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Son of Sandy Observations/ Nowcast Nov 6/7


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90 min delay. They were sledding when I left

Did you get a chance to build some epic snow walls on either side of your driveway? I shoveled the deck but blew off the driveway since its likely going to melt today, so wet. Throw up some pics of your sugar walls if you did, I loved those back in 10-11> and congrats.

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Did you have a pipe for the cirrus smoking party? LOL. I got dryslotted to death but I am not hanging myself. I thoroughly enjoyed this storm. High winds blinding periods of snow, huge waves, friends with jackpots and no shoveling.

Haha I'll get to repay it this winter...mountain is buried and white so it's all good.

I don't doubt variable snowfall...I mean up here you can have differences in feet within a town. And in synoptic rain events you can have one spotter come in with 1" QPF and another next door come in with a half inch. As we all know QPF isn't as evenly distributed as models would like us to believe. It's just we all over analyze snowfall...if it was a rain event and we had 0.6" scattered next to 0.9", no one would notice haha.

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Joe i did shovel and started the peaks but it was only half hearted. Knowing the torch is coming

Yeah, I hear ya...I am hoping the pile on the deck can make it until Sunday. Meltapalooza has begun as major chunks and sheets of snow are cascading down the sides of the house:(

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Really hard to measure for a storm like this, but with some melting and compaction, about 5 inches on the driveway, 7 inches on the lawn, and 9.5 inches on the deck. If using proper snowboard measuring techniques, guessing we broke 10". This probably produced slightly more than last October's storm, but far less damage because it was considerably colder, dryer snow, and more leaves are down.

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A grand total of 0.2" here from this. ;)

All I can keep saying is that the law of averages has to reward me soon....it just has to. Its just been screw-hole, after screw-hole, after screw-hole....I don't give a flying one how many scatter T plots Will can come up with to discredit my assertion.

Unreal.

I stopped paying attention at about 4pm because the writing was on the wall....as it was for the halloween event last year.

Of course, I was warned of the "backside deformation banding" that would traverse the rainbow and make it over to my side.. ..blah blah blah

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8.6" reported in Staffordville. 8" in Manchester. 9" in Tolland. Works for me.

lol...yeah it's too early in the season for this stuff... I really have no doubt in the differences...QPF is not always that smooth and differences in snowflake type varies from band to band.

You guys should all come try to live up here...the bickering would never end with slight changes in wind direction can result in nothing next to feet.

Banded storms will always have this issue. What's that storm 40/70 always references where he got a foot and a couple miles away had 3 feet?

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You getting any reports from the South Coast? Northeast winds should have been somewhat of a reprieve for most but still an impressive storm nonetheless. Sustained winds on the Cape are awesome.

Tremendous blow out tide in progress right now, impressive water height falls as soon as this got east of the south coast, almost like it got sucked out. I have not heard but saw pics of overwash flooding earlier today.
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It was regenerating quite a bit and the band near NYC got a boost from that dryslot destabilizing things I think. I noted some CSI in the bands to the east of the main band approaching Jersey shore in the morning. Look at the OKX sounding and that unstable layer at 00z.

Scoots... looking at the 00z OKX sounding you can see that pretty unstable layer just above 700mb at the bottom of the SGZ. With strong frotogenesis and an unstable layer above through the base of the SGZ you're ready to rock in some of those bands.

While I can't diagnose CSI without looking at a cross section over the area I'm willing to bet upright/convective instability was the main driver.

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