North and West

Please don’t list out amounts yet. I feel this is the same every year. It’s four days away, and that’s four days it can scoot out to sea or run up the Delaware. I’ve seen this movie before. You may not like the ending. .

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I’m not saying it can’t happen, I’m just saying you’re setting yourself up to lose sleep over a girl that may not be in your league. .

You’re setting yourself up for disappointment talking like that this far out. .

I’m almost certain that it won’t snow, if only to not get sucked in to checking the models. .

2017 and 2018 dropped a ton of snow in Morris County, FWIW. I can’t recall the past few years. I think everything last year fell in February. .

I’m growing peppers on my windowsill right now! A plant from last year has regenerated, so it’ll be cool to see how it goes. .

Cold and dry? Snow to rain storms? The 49ers and Bengals on the cusp of the Super Bowl? .

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Bingo. I’ve lived through a lot of snowless, meh winters and a lot of fun, snowy winters. A few years back, I took my son to basketball practice and it was warm and muggy and over 70° in mid-February. We got a decent snowstorm a day or two later (2018). It’s too bad the snow hasn’t worked out now when it’s cold, but everyone seems to think February is just not going to snow at all - which it may not. December was warm and all of us nerds and dweebs here were still surprised by snow on the morning before Christmas. I just wouldn’t go nuts knowing exactly what’s going to happen because we just do not know. .

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Except the cold January rain. .

The missus will LOVE that this is one of your main hobbies, and not other ladies and entanglements. .

The Sun Angle Boys sound like a backing studio band from a country music documentary. .

When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. .

It’s good, too, to have this bitter cold with a relative lack of snowcover to help keep a lot of insect and invasive plant populations in check near your home. .

Also: https://www.wsj.com/articles/second-homes-are-fueling-a-rebirth-in-the-poconos-11642694375 .

I’m hoping it’s delayed so that we get this in March… cold and muddy in March just means fewer practices on grass and my lawn getting a late start. C’est la vie. .

Hunterdon County, New Jersey… maybe Sussex or Warren if you want more hills and forests. .

The same song is played every year. .

Going on absolutely nothing other than recent past experience, this will not pan out. Of course, I hope I’m wrong, but it just has that feel of meh, it’s not gonna happen. That’s my peer-reviewed scientific analysis. .

Wait until you have kids. Then you’ll be on and be like, who are these people and why are they so crazy. .

Snowing in Morristown .

My completely non-scientific research tells me that while we all claim here to love the cold weather, it’s actually not true. Cold and dry, like when some of us were kids? Nope. We want snow. That’s what we’re here for. Mild weather, cold for a day with big snow, cold for a day or two afterwards, mild again. And repeat. The cold and dry just leads to annoyance amongst the posters. .