Saturday March 4 2023 Forecast (7:52AM)

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DAYS 1-5 (MARCH 4-8)

A stormy Saturday with a variety of precipitation (snow to the north and away from the coast, some sleet, and rain closer to the coast and down to the south). As a secondary low pressure takes over from the primary one, and heads into the waters to our east, colder air wrapping into the system will change the rain back over to snow as it is in the process of tapering to showers, providing some additional accumulation in areas that saw a burst of snow first that then went to sleet and rain, so the overall snow accumulation forecast for the event as a whole is the same as previously, but this is a reminder that in a system with “mild” air, and precipitation transitions, you’re not going to “see” all of that snowfall on the ground at once. There is settling and melting that goes on as a part of the process. Storm exits overnight and early Sunday with a few lingering snow showers around on a trough, then we get into a northwesterly air flow of mainly dry and chilly weather for the rest of the weekend and the first half of next week, with the exception of a low pressure disturbance that has to pass close to or through the region on Tuesday, on its way to be absorbed by offshore low pressure. That is our only real shot of unsettled weather after this system during the rest of this 5-day period, and it wont’ be a big deal.

TODAY: Cloudy. Snow/sleet north, rain to the south, transitioning back to snow and snow showers from northwest to southeast with some additional accumulation bringing totals for the event to under 2 inches south and east of I-95 belt, 2-4 inches I-95 belt, 4-8 inches to the northwest of there. Highs 33-40. Wind E-NE 10-20 MPH inland and 20-30 MPH coast with higher gusts early, shifting to N 10-20 MPH and gusty midday-afternoon.

TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow showers. Lows 25-32. Wind N to NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

SUNDAY: Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers early morning. Sun and passing clouds thereafter. Highs 35-42. Wind NW 10-20 MPH.

SUNDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear. Lows 23-30. Wind NW 5-15 MPH, higher gusts.

MONDAY: Sun and passing clouds. Highs 38-45. Wind NW 10-20 MPH, gusty.

MONDAY NIGHT: Clouds increase. Lows 28-35. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY: Cloudy with period of snow except rain or snow in coastal areas. Highs 36-43. Wind variable 5-15 MPH.

TUESDAY NIGHT: Clearing. Lows 22-29. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

WEDNESDAY: Sunny to partly cloudy. Highs 37-44. Wind NW 5-15 MPH.

DAYS 6-10 (MARCH 9-13)

Northwesterly air flow of mainly dry and chilly weather early in the period. Watching the March 11-13 period for potential storminess.

DAYS 11-15 (MARCH 14-17)

During the final full week of winter, expect near to below normal temperatures and the need to watch for one or two potential systems that can bring some frozen precipitation to the region.

171 thoughts on “Saturday March 4 2023 Forecast (7:52AM)”

  1. Thanks TK !

    I was wrong !

    Nonetheless, I enjoyed looking at and trying to understand what the models were presenting the last 48-72 hrs.

  4. TK, thank you.

    Interesting what can happen in a certain locale with this setup. I live in Essex County so I am further north which means more frozen accumulation than those to the south. But I live near the shore which means less accumulation. But I live up a hill which means more accumulation. Total accumulation=who knows!

    Flipping between sleet and some rain right now.

  6. Thanks TK.

    I would say it’s a mix of rain/sleet/ice pellets here.

    TK – Are we pretty much going to see just these “mixed” events for the rest of the winter into early spring? Will we have to wait until next winter for any “all snow” events in SNE?

    Darn that SE ridge!!! 🙁

  7. Thank you, TK, for the time and energy you put into woodshill weather along with sharing your meteorological expertise.

    Am I disappointed we didn’t get more than we were told to expect so far? You bet I am. But that would be based on nothing more than wishful thinking due to my love of snow and not on my very limited knowledge of meteorology.

    You kept it real and cautioned respectfully that what I see now is what to expect when I finally wake up, along with cautioning that this is not just an overnight event.

  8. Before I left work, I did have to scrape off a decent amount of snow/ice from my front steps.

    I was sound asleep but when the snow arrived, I imagine it was a virtual “winter wonderland”, at least for a very brief time. When I got up 3-4 am it was snow/sleet getting ready for the…inevitable transformation.

  9. 0z runs of CMC and EURO show a storm threat in the 12-13th time frame as TK was mentioning in his write up.

    1. Just another C-2” event, especially for Boston. That’s been the general theme now. Oh well. 😉

  10. Barely doing anything here in Amesbury. 2 inches or so on the ground. Enough with these slopfests in this disappointing winter. Let’s get some warming and get ready for spring.

