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NNE January 12 snowstorm obs


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Event totals: 7.7” Snow/0.84” L.E.

Wednesday 1/12/2011 4:00 P.M. update: I was really surprised how hard it was snowing in Burlington this afternoon, and they had already picked up several inches of snow when I was leaving around 3:30 P.M. or so. It was actually snowing harder there than it was at the house, although we’d already picked up a good shot of snow at some point. At 4:00 P.M. I found 7.7 inches of snow on the snowboard, and boy was it dense! My coring cylinder, which has a diameter of 6.8 cm, produced a core comprised of 77.5 mL, which was the biggest individual chunk of liquid I’ve collected from a snow stack in a while. Those 7.7 inches contained 0.84 inches of liquid! The snow had very low compressibility, and the density came in at hefty 10.9% H2O, quite different from the 6.1 inches on Sunday that had a density of 2.3% H2O. It was a 10-hour (6:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.) accumulation, but as the biggest snow stack of the season so far, I grabbed a quick picture:

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It’s still been snowing out there since I got home, but not nearly at the intensity that it must have been cranking before. My wife said it snowed really hard even up in Morrisville, and the kids had an absolute blast at recess today. I saw Powderfreak’s message about the upgrade to a Winter Storm Warning for Lamoille County, so I grabbed the latest BTV warning and accumulations maps. Amounts have definitely gone up in the North Country, and this dense synoptic snow is going to be really good for the slopes.

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Some details from the 4:00 P.M. observations are below:

New Snow: 7.7 inches

New Liquid: 0.84 inches

Snow/Water Ratio: 9.2

Snow Density: 10.9%

Temperature: 19.8 F

Sky: Light Snow (1-2 mm flakes)

Snow at the stake: 16.5 inches

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I was looking at the totals down in MA and CT. savoy, ma near 35". I grew up in maine from 1983 till 1995 then went to grad school at Uconn, but still kept track of the snows up here. Don't really recall getting too many storms over 18" in that timeframe. we all jump up and down with 14 or 16" or so, but seems so hard to get much more then that, yet places down south and even mid-atlantic last year seemed to belt them out all winter. why is it we can't seem to lock in on those totals? I'd prefer the smaller, more frequent storms, which usually seems to be how we build snowpack, but I'd be estatic if we wrung out at 36" storm.

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I was looking at the totals down in MA and CT. savoy, ma near 35". I grew up in maine from 1983 till 1995 then went to grad school at Uconn, but still kept track of the snows up here. Don't really recall getting too many storms over 18" in that timeframe. we all jump up and down with 14 or 16" or so, but seems so hard to get much more then that, yet places down south and even mid-atlantic last year seemed to belt them out all winter. why is it we can't seem to lock in on those totals? I'd prefer the smaller, more frequent storms, which usually seems to be how we build snowpack, but I'd be estatic if we wrung out at 36" storm.

1 word, Latitude........

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Some big differences between towns...........

...BELKNAP COUNTY...

1 ENE LACONIA 22.0 553 PM 1/12

SANBORNTON 16.0 336 PM 1/12

3 S GILFORD 15.0 428 PM 1/12

LACONIA 14.1 1153 AM 1/12 HEAVY SNOW

GILFORD 14.0 248 PM 1/12

...CARROLL COUNTY...

1 W WOLFEBORO 20.5 601 PM 1/12

4 S MOULTONBOROUGH 17.2 631 PM 1/12

5 E SANDWICH 15.0 445 PM 1/12

2 ESE ALBANY 14.0 346 PM 1/12

3 SSW EATON 13.5 219 PM 1/12 SWE 1.26IN

CRAWFORD NOTCH 11.5 354 PM 1/12

NORTH CONWAY 11.0 616 PM 1/12

2 N JACKSON 10.0 530 PM 1/12

CHATHAM 9.2 345 PM 1/12

1 SSE JACKSON 9.0 427 PM 1/12

2 ESE MADISON 8.0 1050 AM 1/12

...COOS COUNTY...

