NeonPeon

First real snow eating fog.

Starting to feel like it's drawing to a close if this period doesn't result in much.

Snow in March is fairly unusual here. There's two months of any sort of dependable chances.

4 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

You Truly Are Exactly as your name states.  Amazing how that works.  

I don't know how many Bleeping times I have to go through the Hell I've gone through the past 10 years with weather, and this winter specifically.  But keep rubbing it in.  You aren't becoming a World Champion or even Town Champion at Anything in life by doing so.  

 

NAM 3K / 12K / 32K for what it's worth All Look like Dog Poo for Both this storm Tomorrow and Friday.  

I don't understand why you complain about this year on the basis of getting slightly less snow than your neighbors, but wouldn't think this year has compared favorably to the last several in looking, feeling, and acting like a winter. It's the logic I try to work on with my children. You can't only enjoy something in the context of getting more than your sibling, you have to enjoy a good as a good in itself.

It's still more odd because you rely upon statistics as evidence of how screwed you are. Yes, your climo means you should do better on average. That's why you do do better on average! That doesn't mean an injustice has occured when you don't, or anything statistically remarkable has occured.

There are greatest ever storm accumulation maps people post, full of fond memories, that just to look at them makes me relive trauma. None of them have been me getting 3 inches when someone else gets 6 nearby. That is virtually every single snow event. They've been me getting rain, when most of the rest of New England get 1-2 feet. That's why my climo is what it is. If you've been through hell for 10 years as a lover of snow, I'm not sure what my life has been. 

There has been almost a month of continuous snowpack. I've used this to cross country ski for weeks on end, even though I wasn't here for the storm. My kids got to sled, and sled, and sled.

Has it been meteorologically incredible given all the cold? Not statistically, no. And no real stormy storms. But why are you aggrieved at some folks around ri getting a few inches more snow than you ytd, but not concomitantly relieved that it hasn't been a non-existent winter like we've had recently. I haven't cracked double digits seasonal snowfall in recent winters!

This winter do far is remarkable for one thing - continuous snowpack. It's almost dead. I have enjoyed it immensely for one. I'm not sure what purpose it serves not to.  

1 minute ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

What if none of these events work out? 

I'm going to write a strongly worded letter to those responsible.

The sublime expectation of happiness that is happiness itself. 

Just kidding, it's got to verify.

This is why it's nice to be in this horrible location for snow. Will I get no snow, or no snow? I'm going with... Well, actually, I'm driving up to the Adirondacks again. Good luck.

6 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

Many folk here aren't winter people...they only tolerate winter because of the potential for snow...outside of that they'd  prefer it to be 95/75...

Id take day after day after day of tundra rather than 95/75. I leave Newport in the heat of the summer for milder weather in northern Spain, and Newport is about as mild as it gets.

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Icon bumped south and Reggie a whiff.

Yeah. This is going to be mood snow. Definitely more of interest in sw and long Island but there's a very very low ceiling here.

Gfs is more impressive all around and a lot less flat. If this keeps ticking I can see it being fun on Long Island. Couple more ticks and I might get measurable snow!

Substantially more interesting the more West you go along the coast.

8 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

It happens in winters with good snow and snow pack. If we could go right to high dews and summer I’d be fine. I just hate what is coming this spring of cold lingering forever . Rather keep it wintry . This is gonna be an ugly ugly spring 

Nobody gets to complain about interminable, muddy, cold springs who isn't in within a few miles of the coast. If the sun doesn't spend 80 percent of every day burning off the pea soup fog, then you don't have it that bad.

Not having it. It would be like me complaining about a heatwave at 88 degrees. It's still too hot for me, but I try to think of the less fortunate.

2 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

Do you mean pack?

Cross country ski track. I've been doing like 7 km a day a block from my house.

But same difference.

The snow is melting super fast here. Don't think my track will make it through the week, even with the nighttime lows. Sun angle is real.

27 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Shovel it off..plenty of ice everywhere this year. 

