winterwx21

But he's always posted here consistently, even during the summer. I thought maybe he decided to take a break from the board for the summer/fall for a change, but now I'm more concerned since he didn't return for the start of the winter. Hopefully he's ok and will return to the board soon. I'll let you guys know if he messages me back.

And usually he posts all year round. This place isn't the same without him. I just sent him a message. Hopefully I'll hear back.

I just got done shoveling and wow, what a job. Very difficult due to the layer of ice under the snow. I had to scrape and scrape so hard with the shovel to get it up. In some spots I had to put salt down to loosen it up before getting it up. A total of only 2 and a half inches here, but it was a very high impact due to the ice. I am going to skip my workout today because I already got it with the shoveling, lol. Hopefully the next winter storm will be all snow for our area.

That's why I told you to look out the window late last night lol. It was odd that you kept calling it over when snow had moved in. Thank goodness for the back end of the storm to at least get our area to a respectable amount, even though it was still an underperformer.

I measured 2.4" here. Not too bad considering how it started out with the sleet and then the dry slot. As I said last night, the back end of this storm with the light to moderate snow saved this event from being a massive bust for our area. At least the long period of light snow overnight got us above 2 inches. It's still isn't over with it snowing lightly out there right now.

I measured 1.6" here. The snow on the back end of this storm prevented it from being a complete disaster, but still a pretty big bust. I thought we'd get at least 4 from this event. Pretty bad that it's a mighty struggle just to get to 2. I see the backbuilding on radar, but it's only very light snow. Definitely time for sleep.

But it's not over. Look out the window and you'll see that it's now snowing. We have a ways to go.

This batch we're getting now is mainly snow, so claims that it would be just sleet for the rest of the night were not correct. It's going to be fairly light though ... we won't even get close to the forecast amounts from early today.

Thankfully it's pure snow here now with this next batch of precip that's moving in. Maybe we can get 3 inches overnight as the latest HRRR is showing? I would guess 2 to 3.

It's a snow/sleet mix here. More snow mixes in when the precip gets heavier. A long way to go so we'll have to see how it plays out. If it's more of a snow/sleet mix then maybe we'll get 3 inches rather than 5 or 6.

I'm doing the same thing. I usually go on Saturday, but pushing it to today because I don't want to go tomorrow after the shoveling and with roads likely being a mess.

Euro looks pretty good. I'm sticking with the 4 to 7 that I called for my area yesterday.

I hope the HRRR is a sign that GFS has been leading the way and we get 6 or 7 inches here, but it also wouldn't be a surprise if it's 3 or 4 and then sleet. Either way though it will be a nice winter storm. Very nice to get 2 solid snow events in December. That should be a good sign for the rest of the winter.

It was nice seeing Craig on tv last night. We don't get to see him too often anymore. Anyway I like a 4 to 7 forecast for our area right now.

It was a nice scene this morning with a 0.8" coating here, about what was expected. Most of it is gone already though.