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Pretty amazing!

If it verifies, it would certainly open the door to northern stream energy digging further south than we've seen in quite a few years? Will see how the next several days trend.

About 1-inch hear...

Never take measurement comments seriously. I assume the vast majority of them are made good heartedly... As was mine. You did sit in one of the better thin bands as good lift crossed your area. My grandkids on the Cape are elated to see the current snow pounding down.

Lol... Just having a bit of holiday fun, Kev. I never doubted you... I know you take your snow seriously... And actually had others in that general area northeast into Stafford report the same amount. If I was really busting you I would have posted that you sawed the rule off at the 1" mark; lol. If we don't chat again soon, have a great holiday and get ready for a fun January...

Would love to see a verification photo?

I grew up in New Britain, CT (south-central Hartford County). Even that area did well during many of the 50's and 60's winters. Moved to Burlington in 1979. These days the 1,200' elevation certainly helps... While I was young, I remember the 1960-61 period well... Love the Lindsey Day storm of 1969... Hard to beat the 78 storm in my book; Organized a neighborhood supply hike to get baby food since we lived on street with lots of babies and couldn't travel by car. Several sleepless nights due to the drone of payloaders clearing streets... Great memories... Have a great holiday period.

Hey Jerry... Agree. You're also right about the age! One thing about our age bracket is that we have been able to experience the incredible seismic changes in the observational and forecasting sides of weather over the past 65 or so years. Also, we got to live, depending where you grew up, through some historic winters; temperature-wise even more so than storm-wise. Stay well...

I hear ya... When I was in high school I purchased a radio facsimile that I could receive the all the latest upper air plots and hourlies from ME to NC... I thought I was in heaven! I remember they started sending the LFM model (went out 48-hrs) maps just prior to the 1978 blizzard! Forecasting was never the same; lol

Ignorance was bliss back in the day! Depression and disappointment were what happened in the 24-hr run up to a storm event when you noted negative trends in the latest 500 mb analysis (often hand plotted), or during the onset period of the storm when obs from the Middle Atlantic indicated a snow to rain flip was likely, or the track might be trending too far east for big snows!!!!! While many on this board we're not around to "enjoy" the low information era, it had its pluses!

I think we can start getting excited for far southeastern Mass / Cape. Although the increasingly dynamic look to the short wave could open the door to a westward adjustment, which in turn could trend the Cape warmer? At least a trackable event for a portion of SNE...

Forget the fine details when using the NAM but don't dismiss it's large-scale feature trends. Still enough time for this trend to play out more favorable, and given its now just at the range of better sampling, keep an open mind on the NAM trends. Personally with 2 snow starved grandkids on the Cape I'd be perfectly ok with a southeast Mass special...

Rare now...the last couple of decades... The heydays of Miller A's were the 1960's and 70's and even a few years in the 90's... I keep wondering if the lack A's is tied to what Tip has harped about so many times; "the relatively recent trend of northern shift of the Hadley cell" leading to more northern latitude compressed flow / speed enhancement and thus more shearing out of northern stream short waves; thus less digging. If that is part of the issue, the Miller A's are going to be increasingly hard to come by.

The good old days when sharp digging northern stream short waves would dive deep into the southern states, phase some southern stream energy and the go boom on the NC coast before heading toward the benchmark! These days you have to flip through the Kocin books to get a sense of how nice they were!

Correction "almost always rushed"