eekuasepinniW Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Tons of vivid lightning but the thunder is very faint-- odd considering I'm only 3 miles from a vicious blob of red pixels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I thought these storms would pass me by, but I've had time to reconsider. Looks like I'll get smoked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 massive flakes now, still sitting at 26. winds are starting to rip good now. absolutely pouring snow. another 2-3 of denser snow since arriving home. wonder what the morning will bring. gotta love new england Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtWeatherWatcher Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 little bit of video i took tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvysnow79 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I thought these storms would pass me by, but I've had time to reconsider. Looks like I'll get smoked. They seem to be holding strong...hope you get them...back to snow here now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serbiesnow Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Yes!! VIVID lighning and sleet coming down in Lunenburg!! House is shaking, Ive not seen anything this intense in winter before,..about 7 inches so far,.a mix now,..wow,..this is unreal!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitemountainhiker Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 little bit of video i took tonight. your video put mine to shame, but im still gonna post it later. i got some good flashes, but what i needed was a dark landscape. nothing but street lights where i live. nice!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 -TSSN at Plymouth now. I had a vid of some vivid lighting and loud thunder, but I accidentally deleted it. Damnit. Now I'm stuck with a crappier example of the event. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 little bit of video i took tonight. Awesome. Impressively widespread thunder and lightning across NY/VT/NH and now moving into ME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Yup, seeing lightning here. Thunder soon to follow. Crazy. 30.9F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vttaconics Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Yup, seeing lightning here. Thunder soon to follow. Crazy. 30.9F Sleet?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Event totals: 4.5” Snow/0.68” L.E. Saturday 2/5/2011 10:00 P.M. update: The precipitation went back over to completely snow a bit before 10:00 P.M., so that will work pretty well as a break point in measurements for this event. It seems that the passage of all that thunder and lightning was coincident with the transition back to snow. The snow stack from the snowboard was certainly dense, with over 2/3 of an inch of liquid in just the 4.5 inches of snow. Presumably all those granular flakes and any sleet pellets added some substantial girth to the snowpack. While the new snow is dense, there are no signs of any glazing, so as far as I can tell there was no rain in this area. Once the precipitation was back to snow it was coming down nicely, with some decent flakes up to 10 mm in diameter. I wasn’t ready to call it heavy snow, because it seemed to be less than an inch per hour, but I’ll be able to get a good rate estimate by checking the snowboard at 11:00 P.M. The snowpack at the stake was at 27 inches as of the 10:00 P.M. reading, and since my standard measurement stake stops at 30 inches, I installed my four-foot stake just in case tonight’s snowfall overtops it. From my observations over the past few seasons down at this elevation/location, whenever we get above 30 inches for the snowpack it’s a sign that things have been going reasonably well in terms of snowfall and winter temperatures. I’ll check the 11:00 P.M. accumulation on the snowboard in a few minutes. Some details from the 10:00 P.M. observations are below: New Snow: 4.5 inches New Liquid: 0.68 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 6.6 Snow Density: 15.1% H2O Temperature: 30.7 F Sky: Snow (1-10 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 27.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Got up to 31.9F when the thunder rolled through, but back down to 31.5F now. The N winds are starting to increase a bit up to 6mph now after being near calm most of the night. The -FZRA continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Sleet?? Nope, freezing rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 35F TSRA all the way up to HIE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 frequent lightning overhead....with sleet and snow on the rockpile. METAR KMWN 060347Z 14037KT 0SM TSPLSN BLSN FZFG VV000 M07/M07 RMK FRQ LTGIC OHD PLB30 TSB35 TS OHD PRESFR LGT GICG AND VRY LGT ICG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold214 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 35F TSRA all the way up to HIE. Sherbrook's got thunder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitemountainhiker Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 frequent lightning overhead....with sleet and snow on the rockpile. METAR KMWN 060347Z 14037KT 0SM TSPLSN BLSN FZFG VV000 M07/M07 RMK FRQ LTGIC OHD PLB30 TSB35 TS OHD PRESFR LGT GICG AND VRY LGT ICG Hhaha I was just going to post this. Beautiful night on the rockpile. The observers must love this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Had a 10-second moment of something pretty large hitting the windows. Hail? I dunno. It ended too quick for me to see. Couldn't find anything outside either. BOOM! Big thunder! Freaking my kitty cat out. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simpsonsbuff Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Amazing stuff. Walked in sleet/zr, and I was really tempted to think it was some hail mixed in... Is that possible? Switched over to snow, but has really lightened up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Sherbrook's got thunder. sparks flying at le studio sex tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I’ll check the 11:00 P.M. accumulation on the snowboard in a few minutes. That 10:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. hour delivered 0.6 inches of snow, although the rate has slowed down a bit compared to where it was an hour ago. There still seems to be some moisture to the west of us, so presumably I’ll have a bit more accumulation to report in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Amazing stuff. Walked in sleet/zr, and I was really tempted to think it was some hail mixed in... Is that possible? Switched over to snow, but has really lightened up. sure. probably graupel though....heavily rimed snowflakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 sure. probably graupel though....heavily rimed snowflakes Just took a stroll outside and found what was making the brief racket - whatever it is it is 1/8" in diameter and a solid ball of ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I think almost every station in NNE is going to end up reporting lightning tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 House is shaking from the thunder! lol Tried taking video but of course nothing happened when I was live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Just took a stroll outside and found what was making the brief racket - whatever it is it is 1/8" in diameter and a solid ball of ice. like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvysnow79 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 sparks flying at le studio sex tonight Hahahaha.... I went to LSC..lots of rules there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simpsonsbuff Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 like this? Yes that's what I saw! My roomie and I both said "that looks like hail". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 like this? I suppose it could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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