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

[met_fan]

31 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I think postmortem snow reports will reveal that there were a lot of have nots.

What the south east coast is getting is surreal.

My only real disappointment is that I did invest/waste a lot of time Saturday night and yesterday tracking. I should’ve known better Saturday night when the mesos really cut back RT 2 corridor. 
 

Maybe I should’ve chased to Falmouth, but I don’t think their totals are gonna be obscene and I’d be sitting down there without power right now.

 

Somebody down there is going to get close to my seasonal total in one storm

[butterfish55]

I swear, there's an inground pool just off the porch here. If you look close, you can see the very top of the black 4 foot fence in the background

[Vinny Findley]

3 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Is the snow powdery there or dense? If that’s dense, you’ll need a plow 

First 3" was wet but once it started pounding at 1:00AM temp dropped quick and all powder from that point on.

[ri_lurker1314]

I'm 5mi. due south from KPVD (TF Green) in EG, RI and so I basically am just pegging my total to theirs. It's wild. I feel very lucky that I tracked with you all here (I don't know anything, so thanks!) and got gas, oil, and primed the snowblower up for the first time in 3 years. Usually I feel pretty good w/ a shovel + snow thrower combo, but this had seemed like it would be something else. And it is! 

Snowblower was getting caked and shorting out/blowing a fuse (or, whatever the 2 stage engine equivalent is to electrical), so I am just going to give up until she passes. Would love to get close to blacktop though by end of the day/early tomorrow as it looks like some sun could help out w/ melting on surfaces. Congrats to RI / SE MA!

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, moneypitmike said:

So that's 35"??

34-35ish

[Ginx snewx]

This is actually 300yds visibility with heavy big rates 

[radarman]

Remarkably little wind at Berkshire East.  Was maybe 3" on arrival but snowed pretty good all morning.  All the terrain is open and skiing well.  

[Chrisrotary12]

Just to make myself feel better about this disaster, I spent my lunch break going through 4 Seasons weather archive and GYX’s storm archive to develop a few statistics. Average nearly a 12” storm a year. 

[Wonkis]

This is the second city plow that's gotten stuck on our street in Cranston.

It's going to be a painful clean up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ginx snewx]

1 minute ago, butterfish55 said:

I swear, there's an inground pool just off the porch here. If you look close, you can see the very top of the black 4 foot fence in the background

Dude 40 ?

[Great Snow 1717]

1 minute ago, moneypitmike said:

The city of providence?  Why?

They sent them to methuen...

[ScituateMA]

1 minute ago, moneypitmike said:

The city of providence?  Why?

They cant keep up here in scituate. Requested the national guard for help to keep streets clear. We dont even have nearly what they do. 

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Probably 2-3” an hour currently. Plows being pulled off the roads 

[moneypitmike]

 

Just now, ScituateMA said:

They cant keep up here in scituate. Requested the national guard for help to keep streets clear. We dont even have nearly what they do. 

But why pull them out?  Did Providence, too?

 

[Ginx snewx]

3 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

The city of providence?  Why?

Zero visibility

[H2Otown_WX]

Seems I couldn't crack a foot here. I measured between 9 and 10" in several spots. Pretty disappointing given we were forecast to have 16 or 18" and I had 5" twelve hours ago.

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Truly never see. Anything like this. Someone is going to make a run at 40

[Baroclinic Zone]

[MarkO]

Just now, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Truly never see. Anything like this. Someone is going to make a run at 40

Somebody in RI will crack 40

[dryslot]

18 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

This one's right up there with the St. Valentine's Day massacre of 2015 for GYX.

Is that the one that had the Nolrlun? And PWM was forecast to get a 12” they got 0?

[dan11295]

Looks like echoes near PVD starting to lighten up some, But seems reasonable PVD gets to at least 36" at this point

[SouthCoastMA]

Just lost power. I'm must've been one of the few left on the Cape to lose it this late

[Bostonseminole]

Still going strong here..


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[Bostonseminole]

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[HIPPYVALLEY]

4 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Zero visibility

The loss of mailboxes alone is enough to get them off the road.

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Is that the one that had the Nolrlun? And PWM was forecast to get a 12” they got 0?

[George001]

We were supposed to get nothing 4 days ago, therefore I would have been happy even if we only got say 6 inches. Im not sure how much snow there is now due to all the drifting, but it’s easily over 20 inches just eyeballing it. This is the best winter we have had since 2015 and I’m enjoying every second of it. 

[Typhoon Tip]

Makes you wonder what might have been had this storm move by thru a closer window

[dryslot]

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

[rnaude241]

I'm not sure I've ever had this prolonged whiteout conditions before. Truly epic.