CapturedNature

Yeah, it's rare to have it last from early December onward but we do have decent stretches starting later in the month through February/early March. Looking at my record I've had it last from early December 3 times and almost 4 at least 100 days.

Rarely in CT? Maybe in your neck of the woods but in the hills of NE & NW CT it's typical to have snow cover for a chunk of the winter. My longest stretch is 122 days. Now, the past few winters have only been in the 40-50 day range but my 35 year average is 64 days here in CT so I wouldn't call it rare.

I'll be 51 in a few days, born and raised around here. You?

My 35 year average is 64 days of snow cover with an average depth of 5" peaking at 16".

You didn't grow up in the 80s, did you?

Fireworks are considered festive for the July 4th so perhaps explosions of of gas cans, pipes and trees can be festive?

Diamond Dust? Freezing Fog? Christmas lights?

yeah, it was something I normally see around a frontal passage. I was just driving along and bam, dense fog and the temp dropped from 23-24 to 17. Once I was out of the fog it went back up. It's not normally like that either. Gotta live micro climates.

Is this the circled map you guys are talking about? I've circled Tolland Cty in blue because it does appear to be outside of the circle. FWIW, Staffordville on the NWS map is in the northern part of the county.

I drove through that are that was dense fog early last evening and this morning it was perfectly clear so whatever was going on clearly mixed out. The temp was pretty much in line with the whole area and there was no fog.

Something lined up tonight because it's usually not like that. It'll be interesting going through there tomorrow morning.

lol...no. Just a big open field in Somers: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9998001,-72.4687698,1206m/data=!3m1!1e3 I just wonder what made the temperature drop so quickly to the saturation point? I drive through there in the morning and occasionally I'll see fog but rarely in the evening like that. Plus the temperature usually is only 2-3° different not 6°.

I saw an interesting phenomenon driving home from work earlier. On my way home I drive through some large open area and as I was making my way across the open fields I encountered an area of dense fog and the temperature dropped as low as 17. As I left the open area the temp rose back up to between 23 and 24. I've seen that happen in the morning but I thought it was pretty cool to see that less than an hour of sunset and have the temp drop so much lower than surrounding areas so quickly without a front nearby.

Would you go 2-4" then and have most people at the max end of the range or 3-6' and have most people covered? I think 3-6" would have been a fair call. I'll be going out shortly but looks like 4-5" here. Nice little bonus snow to stay way above the seasonal average. I had patches and banks for the most part and this covers things up nicely.

I had 3" this morning and I'm hoping we get something tonight to have something measurable in the morning.

lol...one of those squares in Stafford is probably my house/woods.

You'll probably have more than I or Kevin will. It's the one thing I don't like about my location. Warm air always moves in pretty quickly. There's nothing south of me to stop it or hills around me high enough to create a bowl effect. The woods looked pretty solid this morning and I think they will hold out.

Yesterday while I was at work in Springfield, I could see that house was pushing 50° while it was in the upper 30s there. When I left at 4:30 it was still around 40° downtown but just coming up the hill on Route 5 into Longmeadow was enough to bump it up into the mid 40s. Cold likes to pool... Looks like I have 3-4" of solid cover still. Let's see what makes it out of today and if we can add to what's left. This is why I was OK with the hours of sleet while others had snow last week - a little extra staying power. It might not be enough, but it's better than nothing.

That looks like the old color bars that would show up on TV stations back in the day...

Made it to down to 1° here. Missed my first zero by 1°...oh well.

or my real name.

FWIW, I keep my weather record 7A to 7A so snowfall I what I have listed for 12/2 for example would have been snow that fell between 12/1 at 7A and 12/2 at 7A. So, I have an entry of 1.5" on 12/4 that fell mostly on the 3rd but after 7A so my storm total was 15", not 13.5". Sorry if I'm confusing the record. My season total is right it's just the dates might be slightly different from others.

That's why I'm OK with the 3-4" of sleet I received. That will take a lot more to melt than plain snow would.

Not sure about others but I love long duration events like this. It's not often that we have an event that has rounds and is multi-faceted. There's so many different factors to look at. I've enjoyed this system and I didn't even jack in it...lol

Nothing has changed for me as I get older. If anything, I'm giddy for longer potential snow pack season. Seasons in seasons as some say and winter is my season!