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So true- but I’m waiting on any real tracking until Saturday when you return to the area. I don’t care what the calendar says- that starts the DMV winter

Snow cover decreased, but not destroyed in the Johnnycake mountain area of Burlington CT; sunset rays doing a great job of illuminating the neighborhood houses...

You are talking to a group over analyzing the 252 hour models. In like 5 years this has become normalized. Back in the day, we’d mercilessly troll wennies who would do this.

Yup…we 100% solid cover about 3-4” deep. Lost about half of it, but still full cover.

Why would you even summon him? Shut up Chuck.

Wait about 12 hours. I’ve been checking in here and there and there have been no less than 27 mood changes between 0z and 12z.

Chuck been awfully quiet since 12z dropped

19* / 12* Deep Creek. Not too cold, not much snow. But the wind? Relentless since late morning. So far one tree down and one piece of siding violently removed from my cabin.

We know.......

That may be hard to refuse.

This is somewhat surprising; we are still covered here and much less blue-sky/sun. I’m concerned about our driveway, that I didn’t shovel (it’s hard pack stone); time to hit it with calcium chloride.

Yeah a chair barn helps a lot. Still need to de-ice sheave wheels, rope and towers… but it’s a lot easier than de-icing 100 detachable grips. Chair storage is a big deal. We have it for the FourRunner Quad, but not Sensation Quad and that’s the photo I posted of the grips all iced up. Lift maintenance has to bang the ice off each and every one of those. Which by the way, hats off to all lift maintenance teams today. They were the ones up on towers, in the elements, all day long banging ice… it’s hard physical work, cold and wet… tethered in way off the ground. They are the real heroes.

Our 0.8-acre houselot in Gardiner probably had more large branches on the ground than the 60 acres of forest on our current woodlot, as the Farmington area had mostly pingers. Elevation was often the key. On the state lot in Hebron, 10 miles NW from LEW, ice at the top of Greenwood Hill was almost the size of a Pringles can. I brought 2 pieces home to show family, each centered with a first-year twig. One was 3.0x2.2 inches diameter, the other 2.5x2.5 inches, about 2 lb per linear foot of branch. Some large white pines had a near-continuous sheet of ice on their NE exposure and others had cascading breakage on that side as top branches landed on the lower ones. OT: Sad your Cavalier was a lemon. Our 1983 wagon (1st year they had fuel injection, also our last new car) was wonderful except for its unibody frame. Just under 150k, 33 mph on average, engine never missed a beat, but the frame was rusted such as we might end up like Herbie in the Love Bug. Also the finest 2-WD vehicle in snow and mud that I've driven. With aggressive tread snows and spike, it would go thru almost anything.

Ravens will throw the ball 40 times and pull King Henry in the second quarter after he’s rushed for 150.

both occurred yesterday and neither had anything to do with this storm

Honestly not only is this unfortunately true, it’s also more accurate than Twain’s

Clouds will continue to break from west to east this evening, as colder air moves back into the region. Tomorrow and Wednesday will see cooler than normal days. Below normal temperatures will continue into at least the middle of the first week of January. Some flurries or snow showers are possible late on Thursday into Friday. The first week of January will likely have a mean temperature below 30° in New York City. The last time that happened was in 2018. The only years since 2000 with a sub-30° mean temperature for the opening week of January were 2001, 2010, 2014 and 2018. December 2025 is on course to finish with a maximum monthly temperature below 60° in New York City. The last time that happened was in 2019 when the monthly high was 58°. This will be only the fifth such occurrence since 2000 (2003, 2004, 2005, and 2019 are the cases since 2000). The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was -0.3°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was -0.7°C for the week centered around December 24. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged -0.33°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged -0.68°C. La Niña conditions will likely continue into at least late winter. The SOI was +3.94 today. The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was -2.053 today. Based on sensitivity analysis applied to the latest guidance, there is an implied near 100% probability that New York City will have a cooler than normal December (1991-2020 normal). December will likely finish with a mean temperature near 33.8° (5.3° below normal). That will make December 2025 the coldest December since 2010 when the monthly mean temperature was 32.8°. It would also make 2025 the third coldest December since 2000. Supplemental Information: The projected mean would be 3.6° below the 1981-2010 normal monthly value.

32.2°, temp has come down a little from a high of 32.9°. Still anticipating a bit of a spike sometime later today, but I'm not sure it's going to do much. Little to no ice has melted off the trees at my place - hoping the wind doesn't make more a mess. You can kind of see ground zero for the most icing on the Eversource outage map. Looks like the area directly around Lake Sunapee got it pretty good. Makes sense, given pretty much all of that terrain is at least 1100ft asl.

It’s prolonged gusts which aren’t our usual. It’s absolutely miserable outside. My power is back but a good bit of the city is out it seems. Thank god for underground utilities!

Still have power here...for now. The winds this afternoon picked up and deposited one of our Adirondack chairs into our fire pit. This chair is one of the "real" chairs that weighs a ton. No wind event previously has done that.

My first memory of Thundersnow.

Our daughter had her first day as a lift operator today. Wawa just opened their new summit lift. One good thing about that one is that they build a shed building where they store the chairs overnight. That’s a first for them. Should help a bit on icy days.

It's not in Thurmont. The station is at Camp David which is at nearly the highest point in the Catoctins. https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KRSP

Rain just about done here, High of 33.8°F on the day, Down to 32.5°F, Never made to the forecast high of 37°F.

I was living a mile from the ocean. 5 hrs severe T Storm conditions with no visibility and pink lighning