CapturedNature Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 After surveying around the yard in the normal spots...9.5" would have done this justice if I'd measured properly, but I had 8.5" when I cleared the board and got about 3/4" after that for a total of 9.2" and I'm sticking with that. Usually clearing the board would yield a higher total with today's conditions. Are you saying that when you measured around the yard there was 9.5" on average but in adding up your board measuements you had 9.2"? Seems odd.....personally I'd go with 9.5" since that's what fell but I know that clearing the board is an acceptable measurement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 Roads where horrible this afternoon. Had to learn the turn into spinning all over again. 4WD helped but there where some real nuts on Rt128, 93...crazy people. Ummm late start, hopefully late finish FTW! 2.5" First and final. Not bad Don. Roads were terrible down here. Ended up with 5" myself. I see it in the latest PNS. ...BRISTOL COUNTY... FAIRHAVEN 12.5 536 PM 1/21 HAM RADIO ACUSHNET 11.0 323 PM 1/21 HAM RADIO NEW BEDFORD 10.0 426 PM 1/21 HAM RADIO SOMERSET 8.0 410 PM 1/21 HAM RADIO SWANSEA 6.0 425 PM 1/21 NONE NORTH TAUNTON 5.0 438 PM 1/21 HAM RADIO EAST TAUNTON 5.0 430 PM 1/21 SPOTTER DIGHTON 4.8 430 PM 1/21 NWS EMPLOYEE TAUNTON 4.5 307 PM 1/21 HAM RADIO TAUNTON 2.6 NW 4.2 330 PM 1/21 NWS EMPLOYEE ATTLEBORO 4.0 320 PM 1/21 HAM RADIO MANSFIELD 3.4 542 PM 1/21 SPOTTER NORTH ATTLEBORO 1.5 1031 AM 1/21 HAM RADIO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Usually clearing the board would yield a higher total with today's conditions. Are you saying that when you measured around the yard there was 9.5" on average but in adding up your board measuements you had 9.2"? Seems odd.....personally I'd go with 9.5" since that's what fell but I know that clearing the board is an acceptable measurement. I'm saying at least in the back location which is where I conduct most of my measurements I measured 8.5 and .75....the rest of the yard...there are spots with over 10", the average is probably about 9.5" but because I did not clear the board for about 7 or so hours from beginning to end...I probably lost at least a half an inch. I'm generally going to be lighter. I just looked the PNS, they have 9.6 in sandwich and 9.8 in bourne....measured by NOAA employees (the bourne measurement is taken about 2 miles from me tops). I feel pretty good about the 9.2, the 9.5 would be solid as would the 9.7...but again the 9.2 was well measured, just didn't clear it as quickly as I should have. There's about 9" up to about exit 3 on Rte 3, drops off very sharply on the other side of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Bow Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Total snow imby today was 1.7 which, when added to the last two snow events brings me close to 8 inches during the last week. Most winters that wouldn't be too noteworthy but in this winter I consider that a FTW. Interesting temp drop here in the last 45 minutes. Went from 15.3 to 9.5 obviously coinciding with the sky going clear and winds going to calm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherbob Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Total 3" North Providence, RI. Bands never made it this far north Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROOSTA Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Not bad Don. Roads were terrible down here. Ended up with 5" myself. I see it in the latest PNS. As the storm unfolded (southern JP-er) it was 11th hour modeled quite well as Scott stated. Very narrow strip depicted well in the PNS returns. To have the children keeps one young at heart and act like a kid and get away with it! LOL Lucky man. A litle OT, My computer is still fried. I need someone with unix knowledge getting the bash.profile to update my $PATH to run GRADS and GEMPAK. I have 16GB of RAM and only getting 4GB in diagnostic. Motherboard is toast, I did have the software running. Ever since I changed out the power supply the computer seems to have taken on it's own personality. Driving me nuts, sure will be nice getting some home grown model outputs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastBayWx Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Final total in Warren, RI was 9.6". What a difference a few miles make with 3" in North Providence, which is only 20 miles to my NW. Light freezing drizzle now off and on. 12" on the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2Otown_WX Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Interesting how North Haven always has these huge over inflated totals. Like last year one of the storms, North Haven was reported at 30 inches, the next town in line in New Haven county had like 19 inches. 8.1 inches for me though, yippee. Yeah they need a new spotter because clearly the current one is a slant-sticker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Fun day out there with the kids and sledding--was damn cold though...a nice winter's day and on a Saturday to boot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm saying at least in the back location which is where I conduct most of my measurements I measured 8.5 and .75....the rest of the yard...there are spots with over 10", the average is probably about 9.5" but because I did not clear the board for about 7 or so hours from beginning to end...I probably lost at least a half an inch. I'm generally going to be lighter. I just looked the PNS, they have 9.6 in sandwich and 9.8 in bourne....measured by NOAA employees (the bourne measurement is taken about 2 miles from me tops). I feel pretty good about the 9.2, the 9.5 would be solid as would the 9.7...but again the 9.2 was well measured, just didn't clear it as quickly as I should have. There's about 9" up to about exit 3 on Rte 3, drops off very sharply on the other side of that. I hope you don't think that I was questioning your measurement. I've never understood that clearing the board method. It easily inflates totals when you have higher ratios but I know that it's a valid accepted measurement method. It's just hard to compare sites on storms