dailylurker

Happy blizzard of 96 anniversary. I was 16yo. I remember it like yesterday. I remember all the big ones. I got about 2 feet here in the lowlands. It was a long duration storm.

I've been sitting at 45 for several hours. It feels like 70 and muggy after being up on the cold Tug Hill lol

I really should. Justin Berk put together a nice presentation of the video I sent him. Check it out on Facebook. I thought of you several times lol. The snow shoveling was magical. It's this light fluff that's really fun to shovel and play in. I walked through fresh powder that was up to my stomach while being dumped on by 6+ inch per hour rates. Their was some weird phenomenon that went on during the most intense snow. One thing I noticed right before the 6" per hour rates would start is the sky in the direction it was coming from would get this weird look to it. Day or night. Didn't matter. It looked like a weird pinkish tone. During the day it almost looked brown. I learned really fast that when I saw that, it was about to nuke. The intensity is another thing I noticed. The snow intensity would come with a gust of wind followed by just a sudden unload of big flakes. At one point the visibility dropped literally to less then 50 feet. I have pictures to back up everything. It snowed like 5" in 30-40 minutes. It snows unbelievably hard. Like nothing I've ever seen. Another interesting thing i noticed is the wind. The wind is what brings the snow band. It happens on windy days. Once you get into the center of the heaviest snow it becomes almost dead calm. When the band moves away the wind returns. I never expected gruple during the most intense band. During the extreme rates you get pelted with big rimmed flakes that sound like sleet mixing in (Being from here i thought oh great, sleet lol). When these snowballs hit your jacket they explode into a powder. I've never seen that either. The temperature also did weird stuff in the most intense bands. It felt like it would get much colder. It felt like it went from 22 to 16. Once it backed off to 2-3" in her per hour the temp would climb back to 22. It was a surreal experience. It's just starting to sink in how insane it was. It was humbling. It snowed so hard during the night that it was almost scary. I had to follow the snow bank along the road to see where I was going. When it snows 6+ inches per hour it also creates weird light phenomenon. The the light coming from inside the houses would create what looked like a laser beam coming out from every window with a light on inside. I have pictures. I'll post them over the next few weeks. I experienced nearly 100" in 4 days. I got there the day before it hit. I was there 5 days.

Dude needs my Airbnb connection on the Tug Hill for a week. He'd feel better. I know i do lol. Euro looks better. I think winter is coming back in 2 weeks.

I'd be pumped to get a rainy norester at this point. We just need moisture at this point. I've never seen dry creeks in January.

It looks like the gfs brings winter back towards the end of the run. Hopefully we can get some moisture. It's bone dry for January.

I drove right through your area this morning. I thought "Mappyland" lol. You missed a good coating to the north by 10 miles. 43 in the lowlands

We had our main place in Locona. Base camp. We actually had 3 other locations in other town. We only needed two. Our base camp pretty much jacked the entire event. Thursday night was the crazy event. At first it looked like ground 0 would be Parish. At around 2pm we left base camp in Locona and blasted south to Parish. We went in the Airbnb and did a radar check. At that point Katibatic made the call. He said "It's coming and it's going to hit Pulaski." We then pushed north and pulled into Pulaski right as the jaws music started. The sky looked like a thunderstorm was incoming. It blasted the hell out of Pulaski. We got well over 3 feet in hours. Once that was cleared up we headed back to base camp. Another 40" fell at base camp. I observed a lot of interesting phenomena during the most intense bands. I'll post details later. I experienced some really weird stuff thst I didn't know happened during these events. You definitely can just get one place. I suggest Locona area. I experienced about 100" of snow there. It's only 6-7 hour drive from this area.

It's super easy to get around. There's lots of beautiful little snow towns all over the area. The road crews are amazing. I was driving around in my pickup truck during a 3 foot snowfall and had no problem. Arby's was open lol. Being snowed in is a southern thing. We got 20" yesterday from 7am to 1pm. By 2 roads and parking lot were clear and sun was out. It's such a beautiful place. Everyone is really friendly too. They couldn't understand what a Jebwalk was lol. People thought i needed help and kept asking me if I was ok.

I've always been in the "no snow is like snow at home" until I spent nearly a week on the Tug. In that time I witnessed nearly 100" of snowfall. I spent time there. I went grocery shopping, went to dispensaries, went on hikes (on snowmobile trails lol). It was like i lived there. I wasn't in a hotel. I was in a house (Airbnb). It made the experience a lot like getting 100" at home without being snowed in for a month. I stayed in Pulaski one night for the mega band. Nearly 4 feet fell overnight. By 9am the town was fully open. I highly suggest any snow lover do a week on the Tug. F our shitty climo lol

Justin Berk posted them on his Facebook page.

Check out the videos he posted!!

Snowed in on the Tug Hill. Boy... do i have a story for when I get home. I've witnessed nearly 8' of snow since Wednesday.

Here's a deck pic from the Tug for this snow starved thread lol. Almost 4' overnight.

Breezy, flurries, and 7 degrees here on the Magical Tug Hill. We received 4-5" additional snow overnight. A dusting for Tug standards. Today at snow camp our mission is to intercept the maga band that is going to develop today. It's going to drop 4+ feet and we want to be there. We have a total of 3 base locations. We're not playing around at snow camp 2026.

I'm about to see 6" per hour rates for the second time today. New Year's Jebwalk should be epic this news years. From the Tug Hill, Happy new year to all my snow loving friends.

Absolutely lol. We're having a good time up here at snow camp. We just got nuked by a intense band. Heaviest snow I've ever seen. We got about 2 feet in the past 4 hours lol. I'll never look at snow in the lowlands the same ever again. I'm pretty sure I'm buying a house up here to live in during winter. The economy around here depends on it. There's endless snowmobile trails. It's heaven.

Airbnb. I'll be there by Hopefully noon tomorrow. Once I reach NY I've got to decide if I'm going to punch through the streamer while it's over Syracuse or go around it. It's going to drift north from there and stall over our target area. We're flexible. We'll dump our location if it doesn't look to jack. The goal is to get into the maximum carnage. I've got a 4×4 truck and I'll punch it into the core. This ain't a camping trip. It's a storm chase.

I'm so glad I'm headed to the Tug in a few hours. I need a break from here lol

Dude. LFG! You can ride with me. We got extra room. Drive out and meet me at a park and ride around the md line. I'm not coming out there lol.

Thanks! We actually are on the second floor. If i can't jump off the second story when I leave on Saturday it's a bust lol. Wind starting to pick up. Warm here in the lowlands as I pack my truck for the voyage to the great north woods.

It's official. I'll be eating lunch on the Tug Hill Tuesday morning. Probably won't be back until Saturday once it ends. Katabatic and I are chasing a big lake creature.

I've been tracking the potential lake event on models. The euro just nuked my target area with 4" QPF after the torch passes tomorrow. The local guy i follow on Facebook is thinking 4-5' by the weekend. I'm getting pumped.

It looks like it juiced up the clipper for nyd.

It's been forever since I've seen a low in Texas pulling in that much gulf moisture.