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Blizzard Observation Thread Feb 8-9th 2013


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Wow, its amazing we didn't get more snow down here considering the storm went to our southeast by 100+ miles. Normally we would get it, but I bet the 700-850mb centers tracked pretty close to the South Coast of MA. One other note is that we were all snow yesterday despite easterly flow, but it never accumulated until later once the sun set.

Not really. You were progged to have BL issues and mixing down there. ENE winds don't do well for the cape lol

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27.1'' here as of 9 am this morning (average of 10 snow depth measurements in protected area. No drifts in these measurements) . Peak wind gust was 54 mph at 7:30 am. I was up all night and can confirmed full fledged blizzard from 12 am through 9 am. 4 - 6 foot drifts throughout the area. Currently, temp 10.9 F, winds N 27 gusting to 35 mph SN/BLSN

 

 

Sounds right John, I have added another 1.5" since my last report, Going to wait to see what this current band does

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Another band 25 dbzs

Down east getting smoked too. What a band.

Back end of it here. Heavy snow. Probably 12-14" but there's no way anyone can get an accurate measurement. We definitely had a period of freezing rain overnight. There's 4-6" and then a solid sheet of ice. Makes if hard to measure because the dry fluffy stuff won't bite to the sheet of ice.

Impressive back band and OES here. Shame it won't hang around much longer but can see winds backing more and more.

How much up there? Someone in Maine going to break 30?

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Compaction as well, The winds did not have much effect on snow growth here, We had lagre dendrites thru out
It's not so much the snow growth it affects, but the wind causes major blowing and drifting which breaks the crystals down. I had great snow growth for awhile too, but my cores have been under 10:1.
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Storm total: Not sure?

 

The winds were crazy for a time last night, measured another 5" on the snowboard for 13" total but that's not even close to correct, measuring in the driveway puts up numbers in the 12-14" range, and it was plowed with 6" on it before, so that would be 18-20" final. Not going to report a total to NWS because I can't be confident in it's accuracy, but if I had to would go with 19" as a total. Congrats to all with the 30" plus totals, truly an epic storm. I'll enjoy my 19", but can't help but be a bit jealous :)

 

-skisheep

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The truth is that good snow growth will compensate for the wind when it's really ripping. Even if it's just pouring fine flakes, it piles up. What was amazing last night is we still had perfect dendrites despite gusts to 50 mph.

right but it has to be ripping, before the snow really ramped up what looked like half mile vis shouldve been 1 inch hr rates was accumulating at about half the rate bc of the wind

 

once we started to get into the darker greens on the edge of that band it piled right up despite the wind.

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All-timer for PWM ... awesome. I knew they had a shot given the CF snows yesterday morning.

 

Morning, Eric!  Wow!  I dunno, though...  There's a part of me that feels like we're sort of "cheating" by including the CF 10-11" in our total at Portland, you know?  If that localized event hadn't happened yesterday AM and afternoon, we'd really only be at about 20" from the main event.  What do you think?  Is it right to count it all as "one" snowstorm for recordkeeping purposes?

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Down east getting smoked too. What a band.

Back end of it here. Heavy snow. Probably 12-14" but there's no way anyone can get an accurate measurement. We definitely had a period of freezing rain overnight. There's 4-6" and then a solid sheet of ice. Makes if hard to measure because the dry fluffy stuff won't bite to the sheet of ice.

Impressive back band and OES here. Shame it won't hang around much longer but can see winds backing more and more.

How much up there? Someone in Maine going to break 30?

 

 

I think Portland already did, And there will be a few others, I am up to 25" here and counting

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It seems Coventry,Ellington, Tolland area all got 33-37 inches.

 

Still haven't tackled my driveway.

 

 

Most of my neighbors started and then stopped and gave up after about 1 hour or so due to  the heavy snow and high winds. My community is banding together and getting our driveways plowed. My driveway is close to 200' long and I don't have a snowthrower.

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It seems Coventry,Ellington, Tolland area all got 33-37 inches.

 

Still haven't tackled my driveway.

...TOLLAND COUNTY...

COVENTRY 30.5 851 AM 2/09 TRAINED SPOTTER

TOLLAND 30.5 914 AM 2/09 GENERAL PUBLIC

STAFFORDVILLE 27.2 829 AM 2/09 CO-OP OBSERVER

SOMERS 25.5 646 AM 2/09 TRAINED SPOTTER

STAFFORD SPRINGS 24.5 808 AM 2/09 NONE

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GFS thinks we do this again in 5 days on a smaller scale. Look at 12z lol.

This is OT but yeah, it's been pretty damn consistent with that idk if people have been paying attention. Euro has the flow being very flat and takes it OTS so you would have to side with it I think, especially given what just happened..:lol:

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