TalcottWx Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 That ccb is heading for the islands, at least. Perhaps outer cape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeonPeon Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Spent the last 6 months in Sevilla, Croatia and marrakesh, and was beginning to think I'd miss a whole winter after the balmy week I've had back here. I do believe it's snowing! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 22 minutes ago, Spanks45 said: Just got back from the Southbury Cinema, they had an inch of salt down on that parking lot.... We’re a very safe town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 51 minutes ago, dendrite said: People love to report snow intensity, but usually it gets a bit overestimated. None of us have vis sensors so it's always just an educated guess. I think a lot of mod reports here are actually light and a lot of heavy are just moderate. Not accusing anyone of overestimating...just throwing it out there. I haven't looked at much down there. Always good to know your distance to landmarks in the neighborhood. I have a ridge line I can see from my back pretty clearly in winter that is 0.75 miles away as measured on google maps in a straight line. I have a bank of trees looking a different direction that are 0.18 miles away...so I know I'm heavy snow if they are obscured or nearly obscured. I don't have a good landmark that is close to a half mile, but I can usually estimate pretty good based on if the ridge line is gone and the bank of trees is starting to get pretty cloudy looking...then I know I'm prob under a half mile. But I'd def recommend other posters here measure their landmarks so they have an objective/empirical source of visibility. Of course, if you live really close to an ASOS station, you probably don't need to do this. But most of us don't. This is a good site to use: https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distance_finder.php Just convert the map to satellite mode if you want to see different houses/landmarks while zoomed in on your street and then click from your house to whatever landmark you are measuring and it gives straight line distances. 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCAPEWEATHERAF Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Scott should be here, the band is heading northwest from the Cape to that area. I would not be surprised we see the pivot point on the Cape this overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCAPEWEATHERAF Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Lightning strikes inside the comma head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCAPEWEATHERAF Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 All of NE MA including Boston and Essex and Middlesex counties will see snow fill in tonight. Radar presentation suggests at least some snow there with a strong band heading towards the South Shore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Not a flake, not really expecting much here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Good luck to those in SE MA and RI....doesn't look terrible on radar....still hard to believe though that this storm is tracking near or even just inside the BM while intensifying rapidly and this is all we're getting on the radar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 6 minutes ago, USCAPEWEATHERAF said: All of NE MA including Boston and Essex and Middlesex counties will see snow fill in tonight. Radar presentation suggests at least some snow there with a strong band heading towards the South Shore. There won't be much at all NW of PVD to Brockton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S&P Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Portsmouth RI 37/29 visibility down big flakes but snow smelting on contact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderblizzard Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Near moderate snow still... but it doesn't look like much longer. Still more snow than I expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted January 8, 2020 Author Share Posted January 8, 2020 Band is on my doorstep. First flakes just starting now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Coating, nice growth now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Thinking a coating here... best looks SE of here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCAPEWEATHERAF Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Edge of our CCB is reaching ACK right now. It will pivot as far west as the Canal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuildingScienceWx Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 32 with light snow, close to .8". Should be ending shortly as anticipated, not in the early morning hours lol.. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 1 hour ago, powderfreak said: Ha you barely beat me to that one. Ripping and pounding as all ASOS are 1.5 miles...but it is a very steady snow. I think folks think of moderate not in terms of visibility but just that it’s snowing hard enough to accumulate quickly on roads. Its almost like another scale from the human perspective (not visibility related)... Light snow is flurries or non accumulating stuff. Moderate is when it’s steady enough to accumulate and heavy snow is like 0.5-1” per hour regardless of visibility (can often get up to 1” in an hour from 0.75 or 1.0 vis) Asos are the worst though. I get your point but how many times do you see ASOS with light snow for 4 hours and then all of a sudden the observer is reporting 8 inches. I mapped out landmarks years ago. Cant tell you how many times I was 1/4 mile and area ASOS never fell under one half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sey-Mour Snow Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Storm total will be about .6" .. Not bad when you were expecting nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FRWEATHA Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Coming down real good here. Big flakes. Only accumulating on grass so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sey-Mour Snow Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 5 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Asos are the worst though. I get your point but how many times do you see ASOS with light snow for 4 hours and then all of a sudden the observer is reporting 8 inches. I mapped out landmarks years ago. Cant tell you how many times I was 1/4 mile and area ASOS never fell under one half. Exactly, I believe SOME of our obs are more accurate.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 28 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: Always good to know your distance to landmarks in the neighborhood. I have a ridge line I can see from my back pretty clearly in winter that is 0.75 miles away as measured on google maps in a straight line. I have a bank of trees looking a different direction that are 0.18 miles away...so I know I'm heavy snow if they are obscured or nearly obscured. I don't have a good landmark that is close to a half mile, but I can usually estimate pretty good based on if the ridge line is gone and the bank of trees is starting to get pretty cloudy looking...then I know I'm prob under a half mile. But I'd def recommend other posters here measure their landmarks so they have an objective/empirical source of visibility. Of course, if you live really close to an ASOS station, you probably don't need to do this. But most of us don't. This is a good site to use: https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distance_finder.php Just convert the map to satellite mode if you want to see different houses/landmarks while zoomed in on your street and then click from your house to whatever landmark you are measuring and it gives straight line distances. Google maps also allows distance measurements now too. It's funny that I remember one of the first things I learned in Ithaca was that it was a half mile from Bradfield to the Clock Tower. And if you lost sight of the American flag on Barton it was 1/4SM +SN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 Just now, OceanStWx said: Google maps also allows distance measurements now too. It's funny that I remember one of the first things I learned in Ithaca was that it was a half mile from Bradfield to the Clock Tower. And if you lost sight of the American flag on Barton it was 1/4SM +SN. Google maps have had distance since they came out, trick was knowing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 3 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: Asos are the worst though. I get your point but how many times do you see ASOS with light snow for 4 hours and then all of a sudden the observer is reporting 8 inches. I mapped out landmarks years ago. Cant tell you how many times I was 1/4 mile and area ASOS never fell under one half. ASOS is really good with visibility, but vis is only a proxy to snow rates. I've definitely seen 1 1/2SM -SN that was 1"/hr because it was perfect aggregates. Those events are exceptions not the rule though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthCoastMA Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 4 minutes ago, FRWEATHA said: Coming down real good here. Big flakes. Only accumulating on grass so far. Same here. Big fatties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USCAPEWEATHERAF Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 1 minute ago, SouthCoastMA said: Same here. Big fatties Temp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlashFreeze Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 30° and light snow, already a dusting, can see the moon through the clouds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 3 minutes ago, OceanStWx said: ASOS is really good with visibility, but vis is only a proxy to snow rates. I've definitely seen 1 1/2SM -SN that was 1"/hr because it was perfect aggregates. Those events are exceptions not the rule though. Yeah if we're getting hooked dendrite aggregates at 25F, we can go 1 inch per hour with 1+ mile vis easily....meanwhile, I've had arctic sand with half mile vis that is struggling to do better than a half inch per hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthCoastMA Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 3 minutes ago, USCAPEWEATHERAF said: Temp? 33° Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted January 8, 2020 Author Share Posted January 8, 2020 7 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said: Same here. Big fatties They’re huge aggregates. Not really flakes at all. Ground has whitened up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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