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Blocking in full swing down here. IMG_2832.mov

Started snowing just after noon way up here in the Champlain Valley. Just passed 2 inches. Subcritical flow is trapping some moisture in the lowest levels for us (sorry for you all east of the Greens, all ur vape belongs to us) and flake quality is increasing. Next few hours should be nice. 4” by noon tomorrow would be a nice overbust up here. I'm too lazy to put my boots back on to take a nice Christmas lights pic so I’ll just post a pic of the car after banzai’ing around in the snow running errands. Fun!

An op run 300 hours out in a volatile longwave pattern. What could possibly go wrong?

I thought that when I left the Mid-Atlantic forum and came up here, I was coming to the land of Ivy League scholarship and New England courteous civility where even the banter contained references to sailing regattas, latent heat release, lobstah recipes and subcritical flow.

1.3" SN up here. Low level cold hung on longer than expected so no FZRA or FZDZ. It's been dry (and melty) since precip shut off and temps finally surged 8ºF between 11pm and midnight.

My own personal snowstorm this morning. Subcritical flow FTW. 3” so far.

0.8" on the year here in Charlotte, 19 miles south of town. Woo?

The line approaching western MA had some juice as it passed over KTYX

And, keeping with the thread topic, snowfall total here in the Champlain Valley was a whopping 0.3". The dry slot moved in pre-dawn and now the sun is out and burning off the <1" we had OTG. And, it's a blazing 36ºF. Yuck.

This paper hits on one of the challenges of disruptive (read, not modernized or transformative) technology. Successfully managing the organizational change management aspect of that disruption is often as valuable as the disruption itself. https://journals.ametsoc.org/configurable/content/journals$002fbams$002f105$002f11$002fBAMS-D-24-0044.1.xml Machine Learning-based AI has been deeply embedded into numerical weather prediction for 20 years. Generative AI is a whole different thing. And, you see the acceptance biases of NWS forecasters quite easily in this paper. And, interestingly, you see those biases morphing over the duration of the study. A side benefit of the study is the fantastic reference list of NWP and forecasting AI research papers. Enjoy!

It was pretty cool to see this standing wave sitting over you for a couple of hours this evening.

Nothing from the storm on Thursday. A dusting from today that survived in shady spots. Maybe 1/2” will fall tomorrow as a shortwave moves thru. It’ll stay since it won’t breach freezing and will be cloudier tomorrow. Wednesday nite and Thursday will be plenty cold but we’ll be shadowed pretty badly here in the valley so we’ll be lucky to get an inch for our 36 hours of SN wed-thurs.

That’s the greatest thing ever. I’m going to show everyone at work tomorrow.

Yep. Heck, one week from then. With my 0.1" from this morning, I am off the schneid. Looking forward to the Thursday clipper to get my total (barely) over an inch.

I had the easiest cleanup. 0.00" of snow here at 284'. For the 12+ hours of precip, we had 20 minutes of SN, 6 hours of RN/SN and a low temp of 35ºF. If I drove in any direction for more than 15 minutes, there was accumulating snow.