IowaStorm05

Still furthering trend of increasing snowfall intensities. Looks better now than any time beforehand Like others have said this is not the best rate of accumulation even in the heavier precip. 5-6 inches with 8 inch drifts, not much added over the last time I checked an hour ago, but I feel like it’s really going to improve rate of accum for the latter half of this deal.

“Ayayayayaya” ”Keep on hopin” ”Cake by the ocean”

Big thought, while it looks like that sw edge is creeping up, the larger radar view I see looks like it could just build back in or wrap back around to us in E CT? Otherwise if it ends with that edge got about 2 hrs left

Is it not possible you could still thump later if the mix line moves east? Its odd that western parts of south county is doing better than Prov.... cuz it’s a super vertically tilted Rn/Sn line. Friend in Westerly reported 4 inches about two hours ago

About 4 new inches at this point. Tough to exact due to drifting. Of course it’s still snowing (duh) Its not the wettest snow but it’s not super dry either, some texturing in the most recent stuff. Will need to do some catching up if we want to match southeastern parts of the state

I think if a full changeover were to occur it would probably be mid to late in the storm. Even coastal CT is better spot than e mass for this one due to its relative “Westerly”, no pun intended, position.

Heaviest snow so far just showed up in the last 15 minutes.

18z NAM coming in remaining generous too

Hoping some of that energy to our west can translate over to us, or perhaps a deepening? I bet a few sleet pings are possible but doubt it will change out of SN

Oh see this looks really good. If this starts deepening suddenly, which I don’t know how likely, we could really pound in CT

It’s been snowing, lightly, pretty much since fairly early in the morning. However it began getting heavier around 1pm. we had 1.5 - 2 inches on the ground before it even started... We have had an additional 2.5 -3 inches since this storm started on top of that IN TOTAL UP TO NOW, 4-5 inches on ground. BUT starting to accelerate accums. NWS is calling for 5-11 total new inches here so they’re playing it safe and to be conservative this KINDA makes sense, in spite of some models being more aggressive. We will just see how the next several hours go.

20 minutes ago, Just as the relative big-flake death band was moving in.

Light to almost moderate snow steady coming down this morning. No real crazy rates yet. Eyeballing 1.5 inches on top of the lucky two-inch snow pack we already had left from the last storm. But guys this is the first I’ve ever seen.... our river is not a river anymore right now. It’s a white wonderland. ......But I wouldn’t walk on it if I were you.

Trudeau hasn’t learned a thing or two about topography and rain shadows?! Maybe he skipped out on environmental science period and was Coketish with the other young ladies in the bathroom at Tim Hortons

Not bad!!

That does not sweeten the deal. It only gets people killed

Is that really a legit rain shadow in CT River valley?!? You’d think that was cast off a 2000 foot crest Or more. I guess it kinda is a 2000 foot crest actually isn’t it

Unless like I was emergency responder, had 4WD SUV etc, or just lived super close to work, I would refuse to go in during this event. Im not risking my life to kiss boss ass. Nope nnnnope nope nope

Am I right to give comfort to those in fear of the rain/snow line on grounds that the 12 z Euro doesn’t G A F about it?

I love it dude !

Semi decadal trends do happen. Furthermore some scientists suggest that global warming has risen average temps in the Mid Atlantic and SNE faster than some other parts of the nation like the upper Midwest. I know that is politicized in this country but I’m not the scientist I didn’t do the work so don’t shoot the messenger. Out west decadal trends are even worse due to the PDO

And for good measure you shan’t forget the V.16

Im inside one of those minimum strips. But I looked and it still promises 9 inches regardless so I have zero room to even think of complaining

Gotta stock up on plenty of Simply Orange before Simply Crush

I’m considering planning for the loss of power. cuz when we got a 2 inch slop back in early December the power flickered out several times. The warmer models for my area call for 8-10 inches of slop, or at least a less-than 10:1 ratio Of course this is going to be windy so that might prevent widespread power losses ?