Layman

2.5-3" on the ground. 33.4 and seems white-rainish. Winds have been crazy but anemometer STB in a big gust this morning so not sure what speeds we're dealing with. Likely not over 40mph but with branches and precip blowing around it's got more oomph to it. Power still on at least.

36.5 0.12" Rain with Pellets mixing. Gust to 22.8mph earlier but reasonably calm now.

OVC. 40.6/35.5

Curious about this - what kind of system were you replacing and what did you go with? Assuming you replaced a traditional oil burner boiler?

1.52" overnight. 3.61" so far in March.

Lots of bird activity down south so far. Definitely sounds like spring when they all get singing. Saw some RWBB’s last week and we’ve got the murder of Starlings going crazy here today. Thousands upon thousands of them. Here’s a small grouping of them moving from one perch to another.

Wind really picked up over the past hour or so (seems to have subsided now) and my PWS registered a 43.4mph gust. It's poorly sited for most winds but it does pretty good in W/NW winds like today. It was cranking when that gust hit:

Bright sun here aaaaaand....44 degrees. I love the coast but sometimes she just won't let you enjoy it!

I enjoy reading about the lost/abandoned ski areas of New England and found this one to be relative due to the reasonably extensive coverage of their struggles throughout the 1980's due to lack of snow. Everything now seems to be hyped as the "most", "worst", "extreme", etc but some of us have lived through so much of all this before. Snow lovers in the 1980's = snow lovers in the 2020's. Mt. Tom, Holyoke, MA: https://www.newenglandskihistory.com/Massachusetts/mttom.php This was a fun quote from the page: "Though the 1984-85 season started on December 9, there was no more skiing until the day after Christmas. The holiday skiing too was short-lived, as temperatures soared into the 70s and melted the manmade snow. Manager Dave Moore told the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, "If Mount Tom depended on what (snow) was on the ground, it would have been out of business 25 years ago." The season likely ended after the first weekend in March."

It looks like someone was able to grab a nice pic of it with their "backyard observatory". Not sure exactly what that is or entails but I'm guessing I'm not the only person who doesn't have one It's the 3rd item down on this page: https://spaceweather.com/ Also curious if the X1.8 class solar flare yesterday mentioned on that page caused the massive cellular outage across the US...Interesting stuff.

@WhiteLawns@AstronomyEnjoyer I stumbled across this in a recent article - seems like a comet may be very visible on or around the eclipse on April 8th. You both have posted some interesting pictures and figured if you weren't already aware of this, it may be a good opportunity to try and capture it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12P/Pons–Brooks

BJ's and CJ's and nary a Kraft reach-around to be found. Difficult times indeed.

I'm near the 2-3" red dot of Portsmouth and look to have hit 2" on the money. Super light and fluffy and mostly blown away now with all the wind. Grass blades were covered this morning but are about 50% visible now.

He has been discussing that nuisance commute when there's a little bit of snow...

Well, take you pick - we've got a lot on the menu today: various studies and research papers, clown maps out to the ~300hr range, mid-90's sitcoms, vintage John Holmes films circa 1980, oh, and a touch of current weather discussion mixed in. Clearly a little something for everyone!

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263023

It should be an easy and great discussion but there are so many moving parts to it, that it becomes tribal with one side pitted against the other. The crux to me being, is the data accurate? If it is, is it robust enough? If these things can't be agreed upon, how do you have a productive discussion? The politics comes in because "sides" and finances influence these things at all levels of government. To believe otherwise is simply not being realistic. The personal attacks come in because some believe their fellow man is actively causing what they perceive as a threat to their very existence. If one believes humans are causing CC, they often propose and/or support ideas that prevent human activities they believe are contributing. If one believes CC is naturally occurring and doesn't support those ideas, the two parties are diametrically opposed and "fight" to support their position and/or activities. So often these discussions carry the disclaimer of "I'm not denying it exists" or "that's not up for debate", etc yet there's still the declaration that "science" is being employed. Seems to me that science left the chat some time ago. As I mentioned the other day, people have faith in studies, data, etc but are they truly accurate? Are they not influenced by any desired outcome, ideology, finances, etc? Can you think of any examples involving data, studies or scientific ideas that ultimately proved to be inaccurate? (Rhetorical questions) Just because we're at humanity's current state-of-the-art doesn't mean we're infallible. Remember the Non-Fat Yogurt episode from Seinfeld? That's a light-hearted example to make a point that many simply accept what's presented to them as being true. Extrapolate that example out to the foods you buy in the grocery store or consume at a restaurant, the medicine you put in your body, the scientific data that should be unbiased, accurate and produced with integrity. Are the ingredients accurately represented? The studies rigorous enough to prove long-term safety? The method(s) of testing robust and reliable? We hope. If these things are not accurate, what harms are being done acting on that inaccurate data? We assume that the data inputs the weather models ingest is accurate and reliable with no biases. Pulled in essentially real-time and processed to output a possible solution mere hours into the future. How does that work out? How accurate are those outputs 6-12 hours into the future? Point being that even with presumed accurate data from an immensely dynamic environment, the outcome can and does routinely deviate from what's expected. Add in adjusted, manipulated or flat out inaccurate data and those deviations get further exaggerated. Anyway, I feel hungry for some non-fat yogurt...

Had the thinnest of coatings around 7am this morning but nothing on the ground here now. Flakes in the air most of the morning as we watch the radar/precip dancing along the state line below me.

You must be in some pretty rarified air with this mishap. There's the group that walked on the moon, then you and like 1 or 2 other guys who've probably done this

What if it's going to make it's own cold though?

Five days ago you seemed to nail this. Quite the evolution over that stretch of time but as of now, it seems like we weren't able to thread the needle.

A mere 3 hours ago GYX updated their snowfall map. Is the consensus now "ain't happening James"?

Amazing day out there today. My station is biased high when in directly sunlight, but it read a high of 67.3. Felt real close to it too. Shorts, t-shirt, grilling, getting the D (vitamin) from head to toe today. I'll take days like this every February, please. Going to take some time tomorrow to get more firewood staged to burn through the upcoming snowy/winter period. What an awesome area we live in to see such wild swings!