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January 21st Snowstorm Obs


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You wouldn't have cared about missing 2' of snow by 10 miles...you're a better man than I.

Nah, I just enjoy what I get. I'm not a chest thumper or crazy weenie.

Today was a great day. 1/2m vis for several hours with light winds made for a picturesque snowfall.

Looks like the last band is rotating through now.

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6.5" total here on the Westerly beaches. (Measured on an uncleared deck)

Last 1.5 hours of the storm was a mix of snow, graupel/sleet and freezing rain. Freezing drizzle during the last hour is changing to 'snizzle' now.

Highest temp and dewpoint of the day occuring right now - 25/21

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Now, how do you think I felt when I had 1' in Dec '03 and 10 miles to my ese had 3'...

You would love living up here during our meso-scale events where one side of a mountain can have 20" while a couple miles away on the other side gets 4". Wide variations with pretty much all storms due to topography and wind flow.

January 2010 comes to mind when BTV got 33" and then 10-15 miles east had 5-6". Or last year when West Bolton (the bordering town on the west side of the Spine/county line) had 38" and we got 14" on this side... literally like 7-8 miles as the crow flies.

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I saved a bunch of products for this guy. Some good signals of banding on the SREFs this morning down there. Actually, it was there yesterday too.

Yeah there were definitely signs for banding and a burst of frontogenesis. Tight thermal/thickness gradient helped frontogensis overperform.

Still the actual models were so stingy with UVM it was hard to get excited.

I'm still surprised to see as many 8"+ reports as there are.

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8.5 inches in Newport, but windblown so might be a little more. It started around 730AM and ended around 430PM with about a 4 hour period of moderate to heavy snow with low visibility.

Welcome to the board!

Would it be ok for you to put you location in your sig?

My mom is over in Jamestown and had over 6.5" early this afternoon

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16/11,cloudy, 2.75" new, just an awesome day of skiing and sledding. It's fun to be a kid. Congrats to the Southerners on the score! The 'torch' is looking lame and there are threats on the horizon. Slowly but surely things are coming around and this train is rolling. Look out, this thing is picking up speed!

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16/11,cloudy, 2.75" new, just an awesome day of skiing and sledding. It's fun to be a kid. Congrats to the Southerners on the score! The 'torch' is looking lame and there are threats on the horizon. Slowly but surely things are coming around and this train is rolling. Look out, this thing is picking up speed!

How was the B'East? I'll be heading there soon

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Yeah there were definitely signs for banding and a burst of frontogenesis. Tight thermal/thickness gradient helped frontogensis overperform.

Still the actual models were so stingy with UVM it was hard to get excited.

I'm still surprised to see as many 8"+ reports as there are.

There actually was good VVs yesterday when I looked along the south coast, but I think lift was actually just modest in this..it was just a great combo of getting it into the DGZ and it went perfect. I think on a mesoscale feature, the lift was probably strong. Dare I say...Feb 6 2003 like. Speed shear type frontogenesis and deformation.

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