mattie g

It's easier to track a potential fail when we just had a pretty unique storm that has left us feeling like deep winter. Those of us not in the SE part of the forum would be jumping off cliffs if we hadn't scored this past weekend.

Finished up the driveway and sidewalk yesterday. It was pretty easy since I had shoveled a couple times during the storm and set down some salt in preparation for getting that last inch for concrete up. I just used a spade to lift it - easy as could be. I'm going out today to dig out a space on the street and also clear out a spot by our mailbox. We had moved both cars into our driveway before the storm so the plows could do their thing, so now it's time to make some room to get one car onto the street and make room for our mail lady to do her job more easily (even if she isn't most personable individual lol).

Not sure where you were when this happened, but someone on Reddit posted that they got the details of a car on 495 that hadn't been cleaned and ice flew off the roof and smashed another car's windshield.

(I was actually kidding, but thanks anyways)

When are we getting recon data for the shortwave in the Pacific? Once that’s ingested into the modeling dataset, it’s going to make alllll the difference…

I love that we just finished a storm yesterday and the next opportunity is close enough that we’ve got NAM analysis on it.

I feel like it took a couple good steps, so I'm not hating it. A little disappointed is all.

The ridge out west is much better at 126. Vort is closed and digging farther south.

11/30: Mix of sleet and light rain for a couple hours before switching to light cold rain. 12/2: Mix early in the morning before flipping to hard, cold rain. 12/5: 2.25”. 2” in the man event and 0.25” later that evening/overnight. 12/13: 1.25” 1/17-18: T - An hour or so of sleet/flurries on the 17th and very light snow on the 18th 1/25: 9.25" - 5" of snow overnight followed by all-day pounding sleet Running Total: 12.75”

I'm honestly not sure if I want the GFS in the "good" camp at this point. It's interesting to look at, but unless it's part of an overall consensus in hitting us, I'd rather it be south/east right now.

My neighborhood was plowed 3-4 times, but my cul-de-sac was last done at about 2:00 pm. Went out with the dog a little bit ago and my street was a solid pack of 1.5-2” of sleet. The secondary roads were supposedly worked over pretty good, but as of about 4:00 pm the one nearest me was still in pretty bad shape.

I think if we score a decent event (6-10", if not more) at the back end of this cold spell and then we hit a couple more small/moderate events later on, then it will go down as one of the more memorable winters around here. Not 09-10, 02-03, 95-96 type winters, but definitely among ones we can recall pretty easily in the future.

I was so prepared for the potential of power going out with this storm. I ran the generator yesterday (after draining the carburetor and cleaning it out), gassed it up with plenty of extra gas at the ready, and had it all staged and ready to go. I had all batteries and wireless chargers charged up, plans in place for keeping as warm as possible for a few days, etc. In the grand scheme of things, I'm really glad I didn't need to put any of that plan into action, but it *is* a little bit of a bummer that I couldn't at least have seen some of that that hard prep work put to good use!

Gotta say...that seems kind of low for the amount of liquid equivalent since folks around us started off with 5" or so of snow (depending on where you are).

Biggest QPF producer since...no idea! And it happened when one of the coldest airmasses in recent memory decided to make itself known. We lucked out big time!