  11. Thanks, TK.

    No snow here at all. It may have snowed ever so briefly but nothing accumulated. I was up a lot during the night and checking.

    I do think the models are not properly factoring in for coastal areas how anomalously warm the water is to our east. With an east wind that is an important determinant. I also think this winter has been especially hard to predict. There’s often been no antecedent cold – like for this event and last Tuesday – and no current cold to speak of, and marginal arriving cold. It’s been strange, because many other parts of the country have had ample cold, at least at times. We haven’t. SE ridge is one issue, for sure.

    1. It turns out that when SAK & I commented that the actual event was going to be somewhere between the GFS & NAM (at that time!) ..that’s exactly what we have going on – somewhere in between.

      1. To me….and I am trying to use common sense with not an ounce of meteorological knowledge ….it makes sense to use all the model info you have.

    1. Is Lunenburg close to Jamaica Plain ? (I told JpDave 5 – 5.5 inches for Jamaica Plain yesterday) 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Enjoy SClarke !

      1. Let me check Google Maps. Yes, we are the next town over, so your prediction was only off by a mile or so. 🙂

        This happens to be the day that we are picking my son up at UMass Lowell for the “Spring” Recess.

  14. Thanks TK. I got it wrong too this time. The GFS and the most of the models are just garbage. Lesson learned again about daytime snow without intense cold or dynamics.

    1. Actually this one for me is verifying quite nicely so far.

      It’s also far from done. 🙂 Snowing like crazy here in Woburn now. So far 2.1 (forecast range was 2-4). Adding to that now.

      Most areas are about where I expected for snowfall at this stage (a couple lower).

      1. Snowing again here also. I got a solid 2.15 in an area that would not have melted as readily …although had still melted some. Grandkids will all be here later to go sledding on the hill in the backyard. Have not seen my son and family since Christmas AND last night my oldest was able to stand long enough to cook dinner for the first time in a month or two. Prayers and positive thoughts have been heard. She seems to have found a PCP and neurologist that listen.

  16. Observer I know in Fitchburg has 7 inches of new snow on the ground now. He’s up around 600 feet I believe.

  18. Here is an image of current weather on the backside of Woods Hill – Woburn. Photo taken at about 9:55 a.m.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/vPRQRL5LGkqoyWy76

    Solid moderate snow. We have already covered back over what was clear and have added a quick 0.1 with a way to go yet. Cold air is taking back over and heading southeast now.

  19. Nothing in terms of snow accumulation here (Back Bay), unfortunately. It’s been raining and snowing for several hours, but that doesn’t even create glop.

    1. In this set-up, there isn’t much for it to accumulate on there. Everything is a paved or cement surface. If you check someone’s flower pot with last year’s soil in it, they probably have an inch or two of snow. 😉

      1. If there is an inch or so and it doesn’t have a place to accumulate, is the actual amount an inch or so or zero?

        1. That is always been an interesting question / debate in observation.

          If the snow is zero on the most conducive surface for accumulation then it is zero.

          If you had a piece of white wood that had an inch of snow on it and everything else around it had nothing you had an inch.

  20. It’s really snowing here – I’m even surprised that it’s covering over the main road!

    1. I hope it does that here in Boston soon. Or will it just continue to melt? I think it’s still a “mix”w/snow at times though.

      1. More marginal there but the “cold” surfaces can accumulate snow and will do so. Pavements etc. will be mainly just wet.

  21. Radar trend: Back edge of precipitation appears stationary because it’s developing in place as it moves to the southeast. So this will be around for a while in eastern areas while the rain/mix to snow trend continues closer to the coast and further south with time.

  22. At 11-12 years of age, some students, when they get a problem wrong, they bring that with them to the next one psychologically. I’m constantly telling my students, it’s ok ! Your good ! Stay confident !!

    So, not that anyone did believe my snow projections on the this storm, but I live the philosophy I described above and I’ll definitely be sharing my take on the next storm. (Just don’t listen to me) 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    1. Tom…if I may (and apparently even if I mayn’t), your reasoning/education the past few days was actually more valuable to me and I know others than any number amount you might have forecast. I think what is being missed is that I can guess at something and perhaps be right as often as I am wrong. We all can. But it seems to me that the final number is far from the whole package. TKs comment re your expertise yesterday was one of the best comments I’ve seen on this blog since it began. There is a host of very knowledgeable folks on here that we all learn from. You are of course one of those folks. There isn’t a snowflakes chance in you know where that I won’t listen to you next time.