like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Official airport totals: BOS: 2.9" ORH: 4.3" BDL: 2.8" PVD: 7.6" Impressive total out of PVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Official airport totals: BOS: 2.9" ORH: 4.3" BDL: 2.8" PVD: 7.6" Impressive total out of PVD. shocking IMO they usually have the opposite of BDL bias big gradient over providence area today. N prov. like 3 and change . Suprised BOS wasn't a bit higher. (ala mid 3's) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I hope you don't think that I was questioning your measurement. I've never understood that clearing the board method. It easily inflates totals when you have higher ratios but I know that it's a valid accepted measurement method. It's just hard to compare sites on storms like this. Nope I understood you were actually asking the other way around. Most of the time I try to go low. I'm very lucky I have two NWS employees very close to me which is helpful. The Bourne NWS employee came in at 10" in the final. I think Drag once told me as the crow flies that was about a mile from me, so it's a good gauge. I know people about 3-4 miles NNW that were closer to 8" in "south" plymouth...so there was a tight gradient of 10/11" at the Sagamore Bridge to 6-8" by Exit 3 on Rte 3. It's funny Steve/Ginx and I just had this discussion the other day and it came to pass today. Plymouth and Bourne are massive lengthwise. There are parts of Bourne that are 20 minutes away from here south, and parts of Plymouth that are 20-25 minutes away north. I do agree, I think the board clearing although the correct technical method of today makes it hard to compare storms from the 70s and 80s. We called in totals all the time that were used on air and I think by NOAA and we always measured storm total OTG. But...anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 sucked here, more or less a waste of time which I invested. Still cool to see that band rip apart S CT. About 4" snow depth right now lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowpoke Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 12in here in Fairhaven, Ma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Measured 3.0" to 3.5" Calling it 3.2" Brings me to 11.6" for the season. About 20 percent of an average season's total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Pretty interesting...was on Route 1 tonight (Wakefield, Peabody) and it looked like they got a bit more snow than here. Checked obs and yes. 4-5" there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 sucked here, more or less a waste of time which I invested. Still cool to see that band rip apart S CT. About 4" snow depth right now lol I view it as a learning experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I view it as a learning experience Well I mean most forecasts verified pretty well. We got 3.5 or so inches, I was thinking we'd get about 5 or 6 but a lot of people had 2-4 or 3-6 so it technically verified. You guys never looked like you were gonna get much thatfar up. I thought Pete would get more cause he always does somehow (slantstick). The biggest surprise was the weenie band. I thought the shore would get 7 or 8 (I think I called 7 for Ginxxx not sure what he got even though he's not on the shore) but I didn't think anyone would weenie out a foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarveyLeonardFan Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I guess I'm never satisfied but Newport's 8 inch total was kinda disappointing considering TF Green Airport in PVD measured essentially the same and double digit totals weren't that far off. Predictably there were pingers in Newport...Middletown, just above me had a solid 9 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarveyLeonardFan Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 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. I've been wondering where you've been the last couple years!!! I wasn't a very happy camper last year with Newport getting screwed in every big event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherMA Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Nice to have a 5" snowpack for now. A good part of it will be gone by Tuesday but hopefully we can replenish by Thu-Fri. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Logan undermeasuring again. I'm calling my total 3.9", but seemed like it could have been more than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nutmegfriar Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 7.5 here in Mount Old Lyme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S&P Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 measured 10-10.5 in various protected spots in my yard. I am very exposed to easterly winds here on the east side of aquidneck island so difficult to get accurate measurements. TJ Delsanto on channel 12 had a spotter report 9.2 from portsmouuth, so probably not that far off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S&P Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 shocking IMO they usually have the opposite of BDL bias big gradient over providence area today. N prov. like 3 and change . Suprised BOS wasn't a bit higher. (ala mid 3's) don't forget PVD is at the airport TF green in warwick RI about 5 miles south, in this set up that was about the northern edge of the band. so sounds about right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Warrior commander Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Final here was 4.2" from this event. My snowdepth is now at 5.5" Beautiful, sparkling and pristine. Felt and looked like Mid Jan out there at 4AM when I when for a walk. Very quiet, however, the slightest sound walking carried verry well in the 8 degree F ait TT. Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 6" otg and -4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 1.3" event total here. -9F this morning and 10" otg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 It does look nice with about 5.5" or so OTG. Actually looks like winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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