AstronomyEnjoyer

06z GFS has concocted this mess for the 22nd/23rd.

00z Euro invents some snow for the 20th and also has round two on the 23rd.

Teetering around 63°. Looks like that'll be my highest temp for a while. First time windows have been opened for 2024!

Last few afternoon frames from the 12z GFS for the torch enthusiasts! Clown range caveat, of course. An extrapolated 390 hour frame would be even hotter, too.

Ha! In all seriousness though, that really is an awesome view, and nice neighborhood too! For some reason I always forget how hilly Connecticut is, even just west of Hartford. I should probably drag the chairs out to the decks today too - they aren't Adirondack chairs though!

Incredible view, but I really doubt you can see the Adirondacks from Connecticut, even at 1140 ft!

54.0° here compared to 52.4° at the same time yesterday. Should be able to hit 60° today!

Going to stretch the definition of NNE and sneak some photos from MBY in. River is ice free now, and what little snow there is will be gone in the next couple days. Might be the last "cold season" photos I take back there.

Fair enough. I guess my view is that a truck is meant to be dirty, worked, worn, etc., as that's its function - not a fan of the pavement princess look on a truck. I wouldn't own a 2500 were it not for the fact I also own a heavy trailer. If it were a nice car, that'd be a different story. Those guys and gals over in Stuttgart have nearly convinced me to make a reckless financial decision on more than one occasion...

Latest photo I could find was from mid Feb. Look at that patina! And the dents I've already put in the hood from when I ran the thing into a ditch after the Jan 7th storm!

Oh man, I bought a new truck this past June and I have yet to wash it a single time.

Excuse me, we ride tractors around.

You don't.

I do, though a better descriptor would be mud road right about now.

Town made the interesting decision to plow one half of my road and leave a snow bank nearly halfway in the middle. Not that it matters - it'll all melt in a couple days.

I just got power back after Eversource intentionally cut it for a couple hours to make repairs. Measured a 34 mph gust here early this morning - which is actually pretty impressive given my anemometer is so wind sheltered it might as well be buried underground.

Just lost power for about an hour there. Lame.

The 20th.

Oof, just lost power for a second there. Guess that's what I get for making fun of the wind. With the chimney work happening, the heat's been off all day in the house as well. Hoping power doesn't go overnight, cause it gonna' get cold in here.

Stay safe. You never know when you might be struck by a rogue pinecone.

So far I've gusted to 25.1 mph - which to be fair - if you saw where my anemometer was located, you'd be impressed.

33.6° and a squally little snow shower pushing through. On the 12z suite, the Euro, UK, and ICON want to give a swath of advisory level snow to CNE Friday night/Saturday. North American globals, however, suggest that the Europeans quit doing drugs.

Bobcat caught on the basement door camera this morning. Surprised he was snooping around - chimney folks were here and just around out front at that time.

31.3°, windy, with occasional sun poking through cloud cover. Chimney is getting re-lined today. Crappy weather to be up on a roof, especially one that is now snow covered (and 12/12 pitch!).

Glancing back at the forum 10 days ago, I'll concede that I unfairly characterized the discussion. Valid and reasonable concerns were put forth by many - unfortunately, the less valid ones are what lodged better in my memory. That aside, I'm still curious if model performance as a whole has actually been lacking this winter season. My (by no means groundbreaking) suspicion is that there would be less criticism of their performance if they also threw in a few instances where they called for little and it snowed a lot rather than just hiccup the other way round.