CoastalWx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Back to -SN at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 14 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: Yes...to answer Ray's question, the mid-levels and precip shield being ugly didn't cause QPF to be lower, it caused the QPF to fall in an inefficient manner. Occasional bursts where it would snow and accumulate, and then lighter rates in between with cruddy snow growth. If we had good dendrites the whole time then we end up with 4-6" easy...but the disorganized nature of it caused some pretty inefficient snow production. Like I said before, if we had a colder profile, then the disorganized nature wouldn't have hurt as nearly as much. With 850 temps of -10C, if we had periods of lift lower in the atmosphere, then we still would have racked up decent snow....hell, today would probably be a nice snow globe with a cold profile with the onshore flow. I didn't realize that places like ORH had that much water. I see what you and Ray and Scott are saying. Interesting that BOX put out a snowfall report map that looks very similar to what was modeled as far as areas getting the most, just the amounts were way lower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 This stuff was like 4 to 1 ratios. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 M*nsnow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 37 minutes ago, powderfreak said: My guess is you had some wind? Like here at 1,500ft it was snow in the 20s, and no wind so there's 5" on every tree branch. We had great snow growth though which tends to stack up better on branches haha. Yup we had some wind. About a 15" drift right outside the garage door. I could hear the roar in the trees at time last evening too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 ORH 0.64" PSM 0.57" BOS 0.55" FIT 0.51" CON 0.48" LWM 0.41" BDL 0.36" Mi Casa 0.35" MHT 0.35" AFN 0.34" BAF 0.34" PWM 0.31" PVD 0.29" Here's the liquid equiv so far. PWM is still pulling moderate snow so they're in progress. Kinda underwhelming, but there was a stripe of heavier liquid across southern Merrimack and northern Rockingham counties. I'm seeing a few 0.60"ish cocorahs obs in those areas. In my area, all obs were in the upper 0.30"s. So we did it with better ratios whereas the other area did it with more liquid equiv. A little SW of here had the best of both worlds and pulled off a 10-11:1 of 6-7" new snow (Weare/Danbury). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmcfarland99 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 About 4.5" so far IMBY here in Scarborough, ME and still snowing in bursts pretty nicely. Advisories extended to 6PM here. Schools had a 2hr delay instead of cancelling and when I took my daughter to school, the roads were a real mess. I think perhaps they were counting on this being over and done by noon with the roads cleared better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Nice CJ for Portland ME right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Thanks, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 9 minutes ago, kmcfarland99 said: About 4.5" so far IMBY here in Scarborough, ME and still snowing in bursts pretty nicely. Advisories extended to 6PM here. Schools had a 2hr delay instead of cancelling and when I took my daughter to school, the roads were a real mess. I think perhaps they were counting on this being over and done by noon with the roads cleared better. Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Scott, Will....how do we diagnose the issue of left residing outside of the SGZ and a disorganized precip. shield? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimetree Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Getting a good burst of snow the last hour or so...coming down at a decent clip. Is this the "CJ" mentioned? (definition?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx2fish Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Decent elevation gradient here. About 2.0" here at 200' which has settled to 1.5ish. nearby hills at 450'-500' had more like 3-4". Been snowing lightly all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 7 minutes ago, rimetree said: Getting a good burst of snow the last hour or so...coming down at a decent clip. Is this the "CJ" mentioned? (definition?) Yup. It doesn't look as impressive on radar there, but you're a bit under the beam. I'd suggest urbandictionary for the def. