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Dec 6 1981 a low moved east of Virginia coast early am and bombed out as it tracked slowly ENE south of New England. Because of it's low track, the gulf-stream helped fuel the intense deepening. Here in SE Mass. precip. actually started as rain late morning but rapidly mixed with then changed to snow as precip. came down heavy. Temps near 40 rapidly fell to 32 and snow began accumulating by mid afternoon. Winds also were powerfull running 30+ sustained gusting to 60+ in coastal areas. The following nite saw 1-3 inch per hour snowfall rates with very wet snow breaking branches and some power-lines. Snow continued most of the next day (Dec7) gradually tapering off late in the day. Here in SE Mass 15-20 in. fell with 8-12 ft. drifts. Lesser amounts fell north (Boston area) as they were out of the heaviest snow sheild as well as Cape Cod (rain mixed). I can remember the forecasters calling for little snowfall the nite before due to southerly track and computer guidence but explosive development made the difference. Pressure here (near Taunton) as low as 29.36 even though storm was 300+ miles underneath us. I believe the mid-atlantic got very little from this storm which was localized to southern New England.
