12/20-21 Clipper/Coastal Nowcast and Obs

[40/70 Benchmark]

26 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

@40/70 Benchmark your total?

.5"

[CoastalWx]

Just now, 40/70 Benchmark said:

.5"

We hold hands

[40/70 Benchmark]

1 hour ago, Winging_it said:

The Nashoba Valley is almost as brutal - 3/4" today in Townsend, 4 1/2" on the season (3" on the 12/5 was a gift). Yes, the lower Merrimack Valley including SE NH is wayyyy overdue for some goods.

The greater Boston area was at least as snow-starved and I'm glad they cashed in a bit today.

I have 1.5" on the season...

[BostonWX]

I’ll go with 4/5 here. Got skunked for a few hours so wouldn’t doubt some higher totals a bit inland 

[H2Otown_WX]

10 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I have 1.5" on the season...

This calls for the gif from way back when of you and a couple others jumping into the endless void. Wish I had it.

[CoastalWx]

Comm ave in the city with all the lights and snow looked like something from a post card. I got engaged 16 years ago under deep snow in the common. Nothing beats wintry Boston.

[tunafish]

10 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Comm ave in the city with all the lights and snow looked like something from a post card. I got engaged 16 years ago under deep snow in the common. Nothing beats wintry Boston.

Like in a snow fort?  Neat

[mreaves]

2.25”. Still snowing. 19.9° The snow is pretty powdery. 

[Boston Bulldog]

Would assume Blue Hill Observatory was the jackpot

[powderfreak]

39 minutes ago, BostonWX said:

I’ll go with 4/5 here. Got skunked for a few hours so wouldn’t doubt some higher totals a bit inland 

Legit. 

[BombsAway1288]

11 minutes ago, Boston Bulldog said:

Would assume Blue Hill Observatory was the jackpot

Without a doubt. Do they still take measurements there?

[40/70 Benchmark]

27 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Comm ave in the city with all the lights and snow looked like something from a post card. I got engaged 16 years ago under deep snow in the common. Nothing beats wintry Boston.

I remember that...January 2009....we met up for the first time shortly thereafter. 

[Torch Tiger]

Congrats all. We earned it

[tunafish]

13 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

Congrats all. We earned it

All that effort really paid off.

[tunafish]

#blessed

[mreaves]

14 minutes ago, tunafish said:

All that effort really paid off.

We’ll have to review the game tape so we can repeat the performance. 

[BombsAway1288]

Fortunately this happened on a post-Covid Friday cause the traffic was as bad as I’ve seen it from a storm in a while. A lot of people were off today too being he so close to Christmas.
 

If it was a Tue-Thur storm, it would have rivaled the mess in 2007.  Folks were really caught off guard with this one. 

[weathafella]

1 hour ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I remember that...January 2009....we met up for the first time shortly thereafter. 

Isn’t that the time we got thrown out of the main room at JJ Foleys from catcalling Barry Burbank’s 1-3 call? (We got 8-they relegated us to a back room).

[weathafella]

I see BOS now updated to 5.2.   Probably about average to date.

[TheSnowman]

1 hour ago, BombsAway1288 said:

Fortunately this happened on a post-Covid Friday cause the traffic was as bad as I’ve seen it from a storm in a while. A lot of people were off today too being he so close to Christmas.
 

If it was a Tue-Thur storm, it would have rivaled the mess in 2007.  Folks were really caught off guard with this one. 

February 13, 2007 will be remembered for a Number of reasons, especially skipping a Final Exam because “I’m a NWS Spotter and I have to go to RI to measure the snow !” and then taking the train from Boston in, with the most surreal of circumstances (especially the part where the commuter rail train passed Ruggles where I Normally went, and it not letting anyone on being already full from Back Bay and South Station, stranding hundreds that never got home), but there is no doubt, NO Doubt…..  

 

That this today was the Biggest Disaster of roads / crashes / conditions for a 1” Storm in My Lifetime.  There wasn’t even close to 1” Down and crashes were Everywhere so you could say it was the Biggest Disaster 0.5” storm too (ALL Toyota Carola’s I might Add!!  Fitting into my stereotypes presently.) !!  

 

2.25” Final

4.25” Season 

 

Off to an Awful start as usual, but looks beautiful, outside of the guy who backed into me with no traction today.  

[Torch Tiger]

2 hours ago, tunafish said:

All that effort really paid off.

we tried our best, put our thousands of hours of blood, sweat tears.  It paid off

[George001]

Eyeballing 4-5 inches, looks like a white Christmas is happening this year. 

[Snowcrazed71]

Snowing here again ( for the last 35 minutes ). Let's see if we can get another 1/2"-1" with this last round. Seems to be moving slow

[wxsniss]

6 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Comm ave in the city with all the lights and snow looked like something from a post card. I got engaged 16 years ago under deep snow in the common. Nothing beats wintry Boston.

From today:
https://www.boston.com/travel/travel/2024/12/20/boston-was-just-named-the-most-beautiful-winter-city-in-the-world/

 

[Patrick-02540]

7 minutes ago, Snowcrazed71 said:

Snowing here again ( for the last 35 minutes ). Let's see if we can get another 1/2"-1" with this last round. Seems to be moving slow

Yeah, I'm hoping to hit an inch from the last 24 hours.  That would bring me to 11 for the season.  

[dmillz25]

Congrats Boston on the 5” of snow! About 1” here in NYC

[Damage In Tolland]

Light- moderate snow falling . Was a very tricky run out there .

[Hoth]

Surprised to find it’s snowing and roads are covered. Love it! 

[MJO812]

Light snow here. Sticking to colder surfaces .

Beautiful to see

[moneypitmike]

1 hour ago, wxsniss said:

From today:
https://www.boston.com/travel/travel/2024/12/20/boston-was-just-named-the-most-beautiful-winter-city-in-the-world/

 

That's a sad statement about the world.