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

[tunafish]

24 minutes ago, ScituateMA said:

That youtube video was a joke...in more ways than one. 

I would have liked to have seen the constitution he carries in his car.  At least that would have been a consolation payoff.  But we know he doesn't actually have one.

[tunafish]

Erika about slid off her chair after he dropped the GFS getting pulled in the 8th analogy.  "As someone said". Good one.

[CoastalWx]

There is some deep shit on the S shore even after the settling and mild weather. This is Hanover. No drift. Not shady either. 
 

[Ginx snewx]

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

There is some deep shit on the S shore even after the settling and mild weather. This is Hanover. No drift. Not shady either. 
 

Epic maybe have that dude come measure what 84 hrs later. I went from 38 to 23.5. There peak depth had to be 40+

[CoastalWx]

Just now, Ginx snewx said:

Epic maybe have that dude come measure what 84 hrs later. I went from 38 to 23.5. There peak depth had to be 40+

New snow really compacted because I could see the old snow below it. Makes sense. 

[Ginx snewx]

5 hours ago, dendrite said:

Those rates were large enough that there was a period where they were racking up high ratio snows. Compaction is real especially with big totals like that. I think it’s a little insulting to assume everyone in that 30”+ zone doesn’t know how to measure new snowfall…especially paid, trained observers at PVD. 

Oh thank you. I told him it is demeaning to those who faithfully and diligently assist our Government. 

[FXWX]

On 2/25/2026 at 12:56 PM, The 4 Seasons said:

fyi I just posted the final region wide snowfall map in the snowfall totals thread

Do you have a seasonal total to date for either Southbury, Newtown or Woodbury?

[TheSnowman]

1 hour ago, tunafish said:

I would have liked to have seen the constitution he carries in his car.  At least that would have been a consolation payoff.  But we know he doesn't actually have one.

It's a Pocket One Genius, Given to me by our Senator at his DC office years ago.  Asshat.  Not a freaking Parchment Paper from the 18th Century.  You guys Absolutely Suck.  And for F's Sake WHAT was a Joke in the video?  That I couldn't find ONE Single Measurement over 18.5" even though I went to 24 spots over 12 towns Less than 15 hours after the storm ended?  

[Cobalt]

2 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

And for F's Sake WHAT was a Joke in the video?  That I couldn't find ONE Single Measurement over 18.5" even though I went to 24 spots over 12 towns Less than 15 hours after the storm ended?  

Okay you got me, and all of the shadow measurers who've co-conspired to fake the snowfall totals all across SNE, working in collaboration with Big Accordion to get you so frustrated with this hobby that you go out and impulse buy 10 Pigini Mythos accordions to fix the snow drift-sized hole in your heart. You've busted us, just like your snow forecast busted. The jig is up. You happy now?

[TheSnowman]

14 hours ago, Cobalt said:

The self-listing of accolades under the Youtube bio tells the whole story

by the way, those 4 "TED Talks" are a subset called TedX talks. Basically anyone can apply for one of those so long as they have an interesting story, no accolades or anything required. Someone could probably do one on the ups and downs of being on this board lmao

I wasn't aware that in the Entertainment Industry, you are NOT supposed to show your accolades on your channel.  I guess everyone has been doing it wrong.  And Another Presumptive Lie - I was ASKED By those TEDx organizations to give talks.  You don't just apply and get them.  And My first one in 2013 was The First in the WORLD on the Accordion.  It's sad I have to defend my music career on a weather board because you people are acting like this.  Provide.  Evidence.  Against.  What I showed in the video.  SHOW ME Videos of people's measurements and time lapses.  Not going after my music career with baseless BS.  

[TheSnowman]

Just now, Cobalt said:

Okay you got me, and all of the shadow measurers who've co-conspired to fake the snowfall totals all across SNE, working in collaboration with Big Accordion to get you so frustrated with this hobby that you go out and impulse buy 10 Pigini Mythos accordions to fix the snow drift-sized hole in your heart. You've busted us, just like your snow forecast busted. The jig is up. You happy now?

So how much snow did I get?  Tell me, how much did I get?  I've only been measuring storms since 2002, and apparently I'm 15" off on this storm, so please tell me, with a 14" compact total at the highest, and 18" at Best guess with the 6 hour rule, How much did I get?  

