CapturedNature

That's awesome! Don't count it though. The goal posts moved so you can't count it unless it falls after the 20th.

Sleet counts as frozen by the standard.

What do you have the requires that much power? My folks have a 7.5kw model and can run everything in the house, just not the stove and dryer at the same time. That's three times that so I'm guessing you have some pretty serious machinery that you need to run. Looks 34° here...

Let's shoot for late February/March into April. It would be nice to have a long extended maple season.

I like how D10 storms are fantasies yet some seem to be able to speak with confidence about the daily weather for an entire month that's a week away.

Do coops still report traces for snow on ground? I just noticed that the Staffordville guy along with a bunch of other sites that probably have snow on the ground reported 0 for snow. There's clearly snow and ice on the ground (I had 1" this morning) but I find it odd that it's not even reported as a trace. Just wondering if someone knows if they no longer report that or not.

Half my yard is still covered and the sun has dipped below the horizon. Not sure if it'll average an inch but we'll see.

As a kid I started doing experiments with snow preservation. I called it the snow blob and improved it every year. Of course I only had my backyard and dealt with limited snow some years (70s and 80s) but I was basically doing what they are doing. Too bad I can't make a living off preserving snow...lol

I was visiting some of the woods I tap in the spring and drove by Bigelow Hollow - I saw several people ice fishing out there and that's just south of you.

Here in CT when the cable companies were running lines in the 80s they were forced to provide service to streets/towns in rural areas to avoid what happened in Mass. The cable companies were told that if they wanted to provide service to Town X, they had to also provide service to Town Y even if it only had a few hundred customers. The same thing happened in towns like Stafford where most people live in the center of town (Stafford Springs). If they wanted to provide service to Stafford Springs, they had to run lines down all roads in town. Now every town and road has Internet. I honestly don't know why Mass. didn't do that. It's not like these places are truly remote like in the High Plains or Rocky Mountains. In a lot of cases we're only talking about 10-20 miles.

How far is the nearest Internet? Can you create an air bridge from there? If the companies won;t run the backbone, that could be an alternative. You'd need a high spot on either end but you can go 20-30 miles between points. The best part is once you do that you can offer Internet service to everyone around the school. How abut cellular service? I think AT&T & Verizon have rural Internet service packages. It's more limited, but would give you Internet access. Even if the cellular signal is weak, you can use external antenna's to improve the signal.

I think that's the key - nickles and dimes. Their elevation helps plus catching a little LES and synoptic events here and there that others east or west of them misses misses. Aren't there a couple of COOPs up that way too? There's also one in Worthington, MA just north of them. That whole spine of the Berkshires is good for snow retention too. Just look at the NOHRSC maps of snow depth for any season. They are the last place in CT to lose their snow.

I remember the first time flying into Denver at 5280' and noticing the altitude. I could see a combination of the motion, the road and altitude of 6,288' causing some discomfort in some.

I've been on the summit with hurricane force winds and even stood on top of the little crows nest fully exposed to the wind. Made me appreciate just how powerful a minimal hurricane really is! Here's a video I took going up (there's also one going down) but this will give you an idea in ideal weather conditions:

I'd take this over the 75° Dp's any day. I can always add a layer and still do what I need to do when it's cold but there's nothing I can do over cooling off in that crap. 5° this morning...I love that squeaky sound snow makes when it's cold.

Looks like you're in a decent spot based on the returns...

Looks like that same squall is going to hit I-91 north of Hartford just in time for the evening commute to start.

It would be nice if that slid down into Stafford but I don't think that will happen.

It's a total lack of enforcement or a concentrated effort to slow things down. It's known as an accident hot spot but nothing is done. Just on Sunday I was driving through there doing around 72 and was passed by 100% of the traffic and the a statie passes everyone in the left lane doing 80+ with no lights. That's setting a good example. In Springfield there used to be an issue around the Longmeadow Curve until they dedicated a crew to that stretch. Now traffic slows down and accidents are down because they never know when someone will be there. Between the lack of speed enforcement and the rest area only open between 8-3:30PM, it's embarrassing.

The standard I use is one I learned in my Weather Observation course at Lyndon and that's if 50+% of the area is covered in snow I'll take the same number of measurements including the 0" ones. So using your example, let's say 50% of the yard has snow, I'll still average 5-10 measurements so I would have 5 0" numbers and 5 3" numbers for an average of 1.5" which rounds to 2" of snow depth. If the amount of coverage is below 50%, it's just a trace until there is no more snow. I'm not sure about the coast but in spring I might have parts of the yard with 10" of snow and bare spots in a sunny area. That bare spot still gets factored in because it needs to be but just because you have a bare spot doesn't mean you stop including it.

That sounds like new snowfall measurements, not snow depth. I know there are some coops that only measure new snowfall at 7a but that's not all of them. The standard is to measure when the snow stops, not just at 7a and that's what I do. The 7a measurements are just for snow depth.

Not sure what you're trying to imply but I have 35+ years of experience observing the weather including courses at Lyndon and having been a coop observer. I follow the standard practice of taking multiple measurements including sunny and shaded measurements. I take my daily temperature readings in a Stevenson Screen about 50-75' from my house and while I'm walking to the station I drop the ruler in the snow and keep track of the measurements to the nearest inch per the coop standard. I then average those for the daily snow depth. I then average those numbers for the average depth over the winter. I then average every winter for an overall average depth. 5" is what the math comes out to for all those measurements.

I keep track of the daily depth at 7a and average those numbers.

That's not what you said - you said the state but glad you clarified what you meant. You made it sound like no one in the state has snow cover for any amount of time and that's not true.