George001

Yep, runs away like a coward. So much arrogance just to be this wrong.

We were supposed to get nothing 4 days ago, therefore I would have been happy even if we only got say 6 inches. Im not sure how much snow there is now due to all the drifting, but it’s easily over 20 inches just eyeballing it. This is the best winter we have had since 2015 and I’m enjoying every second of it.

I just went back outside to measure. This is 2-3 inch an hour snow.

Just woke up to 8 inches of snow and whiteout conditions. Holy shit this storm is amazing, with that radar look 2 feet is not out of the question here. There will probably be areas on the south shore that break 30.

Im expecting 18-24 here.

So much for the canonical front loaded Nina Feb

Is this storm a Miller A or B?

Yeah, going to be tricky with the drifting but I’m going to clear the deck every few hours, going to take measurements when I do so.

Im going to set my alarm. This is going to be a historic burial here.

Yeah he looks to be ground zero for this one. He was downplaying this all week and is going to get absolutely buried. It’s been a rough stretch in SE Mass so it’s nice that we had things break right this winter.

A lot of this is over my head as a non met and more of a causal snow weenie (especially in such a complex setup like this) so I would like to learn more about your process. From what I understand you don’t just look at QPF, storm track, 500mb You see the entire system, notice patterns (eg your Miami rule, phase heavy bias in the mid range, teleconnections, anticipating where the correction vector is pointed based on the ensemble clustering etc) and lean on that pattern recognition rather than ripping and reading QPF and kuchera like people do on Twitter. It’s an old school approach similar to another met I follow, Bernie Rayno. We need more of this and less QPF ripping from twitterologists. Feel free to tweak or correct parts of this that are off base. About your game of managing nested anomalies idea, I want to make sure I really understand this right. Would things like an extreme arctic airmass, intense thermal gradient, rapid phase shift for NAO, ENSO mismatch (La Nina surface with El Niño subsurface), etc fall into that category? The arctic airmass isn’t as entrenched as it was in the heart of winter, but a 1050ish mb high diving into the Midwest is no joke. Then we have the SE well AN. What about the role that CC as a whole plays in this idea of nested anomalies? On a global scale we are a pocket of cold in a sea of warmth like you mentioned in an earlier post, I’m curious how that ties into this.

Sort of, I was doing weed and shrooms, now I’m doing shrooms.

Yeah, nothing against drugs (Im sticking to shrooms now) but when it becomes an addiction that’s a problem. I kicked my weed habit a couple of months ago, noticed my attitude and energy levels have improved a lot. Picked the perfect winter to do it.

When it comes to this hobby, this is as good as it gets. It’s snowing out right now and a blizzard is coming on Monday

Casually brushing off 10-15 inches of snow like it’s not that big of a deal and not higher end