codfishsnowman

Oh my God!!

Just a couple flakes.....I thought we were going to get an inch or two Bummer

So a net increase of 11 inches from a snowfall of how much?

Ok well that's big if the metars had over 30 the next day of the new snow. My former supervisor and a coworker (Green Hill and Coventry RI respectively) each sent me a few pictures and it looked like at least thirty inches of snow at both places. Unless he didn't drive all over the place but said he did?? I don't know and its giving me a headache lol. I guess I just wish he had gotten buried.

So the areas he measured away from his neighborhood did have more snow. Seems they were generally 16-18 new snow otg and a decent amount of old snow which he clearly finds with the yard stick. So I can see the new snow compacting a few inches from the depth when the last flakes fell which pushes the total to say a roughly 20 inches when the snow stopped . I understand by measuring every six hours with those crazy rates , snow settling under its own weight , winds pulverizing the flakes, temps 29-33 causing a wetter snow etc one is certainly going to get bigger numbers for snowfall. But is the difference really ten to fifteen inches making storm total snowfall 30-35 inches? It just seems like a 30-35 inch snowfall would leave a depth of 24 to 30 inches on top of the old snowfall and then overnight and next morning til he got there to measure would find depths around 21 to 27 inches. I have never had a situation like this to deal with so I don't really know. Just seems like reporting 36 inches of snowfall and then not even twenty four hours later a settled depth of 18-19 inches is suspicious. I know the difference between snowfall and snow depth. Listen he is a lot but I think his researching the issue was more than reasonable and doesn't make him more crazy.

1.4 today.....46.1 season to date Call it seasonal average reached....the winter already has an A in the bag with the extended cold , frequency of snow events, lack of cutters and days over 50F, one big event and snow otg much of the winter with deep snow otg for over a month! The only thing that would bring this to an A+ would be one more big storm 15 plus or another 25 inches of accumulating snow.

1.4

Especially with the timing...at least for most of CT. Was there even a special weather statement?

Wow...even Worcester varied a lot.

BDL used to be terrible back in the 90s and early 2000s. Those PNS statements are pretty wild too, especially Upton's. Sometimes the same towns with similar time stamps are 15-20 plus inches different lol Agree it was ordinary made much more dramatic by all the wind. At least we will make our 50 inch "average" this year.

I'm only 3 miles from the CT border and I only got 6 inches.

1.5 that day last week before changeover to brief icy mix(fell in about 40 minutes) 6 from the storm that clobbered RI and SE Mass Season total so far 44.7

I'm going to record six inches. Anything more than that I think is suspicious.

In good conscience I can only record 6 inches where I am. It was very disappointing but watching the system bury the bottom half of RI was pretty cool. Tracking the system for a few days was cool too. It seemed from just north of Providence the amounts for awhile went down pretty quick...that is one of the biggest variances in snow amounts over a short distance I have ever heard of , Inverted troughs aside.

I did watch Corys video a few times and there's no doubt his area got boned for whatever reason. He had to be in a narrow subby zone between the Goliath Central and southern RI band and the one just to his NE. That is just horrible luck. I totally believe it and kinda feel bad for him but that said his area should be well cleaned up and he should go out and look to see in different directions how long it takes to run into massive amounts. An inch or so of snow in nine hours is horrible in his area but sub zones can do that. If he had say peak depths of new snow in the teens then it tappered off for the next 8-9 hours hen that wind is going to do some serious compaction. I would buy him getting 14-18 inches allowing for settling and compaction etc.

That looks very legit to me. I think anything from 35 to 45 is acceptable there down through southern and central RI. That looks like a bit more than some of those Cape pictures from 2005 in areas where 30-38 inches fell.

And I will gladly take those too even if its a three to six inch thump before mixed precip and a little rain or frz rain. These things just have to check so many boxes to lay it down here...I knew better but I still was too sucked in Somewhere between six and eight today and its already compacted some with the strong winds

Yup that was the nail in the coffin and the GFS reminding us that it still is a little to Indiana Jones one to two days out....just gets carried away

Earlier it looked like the cape and islands were getting boned

Is it possible he is in some kind of local mini screw zone? I know he's a lot but he does seem really passionate about it. Too bad there wasn't someone down the street who could weigh in.

Agree

That sounds more realistic

Wilbraham might have gotten in on some banding. I'm only thinking 7-8 here in Springfield very close to both Longmeadows

The strong winds and drifting will save the lower numbers for media damage control

Well one of the good things more often than not when coastal areas get buried is their often isn't much if any old snow cover. I feel as though inland especially when there's like three to five old otg and then they get a biggie folks often just stick the yardstick to the bottom and report that and figure no one will notice.