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Reason I ask is that it is not infrequent to see out of state vehicles, inc awd vehicles, off the road up here. I passed one which was upside down in a ditch this morning. Last night I was behind a small SUV with Mass plates on RTE 100 just south of Stowe. They fishtailed all over the road and then went about 100 yards up a hill before half pulling over and stopping. It looked like they had little traction. I have no idea how they were going to get up the rest of the way from where they stopped but my FWD Prius did fine with its studded Hakkas. When we lived in RI we switched to winter tires but after the last few years I wonder if that happens less.

Question for the SNE folks> Do you put snow tires on?

I was on 100 just south of Stowe at 6:30 and lightning lit up the whole sky to the south , looked like it was over Waterbury

https://tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/2024/12/05/24340001/2/WEPA40/WEPA40.txt ZCZC WEPA40 PHEB 051929 TSUPAC TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 2 NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER HONOLULU HI 1927 UTC THU DEC 5 2024 ...PTWC FINAL TSUNAMI THREAT MESSAGE... **** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE ***** THIS MESSAGE IS ISSUED FOR INFORMATION ONLY IN SUPPORT OF THE UNESCO/IOC PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING AND MITIGATION SYSTEM AND IS MEANT FOR NATIONAL AUTHORITIES IN EACH COUNTRY OF THAT SYSTEM. NATIONAL AUTHORITIES WILL DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF ALERT FOR EACH COUNTRY AND MAY ISSUE ADDITIONAL OR MORE REFINED INFORMATION. **** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE **** NOTICE ***** THE TSUNAMI FORECAST IS UNCHANGED IN THIS MESSAGE. PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS --------------------------------- * MAGNITUDE 7.0 * ORIGIN TIME 1844 UTC DEC 5 2024 * COORDINATES 40.3 NORTH 124.7 WEST * DEPTH 13 KM / 8 MILES * LOCATION NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA EVALUATION ---------- * NOTE REVISED MAGNITUDE * AN EARTHQUAKE WITH A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 7.0 OCCURRED NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AT 1844 UTC ON THURSDAY DECEMBER 5 2024. * BASED ON ALL AVAILABLE DATA... THE TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE HAS NOW PASSED. TSUNAMI THREAT FORECAST...UPDATED --------------------------------- * THERE IS NO LONGER A TSUNAMI THREAT FROM THIS EARTHQUAKE. RECOMMENDED ACTIONS ------------------- * REMAIN OBSERVANT AND EXERCISE NORMAL CAUTION NEAR THE SEA. OTHERWISE... NO ACTION IS REQUIRED. NEXT UPDATE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION -------------------------------------- * THIS WILL BE THE FINAL STATEMENT ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS NEW INFORMATION IS RECEIVED OR THE SITUATION CHANGES. * AUTHORITATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EARTHQUAKE FROM THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT EARTHQUAKE.USGS.GOV. * FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THIS EVENT MAY BE FOUND AT WWW.TSUNAMI.GOV. * COASTAL REGIONS OF HAWAII... AMERICAN SAMOA... GUAM... AND CNMI SHOULD REFER TO PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER MESSAGES SPECIFICALLY FOR THOSE PLACES THAT CAN BE FOUND AT WWW.TSUNAMI.GOV. * COASTAL REGIONS OF CALIFORNIA... OREGON... WASHINGTON... BRITISH COLUMBIA AND ALASKA SHOULD ONLY REFER TO U.S. NATIONAL TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER MESSAGES THAT CAN BE FOUND AT WWW.TSUNAMI.GOV.

So Kevin comes up to Vermont and drives past all of our places. The storm comes and we all get 2 inches or less and Tolland gets dumped on. Only conclusion is Kevin stole our snow. Congrats.

about 1.3 inches new here.

I just got back from BTV as I had to run an errand after work. I remember seeing snow next to the highway as close as the Williston rest areas. I just can't remember seeing any unpaved ground after that. The area round Stowe had a couple of areas of a mile or two of accumulating heavy snow bands. Very very local. Ex- nasty accident on Stagecoach on snow covered roads where the roads were clear a mile or so away.

7.6 inches here. power flickered a couple of times but is still on.

3.0 as of 12:10 board clearing.