[TheSnowman]

58 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Epic maybe have that dude come measure what 84 hrs later. I went from 38 to 23.5. There peak depth had to be 40+

I went out to 6 towns only 4 hours after the show stopped, and 6 More towns 15 hours after the snow stopped.  And that STILL doesn't explain getting almost Half of what it should have been.  

If you get 36"-39" of show, it should be AT LEAST 31"-32" Compact or else we should ERASE All previous statistics of snow history cause we're lying to ourselves in how we measure.  And you want to say it compacted a few inches by the time I got to some of these spots?  Sure.  So I should have seen copious 28" measurements, and hence 33"+ snow depth measurements with the spots that had previous snow beneath.  And yet you saw what you saw.  Consistent 14"-18", including my town.  Just as the piles in my town look almost Identical to the Providence and Cranston bullseye.  

You're All telling me The Storm Compacted 40%+ in 4 hours or 50% in 15 hours?  Give me a break.  That's Never happened in any storm Ever around here.  

[Cobalt]

5 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

So how much snow did I get?  Tell me, how much did I get?  I've only been measuring storms since 2002, and apparently I'm 15" off on this storm, so please tell me, with a 14" compact total at the highest, and 18" at Best guess with the 6 hour rule, How much did I get?  

Occam's razor. Either 50+ trained spotters with corroborating radar history + liquid equivalent measurements + hundreds of non-trained measurers were completely off their rockers and ALL mismeasured by half the storm's total or greater, or.. one emotionally-charged postered missed out on the best banding, and got salty about it? 

[Cobalt]

There's gotta be a new term for this. Slant sticking is when you're salty about your own snow measurements so you inflate your own totals. What do you call it when you're salty about your own snow measurements so you go out and deflate other people's snow totals?

[TheSnowman]

2 hours ago, tunafish said:

He's cherry-picking to fit his narrative.  Notice how all but one of his shots show only the yardstick and about a square foot around it?

Cherry Picking?  I went to 2 spots Per Town!  What tuna, I needed to make a 2 Hour video NO ONE would watch of me walking out of my car and going to the spot?  Nothing in the video is a lie.  The Big open TF Green spot before the runway is as clear as day for one.  I didn't go into crappy spots.  I'M THE GUY that Screams at people for horrible places to measure.  I was Looking for any big open untouched area that looked like it had Lots of snow.  I didn't go where I could try to prove my point.  One of the other 2 spots I put on the video for TF Green was Clearly a bit drifty but I Still measured it.  I was not trying to find evidence I was right.  The fact almost every measurement across all the towns was between 14-18 Including my own, should tell you something.  As should the piles not looking any different NOR 12"-15" of snow Bigger than 2015 or 2013 or 2005 which is what we got.  The piles should looked Unbelievable and Out of a Snow Dream in every way.  They were not.  Especially today they aren't as had tons of melting today.  

[SouthCoastMA]

19 minutes ago, Cobalt said:

There's gotta be a new term for this. Slant sticking is when you're salty about your own snow measurements so you inflate your own totals. What do you call it when you're salty about your own snow measurements so you go out and deflate other people's snow totals?

Dick Slanting? or Slant Dicking?

[DavisStraight]

14 hours ago, tunafish said:

I wasn't even talking about his theory, I just think he is a gigantic turd.  

But now that we're talking about it... am I supposed to believe that all those observers conspired together to inflate their totals, via selective drift measurements, and that almost all of them reporting damn close to double what dipstick is saying?

And the other guy in here thinks it's people were trying make the storm live up to the hype after the 'rug pull', just so they dont feel like they missed out on a generational storm?  Wut?

Do I think those measurements are 100% accurate, definitely not, but I'm talking within 15-25% of reality. You could convince me of the higher end, but not broadly.  But dozens of people reporting 100% more than "what really fell" is ridiculous to me.

Also highly doubt the NWS tried earnestly to convince him he had a higher total.  Impressive display of narcissistic personality disorder, really.

I think this is a guy who has a history of overreaction when it comes to jackpots and him missing out.  He was having epic meltdowns leading up to this event.  I dont think he can handle missing the earlier event this season and the jack on this.  If I can't have it nobody can'd.

