I can’t remember such a wide swath of 33-35° heavy snows in December where it just couldn’t accumulate. The ground is relatively warm, it was a torch the day before, we started as a decent amount of rain, and we just couldn’t bulb it down to 32° and stay there. So we rack up 1-3” of w.e. and only a few inches of snow.
Maybe I’m wrong...I hadn’t been paying close enough attention after my back issues...but I thought initially there was supposed to be snow showers Fri night into Sat morning in NNE with the northern stream and when I woke up yesterday and still saw rain in N VT and BML/HIE I knew there was no cold to advect in. So when those east tics started coming I had a bad feeling being on the wrong side of the QPF gradient and west of the banding. That’s when our downslope kicks in. I at least had 3”, but Eek had a trace off the lake and 1P1 and LEB were mostly rain. It felt more like a late April event than near the winter solstice.
But yeah...the clowns suck and we have fun with them, but I think most know you have to look deeper when giving a forecast. They’re a quick and easy way to see the QPF as snow when using the 10:1’s. They obviously just didn’t work too well yesterday with the crap airmass.