Napril 2026 Discussion/Obs

[powderfreak]

5 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

dusting on cars and grass now that the sun is down.. we take! 

Snowing?  That’s impressive in this.

7pm HRRR initial.

[Damage In Tolland]

17 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Snowing?  That’s impressive in this.

7pm HRRR initial.

Maybe pollen?

[ineedsnow]

31 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Snowing?  That’s impressive in this.

7pm HRRR initial.

 

13 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Maybe pollen?

 

[HoarfrostHubb]

44 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

dusting on cars and grass now that the sun is down.. we take! 

Somewhere on Wachusett today 

[ineedsnow]

22 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Somewhere on Wachusett today 

Looks like old Indian trail close to the top but could be wrong 

[powderfreak]

34 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

 

 

That’s awesome.  Love meteorology.

[ineedsnow]

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

That’s awesome.  Love meteorology.

It snowed on and off most of the day but nothing stuck until sundown 

[40/70 Benchmark]

Just now, 40/70 Benchmark said:

March forecast review:

https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2026/04/march-warmer-than-forecast.html

Not a bad effort for the month of March overall, but it ended up much warmer than forecast on a national level due to the failure of high latitude blocking to materialize following the split of the polar vortex, which was a forecast risk that was communicated last fall. Locally here in southern New England it was anywhere from 2 to 4*F warmer than normal, as opposed to the forecast of -2 to near normal.

Seasonal recap incoming in May.

 

 

 

 

[sankaty]

Was snowing pretty good driving over Rochester Gap just now. Road was snow covered at the top. Wasn't expecting that.

[klw]

ground "whitened" overnight but looks to be sleet mostly but we also had thunder in the middle of the night.

[Baroclinic Zone]

Ahhhhh, spring in New England.

[BrianW]

12 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Saturday looks solid 65-70 I-90 South  similar to yesterday 

With a little taste of the  dews as well.

[CoastalWx]

Ass

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Feels like I’ve moved to Seattle. Will we ever see the sun again?

[weatherwiz]

13 hours ago, dendrite said:

We had one in 2016

I saw one right outside yesterday. In fact, I think I've seen a quite a few of these recently 

[dendrite]

5 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I saw one right outside yesterday. In fact, I think I've seen a quite a few of these recently 

The more I dig I guess they’re just grey squirrels with a red tail variation.

[dendrite]

48 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Ass

The warmest weather here will be overnight tonight. 

[weatherwiz]

Would not be surprised to see some accumulating snow for the ski areas up north Tuesday

[WinterWolf]

25 minutes ago, dendrite said:

The warmest weather here will be overnight tonight. 

Dam…that ain’t any fun..certainly not a “Good Friday” there.

[jbenedet]

Today will turn out to nice but it is a crap start for sure.

 

[Typhoon Tip]

21 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Today will turn out to nice but it is a crap start for sure.

 

It's going to be fun watching the models fail as this stagnated cold saturated density on the bottom of the atmosphere clings to the region.   

If it does turn out "nice" ...it will be among the more exceptional same 12 hour period turn arounds recorded. 

37/drizzle.     

It also isn't a good look when there is an active NE wind down in NJ, still, approaching mid morning.   

I'm perfectly willing to go with the bust today if need be.  Haven't been completely sold on the whiplash. But should it turn around enough to fairly transform this rectal plaque into a nice description,   hell...stranger things have happened I guess.  

Edit, recent check and the wind field has finally this hour gone variable between BOS-PHL so perhaps en masse mixing event is readying itself.  We'll see.

[Go Kart Mozart]

17 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Today will turn out to nice but it is a crap start for sure.

 

I doubt the sun comes out...even down here.

[SouthCoastMA]

7 minutes ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

I doubt the sun comes out...even down here.

Doesn't look great

[Typhoon Tip]

23 minutes ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

I doubt the sun comes out...even down here.

Mixing is key...

The models try to warm sector everywhere S of Brian and including his latitude, which agreed ... at the moment challenges the imagination as how in the hell that can actually happen when looking at larger regional synoptic observations.  

Take this hi res vis loop,

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=local-Virginia-02-24-0-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

Notice that wedge of very low level cloud arrow heading into interior VA.  That's like a latex paint spill on a highway, imagine cloud-cars are gliding over the top of it.  We are underneath that paint spill in this metaphor.    In order to scour that out, the sun will help... but mixing is really needed for that to happen. 

Pure speculation, but I suspect that is why the meso models have been insistently cool as they have been, despite the frontal look of the models ( 18 to 00z later on...).  They are telling us that there won't be enough mixing.   It's like the warm sector pivots across the top never kissing the surface.  

Need the cold front to clean house.  Tomorrow may actually be better than guidance, particularly if it clears.  Ample late summer sun quality rising over a scoured out d-slope flow that isn't CAA crazy might actually make conditions anomalously good relative to having an overtop high pressure again building in from Ontario.  

Which by they ... - I'm just diatribing in general - odds lean away from observing a real and true wholesale warming over the eastern mid lat continent, if/while that PV continues to its relentless re-establishing presence N-E of Hudson Bay. So long as that is apparently never ever ever going to change ... eh hm, we are doomed to those over top high pressures ... almost like back building they are, bullying in and afflicting with NE-E "coldrums"

[powderfreak]

12 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

 

 

After that discussion last night… despite 850s well above 0C, we got some convection that caused rain to change to pasty snow.

I’ve never seen snow fall with soundings like last night.

2am and +7C at 850mb and pounding paste in convection?

[dendrite]

6 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

After that discussion last night… despite 850s well above 0C, we got some convection that caused rain to change to pasty snow.

I’ve never seen snow fall with soundings like last night.

2am and +7C at 850mb and pounding paste in convection?

Wetbulbs verified a lot cooler than that in the H7-85 layer. Add in some extra cooling with convective lift and I guess it was enough to overcome.

[CoastalWx]

53 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Today will turn out to nice but it is a crap start for sure.

 

Good luck.

[HoarfrostHubb]

12 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

It snowed on and off most of the day but nothing stuck until sundown 

We didn't have anything stick at my house.  Rates weren't good.  I didn't see much snow after dark, but I wasn't looking much.

[dendrite]

Had a little SHSN here before sunset too yesterday. Then just 32.1° and -RADZ the rest of the night.

[Cold Miser]

Happy Good Friday. Enjoy the dank, damp and cool it’s the only April ya got.