Ocean Effect Snow Showers for the Cape and Islands Jan 13-15th 2015

[CoastalWx]

yeah and also almost never going to have the unidirectional flow to 700 mb like they see out there...and the cold is almost always deeper out that way so the inversion heights are through the roof. 

 

they tend to do best when there's some sort of synoptic scale feature moving through to give that little extra kick. we got clocked with one when i was in high school - but i can't remember the date. 

 

That famous Feb 1993 inv trough? That was definitely ocean enhanced.

[Tropopause_Fold]

Phil how are you doing with the snowfall?  I got a dusting here.

not home right now.

 

but i'm driving around with a ruler and taking pictures at each exit for verification purposes. 

[CoastalWx]

not home right now.

 

but i'm driving around with a ruler and taking pictures at each exit for verification purposes. 

 

[ORH_wxman]

I remember a good one in either January or February of 1989...crap winter...but the Cape got a great OES event. I remember they were interviewing some residents on TV and it was like a good 6 inches.

[Tropopause_Fold]

That famous Feb 1993 inv trough? That was definitely ocean enhanced.

i'm not sure...i don't think it was that one...i actually remember that one a bit better. this one was more pure OES. 

[CoastalWx]

i'm not sure...i don't think it was that one...i actually remember that one a bit better. this one was more pure OES. 

 

I do remember a couple down that way, the one Will mentions and a couple of others in the early 90s. North wind specials.

[ORH_wxman]

i'm not sure...i don't think it was that one...i actually remember that one a bit better. this one was more pure OES. 

 

 

Yeah that is a hard one to forget on the Cape...CHH got 20 inches and most other areas got at least 12.

[CT Rain]

not home right now.

 

but i'm driving around with a ruler and taking pictures at each exit for verification purposes. 

 

lmao

[N. OF PIKE]

Yeah that is a hard one to forget on the Cape...CHH got 20 inches and most other areas got at least 12.

Was Just gonna mention that one, was all over the news 12-18 inches on cape

[N. OF PIKE]

James Just so you know phil is referring to another famous cape poster who was driving around taking measurements with a ruler (apparently) clinch leatherwood

[CoastalWx]

Chatham had 2'. 

[weathafella]

I remember the cape getting crushed on a system that missed us in Boston circa 1974 roughly. It was a Saturday night and my friend and I hop into my Plymouth Belvedere with 3 on the tree. He's got his head hanging out of the window reporting when the moon is no longer visible. That was a fun trip. Mid cape on east got 6-12.

[CoastalWx]

Nice little event there anyways. Someone will get a couple easily with some blowing and drifting. Looks like Messenger along the north side to Barnstable along 6A getting it nicely.

[CarverWX]

Light snow now! Large fluffy flakes

[TalcottWx]

Enjoy folks

[CoastalWx]

Sagamore beach getting nailed.

[Tropopause_Fold]

Sagamore beach getting nailed.

yeah that stuff means business. just drove through it. 

[CoastalWx]

yeah that stuff means business. just drove through it.

How much is there?

[jamesnichols89]

There is a dusting of snow here, but it stopped, this was definitely a mid Cape on west event.  We do better on NNW wind events.

[Clinch Leatherwood]

not home right now.

but i'm driving around with a ruler and taking pictures at each exit for verification purposes.

I will be awaiting the tweet, and then subsequent spillover here when people get all defensive over potential Twitter slights that weren't real slights only to hug it out after.

[Clinch Leatherwood]

Sun is out, big flakes falling but ftmp the intensity is way down from earlier. As NOAA accurately noted.

[Tropopause_Fold]

How much is there?

there wasn't all that much. was snowing awfully hard when i was there - probably was about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch at the time...so i'd assume someone probably has an inch or something? not sure 

 

it's the kind of deal where it pounds hard for a few minutes but the bands are not stationary so it has a tough time really doing a whole lot overall 

[Tropopause_Fold]

some of this stuff may end up backing "inland" overnight. 

[Tropopause_Fold]

I will be awaiting the tweet, and then subsequent spillover here when people get all defensive over potential Twitter slights that weren't real slights only to hug it out after.

i don't know what that means. 

 

anyhow...still some pretty decent bands on the western side of the Cape. some stuff starting to sneak a bit further west into Plymouth County now too.

[Ginx snewx]

Best Cape OES Pic evah

http://www.dapixara.com/News/the_official_dapixara_blog.html

[jamesnichols89]

That was a good picture Ginxy

[TalcottWx]

Some of the modeling seems bullish for tomorrow and thursday for eastern mass.

[amarshall]

Just epic sunset on the mean streets of duxbury. Only a camera phone so it didn't do it justice. Sun set below a snow shower.

[SouthCoastMA]

Light snow showers have made it to my area in Bristol County. Nice little surprise although it's far from accumulating.

[Clinch Leatherwood]

Poof goes the OES for now