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Ooo, ooo, do me!

This is me this winter. 32" on the year with >1" snowcover for 42 of the last 45 days and yet the high water mark for OTG is 5.5". The 1.5" that is OTG now is a block of ice. You can stand on it and it does not give. I went to core it yesterday before I headed to DC for the week and it broke the plastic gauge I use to assess water content.

3.1" Monday night here in Charlotte and 3.2" last night. On an off flurries and light snow today. Nice winter day.

I got just a dusting from the clipper last night here in the valley. But, did score 0.5” on 16 straight hours of -SN obs from the blocking all day yesterday. Nice midwinter day.

My advisor in school way back when did his dissertation on the 2m temp impacts of the moon. +0.3°F on a full moon at orbital perigee on a cloudless night was the average.

Here’s the data dump. I don’t record Traces. The couple of years before, I was splitting time between here and DC so there were big gaps in obs. I’m doing that again now but have deputized (and trained) my daughter. Weather obs are serious business in casa de das. Ha. 2024/25 Season12/2 0.1”12/3 0.4”12/4 0.3”12/7 3.8”12/8 2.3”12/9 1.3”12/12 0.1”12/16 0.1”12/19 0.3”12/21 4.1”12/22 0.1” diamond dust 12/24 2.2”1/4 1.2”1/5 2.1”1/7 0.2” 1/8 0.1”1/9 0.5”1/11 1.1”1/19 2.01/24 0.3”1/27 0.1”1/28 0.3”1/29 1.1”2/1 2.5”2/2 1.12/6 3.4”2/7 0.2”2/9 5.72/13 3.1”2/16 11.0”2/24 ~1”2/27 ~1.5”3/7 0.1”3/9 0.1”3/10 1.5”3/27 0.1”3/29 6.3”4/8 0.7”Total: 62.4”2023/24 Season11/1 0.1”11/9 2.1”11/19 0.2”11/21 3.1”11/26 0.6”12/4 0.4”12/11 0.9”12/13 0.1”1/8 8.4”1/9 3.4”1/11 0.7”1/14 0.3”1/16 6.1”1/19 0.5”1/24 2.1”2/13 1.1”2/14 0.7”3/10 1.0”3/11 1.1”3/20 0.6” + 0.4”3/23 8.1”Total: 42.0”2022/23 Season11/17 3.1”12/12 1.2”12/13 0.1”12/17 3.1”12/18 0.2”12/23 2.1”1/12 0.3”1/13 1.4”1/20 5.8”1/23 3.5”1/26 4.0”1/30 0.6”1/31 1.0”2/2 0.3”2/17 0.1”2/24 6.2”3/1 2.3”3/4 7.0”3/15 12.8”3/25 0.4”3/31 1.2”Total: 56.7”2021/22 Season11/3 1.5”11/25 0.5”12/8 0.6”12/9 2.9”12/17 3.5”12/20 0.7”1/2 3.8”1/3 0.7”1/5 0.2”1/16 3.1”1/18 1.5”1/20 0.8”1/27 1.1”2/2 7.5”2/3 0.7”2/5 1.1”2/7 0.4”2/9 2.7”2/16 4.3”2/19 1.2”2/22 0.6”2/25 0.5”3/1 0.2”3/3 0.2”3/13 0.2”04/01 0.2”Total: 40.7”2020/21 Season11/26 0.5”11/28 0.4”12/1 0.4”12/4 0.3”12/8 1.1”12/09 0.2”12/19 5.6”12/25 0.2”12/26 0.2”1/2 2.1”1/7 2.8”1/9 0.2”1/10 0.2”1/11 0.1”1/14 0.3”1/17 7.4”1/23 0.2”1/28 0.2”2/4 17.8”2/14 0.6”2/18 2.0”2/25 9.2”2/27 0.5”3/2 0.1”3/3 0.2”3/9 0.1”3/12 5.1”4/19 4.1”Total: 62.1”

Nothing of note here in the valley. 0.3” with most of that coming in a burst as the cold front moved through around 5:30 AM. December ended up largely average for my location with 17.5” although I have yet to hit average for an entire season in my seven years here so far. Maybe this will be the first year… Charlotte, VT 44.29°N 73.24°W 2025/26 Season 11/10 5.0 11/11 1.1 11/21 0.2 11/23 0.3 11/28 0.1 11/30 0.2 12/2 4.2 12/4 1.7 12/6 0.5 12/7 2.2 12/10 1.6 12/14 0.1 12/22 0.3 12/23 4.2 12/24 0.7 12/25 0.9 12/26 1.1” Total: 24.4”

1.1” here in Charlotte, VT. 1” would not be enough to cover the monstrous mounds of turkey crap my wife’s turkeys plop all over the yard whenever they drop a load. The anatomical physics are hard to explain there.

First flakes in Charlotte, VT. 8.1°F/1°F 4.5” OTG at the start.

I’ve had snow falling in 13 reporting hours so far today with periods of legit high-ratio wind-driven moderate fluff this afternoon and evening from the lake enhancement. 1.1” on 0.07” liquid equivalent. With three more reporting hours to go. Real Currier & Ives hallmark type of winter day. 5” OTG. A legit white Christmas from any vantage. I even went for a run during the heaviest squalls in the 5”. Winds were NNW 23G34. 6.2 miles felt like 10. And, I had the pleasure of running through two big snow devils. Ha.

Another 0.5” since 2:30am with a nice batch rolling thru at 10am. Christmas Day snow is the best. HL_PAN4_80482C982400_cacheVideo.mp4

4.9” here in Charlotte.

7 years. Moved up "permanently" just before the pandemic. I still work in DC so I am down there half the time. The other half up here I thoroughly enjoy.............

Nice midwinter day here in Burlington. Light snow for the last 3+ hours with at least a couple more hours upcoming. Highs in the low 20's. Will be a nice "commute" home to Charlotte at 5pm. Edited to add: IMG_6849.mov

This is the right question. Last year was prototyping. This year is massive telemetry gathering. Next year is tuning in response to those telemetrics. The one caveat is that observability is nascent so the value of the telemetry gathering is low but sharply increasing. So, the quality of that observability will (is) increasing exponentially, ferreting out bias, low value feedback and creating a positive feedback loop of increasing telemetry quality / observability of high-value output / input (retraining) back into the LLM’s and SLM’s.