Waiting for what comes next

Slickcraft · 10-30-2011, 10:31 AM

We just got back from a walk around Woodlands Road in West Alton, about 2 miles from our house. While we got 14" at our house on the hill away from the lake, there were some areas on Woodlands Rd. with zero snow. The NE wind coming across the warm lake must have resulted in all rain. I have never seen such disparity over such a short distance.

DickR · 10-30-2011, 10:57 AM

Slick, I know what you mean about local disparities. Newbie reports 9-10" on Long Island, and I'm guessing the southern end. Here on the NE end we got maybe 3-4" of wet stuff, not even worth shoveling. Mother nature will do a better job in less time. The Weather Channel site provides a snow depth map based on cumulative radar echoes, and there is a narrow band of 12+ inches coming up from the SW corner of the state, through Concord (22" on TWC) and Manchester, clips the southern end of the lake, and up into the Maine mountains. In the past, CLA has commented on some local areas to the SW of the Ossipee range as being in the "snow shadow" of those mountains, getting notably less precipitation out of some northeasters.

10-30-2011, 10:31 AM	#1
Slickcraft Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Welch Island and The Taylor Community Posts: 3,301 Thanks: 1,222 Thanked 2,088 Times in 955 Posts	We just got back from a walk around Woodlands Road in West Alton, about 2 miles from our house. While we got 14" at our house on the hill away from the lake, there were some areas on Woodlands Rd. with zero snow. The NE wind coming across the warm lake must have resulted in all rain. I have never seen such disparity over such a short distance.

10-30-2011, 10:57 AM	#2
DickR Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 751 Thanks: 4 Thanked 259 Times in 171 Posts	Slick, I know what you mean about local disparities. Newbie reports 9-10" on Long Island, and I'm guessing the southern end. Here on the NE end we got maybe 3-4" of wet stuff, not even worth shoveling. Mother nature will do a better job in less time. The Weather Channel site provides a snow depth map based on cumulative radar echoes, and there is a narrow band of 12+ inches coming up from the SW corner of the state, through Concord (22" on TWC) and Manchester, clips the southern end of the lake, and up into the Maine mountains. In the past, CLA has commented on some local areas to the SW of the Ossipee range as being in the "snow shadow" of those mountains, getting notably less precipitation out of some northeasters.