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The last hurrah? Putting all the eggs in the Tuesday 3/14 basket


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5 minutes ago, Professional Lurker said:

Driving to work from Bernardston to Whately down 91, I was surprised to see that it remained 33F and snow the whole way. Even in Whately, it was sticking to grass areas and coming down pretty good. Will this over-perform in the upper valley? Hope so.

... we need an obs thread?

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We have one

Edit.  Saw your follow up post

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2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It's also showing 10:1 ratios when it won't be. It's stacking snow like it's below freezing when it's not. So those amounts aren't going to be close. 

Exactly. You just have to hope all hell breaks loose and you drop enough cement on the trees and lines that the grid collapses when the eyewall crosses. 

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3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It's also showing 10:1 ratios when it won't be. It's stacking snow like it's below freezing when it's not. So those amounts aren't going to be close. 

Ok but even still, if the low is further out to sea like it shows wouldn't that help pull the cold down to 32? 

I hear your skepticism but these models keep amping up and not down this close in.

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8 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It's also showing 10:1 ratios when it won't be. It's stacking snow like it's below freezing when it's not. So those amounts aren't going to be close. 

 

6 minutes ago, weathafella said:

It is sub freezing for a lot of the meat.  Kuchera was pretty robust in Boston metro.

 

5 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Exactly. You just have to hope all hell breaks loose and you drop enough cement on the trees and lines that the grid collapses when the eyewall crosses. 

Yep Scooter knockout blow

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Good sign so far is it has held at 39 deg in my backyard.  We'll see if it returns to 43 at 7am as forecast or we stay under, and maybe this will give away a flip before 4pm.  As it is, our forecast flip has moved up from 6pm to 4pm.  A few more hours of pounding gets us closer to 4-6".  OTOH, the dreaded RI snow hole awaits to screw us right after the changeover from rain...

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36 minutes ago, 78Blizzard said:

Yeah, it's E and when it make the left turn and loops it stays offshore keeping us in the goods.

Yea, the stall/capture/loop stuff always take a bit longer (east) to materialize than modeled...that is all I was banking on when everything was backing up today.

This event reminds me of Dec 1992...just from a sensible standpoint.

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3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Regarding  ratios, I know the nam has that for temps, but I think a chunk of it is paste.  I certainly would welcome those modeled temps, but it would have to go to town to achieve that. 

I’d rather 12” of powder than 6” of paste with those winds. Damage likely if that pans out. 

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23 minutes ago, TalcottWx said:

1015 PM Update...

 

* High Impact/Major Winter Storm with 1-2 feet of heavy wet snow

  & power outages into Tue for northern ORH Hills/Berks

 

* Rain overnight in most lower elevations which will eventually

  transition to some snow Tue but amounts/impacts uncertain

 

We have high confidence that a serious/major winter storm will

impact the northern Worcester Hills/Berks above 1000 feet in

elevation overnight into Tue. Firehose of rich moisture combined

with tremendous forcing/dynamics and thermal profiles are all

supportive of 1 to 2 feet of heavy wet snow & power outages

through Tuesday. This will be a very serious storm for these

locations.

 

Forecast confidence is significantly less to the south of the MA

Turnpike and all lower elevations. While some wet snow has been

mixed in with rain at times across the lower elevations of the

interior...ESE low level flow around 925 mb should result in

some warming in that layer overnight. So expect mainly rain in

this region through daybreak. This 925 mb warm layer begins to

erode Tue am and especially by afternoon. How quickly this

occurs and where exactly the dryslot and intense frontogenesis

sets up will be crucial if significant accumulations occur in

the lower elevations. This is quite complex too considering very

marginal boundary layer temps. Given the rapidly intensifying

low pressure system getting pulled back towards the coast along

with an intensifying closed 700 mb low will need to be watched.

If there was an area we were most concerned about in the lower

elevations for significant wet snow accumulations...its portions

of northeast MA especially just inland from the coast. We are

still evaluating the latest model data.

I am just going om experience here and local climo....as long as this doesn't back in overhead, which I call BS on...I will get at least a foot. Interior ne MA is the best lower elevation spot to be more often than not in these late season elevation deals. No downslope and mitigated marine influence this time of year...if mid levels hold, it will snow. 

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5 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I am just going om experience here and local climo....as long as this doesn't back in overhead, which I call BS on...I will get at least a foot. Interior ne MA is the best lower elevation spot to be more often than not in these late season elevation deals. No downslope and mitigated marine influence this time of year...if mid levels hold, it will snow. 

I think you're right

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