A Moonlit Sky

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

He will sit for a half hour in the snow. Will lay in the snow chewing bones while it is dumping. Half Husky half St Bernard so snow is in his blood.

My childhood dog was a rescue and a mixed-breed. He was half-husky--we didn't know the other half. He'd go out in snow storms and refuse to come in. He'd just go out, dig a little snow fort, and sit there for hours. Crazy guy lived 21 years, so maybe he was on to something.

47 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

VIS certainly looks reduced out there on 787:

Virga here still.

I was driving on 87 and that's what it looked like. It's just light snow now, though.

Man, snow came in like a wall up here in Albany. 21F.

I'm splitting my time between Connecticut and Albany, NY for grad school. The neighbors up here tell me they've had a snow drought for a few years. What sorts of events are the bread and butter for Albany area?

Nice day today. Temps seem to be underperforming their forecasted highs here and nice overcast sky with those fluffy winter clouds.

13 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

I only average 10" more than SE DC but that never seems to be the case OTG in reality. Just sayin'...

They miss every single marginal event.

South Philly seems to be a snow hole, too. I can't imagine the frustration.

There's been icing on ponds and standing puddles in Brookfield. I doubt anyone was driving on the ponds though.

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

I understand perfectly.
Thanks.  
 

BTW, Blizzard of 16 didn’t completely whiff SNE.  CT shore did quite well with a foot plus, and inland areas such as where I live got 8-10”.  Just north of here it dropped off a cliff though.   
 

 

I was working in Bridgeport at the time and they got slammed while we got like a quarter of their total.

Coming down at a good clip in Brookfield. About .5" to 1" so far. Made for a scenic run.

Intermittent sleet here in Brookfield.

Gonna be in Albany for this one. It's been strange, because my impulse is still just looking at Fairfield County when pulling up the NWS forecasts. I have to remind myself to look at both now.

This is gonna be an interesting winter since I'm splitting my time between Brookfield and Albany.

20 hours ago, Cold Miser said:

Not sure if it was legit, but I heard 100+ mph in the Capital region of NYS.

The wind as the storm came through was intense. There was supposedly a tornado and macro burst in the area.

In my memory, I've only had the one October snowstorm in 2011. I'd rather not repeat that winter.

So is the haze today the smoke from the west coast?

'93-'94 was my first year in CT. Between that and '95-'96 it set my childhood expectations for winter very high.

Snow in Stamford. No accumulations though. Stark difference south of the Merritt.

I'm down. Let's go.

33 minutes ago, Dr. Dews said:

Had a large mosquito on me yesterday, though I could be exaggerating according to some

I've been seeing occasional mosquitoes since February. They're out and about.

Today has ended up being a low-key nice day. Cool but not cold.

2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Since the comparison seems to be > than meaningless after all...  

Here's 2012 March, (  https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/201203):  ... I did a spot look up on Hartford, CT for that month and they eye-popped a +9.6 above average monthly mean. 

Contrasting, as of 1/3 of the present 2020 March in the books, Hartford is averaging +9.9

Now... prognostics would argue we settle off this largely impressive departure as some of these over-top anticyclones move rapidly through a general vestigial progressive flow bias that is unrelentingly the entire Hemispheric character that won't apparently die without actually destroying the planet apparently .. eh hm... And that's a cold source at low levels (off-set by equinotical sun angles). After that, we probably add back, but by weight of numbers it would be slower and take more to get back to 9.9 if a return to that value could/would take place... That's extraordinarily large - that value right there, and even though CC and blah blah blah...that's really just so far over the top that's something else entirely driving that - obviously...  

Meantime, ORH is +10.3 on the NWS' climate interfacing ...and yes people want to quibble over decimal handling ...but the 10 in front of the "." negates your denial tactic so forget that noise. 

 

 

 

 

Impressive.

10 minutes ago, MetHerb said:

Yes, we are a few weeks ahead of where we normally are.  The earliest my forsythia's have been in bloom is 3/24 in 2012 and 3/31 in 2002.  My average date is 4/18 so when they bloom we'll know how far we are ahead.  That's the only date I track on my weather record but I also have records from my maple sugaring.  I always tap the weekend after valentines day and my season ends at the end of March.  I'm still collecting sap and this weekend looks like we'll have ideal weather (40s/20s) for several days so I'll be collecting into next week and that also points to us being about 1-2 weeks ahead of where we normally are.

At least the season isn't ruined for you. I remember my only apple tree was murdered by the March to April 2012 temperature whiplash. I only grew the apple tree because it was there when we had moved in and I liked it. I can't imagine what happened to commercial growers.

I can take some pictures of the area around the office today in Stamford if it's needed. There is a tree now with little dark red buds. There's no doubt we'll be ahead of schedule by several weeks this year.

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

He lives in a magical place yet doesn't post any pics 

I mean, I can post pics of Stamford tomorrow. Stamford isn't "greening" at the moment.

Looks like we topped out at 57 here in Stamford. The clouds and breeze are making things a bit chilly.