March Madness

[powderfreak]

Upslope band is cranking.  Just ripping snow on the mountains.

Over 5" so far for the event.

[mahk_webstah]

Pretty interesting on the ECAIFS for next Saturday through Monday

[Boston Bulldog]

Just now, powderfreak said:

Upslope band is cranking.  Just ripping snow on the mountains.

Over 5" so far for the event.

Been a long time since there’s been a radar like this!

[HoarfrostHubb]

20 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Hubcapsgone Mass

If you saw the condition of my road you would understand the graveyard of hubcaps off to the side (if anyone still used hubcaps).  It is wretched and embarrassing.  

[tunafish]

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Snowpack starts getting weird this time of year depending on shading and angle to the sun.

That is a wild map.

My depth is an average of a huge area, always 10 readings.  And even then I don't feel fully confident.  I straight up tossed the stake as a data point after the blizzard.

[tunafish]

3 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Last night was a perfect example of #1....right on cue.

 

 

 

I used to think our locations were simpatico on being the relative BN screw-holes.  Basically from you up the coast to PWM.  

I'm curious how you stand relative to your climo over the same stretch?  

[Damage In Tolland]

HWW up out East. Congrats S Wey 

[CoastalWx]

12 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

HWW up out East. Congrats S Wey 

Maybe it changed today, but yesterday it looked kind of inverted.

[Damage In Tolland]

7 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Maybe it changed today, but yesterday it looked kind of inverted.

Lots of 50-60 mph gusts on models 

[WxWatcher007]

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Upslope band is cranking.  Just ripping snow on the mountains.

Over 5" so far for the event.

Not much out this way. An inch with the March sun doing its work on daytime accumulation. Congrats. 

[Torch Tiger]

Wind is really whipping up the trash and debris. Especially lowell, just ripping litter with reduced vis 

[VivaManchVegas]

The woods are empty here.   My back yard is usually the last to melt.  4 to 6" on the ground.  Sump pump never came on.  Pretty sure that is because of the dry fall.  Windy and 40F. 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

It’s gonna suck if last week’s temperatures are the highest we see until mid May.
Even though it’s not that cold,  today feels brutal with the wind and temperatures.  

[WxWatcher007]

HWW issued up here with gusts up to 60mph possible Monday. 

[Damage In Tolland]

Let’s hoist em up regionwide 

[powderfreak]

37 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Not much out this way. An inch with the March sun doing its work on daytime accumulation. Congrats. 

Another 6” between 8:30am and 4pm.

Storm total 9” so far.  Heavy snow.  Depth at 3,000ft back up from 52” to 61”.

 

[CoastalWx]

33 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Another 6” between 8:30am and 4pm.

Storm total 9” so far.  Heavy snow.  Depth at 3,000ft back up from 52” to 61”.

 

Those tracks become riverbeds Monday night?

[powderfreak]

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Those tracks become riverbeds Monday night?

From rushing water to pond ice to powder back to water all in a few days.

[tamarack]

2 hours ago, tunafish said:

That is a wild map.

My depth is an average of a huge area, always 10 readings.  And even then I don't feel fully confident.  I straight up tossed the stake as a data point after the blizzard.

I've occasionally done the 10 readings for individual storms but doing it for pack depth in a place like Maine with snow atop snow would resemble the physicist's uncertainty principle - all that tromping thru the snow affecting the depth.  I place the stake at the same spot in our garden plot and stay away from it, to avoid that affecting.  I suppose if one could separate the 10 spots by 50+ feet and avoid old tracks during the next measurement . . .   Too complicated for me.

Pack grew to 13" this morning, back to 11 now.

[weatherwiz]

Monday doesn't seem overly impressive for winds...nothing out of the ordinary for these setups. Best bet would be getting a solid convective line to hold but looks like it falls apart quickly. 3km though does suggest there could be some embedded strong convection though. 

[Brian5671]

40 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Monday doesn't seem overly impressive for winds...nothing out of the ordinary for these setups. Best bet would be getting a solid convective line to hold but looks like it falls apart quickly. 3km though does suggest there could be some embedded strong convection though. 

almost always overdone on models as well-got to reduce by 20-25%

[tunafish]

44 minutes ago, tamarack said:

I've occasionally done the 10 readings for individual storms but doing it for pack depth in a place like Maine with snow atop snow would resemble the physicist's uncertainty principle - all that tromping thru the snow affecting the depth.  I place the stake at the same spot in our garden plot and stay away from it, to avoid that affecting.  I suppose if one could separate the 10 spots by 50+ feet and avoid old tracks during the next measurement . . .   Too complicated for me.

Pack grew to 13" this morning, back to 11 now.

Definitely work and you have to be very strategic.  To be clear, unless it's a wind blown storm, I only take 10 measurements at 12z daily, not every 6-hr new-snow ob.

I also have one of those fancy 40" sticks with a handle, plus an 8' wingspan, so I can space far from my feet.  Helps great deal.

[weatherwiz]

8 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

almost always overdone on models as well-got to reduce by 20-25%

yup...not sure what vendors use as an algorithm for those wind gust products but there are as bad as the snow maps