The pond near us has the texture of corrugated roofing. Given I like cross country skiing just as much, and can do it in the uncleared parts, it's a tough ask. Pond hockey enthusiasts are making do. As cold as it has been, nobody has sprung for a Zamboni.

Just now, Ginx snewx said:

Not talking window watching . Talking about skiers sledders skaters kids building tunnels etc. Beautiful times to play in fresh snow 

Hasn't been great for pond ice though. Too much snow and wind. 

Feels much warmer than it is. Clock is really ticking on winter in the bay, it gets pretty hard for it to snow in March here.

The drifting from this last storm was impressive.  The cemetery where I have made my cross country ski track is full of four foot drifts, and they're still moving. 

Absolutely fantastic winter for fun in the snow.  Weeks of pack for skiing after years of not cracking double digits and I think I've got a week to go.

2 minutes ago, Cold Miser said:

Yeah.  My daughter says it’s coming down good still in. Bristol.  She didn’t go out and measure.  Did the ole’ window guesstimate at a “few inches”

5.25 here. I meant to steal the extra .75 from Cumberland but I lost some in transit. Wind is significant on the Pell bridge. Should have accounted for wastage.

2 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

I’m pointing out the facts.  If you want me to post every map I will.  Sorry they offend you.   

Instead of attacking, why don’t you explain how it’s Meteorologically Possible to get Beaten in All 4 directions 3 times in a winter when you live in the Lincoln to Attleboro region.  

That I would be Highly Interested in.  

Go ahead and post a map of all of New England for this storm when we are done. 

2 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

1. I Only got Home 4 Days Ago.

2. The Snow Needed to be sledded on Immediately after, as with big storms, as the compound is too much to cut through.  I didn’t get home until 9 days after.  

3. I Didn’t Clear the trails this year because we had NO Winter Until January 18th.  I Left the 20th.  

4. 2.5” today.  You want me to be excited?  

I missed the big storm too as I was in England for my dad's funeral. Shit happens. Enjoy the snow. Or don't. 

I'm happy other people are being buried. Eventually we all have our moments. Your climo means you have them more often than all the places you think are "winning" this time.

1 minute ago, TheSnowman said:

This is the 4th Storm this winter where I got absolutely Waxed by Southern RI; which has NEVER happened before.  

It is also the 3rd Storm where I was Beaten by people South of me West of me and North of me and East of me.  That…. THAT should be Impossible once.  Let alone 3 times in a Winter.  

I mean, if narcissism was a meteorological model, that's what it would look like. 

We aren't in a race. Nobody is stealing your snow. Mostly you'll do better, as you just arrested to, in a roundabout way. 

1 minute ago, TheSnowman said:

2.5”

 

The Rest of RI : 6-9.  

North Shore (which ALREADY Jackpoted the big one last week And Jackpotted the 2014-2015 Winter), 10”-13”.  A FOOT!?  

 

 This Winter can go Suck Itself.  

The rest of those island did not get 6+ inches. None of the East Bay will have, I certainly didn't.

I really don't get it. I thought you were into sledding or something. I would have thought being able to do that, for a month straight, due to snow cover would mean you aren't aggrieved.

This band is edging me. Get on with it or I'll drive over to Jamestown.

3.25. was barely not in the very good stuff on the trough, but it looks great. Maybe will get a little more on the backside.

Watching winter Olympics, fat flakes outside. Flu riddled household. I just hope there isn't a suicide in Cumberland.

2" so far. Snowing nicely now, if I can maybe stay under this little band for a while I'll be doing well.

It's super pretty, but it's not snowing as hard here as radar would suggest.

It doesn't matter to you at all that's there's been snow to play in for weeks and weeks?

I always thought playing in snow was the end game, not a ruler? Persistent snowpack in RI, the bay freezing...

My skis are by my backdoor.

My snow tube is in my trunk.

If I didn't have flu b right now I'd be out tomorrow.