NeonPeon

Good lord. Its finally leaving us. I hated this event. On the ground, there was nothing interesting. Just 4 days of rain. Another ruined weekend. And what's the best I can say about it? Looked nifty on satellite? Was well forecast? Even these rain totals aren't that remarkable for this long a duration event.

This storm IS the monotony with kids at home and ceaseless drizzle.

This was just starting to look a little interesting, then it fell apart, as forecast. One decent band of rain and some 40mph wind. We get wind like this fairly routinely.

I took a ride around Ocean drive and it was definitely a stormy look, but nothing special. About to get into the meat of this thing again.

Impressive rain in this band causing street flooding. Its very heavy rain. Glad it's out.

Unremarkable winds down here so far. Max gust overnight 35 mph looks like it was 40 on the water. The storm has a bit more convection around the center today. I'm guessing peak winds for me this evening. Its biggest impacts will be ruining an entire weekend.

How's the eye wall looking?

It'd still be rain for some.

I'm not hugely impressed by this one at the moment, but I'm feeling more cavalier now that I removed the large white pine from the corner of my tiny garden.

Snow is gone. Only the shady man made piles remain. Torch never really torches here, but it's beautiful out and walkable without a jacket. It's definitely the case that it's a completely subjective thing, but this winter gets an A+ from me. More than a month of continuous crosscountry skiing around here is nuts. My primary exercise for the month of February. And an all timer storm. I needed it too. My dad passed away. My team is shyte. It all blows away for a moment if you pile drifts up to the windows.

Two records in a row here, yes. Two awful seasons in between. A+ winter this year from two events and 2 months of snowpack. I'll shut up for a while. I mean, realistically I'll shut up until next season.

It's very situational, we had got down to grass across all slopes and sunny spots, so there is no bullet proof anything under those parts. On the other hand, the shady spots still did have, it was definitely higher moisture when the snow started, and the compacted shoveled piles are rock solid. There's also already grass in places, where they were scoured out by drifting. A huge part of the median next to the beach this morning is grass. I think it'll be winter on one side of the street and spring on the other by tuesday, anyway, bar the ploughed spots, but we will see. I find it substantially more interesting watching it stack in 26 hours than to melt over the course of a week.

Because the drifted snow was the driest fluffiest stuff, the speed with which those drifts have settled and melted, especially after the rain, is insane. I have a 4 foot wall across from my house that runs for most of the block along the sidewalk. It was enveloped by a 6 foot drift, you couldn't see it. There is maybe 2 feet there now. Late Feb means most of this snow is gone mid next week.

I know an alternate source of hot air.

You have to admire the dedication to the con. I mean, all the heavy equipment they used to construct 12 foot tall snow piles all around Newport. They should have just used a leaf blower.