dendrite

lol...a big fat 1027mb high centered right over where the op has the low.

Looks like something out of Midlo's backyard.

Should be a pretty good stretch coming up for steady, slow snow melt.

Nape city this upcoming Fri-Sun.

Compaction is part of snowfall. There needs to be some kind of standard to put everyone on the same playing field playing by the same rules. If some guy in Montague, NY clears every 3 hours he may end up with 80" while the guy going every 24hrs is 36". And you can't expect a COOP observer to measure and clear every 3hrs during a storm. Many fall in love with the big snow totals, but sometimes the relatively lower amounts with high density have more impact than the 25:1 fluff. SWE is probably a better indicator of impact. I remember the Montague debacle years ago... https://www.syracuse.com/news/2014/11/buffalo_snow_record_lake_effect_storm_tug_hill.html

6z MAV had 51F for CON today. lol #drunk

Aren’t sun angle, compaction, and relatively warm temps all factors in what affects the amount of new snow? You’re measuring every 3-4 hours there which should nullify your total from being official. I mean if snow melts on contact with a warm or wet ground then it is what it is. You don’t put a refrigerated 25°F table out there so the flakes can accumulate without melting.

It'd probably make for a cool little case study digging deeper into it. 8" is a pretty good event.

idk...I lean more synoptic than orographic. There was just too much lift and drift below the beam required to get it to Tolland for it to be mostly orographic. If the NE CT hills had the power to create that much lift in the H6-H7 layer Kevin would be pulling upslope frequently. But the bit of upslope certainly helps in many ways...cooler temps, higher RH, a little extra lift, etc. Whatever it was...cool little event down there. I'm enjoying not having to shovel anything this morning.

Yeah I think there were a few things going on there and they just so happened to overlap over Tolland county for an extended period.

D+ isn't a ratter?

41.4" of my 63.8" in 11-12 came in Oct-Nov-Mar.

idk...that lift was higher up like H6-H7.

14.7" in Littleton. Not bad for that hell hole. Randolph 15.6"

Meanwhile nada here. This storm was a net loss. lol

I mean we could estimate. I’m not sure what the fall velocity would be for your snow. Maybe about 1 m/s for good sized dendrites? HFD is about 2700m below the beam. Factor in the avg wind from H6-H9 and we could see if the horizontal distance traveled matches your distance from HFD.

I do think there was a lot of drift from that band. HFD is about 9kft below the lowest beam from BOX. There was big lift with this in the DGZ around H6. So with decent W flow there was plenty of time to drift it toward Kevin. Reminds me of all of those deform bands I had and where it wouldn’t start pounding until the band passed me to my north due to N flow and my distance from the GYX beam.

lol

3k NAM has 0.01" the rest of the way for here. Only 0.28" of rain so far. Pretty epic fail job here.

Mixing back in with snow. 35.7F

Have been getting some thin spots in the OVC. Up to 39F with -SHRA.

I'm not sure. I know he had a major stroke and left the forums after that.

That’s Will in Fort Kent. Tralce is his son. Real name Dan.