NNE Winter 2013-14 Part I

[ctsnowstorm628]

DUMPING. 4" with 1.6" in the last hour. This band is nice. No shadowing either. 

 

It could stop right now and I'd be impressed just based on rates within the last hour. 

 

Should easily see my 6-9", probably 9-12".

 

Powderfreak will be happy when he wakes up.

[weatherMA]

5.2" was the total just after 2am. -SN right now but more heavy snow about to move through.

[eyewall]

4.5" as of 3:45am

[PyroCu]

Peak wind gust of 47 mph at Rutland, 315 am. Precipitation shadowing significant west of the Greens Mtns.  

[Hitman]

Dumping!

[eyewall]

BTV Is calling it a bit of a bust here: .

 

NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/...
AS OF 445 AM EST SUNDAY...WIDESPREAD SNOWFALL CONTINUES ACROSS THE
NORTH COUNTRY THIS MORNING AS LOW PRESSURE CURRENTLY SOUTH OF LONG
ISLAND SHIFTS NORTHEAST OVER CAPE COD MID-DAY AND INTO THE GULF OF
MAINE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS SYSTEM HAS TURNED OUT TO BE A BIT MORE
COMPLEX THAN WE THOUGH YESTERDAY AS THE SURFACE LOW TRACK HAS BEEN
A BIT CLOSER TO THE COAST AND MORE NORTHERLY THAN MODELS FORECAST
BEFORE THE LATEST 00Z SUITE. THE STRONG 925-850MB JET OF 40-60KTS
THAT WE EXPECTED TO BE ACROSS SOUTHERN VERMONT HAS SHIFTED FURTHER
NORTH WITH IMPRESSIVE GAP WINDS UP TO 60 KTS NOTED ALL NIGHT ON
THE KCXX 0.5/1.5 DEGREE RADAR SLICES FROM BOLTON TO HUNTINGTON TO
BREADLOAF. THIS HAS AIDED IN MUCH MORE SHADOWING IN THE CHAMPLAIN
VALLEY WITH ONLY A FEW INCHES OF SNOW REPORTED AT KBTV SO FAR. ON
THE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN SPINE...A FEW EARLY
PUBLIC REPORTS IDENTIFIED UP TO 10" HAD ALREADY FALLEN IN LUDLOW
VERMONT...AND 6" IN BARRE. ONLY A COUPLE OF REPORTS FROM NEW YORK
THUS FAR WITH 4-5" IN PARISHVILLE AND PLATTSBURGH. GIVEN THE
OVERNIGHT CONDITIONS...WE`LL LIKELY SEE A WIDE RANGE OF REPORTS
COME DAYBREAK WITH THE LEAST AMOUNTS IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY ON
THE VERMONT SIDE...AND ACROSS NORTHEAST VERMONT WHERE THE
SHADOWING WAS STRONGEST. IT`S NOT OVER YET THOUGH AS INDICATIONS
ARE THAT THE LOW LEVEL JET WILL SHUT OFF MID- MORNING AND WINDS
SHIFT TO THE NORTH WHICH WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR SNOW IN THE
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AND UPSLOPE REGIONS OF NORTHERN NEW YORK AND
VERMONT...BEFORE TAPERING OFF THIS AFTERNOON. THUS...WARNINGS
REMAIN IN PLACE BUT WE MAY STRUGGLE TO HIT CRITERIA IN SOME PLACES
WHEN IT`S ALL SAID AND DONE.

[eyewall]

4.9" in Winooski as of 5:50am. Somehow we need to squeak out 3 more inches to make the low end of the range. A bit of a bust, but still an ok snowfall.

[mahk_webstah]

Am getting what appears to be the last heavy band.  Pretty sure I am over 10 inches now, but will measure in a bit.  Don't know how the morning will evolve....it is supposed to be snowing all morning but looking at the radar, doesn't look like it.  Anyone know if there is an upper low to follow or something?  or are we mostly finished in s/cnh and sw me?

[powderfreak]

4.9" in Winooski as of 5:50am. Somehow we need to squeak out 3 more inches to make the low end of the range. A bit of a bust, but still an ok snowfall.

 

I had 4.9" in Stowe at 5:15am, and 5.7" at 1,500ft.

[dendrite]

Am getting what appears to be the last heavy band.  Pretty sure I am over 10 inches now, but will measure in a bit.  Don't know how the morning will evolve....it is supposed to be snowing all morning but looking at the radar, doesn't look like it.  Anyone know if there is an upper low to follow or something?  or are we mostly finished in s/cnh and sw me?

It's done. I said last night how the models had the dryslot coming through here around 12Z.

[mahk_webstah]

oh well...good first storm   were you awake for the grand finale?   heavy here but you got 35dbz i think, around 530 - 600...and i think optimistic gyx for the weekend, along with hpc....arctic front nearby and a bit south of us.

[eyewall]

I had 4.9" in Stowe at 5:15am, and 5.7" at 1,500ft.

Wow I figured you would have avoided the shadow

[J.Spin]

Event totals: 8.0” Snow/0.70” L.E.

 

There was a lot of discussion about the snow ratios with this storm, but thus far what has fallen here has been fairly synoptic-like in density – 8.9% H2O for the stack that fell overnight, very similar to the 8.5% found in the midnight analysis.  There’s been a nice shot of liquid so far, with 0.70” in the books and more snow falling.  Images of the overnight collection and the measurement blocks (getting somewhat buried now) on the J&E Productions Web Cam below:

 

 

 

Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations:

 

New Snow: 5.3 inches

New Liquid: 0.47 inches

Snow/Water Ratio: 11.3

Snow Density: 8.9% H2O

Temperature: 13.8 F

Sky: Snow (1-7 mm flakes)

Snow at the stake: 11.0 inches

[dendrite]

oh well...good first storm   were you awake for the grand finale?   heavy here but you got 35dbz i think, around 530 - 600...and i think optimistic gyx for the weekend, along with hpc....arctic front nearby and a bit south of us.

