bobbutts Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 I just hit 32 a moment ago for the first time today. Stone's throw from 93/89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbutts Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Friends just about to leave to Boston from Plymouth NH. How is 93 in general southbound?? My temp is bouncing 3-4F every few minutes Hate to ask you in this thread but can't find out and they will have a car full of friends It appeared to be moving better southbound than northbound at 93/89 intersection. TBH looks pretty bad still overall though, I have never seen traffic move so slowly on that stretch and I walk there when the weather is at it's worst, seems legit slippery. Maybe by the time they were to reach here it will be warmer and better treated.. Hard to predict. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvysnow79 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 It appeared to be moving better southbound than northbound at 93/89 intersection. TBH looks pretty bad still overall though, I have never seen traffic move so slowly on that stretch and I walk there when the weather is at it's worst, seems legit slippery. Maybe by the time they were to reach here it will be warmer and better treated.. Hard to predict.It's taken an hour to go from rest area to 89 northbound. South looks a little better but still stoop and go same stretch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monadnocks Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 It appeared to be moving better southbound than northbound at 93/89 intersection. TBH looks pretty bad still overall though, I have never seen traffic move so slowly on that stretch and I walk there when the weather is at it's worst, seems legit slippery. Maybe by the time they were to reach here it will be warmer and better treated.. Hard to predict. WMUR is updating details here: http://livewire.wmur.com/Event/Accidents_reported_across_NH_due_to_slippery_roads They said that traffic is now moving on the 89N ramp from 93N. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Worst I've ever seen midday in my drive to mht. Dunno what road crews can do, but didn't see many. Does pretreating work? A very very dangerous drive down 89 to 93. Dew points are still below zero in most places, and the road surface itself is likely still below freezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 This one may be slipping away here: I WILL NOTE THAT MOST RECENT TRENDSIN THE NEAR- TERM HRRR/RAP GUIDANCE SUGGEST PRIMARY PCPN SHIELD ISTENDING TO SHIFT A TAD FURTHER EAST THAN CURRENT FORECAST. IF THISPANS OUT...SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS WESTERN VT MAY BE A TAD LESSTHAN CURRENT FORECASTS. TIME WILL TELL HOWEVER...AND ALLADVISORIES AND WARNINGS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE WITH THIS PACKAGE.LOWS GENERALLY IN THE UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S BY MONDAY MORNING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Friends just about to leave to Boston from Plymouth NH. How is 93 in general southbound?? My temp is bouncing 3-4F every few minutes Hate to ask you in this thread but can't find out and they will have a car full of friends I would imagine it's pretty poor driving through most of NH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 29.3F light freezing rain. Thanks everyone for road conditions, family is staying put for now. A few musings... I need to get it through my head (after living up here for 10 years) that CAD almost every single time over performs in my area of the state. NWS failed some on this one. Yes, there was freezing rain advisory and even though its been raining for 6 hours we have not had that much qpf. So wires and trees although coated are doing okay. Howeve, traveling today has been a nightmare. Major impacts. 2 things happened. We are coming off a cold stretch so the ground is extremely cold. Second thing is this precip started right out as freezing rain with temps in the high teens. When you start as snow and go to freezing rain at least the roadway has something tires can dig into. This was/is just glaze ice, everywhere. The NWS should have seen this possibility and issued very strong language that roads could become impassible for several hours. (Still are in my area). Just my 2 cents.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 29.3F light freezing rain. Thanks everyone for road conditions, family is staying put for now. A few musings... I need to get it through my head (after living up here for 10 years) that CAD almost every single time over performs in my area of the state. NWS failed some on this one. Yes, there was freezing rain advisory and even though its been raining for 6 hours we have not had that much qpf. So wires and trees although coated are doing okay. Howeve, traveling today has been a nightmare. Major impacts. 2 things happened. We are coming off a cold stretch so the ground is extremely cold. Second thing is this precip started right out as freezing rain with temps in the high teens. When you start as snow and go to freezing rain at least the roadway has something tires can dig into. This was/is just glaze ice, everywhere. The NWS should have seen this possibility and issued very strong language that roads could become impassible for several hours. (Still are in my area). Just my 2 cents.... It's hard to get people to listen to "just an advisory." I've been updating the statement all day to say that travel will be extremely difficult, but it doesn't matter to people who want to get where they are going. I can't recommend that roads be closed, so I just have to get the forecast as close as possible and let those in charge decide. This is a good example of in situ CAD though. There was no high in place to anchor the cold in, instead it was a bitterly cold antecedent air mass. You precipitate into that air mass, wet bulb it to near saturation, and it gets nice and dense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Props to GYX. I thought they did well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Our accumulations have been cut down a bit again. This one may be a write off IMBY but we shall see. Hopefully I am wrong but it isn't looking great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 This may be a good system for the west slopes given the setup I think. Have fun PF and Jspin. Thanks