Typhoon Tip Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 John, I know...that was my point....it pained my to JUST miss it. Nothing wrong with your post, bro. hey, just f with you man. actually this storm is a snow dud if you ask me... I barely tickled 4" before IP contamination started up at my place in Ayer, but my Met buddy who lives just up the way in FIT said they went back to parachutes when those 40dbzers ripped through, so I might have flipped back there. As for Westborough...looks like 3" feel before complete flip to IP and some small amount of ZR. Eitherway, where it stays snow it is not going to be anywhere close to the imaginary lover of the NAM clown products - at least I could be proven wrong, but we'll see. The whole shibang is done here in an hour west...maybe as long as 2 east, as it is moving along smartly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Wow, Boston in the mid-30's W. Ma. in the teens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 has there ever been a significant ice storm around here? I'm getting the picture it's very difficult to hold the surface below freezing even give a pretty strong high to the north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 This is feeling like a mini 12/23/97 right now up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold214 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 It's probably 1/8SM here right now. Vis is lower than my 1/12 deformation band. This is really intense. Looks like sleet getting near CON now. Its kinda like a fog right now as i am in the heart of the band. Pretty crazy. Band #2 perhaps an hour away looks pretty good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomNH Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 This is feeling like a mini 12/23/97 right now up here. 15 minutes of 1/8sm vis here...pretty incredible stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 wasnt a bust here at all part 1 gave us 10 and part 2 gave us 4.5 3.5 was snow 1 inch was sleet today! 14.5 total i have nother to complain about Well despite the fact that this storm is an accumulation bust, and despite the fact that ALB has been getting off easy on most of these events... The people in the immediate Albany CD area still think they are having a harsh winter because it has been so many years (2003-04) since the last normal or above winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma blizzard Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 has there ever been a significant ice storm around here? I'm getting the picture it's very difficult to hold the surface below freezing even give a pretty strong high to the north. nov 1921 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 In the end, as modeled, W. MA. did end up jackpot for the most part. Solid double digit totals from Springfield to the Vt border in the past 24 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 How are totals looking for N Mass, S VT/S NH? Underperformer? 5.5" new, now compacting w/ nearly all sleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 has there ever been a significant ice storm around here? I'm getting the picture it's very difficult to hold the surface below freezing even give a pretty strong high to the north. Yes, the Blackstone Valley has had a few relatively significant ice events in the past 20-30 years, probably moreso before that time. Generally the ice accretions drop off sigifnicantly from where you are through Wrentham and Franklin where you hit the true coastal plain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 has there ever been a significant ice storm around here? I'm getting the picture it's very difficult to hold the surface below freezing even give a pretty strong high to the north. I lucked out because I held low level cold immensely well and I usually don't......and I stayed sleet and avoided the frz rain. Bullet # 123 dodged this winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 talk about the weekend/early week threat here for a couple of minutes? there is an OBS thread too.... We should just probably start a new thread for that one and leave this thread for this storm. I know everyone has a superstition fetish with the thread starters but someone should just fire one up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEEPSTUFF Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 It's probably 1/8SM here right now. Vis is lower than my 1/12 deformation band. This is really intense. Looks like sleet getting near CON now. Whiteout here in Portsmouth Some ping mixed in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 We should just probably start a new thread for that one and leave this thread for this storm. I know everyone has a superstition fetish with the thread starters but someone should just fire one up. do it, see how you do hah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 This is feeling like a mini 12/23/97 right now up here. How much do you have.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabize Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 In from shoveling. Ridiculously heavy sleet (most i've been in since that V Day storm) with snow coming in and out, even some streaks of ZR on the cars. We're right inside the CF here (N. Sudbury, temp 18) according to the surface map. Sleet ACCUMULATES, just in case you didn't know, and feels like shoveling gold. At least it stays put.