  23. Thanks TK for continuing on the previous blog! Sorry I repeated my comments over here as I thought you were “done”. 🙂

  26. Apologies if anybody was reading the “TODAY” portion of the forecast and got confused. I blocked a whole section of yesterday’s write-up which I copied over to today to use as a base, and when I hit DELETE it apparently never deleted. So it stayed there. It is now gone and the forecast is as it should be. 🙂

  28. That Tuesday system coming through here might have quite a little punch with it. If it was nocturnal timing we’d probably get a few inches of snow out of it. Daylight occurrence will limit that.

  29. I’m all snow in Swampscott and looks like that’ll continue through the afternoon. Not accumulating on hard surfaces, but it could change.

    1. Short range guidance has Boston to the South Shore snowing for a few to several hours through this afternoon. Even Cape Cod for a bit at the end.

      North Shore should accumulate another inch or so on accepting surfaces.

  30. Pretty solid pressure drop with the secondary low formation.

    BHO is down 20mb in just under 24 hours.

  31. Should be a nice burst of snow right down through the South Shore during the next couple hours – bringing them right into the forecast range as well (which is obviously not that much there).

    You count the ENTIRE event, not just the first few hours.

  32. I’m happy to see SClarke’s snowy scene as well as TK’s: Beautiful.

    Here it’s a cold and quite miserable mix. About as raw outside as it can get. TK is correct, there is some `spring’ snow in the old flower pots. There’s also now a thin layer of frozen something on the trees and grass. Can’t say it’s pretty. It looks like some very watery slush has come down out of the sky and randomly sticks in some places and not in (most) others.

    In any case, I’m putting all my Easter eggs in a basket that next winter won’t disappoint. I’m hoping for a snowy and cold December.

    1. While it’s going to be impossible to really apply science effectively about next winter this far in advance, I’d be willing to bet that next winter will disappoint winter weather lovers far less than this one has. 😉

  33. Today’s storm is a good lesson about snowfall versus snow depth/accumulation. Here and other places I think I have seen Tidbit “maps” posted that are definitely labelled Snowfall and then sometimes unintentionally misinterpreted as snow depth.

    1. Absolutely.

      As stated earlier, and you heard examples here from Vicki and myself – it snowed a certain amount, then either settled or melted to a lower depth. Now it snows more on top of that.

      I’m nearly 3 inches for this event so far and I’ve never had more than 2 new inches on the ground at any one time during it.

      1. Agree and I do remember you and Vicki making comments to the same.

        I think I have read technical definitions that snowfall means “the amount of snow that falls to the earth’s surface over a defined time period” or something very, very close to that. I myself sometimes forget that it does mean within a certain timeframe. I have to keep an eye on the legends on these maps.

  36. Thanks TK.

    Gotta wait on the final totals, but looks like I’ll bust too high as well. Do see a good number of 6+ reports from Worcester County and points west, and even some 2-5’s in interior northern CT and RI which is pretty solid. Seems like ratios were not very good though, and/or precip intensity was a little less than expected.

    The GFS though… yikes. Obviously, I don’t think anyone was putting all their eggs in that basket. But it really seemed like all the US-based guidance had a serious cold bias for this event, minus the NAM.

    1. Light as the snowfall might be at points in time, it could be 5 PM with a “hole” or two along the way. The warm vs cold air thing makes it tough to call out timing. At one point, I thought it would be over at 3-4 PM for me and now I saw something that suggests it could be 5-6 PM.

  39. Hi guys! Has anyone been out & about yet on 93 north or route 2 west? I have to go from Boston out to Acton at some point later today or tonight and hoping I can choose the best timing for road conditions. Thanks!!

  40. As expected no snow accumulated in Pembroke & surrounding areas . It’s 35 degrees now & I do not see any accumulation this afternoon. The wind is also not an issue at all at least here in pembroke . i went by the projected temperature & not wishful thinking or what SSK wanted it to do !

    1. Very interested. I’ve never seen a season like this. Let’s hope it doesn’t implode in the playoffs. But, I’m quite hopeful. The depth on the team is really good.

      1. Celtics, on the other hand, look gassed. Even their wins lately have been with slim margins. Their losses have been brutal. I don’t expect this team to get past the conference finals, and there’s an outside chance the Celtics don’t even make it that far. I’m not a believer in this group. Good team, for sure. But not championship great. A little like the Utah Jazz back in the day (Malone and Stockton days).