Sometimes you just have to let it go

BTV bumped my area up to a Winter Storm Warning. Added advisories further north. https://www.weather.gov/btv/winter URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Burlington VT 146 PM EST Wed Nov 27 2024 VTZ010-019>021-281000- /O.UPG.KBTV.WS.A.0006.241128T0600Z-241129T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KBTV.WS.W.0008.241128T1200Z-241129T1200Z/ Orange-Eastern Rutland-Western Windsor-Eastern Windsor- Including the cities of Killington, Ludlow, Randolph, East Wallingford, Bethel, Bradford, Springfield, and White River Junction 146 PM EST Wed Nov 27 2024 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM THURSDAY TO 7 AM EST FRIDAY... * WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 4 and 9 inches with locally higher amounts across the southern Green Mountains. * WHERE...Orange, Eastern Rutland, Eastern Windsor, and Western Windsor Counties. * WHEN...From 7 AM Thursday to 7 AM EST Friday. * IMPACTS...Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, will likely become slick and hazardous. Travel could be very difficult. Heavy wet snow may lead to scattered power outages in some locations.

Winter Storm Watch for my area: https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=VTZ021&warncounty=VTC027&firewxzone=VTZ035&local_place1=West Norwich VT&product1=Winter+Storm+Watch&lat=43.7543&lon=-72.3728 Orange-Western Rutland-Eastern Rutland-Western Windsor-Eastern Windsor- Including the cities of East Wallingford, Springfield, Randolph, Rutland, Fair Haven, Ludlow, Bradford, Killington, Bethel, and White River Junction 314 AM EST Wed Nov 27 2024 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Snow accumulations greater than 7 inches possible. * WHERE...Orange, Eastern Rutland, Eastern Windsor, Western Rutland, and Western Windsor Counties. * WHEN...From late tonight through late Thursday night. * IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous conditions could impact Thanksgiving holiday travel Thursday and Friday. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Heaviest snowfall is expected above 1000 feet, but even light amounts could be impactful considering the additional volume of traffic expected from holiday travelers.

Whinge away!

Looks like I was just ahead of a mess. VSP reports multiple accidents on 89 https://vtstatepolice.blogspot.com/2024/11/89-nb-mm526.html I always enjoy it when VSP includes the bolded language. It will last until it doesn't.

89 and 100 were fine in Vermont as I got part of the way before the rain hit. Above freezing from Montpelier west. Roads were just wet but I got ahead of the precip before it hit the dirt roads near me.

One year we went to family friends for Thanksgiving. They had a tradition/rule that before you had seconds on dessert you had to go outside and run a lap around the house. Had to do it before any subsequent dessert. It was fun.

I hereby lock in the 18 Z GFS. I am getting snow on my new car on Wed so good to have rain for Tues and then Fri Sat looks great, Sorry SNE.

I do this as well. I don't think it works but it makes my passive aggressive-self feel better.

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=BTV&issuedby=BTV&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1 .NEAR TERM /THROUGH FRIDAY/... As of 911 AM EST Thursday...And so the snow begins. At Whiteface Mountain, that is. The last few images of a webcam atop Whiteface Mountain show that freezing drizzle has changed to snow as the DGZ has finally saturated. This gives us strong confirmation that the snow level presently is around 4000 ft give or take 100 feet across northern NY with VT still hovering closer to 5000 ft as we still await some colder air aloft and some wet-bulbing likely to occur as the mid-levels saturate. Otherwise, rain is ever so slowly working it`s way northward with rainfall rates of a tenth of an inch or less per hour observed thus far. There is a good bit of bright banding going on across all regional radars given freezing level around 4000-5000 feet so don`t let the radar fool you into thinking heavy rain is falling across the Hudson Valley or coastal New England.

Two other issues at play. I assume some are using "auto-dim headlights" that are slow to dim or don't at all. Second is my daily driver sits low so pick ups, Subies, SUVs, trucks which ride high appear as having highbeams on when it is just obnoxiously bright LEDs. Fortunately there are so few pickups and Subarus in Vermont.

Is it really so hard to dim your *amn high-beams people?????????!!!!!!!!!!! Give drivers LED headlights and they lose all consideration for other drivers?

I'm not feeling too greedy so I will go ahead and lock this in for next week. Hopefully GFS will process the paperwork prior to the next run. Hopefully it will be a return to the world of exploding Miller Bs

It is gone in the 18Z GFS. Did no one lock it in?

Looks to be doing better as it gets further from Jamaica. http://www.insmet.cu/asp/genesis.asp?TB0=PLANTILLAS&TB1=RADAR&TB2=../Radar/05Pilon/plnMAXw01a.gif http://www.insmet.cu/Radar/05Pilon/plnMAXw01a.gif

Just mowed. Mostly to chop leaves but did tidy up what grass I have. (My lawn would give some SNE folks a heart attack. It is pretty bad thanks to awful soil in the flat area behind the house, it being a lower priority than getting the planting structure in place, and two labradors who run and dig everywhere. On the plus side the labs have effectively weeded out all the tendril spreading weeds in the back while playing fetch. Lettuce is still growing under a cloche but the potato plants (late planted) are now toast.