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Just now, cut said:

I need to experience that type of storm once in my life. Of course it's doubtful there will be skiing tomorrow (even today I think most places are closed on 'wind hold') so that would be frustrating. But to see 5 inches per hour for 35 hours!!!!

Went 2 years ago - this would be amazing to experience:  https://www.skiheavenly.com/the-mountain/mountain-conditions/mountain-cams.aspx

40 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

May to them snow with visibility less than 1/8 of a mile is their typical snow showers  

I need to experience that type of storm once in my life. Of course it's doubtful there will be skiing tomorrow (even today I think most places are closed on 'wind hold') so that would be frustrating. But to see 5 inches per hour for 35 hours!!!!

1 hour ago, Cold Miser said:

...Rare ice sighting in the middle of Lava Lake.  Looks like I can get out there and ice fish...If I weigh as much as a sparrow.

we haven't had ice in years. When my kid played hockey we would play on local ponds every year - haven't been able to skate on a pond in at least 4 or 5 years here in southern CT.

About 5 inches on grass and outdoor table, just cleared about 2.5 to 3 off driveway - pretty heavy snow here on Trumbull Bridgeport line. - 1/2 N of Parkway.

2 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

No you want to see solid precip creeping into the border counties of Ohio with WV. Doesn’t even need to be well into the state, but if it is, then we’re def getting destroyed. 

Not happening yet: https://www.wunderground.com/maps/radar/current/day

But there is a lot in Kentucky that seems poised to move into Ohio.

Just now, Sn0waddict said:

This is probably my fault. I just went out to get gas for the snowblower, and I come back to see the EURO/EPS. Woof.

I was just getting ready to start mine to make sure it runs!! Of course if it doesn't I can't do anything at this short lead.

12 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

One of those was brutal for CNJ. I think Feb 87. Expected 12-18” the night before, schools closed (which was not an easy feat back then) and we woke to flurries while the jersey shore cashed in. 

I went to see Platoon with a couple friends the night before, expecting to be able to not worry about getting up early the next day - well .... the wake up sucked - flurries and filtered sun .... AND SCHOOL!!!!!

11 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

Yeah not feeling this one down here.

But I got my first round of golf in today at The Vue in Hamden - great course.

10 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

Yeah not feeling this one down here.

I'm thinking it'll be a snow day for my high school daughter though. Nothing memorable or even notable but I think a snow day is incoming.

31 minutes ago, MBRI said:

 

 

Thank god you put in the snow stakes so you won't ruin your lawn moving all the snow this year!!!!!

2 minutes ago, BuildingScienceWx said:

Bethany has a few roads in the northern section of town over 800'. I lost a bidding war to one of the houses at 820'...

I have a friend who lives near the highest point in Bethany - it's way different there than at my place.

4 minutes ago, Kitz Craver said:

We have definitely regressed down here to the point where an 8” event(not saying that’s what we see for HFD area) seems like a big dawg to me, especially some wet, synoptic snow. Long, long gone are the days of the seemingly regular 12-15” storms that were happening, what I felt like was once a week during that incredible stretch. 

I literally have less than 3 inches on the year here in Trumbull. Last year I think I had one storm in which I used the snow blower - just to use it and keep it in shape - I think it was 3 inches and like 10 on the season last year. This is in all honesty the 4th or 5th lame year (ratter) in a row here in south Trumbull.

13 minutes ago, UnitedWx said:

Thanksgiving 89... I was lucky enough to be there for the holiday. Forecast for a dusting to an inch in the AM... ended up somewhere about 17 inches 

had thunder snow in that one in Easton

2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

That would be really neat to experience one of those again.  I've seen that happen in the Great Lakes growing up and once or twice here.  Sky gets inky dark and there's even a bit of arcus/shelf cloud and a gust front.... big rain drops  ( cat paws really) with a rumble of thunder then somewhere mid way through the squall ... flashes over to aggregates and the visibility tanks. 

it's weird and really amazing

Was driving up 93 (Ski 93) to Wildcat from Lowell back in the late 80s and drove thru one - pouring rain to driving wind driven whiteout. Emerged from the 0 Viz whiteout doing like 10 mph and it was flash freeze and every car had spun off the road - we almost joined them but my roommate who was driving had skills. It was very dangerous - temp dropped like from low 40's to mid 20's in just a few miles.

