AstronomyEnjoyer

NAM is looking a little more intriguing for the upcoming slop this week.

The result of pulling the tractor out from underneath the collapsed tent. Not sure I'm going to be able to clean that up until spring. One of the bars had fallen right onto the horn button and the thing was blaring for God knows how long. Couldn't hear it from inside the house. Luckily it didn't drain the battery to the point it wouldn't start.

Hey, at a minimum, the one on the right has a different white balance!

Warner river in the backyard on the 20th vs. this morning. Ice Crust is building up and water level has dropped and is running a few inches below the surface of the ice. Starting to feel like proper winter.

I only hit 11.5 and I'm pretty far to your northwest and tucked into a valley.

Don't know where you all found that cold air this morning. I bottomed out at a toasty 11.5 degrees here. Currently sitting at 14.5. Might be time to bust out the shorts.

Ah man, that must be pretty rough in terms of snow. I frequent the Home Depot in Claremont and I'm always amazed how little snow there is compared to further east and up the hill. The Connecticut river valley does seems to do everyone dirty. I went to school at Umass Amherst so I know it well.

Yeah, I wish I had a little more elevation (just under 900ft) but I'm tucked up in the very northwest corner of Bradford right on the Newbury line. I've got high elevation immediately to the north, west and south of me. I notice a big difference in snow cover when driving down into Henniker proper or Warner proper.

Hey, they may have me beat in elevation, but I can hold on to cold air with the best of them! Plus, even S Goshen is getting dangerously close to the snow hole that is Newport.

00z GFS Kuchera Clown run all the way out. Had the boys over at Hewlett Packard install the Cray at my house yesterday morning - because this was clearly run from my basement. 42" spot right over my house. Lock it in, lol. Map courtesy of Pivotal Weather.

I will choose to believe that the 3"+ zone denoted by the pink outline makes just a tiny bit further up to my house.

Didn't think I'd have to update my snow total tracker today, but here we are! Ended up with 0.6". So close to 30" on the season!

Down to 9.9⁰. Just trekked down the backyard to check the river - starting to freeze up pretty good! About 0.5" of new fluff and still snowing lightly.

Feeling very appropriately wintry.

11.2, with light to moderate snow making a for a lovely snow globe effect. Cleared surfaces are starting to get covered even though nothing is showing on radar. Who do we need to talk to in order to get the powers that be to stick a weather radar on top of Ascutney, lol? Anyone got a spare WSR-88D kicking around?

Got down to 4.6 here this morning. Still at 7.8 and breezy.

The poor Vermont coverage is even mentioned in the NEXRAD wiki page, lol. See below Coverage gaps[edit] NEXRAD coverage below 10,000 feet WSR-88D has coverage gaps below 10,000 feet (or no coverage at all) in many parts of the continental United States, often for terrain or budgetary reasons, or remoteness of the area. Such notable gaps include most of Alaska; several areas of Oregon, including the central and southern coast and much of the area east of the Cascade Mountains; many portions of the Rocky Mountains; Pierre, South Dakota; portions of northern Texas; large portions of the Nebraska panhandle; the Four Corners region; the area around the Northwest Angle in Minnesota; an area near the Connecticut River in Vermont;

Given how awful the radar looked over my head for the duration of this event, I'm surprised I managed to snag 3.1" (high ratio fluff). Went around jamming the yard stick in the yard and averaged 11.8" for total snow depth. Even managed to push it in 90 degrees to the ground (for the most part). Please see the below table for my season's goodies thus far. (Please note listed dates are when I measured and do not necessarily reflect the start of the event.)

I guess this is what I deserve when I stated my desire to steal everyone's snow yesterday, haha. Don't want to step outside right now lest I be struck by a stray flurry.

Yeah, being to your west, I'm currently stuck in no man's land. Radar over my noggin not lookin' to good.

03z RAP Kuchera, courtesy of Pivotal Weather. Please note the black arrow that points to a local maximum - where I might or might not live. From this, I can conclude that the RAP must be the greatest weather model ever devised.

Absolutely terrible photo of Orion that I just off the back deck by holding my phone. The fact you can make out some of the nebulosity in the Orion nebula itself - even while through a thin cloud layer - is a testament to how far camera sensors have come over the past few years. Tis also rather cold out. At 10.6⁰.

I'm liking my location for this one. Hoping I can steal all the snow.

And here's another for the damage fetishists!

Not unscathed here this morning, though not terribly surprised. Hard to tell how long much snow we got, but there's 6 new inches of fresh cement on my truck.