        1. Rounding out our 4 major sports teams, I’m as pessimistic about the Sox as I am the Patriots. Mediocrity reigns.

          But, our 5th team – the Revolution – will have a comeback year.

  43. 36F and gray (no precipitation at the moment). I will say this, it looks and feels like March. And, frankly, in December through February there were a ton of days that didn’t feel season- or month-appropriate.

  44. Looking at the snowfall reports per NWS – I’m satisfied with the final forecast #’s which were…

    2 inches south and east of I-95 belt, 2-4 inches I-95 belt, 4-8 inches to the northwest of there

    For folks on the South Shore, there was a coating of snowfall at the onset which was then melted in the early morning. This does indeed qualify in the “under 2 inches” category, as expected.

    1. I did not see any coating in pembroke as I was up watching it ( most of it ) it was pouring rain very early this morning

      1. Actually, there was probably about 1/2 inch.
        It snowed in your area from about 12:30AM to about 3:00AM.

        The web cam at Cohasset Middle School (southeast of you and right near the coast) show a coating of snow remaining on the ground at dawn – while it was raining.

        Abington HS web cam (a bit northwest of you) showed a complete covering of snow at dawn before it melted away.

        Friend of mine in Plymouth also reported a covering of snow in the overnight hours.

        1. Ok I was up & saw absolutely no coverage in pembroke & I believe Tom reported the same

  45. Snow just suddenly picked up here again. One more little lobe coming through…

    1. To be fair to SSK, Cohasset it quite a ways North of Pembroke
      and Abington is a fair distance WNW of Pembroke. :)_

      1. And Plymouth, where a got a report of a covering, is not.

        It snowed for 2 1/2 hours throughout that entire area and they received a coating of snow, that was then obliterated around or shortly after sunrise.

          1. Basically that entire area got a burst of snow at the beginning, and is only getting a little bit of light snow at the end, but still fall in the “under 2” forecast range.

            Simple fact. Missed a few areas, verified most. I’m quite pleased with how it went given the DAMN HEADACHE this forecast was to make, and pouring a lot of time and energy into it.

            1. You did just fine.

              I was never expecting a big snow storm here, but honestly I thought I would be closer to 3 or 4 inches and not 1 inch. 🙂

              Wankum did pretty well last evening. He had the line between C-2 inches and 2-4 inches just about through my area, so I guess it could have gone either way. I was wishing for the higher totals while my wife kept saying the Water is too warm.
              Coating to 2 inches. that’s it! 🙂

              1. Yes I did see his map last night. Most of the TV folks were right in the same ballpark and I was in general agreement with them as well.

                Again there is a misconception sometimes that it seems like we get less than what actually falls in these marginal temp situations where daylight is also a factor for part of it.

                I’m at 3 inches – which will probably be my final, but it’s still snowing here.

                FTR, I was in a 2-4 inch band.

                1. yes, I do understand. But us older folks
                  never looked at it that way,
                  Whenever it snowed we stuck a ruler or yardstick in the snow and that was how much it snowed. Period.

                  If I measured a foot, it could have snowed
                  15-20 inches to end up with that foot
                  depending on sun angle, temperature,water content etc…..

                  I am still not sure what the “Official” way to measure is. Measure and wipe away and
                  repeat every so many hours.

                  believe me I understand, but you hear where I am coming from as well. 🙂

              3. As highly as I think of Wankum, he had a tweet that had my youngest thinking we were getting at least 7”.

                My first thought she was using a weather app, but she said it was from Mike wankum. I thought she had to have misread. But I can Absolutely see why this is so confusing. At first I thought he was saying 7” or maybe 13. His two tweets both at same time yesterday

                This was first as I scrolled down
                https://twitter.com/metmikewcvb/status/1631499875861905409?s=61&t=ce4mJRq91JtL8cJ1kZYs0A

                I would have missed this if I had not scrolled more.
                I get what he is saying but only because of discussion on whw. But I if I were not aware and went by the two male in first tweet, I’d see 4” in Boston and 7” here. I

                https://twitter.com/metmikewcvb/status/1631497941050376192?s=61&t=ce4mJRq91JtL8cJ1kZYs0A

                2. He was clear to me only after I scrolled down several tweets to see how actual forecast. If you were the average person and saw only the top tweet along with his comment that he based his forecast on the euro, would it have been clear to you.

