Millennial kid of April Fools obs and pics

[powderfreak]

35 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Yea 1500 feet is what I mean't , fantastic winter, tons of powder days to boot, bet your legs are burn free by now.

You'd think that, but I'm pretty spent after today!  That dense snow takes some work.  It wasn't necessarily wet snow on the mountain, just dense...small flake stuff, lots of QPF but poor snow growth.  Over 2,000 vertical foot laps of that stuff in the trees is a good workout!

[Ginx snewx]

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

You'd think that, but I'm pretty spent after today!  That dense snow takes some work.  It wasn't necessarily wet snow on the mountain, just dense...small flake stuff, lots of QPF but poor snow growth.  Over 2,000 vertical foot laps of that stuff in the trees is a good workout!

Best kind of tired there is and it makes the beer taste all the better.

[klw]

53 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Wrong thread, But lol Nammy, And that does not have todays in there

 

If you think that is funny ,look at the GFS

[weathafella]

Snowing at a decent rate again.

[dryslot]

Just now, klw said:

If you think that is funny ,look at the GFS

I did, And the Euro.................

[dryslot]

Just now, weathafella said:

Snowing at a decent rate again.

Same here and probably the best rates of the day.

[CoastalWx]

Nice pics from NNE.Good job fellas.

[dendrite]

Still snowing. 31 straight hours of snow and counting. It's been lightly accumulating for the past hour so my final isn't really my final. 32.7F

[CoastalWx]

This is great, two more large events in the week. We flood. That should rest the drought monitor for awhile. Tons of rivers near bankfull locally

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

This is great, two more large events in the week. We flood. That should rest the drought monitor for awhile. Tons of rivers near bankfull locally

I predicted Kevin would be on the flood train this spring too. Floods, mosquitoes, and dews.

[CoastalWx]

Just now, dendrite said:

I predicted Kevin would be on the flood train this spring too. Floods, mosquitoes, and dews.

I like a good hydro event once in awhile. We Merrimack, CT river, and Kennebec.

[OceanStWx]

It's too bad the cheap midnight cutoff will run top 20 snowiest Aprils at PWM and CON just one day into the month.

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I like a good hydro event once in awhile. We Merrimack, CT river, and Kennebec.

Let's spring 06

[codfishsnowman]

3 hours ago, nzucker said:

I'm glad I went conservative. I had 3-6" for BOS and 4-8" for NE Mass/ORH County and even that may be too much. As I said along with jbedenet, lots of red flags...warm mid-level temps, lack of a strong SLP in April, long duration E winds...this was a set-up that rated to bust in April.

To get a big late-season snowstorm, you usually need one of two things:

1) Arctic airmass: See 4/7/03

2) Wound up SLP: See 4/1/97 or 4/6/82

This had neither.

exactly, just had some meek leftovers from a modest at best canadian high in a lousy position and plenty of juice

this is one of the best posts yet

furthermore...again wtf with the models and their fantasy dramatic weather...i swear they have been given algorithms to promote wild solutions that do not materialize

[ajisai]

Nothing but rain downtown Boston

[codfishsnowman]

1 hour ago, #NoPoles said:

4.5inches of rain...just about done

good heavens!!

[CoastalWx]

9 minutes ago, codfishsnowman said:

exactly, just had some meek leftovers from a modest at best canadian high in a lousy position and plenty of juice

this is one of the best posts yet

furthermore...again wtf with the models and their fantasy dramatic weather...i swear they have been given algorithms to promote wild solutions that do not materialize

I think we went over this fairly well. You don't necessarily need an arctic airmass..although it helps. 4/3 last year wasn't exactly arctic. This storm was about 1C at 800mb off from getting widespread 12+. nrn MA still got 6-8" so not a terrible bust there. We all acknowledged the high bust potential fairly well, but it probably gets lost in the pollution of those phucking snow maps. Most of you weenies do it to yourselves. I don't know how many times I said this was not a snowmap storm. They do some funky sh*t with the output when you have marginal layers. 

[CoastalWx]

Some farewell snows as we speak.

