dendrite

2011-12 was #1 here as of 10/31

I’ve been keeping an eye on your posts. You’ve had some pretty good rad nights up there too. IZG has been colder than HIE and BML on many mornings.

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Polluting the water?

A lot of ASOS sites are pits. But the SNE radiators have been a lot more anomalously cold versus NNE in recent weeks.

AEMATT will take pics for you

It doesn’t look like much but you can see a little drop in theta-e with height on some of the time-height plots.

Just make sure you make your measurements before the arctic front blows through.

Some of the models almost have a little meso high over PWM with enhanced low level convergence in that BOS-LWM-MHT zone with a more easterly component off the GOM.

It’s been quite a winter for the fakiators

Free reign to post about warmth when he leaves 2/13

Good winter for the radiators. Not that impressive min wise on the hills. If I finish with a min of -6 that will be one of the least extreme winter mins for me. Definitely a yore feel with the bottom falling out in the pits on a nightly basis though.

Min 8.9° Lots of wood stove smoke in the air

IIRC there were a few unbelievable OP runs showing a day or two supporting 70° and then the models obviously backed off from that. But then there was the windshield wiper effect where some didn’t think we were going above the 30s and it ended up being a week well into the 40s.

I remember reading about the Jan thaw getting muted too and it ended up +10 over a 10 day stretch. But sure, the cold has won out in the extended more often than not for the first 2/3 of winter. But I don’t think many have been predicting toucans and stunned iguanas. It’s more just a relaxation of the pattern with more snow/ptype threats and more fair weather days above freezing given the latitude gain of the temp gradient.

Very little wind up here. Glad we here.

Another pleasant sunny day. High 29°

Half of those are very Steiny here for a d15 QPF total

New episode this Sunday

Gold members?

Always? No. I try to, but sometimes I go 8 or 12. I will extend it sometimes so that I can clear at midnight to get a daily snow and liquid amount.

I did the math out for the sites already

Clearing every 6hrs is a nice interval so that places that get a lot of high ratio snow…like upslope areas and LES..don’t get penalized by compaction. Take BUF in late Dec 2001. 24th starting 6z depth 0” New snow 20.5” ending 5z depth 18” (+18”) 25th 5z depth 18” new snow 4.9” ending 0z depth 18” (0”) 26th 12z depth 18” new snow 8.0” 6z depth 25” (+7”) 27th 6z depth 25” new snow 21.9” 6z depth 33” (+8”) 28th 6z depth 33” new snow 26.2” 20z depth 44” (+11”) 0z depth 41” (or +8”) 12z depth 38” (or +5”) That’s 48.1” in the final 2 days with only 13” to 19” depth gain depending on when you caught the last depth measurement. Imagine it snowing hard enough to produce 26” new with 6 hourly clearings, but it only goes in the books as 5” the next morning because of compaction?