This cold has already and will continue to set up some impressive river ice.
Maybe come March we can get some jamming and flooding on the Connecticut to rival 1936.
Not that I really want that. It’s just a fascinating phenomena. 1936 took out dozens of bridges and I believe it was worse flooding than the 1938 hurricane.
I just did the pot of boiling water into the air trick for my wife and teenager.
I could tell they were somewhat impressed, but also annoyed by my enthusiasm.
Something different from what the models are showing right now is going to happen for sure.
I’m not convinced it will be big for us, but they are definitely going to be some surprises over the next 48 hours.
The whole evolution is weird and we won't really have better sampling until at least tomorrow night. The GFS still has the energy diving down, trying to snort a line off a bar in Miami and then blow a low up off the Georgia coast.
Yes, I would take some refresher inches. Unless this can pull dramatically further NW as a dynamic system we might be better off with an occluded storm but an expanded precipitation field out this way. Get a 2"- 4" over 10 hours type deal.
Quite a cold snap. We won’t get as impressive pond ice with the amount of snow that’s insulating the top but still should be adding on another inch or two of ice over the next few weeks.