dailylurker

Winter have ALWAYS sucked here. This is absolutely nothing new. I've been here my entire life. Last winter was a great winter. I had 3 weeks of winter last year. The year before I had 11 days of winter (below freezing with snowpack). It only happens every few years on average. This year probably won't have any period of winter since the past 2 did. I suggest people travel. I know.. it's not the same. I suggest renting a house and staying for a week or more. I did that and it was almost like snow at home.

As I watch our chances for snow go poof as usual I'm plotting another Tug Hill trip to Locona NY. I know Katabatic is down. Who else is coming to snow camp? I'm thinking over the next couple of week things are going to get wild again up there. This time I'm taking snowshoes.

Lol I'm sorry buddy! I never want to steal anyone's joy! You enjoy your little slop shower! Lol I'm just being a stuck up snow snob. It will wear off in a few more days lol

I'll never look at a snow squall the same way ever again. Just imagine the most intense squall you've ever seen. Add 2-3" per hour to that and make it last 7 hours and drop 40" of snow. That's a squall lol. That what I experienced last week. A shower of mix precip just moved through the lowlands.

Thankfully it's not the other way around lol

It's still there. It's just now more of a severe thunderstorm threat lol.

Lol yup. It's a massive cutter with rain to Hudson Bay now. Who knows what the next run will show.

The end of the gfs run looks a little different this run lol. Definitely moved away from the euro.

Hobby? Who would choose this as a hobby? This is a mental illness that most of us were born with lol

I remember a lot of lightning flashes. I got stuck in a fedex truck on the 495 beltway until 3am lol

Latest euro run reminds me of that commute disaster about 15 years ago. We got 5" of wet snow in a few hours. That's for the Thursday Friday thing.

What was that lol. Some weird runs overnight.

Great storm today. At least we can still get moisture. Radar looks impressive still.

Looks like the Euro is starting the cave to the gfs. LFG!

Radar looks great. It's nice to see actual moisture. Not the usual moisture starved last minute rug pull we're so use to.

I feel likes it's spring because i experienced 100" of snow last week and temps in the single digits on the Tug Hill. My brain thinks it's spring now lol

Well. We need rain lol

Congrats North and South Carolina lol. I'm definitely not chasing a SE storm. Ewwww

Gfs looks boring so far lol. Decent rain this weekend is about it so far.

I was just looking at my Facebook memories from last January. What a different a year makes lol. Last year it was winter. This year were stuck in November weather like our classic shitty winters lol

That ain't nothing. Check out Justin Berks page on Facebook. He posted my chase footage from the Tug. Gfs doesn't look like it's going to do it again.

It's actually nice. I'm getting in a day of work. My business is open this week. Great time of year for big discounts on house washing, deck and patio restoration. 53

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.