Coastal; not sure exactly how things will go down here in the valley, but it should be fun to watch it progress at the various elevations around in this area. The wife and I just cleared the snow off the deck and reset the web cam snowboard, so people can use that to follow what's going on in this area with regard to the storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 There were no notable changes with regard to the BTV NWS advisories map here in Northern Vermont for the afternoon update, although there is that addition of that winter weather advisory down to the southwest. For the projected accumulations map, the larger accumulations now appear to be more focused along the higher elevations of the Green Mountain Spine with some decreases in the valleys in the North-Central part of the state: Our point forecast here along the spine in the Winooski Valley doesn’t seem to have changed much, with accumulations in the 3-6" range expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Rain started here around 4:00. Fingers crossed for a flip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Rose up to 34 before the precip got here, back down to 33 now. Didn't even try to snow...or any form of frozen for that matter. So far, it's been just a light but steady plain ol' rain. Whatever. There's a football game on soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Through today, we've had 32.3" snow compared to 35.5" last year. Jan last year yielded 8.25" compared to this year's jan total so far of 9.2". Overall, pretty close. We still managed 83" last year, so hopefully Feb/March is decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Starting off a little rocky to say the least. Went out at 6:10 it was 36f and rn. Returned at 6:50 to 32f and some mixing. It's early. Keep the faith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Starting off a little rocky to say the least. Went out at 6:10 it was 36f and rn. Returned at 6:50 to 32f and some mixing. It's early. Keep the faith. sounds good to me seems like you flip momentarily with radar lit up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 sounds good to me seems like you flip momentarily with radar lit up Oh we flipped. Just checked. Huge flakes everything's coated. Bring it on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 3"+ otg. Ripping. No wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sankaty Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 3"+ otg. Ripping. No wind. About what is your elevation? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 About what is your elevation? Thanks.He's up at SB. I think 1200'+ or -? Half an inch down here and snowing hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Changeover to snow has occurred here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 He's up at SB. I think 1200'+ or -? Half an inch down here and snowing hard. Yup. Still snowing moderately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I'm not exactly sure how things transpired here at the house over the past several hours because we headed out to Stowe around 5:00 P.M. and were there much of the evening. But, we were up at the mountain for part of the time so I can pass along some observations. When we left the house around 5:00 P.M. there wasn't much going on, but we got into some light rain during the trip northward. We had dinner with some friends at Bender's Burritos on the mountain road (elevation 750'), and when we left there around 6:30 P.M. the rain had picked up – it was actually freezing on some ground surfaces, but it was spotty so it must have only been those that were very cold. We headed up to the mountain to the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center to watch the latest Warren Miller movie, and snow mixed in at roughly 1,200' elevation. At the Spruce Peak Village (1,500') the precipitation was all snow and starting to come down at a healthy clip. At intermission we could really see that the snow was picking up (always fun to have it snowing while you're watching a ski movie) and when we were leaving around 9:00 P.M. it was really dumping; there was a good inch or so of dense snow already down. It was snow all the way back to the house at that point, and a very isothermal 33 F on the car thermometer the entire trip. Here in Waterbury at 500' I measured 1.2" of snow as of 11:00 P.M. and I'm planning to do a liquid analysis at midnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Closing in on 2". Another net gain so I have no complaints. We've had very few snow events tha haven't featured a little taint at some point. It feels like the coldest events we've had were the ones back in November, other than the windexy type things that have blown through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Killington was doing pretty well above 3000 feet when I was there this afternoon. It was mostly rain at the base but was mixing when I left a little after 3. It was a little mixed up though, snowing at some places at times with rain at elevations a bit higher. Snow level was definitely fluctuating. Looking good there now: http://www.killington.com/site/mountain/webcam/rams.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Event totals: 1.7” Snow/0.63" L.E. I pulled 0.44" of liquid out of the midnight snowboard core, but there was 0.63" in the rain gauge, so it looks like a couple of tenths of an inch of liquid went as rain before it changed over. I'd estimate the snowfall is currently in the 1-2"/hr range because as of 12:30 A.M. there's another 0.7" on the board. The intense snowfall is presumably in association with those 30 db echoes pushing into the Greens: Details from the 12:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 1.7 inches New Liquid: 0.44 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 3.9 Snow Density: 25.9% H2O Temperature: 33.1 F Sky: Snow (2-15 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 6.5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Hi of 45f overnight, now 36f and dropping. Davis says 0.15" rn but must have been frozen as im sure we got more than that. 30mph gust, which is low given the placement of the anemometer. No snow rest of week. Waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Busted here. Only about an inch or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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