He's actually greatly respected in his field and probably the best accordion player alive. Measuring snow may be a different story, I don't know, not following, storms done sand goner, we got what we got.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

S.T.F.U.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

14 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

He's actually greatly respected in his field and probably the best accordion player alive. Measuring snow may be a different story, I don't know, not following, storms done sand goner, we got what we got.

That’s great but we all have some kind of accolades in our life. Should we all sit here and put out everything that we’ve done and all the accomplishments that we’ve made on a weather forum? What relevance does that have?
 

[tunafish]

33 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

That’s great but we all have some kind of accolades in our life. Should we all sit here and put out everything that we’ve done and all the accomplishments that we’ve made on a weather forum? What relevance does that have?
 

Yes, and I'll start with what Cory sent me privately:

Oh, I’m a real snow measurer. And I’ve also really done all of the following things:

 

• Personally corrected multiple National Weather Service totals

• Measured snow in non-public drift zones the “pros” don’t even know about

• Had my ruler featured in three separate viral weather videos

• Been DM’d by meteorologists asking for my methodology

• Calibrated my yardstick to within 1/32″ precision using aerospace standards

• Sat in a folding chair during peak banding to observe flake density transitions

• Received a personal pocket ruler from a sitting U.S. Senator who “respects precision”

• Serenaded a highly respected female TV meteorologist with an original winter ballad about dendritic growth zones

• Had private correspondence with at least one other TV meteorologist

• Measured in the President’s Day Blizzard of ’03

• Had drinks with a local plow operator while discussing compaction bias

• Been told off-record snowfall doubts by a state official and two town officials.

• Sought out as a source by at least one YouTube commenter with over 10K subscribers

 

And all of that was before the age of 35 when I officially began my independent oversight of SE-SNE Big Snow.

 

 

[CoastalWx]

Did a bit of a weenie drive further down the South Shore, there is a lot of effing snow here. Makes it feel like just an Alberta clipper hit Weymouth.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Did a bit of a weenie drive further down the South Shore, there is a lot of effing snow here. Makes it feel like just an Alberta clipper hit Weymouth.

How many measurements did you take and did you make a video?

[CoastalWx]

Just now, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

How many measurements did you take and did you make a video?

No, I did it without needing a straight jacket.

[SJonesWX]

14 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

That’s great but we all have some kind of accolades in our life. Should we all sit here and put out everything that we’ve done and all the accomplishments that we’ve made on a weather forum? What relevance does that have?
 

i made the deans list one semester in college. what did you do that was so special? 

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, TheSnowman said:

I went out to 6 towns only 4 hours after the show stopped, and 6 More towns 15 hours after the snow stopped.  And that STILL doesn't explain getting almost Half of what it should have been.  

If you get 36"-39" of show, it should be AT LEAST 31"-32" Compact or else we should ERASE All previous statistics of snow history cause we're lying to ourselves in how we measure.  And you want to say it compacted a few inches by the time I got to some of these spots?  Sure.  So I should have seen copious 28" measurements, and hence 33"+ snow depth measurements with the spots that had previous snow beneath.  And yet you saw what you saw.  Consistent 14"-18", including my town.  Just as the piles in my town look almost Identical to the Providence and Cranston bullseye.  

You're All telling me The Storm Compacted 40%+ in 4 hours or 50% in 15 hours?  Give me a break.  That's Never happened in any storm Ever around here.  

Lol give it up

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, TheSnowman said:

It's a Pocket One Genius, Given to me by our Senator at his DC office years ago.  Asshat.  Not a freaking Parchment Paper from the 18th Century.  You guys Absolutely Suck.  And for F's Sake WHAT was a Joke in the video?  That I couldn't find ONE Single Measurement over 18.5" even though I went to 24 spots over 12 towns Less than 15 hours after the storm ended?  

Do you have video from when you drove 6 hrs to Maine to question a qualified trained COOP observers 76 inch depth but got lost? 

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

11 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

i made the deans list one semester in college. what did you do that was so special? 

Wow, that’s impressive. The only list I made in college was the absentee list…
 

[Ginx snewx]

Best question of all. 

If you were home in Cumberland where are your 6 hourly measurements? Piles we got piles on piles. 

[FXWX]

16 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Best question of all. 

If you were home in Cumberland where are your 6 hourly measurements? Piles we got piles on piles. 

Piles on my street...