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36 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I don’t think anyone will count today as snow in SNE. Not even you . 

Sleet counts as frozen by the standard.

1 hour ago, Connecticut Appleman said:

We'll see how this goes.  There is something to be said for having a 20kW generator and 1,500 gallons of propane in the tanks.  I'm right at 1,000 feet.

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...

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

April maybe?

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

2 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said:

Always there running! Running running running from everything, from the truth!  I’ll sorts of running every day. Don’t listen to buttscooter and Jinxy!  Fake news! Snow comes when I say so, I and I alone Know this!

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.

11 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

 We all know Greenfield MA will be the only place in SNE having a white Christmas.   

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.

2 hours ago, klw said:

Craftsbury Cross County center actually preserved some snow over the summer to help set its base this year.

https://fasterskier.com/fsarticle/innovation-and-the-science-of-over-summer-snow-storage-at-the-craftsbury-outdoor-center/

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

6 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

How thick do you think the ice is? The smaller ponds around here look solid, I see some open water on some of the larger deep lakes in the area.

Upper 30's today, not much melting, just a little softening of the ice pack, tomorrow should do a number on the pack.

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. 

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

I wonder if they have to have one of the companies have a monopoly. That is, they agree to run lines if they are the only provider? When that happens, they can sponsor technology like that.
 

 I honestly don’t know. What town is she teaching in?

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.

1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

It’s not a school committee thing. The whole down doesn’t have it. I think part of it is that they are rather remote with less than 1500 people.  Companies don’t want to run the lines out there. 

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.

25 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It’s not a classic spot like Mitch, but they’ll nickel and dime their way to good numbers. I’ve heard from a number of people they’re a sneaky good spot. 

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.

39 minutes ago, weathafella said:

How does anyone get altitude sickness at such a low altitude?  Commercial airliners pressurize at roughly the height of the mount Washington summit.

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.

2 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I actually need to get up to Mt. Washington someday. Could I take the cog to the top on an extreme wx day?

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:

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Give me 75° dews over this crap any day. 

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.

31 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Nah

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

3 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Nobody talking about these squalls? It's about to get serious here. 2" in Norfolk just a little while ago.

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

9 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Someone East of Springfield is getting a little nuke.

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

7 hours ago, Sugarloaf1989 said:

It's the steepest part of I-84 in Eastern Connecticut and people drive way too fast. It's brutal upgrade and down. I lived right by exit 67 for 8 year's. I've been passed by trucks going 75-85 mph.

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Bermuda Triangle. Multiple accidents per week, no matter time of year. Many serious or even deadly 

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.

3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Read a PNS. Nobody knows that they’re doing. I’m not trying to dog someone, I’m just asking questions. Someone can walk through their backyard in the shade and say 3” when it’s bare all around them. Should they be considered a true snowpack?

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.

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Because most people don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to stuff like that. They’re are coop observers who do the opposite. Measure at 7a after its changed over and report that snowfall too. 

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.

17 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Metherb, my point is how do you average 5”? Is it from sight  and you take into account all areas from sun to shade, or weenie measuring behind the shade of a spruce? That seems high. 

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.

4 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

How do you figure the average pack depth? 

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

2 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Yeah i meant rarely for like the majority of the population located along the center I-91 and on the shore I-95. The hills of litchfield are a whole different animal. Look at this average snowfall, it's dated but you get the idea. 80-90" for the hills of litchfield vs 20-30 on the shore.

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.

1 minute ago, Sugarloaf1989 said:

When I lived in Coventry at 825', I remember snowcover lasting for like 3-5 weeks at a time. Not from early December into March. More like January and February.

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.