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Yeah so your clearing times really exacerbated the measuring differences. A quick 8” in 90 mins on a clear board won’t settle much. Throw that 8” on top of 20” of already existing fluff and it’s compaction city. You should document your measurements in a blog post if you haven’t already.

So the 5pm would’ve been right before the band came back through, correct?

Desperate Snow Observers of Eastern Mass.

I noticed Ray was in the low 20s yesterday evening before the band moved back through. Then he seemed to pick up a quick 6-8” in like 90 minutes with a 5”/hr in there. Most in NH were pulling 2-4”/hr in that band so my guess was that he had recently cleared before it came through so it had minimal ability to compact which gave him the quick jump to near 30”. When were your clearing times Ray?

Never trust a name with accuweather in it

3.20” from one core would be a real pita to melt down. Maybe the guy did multiple cores, but the measuring area kept filling back in. When he had 48”/3.20” he realizdd something was off, kept the w.e., and stuck the yardstick into the ground.

The ratios are one of the first things I look at on cocorahs. When I see a 7:1 when the location was rotting under a 3”/hr deformation band I don’t even try to figure it out. Tossed like a salad.

That guy probably measured in a nook outside of his house that had roof and tree blowoff.

Let’s just totally reinvent the wheel. Create an automated sensor that measures 0.0-1.0” of snow that clears the board automatically after every 1.0”...fluff or not. Throw one on the ASOS, Kevin’s Davis, and the Maple Hollow valley. Now everyone can stay warm inside and compare how many 1” increments they received.

Storm is over dude.

Mekster and I both got hammered with NoPoles in Canada so I think that’s how I got mine.

If you want to compare real impact...just measure the snow water equivalent and go with that. 10” of 8:1 has more impact than 15” of 30:1. That gets rid of most of the method issues.

At least you had a spotter report of 28.3” in Methuen which blends your total in more.

The old school weenies that like to measure at the end of the event can come in here and tell us those couple of inches overnight never happened.

The thing is you have weenies like us clearing huge amounts of fluff every 6hrs and then the general public sticking the yardstick into the driveway at random times. When the PNS is showing a handful of reports a bit over 20” for the high range in a populated county and then a report comes in of over 30” it definitely stands out. That Wilmington 22.5” cocorahs report is just as fishy with about 3.00” of liquid reported. They reported 21.4”/2.75” for 7a-7a....I don’t think so. The other Wilmington cocorahs only reported 17.8”/1.22” for 7a-7a so the obs are all over the place. But you’re going to have trouble with people actually believing it since even the highest cocorahs reports are 20-25”. It’s simply just differing methods and that’s the nature of the beast. You’ll just have to deal with the skepticism.

CON 17.1”

Another 1.1”/0.06” after 5z. 14.4”/1.14” 28° with some lingering-SN

1.9”/0.8” from the latest core. Daily total is 13.3”/1.08” Still some -SN that’s slowly accumulating. 28.6°

Up over 13”

Wow. We have a member from Delaware? I’ve driven through there multiple times and have yet to see a DE plate. I thought maybe it was an uninhabited territory.

You can do it put your weenie into it

Low-level almost under the beam snows out here now. The stuff accumulates decently despite 3/4SM vis.

I had about 25” in Auburn from that. I always thought the 40” was a bit high. I think Dover and Durham were around 35” IIRC from the PNS.

Man...some of you have gotten spoiled.