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The Blizzard of the Ides, 2017 ...observation time


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National Weather Service meteorologists in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington held a conference call Monday afternoon about computer models that dramatically cut predicted snow amounts. They decided to keep the super snowy warnings.

"Out of extreme caution we decided to stick with higher amounts," Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations at the Weather Prediction Center in suburban Maryland, told The Associated Press. "I actually think in the overall scheme that the actions (by states and cities) taken in advance of the event were exceptional."

 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_WINTER_WEATHER_FORECAST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-14-17-17-34

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0C/32F, heavy snizzle (frozen stuff actually accumulating); looks like we got more than the 13" at the airport by a couple of inches. The weight of the stuff actually kept drifting way down. With the winds we've had I would have normally had drifts half-way up the kitchen windows and bare spots on the other side of the house. Coverage is pretty even.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 
515 PM EDT TUE MAR 14 2017

...Evaluation of Blizzard Conditions for the March 17, 2017 Winter 
Storm...

The National Weather Service in Taunton has reviewed the 
observations from the winter storm that affected our region today. 
We have determined that the only official reporting site that met 
blizzard criteria was Lawrence, MA (LWM).

The definition of a blizzard is that falling and/or blowing snow 
reduces visibility to below 1/4 mile along with sustained winds or 
winds that frequently gust to 35 mph or more...and that these are 
the predominant reported conditions for 3 consecutive hours.

When reviewing whether a particular observation location had 
blizzard conditions, we counted visibilities equal to 1/4 mile since 
that is often quite low for an automated visibility sensor to detect.

At Lawrence, MA (LWM)...blizzard criteria were met for 4 hours and 
1 minute from 1154 AM to 355 PM. 

At Boston, MA (BOS)...blizzard criteria were met for 2 hours and 
25 minutes 1135 AM to 200 PM.

At Marshfield, MA (GHG)...there were some missing data. But it 
appears that blizzard criteria were met for approximately 2 to 2.5 
hours.

At Beverly, MA (BVY)...blizzard criteria were met for 1 hour and 31 
minutes from 1253 PM to 224 PM. After a 21 minute gap, there was 
another period of blizzard conditions from 245 PM to 315 PM. If that 
period is counted, then criteria were met for 2 hours and 1 minute.

At Windsor Locks/Hartford, CT (BDL)...blizzard criteria were met for 
1 hour and 55 minutes from 1205 PM to 200 PM.

At Worcester, MA (ORH), blizzard criteria were met for 1 hour and 51 
minutes from 1254 PM to 245 PM. There were 25 additional minutes of 
blizzard criteria, but with significant gaps from the continuous 
period.

At Willimantic, CT (IJD), blizzard criteria were met, but very 
sporadically and for less than 1 hour. 
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33 minutes ago, dendrite said:

These gusts are occurring after the heaviest snows. But these are the strongest winds I've had in my 11 years here.

I guess NE just isn't my direction.  Today hasn't been anywhere close to as strong as the last few weekends here even.  Don't think it cracks the top 100 in my almost 11 years.

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Just now, bobbutts said:

I guess NE just isn't my direction.  Today hasn't been anywhere close to as strong as the last few weekends here even.  Don't think it cracks the top 100 in my almost 11 years.

I'm on the north side of a hill and the trees on that side are fairly short. So NNW-NNE I do well. That's definitely part of it, but we had something come through here over a 30 minute period that really ramped the wind up into the crazy category for my standards. Looking at Mesowest, the gusts look a lot higher in Belknap than Merrimack.

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