4 WSW RANDOLPH 17.0 404 PM 1/12 COCORAHS

RANDOLPH 13.5 334 PM 1/12

PINKHAM NOTCH 11.5 334 PM 1/12

TWIN MOUNTAIN 10.0 353 PM 1/12

WHITEFIELD 10.0 502 PM 1/12

GORHAM 9.0 353 PM 1/12

6 SSW PIERMONT 8.8 454 PM 1/12

2 NNE RANDOLPH 8.3 1240 PM 1/12

LANCASTER 6.0 308 PM 1/12

COLEBROOK 3.0 300 PM 1/12

...GRAFTON COUNTY...

1 NNW BRISTOL 14.6 522 PM 1/12

ENFIELD 12.0 308 PM 1/12

FRANCONIA NOTCH STAT 10.0 325 PM 1/12

5 S PIERMONT 10.0 523 PM 1/12

LINCOLN 10.0 557 PM 1/12

...MERRIMACK COUNTY...

3 NW CONCORD 22.0 627 PM 1/12

NORTHFIELD 20.2 429 PM 1/12

2 E NORTH PEMBROKE 20.0 501 PM 1/12

1 SSE HENNIKER 18.0 210 PM 1/12

NEW LONDON 13.5 221 PM 1/12 ME54

NORTH PEMBROKE 13.0 557 PM 1/12

SALISBURY 12.0 1225 PM 1/12 HEAVY SNOW

...ROCKINGHAM COUNTY...

1 S DEERFIELD 20.0 552 PM 1/12

HAMPSTEAD 19.0 347 PM 1/12

DEERFIELD 19.0 245 PM 1/12

1 S EAST HAMPSTEAD 19.0 256 PM 1/12

LONDONDERRY 18.5 418 PM 1/12

SALEM 18.0 558 PM 1/12

HAMPTON 16.0 330 PM 1/12 HAMPTON TOLL BOOTH

2 ENE STRATHAM 16.0 246 PM 1/12

3 E DERRY 15.0 346 PM 1/12

1 NNW HAMPTON 15.0 106 PM 1/12

3 WNW PORTSMOUTH 14.0 1155 AM 1/12 1 INCH IN THE PAST HOUR

1 WSW KITTERY POINT 13.5 346 PM 1/12

GREENLAND 12.5 1243 PM 1/12 GUSTS TO 32 MPH.

3 WSW LONDONDERRY 12.0 524 PM 1/12

RAYMOND 11.0 1130 AM 1/12

EPPING 8.8 347 PM 1/12

...STRAFFORD COUNTY...

3 NE ALTON 17.5 649 PM 1/12

SOMERSWORTH 14.0 528 PM 1/12

ROCHESTER 12.0 558 PM 1/12

3 N NORTHWOOD 11.0 524 PM 1/12

DURHAM 9.0 330 PM 1/12

...SULLIVAN COUNTY...

3 NW SUNAPEE 19.5 434 PM 1/12

1 S UNITY 19.0 449 PM 1/12

1 E WEST UNITY 18.0 523 PM 1/12

EAST LEMPSTER 18.0 643 PM 1/12

SUNAPEE 17.0 627 PM 1/12

2 N LEMPSTER 16.0 622 PM 1/12

SPRINGFIELD 16.0 200 PM 1/12 21 DEGREES

3 SW SPRINGFIELD 12.0 1221 PM 1/12 HEAVY SNOW

1 NNW SPRINGFIELD 9.0 1102 AM 1/12

The Salisbury Merrimack Cty is surprising to me at 12inches. I am at the town line between Webster and Salsbury, given the size of the towns I suppose that could be 8 or 10 miles from me but at that time I had 18 or so when they reported 12.

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I've driven by this sign, forget where it is off the top of my head. Rte 26? I dunno, I'll look it up.

Edit: Rte 5/35 intersection near Bethel.

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The signpost usually seen on postcards is on Jct 5 and 35, in Waterford, I think. However, the one in your pic must be in Vassalboro or nearby, judging by the mileages (especially the 7 miles to China.) The "New" must've fallen off the "Sweden 232 mi." sign, as that town is next to Stockholm (natch!), which is next to Caribou. "Sweden" is in western Maine, north of Fryeburg.

