The Official 12/19/08 Storm Discussion Thread

[nelsapbm]

My area (home) got upgraded to a warning sometime early this morning....4-8". I'm on the extreme northern edge of said warning area abutting an advisory area where only 2-4" are predicted...so who the heck knows what we'll get. Snow is snow though and I'll take it. Sunday is looking much better for us up in northern VT so far. Have fun for those of you down south today I'm jealous.

 

[danny p]

started puking snow @ 12:00 here in the hudson valley....20 minutes and the ground is already covered....just an hour and a half until I'm outta work and playin' in the snow!

 

[ctenidae]

Started around 11 in Greenwich. Started sticking about 1/2 an hour ago. Probably 1/4 to 1/2 inch on flat surfaces already.

 

[Greg]

27 degrees and some light flakes just started. Game on!

 

[Grassi21]

Coming down at a decent clip. I will be rolling north at 1:30.

 

[ALLSKIING]

Dumping on LI.......2 inches so far

 

[o3jeff]

Started coming down here in Southington a few minutes ago.

 

[wa-loaf]

Nothing here yet. Sure looks/feels like snow though.

 

[WJenness]

Still dry in Woburn... leaving now for Wa!!! so pumped.

-w

 

[o3jeff]

Wow, its really starting to come down now.

 

[campgottagopee]

been puking snow now for almost 3 hrs w/ 4" on ground---1 hr till lift off for me

 

[Greg]

Moderate fine snow. 26 degrees. Visibility is dropping. Leaving in an hour.

 

[skiing is life]

just started snowing here. dusting so far and its only been 10-15 mins

 

[pepperdawg]

Category 5 Kill-Storm here....

 

[bvibert]

Coming down hard here. The roads are getting a bit slick and people are driving like there's 3 feet of snow on the ground already.

 

[Greg]

25 degrees and closing in on inch one. Leaving for the mountain in a few.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Coming down hard here. The roads are getting a bit slick and people are driving like there's 3 feet of snow on the ground already.

I find the first 1-2 inches are the worst to drive in. Once there is more, the snowtires have something to grab instead of cutting through to the frozen slick pavement underneath.

 

[The Sneak]

1st lazy flakes around 1 pm here in South Kingstown RI.

Dumping as of 1:30!

 

[hiroto]

Started to snow in Newton. Working from home today.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

First observation: 28 degrees, cloudy. The radar is showing the snow just coming into CT, but I suspect initially some virga. I would imagine that it's going to come in like the 12/13/07 storm with a wall of snow. NWS is thinking this thing might go a bit north so some sleet mixing in is a concern. Still going to be a huge net gain.

When the snow started at earnest this morning around 8:45AM at Blue it was a freaking wall of snow with rates of 1-2 inches an hour..now it's changed over to freezing rain and sleet..we have a net gain here so you'll definitely have one in northern Connecticut..