  51. Just flakes now but looks like I’ll see another band later this afternoon.

    Bruins with a short-handed goal. 2-0

  52. Classic look of a late winter/early spring event on the radar. If you look at it in eastern MA right now you will know exactly what I mean.

      1. You have a batch of heavier clouds above to arrive from the NNE with a few snow showers as well.

        1. Yeah, it’s not a wrap yet. Not until tonight / early tomorrow morning. Until then we still have a trough with snow showers around with scattered additional dustings / coatings of snow possible as colder air moves back across the region.

  53. Snowing nicely yet again here … Every time one of those little cellular radar echoes moves over me I get a nice burst of flakes with brief breaks in between. I love this type of weather very very much. 🙂

  54. We have a shot at a neat little weather event on Tuesday.

    It will depend on the track / movement of the incoming system and its interaction with a larger low offshore that will absorb it.

    Big low spins offshore to our east.
    Smaller low pressure area moves from the upper Midwest through the Great Lakes and into NY / New England.
    Batch of snow (some rain to the south) moves in with and crosses our area from west to east.
    Batch of precip then feels the influence of the larger circulation to the east and slows, then is captured by the circulation of the larger low and spins back to the southwest and south, back through our region in the opposite direction.

    It will be interesting to see if that happens. 🙂

    It’s not like we never see this. We’ve actually seen it several times recently, but a little more in the form of a system moving at us from the southwest, primary low into Great Lakes, redevelopment to the south, and axis of low pressure coming back down through the region behind that. But it will be cool to see it more in response to a big low to the east altering the behavior of one coming from the west.

    1. Due to the milder winter there, ice coverage is below the long term average, which is no surprise given the stability and persistence of the pattern.

      The Great Lakes seldom ever completely freeze over. In fact, that’s rare. They are too big.

      Lake Michigan has never fully frozen over. The other 4 have at one point or another, but very infrequently.

  56. Grandkids and a couple of dads got several hours of sledding in here with varying degrees of snow throughout

    Light snow here at the moment. As was the case on Monday, we have less snow than we started with after a day of snow. Longshot’scomment re snowfall vs snow depth/accumulation is spot on.

    Wind picked up here a bit ago. Humarock wunder stations won’t load for me but Marshfield Hills and Scituate both have winds gusting in the low 30s

  57. Light snow still coming down here. Think it could last til 5-6 PM, though no accumulation.

    1. No Much happening here. Had a snow shower about 15 minutes ago that lasted maybe 10 minutes. Every time I look out, it’s doing NOTHING, except that once. 🙂

      1. Same here, actually it came down quite moderately. Didn’t last nearly long enough to whiten the ground though.

    1. Have noticed that, too.

      English gray day outside. And that, my friends, has been the most persistent `pattern’ we’ve experienced all winter. Boston has turned into its namesake; Boston, England. Lots and lots of gray days – 30s, 40s, 50s – as many as I can ever remember in a 3-month stretch.

      I’m preparing for another 2 months of mostly gray, as we’re entering Boston’s traditionally often raw and gray period. I’m not saying we’ll have lots of precipitation. But I am saying we’ll have lots of clouds and nothingness. The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard would feel right at home. he wrote a book on being and nothingness.

      1. I actually love that part of the year. It’s like a pause before the emergence of new life. 🙂 There’s an anticipation there that seeps through the greyness.

    2. If you look at my forecast above, you’ll see that low temperatures tonight will be generally in the 20s, so we will have a freeze-up, but not a “flash-freeze”, as it is not a rapid temperature drop.

      Incidentally, this is a good example of something talked about here recently. Detailed conditions vs. snow amounts. In this case, the amount of snow that fell at Boston has nothing to do with the reason to put down chemicals to treat roads. It’s the fact the roads are wet now, and can freeze later due to a temperature drop. This is where a detailed hour-by-hour forecast from a good weather service is invaluable.

    3. Well projected temps for Boston at 9 are 32 then going into the upper 20’s through the night so it’s a good call laying something down

      1. I’m curious what source you use for your projected temps. NWS? Weather app? Ch 5? I know it’s not WHW since I don’t do hour-by-hour on a routine basis. 😉

        Weather apps are hit & miss. The best free source is NWS point forecast hour-by-hour.

          1. It’s not too bad.

            There are apps that pull their forecast from the GFS model that last night were telling people that 15 inches of snow would be occurring overnight, in this area. Nope.

  59. Moderate snow here … again … starting to cover over cold surfaces. This is all off the ocean now. Closely-spaced cellular radar pattern .. lots of snow showers.

