winter_rules

Ouch! That’s one of the beauties of living out in the rural hills. 50° at 5am here. Pretty rare to be above 60° before sunrise.

Yep, 60°+ at 5am is when I really feel the heat. Usually I can get outside early and enjoy a few hours before it really heats up, but when it is that warm (usually accompanied by humidity) I look for inside projects!

That is remarkable. You’re having a beautiful day and it is about the most miserable weather possible in the Catskills. 45° and steady rain most of the day.

Yep, I gave in and built a fire in the fireplace this morning. It was 57° in the living room this morning, 44° and raining outside....again.

We had the same recorded high today. Low of 38° last night. Left the house this morning at 41° and raining, drove north to Phoenix where it was 60° and sunny, came home to 42° and partially wet roads. Turned out to be a great day to go anywhere else!

That is remarkable....we have had clear blue sky all morning in Binghamton, AKA the cloud capital of the universe. It’s truly a rare beautiful morning here while it’s pouring rain a few hours west. Funny.

Similar in our part of the county. After thinking we were possibly heading toward “drought” in mid-late April, I’m now avoiding mowing parts of the lawn because they are too wet and I’ll get stuck. 26° recorded low, though I only saw 27° at 6am.

Not cool. I hope he pulls through! This is the scenario that is *just* common enough to give me pause when I otherwise want to say “it’s no scarier than the flu.” I have heard enough 2nd hand stories from otherwise healthy people to reinforce that I don’t want to test it on myself.

My father talks about haying one July in the 70s bundled up on the tractor like it was winter with flurries in the air.

While I also subscribe to this mentality, I can’t help but laugh at how the few of us on this weather forum are the opposite of the other 99% of society who would prefer the opposite. For this reason I also have to clarify whenever I reference a “good winter” or “bad winter” in conversation since my definition of a good winter is the opposite of most people’s definition!

As much of a snow nut as I am, I have to agree with you on this one!

I couldn’t agree more. The new radar is unusable on every form of technology I have tried it on. What an absolute embarrassment for the NWS.

Ditto at my house. 14° low this morning. Ready for full mud season again this weekend as the snow melts today and tomorrow - the ground was just starting to firm up last weekend.

My dad bought his first ever brand new snowmobile at the end of that March. I skipped school the day after the storm and we went riding on 30-36” of snow in April!

Meanwhile 55° in Hancock, NY at Noon.

I can not believe how long our snowpack has been holding on for the past several weeks. We lost 30” of snow in 24hrs on Christmas Eve but held onto a 24-30” glacier for weeks of warm and sunny weather. Granted things are mostly bare now but anywhere with northern exposure, forested, drifts etc. is still snow covered and even that is only fading slowly in these warm temperatures.

That seems to be one of the major hallmarks of this virus and the thing that makes me somewhat leery of it. Some older or weaker people have zero/minimal symptoms and some very healthy people end up with severe and long lasting symptoms. I just talked to a business acquaintance who is a healthy 40 years old. His whole family got it and the rest all had minor symptoms. He ended up in the hospital with pneumonia and kidney failure! No rhyme or reason. It’s a good reminder that I don’t want it because who knows....

I have to admit that I have been shocked by the lack of spread within my wife’s/kid’s elementary school. Elementary has been full day, every day since early September and the middle/high school has been hybrid. Despite many cases in the school throughout the year, there hasn’t been one instance of it spreading from kid to kid (or teacher). Every known case has been obtained through family/community spread, then that specific class quarantines for 10 days. There has not been even one additional case in any quarantined class. I’m amazed by this. I really thought they would be back home to remote learning by October 1 but I missed the call on that one! This tells me that the spread can be controlled by basic measures if people actually follow it. They are using 6ft spacing and wearing masks when not at their desk.

I agree 100%. Accountability is in a downward spiral in the US, starting in Kindergarten, and in most cases even earlier at home.

It sounds to me like he has the US average tenant. I’m genuinely perplexed by those who lean hard to either side of the political spectrum. Thinking that most people just need a little boost to get past a little bad luck is ignorant and blatantly ignores the fact that most people will do as little as possible in most circumstances. It is often highly educated people who land on the “left” side of the spectrum which makes no sense to me. Then you have the people far on the “right” who think that lower taxes on business owners (i.e. “the rich”) will translate to significantly more jobs and a more robust economy. The majority of those rich business owners got where they are by squeezing maximum production out of a minimum number of employees and maximizing the profit. Lower tax rates allow them to keep more of that profit, until Biden increases the upper income tax rates again. I’m not saying business owners do it wrong, I’m just saying they are primarily motivated by putting money in their pocket. Maybe a handful use that money to expand when they otherwise wouldn’t have, but I believe most established business owners just enjoy another BMW. It’s kind of funny, actually. There is a pretty clear parallel between people anywhere on the income spectrum. Most people try to minimize effort (called either work or expense) while trying to maximize return (called either government benefits or profit).

We still have a glacier on the ground hiding the inevitable mud underneath. I’d like to keep it that way for another few weeks, then turn to spring. If we lose the snow now it will just add several weeks to mud season. A few inches of fresh snow would make it feel like mid-winter again!

I feel the same here in Delaware County with wind warnings usually busting low, but not tonight! I need an anemometer because I have no judgement for wind speeds. You could tell me winds are gusting to 30mph or 50mph and I couldn’t argue.

I don’t disagree, but I’m scared of his replacement if he loses the next election. Republicans stand almost zero chance of winning a statewide election in NY, and Cuomo’s election challenges recently have been in the primary from people farther to the left. Be careful what you wish for.

My 35yr old wife, 67yr old parents, and 89yr old grandmother have all have both shots now. Wife and parents had Pfizer, Grandmother had Moderna. My wife was hit the hardest, but it really wasn’t bad. Headache, back soreness, felt worn down. Everyone was pretty tired for a day, but the fatigue was about the only “symptom” for the older 3. My wife teaches elementary school, and we have had our own kids in daycare/school for the past 7 years and neither of us have ever had the flu to our knowledge. We’re guessing the younger/stronger immune system caused the stronger reaction, but it still wasn’t bad.

I was a senior in college and stretched a 4 day weekend into a full week off to stay home for this storm! 30” in our area which fits the map you found.