidence during a blizzard. This storm will be forgotten by Wednesday. Not even top 100 for me. 
 

Congrats again to those receiving their ‘78 storm. I’ll never get to experience one of those. 

I think you live in a bit of a screw zone. In the Merrimack Valley, and too far south to get the stuff we get in the northern part of the valley. Maybe you should move?

[mcglups]

978mb at 44008, perhaps it will drop a bit more, impressive nonetheless!

https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=44008&meas=pres&uom=E&tz=EST

[dendrite]

Man Wellfleet 67G98 again.

Let’s get a 100+

[Twitching Trucks]

Rochester, NH. That tree line is just about 400 yards. Blowing pretty good with surprisingly good snow growth that’s not being ripped completely apart in the wind.


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[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, codfishsnowman said:

I guess we really never were in it . I just hoped really hard.

Kind of figured it would be a bit bad here but not this bad. But lets see what happens as the band pivots east. 

[Greg]

22 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Euro had the track right along with rgem in the last 24-48 hours .. however the American guidance nailed the extreme precip.. Storm is tracking well SE of the benchmark 

It will be tracking just southeast of the benchmark but not well southeast. If that was the case, I would only be getting an inch or 2 of fluff out of the whole thing.

[codfishsnowman]

22 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Euro had the track right along with rgem in the last 24-48 hours .. however the American guidance nailed the extreme precip.. Storm is tracking well SE of the benchmark 

I think its interesting to note overall just how stubborn the Euro was to come NW all week. I feel like that was a flag for Western areas the whole time.

[dan11295]

200k outages in MA now mostly on the cape

[ScituateMA]

Cousin near islip NY has 20 to 24. Tough for him to measure.

 

Still no power in scituate. 

[ineedsnow]

1.5 in 35 minutes under this band.. doesn't look as impressive as out east but holy shit

[radarman]

Wet unplowed roads at the Greenfield rotary, looked like maybe an inch new

[Great Snow 1717]

Something tells me someone in Methuen is less than thrilled..

[dendrite]

Dennis home station gusting to 82mph