Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Winter '16 / '17 - Snow Storm #3: Preliminary Verification

Table of preliminary storm-total snowfalls for SUN and MON from CDUS41 and CXUS51 bulletins.

Exceptions:
HYA
Storm-total snowfall estimated by interpolation of vicinity PNSBOX reports and evaluation of METARs.

ORH
13-FEB/s daily CLI and CF6 bulletins carry 'MM' as daily snowfall at post-time.  Storm-total snowfall entered as reported by PNSGYX and evaluation of METARs.  Value subject to change pending CDUS41 and CXUS51 bulletin updates.

IAD
Daily climate bulletin carries 'T'; however ... no evidence of frozen precipitation in METARs.

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Stations observed at least:
Trace - 16
4" - 9
6" - 7
8" - 5
10" - 4
12" - 2
18" - 1

Max melt-water at PWM (1.57")
Other stations with > 1" melt-water:  BGR (1.04")

Snow-Liquid Ratios (SLR) for areas with mixed precipitation ... such as BDL and BOS ... are not reported.

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Two new daily records.
12-FEB-17
BTV - 7.6" (6.8"; 1988)

13-FEB-17
BGR - 21.5" (6.3"; 1977)

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Please report any errors in Comments along with a link to the correct data.

Final results NLT WED evening.

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