  60. Alot of my friends are sending me pictures of the ski conditions they are enjoying the past few weeks. My Dad and brother went to Stowe, first time any of us has gone to stowe since prior to Vail buying them out. (hate vail). Anyway people are saying they are seeing some of the best skiing they have seen in a few years. March can end up being one of if not the best months to go skiing. As someone that loves to ski, I wish I could afford to go up to new England for a few days to go skiing, I went once this season at WAWA back in early January on mainly man made snow. I am hopeful for next season

    1. NNE has done quite well of late and most of it will end up above normal in snowfall for the season.

      Last night, Petey B. was talking about how March is the best month for skiing here in New England. I think taking into account the longer daylight, less harsh cold, and just after the peak season he’s probably right on the money. I don’t ski so I have no experience to add to this opinion. 🙂

    2. I’m beyond happy for the ski areas. It’s been mostly manmade in Many. My oldest daughter was in Stowe four-ish weeks ago and my son last weekend and there was almost no snow. Friends in North Conway also said it is best skiing of the season.

        1. You are absolutely correct. And I was wrong. It was the president’s day weekend two weeks ago when there was no snow in the Stowe area. Keeping track of time seems to be a stretch for me lately. That said, it is really nice to that the ski areas finally have natural snow

  61. https://photos.app.goo.gl/P6RVtGo2EhgFWTrL8

    The first link is a screenshot from the radar image in the last few minutes (4:42 p.m.) .. I am located where the blue circle is. You can see I’m just finally coming out of that batch of snow showers but it remains pretty extensive to myself and is wheeling around the backside of that low offshore now.

    The next link is a video that I shot a short time ago right near the end of the snow showers. It was heavier than this just moments before but here it is lightening up. I pan down a little bit so you can see that we have a few inches of solid snow cover here.

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/uRU5UoJX1Scg1Z7s6

  62. A comment on the B’s. They have 5 days off before next game. Today they won but certainly over the next 5 days the coach will be talking about POWER PLAYS. B’s are 7th or 8th on power play O. The coach isn’t going to be satisfied with that.

    The team has sacrificed draft picks for trades. They are all-in for the Cup. The coach has set up a do or die scenario. Like it or hate it, that’s what it is!

    1. I know very, very little about hockey but I do feel that POWER PLAY goals are very important come playoff time. Correct?

      1. A strong power play is always important, but a strong penalty kill is even more important IMO.

      1. Actually they will be , he was informed that he will be getting released in the coming weeks .

  67. Well so much for the snow being over up my way… There is nothing showing up on radar yet I am experiencing more snow and lowering visibility.

    This has to be very low level with the radar beam shooting over it.

  69. It has been snowing in the Halifax/Pembroke area for a couple of hours now. Getting a nice coating on my deck and the lawn.

    1. Awesome Sue. Nothing here in a while but enough for four younger grandkids, my son and a SIL to sled for a couple of hours and for daughter, DIL and and me to sit inside and watch 🙂

    2. Barely anything in my area outside the center , spotty sugar coatings in some spots .

      1. Interesting. Went to dinner at Damien’s and drove though Hanson and Pembroke on my ride home and there was a coating on all grassy surfaces. Perhaps your street in Pembroke is the new “Charlie Hole”.

        1. Well, I picked up my son at Kohl’s at 8 & I can snap a picture of my yard as I said it’s nothing but some spotty snow on the cars & grass but I can see the yard fine .

  71. Boston’s Least Snowiest:
    1. 9.0” = 1936-37
    2. 9.3” = 2011-12
    3. 10.3” = 1972-73
    4. 11.9” = 2022-23 (to date)**
    5. 12.7” = 1979-80

    1. They’ll be falling out of the top 5 before too long. Knew that was eventually going to happen. 🙂

  73. I like seeing/following Philip’s Worcester-Boston tally, especially after last year’s upset. But, in reality it’s not a rivalry. Worcester is almost always snowier than Boston. Similarly, the Boston-NYC rivalry in snowfall is not really a fight among equals. Sure, NYC sometimes beats Boston. But, it’s rare. Rarer still to see Philly beat Boston, though it has happened.

  74. The 00z GFS tries to recreate the 100-hour snowstorm next weekend while the 00z ECMWF tries to recreate the Blizzard of 78 next weekend. I trust neither.

    1. 0z GFS storm for next weekend of course is gone at 6z.

      Definitely a watch period though for next weekend into early next week

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