Dud?

Yea, the storm was a little bit of a dud here. I measured 2.5 inches of snow in Hanover, under the 3-5 forecast. The reason? We were shadowed by the local mountains, again. There were times when the sun was shinning through the clouds today when the snow was supposed to be coming down at its steadiest. We had a SE wind for awhile today, and 2700 foot Croydon peak is to out SE, so we can get shadowed by that, and then we had a E to NE wind, and can be shadowed by the Moose Mtn and some other local mtns to our E and NE. Then the storm transfered its energy to the coastal low and our snow tapered off as winds turned N.

Amounts towards southern NH and Mass were higher, and approached 10 inches. Highest amount I could find was 9 inches in Worcester county, MA. In NH, New Ipswich had 6.5 inches. In the White Mtns, preliminary amounts range from 2-5 inches, with the notches picking up the most.

Overall, the storm pretty much behaved itself. I just wish we could have picked up a little more.
Weekend: Looks good! Late Feb sunshine should boost our temps into the mid and possibly upper 30s tomorrow, with light and variable winds, and same for Sunday, with a more steady breeze blowing that day. We'll have to wait for the early next week to see what the Tuesday's storm is going to do.

And on that note, a random picture.