January 26-28 Blizzard Observations/Nowcast

[Clinch Leatherwood]

Lots of lightning showing up east of ACK in the warm conveyor.

 

Yeah...do you see any signs of sleet approaching the upper cape?  That looks like just epic snows.  I can't see any hints around the Vineyard of that being anything but blinding snow?

 

Meanwhile power was just out again and I just heard a massive boom from some large tree biting the dust.   Also appears part of my house just pulled a wizard of oz.

 

This may be approaching the worst.

[centralmass]

5.5" in the last 2 hours here in the 495 band

[TheSnowman]

Looking at the last hour, looks like the band has Finally Officially set up shop from New London to Worcester to extreme SE New Hampshire. PVD to BOS in the hole, SE of that is the other juice. PVD to Me to BOS 25 miles in the wrong direction on either side. Off to bed.

[powderfreak]

Any reports west of that band and where BOX still has 18-24" forecast? That seems excessive.

Feel bad for the River-west crowd.

[OceanStWx]

Yeah...do you see any signs of sleet approaching the upper cape?  That looks like just epic snows.  I can't see any hints around the Vineyard of that being anything but blinding snow?

 

Meanwhile power was just out again and I just heard a massive boom from some large tree biting the dust.   Also appears part of my house just pulled a wizard of oz.

 

This may be approaching the worst.

 

Warm air aloft is approaching ACK now, but there are pockets of reduced CC crossing the Cape that indicate some sleet/graupel may be mixing in at times.

[TheSnowman]

Looking at the last hour, looks like the band has Finally Officially set up shop from New London to Worcester to extreme SE New Hampshire. PVD to BOS in the hole, SE of that is the other juice. PVD to Me to BOS 25 miles in the wrong direction on either side. Off to bed.

As if I need proof of my post. RI Snow hole again. AGAIN -

[40/70 Benchmark]

Up to 16.2" now. 4.2" in the last hour.

nice, dude

[N. OF PIKE]

Band really intensifying over Framingham, MA right now

[Clinch Leatherwood]

Warm air aloft is approaching ACK now, but there are pockets of reduced CC crossing the Cape that indicate some sleet/graupel may be mixing in at times.

 

Thanks.  I suspect to the south that is also some type of contamination - it isn't making steady progress.  It's almost spiraling kind of in place.

[40/70 Benchmark]

I've gotta be dropping another 3"/hr spot here..off the hook.

[40/70 Benchmark]

Heaviest yet

[Bostonseminole]

14.2F 8.5"

[N. OF PIKE]

"expert" on TWC said the NE CT to 495 band was from the CF .......

[SR Airglow]

Even though we're supposedly in the "screwzone" it's still pretty epic outside. Visibility one tenth of a mile or so with SN+ and blizzard conditions. No way to even estimate a total there's 5' drifts and bare spots next to each other. 

 

I'd guess it's a 12-15" average at this point? Who the heck knows, but what I do know is that it's an awesome storm.

[Clinch Leatherwood]

"expert" on TWC said the NE CT to 495 band was from the CF .......

 

See that slipstream graphic?  That was pretty cool.  Need that little bugger to the NE of the main low to die to make tomorrow more fun.

 

Why is the TWC still trying to sell heavy snow in NYC?

[dan11295]

Don't usually have the band set up over me, almost always further W. My location isn't generally favored for maxes due to being too far away for ocean enhancement and no terrain enhancement.

[andyhb]

"expert" on TWC said the NE CT to 495 band was from the CF .......

 

Yeah I saw that.

[wxsniss]

Even though we're supposedly in the "screwzone" it's still pretty epic outside. Visibility one tenth of a mile or so with SN+ and blizzard conditions. No way to even estimate a total there's 5' drifts and bare spots next to each other. 

 

I'd guess it's a 12-15" average at this point? Who the heck knows, but what I do know is that it's an awesome storm.

 

Where are you located in Boston?

 

I'm just a few miles west of downtown

 

RGEM nailed these 2 intense bands over Lowell down to central CT and second over southeast MA with relative minimum over Boston metro... visibilities have been lighter for past few hours

[mostman]

5.5" in the last 2 hours here in the 495 band

Nearly the same here - 5" in the last two hours. As I mentioned before - I'm right on 495 - half mile from my house.

Edit - Typo - Tired

[TalcottWx]

Where are you located in Boston?

 

I'm just a few miles west of downtown

 

RGEM nailed these 2 intense bands over Lowell down to central CT and second over southeast MA with relative minimum over Boston metro... visibilities have been lighter for past few hours

Visibility is still obscenely low here near logan. SN+. Weird.

[CT Valley Snowman]

Kevin is even too far west but close enough to stay moderate.  CT Shore Near Old Lyme,  I-395 corridor just east of IJD looks great up to ORH East. and 495. You can see how the inflow is preventing the band from collapsing while the subsidence on the back side is trying to collapse it southeast.  

[dan11295]

RGEM shuts off precip fairly early though right?

[N. OF PIKE]

See that slipstream graphic?  That was pretty cool.  Need that little bugger to the NE of the main low to die to make tomorrow more fun.

 

Why is the TWC still trying to sell heavy snow in NYC?

who knows, maybe bc they have a live reporter  still in  NE NJ , they should get him off the air, by the time the sun rises , so the bust isn't as evident

[40/70 Benchmark]

Don't usually have the band set up over me, almost always further W. My location isn't generally favored for maxes due to being too far away for ocean enhancement and no terrain enhancement.

Exactly.

Same here.

 

This is special...we never get this.

[SR Airglow]

Where are you located in Boston?

 

I'm just a few miles west of downtown

 

RGEM nailed these 2 intense bands over Lowell down to central CT and second over southeast MA with relative minimum over Boston metro... visibilities have been lighter for past few hours

I'm south of you, right near Ruggles Station on the Orange line.

[wxsniss]

Visibility is still obscenely low here near logan. SN+. Weird.

 

Like Jerry, I'd trade my local jack for a fair total report at Logan...

 

6z NAM suggests the deformation band and stuff currently over the islands sort of merge over the metro area in next few hours

[wx2fish]

6.5" new. Catching the northern end of that band and it is ripping.

[Clinch Leatherwood]

Haven't watched TWC in ages.  Lots of boner commercials, and cruise ship commercials.  Not what I remember growing up.

 

I think steve/kev up to will/ray roughly is the max area.   That band is persistent, the rest of us are dicking around in and out of the worst.  The menace associated with the m/l to my south is struggling to pivot up and is beginning to suffer from shrinkage.

 

I'm guessing the end game here will be 15-20"?

[N. OF PIKE]

 heavy stuff about to meet up with the Death band as the echoes push thru Bristol county up toward the S shore and into Bos harbor

[jhj]

white out blizzard conditions in Niantic/new london