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How's the week of the 27th looking? Asking for an observer abandoning his post

Snow depth measurement is a conundrum this time of year, as you all describe here. My NWS stake is in a shaded area (you can see it to the right of the precip can in the second photo I posted above). I use it as a data point, but not as the data point for depth. I take a handful of manual measurements in that general-but-less-protected area. It gets tricky as I don't want to disturb the snow anywhere near the stake. I think this is the recommendation from NWS, but the gradient does become significant this time of year. At the end of Feb, when we were just about melted out, I was reporting 3-4" as a depth. As you drove around town, the exposed areas were T-1". My stake was at 5", and most of the other readings were 2-3". Apparently a member of the public contacted GYX to ask about the validity of my readings (like I said, around in non-protected areas it was relatively thin).

3.8"/0.44" | 11" depth with the 7AM obs. 32/31F, SN

You better run. You better take cover.

Up a degree in the last hour. 32/22. Dendrite/Mahk.. you guys have flakes in the air yet or are those radar returns virga? Trying to figure out if that's going to make it here before midnight.

Ahead of schedule?

31/19, OFC 43.6" STD Current depth 7"

Feeling a @MaineJayhawkjack. Maybe he fires it up.

No changes from GYX Except they did bump up the 10% probabilities

run out of my basement. coincidentally, that's where we let my alcoholic uncle stay when he got evicted from his apartment.

100% The roads were shitty yesterday morning, too. all the more reason to put the phone down. the road where it happened is full of kids walking to the high school or getting on busses to go to the middle/elementary schools.

Flipped about 15 minutes ago down here - same thing, yuge flakes.

You getting any precip now?

I've noticed on the clown maps, especially GFS, most of the QPF stays south of Maine - really sharp cutoff north of York County. What's driving that? Is it the confluence to the NE?

GYX not feeling it at that latitude (yet)

90's kid FTW. The best part about Friday night snowstorms is you could have/go to sleepovers - and do the same thing you describe. --- Timing of this looks to have slowed down a bit, and duration extended. Nature of moving towards a Miller B vs. SWFE, I'm assuming.

Finished with 6.4"

0.5/"0.09" with the midnight obs in PWM. Maybe another tenth or two on the way out. 6.2" event so far

Meaning, the system is getting its juice off the water, with the wind out of the east?

Holy shit! I hadn't paid any attention to Thursday, focused on today and Friday night > Saturday. Assumed Thursday was rain for me. Whoa!

Just when I think it's done a other one regenerates. Amazing.

2.8" new on 0.29" LE with the 7PM obs in PWM. 32°, -SN. 5.7" on 0.60" LE for the event so far. Puts me at 42.0" for the season. Remarkably consistent ratios with this event - in my 5 years at this locale and I can't recall an event this consistently close to 10:1.

GYX totals so far

I think Brooklyn alluded to this yesterday - is that confluence/retrograding block combination too much of a good thing for C/NNE? Favors NYC area & SNE moreso, correct?

Appreciate the info, filling in my knowledge gaps.