I’ll bite.
Jan 8-9 system retrogrades to our north and grinds away every threat after that. Just boring persistent cold.
But yeah, lots of potential in the pattern. Just gotta take these deterministic runs as entertainment.
Drizzle intensity is determined by visibility just like snow.
1/4sm or less is +DZ. DZ is >1/4sm and <=1/2sm. -DZ is >1/2sm.
But yeah you never really see it in obs except for some stray AWOS sites. Usually the vis reduction gets attributed to fog so in ASOS METARs you see -DZ FG.
I’ll assume the forecast algorithms just see the visibility forcecast with the drizzle forecast and if there’s 1/4sm in the grids “heavy drizzle” gets regurgitated in the wording.
Hard to ever top those handful of hours at BOS that evening. Then there was the severe weather coming out of the GOM with coastal flooding into FL. Record snows in the SE. The huge swath of 1-3ft. Mar 93 was like a global scale storm than synoptic. I’m sure 1899 was similar given the extent of the snow and cold obs.
You would also think BDL would be running colder departures from ORH and BOS after the past few days of radiating cold. So yeah, there may be a little sensor error baked in.
PV talk is coming regardless. Prepare yourself. The cold (to some extent) looks real. Maybe it won’t be -30C 850s into TN, but it will likely be cold enough to get the national hype train rolling.