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| One of nine Snow Analysis maps provided by the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, an office of the National Weather Service (NWS) |
The National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (now say that ten times, really fast), an office of the National Weather Service (NWS), offers up a detailed Regional Snow Analysis - everything you could possibly want to know about snow across the country, from “Snow Water Equivalent” to “Average Snowpack Temperature” to “Snow Depth" and more. And you might as well settle in and ponder snow. Although we’re not getting anything like the blizzard conditions that will be bringing as much as 10-15” of new snow today to parts of eastern and coastal Massachusetts, RI and NH, we are under a Winter Weather Advisory here in Hampshire County. Yesterday, it looked as though the whole system – with its “explosive cyclogenesis” and “strong omega” (rapidly forming low pressure system and strong upward vertical motion) – would barely brush us. We still won’t experience anything like the coastal version of this storm, but the storm is tracking a little more westerly than previously predicted, and that means we are expected to get between 2-4” of snow (maybe even as much as 6"?) starting later this morning through the evening.
Sorry to have to say it, but yes, yes, you are going to have to dig out again for a third time this week (or more, depending on how many times you shoveled during our last storm). Just be glad we’re not looking at 15”! Now stop whining and start studying. Winter is not over yet.
[Update at 10:35am - it's snowing already, and at a pretty good rate!]
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