ORH_wxman

GFS still not biting on the NAM/HRRR optimism. Pretty weak sauce on the thump. Bit of a model battle.

00z NAM is quite a thump too

I’m gonna call it 5.3” here. Great over achiever. Actually the event total would be more like 6” but the rest was from last night before the rain.

Took a few pics when out shoveling

Jet streaks FTW too. That powerful exit region worked some magic and prob turned this from mundane 1-2” to lots of 3-6” amounts.

53.6 last year at ORH. Not quite a ratter but not good.

Nearly 5”…should eclipse it if we haven’t already as this was about 10 min ago

Last bands coming through. Snow growth actually still pretty decent in this

Hoping to crack 5”. At 4.5 now

Funny I posted that and literally liken5 min later we are pounding perfect dendrites again. Awesome snow growth…must be a deeper area of lift punching the DGZ in this band here.

Snow growth isn't pristine like it was in that first monster band, but vis is down again and it "Feels" like a snowstorm in this stuff.

Nice you got over 3.5”. Might be able to nudge it up to 4” with that last band rotating down.

I doubt it trends much…it’s been amazingly consistent for days (I know Tip posted something similar). But small nuances could help…if we can get just a little more vort energy on the eastern flank of that trough, it would really help that WCB be more intense and perhaps also nudge the secondary reflection a little deeper which would lock in lower level cold more efficiently. We’re not talking drastic changes but it could be like the difference between 2” and then rain with temps getting to 40-43F in a place like Bedford versus 5” and temps never really getting above 35F.

Steadier snow has resumed. Not as heavy as that first band though

There’s almost two different WAA precip batches…the first initial one is pretty good from like N NJ to S CT and it’s weakening as it lifts north from there and then another reorganizes about 8 hours later but by that point, we’re starting to warm aloft so that batch is mainly for N of MA/NH border. We got caught in between….hopefully that doesn’t happen but some models have shown that. 18z NAM actually got us decent with the initial band. Didn’t weaken it as fast.

Jet mechanics FTW. I think Chris posted it earlier and I was discussing yesterday, but we have a pretty impressive left exit region with this CCB so that got the job done. Sometimes we’ll have a ULL/energy swinging underneath us but not much jet assist, and it can just be light to moderate stuff, but we were able to get that extra enhanced lift to get heavy bands.

Yep most of that fell in 90 minutes.

Man snow. I just went out and shoveled really quick during this lull and the piles look like I got double my 3.5 so far

In a little sucker hole now but those last 90 min were intense. Looks like another good band about to rotate in that’s hammering ORH to windham county…someone on the north shore must be doing well because that band has been parked there

Over 3” now

Still poundtown up on north shore....good band over ORH now too

North shore is really pounding now per radar

Utterly pounding in this band....I must be approaching 2" already eyeballing outside.

Incoming for you on another band

Metrowest band