Volcanic Winter

10.5 storm total 21 season total Toms River, western border within a mile of Manchester

Memorable for sure, I rate and enjoy cold so even without snow I appreciate the contrast to other winters this decade. Gonna be planning a hiking trip in CT for my bday in a few weeks, love getting out in cold air and snow.

This is bang on for what I have down here, about 20-22ish inches.

As someone who rates cold, I’m loving this winter. It’s not a prolific snow winter as in the region’s best, but it’s a throwback winter in summation I would say. Even during the warmup this month I wasn’t getting stressed and thinking “what the hell season are we in?” UnLike most of the 2020’s, it never went extreme and it was brief with respect to how we’ve had near full months wildly AN. Now we all have a literal glacier for the foreseeable future. Good in my book.

How is the ice situation up through Middlesex / Union / Essex / the city etc? Down here it’s an ice skating rink; bad. Be safe all. Temp crashing too, 23F and falling.

I was supposed to be above freezing by like 1-2pm and stay there until midnight. I only went above 32 at 5ish and was back below by 7:30p. 26 now and steadily falling. Also only had about an hour of actual rain, the rest was accumulating frozen precip. Storm was a crazy positive bust IMBY with respect to winter weather.

I now have an absolute glacier, thinking about naming it. All the best glaciers have names.

It’s literally raining diamond dust you can hear right now, and it’s still accumulating. This is pretty cool. What a day.

Still accumulating, back out to shovel. Very fine ice, heavy as hell.

My neighbor is a big snow quad weenie, measured 10.5 on a flat untouched surface somewhat wind sheltered. I honestly thought it’s higher. Had to be a major QPF jack down by me, I had definitely more than 6 by 10am with pics to prove it. Great storm. So about 10.5 at my location along the border of TR and Manchester. Still coming down and slowly accumulating just shoveled again, but obviously wet and compacting now. I’m eyeing spots in my backyard that look more like 12 but may have been wind blown somewhat. Still I think we maximized down here, surprisingly. Mt Holly bumping back to 6-10 was the right call. This juicy storm with a better track for the central / southern metro would’ve been pretty top tier I think.

I’m happy

Interesting yeah, my parents had 5-6inches in SSP when I got there around 11ish. Must have been more of a lull by you? It can be spotty in this area for sure.

Yeah I went from super fine snow to like tiny ice shards that came down hard and continued to accumulate. Little more aggressive than graupel I’ve seen in the past, hard to articulate. But this was a fun event and seemed to do very well by me, but less from me to the actual shore / coast.

It’s interesting because we never went to sleet, it was super fine snow to like almost little ice shards or graupel that continued accumulating. And the snow lingered longer than expected. It was honestly awesome, been outside the whole day in it. Sore already. Still coming down though for the first time as true frozen rain / rain. 31F