winter_rules

Couldn’t that have been said on any given day all winter long? I’m not trying to be a smart-ass but it seemed like the models consistently showed “wintry weather” being 4-10 days away all winter. Then it would disappear almost every time. Side note: I tracked snow cover at my house Jan 1 to Feb 29 and we were white 88.x% of the days, but never had an honest 6in on the ground. Seems very typical of recent winters.

You pretty much nailed everything. Much less down along Rte 12. Much more up on the hill. It looks like a solid 18”+ of new snow on the hill through Friday morning.

On Tug Hill between Turin and Constableville. Taken By my brother about 11:00am today while the band is north of the area.

The guy has Constableville and Inlet flipped. Oops.

As a former area resident, I suggest taking Route 11 the whole way, or at least get off I81 before you get into the heavy snow. I think there’s a decent chance of I81 turning into a dangerous parking lot. On Route 11 you can turn around or pull into a parking lot at any time. On I81 you are stuck until you get to the next exit which could be hours away in this type of weather. Keep your fuel tank full along with water, snacks, and blankets inside the car.

I was a junior in high school and we had tents set up in a hayfield for after prom but the 4” or 5” of heavy wet snow destroyed all the tents! Not to mention destroying the hopes of 16 and 17yr old boys after prom....

At 1,700FT in the NW Catskills, I have been generally estimating that 90% of our recent winters are white, but only 10% of the winter do we have 6”+ on the ground. I finally started tracking it on January 1 and, even with this horrible weather pattern, we were white for 24 of 31 days in January (about 77.5%). Never more than about 4” on the ground at any one time. I’m hoping to keep up the record keeping and really see how it averages out over the years. To be clear, we live in a rural high elevation area known for snow. Go a few miles North into the Susquehanna valley (Sidney, Oneonta, Binghamton) and it’s a whole different story.