Stormfly

Remember it well! Lots of fun with that storm. Here's a shot of the TV. 11 years ago to-day! Wow!

Weather or not begs the question!

8" plus another 2" after sleet/zr slop. Impressive mess to clean up. Woke up to another surprise! Widowmaker maple tree left us a gift in the yard and fortunately it came up short of blocking the lane. I don't mind storm cleanup this time of the year, I'd rather be shivering as I warmup into the workout then sweating like a pig in mid August with 75 dews LOL!

Just came in from trying to get some ice pics with the SLR. Can't get a handheld shot worth a damn and heard loud cracking of weighted down tree limbs. Oh great! Haven't heard it like that since the ice storm in 2014 which did heavy damage in our forest of balsams and spruce trees. Lights flickered a few times and picked up a few power line flashes to our west too. It's going to be a long night. It's sleeting hard now. Rain started at 1609 here with 8" of snow. Cleared the lane as it's never fun to deal with that crust on top! Insert obligatory "Imagine if this stayed all snow" line here!

Sorry to hear that. I grew up with a Great Dane and all Great Dane owners have unique tales of glory. The worst part about the breed is their short life expectancy. Losing a pet is heartbreaking. They are members of the family.

Temp accuracy looks good. The shield works. But like anything else location is everything. Mine is up on a tower. The rainfall for Monday now shows 1.51 so it was corrected. Still a bit high but my tipping bucket probably needs to be calibrated because it seemed a bit low a 1.03". I need to put a CocoRahs in the pasture!

Cats mesmerized by flakes the size of paper airplanes zipping by the window! Silly felines!

Yes it's definitely coming down now! Temp holding steady. 26/25.

I don't know about anyone else here, but if today was Christmas Eve, this would be perfect!

27/23 moderate snow, a few mm including untreated pavement here.

When was the last time anyone used snow boots?

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 29/20, snow intensity increasing. Actually looks like snowflakes instead of dandruff!

Finally snowing here! Very light flakes falling. 29/19. It's too warm. Would like to have seen it about 17F when I woke up. At least it's nice to see those white streaks on the roads and actually have snow falling the next day!

Nothing but a raw breeze here so far! 28/18

Yellow labs are awesome dogs!

Funny how times change! I remember when radar first came to TV weathermen. I watched WJZ (Bob Turk aka the Sunshine Kid!) and it was called "Sky Eye". No real definition just yellow blobs overhead that let you know it was doing something. And when it wasn't doing anything it was called ground clutter. Now we have access to realtime (well as close as we can get to it) NX88 anywhere there's a cell signal - in our pockets.

27/16. Waiting for the worms, er. rain to come. On a serious note, with dews this low, how long are we going to get virga'd?

Sorry to hear that. I've been through this with two dogs.

Even though it was pretty to look at, don't want a replay of this! That backend snow forecast was 2-4". We have close to 16"!!! Over 237,000 (BGE) customers out. January 26, 2011.

A two stage snow blower would empty that swale out in no time, dumped right into the street!

Haptic rainfall sensor definitely needs processing! It reported just over 3" for us today where the (real) gauge shows 1.03".

That's what we've been seeing for the past hour or two.

35.7°F and some flakes mixing in moderate rain here. It's quite the mess, imagine if the main snowmaker was arriving TONIGHT with temps dropping in the 20s. Jan 26, 2011 redux for sure!

Does anyone use the digital accumulation array outputs (NexRAD)? The numbers seem way high for this event, like perhaps there's stronger echos due to ice at that level?

Yes! Thundersnow at night is the best!