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If National recorded 4.1" then I may have to up my own total.

1 minute ago, Mrs.J said:

This just happened at my husband's office. After this time last year saying you can choose your path of working. Told them that "we work better when we are together" without giving any stats, which ticked my husband off. He mainly works with people in the Austin, TX and Montreal office so literally goes in now to sit behind his computer and have meetings that he could be doing at home. He is required now to be in 3 days a week and two of them are Tuesday's and Wednesday's as those are "meeting" days. He is not going in today he decided. Said if they have a beef he can tell them he will just take a PTO day and not work at all. He is logged in now a half hour earlier than if he would have went in. Also he has a MX5 so that was not getting put on the roads today. 

This kind of stuff is infuriating. I know of too many people in the same situation and there's never a truly legitimate reason given for wanting people in the office. A lot has to do with these companies that invested in commercial real estate and their fear that their investments will go south if people continue to work remotely, but they'd rather just say "We work better when we're all in close quarters with one another" or some nonsense.

I'm moving to a new project this month - this one is fully remote without any physical office to report to. I'm moving from another government organization that used to require us to be in the office five days a week prior to COVID, but now we're hybrid with loosely required two days of in-office per week (and that has been ticking up a little in the last six months). Really looking forward to knowing I'll never be asked to be in the office for some random meeting or something, and that I can pick and choose days to go work from my company office. Since my wife is a freelance editor, she's also at home and often just needs me out of her hair during the day.

11 minutes ago, H2O said:

I'm sure some will disagree and say temps before don't matter, but IMO the warmish temps we had(I had) the few days prior to this storm affected accums.  If it had been 30s leading up to this then I think roads/grass would have caved sooner.  But I got to 49F before the squall front Sunday.  To me and my experience, the ground and pavement was toasty.  Not a complaint but more a observation that the snow could have been better for some if you take prior conditions before this storm into account.  

 

29F current so things will stay icy for a while.

There's no doubt that the paved surfaces were too warm to cave with rates like they were. Things were covered when I woke up, but it was only 0.5", so it melted from beneath before too long. Then you get just a little insolation and already-wet ground, so snow won't pile up with meager rates.

I was honestly impressed with how easily it accumulated on elevated surfaces and grass given the rates!

1 minute ago, RevWarReenactor said:

Nice little overperforming storm.

It does concern me that we can't get accumulating snows on the street with temps in the 20's during the day. Its kind of amazing how wet this storm was considering how cold it was. I don't remember that in the past. 20's= cold powder blowing across the street.

Why would it concern you? Are 20s nowadays warmer than they were 50 years ago?

I'm going with 4.00". Might have been a little more since my timing on measurements was kind of shoddy, but whatever.

Things ended with that tiny bit of freezing drizzle this morning. Kids are up my arse to get them out sledding!

12/6: T
12/11: 1.25"
1/1: T
1/14: T
1/15-1/16: 4.00" 

Total: 5.25"

Liking the trajectory of the returns for another couple/few hours of reasonable snows in Burke.

Can’t really beat snow falling for most of the day in cold temps, even if the totals aren’t anything huge.

Definitely picked up over the past hour. Just measured another 1” on the dot, which puts Burke at 2.25” so far. Would love to add another inch before things shut off so the kids have some good snow to play in tomorrow!

There should be no virtual learning on snow days unless we somehow have a massively backloaded winter and the kids can't get into school...and even then I'm not really for it.

Kids should get some days off for snow so that they can get outside in the snow and be kids, if nothing else!

Woke up to 0.5" in Burke this morning and it's been snowing lightly since about noon-ish or so. Picked up about 0.75" in that time.

Nice winter day!

Huh. Flurries in Burke at 40 degrees.

It’s not a real storm until Ellinwood has MBY in grey.

22 minutes ago, Scraff said:

The more Other Half you drink, the funnier the meltdowns get. 

Vodka and bourbon tonight, but the effect is the same.

I’m secretly loving the meltdowns right now.

But I guess it’s not so secret now.

6 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

It's amazing it was Euro vs the world and EURO appears to have won.

Do you think if it was Euro with a snowy solution vs the world  it would still win? 

The Euro washed out after being the snowiest solution for 36-48 hours. No model has “won” as of yet and no model will when all is said and done.

1 hour ago, Herb@MAWS said:

I’ll be in Barcelona, Paris and then Northern France during the next few weeks … so l guarantee snowfall during the time when I’m not here to enjoy it.

Your life sucks.

11 minutes ago, WinterWxLuvr said:

Not a good trend. 
 

I will add that we are still a good ways away from this. Plenty of time for change. And for once I’d say slower is better. If this ends up a late Tues/We storm it might be a good thing

What trend? The UK is overamplified, just as it was yesterday. Last night's run was pretty sweet, but it's not "trending" at all.

8 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Don't know why we can't seem to have snow-cover when we get a cold snap like that...don't think it's happened since 2014!

It's because we often warm up after our decent snows and it takes time for the cold to get reestablished. We'll even lose snowcover when we get cold following moderate snow because of insolation/melt or sublimation.

There are rarer times when we get extended snowcover and cold, but it's simply not our climo.

8 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

With not unreasonable ratios, GGEM says I’m approaching climo by next Saturday lol

I *suppose* I'd take 4" falling on top of whatever's left of the 9" I got just three days before...which would be a decent amount since it'll be cold.

Just now, stormtracker said:

Not bad..another cold 2 to 4'er

If I had a choice, I think I'd take the two smaller events over one bigger one.

I think...

3 minutes ago, blizzardmeiser said:

He is pure comedy.

Negative

And why do long-timers still reply to Ji's posts? Drives me up a wall that anyone would spend the energy engaging.

I think Heisy and jjjjjjjjjjjay are the same person. They both end their posts with a double hard return followed with a period. Like this

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Just went for a run in shorts and a long-sleeve t-shirt.

So comfy out there - I'll take it while we await the upcoming chill.

53 minutes ago, stormtracker said:

@WinterWxLuvr  loves threads btw. 

All he would do is shit on peoples' positivity, right Luvr?