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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.

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

++SN 14F Spectacular storm for heavy snow. Vis 200 feet for past hour. 17.5" 3.5" new last hour Nice to get in the def band. Snowing i

That is very cool. As someone that has always had the crazy fetish for "how far can you see" I really liked this post. On the clearest of days when I fly my drone over my house I can see Mt Washington to the north, Killington to the west and Mt Monadock to the south. When I took one of my edutrips to the summit of Mt Washington and spent the night it was also interesting to see the reflection of the lights of Boston to the south and Montreal to the northwest

PF could answer this question, Given the same conditions other than wind is snow blowing more effective in calm conditions or with wind? I have always thought calm conditions would be more helpful so I am surprised you have have any snow dust at all. How far is the closest slope to you? 1/2 mile??

This storm is frustrating. Right on the edge of the good qpf. Areas just south do great. Just a bump of 25 miles would help but the models seem pretty much cemented in now for the northern edge.

You let the cat out of the bag. No wonder you post big numbers. Subtract a foot from your yearly totals!!!

5F was my low. Only 25F above the coldest I have ever recorded. Has there ever been a study to show how many degrees colder a deep snowcover makes?

Just saw it. Puts Brian and me right in the heaviest goods. I like these type of storms (if this were to verify). I didn't follow the models closely for days and days and then the north trend begins just a day or two before the storm. Phin, you will be amazed how fast NNE cleans up after a cold, powder storm. Unlike Maryland that takes days and days the storm will be cleaned up almost before the snow stops. Still this is the NAM and until the GFS and Euro come on board this is a SNE storm. Will watch closely today

I grew up in the same neighborhood as Bob Turk. He still is a friend of mine. I was talking with him yesterday. I wished him luck with this one. As it happens many time the Balt/DC area straddles the rain/snow line with this one. Could be some big busts down there if the line is 20 miles north or south. Have fun down there.

Today's very light snow has ended. Just slipped below 32F. Maybe a long time before we go back over it. Lost most of our snowcover with this latest stretch of warm weather. Now we wait to see if the next storm delivers. Only 5" of snow this season so far.

Still looking good for Metro Baltimore and Phin. When I lived there it was total panic with everything shutting down for 4 or 6". Is it going to be one of those winters when arctic highs leave NNE high and dry while the Mid Atlantic and SNE cash in?

At least downwind of the Whites we had some sun. Looks like there will be no aurora. Saw this on SpaceWeather.com Why didn't the CME cause a storm? Every CME brings with it some magnetic field from the sun. If that magnetic field points south, it opens cracks in Earth's magnetic field, allowing solar wind to flow inside and fuel auroras. On the other hand, if the CME's magnetic field points north, it seals cracks in Earth's magnetic field, blocking the solar wind and quenching storms. This CME brought a storm-killing north magnetic field. So, even though the velocity of the solar wind in the CME's wake flirted with a high value of 600 km/s, it was ineffective in causing geomagnetic storms and auroras. Maybe next time. Solar activity is picking up with the onset of new Solar Cycle 25. This is just the first of many CMEs likely to head our way in the months ahead. Aurora alerts: SMS Text.

Phin, you said your heading south tomorrow. Now you see how after a storm the upslope flow just keeps these nickel and dime snow showers going and going. It really adds up. Your webcam is great, you get to see what it is doing outside and up on the mountains. Have you ever thought about a 2nd cam that is zoomed in on a snow stake? On my website I have both. For the snow stake I went to Home Depot and bought a white PVC pipe. I drove a green garden stake into the ground and put the PVC pipe over it. Used magic markers for snow depths. If you did this you could keep daily totals pretty easy. As you know it snows and then blows around. Don't know if you want to get that involved. What is the difference of a couple dozen inches a year when you get 150? Here is might site with one of my cams now zoomed in. https://www.bridgewaternhweather.com/

Woke up a few times last night and opened up the slider to look north. Cloudy every time.