ORH_wxman

When everyone was flipping to snow ahead of schedule I thought it was going to be a positive bust...LOL. Shows how quickly things can change. I was sure that the 128 belt was gonna get rocked. They were changing over around 2pm and it looked excellent for hours...but they just never mustered the intensity after the flip. The low level temps were a problem but I’m still surprised. I guess maybe the lift wasn’t quite lining up perfectly in DGZ which really helps in marginal setups. You need everything to go right...esp at lower elevations and perhaps that was the one ingredient missing in an otherwise perfect opportunity to overcome the marginal near-sfc layer.

Yep, 900+ feet in ORH. Paxton just west of ORH just reported 12.5”...they are up near 1200 feet.

Yeah I was wondering if the airport was running a degree warm or so. Several of the other mesosites around there got to 32 as well.

It’s so-so. Today’s storm really messes up an otherwise great setup for Dec 7-8. We’ll see about 12/13ish...that could cut or it could end up ok...but will depend on nuances. Today’s guidance wants to lean cutter. Hopefully we get another chance behind that but a lot of uncertainty.

Here Walt, I measured this about an hour ago

I am a bit surprised we didn’t see thunder snow in more spots. I agree with Scott that a little more antecedent airmass would have helped tighten up that ML Fronto. Then again, like Tip said, with a colder airmass oozing in, this storm is probably hitting the Grand Banks instead, lol.

He said he lost power quite a while ago.

Metrowest band incoming. Ray, you are probably finally ripping pretty good.

YEah that looked really weird and the snow intensity didn’t respond by ramping down. So I was suspicious as well.

Very aesthetically pleasing radar...classic looking storm

Yellows are starting to shrink a bit as the R/S lime becomes more defined (as Chris opined above) You can still see the ML forcing back into ORH county up into Hillsborough county NH and it’s going to go nuts for metrowest here

R/S line is hanging out just outside of BOS

There’s a feedback there too in addition to what you said. The harder it snows, the closer to 32F the lowest layer gets from latent cooling...and when the intensity slackens a bit it goes back to like 33-34F.

Ha, you got me, it was windy.

Go north on 495

Snow line should be getting inside 128 now

Yeah too bad this one will be more like an Antione Walker in the end rather than those guys....nothing wrong with that. Solid system but if this were a few ticks colder, it would be up there with those others easily. It had all the ingredients...that radar says it all. Just needed a non-disgusting airmass.

He would have had an epic meltdown about QPF if he was still there.

This radar definitely has a bit of 12/9/05 to it and a little bit of 1/12/11 to it.

Londonderry will do great later on. Decent chance they end up under a death band.

Metrowest is looking really good for this afternoon/evening and into SE NH/S ME

Caked

Absolutely ripping (sorry didn’t realize the 2nd one was a ginxy cell phone pic)