Ok, so just did some measurements. Everything was clean at 0800 this am. Wasn't much going on between 0800 and change to SN- shortly thereafter.
0.45" melted
5.0" snowfall.
Ratio: 11.1:1
Ratio Better than i thought. Just not getting the qpf, yet?
Intensity of rice snow should start tapering down here in the next hour or so looking at radar. Models showed a 6-8" minima just N of Syracuse and into SW Oswego cty and looks like its playing out. Areas south of the lake plain here look to be the jackpot.
Rice snow continues here. Seems to be our fate. Rate is moderate, so at least we'll add 6-7" of gruel to our 5-6" base that survived the mini torch. Should last us thru Feb given next 2 weeks look cold/dry-ish.
Edit: my theory is you need a bit elevation to get decent dendrite production here, or some kind of super Omega to counteract some slight downsloping effects we see often in synoptic storms.
Thanks. I have burned out looking at models, soundings, Kuchies, etc. I was a bit optimistic last night looking at some soundings...hopefully they end up right.
Just took a measurement. Caveat, not quite my official spot so it could be a touch low but not by a lot. Maybe have to breakout the slanted RGEM ruler b4 thIs is done.
I stay away from kuchera as it just sets you up for disappointment, usually. There are times though that it picks up on lower ratio situations. We saw that last winter with one storm I sort of recall.