Disco/Nowcast/Observations for SWFE on Monday/Tuesday Snow to ice

[weatherMA]

weatherMA I talked to a friend up in PSU and he said you have around 1.5"? You could be in the 3-4" category.

Yeah about 1.5-2. It's impossible to get a good meaurement because either there was snowpack previously or people were walking where it snowed or something. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

For Scoots

 

 

[powderfreak]

About 2.5" now.  Half inch in the past hour.

 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

.25" las half hour maybe we pull off two... maybe.

 

 

lol well that didn't work out.  Shut off pretty quickly.  1.25 - 1.5"  total snow and sleet.

[It's Always Sunny]

Yeah about 1.5-2. It's impossible to get a good meaurement because either there was snowpack previously or people were walking where it snowed or something. 

Or the BBQ sauce smelling **** they spead all over campus is melting whatever falls lol.

 

I'm gonna call you by your first name here on out, I feel bad calling you by your tag name. I'm George btw. 2011 PSU grad. UML 2013.

[ctsnowstorm628]

1.5" new.

[Clinch Leatherwood]

Side roads are awful so be careful.

 

For all the joking about sun angles, road temps plummeted as soon as it got dark.  Now they're covered in this snot that's falling (here)

[Sugarloaf1989]

28F here with drizzle/sleet.

[ORH_wxman]

Snowing pretty hard here in downtown Boston. About to leave for the train back west. Flakes look like they are starting to aggregate now. You can tell where all the salt was....the side road is mostly wet with accumulation in spots and the sidewalk area at downtown crossing where they don't allow the cars on Summer St/Washington St is totally covered.

[weatherMA]

Or the BBQ sauce smelling **** they spead all over campus is melting whatever falls lol.

 

I'm gonna call you by your first name here on out, I feel bad calling you by your tag name. I'm George btw. 2011 PSU grad. UML 2013.

LOL. Sounds good to me. I'm Ryan.

[CoastalWx]

For Scoots

Nice, come ESE please.

I don't understand why Logan snowfall seems so low. Granted they were 1.5" lower than me on that December storm but still. I gotta look back at my numbers.

[HoarfrostHubb]

Or the BBQ sauce smelling **** they spead all over campus is melting whatever falls lol.

 

I'm gonna call you by your first name here on out, I feel bad calling you by your tag name. I'm George btw. 2011 PSU grad. UML 2013.

Dr Eby FTW (UML - 1994 - ES)   Def tapering off

[HoarfrostHubb]

For all the joking about sun angles, road temps plummeted as soon as it got dark.  Now they're covered in this snot that's falling (here)

What is the infrared thing you mentioned?

But yeah, roads really respond to solar well.  

[joey2002]

For all the joking about sun angles, road temps plummeted as soon as it got dark.  Now they're covered in this snot that's falling (here)

 

I drove home from UConn at 3:30 and there was a car ahead of me which slid off the road and into a ditch.

 

Unless the roads are heavily traveled, they're like banana peels. 

[ORH_wxman]

 

What is the infrared thing you mentioned?

But yeah, roads really respond to solar well.  

 

They also have a lot of salt on them right now from the weenie events (esp the more traveled roads). We haven't had a good chance to rinse it off, though Wednesday night should give the roads a good washing.

[HoarfrostHubb]

Another Wachusett pic

 

 

[HoarfrostHubb]

  

They also have a lot of salt on them right now from the weenie events (esp the more traveled roads). We haven't had a good chance to rinse it off, though Wednesday night should give the roads a good washing.

The salt clouds thrown up yesterday and this morning were some of the worst I can recall. We could use a bath. My dark gray car is almost white. Blizz would not be pleased

[radarman]

Back to moderate snow.  Some decent echoes NW of here.

We had another burst of moderate snow with good growth, but seemed to be aggregates, whereas earlier under the band I thought were dendrites.  I'm not very good at examining them however, maybe a met knows this.  

 

When you plot the doppler spectrum of a vertically pointing with a radar you can see a widened or even a bimodal signature with aggegates and mixed precip.  Dendrites have a very narrow spectral width.  Unfortunately the UMass radar was not on earlier.

[ORH_wxman]

Dual pol shows sleet near the pike SW of ORH right now...though the steadier echoes are coming to end anyway soon. So it won't really matter much.

[Damage In Tolland]

Dual pol shows sleet near the pike SW of ORH right now...though the steadier echoes are coming to end anyway soon. So it won't really matter much.

Pack wipeout?

[Clinch Leatherwood]

What is the infrared thing you mentioned?

But yeah, roads really respond to solar well.  

 

I'd never checked before today.  I have one from Craftsmen that's also an ohmmeter, but you can buy them separately.

 

 

http://www.ohiopowertool.com/P-3154-ridgid-ir-100-infrared-laser-thermometer-36153.aspx

[CoastalWx]

Wow snowing dam good here. Not far from an inch.

[It's Always Sunny]

Dr Eby FTW (UML - 1994 - ES)   Def tapering off

Lol, you know the deal. Stopped snowing here in Lowell, prob just under an 1" eyeballing it.

[HoarfrostHubb]

I'd never checked before today.  I have one from Craftsmen that's also an ohmmeter, but you can buy them separately.

 

 

http://www.ohiopowertool.com/P-3154-ridgid-ir-100-infrared-laser-thermometer-36153.aspx

Cool. What do you use that for?  Besides checking road temps.

[powderfreak]

Good burst of moderate to heavy snow (Saranac Lake showing +SN 1/4sm) moving into central VT... tracking towards central/southern NH (New Hampshire, not HVN).  This could be a nice 1/2-1" burst for Dendrite's area and you NH posters.

 

[Typhoon Tip]

it is absolutely winter bliss out there in Ayer.  We had 1/4 vis burst the left 1.25" on top of the 1 inch, so nearing 2.5" and it's snowing with tiny plates.  Bluish tint to the air as the sky gradually takes on the butterscotch tone of a winter storm at night.  

 

It sucks beyond the dreams of black holes that it will all be blown away in 2 days, but it is sure something for the duration at hand.   Just beautiful.   

[HoarfrostHubb]

Wow snowing dam good here. Not far from an inch.

Stay safe.

Could not believe how my school cancelled all after school activities. My daughter's play rehearsal here in town was also called off. We are soft weenies.

[CoastalWx]

Stay safe.

Could not believe how my school cancelled all after school activities. My daughter's play rehearsal here in town was also called off. We are soft weenies.

Yeah and unfortunately lawsuit happy too.

[CoastalWx]

Man even the gfs is a soaker. PF gonna be waterskiing.

[OceanStWx]

Good burst of moderate to heavy snow (Saranac Lake showing +SN 1/4sm) moving into central VT... tracking towards central/southern NH (New Hampshire, not HVN).  This could be a nice 1/2-1" burst for Dendrite's area and you NH posters.

 

Keep inching them towards those advisory levels.

 

Pouring flakes out there right now in Portland. Eyeballing the tire tracks and footprints outside I would say we're nearing an inch. Roads don't look great judging by the traffic lined up down Commercial St.