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We’ve skated by so many big ice storm opportunities over past 10 years; just goes to show how rare these events are…

Temps were borderline for ice here. You can tell by the amount of drippy icicles on everything, rather than a thicker radial coating.

Wish we could fast forward to May.

Predicting significant ice is for fools. I’m one of em. Seems like only areas to receive signicsnt freezing rain is in central Ma. Low level cold underperformed, 950 to 850 warmth overperformed. Even had mostly sleet up here, with poor rates throughout. Not much out there, maybe an inch. At least this largely verified in my book; not sleet but the lack of qpf.

Did Boston get the 10 inches or not?

You forgot about solar and heat pumps. I converted my entire house to electric/solar in CT in 2017. I bought my panels in cash and it took 5 years to reach my return on investment. My electricity bill from Eversource has been the $9.62 minimum connection charge since I installed them. Here is a snapshot from a sunny day earlier in the week. You can see my 2 mini splits and entire house being directly powered from my solar panels from 930-330. I have 1 to 1 net metering so all that excess I send out in the day I can use at night. Powering heat pumps directly from solar is basically free heat that is also the cleanest form of heat probably on earth since there is no combustion. Your also getting an coefficient of performance with an effective efficiency of like 300-400% compared to burning wood/fossil fuels since your just moving heat. You can also power heat pumps from other alternative clean energy sources like wind.

Starting to ice up now. Of course snow never happened but now it drops below 32 when nothing showed it.

Everything iced. A little sleet here but not much.

33-30 when I left the house this morning. A very tiny bit of scattered ice. Thankfully not more!

Uhg, solid .50” of sleet, 30°. Not even gonna try to clear. It will melt off the driveway eventually.

Ended up being pretty much all sleet here. 1.4" total. Appears to be snowing now, but the flakes are heavily rimed. 19" at the stake.

22.4° -SN Pretty good growth despite nothing on radar overhead. Probably a last hurrah.

If we were fog weenies, this week would be like Feb 2010

2.0 new here, 24" at the stake

Trees are iced up but not as much as earlier in the week

Does this mean it Does Not?

29° solid coating of ice.

The snow line is finally working into NE MA now

Whoa…he just asked where you worked. But we’re very accepting here.

Nice snow at the moment

I keep asking, but no one has really provided an answer. Why does EVERY sudden stratospheric warming event and the subsequent polar vortex disruption ALWAYS decend into the eastern US? Why not the West? Do the Rocky Mountains play a part in it? https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/stratospheric-warming-begins-polar-vortex-core-descends-cold-into-united-states-canada-fa/

You’ve obviously never been to a Cubs home opener.

1.15 here.

Nam knew.