January 26-28 Blizzard Observations/Nowcast

[gosaints]

If chelsea and boston commons were at 20 and 18.2 respectively at 9 AM they have to be close to 24 right?

[Modfan]

Now seems to be the lightest snow for me thus far.

22F

With 28" so far from this storm.

 

I tried to do averages as best I could with the drifting.

Heavy band to your south appears to be expanding north, might be short lived break

[powderfreak]

Where can you find the RAP

 

This is the best site...

 

http://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/RAP/Welcome.cgi?dsKey=rap_jet&domain=t3&run_time=29+Dec+2012+-+13Z

[Quincy]

22" here and I think we're pretty much done. Talk about a sharp cutoff, basically east of I-91 was big and west of there was rather tame. Lollies over two feet across parts of eastern Connecticut. Even more than that across eastern Mass.

[Cold Miser]

Heavy band to your south appears to be expanding north, might be short lived break

Snow shoes are the only way to go out there for me now.

 

I have not seen a plow go by on my road for over 6 hours.  And I live on rte 169.  Although some idiots are still driving around anyway.

[Damage In Tolland]

Band is def pushing west in Central MA and into E ct

[ksingh0311]

We need pics and vid from the jackpot areas

 

Here are three from our parking lot. Really high drifts, some cars totally buried. Measuring around 29 inches and still lightly snowing.

[Cold Miser]

Man some of you def gonna hit 40

30 would be pretty epic, but the wind and drifting is a killer.

[Ginx snewx]

25 New. Moderate snow

[snowgeek]

Finally some good snow in ENY.  1-3" has fallen this morning in Albany County and there is steady moderate snow.  Yay!

[Colonel Badger]

Any of the Mets think the radar fills back in or is the end for us up here ??

[Bostonseminole]

The 15z run wason ewall...though you can get the latest runs with uglier graphics on the ncep site

 

http://mp1.met.psu.edu/~fxg1/rucloopne.html

 

Will do you prefer the rap over the hRRR? any reason? thanks

[dryslot]

Picnic table is going to succumb to Juno..........lol

 

 

[Tornadomachine]

Band is def pushing west in Central MA and into E ct

It hasn't moved west in 30 minutes. Its widening the light snows as it rots though.

[Spoons56]

Those bands seem to be re-strengthening over central MA. Heavy snow again here in ORH. I think we have an outside chance at breaking our all-time record (33" - April 1, 1997).

[TheSnowman]

Dang!  That band went away.  A New one is forming on the southern RI / CT Boarder though.......... Thoughts?   

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Little lighter. Still 1"+ per hour stuff

[ORH_wxman]

Those bands seem to be re-strengthening over central MA. Heavy snow again here in ORH. I think we have an outside chance at breaking our all-time record (33" - April 1, 1997).

 

 

It's gonna need to ramp up to 1" per hour and rot for a good 3-4 more hours I think...but it's got a chance anyway.

[ma blizzard]

was just walking around the boston commons, its absolutely ripping here under this band! If I had a yard stick I'd be over there trying to make measurements lol

[weathercoins]

Possibly the heaviest snow of the storm yet in Cambridge. 

[ariof]

If chelsea and boston commons were at 20 and 18.2 respectively at 9 AM they have to be close to 24 right?

 

Left for skiing 10:30 in Cambridge, and by 11:45 the car had two new inches of snow on it. (No, I didn't drive, but got skis out of the car.) Nuking the whole time. Visibility 1/4 mi, less in gusts. Nice big flakes. City has given up on side streets for now.

[powderfreak]

Picnic table is going to succumb to Juno..........lol

 

Screenshot_2015-01-27-12-15-00.png

 

Screenshot_2015-01-27-12-15-22.png

 

Holy blowing and drifting.  No pretty piles of snow stacking high on that stuff, haha.

 

 

 

It hasn't moved west in 30 minutes.

 

lol

[Spoons56]

It's gonna need to ramp up to 1" per hour and rot for a good 3-4 more hours I think...but it's got a chance anyway.

 

Very true. We're probably back to 1"/hour right now, may not get 3-4 hours out of it though. Should be able to nudge out Nemo's totals for #3 all-time at the least. Either way, it's been a blast over the last 12 hours!

[SlantStickers Anonymous]

Getting snowblitterated, I'm going to exceed nemo totals it this level of intensity sticks around.

[dryslot]

Holy blowing and drifting.  No pretty piles of snow stacking high on that stuff, haha.

 

 

 

 

lol

 

Not with winds in the 40 mph range...........lol

[tavwtby]

Is this band I've HV gonna track back east as it pulls away or just rot and this is over. Wound up with 9" via board, got 8" OTG....I busted wayyyy low. Was expecting to wake up to 18"

[Baroclinic Zone]

Couple hundred yards visibility

[dryslot]

Wow, Hurricane warnings

HURRICANE WARNINGS HAVE BEEN HOISTED FOR THE OUTER WATERS. WE HAVEBEEN RECEIVING REPORTS OF 55+ MPH WIND GUSTS IN SOUTHERN NH. THISSHOULD NOT BE HARD TO BELIEVE... DUE TO THE SNOWFALL RATES WE HAVEBEEN SEEING... PRECIPITATION LOADING WILL CONTRIBUTE HEAVILY TOMIXING THE VERY STRONG WINDS TO THE SURFACE. IN ADDITION WINDS INTHE 60S AND 70S HAVE BEEN VERIFIED TO OUR SOUTH.SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING...BUT TRAVEL IS ESSENTIALLY IMPOSSIBLEFOR MUCH OF MAINE AND NH AT THIS POINT.&&

[wx2fish]

26.3" finally down to -sn. High ratio fluff, not gonna take long to start settling the depth.

[Angus]

just back in from second shoveling, adding about 2" per hour, now at 20"

 

temperature has ticked up 1 degree and wind about same. snowing hard.

 

3rd shovel session just ended. snow definitely slowed between 11am-12pm and glow of sun was seen behind clouds; however, heavy band just moved in and now snowing heavily and sun has disappeared. closing in on 22" but not there yet - really hoping to hit 2' mark.