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  1. coastalplainsnowman
    Presumably only coming out of the faucets! Great to hear. Worst feeling in the world once the pipes freeze, just hoping that it ends well.
  2. coastalplainsnowman
    Thanks. My memory of the 1982 winter was all about the April blizzard. I didn't realize that winter featured a rare cold snap as well.
  3. coastalplainsnowman
    Granted we've lost some of this snowpack to sublimation and will continue to do so, but once temps start to moderate, would the melting snowpack be equivalent of a decent rainstorm? Maybe like 0.5" based on what the liquid equivalents were of the last storm (or last two storms, depending on location) less any sublimation?
  4. coastalplainsnowman
    exactly. 0F with 40mph winds: old chart: -53 0F with 40mph winds: new chart: -29 -53 sounds much cooler, pun intended.
  5. coastalplainsnowman
    Oh man. It's one thing to be in this weather just to get in and out of the car. It's another thing to be out working in it (or even, to a much lesser extent, just waiting 15 minutes for a train.) Working by the water no less. I can't even fathom it.
  6. coastalplainsnowman
    Agreed. Low teens with no wind is actually invigorating to me. What's going on out there right now though is as brutal as I can remember.
  7. coastalplainsnowman
    That webcam at the traffic circle in Montauk still looks like it did 8 hours ago. Unreal! And to look at the radar (barely green on the radar view Upton uses) you wouldn't think they were getting much at all.
  8. coastalplainsnowman
    This backbuilding / snow rotating in from the NE, totals of half a foot beyond what was forecast - I don't recall the possibility even being discussed for our any part of our area, and usually every possibility is discussed. Was it always expected, but just expected to occur further east?
  9. coastalplainsnowman
    Montauk Circle traffic cam looking sweet right now. Following is the link with a blank before the "//" so that big image doesn't clutter the feed, also since it's been shared before: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL6HrtRsR3o
  10. coastalplainsnowman
    You're thinking of a different stat - "cumulative complaining."
  11. coastalplainsnowman
    I respectfully disagree . I believe this ever since being introduced to the ‘cumulative snowpack’ stat (h/t Don), which I think is the best stat for how wintry a winter will be remembered, especially by the average person. I believe that years from now we’ll remember the cold and occasionally frigid temps, but we’ll mostly remember the deep snow and icepack which refused to budge for weeks, as well as the unique nature of the storm itself. If this had just been a two week stretch with an average high in the high 20s, with no snow, it would be very forgettable.
  12. coastalplainsnowman
    Anyone remember the old wind chill tables pre 2001? Some of those numbers seemed ridiculous even at the time. Under the old wind chill system, on Saturday night, the predicted 4 degree temperature for me would result in a wind chill of roughly -45 during a 40 mph max predicted gust, vs. the -22 in the current tables. The "Freezer Bowl" playoff game in 1982 between the Bengals and Chargers featured a -9 game time temperature and 35 mph gusts. As reported at the time, the wind chill was -59 at the time, and based on the tables seems it would have been even lower. Today, it would be a relatively mild -41.
  13. coastalplainsnowman
    Same here. If we had gotten even another foot this past weekend a lot of those would become zero way streets. And yes, I still wish we had gotten another foot.
  14. coastalplainsnowman
    Some day we should do Super Bowl - type boxes with Max Temp and Min Temp on the axes. Could do it on Super Bowl Sunday itself. Split the day into quarters. Max and Min temp between Midnight to 6AM, 6:01 - Noon, 12:01 PM - 6PM, and 6:01PM to Midnight. Anyway, 19 / 9 with 0.75” snow
  15. coastalplainsnowman
    That's an interesting stat and probably as good an indicator as any of how 'snowy' a winter will be remembered by the average Joe.
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