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Snowfall totals, update - 12/20/2009 2:15 PM
We saw much less snow than was expected, only around 3", mostly due to the fact that the air was extremely dry at the onset of the snow here in Western Mass, keeping the snow
from starting until after midnight. Areas to our south and east saw much more. In fact, just over the border in Staffordville they saw 6", likewise with just to our east
in Southbridge. The jackpot was just a bit further than that, with 12-22" amounts widespread in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Southeastern Massachusetts.
Just an interesting climatological note: we have not seen a 12" or more snowstorm here in Monson since 2006, when we received 20" on the February 11th storm. Since then, we
have seen a number of 10" storms, but none reaching a foot.
I also want to take a moment to mention our temperatures over the past week. We hit our seasonal low thusfar on Friday the 18th, when he hit 4.7° at 7:01 AM. On Thursday,
our daytime high was a mere 19.7° (the high temperature for the 24 hour day was 24° at 12:06AM), and we also didn't make it out of the 20s on Friday or Saturday, and will not again today,
making it 5 days since we've seen 30° here in Monson.
Our next show at precipitation looks to be Christmas day. Unfortunately, this looks to be in the form of rain, perhaps starting out as a mix or light snow. The brunt of the
rain looks to fall on the 26th though, with perhaps over an inch falling. Temperatures may also reach the 50s on the 26th for the first time since December 4th. This looks to
diminish the snow that we received last night. It looks likely that most of our snow will hold out through Christmas, as temperatures should only be in the 30s through then.
Happy Holidays!
Winter Storm Warning - 10:45AM 12/19/2009
We now have a winter storm warning in effect for tonight. A very powerful storm is moving up the East Coast, bringing blizzard warnings to Washington, D.C., up to Long Island,
and out on Cape Cod and the southeastern New England coastline. Previously, the projected track of this storm was expected to bring us only around a couple of inches of snow here
in Western Massachusetts, however, this has changed. The track of the storm is now a bit further northwest, and I'm now expecting anywhere between 6 and 12 inches of snow here in Hampden County
down into northern Connecticut. Any shift in the track north and west will bring us more snow, right now southeastern Massachusetts is expected to see over a foot. Again, accounting for
a bit of a shift in the models, expect snowfall totals anywhere from 6-12" tonight into tomorrow.
Winter Storm Update - 12/9/2009 8:51 AM
Snow is now changing over to sleet here in Monson with a temperature of 32.7. Within a couple of hours we should be seeing some rain as well, as it is now raining heavily from Hartford
east to Willimantic, CT, with mixed precip at Bradley Airport. So far we've received just about 6" of snow.
