After an hour or two of dim sun actually steady light snow for the past half hour.
It’s coming from the north though so not sure it’s association with our storm.
Just a heavy coating today though, which is what I expected.
Yeah, it’s still wall-to-wall snow pack here. I drove to Chelmsford yesterday and noticed a sharp cut off in snow past Fitchburg. Let me know next time you’re coming through so we can meet for a beer.
Your area was sort of the cutoff. West of the Quabbin is pretty much just a dusting. We had about 30 minutes of light snow in Greenfield earlier but nothing since. Congrats to southern and eastern peeps.
This is a nice synopsis of the 1998 ice event and the meteorology behind it.
https://www.weather.gov/btv/25th-Anniversary-of-the-Devastating-1998-Ice-Storm-in-the-Northeast
Major ice storm set ups are tenuous at best.
1998 had a low stalled out over the lakes and high pressure in just the right place in Quebec. That’s what allowed a good fetch of gulf moisture to ride into the Arctic air for days.,
Brisk night. 20F with a fresh breeze and some good gusts. I'll probably go test/measure the ice on a local lake on Sunday. Should be several inches of black ice by then.