Just took a walk through the woods - didn't find any real new damage other than smaller sticks and branches strewn about. Most notably, the pinecone crop has increased. The foundation which currently lacks a building will need to be cleared of them. And - I guess I won't have an excuse (weather) to avoid actually building the thing much longer...
Low of 18.5° this morning. 0.32" in the Stratus for the storm total. No snow accumulation whatsoever.
Power must have flashed or gone out briefly while I was sleeping as clocks reset about 4 and a half hours ago.
Wind never seemed to get too bad but I'm pretty sheltered where I'm at. I only counted maybe one or two gusts that got the house to creak a little.
If nothing else I have some confirmation that my thermometer either takes a bit to report true temp, or is straight-up out of calibration. Frozen water on the deck handrails, but my thermometer reads 33.2° right now. Light snow.
Damn, just heard a bug smasher flying overhead. Wouldn't catch me in one of those, in this weather, in the dark. Hope that pilot has a lot of IFR hours.
It really is nice, especially when you get it the warmer months. I took a video while I was down there - nothing special just panning the camera. Here's an unlisted Youtube link.
Latest GYX snowfall maps have a huge difference in expected and 90th percentile totals. Not sure how there's even a 10% chance of getting to those totals, but I won't complain.
Down by the river in the back where the sun don't shine the pack is still holdin' on. Took these about 3:30pm this afternoon. Feels about 10 degrees colder down there too.
Haha, no! Happened to see a little Canadian flag underneath the convection allowing models section of Pivotal. I don't think that was there before?
*edit* - Maybe Pivotal found out about my fondness for garbage models and added that one to my account just for me.