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I would hate to work at a grocery store tomorrow…

6 minutes ago, rcostell said:

Enjoy up there and raise a glass to James! This ones for him. 

This thread would be at 400 pages by now if he was here.  RIP

Starting to mix in Malden

I found my walkway!  Hubbardston, MA.  Starting off A December to remember.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Coastal storm is pedestrian ...

The bigger eye -pop there is the mammoth Rosby roll-out and the sweeping chinook warm up across everywhere and including Michigan to Maine and points south,  D7 -10

Which btw, that look and the U.S. ensembles all did an about face on the previous tele signaled and explain why tele -reliance in transition season is at times just as back-stabbing as the operational runs.  We'll see if this has legs ...or if we head right back.  I'm not totally sure I buy it?  That Hagibis is a large influx - I'm just wondering if this expanded H-cell business might absorb that too.  Just think, we keep this up and maybe no teleconnectors will be worth a shit at any time of the year

Imagine an entire winter of nowcast...

9 minutes ago, OSUmetstud said:

Meh. Some of these tracks appear to be from a different disturbance, too. 

See, Alabama will be affected

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-79.35,29.32,646/loc=-65.665,14.407

mesmerizing!

Hi-Res NAM has Dorian bottoming out at 885 MB over the Bahamas!  

My old place in Lunenburg.  At the height of the 2015 pack, over 40” in the untouched areas.  I loved walking through the “tunnels” to my driveway every morning.

17 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

That story gives me chills . I know it’s a sickness. But I love stuff like that 

Same here, I was like a kid driving around the next day.  I took a ton of photos, but they were all stored on a hard drive that got put into our attic somehow.  Let’s just say it didn’t make it...

In 08, I lived in a 3 family in Clinton, Ma.  I remember reading the disco the night before (pre-lurker days) and there was not a warning for significant ice, they were calling for a glaze. I got up at 5, did my usual routine and went out to start the car to find a nice candy shell on it.  Driveway was a skating rink, but I managed to get out and started my commute down the hill towards Bolton.  I came upon three cars at a dead stop in the middle of the road and thought, “what the hell are these a-holes doing!”  All of the sudden, they all started backing up like madmen, and I saw the tree falling into the road.  It was eerily beautiful, like a crystal chandelier, but I quickly joined in the reverse parade.  I did a u-turn to take a different route, but no matter which road I went down, there was no way through.  At that point, I started heading back home, dodging limbs that were falling in real-time all around me.  I finally got home, my wife asked me what was going on and I told her it was like a war zone outside.  

I then called my boss, who was in N. Reading to explain that I couldn’t make it to work.  He was pretty PI$$ed off, because it was plain rain up his way.  I told him to turn on the news and call me back.  After about ten minutes, he called me and just said, “wow, we’re gonna be busy”.  I was a residential electrician at the time.  

After sunrise, I watched from our third floor bedroom window as massive pines were being decimated one after another.  I then told my wife I wanted to go outside and watch.  As soon as I got to the end of the driveway, a huge oak split in two and took out two telephone poles on my street.  I ran back inside before the wires could even hit the ground.

absolutley insane seeing the trees bent all the way to the ground.  We only lost power for about 4 hours, because we shared the same feeder as the hospital, but the rest of town was out for a week!

Punxatawney says we spring

So much time wasted snow-blowing on Monday...

Worcester Icestorm enroute?

1 minute ago, JC-CT said:

How much for Philly?

They didn’t give any specific amounts, just during a briefing we were told that the potential for “infrastructure damaging” ice was increasing and shifting north.  

As of the latest trends, where would the highest potential for power issues be?  I am a lineman and we are hearing the ice potential has shifted north as well as more severe.

13 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Even half of this will be brutal Monday AM

If I’m not doing power restoration, I think Monday would be a good vacation day

I’m a lineman for National Grid, get a generator and run it every six months.  Trust me, ice storms are some of the most chaotic restoration events possible.

Shields are up! 

https://www.weather.gov/news/fv3

I thought this was interesting, talk about trying to sell an inferior program.  Isn’t this model supposed to completely replace the 30 year old   GFS?

3 minutes ago, leo2000 said:

on Tropical tidbits I ain't getting 12z and 18z only 00z and 6z. 

Money for the wall or no more weather models!

3 minutes ago, Snow88 said:

Para gfs is also further north

I thought Para GFS missed lunch today?

1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I would not go out on any ice around here yet, although it looks perfect. 

Williamsville Pond, Hubbardston.  Drilled a test hole every 25 feet, 4.5” was the lowest, had one spot over 6”.  Me and the kids had a blast out there today!  Time to dust off the tip ups.

10 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Unfortunately, the cost of that long run loyalty tends to be sleepless nights over disagreements, cold and dry encounters when your desire for hot and heavy seems unbearable, and the gradual realization that whatever fantasies are placed in your head, it’s almost always going to be worn down into the same mediocre event you can neither stand nor reject.

2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

It's a shame you moved from the Snow Capital of New England, Lunenburg, to a snowhole like the Hubb

  I’ve been a longtime lurker and thought it was funny that every storm in the 2015 snow blitz, Lunenburg was the winner.  Had to shovel five feet off my roof that year when a cutter was threatening to demolish everyone.  My wife worked in Harvard and her building’s roof collapsed on her day off!