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I did not notice that about Jeb, hopefully he's okay. He certainly brings...passion to the boards. He's Blizz on steroids. LOL My road was a slushy quagmire early this morning. 12 hours later, it's an ever so slightly less slushy quagmire.

That's exactly why I stopped at 30". More than enough snow, hopefully resulting in minimal or no damage.

First week of January Temps below 20 at onset and throughout the duration of the storm Instant stickage to all surfaces immediately 30" of snow with a layer of sleet mixed in on the surface Temps in the teens by day, zero or below at night for at least the following 3-5 days Minimal drifting - drifting leaves too many open areas exposed that quickly become green even when it's cold

Just seeing this...what a day at work. We are missing a TON of people due to illness. In my mind, and I'm an overthinker - amounts are a good starting point for sure, but it's only part of my consideration. For example, 8" of wind-driven snow is different than 8" of mid-March paste that is largely gone in 4 hours. So sometimes smaller amounts seem more significant to me than larger amounts do at other times. I like everyone's input - really, it is our own personal perception. Only thing I'd add to each list is the BECS criteria. For me, that's anything greater than 36". I say this because LNS has never had a storm that large, so that would be of biblical proportions to me.

I'm telling you...watch the weekend.

You must have missed what came through here last night. Winds were definitely stronger than that. And by a good bit, too.

It definitely made me do...something.

Guarantee they'll win this coming Friday night! (my next 76ers loss)

I sure don't think so. I think this weekend needs watched very closely. Still think, especially for SE areas that we might score.

Skies are starting to clear now. That was a fun storm to track, and packed quite a wallop. And oh yeah...it's trash night here. Which means that it's time for the winds to start doing their thing.

Okay, this is very well done! Thanks for the Monday morning laugh!

With this morning's snow, I've reached 4" of total accumulation for the storm. Ground truth right now is closer to 1.5", but as Anotherman said, given the extreme rainfall rates overnight I fully expected to see nothing but green and some piles this morning.

Those are very good points. GFS was the first to head west.

NAM stirs up a lot of emotions...I'll continue to defend as it does better than a lot give it credit for.

It's accumulating pretty rapidly here.

@Bubbler86 not sure if you saw my post early this morning but I picked up over 1" of rain. I forget which model (maybe the HRRR?) you shared with me the other day predicted that, but I got a LOT more rain than just about any other model had for me.

Morning - I was thinking about this on my way to the office today...overall though, looking at reports from OH, NY, and western PA it "seemed" to me like the NAM did better than most. I guess with a system this complex AND dynamic there will be areas of joy and sorrow, but the NAM's original insistence on how far N&W the mixed precip would get was pretty darn good I think.

My impression over all these years is that one thing you can count on with winter storms is that the forecasted winds always underperform. Not with this bad boy. It was raging late last evening. I fully expected to end up in the dark and was shocked that I didn't.

What a storm! Currently, it's 33.8 with -SN falling once again. Current pressure is 29.02" I picked up 3.7" of total snow/sleet accumulation, followed by a drenching 1.03" of rainfall. Heaviest rain fell between 11:30pm and 12:00am when .46" fell accompanied by strong winds and at least one flash of lightning. Surprisingly, the yard is still 100% covered. The sleet helped it survive the onslaught.

Should have pulled him out during that drive.

Pouring rain here. Quarter inch of liquid so far. 35 degrees.

34 and light rain. .06" of rain so far. Pressure now 29.46" and falling.

I got close to 4" and I celebrated that several times...

Just reached freezing. 3 minutes after 10pm.

Horrible way to go out for the season. At least the Black and Gold are working hard to not be anywhere close to that position.