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It is also probably because it upsets the fewest people.

Wish it had been over NH. I'm sure lots of social media chatter.

What a Christmas blow for NNE. Over 2" or rains, warm temperatures, high dews and a strong south wind eating up the snowpack. Arrgghhh....

That's what you are going to find out. Even without a real storm it is going to snow. I think we all loose our snowpack with the next system. A total reset. It will be interesting to see if I can keep any of my existing 12" on the ground.

May 25 2013 3.1" of thundersnow in 3 hours. Trees totally leafed out. Great event with giant parachutes.

33.5F Vis 2 miles light snow

29F In the fog with dim sunshine. Snowstake down to 13". Not expecting this 12 hour thaw into the 40's with an inch of rain to melt the pack, just turn it into a glacier. Good for the turkeys but bad for the deer as they can't run through glaciated stuff and the coyotes can outrun them.

I am not a good record keeper but it seems I get "stuck" in the 12-14" range for big events. Maybe cause the down sloping from a north or northeast wind with the Whites in that general direction. Perhaps because this storm was not deep and didn't have a strong wind that helped somewhat? Although I had the lowest visibilities I have ever had with a synoptic event I wish I was just 10 miles further south to see the true "deathband" rates. Another thing I noticed when it was snowing at the 3-4" rates was that it just looked like fog outside. So many flakes falling it was hard to discern the individual flakes unless you had a dark backdrop no more than 5 or 10 feet away.

Forget the .30". More important. Grab me a dozen lumpmeat crabcakes and I'll meet you off Exit 24 on Rt 93 tomorrow. That is one thing that NNE does not have

I am always skeptical of these crazy totals. I did see the twitter video of the guy (was it in S VT?) that posted is 36" yard stick disappearing. Seemed legit. Since Danbury NH is only 2 towns SW of me I decided to take a ride there this morning. The 48" was reported 2.2 ESE of town center. I drove to a location within 1 mile of that. At 1030am this morning I took a few measurements in flat areas that would have been sheltered from yesterday's sun. I measured 24". A guy across the road saw me out there and came over to talk to me. He said that he measured 40" after the storm and that there was a ton of settling yesterday. I totally agree since I saw that I lost 9" of settling of my 24" pack. So 40" seems accurate. 48" is too high unless the observer cleared the snowboard every 6 hours. The weight of 4 feet of snow is must be substantial especially a 15F dry snowfall. Here is a picture from Danbury that I took on my trip. Remember this is after a day after 100% sunshine.

NWS updated their snow amounts. Added a 48" total for Danbury NH. That is about 8 miles SW of me. Going to take a ride tomorrow and see what the settled depths are. Brian, what was your grand total?

Just a mile south of you along the Moose River is the place to be for that.

If yesterday's storm had come later in the season with a deep exsisting pack with an ice layer on top the 30-40" storm would have resulted in an amazing depth. Driving around today the piles where not that high since we had nothing to begin with. (Not that I'm complaining or anything!)

Beautiful day today. Not a cloud in the sky and no wind. Low 20's were very comfortable. The snow settled quite a bit, down to 18" at the snowstake. Hired someone to rake the flatter parts of the roof. Roofs in NNE can easily handle 25" of snow but if we get a quick cutter around Christmas and a flash freeze that will start adding up the weight so early in the season. Flew the drone to figure out my visibility experiment. The visibility during the "deathband" was 300 feet. I never truly got into the most intense part of that band as it sat about 10 or 15 miles south closer to Brian. That was around 1/16 of a mile. The lowest visibility that I have ever seen was a snowcat ride to the summit of Mt Washington on Jan 1 2008. That was during a nor'easter and you could not see more than 25 or 30 feet past the front of the tractor.

Yep, that's it. They will be everyplace during cleanup phase.

Here are 2 pictures from the webcam taken 24 hours apart. Tomorrow i am going to fly the drone from the cam to the most distance point I could see during the heaviest snow. That will give me the true visibility. People always say zero visibility but what is it in reality during extremely heavy snow?

25" final. Light snow ended just before dark. Great storm. Lowest vis. I have seen outside of a snow squall. Since we had basically bare ground before the storm the piles along the road don't look very high. Town will come back with the wing plow and widen the roads. Phin, I don't know if you are familiar with wing plows? Never had seen them in Maryland. After a storm the roads are plowed normally. Then after basic plowing is done they come back with a wing attachment on the trucks which pushes the piles further back. That way as the winter progresses the roads don't become narrower. At least that is what they do here, assume the same in other areas of NNE.

24.5" Final. Measured several areas. This is with no clearing. Are these 35-44" reports from people that have not cleared and are measuring in non wind areas? Wish we had a Utube video of someone taking these measurements so we can see exactly where they are in relationship to other objects etc. Just seems so remarkable for a short time. I was slightly north of the death band earlier this morning.

18F -SN Vis 3/4 mile 23" Measured in several spots on driveway. This is without clearing

Really interesting radar. Much better snow growth now. Looked like it was going to end but elements are now coming in from the east. Almost a pivot over me while you dry out a bit

Snow growth is better here too. Back to heavy snow but 1/4 mile stuff not the absurdity of earlier. 20.5" at the snowstake Question: In a snowfall with high ratios like the one we are having I am sure there is so much compression of the pack. 2 feet of snow weighs a lot. The 40" plus snow amounts I see posted, are they people that have cleared? I'm sure if I had cleared every 6 hours I would have inches more. Has there ever been a study or any kind of rule so you can compare snowfalls?

Snow growth is better here too. Back to heavy snow but 1/4 mile stuff not the absurdity of earlier. 20.5" at the snowstake Question: In a snowfall with high ratios like the one we are having I am sure there is so much compression of the pack. 2 feet of snow weighs a lot. The 40" plus snow amounts I see posted, are they people that have cleared? I'm sure if I had cleared every 6 hours I would have inches more. Has there ever been a study or any kind of rule so you can compare snowfalls?

Moderate snow 1" new past hour 20" at the snow stake.

11am 15F Back to moderate snow. Last 3 hours were crazy. Brian is just getting crushed.

Thanks Alex, looks like the band setup just south of me a barely north of Brian. I just look at snowstake in the yard. If I had cleared there would have been more. Up to 19" +S Vis up to 1/4". Only 1.5" past hour