Some others: Madrid, Calais, Wytopitlock (jk on the last, real place but not like the others)

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Event totals: 9.2” Snow/0.91” L.E.

Wednesday 1/12/2011 10:00 P.M. update: The snowfall hasn’t been very intense over the past 6 hours, but we are definitely getting bigger flakes now, and the density of the snow is less than half of what it was earlier. We did pass 80 inches of snowfall for the season with this event, and are now about 8 inches ahead of the average I have for this point in the season. If someone had told me a couple of days ago that we’d be getting almost an inch of liquid out of this system this far north, I would have been quite surprised.

Some details from the 10:00 P.M. observations are below:

New Snow: 1.5 inches

New Liquid: 0.07 inches

Snow/Water Ratio: 21.4

Snow Density: 4.7%

Temperature: 20.3 F

Sky: Light Snow (2-8 mm flakes)

Snow at the stake: 17.0 inches

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Just got done snow blowing and measuring. Only 7.5" here. Not bad but given some of the totals to the south it's a little disappointing. Never could get into the good banding. Had some 1" / hr stuff but nothing better. Still going in if you told me I would get almost 8" I would have been happy as could be so I'll take it and look to the next storm.

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The Salisbury Merrimack Cty is surprising to me at 12inches. I am at the town line between Webster and Salsbury, given the size of the towns I suppose that could be 8 or 10 miles from me but at that time I had 18 or so when they reported 12.

no way that is right. I measured a total snowfall last night of 18", and my 6 hour measurements totalled 20.0" exactly.

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The prize is you get to start following the next one......... :weight_lift:

lol ... just started doing that this morning. Not really the clipper, the one afterwards. Clipper seems like a dusting to maybe 2" thing if it gets hyper. Not sure what to make of the following storm, whether it's white, wet or both. My hunch is we see at least some rain out of it.

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Event totals: 11.4” Snow/0.95” L.E.

Wednesday 1/13/2011 6:00 A.M. update: We got another 2.2 inches of what seems like upslope snow overnight, with big flakes up to 15 mm in diameter. It’s still snowing and there’s another 0.8 inches on the board already, so we will break the 1-foot mark with this event. With the synoptic snow down and this fluffy upslope on top, it’s a recipe for some excellent skiing on the slopes. The totals I’ve seen for the Vermont resorts with this storm added in seem to be around 2 to 3 feet over the past week.

Some details from the 6:00 A.M. observations are below:

New Snow: 2.2 inches

New Liquid: 0.04 inches

Snow/Water Ratio: 55.0

Snow Density: 1.8%

Temperature: 17.8 F

Sky: Light Snow (2-15 mm flakes)

Snow at the stake: 18.0 inches

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Finished up with 8.0" on the dot and a LE of 0.55".

By no means the storm that others saw but a nice snowfall regardless. As I've said before, we almost never jackpot, we're often stuck in the middle (with you) between upslopes to the west, coastals to the east and clippers to the north, but we rarely get shut out. It's slow & steady. Build the pack baby, build the pack.

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Finished up with 8.0" on the dot and a LE of 0.55".

By no means the storm that others saw but a nice snowfall regardless. As I've said before, we almost never jackpot, we're often stuck in the middle (with you) between upslopes to the west, coastals to the east and clippers to the north, but we rarely get shut out. It's slow & steady. Build the pack baby, build the pack.

Just eyballing it, but it seems like we got 11 - 12" or so.

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lol ... just started doing that this morning. Not really the clipper, the one afterwards. Clipper seems like a dusting to maybe 2" thing if it gets hyper. Not sure what to make of the following storm, whether it's white, wet or both. My hunch is we see at least some rain out of it.

We have some time on next weeks for it to trend better, Euro has it developing further east, GFS is what it is west, It could be west of here just as easy as east, But we shall see, Clipper looks like it could end up being a 1-2" 2-4" deal if it ends up developing sooner but we will watch the trends......

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