Yeah..was awake. Was nuts for about 20-30 minutes. There was some convective graupel mixed in too.

I'm worried about the weekend. ec ens are ugly. Hopefully we can pull something out of the hat for Tue.

[powderfreak]

Wow I figured you would have avoided the shadow

I think we got shadowed by the Worcester Range...that's another 3000-3600ft spine on the east side of town. But even at the base of Mansfield at 1500ft it's not overly impressive, maybe 6.5" now. Maybe the 3000ft board got lit up though.

[Hitman]

10" down here.

[eyewall]

I think we got shadowed by the Worcester Range...that's another 3000-3600ft spine on the east side of town. But even at the base of Mansfield at 1500ft it's not overly impressive, maybe 6.5" now. Maybe the 3000ft board got lit up though.

Understood. We'll the screw jet might be easing as we are getting a better snow rate now as opposed to pixie dust

[ApacheTrout]

8.5 inches, 0.79 melted in Orwell @ 7:00 am.

[dendrite]

Freak...what did the 4k BTV WRF give you for QPF?

[dendrite]

Some GYX CWA totals. I threw my total in there as well and took the updates from only last night out.

The following are unofficial observations taken during the past 12

hours for the storm that has been affecting our region. Appreciation

is extended to Highway departments... cooperative observers... Skywarn

spotters and media for these reports. This summary is also available

on our home Page at weather.Gov/gray

********************storm total snowfall********************

Location storm total time/date comments

snowfall of

/inches/ measurement

Maine

... Androscoggin County...

2 se Durham 10.3 636 am 12/15

1 NW Auburn 7.0 436 am 12/15

... Cumberland County...

3 E Standish 11.2 709 am 12/15

2 SSW Freeport 9.0 610 am 12/15

1 N Cumberland 8.0 603 am 12/15

Scarborough 7.0 439 am 12/15

gray NWS office 5.5 400 am 12/15

... Knox County...

hope 9.0 700 am 12/15 12 degrees

... Oxford County...

1 W Otisfield 10.0 703 am 12/15

Andover 7.5 700 am 12/15

Rumford 7.0 508 am 12/15

... Somerset County...

1 N Madison 10.0 400 am 12/15

5 ESE Norridgewock 5.0 517 am 12/15

... York County...

2 NE Kennebunk 13.3 646 am 12/15

2 ESE Vaughan Woods 9.8 611 am 12/15

Sanford 8.0 508 am 12/15

New Hampshire

... Belknap County...

Meredith 12.0 500 am 12/15

Laconia 10.0 450 am 12/15

Gilford 10.0 500 am 12/15

... Carroll County...

5 E Sandwich 13.3 700 am 12/15

Crawford Notch 7.0 500 am 12/15

... Coos County...

Berlin 8.0 612 am 12/15

Pinkham Notch 7.0 718 am 12/15

... Merrimack County...

3 E Northfield 12.5 600 am 12/15

Northfield dendrite 11.0 630am 12/15 0.87" w.e.

Concord ASOS 10.1 700 am 12/15 light snow

1 SSW Chichester 10.0 500 am 12/15

3 SSW Chichester 5.0 400 am 12/15

... Rockingham County...

2 ENE Stratham 11.0 640 am 12/15

2 ESE Stratham 10.6 645 am 12/15

3 WSW West Hampstead 10.0 504 am 12/15

Portsmouth Intl airp 9.0 700 am 12/15

1 WSW Hampton 8.0 550 am 12/15 32 degrees

Derry 7.0 300 am 12/15

... Strafford County...

Dover 9.0 500 am 12/15

Rochester 8.0 720 am 12/15

... Sullivan County...

Grantham 9.0 300 am 12/15

Sunapee 8.0 337 am 12/15

[Allenson]

10.0" on the nose here so far with 0.85" of water.

 

Woke up around 4am and flipped on the floods--was dumping then.  Back to bed for a few hours and up for good now.

 

Light snow still falling and after spending all of yesterday in the single digits, we're all the way up to a balmy 19F.

[mreaves]

10.0" on the nose here so far with 0.85" of water.

Woke up around 4am and flipped on the floods--was dumping then. Back to bed for a few hours and up for good now.

Light snow still falling and after spending all of yesterday in the single digits, we're all the way up to a balmy 19F.

Wow, still only 10F here about to go out and measure.

[dendrite]

FWIW...Tue morning has the potential to be extremely cold. EC ens 2m temps are -20s over NNE and -10s down to the NH/MA border. 6z MAV is spitting out -24F for BML and -10F for CON. Those numbers may even come down lower.

[Lava Rock]

7f. Eyeballing looks like 10". Will measure soon

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[mreaves]

10" and still lightly snowing.

[wxjim207]

9.5" of snow with light snow still falling here in Lyndonville Vermont at 752ft elevation! Its a great morning!

[klw]

Rough measurement of just shy of 10 inches here, snowing lightly.

[wxjim207]

11.8" of snow at my house in Brunswick Maine thanks to my family reporting in. 

[MainePhotog]

11.8" of snow at my house in Brunswick Maine thanks to my family reporting in.

Good morning Jim! Next door here in Bath, total snowfall at 8:00 am was 11.75".

8.1°F

[eyewall]

5.6" in Winooski with a couple of more bands left. We may make 6" but coming up a little short overall due to shadowing overnight. None the less a nice snowfall.