IowaStorm05

1 hour ago, JC-CT said:

Isn't that 10" total now? Or are we supposed to take the highest measured depth

I’m not a meteo, but I measure the open areas, and adjust on account of the drifts. It has kept snowing longer than I thought and willi is over 9” now at the River. 

15 minutes ago, PowderBeard said:

Cote's video of "driving a boat" was amazing.

This photo belongs on Wikipedia for the article to be written for this storm in history. SERIOUSLY 

And I believe I’ve developed a mild cold 

40 minutes ago, bobbutts said:

Crushed..   Probably about 15"

Damn that’s hot ! 

Calling 7.75” here. There are drifts of about a foot or more, and exposed areas of 5-6”. Stuff seems to be tapering off now. I can’t really quite call it a “bust”, more like we just ended up low-balled.

38 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

You may have briefly mixed with sleet. Colchester did 

I’ll bet we did. Cuz we very swiftly reached 4 inches before I fell asleep. It had to have ripped since and we only had about 6-8” when I woke 

The door I used to exit is blocked.

Eyeballing at least 8 inches out there but I’ll do a better measurement in a bit

still snowing in earnest... I don’t know but I’m assuming it never changed over or mixed yet which surprised me after last nites radar 

Eyeballing 4 inches, steady moderate snowfall. No sign of sleet attm 

1 minute ago, Ericjcrash said:

Nice. Considering the NYC shitshow I'm surprised you're still snowing

It’s the current location of the low and tongue of warm air I guess, looking at the radar, it’s northward push is to the west of us still

Just now, rgwp96 said:

Sleet all the way into sussex count in nw jersey smh. 

I feel like unless the low actually shoots East, If it’s northeastward climb continues as is, that sleet is going to climb right up well into SNE, and fast. !!

6 minutes ago, SeanInWayland said:

The very first Legal I went to as a freshman in 1978!

I was only there once, as it burned down (right?) shortly thereafter. I remember three things: It was small. Jim RIce(!) was there that night eating alone and made it clear he wanted to talk to no one. And we had to pay ahead of time in cash.

Oh yes, almost 1" down here in Wayland about a mile N of the Pike

Speaking of.... mmmm.... Chelo’s.

Radar really filling in nicely south of us. Last I checked we had quickly reached 2 inches... betting it’s close to 3 at this point here in willi. Imma go outside in 35 minutes or so.

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

What was the highest hill in Des Moines you lived on?

Des Moines is tough to describe. It’s overall flattish but in reality it’s long undulating slight down and up, like you might go from 800 feet to 900 feet over a mile of distance and back again. Des Moines Is at about 850-900 feet average elevation if I recall, and there is Sherman Hill, which is the highest near downtown. It might be 150 feet higher than the surrounding area. 
 

western Iowa is in the lower extent and easternmost extent of the true Great Plains and is as much as 1600 feet in the northwest corner, and is 1/4 drier than southeastern Iowa, which is maybe 500 feet and greener/wetter and is not considered Great Plains so much

Snow has turned heavy

Just now, JC-CT said:

I've resorted back to imgur

I sent the photo to my dad then did a screenshot of the photo in the message. That did the trick

Willimantic.

It’s snowing light-to-moderate and a solid covering maybe at 1/2 inch 

3 minutes ago, JC-CT said:

@Damage In Tolland literally went and found the highest hill he could find in his general area and bought a house on it

That’s cool, I’ve also done moves based on snowfall like that, I had the family move to high foothills in Reno JUST BECAUSE 5000 feet elevation gets way way more snow than, say, East Sparks at 4400. Rain shadow and temps 

8 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I feel like it can be a security blanket though.  Even if mid-level subsidence arises, you at least can maintain on low level lift but maybe that's more true for the NNE mountains.  But yeah, the jackpots don't have to be the higher terrain in a system with strong mid-levels... the valleys are fair game. 

I just think of a spot like the Catskills that may jack with mid-levels and orographics... 4,000ft is 4,000ft.  That's a lot of prominence from the Hudson Valley on ENE flow to begin with.  That Eastern Catskill zone can rack up some ridiculous totals.

In the past I thought only massive mountains could do that sort of thing, IE Sierra Nevada. But no even 200-300 hills can make a difference.

Just now, mattm4242 said:

...what exactly were you huffing?

I’m not going to Cher details in the name of protecting the citizens. 

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

What have you been huffing?

I’m not 16 anymore lol. But I actually did that a number of times when I was 16, at the behest of a female friend. It was really really dumb. 

3 minutes ago, JC-CT said:

I'm really not sure what he's getting at.

Because yea it is snowing but I saw convective looking blobs and holes in precip approaching NYC on radar, lifting north. Made me sketch out 

3 minutes ago, IowaStorm05 said:

Paranoid about dry slotting on radar or at least holes in precip.. 

It still is going to take a right turn and shoot eastward then?

Paranoid about dry slotting on radar or at least holes in precip.. 

Couple of tiny flakes appearing