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Its kinda like a fog right now as i am in the heart of the band. Pretty crazy. Band #2 perhaps an hour away looks pretty good too. Just got done shoveling in that band. Good times. Snow was piling up quickly after the blade went through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 do it, see how you do hah I'd probably get yelled at for breaking some non-existent juju. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jconsor Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I think you're right. BTW, the coop site appears to be in Stafford Springs, not Staffordville. I was using the first site below to determine elevations for the various NWS coop sites, but it turns out a more official site disagrees and has it at 951 ft elevation. http://weather-wareh...CT_January.html http://mesowest.utah...te.cgi?state=CT Staffordville is that low in elevation huh..I thought they were higher..The higher elevations in Tolland Cty have more than that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 In from shoveling. Ridiculously heavy sleet (most i've been in since that V Day storm) with snow coming in and out, even some streaks of ZR on the cars. We're right inside the CF here (N. Sudbury, temp 18) according to the surface map. Sleet ACCUMULATES, just in case you didn't know, and feels like shoveling gold. At least it stays put.... This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 How much do you have.... Going out to measure now, but it's not the totals I'm talking about. It's the snow burst with higher reflectivities. There's some aggregates, but there aren't as many large ones as I'd expect with reflectivities this high. It's just a wall of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowwoman Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 We are still hoovering around 28/29 here and light misty drizzly frz rain. Trees look pretty, nothing drasticly sagging here. Still have light ice growth more so on trees, gutters etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROOSTA Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 It's crazy... Northwest arlington is 31 and heavy ZR, down closer to medford/somerville is 33 and rain, tight gradients in the boston suburbs. Nine times out of ten is most always the way. Springtime phenomena and very localized, bottom of street can have 2" up Mt High several more. Thankfully looks like backend is fast approaching and no flash freeze in sight. At least basement is insulated by 2 1/2-3' of igloo style glaciated snowpack. Looking like something out of Dr. Zhivago out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold214 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Just for the heck of it i took a half hour measurement to see the rates in this sucker. 1.2 in the last 30 min. Its ripping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpickett79 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 mix of FZR and heavy sleet here 25.5 F still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 talk about the weekend/early week threat here for a couple of minutes? there is an OBS thread too.... That could be a surprise primarily wet snow deal - kind of a 4-6" blue snow. The critical thickness in levels looks like one of those isothermal at freeing deals to me, not unlike that which takes place in March. 32F right up through 850mb, with a decent cold in the swow growth over top for when the omega max(es) come through. That is provide the guidance is correct in taking the low across CC Canalish The NAM is not likely to perform as well on that system. This weekend deal will benefit from the coarser runs that smooth out unnecessary attention to finite/discrete physical interactions of the different jet fields - sometimes the smaller grid of the NAM is too much of a good thing, because it sees more than it can really handle in terms of ironing out what are and are not important fractiles in the field. Lofty dialogue aside, the bevy of the guidance keep this thing weaker in cyclogenic scale, which is the best thing. If the WAA counterpart to that got any stronger there isn't a protective polar high this time. What there is though is residual cold in BL that will offer some viscosity and keep the development more on the coast or just off-shore, which would permote N drain in the interior from the upper MA to SNE. This combined with dynamics looks suprisingly wet snowy to me - though not alot. Probably I-95 rains eventually in that - but even there it is too nebulous to be certain for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 How are totals looking for N Mass, S VT/S NH? Underperformer? I'd put it as a low-end performer, Ryan. We ended up at about 14 (unless this mystery p-type changes back to something that accumulates). The rates earlier today though made the storm notable. 18.5/15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 How is the weather in Florence? It's been really dry. Been here 10 days and it's only rained twice for a time. Coldest day was this past Sunday (40F) and recently it has warmed up. Today's forecasted high was 48F, but I believe it busted too low. Last check was 54F. Next several days are sunny and 55-60F. Wouldn't mind the boring weather since this is a walking city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 +SN 1/4 sm right now, Snow 4.0",Looks good SW of here, 30-35 dbz bands coming up from the SW.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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