2 hours ago, greenmtnwx said:

I can tell you that there’s definitely not gonna be any good tree skiing unless that 10th storm follows up on this storm this weekend. This weekend storm should be pretty good for most of the New England ski resorts but it’s probably a 6 to 10 inch deal and not going to make much of a dent in the trees. That 10th system looks pretty beefy though and if we were to be mostly snow at the resorts on top of this weekend storm the trees could get good pretty quickly. But based on your decision parameters I think it’s going to be too little too late and you’ve got to go with Le Rangèr. Besides, the boys are playing well this season.

Plus the first round pick is playing tonight - Othmann.

1 minute ago, greenmtnwx said:

I understand and that’s fair in your personal case. But there’s really no disagreement to be had, it’s a simple fact that many people glade and tree ski in New England and it’s an important part of the mountain. You said skiers don’t care, as in encompassing the skiing world, but there is no debating that overall coverage including trees is important and many skiers care. There is also a fairly large back country ski scene in both New England and the Rockies, which obviously depends solely on natural snow cover. 

I am actually trying to decide whether to ski Tuesday to Thursday next week based on the forecast - and it's impacts on glade skiing. If there is no glade and I am stuck on corduroy I am going to move that money over to N.Y. Rangers tix and stay home - looking the latter as the 10th looks like shite. I need to decide by midafternoon today.

Thinking about making an unscheduled ski trip Monday to Thursday with the son before back to school so I am all over this. Thinking Okemo area to minimize the drive. Don't want to do 4.5 or 5 hours to get to Jay before getting in the car for the ride back to school.

9 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

There are some interesting GEFS members in there too

 

I'll take e4 for 100 please.

16 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Common around here just a few miles SW of Boston.  One night I was walking when our beloved doggy was still alive and well and thankfully she wasn't with me.  I saw a large coydog right in front of our house.   When it saw me it scampered into the woods.  From that point on-she was on leash at night except ironically in the winter when you usually wouldn't see/hear them.  This year I guess given how mild and snowless it is they're out. Within the past year, my wife and I were walking literally across the street from Allandale Farms and you could hear a pack of coyotes howling.  Kind of blood curdling and made us think they had caught a decent sized animal and were feasting.  Coyotes all over New England have become quite common.

we had a howling pack living (I think) in a patch of woods just above back yard. Whenever an ambulance or siren went by they would howl - it was kind of funny actually.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

On this date, 31 years ago ... I witnessed an usual occurrence from my dormitory attending college at UML.  It was during the 1992 Nor'easter, a top 3 all time personal storm experience favorite. Ironically .. while skulking around Youtube over lunch today, I happened across this random video from (apparently) State College, PA. At first I thought how much that reminds me of ...'wait!' That was today! - felt as though I was meant to remember.

It's just a snow squall ...but the speed in which the heavy snow column took over the scenery is remarkably similar to what I observed that faithful night of the 11th.  Only, the interface I witnessed was not a transition from clear air to snow...  it was wind driven heavy sheets of cold rain, demarcated by a single massive flash of lightning and the report, just prior to the flash over from silvery night right to dimly orbed street lamps through whirling snow.  I watched as the sky transformed, transfixed, as I wasn't entirely certain what it was in fact I was seeing.  I'd seen squalls do this... not during Nor'easters.  The next dawn we awoke to 17"

 

What dorm? Fox? If so what floor?

57 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Connecticut National.  39 on the front and 23 on the back with three holes to go. And  the heavens let loose. Would have been my best round of the year by far. Effing rain...

 

Dang - that is a nice score card. I'll have to check out that course. If you are ever down near New Haven check out The Vue (formerly Laurel View - which got obliterated by a tornado 4 or 5 years ago). I'm in Trumbull and we have a beauty in Nashua Knolls as well.

1 hour ago, kdxken said:

No snow in Connecticut.

That looks like Laurel View in Hamden - hidden gem

59 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Here ya go, Ray -  ...at least someone else corroborates my last 12 years

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-jet-stream-faster-climate.html

"...Though the findings are robust, more research will have to be done to predict exactly how these faster winds will impact individual storms and severe weather occurrence..."

I would argue that cyclone morphology is one of those that will emerge out of that study ( for the upteenth time).  Sorry to be a dick but I have been yelling about this for a long time.  But also in a practical application, the modeling behaviors that we have noted as seemingly idiosyncratic, may actually be more predictive than noise -related error, too.

Your Hadley Cell dissertation from (two years ago??) is something that I still ponder. It makes total sense as we warm (and expand) that this would be a thing. I remember your posts about faster jets/winds as well. Good stuff.

2 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

It's like a snow globe with heavy rates.

Only problem is it's just not sticking IMBY in Easton CT.

If I squint I can see some slush on the tall grass clumps in my yard

33 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

They cancelled schools here. No snow yet 

School on here in Trumbull- white rain - wet ground.