It is early

I had a feeling the snow would come in early, but I didn't think the first flakes would start flying around 8am. The actual accumulations just started now, and that was what I was thinking. Another interesting thing: the sun appears to be shinning a little bit through the clouds, giving this the feeling of an early spring snowstorm, despite the 19 degree temperature in Lebanon, and 20 in Hanover.

This type of storm had early start written all over it, but now that its started, I still don't think we're going to get a lot of extra accumulation. It will probably behave itself. The coastal low really hasn't strengthened yet, and its forecast to move south of New England and hit central MA and southern NH the hardest. During the afternoon, amounts of over 1 inch per hour will be common there, and will add up towards 8-10 inches, maybe a little more since the storm has started early.

Up here, we are just a little too far from the heaviest precipitation, but are getting into a good front end hit from this warm air advection snow since it started early. If we get into the moderate snow from the actual coastal low later tonight, it is conceivable we get into the upper end of the 3-5 inches that is currently forecast, maybe a bit more. The heaviest will be early this evening, and then the snows will taper off after that. It kind of looks like a storm where the radar won't show all of the snow falling, because right now we have steady light snow, with 8/10 mile visibility, and the radar shows almost nothing.

Still a bright sky right now....snow flakes don't look perfect, but the it is fluffy, so it will be easy to shovel.

If this storm goes to crap and we get into the 1+ inch per hour snows, I'll write something else.