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Up to 6.8/-7 I've been out all day taking the day by the horns. Pulled the gym equipment out onto the ice laden driveway and did some benching and squats. Then I sparked up the fire pit and grilled some steaks and burgers on it paleolithic style. Then we played some ultimate frisbee in the 7" pack. It stings at first barefoot, but eventually you become numb to it. Great morning and I feel alive.

2.7°/-7°

It’s fricken cold. I want last weekend back. 6° and roaring.

Heavy, heavy fog. A little slick too after an overnight mix.

And the rocks were the solution at CON...not the problem. They originally had dark mulch down around the ASOS. The compromise was white rocks. They’re so worried about a couple tenths warming per decade, but no one wants to grow grass and maintain it at a proper height. lol

Yup slick out here with the snow and fzdz.

Won’t happen. They’ll be easily under 55° by midnight tomorrow.

Luckily for me it took 4 squalls to achieve that.

Fake effect. I will say though that the super large dendritic LES snows tend to have higher vis for the same rates. Of course it's huge amounts of 30:1 fake fluff. idk about 28" in 4hrs there. Where did he get the 28"? Did they measure before every time they snowblowed? In a 4hr sample like that you shouldn't be clearing at all. So I have my doubts. 4hrs of 0.25" liquid at 30:1 would give you 7.5"/hr and 30". But again, by hour 4 the weight of that is compacting the earlier snow below it.

Happy birthday man.

Let’s try this one more time.

I added my 6.9" to the cocorahs map. The map is a little weird as it should be rotated clockwise about 20-30 degrees. There had to have been a weenie sliver of 6-8" going back to those Windsor county VT obs. The 7.9" is Danbury. They had 7.9" with 0.35" liquid which was a similar ratio to my 6.9"/0.25". Pretty cool.

Danbury 7.9”. I feel better now. lol

I snowblowed 3-4” from the driveway twice. If it was fake it was a fake pain in the ass. lol

Mark, what did you end up with?

lol. I’m watching cocorahs obs come in on the east side of town of 2-3”. wtf. I’m in CON now and there’s almost nothing down here. It almost doesn’t seem believable, but I’m strict when it comes to measuring and I’ve been doing it 25 years. Maybe Lisa can get some daylight pics. I will say there didn’t seem to be as much out by Market Basket...maybe 3-4”? And when we left it wasn’t snowing there. As we headed west toward downtown Northfield it was a whiteout again. So there were a lot of mesoscale things going on. Pretty wild to get wide ranges over short distances in this area.

6.9"/0.25" here. Fun night.

We're pretty far from GYX so the beam overshoots us quite a bit in these lower level precip events. You get drift below the beam too...especially with snowfall.

That looks like the streamer that dropped south from here.

I had 4 different periods of snow. The first 2 were with the squall warning. I had the first 2" in about 30 mins while in the covered run with the chickens cleaning up their daily mess. Then the next one came in which is the vid I posted. That was about a half inch, but halfway through the winds picked up to probably 30-35mph (24mph on the sheltered Davis). Then I snowblowed the driveway to go to the store and then came in to shower. That's when that streamer came through. That was another 2.5" in probably 30-40 minutes. We were running out of time so I just put the truck in 4wd and we left for the store. There was snow covered roads from my house all of the way to Market Basket in Tilton. I can't recall ever driving like 3" on the strip in Tilton. Then we hit another squall on the way home that dropped the additional ~2" I presume. Crazy night. It felt like one of those deformation bands.

Yeah...it's going to be tough to melt it all now. If we got 12-18 hours of near 60F dews it'd probably be close, but it'll probably fail and end up low 40s. I only managed a few hours of sleep last night so I was hoping for an early one...instead I'll be snowblowing after this 10pm dinner.

This is the closest to LES or upslope I’ll ever get. Fun night. I almost hate to torch it all away now.

That’s 6.9” with 0.25” water equiv. jspin special. Half will sublimate or settle by morning. Pack varies from 14-15”.

Winding down now...almost 7”...6.9” to be exact.

It won’t stop....gah. What a bear of a drive to market basket. Bad accident in Tilton where 132 meets main st. I had to go home in a raging blizzard, up, my hill, and then down. White knuckle drive.