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

[tiger_deF]

Some of the best rates yet in Arlington. Half an inch on the ground after just 20 minutes of shoveling.

Praying that the newly formed band over BOS stays put for a few hours.

[SouthCoastMA]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Some of that has to be reaching you below the beam with N-NNE wind?

Yeah it's still snowing but light to mod. need that to shift a bit more. once winds go due North I guess, but then it will start drying up

[moneypitmike]

12 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

Brutal

 

It will never snow again in Mattapoisett during my lifetime.

[SouthCoastMA]

3 minutes ago, rnaude241 said:

I wonder what New Bedford is at? They have been in that band the entire time it seems. 

That whole area is like 24-30

[NeonPeon]

Jesus this band just wants it to snow in Newport, the utter pervert. There is a 4 foot wall across the street from me that has been completely eaten by a drift.

[dryslot]

5 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Yeah the NBM was way overdone in a lot of the region.   

Well the SREFS are part of that so there you go, That was driving the numbers up up here but 8 cycles in a row it was trimming them.

[The 4 Seasons]

BDR just hit 20" for their storm total! 

Tied with #2 all-time PD2

[ORH_wxman]

1 minute ago, OceanStWx said:

We're still getting used to the forecast process now, and the NBM is good, but it still has some big holes.

One is that it provides us with snow ratios, but it nearly always too high. It is too frequently in the 15-20:1 range. 

As an example for BOX's CWA, if you just had your extended forecast living in the 8-14:1 range you would be a lot less susceptible to these kinds of NBM busts.

As a rule (I had mentioned this before the mega SWFE on 1/25-26), I try not to stray over 13 or 14 to 1 even in cold events that look “decent” in the soundings. That’s basically the cold snow climo in a lot of New England (outside of the upslope zones).

Unless you have overwhelming model consensus on strong crosshair sigs in an event that isn’t super complex or long-duration….that might be the exception. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

Wind pulverized sand here basically.  Bryce sent it out this way 

[SouthCoastMA]

Might actually be pivoting a bit now. 

[ORH_wxman]

This band out near 495 is just going to town here right now. Choking dendrites on the east side of it. 
 

South shore stuff seems to be re-intensifying again a bit. 
 

[MJO812]

Down here 

[mattm4242]

[Wonkis]

13 minutes ago, Vinny Findley said:

What part of Cranston are you in? I'm 1/2 mile from Walmart. There's over 2 feet on my street. They're big trucks with big blades but can only do so much with this amount of snow!

I'm not too far from you. I'm in Eden Park—just south of Rolfe Square.

Yeah, it's tough trying to keep up with the low visibility and the snowfall rates. 
A guy I know who plows for the city was stranded for a couple of hours this morning.

 

[The 4 Seasons]

2 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Down here 

probably push past 20 i suspect or very close to it

[Cold Miser]

1 hour ago, bristolri_wx said:

Not at all.  That didn't even enter my mind.  I'm thinking government waste and corruption, bridges falling down in disrepair, high taxes and cost of living.

But if that's what entered your mind first, that's something for you to address, not me.

Nah.  Not really.  But thanks for your concern.

Waste and corruption compared to a guy whinning about snow is just as llaughable.  

[CT Rain]

Storm sort of sucked here in the valley. 10" or so I'd say but it definitely compacted a lot with the wind. 

Glad we stuck with the conceptual model and hit the deform band out in far W CT and the firehose out east. 

Looks like RI and MA will break their all-time state 24-hour snowfall records.

Rhode Island - 30.0" Woonsocket (1978) 

Massachusetts - 29.0" Natick (1997)

[MuddyWx]

965 at ~40.3N 68.4W

 

[dendrite]

PVD 1/40”

[OceanStWx]

3 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

As a rule (I had mentioned this before the mega SWFE on 1/25-26), I try not to stray over 13 or 14 to 1 even in cold events that look “decent” in the soundings. That’s basically the cold snow climo in a lot of New England (outside of the upslope zones).

Unless you have overwhelming model consensus on strong crosshair sigs in an event that isn’t super complex or long-duration….that might be the exception. 

You can see from the study that only 1 in 4 obs is greater than 13:1 in SNE, maybe 1 in 10 greater than 20:1.

Even factoring in people who measure once when the storm is done or the next morning with compaction, you're maybe moving the SLR 2 inches, not 5+.

[dendrite]

Too bad the water equiv at the ASOS is useless. Hopefully they augment that by melting the w.e. down.

[Bostonseminole]

Can’t believe I’m still getting moderate snow here!! Great storm!


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[klw]

14 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

38 here ties 2011 still dumping 

Is that 38 from the storm alone or overall depth?  If depth, what is your storm total?

[The 4 Seasons]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Too bad the water equiv at the ASOS is useless. Hopefully they augment that by melting the w.e. down.

but we've learned they never do...

[CoastalWx]

Back to heavier snow now. Wind more NNW.

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Too bad the water equiv at the ASOS is useless. Hopefully they augment that by melting the w.e. down.

Although I see PVD reports snow pack water equiv every 18z…it was 1.5” yesterday and 4.1” at 18z today. So roughly 2.6” of liquid from their 32.8” new at 1pm.

[DomNH]

Possibly the best snow of the day. Too bad it looks very shortlived. 

[Bryan63]

Seems to finally be a hint of things starting to lighten up a but which I will gladly take, not sure there's room for much more at this point.

[Great Snow 1717]

11 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Well the SREFS are part of that so there you go, That was driving the numbers up up here but 8 cycles in a row it was trimming them.

There were signs but they got lost in the hype

[OceanStWx]

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Too bad the water equiv at the ASOS is useless. Hopefully they augment that by melting the w.e. down.

 

1 minute ago, The 4 Seasons said:

but we've learned they never do...

Unfortunately ASOS is king, and that liquid is what goes in for the climate. Even if the snow observer reports more (or less).