The 4 Seasons

1 minute ago, JGNYK03 said:

How do we know you haven't installed AC's on your weather station. #damageINseymour

Nobody lives in #damageinseymour 

4 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

The rain

Not really...

Steady returns right over me. The main slug moved east of CT, yes, but its not completely done. Although, we did transition from freezing rain to sleet now and it's moderate.

Mt Tolland stations, wunderground and nws edd @dendrite @Damage In Tolland

ZR just turned to IP. I can hear the pingers. We cool.

Just now, CoastalWx said:

Then again the weenie in me can’t be reasoned with and more than likely I’d root for ice damage. 

Thanks for sharing and being honest. That's the first step.

This just happened, Stratford was in the green with 1 person without power now it's 1,050 without power.

Just now, Ginx snewx said:

Its over

what is?

Still warm at the shore, they are getting spared any more damage for the time being. Lots of >=33F readings in interior E CT as well.

SE MA all above freezing. Toasty on the Vineyard & Nantucket.

It's the old adage....why do people love watching train wrecks (literal) and car crashes. Most people don't want to see anyone hurt, but we just can't look away. It's human nature. 

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I feel like In winter it’s harder. Last thing I need is power out before an arctic blast with a family. I’m all for getting knocked back into the stone ages from a cat 3. I love damage too,  but it’s like having a devil and an angel on your shoulder telling you what’s right.  

We are probably up to 1/3 now id say, things are looking worse, trees sagging pretty good.

Looks like they got a nice solid base up there.

Latest CT totals updated, still ongoing.

First of all i don't want people to have property damage or harm to anyone on this forum or out there in the real world. But what i want or wish or not wish to happen doesn't change anything we all know this.

Snow storms cause millions of dollars in damage, loss of life and property etc but i think we can all agree that we want snow, big snow, recording breaking KUs. So what's the difference? What's the difference between that and ice storms? It's winter weather and it looks "wintry." 

We're all here because we love extreme weather, record highs, record lows, tornadoes, snow storms, wind, squalls whatever. All of those cause damage and loss life, it's just a fact. To me ice storms are no different. It's wintry outside, it's not plain boring rain that i would otherwise forget even happened. Trees are crackling, roads are icy, the grass looks like frozen death spikes and most importantly this will go down in the record books and its something to watch and measure. 

If it's not going to snow i'd rather have ZR then PL. That's just my opinion/perspective on things.

Today was one of those days when you used to watch the weather channel back in the day and it said "Wintry Mix" with that animated graphic icon. We got snow and sleet, then zr then back to sleet then back to zr, mixed both of them again, then all zr. It was a wintry day no doubt.

Oddly temperatures rising again. Back up to 31F and freezing rain.

steady ZR for the past few hours

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Just now, Ginx snewx said:

It’s starting 

Here we go, HVN back to 0C and accumulating ice again. Still around 28F and freezing rain here. MMK at 30 with ZR

If we're only going to get less than a half an inch of snow might as well have some destruction with freezing rain. Looks wintry out there at least. Still better than plain rain....

I want to get to 0.5" of ice ice baby

Light freezing rain. 28F. Let's bring down some trees baby.

10 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

An icy ginx-esque shot.  Looks better if it weren’t sideways.

pretty easy to rotate on a phone or Windows 10

6 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Need another .20 for damage. Not quite enough before flip back to snow 

doesn't look like the flip back to snow even for northern ct is happening shortly, should be another couple hours at least of mixed pcp

2 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Looks like a decent little slug of moisture into C CT on radar.  Maybe somebody breaks .5" of ice?

well all the shore stations went to +1 so they are done and they had the most. Inland areas were around .2 - .3 so well probably catch up to the shoreline numbers that are around .3-.4

Temps starting to fall around here. 29-31F around North Haven. Still Freezing Rain.

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

How about I Post a pic of the boob sag and another of shrubs? Still plenty of daylight

Put a ruler up to it. Go outside

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

We are at least .30+ here. 29.9

if you measure it exactly ill put it in the map

here's how if you don't know already. https://www.weather.gov/rnk/Measure_Icing

1 minute ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Glad they’re ok. 

Everyone pretty much underestimated the freezing rain right along the shore this time. I went up to .20 but that was still too low. All shoreline stations went above 0C now though so the freezing rain is over for them. I should have just extended the .2-.4 to the shore and i was seriously debating it but at the end held off.

1 minute ago, Ginx snewx said:

My brother in law just totalled his car. He is OK but apparently someone slid into his lane and he swerved and hit ice which sent him off road.

This is why i tell all my friends, family, whoever that it doesnt matter if you have 4wd or you have a car thats great in the snow or how careful or slow you drive, its about the OTHER person. All it takes is someone driving a car they shouldn't or too fast and all of sudden you are waiting hours to file a police report, damage to your car, getting it fixed all the hassle and thats not considering a risk to life or injury.