December 29th Storm Obs

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

4 minutes ago, codfishsnowman said:

seriously though this radar looks like so many others over the past several years just that it is warmer, if it was colder and same late blooming set up I would have pixie dust or flurries and be way more bummed out....its gonna rock in most of the 14-15 zone later

ORH area has had it better than anyone over the last several years... hard to argue otherwise. Always cold enough to snow... and far enough in any direction to get in on the goods or a storm.

We had that big finish here in 14-15... but overall... they have been on an insane run 

 

[Lava Rock]

4 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Well, we were looking at 8" until last night, But can never be sure, Don't know if we are looking at that much yet

looks like I may be closer to jack zone after all?

[#NoPoles]

Just about that time to keep an ear out for thunder...things should start to get going soon

[HIPPYVALLEY]

14 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

CtrvCTRV

To an extent but Northampton is getting smoked in this band and they are pretty much valley floor. 

[DomNH]

RASN. Need the heavier echoes to cool the column.

[dryslot]

3 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

looks like I may be closer to jack zone after all?

Thats why you stay the course.............. That radar to the south looks awesome

[512high]

4 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

512...just let it play out lol. I think you'll be fine. 

 Scott I've got light rain my weather station which is 15 feet off the ground gives me 33° with a 32 Windshill had a 9 mile an hour gust was like a came in from the north maybe I'm getting ready to transition over gosh I hope so 

[macriver]

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

That's awesome. My kind of snow. Man snow.

Wow - postcard stuff right there.

 

[WthrJunkyME]

2 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

looks like I may be closer to jack zone after all?

Looking that way!  Congrats!  

 

Will do well up here too, but I don't think we'll make out like you.

[eekuasepinniW]

Finally back to some good snow.

25.6

[moneypitmike]

 

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

Thats why you stay the course..............

Enjoy your snow--I'm glad it may (note the qualifier) play out for you.

[CoastalWx]

3 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

ORH area has had it better than anyone over the last several years... hard to argue otherwise. Always cold enough to snow... and far enough in any direction to get in on the goods or a storm.

We had that big finish here in 14-15... but overall... they have been on an insane run 

 

As fas as anomalies go, ern MA is even moreso. It's time to pay the piper. 

[dryslot]

 

Enjoy your snow--I'm glad it may (note the qualifier) play out for you.

I think things will get lit up later here

[ORH_wxman]

1 minute ago, 512high said:

 Scott I've got light rain my weather station which is 15 feet off the ground gives me 33° with a 32 Windshill had a 9 mile an hour gust was like a came in from the north maybe I'm getting ready to transition over gosh I hope so 

 

Give it a bit until the heavy stuff comes in...you're in a lull in lift and the echoes there are kind of crappy. Within an hour it should get back to ripping.

[Patfan1987]

High for the day 36.3

[512high]

1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said:

 

Give it a bit until the heavy stuff comes in...you're in a lull in lift and the echoes there are kind of crappy. Within an hour it should get back to ripping.

We wait!!

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Branches starting to sag.  

 

[Hoth]

Just dumping rain. Drought cancel.

[ma blizzard]

has flipped to rn/ sn mix over the past 5 minutes .. probably 80% rain / 20% snow now

[wx2fish]

1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said:

 

Give it a bit until the heavy stuff comes in...you're in a lull in lift and the echoes there are kind of crappy. Within an hour it should get back to ripping.

That's my thought as well. It's rasn here now but the lift hasn't really made it over the border yet

[ORH_wxman]

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

As fas as anomalies go, ern MA is even moreso. It's time to pay the piper. 

Yeah E MA (esp SE MA) has been more above normal than ORH the last few years...even though ORH has been on a sick run. But last year knocked them down a bit...only 47" at ORH which was like 22" below normal...while parts of SE MA cracked 40" and somehow weaseled another above average snow season. So while both areas are "Due" to pay the piper, you could say SE MA is "more due"...of course, we know that doesn't mean anything in reality for a given season. We just know at some point, we were going to start getting some systems that left them out.

[Baroclinic Zone]

Sigh, some people I will never understand.

 

[codfishsnowman]

2 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

To an extent but Northampton is getting smoked in this band and they are pretty much valley floor. 

in a handful of cases not only does their lat help but I think being north of mt tom can help keep the cold air in at times, in march of 2007 there was a late season winter storm that changed us over to heavy ip but they just got destroyed with S++ and wound up with over a foot while we had half of that here (much colder storm)....but they can occasionally benefit

for more seaward passing coastals though, often fugly and often worse than here

[CoastalWx]

1 minute ago, wx2fish said:

That's my thought as well. It's rasn here now but the lift hasn't really made it over the border yet

Yeah he should get lit up good later. Models did have the RASN getting close to them...and the lull does not help.

[Typhoon Tip]

Huge aggregates here ... the uneasy golf ball sized blatters too. 

you look up and the sky is festooned with them... they are falling fast, and the 2" of accumulation is gluey like finger paste at an unruly day care center..  it's actually just water on the car windows, as the previous snow has slid down and flops to the ground. 

i know other's are reporting this and that...but that's what is going on at this moment up here in nw middlesex co in Ayer.  

we'll see how dynamics and some of those other short term model histrionics unfold over the next couple three hours.  

beyond that...  this looks like about 20 minutes left of SW CT and maybe 4 hours ne sections and it's over.  we should delay that some with cyclonic curl ...assuming that actually succeeds.  

[CoastalWx]

2 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah E MA (esp SE MA) has been more above normal than ORH the last few years...even though ORH has been on a sick run. But last year knocked them down a bit...only 47" at ORH which was like 22" below normal...while parts of SE MA cracked 40" and somehow weaseled another above average snow season. So while both areas are "Due" to pay the piper, you could say SE MA is "more due"...of course, we know that doesn't mean anything in reality for a given season. We just know at some point, we were going to start getting some systems that left them out.

My last 5 yrs has been absurd. It's gonna regress sooner or later. But as we said before...it doesn't mean the next 2 yrs bring 8" of snow...many different ways to do it. Could be a string of avg years...who knows.

[Damage In Tolland]

I'm beginning to doubt the HRRR and Rap here. Everything is just racing east 

[ORH_wxman]

Rippage:

 

 

[Whineminster]

back edge approaching very fast, and not much heavy snow up this way.....stuck in a dry slot.  Oh well....ORH Jax again, for MA anyway. 

[Chrisrotary12]

Rain, rain. Go away.