[dryslot]

18 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Let's spring 06

1987

[jbenedet]

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Congrats, while you are sipping Mai Tais your boys back home are going to have to deal with ice jams and spring flooding, afraid this real late season snow ain't a good thing with all the qpf in the pipeline

12z GEFS was similar at this hr. I'm intrigued, but this is more than likely too warm for me. Close enough to watch with some interest though. Portland ME, looks to get the goods. The ski resorts in the whites and SR should enjoy this one as well.

[Damage In Tolland]

41 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I predicted Kevin would be on the flood train this spring too. Floods, mosquitoes, and dews.

I just hope this doesn't affect the gypsy moths. We won't turn out in force eating everything 

[wxsniss]

3 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Wxniss.....you were honestly too kind....no need to qualify your critique with the acknowledgement of how great I am.

Fact of the matter is that I puked all over myself, and some others deserve credit here for remaining conservative.

We are all adults....and we all, including me, have a lot to learn.

It's all good. There is definite value to doing this with gusto. And it's different from basing a call on wishcast or reverse psychology, and it's different from calling for Feb 78 on the Cape every week, all of which gets predictable and tiring. Making substantiated calls with confidence and then learning from our mistakes is exactly how we get a little better every year. I personally also respect that you actually put up numbers rather than just shifting innuendo. Most don't do that. In any case, the personalities and characters here are also part of why we return year after year. I still to this day miss conversations with Messenger, someone I've never actually met.

Like you said, while we inure to other things in life, somehow this never gets old. And there's a real void when the season ends.

[dryslot]

6 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

12z GEFS was similar at this hr. I'm intrigued, but this is more than likely too warm for me. Close enough to watch with some interest though. Portland ME, looks to get the goods. The ski resorts in the whites and SR should enjoy this one as well.

Great SLP location for heavy snow all the way back to the Mtns and Northern Maine

[ORH_wxman]

40 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I think we went over this fairly well. You don't necessarily need an arctic airmass..although it helps. 4/3 last year wasn't exactly arctic. This storm was about 1C at 800mb off from getting widespread 12+. nrn MA still got 6-8" so not a terrible bust there. We all acknowledged the high bust potential fairly well, but it probably gets lost in the pollution of those phucking snow maps. Most of you weenies do it to yourselves. I don't know how many times I said this was not a snowmap storm. They do some funky sh*t with the output when you have marginal layers. 

April 87 is a great example of a garbage airmass that destroyed us with heavy snow. And it didn't have anything like April 97 upper air. Sometimes it doesn't work out...it was said probably a million times this could go either way. 

[mjd_tech]

I'll be charitable and call it 4 inches here by the North Beverly MBTA station. Did a lot of snowing but not a lot of accumulating. Was 34-36 degrees during entire storm.

Not a fantastic year for the North Shore. Pretty much every storm hit north of here, south of here or west of here and we got the table scraps, but enough to get a wee bit above climo. This isn't exactly the weenie zone of New England, we take what we get, and cherish it.

If you want the blues, visit the Mid-Atlantic forum.

[#NoPoles]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

This is great, two more large events in the week. We flood. That should rest the drought monitor for awhile. Tons of rivers near bankfull locally

I guess this would be the wrong thread to ask, but what do you see so far?

[BrianW]

[CoastalWx]

17 minutes ago, mjd_tech said:

I'll be charitable and call it 4 inches here by the North Beverly MBTA station. Did a lot of snowing but not a lot of accumulating. Was 34-36 degrees during entire storm.

Not a fantastic year for the North Shore. Pretty much every storm hit north of here, south of here or west of here and we got the table scraps, but enough to get a wee bit above climo. This isn't exactly the weenie zone of New England, we take what we get, and cherish it.

If you want the blues, visit the Mid-Atlantic forum.

The north shore does fairly well. They cleaned up in our Nina years and are a KU hotspot due to OES contribution.   

[CoastalWx]

10 minutes ago, #NoPoles said:

I guess this would be the wrong thread to ask, but what do you see so far?

Couple of good rain events coming up. Setting the table for saturation. Even around here I see lots of high water.

[dryslot]

Snow doesn't want to quit, starting to accumulate again as temps gone down below freezing, -SN, 31.3°F