We got less than 2" in south county. It pretty much rained all day. Snow fell after 2pm, but didn't start sticking until around 8:30. It let up by 10. Even though the wind was freezing, the air temps never dropped below 32.

All those climate change warnings are catching up

Meanwhile where I live in Fitchburg it was catching every snowflake like they were Pokemon. Fitchburg is in that weird spot being in the foothills and getting snow like Western Mass.

Yea I hope that area is safe, definitely one of the harder hit locations. I think alot of it had to do with specific temperature because it was just about a degree or 2 warmer than 32 during the majority of the storm. Then again idk for sure like I live in an elevated spot above 600' also just a completely bizarre storm.

Southern Worcester County here. Total snow accumulation all winter less than 10”. Barely a dusting yesterday.

That rain/snow line was basically hovering over Worcester. I’m surprised it started snowing as early as it did by me. Oh well, sun’s out now, it’ll all be gone by Saturday.

Got about 20” in Rutland, but not far from us folks got practically nothing.

The snow amount differences were insane!

We’re literally always directly on the line between the greater and lesser amounts. And it really depends on whether you’re downslope or upslope in Fitchburg. Massive amounts of snow up by Oakhill every time.

I'm In south Worcester near Holy cross and we barely got 6" of snow that actually accumulated.

was in a musical yrs ago whose rehearsal was at anna maria...had to drive between paxton and worcester for a few months that had snow...made me start to wonder how exactly they anyone descides to draw town line 'cause more than once the rain/snow line was literally the worcester/paxton line.

Temperature generally decrease 3.5 degrees F for every 1000 feet of elevation. Downtown Worcester is about 500’ above sea level, Holden is about 900. That couple degrees of temperature is the difference in this case between snow and rain. Also imagine it was 20 degrees and this was light fluffy snow it would be more like 3 feet. FYI at my house I got at least 24”.

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Having flashback of the burg's snow plows taking out my first car and mangling me in the process. Stay safe and enjoy the snow filling in the potholes!

I live off of Millbury and didn't even need to shovel the sidewalk. Thanks, foot traffic!

Same. I got 26” in Fitchburg.

Definitely, I could be wrong but it feels like the snowfall differences between the west of worcester and the majority of worcester are becoming somewhat more drastic over time.

My wife and I were told that we brought the "unseasonable" weather with us when we moved up here from Louisiana last August.

Seriously? In the Paxton area we got....maybe 6 inches? If that?

Not a meteorologist but Worcester counties pretty big and there's lots of bodies of water and landscape that could alter the wind patterns.

Or it's something more serious.

The most strange.. feels like something isn’t right. Hmmm.

Worcester actually is in two different climate zones.

Yea that's true, pretty certain most of the city is in the northeastern sea plain (for Massachusetts) Climate while I believe the areas above 800' elevation are in the southern worcester plateau climate. I feel like the terrains between 400-750 feet used to get significantly more snow than they have recently.

Downtown got maybe 4inches? i can't tell there was so much salt used and it's practically gone here

Yea my friend lives on Airport Hill and it's remarkable how much colder it'll be when I go and how much more snow they get.

I live on another hill in Southern Worcester, so it's quite interesting to me.

I don't remember which is which, or even which zones are in Worcester, but I looked it up when I was buying flowers online. Wanted to make sure that my beautiful lilies could survive N. Worcester

8 inches of snow on my truck at green hill later I was in S Grafton and ther3e was NO SNOW unreal

I'm over on a street connecting burncoat st and west Boylston st. It feels like we got the whole 12inches they predicted in my area. Lol I had to snowblow once and shovel 1 more time at like 1am after that.

Reminds me of the ice storm in 2008. I was on Indian lake. My side was fine, my dad on the other side had trees down, power out for 2 weeks etc...literally a mile away.

Weather be strange.

List of folks in Fitchburg/Ashby were still without power this morning.

I've been around long enough to know that up until now there is no set pattern in our winters. They have been trending warmer but not consistently. So for some of us this winter has been a nice break from the usual cold and snowy. If the trend continues for a few more winters, I'd be concerned but it could still be New England just being New England. We are very fortunate to live here. The last major blizzard was in 78, hurricanes usually brush by us, we've had a couple of tornadoes but not a single earthquake.

It's possible that indian lake is a weather barrier as it seemed that it was a barrier to the significant snow during this storm, because when it was falling in the western parts of the city and the hilltowns consistently during Monday night it seemed that the rain/snow line was like a half mile/mile north of the lake usually and the traffic on 190 seemed to significantly level off once you got to the lake portion of it.

I'd agree but even down the road there was a difference.