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 hour ago, powderfreak said: My guess is you had some wind? Like here at 1,500ft it was snow in the 20s, and no wind so there's 5" on every tree branch. We had great snow growth though which tends to stack up better on branches haha. Snow with temps upper teens here, but only 1.7" by 7 AM, with small flakes that didn't hang at all on hardwoods except in forks, and barely colored the evergreens. Only 0.10" LE though we might've gotten a tiny bit more after I left for work. Only about a half inch in Augusta by 8 AM, maybe 1/4" after that. 4th underperformer this month, with 1/1, 1/4, 1/10-11 having been progged for 2-4 or 3-5 and today's for 3-6. Adding the 4 forecasts comes to 10-19" and I've gotten 5.2" from them, plus anything coming after 7 this morning. Glad these were all little events, unlike December's overperformers, two 2-4/3-5 forecasts bringing 7" and 6", then 14-18 verifying at 21". So I'm well ahead in the game, as the 1.7" puts the season total at 47.9", which is +12.7" compared to my average thru 1/18, and just 0.3" less than for all of 15-16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 minute ago, tamarack said: Snow with temps upper teens here, but only 1.7" by 7 AM, with small flakes that didn't hang at all on hardwoods except in forks, and barely colored the evergreens. Only 0.10" LE though we might've gotten a tiny bit more after I left for work. Only about a half inch in Augusta by 8 AM, maybe 1/4" after that. 4th underperformer this month, with 1/1, 1/4, 1/10-11 having been progged for 2-4 or 3-5 and today's for 3-6. Adding the 4 forecasts comes to 10-19" and I've gotten 5.2" from them, plus anything coming after 7 this morning. Glad these were all little events, unlike December's overperformers, two 2-4/3-5 forecasts bringing 7" and 6", then 14-18 verifying at 21". So I'm well ahead in the game, as the 1.7" puts the season total at 47.9", which is +12.7" compared to my average thru 1/18, and just 0.3" less than for all of 15-16. Nice OES continues and a nice squall like feature approaching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 just looking around at this now... is anyone else wondering about flashing this evening ...? current back-yard obs show upper 20s air pooled and poised near MHT-southern Maine, and with the weakly closed surface reflection pulling E now, this air mass may roll into N-NE mass soon and S thereafter - it would appear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 30 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Nice OES continues and a nice squall like feature approaching Trajectory runs the one over BML to my south. C'est la vie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 in concord ma just took the dog out and was surprised to find small crystals of frozen rain falling. It's 32.9 at the local school's weather station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 I didn't measure, but I bet like 3" of man snow. Less here in downtown FIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 2 hours ago, CoastalWx said: Nice CJ for Portland ME right now. Congrats me. Wintry appeal all day today with that OES. Closing in on 4.5" or so now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Coated up again here in Andover. Looks nice. Still got just under an inch OTG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 32 minutes ago, OceanStWx said: Congrats me. Wintry appeal all day today with that OES. Closing in on 4.5" or so now. We CJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Looks like we'll finish with a dense 5-6" at the ski resort. 5" 1500ft and 5.8" at 3000ft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Wintry Appeal... and its snowing again. Lots of "hang back" snow today. Definitely like driving through a snow globe though to some extent with all the snow clinging to everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Nice pics PF and White Rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Temp has been hovering around 32 since this morning's brief warmup. Light coating of ice on the trees. 31.7/31. Still about an inch of snow OTG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Yeah those are great. Wish we were there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 43 minutes ago, White Rain said: Beautiful shots Powderfreak, Looks amazing up there. Looks like quite a bit on the ground up there too. The ski resort up here has been a bit of an enigma locally for snowpack. We did really well in one of those early December upslope events (like over 2" of QPF as snow in 3 days) and that set the natural snowpack down for good this season. My stake at 1,500ft has been wandering between 15-20" for the last month (with 5.5" of liquid in it as of yesterday). The Mansfield snowpack from 1,200ft on up is very solid. Down in town though its been tough to get over 10" on the ground at any one point. Right now I've got about 6" in the yard at 750ft compared with 20" at 1,500ft. Its not necessarily an elevation thing as it is being close to the Spine where some of those earlier big orographic events laid down a solid base that never melted. I'm definitely living in a different world than say the BTV or Champlain Valley crew. My opinion is different on the winter because I spend most of my daytime waking hours in a place that hasn't had less than 15" on the ground since like the first week of December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWMan Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 2 hours ago, OceanStWx said: Congrats me. Wintry appeal all day today with that OES. Closing in on 4.5" or so now. Yes, turned into a nice day-long event here. Not bad for a mild spell. Early next week sounds messy and probably just ugly here on the coast, but we take it and appreciate it as it comes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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