On the Rocks? March 5-6 mess

[kdxken]

29° solid coating of ice.

[Damage In Tolland]

Trees are iced up but not as much as earlier in the week

[klw]

2.0 new here, 24" at the stake

[dendrite]

22.4° -SN

Pretty good growth despite nothing on radar overhead. Probably a last hurrah. 

[jculligan]

Ended up being pretty much all sleet here. 1.4" total. Appears to be snowing now, but the flakes are heavily rimed. 19" at the stake.

[wx_observer]

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Uhg, solid .50” of sleet,  30°. 
Not even gonna try to clear. It will melt off the driveway eventually.
 

[UnitedWx]

33-30 when I left the house this morning.  A very tiny bit of scattered ice. Thankfully not more!

[ORH_wxman]

Everything iced. A little sleet here but not much. 

[CoastalWx]

Starting to ice up now. Of course snow never happened but now it drops below 32 when nothing showed it.  

[qg_omega]

Did Boston get the 10 inches or not?

[jbenedet]

Predicting significant ice is for fools. 

I’m one of em. 
 

Seems like only areas to receive signicsnt freezing rain is in central Ma.

 

Low level cold underperformed, 950 to 850 warmth overperformed. 

 

Even had mostly sleet up here, with poor rates throughout. Not much out there, maybe an inch. At least this largely verified in my book; not the sleet but the paltry qpf.

[wx_observer]

Temps were borderline for ice here.  You can tell by the amount of drippy icicles on everything, rather than a thicker radial coating.

[jbenedet]

We’ve skated by so many big ice storm opportunities over past 10 years; just goes to show how rare these events are…

 

 

[jbenedet]

17 minutes ago, wx_observer said:

ORH?

[The 4 Seasons]

8 minutes ago, qg_omega said:

Did Boston get the 10 inches or not?

no. 18. 

[The 4 Seasons]

any reports in N MA? nothing is plotted yet on the interactive map...im guessing there was about 1-3 N of RT2?

[Sey-Mour Snow]

1.10" in the gauge .. nice event for the stein worries 

[The 4 Seasons]

2 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

1.10" in the gauge .. nice event for the stein worries 

probably the first solid significant (>0.75") rainer all winter, at least since Jan 1. Dec had a couple. 

[wx_observer]

Just north of it, yes.

10 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

ORH?

 

[dendrite]

Warning flags were there. That elevated warm nose was just warm enough to produce mostly sleet CON-south. I think all models underestimated it a bit, but some of the mesos were a little more sleety looking. It was so thin on forecast soundings just above the cold wedge that models may have needed more vertical levels to really “see” that full +1C in there…just guessing there.

I thought 2m temps looked fairly spot on although I didn’t focus on what mesos had for everyone. 

[CoastalWx]

I’d argue the tuck over performed considering it’s dropped below 30 here. Did not expect that. 

[The 4 Seasons]

Andover 4.0

Ashburnham 3.2

Lowell 1.0

Westminster 0.8

[MarkO]

13 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

any reports in N MA? nothing is plotted yet on the interactive map...im guessing there was about 1-3 N of RT2?

Funny you post this. I'm lying in bed too lazy to get up. I looked at my webcam and guessed about an inch in Lowell. Checked the NWS map and the only post was Lowell reporting 1" (wasn't me), so I can stay in bed although I do have to pee. F'k it I'm up. Sucks getting old.

[dendrite]

5.3”/0.53” final

Cores were 2.1”/0.28” and 3.2”/0.25”

[ORH_wxman]

10 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Warning flags were there. That elevated warm nose was just warm enough to produce mostly sleet CON-south. I think all models underestimated it a bit, but some of the mesos were a little more sleety looking. It was so thin on forecast soundings just above the cold wedge that models may have needed more vertical levels to really “see” that full +1C in there…just guessing there.

I thought 2m temps looked fairly spot on although I didn’t focus on what mesos had for everyone. 

Feels like we slightly underperformed on lift/QPF too. Ended up closer to the more flaccid guidance. Those big solutions down here were ripping an inch and quarter of QPF easy in the pike corridor  

[CoastalWx]

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

5.3”/0.53” final

Cores were 2.1”/0.28” and 3.2”/0.25”

Thought you wanted stein?

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Thought you wanted stein?

For this event yeah. Of course I never got gas for the snow blower

[Great Snow 1717]

10 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Andover 4.0

Ashburnham 3.2

Lowell 1.0

Westminster 0.8

My wife works in Andover ...right off of 93...she told me at her location there is around 1.5 inches of snow/sleet.. 

I'd love to know which part of Andover that measurement took place..

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

My wife works in Andover ...right off of 93...she told me at her location there is around 1.5 inches of snow/sleet.. 

I'd love to know which part of Andover that measurement took place..