WinterSnow

1.5 inches here in Bristol. Was hoping the projection more of 3 inches was going to turn out true. Oh well. Hopefully Saturday night delivers!

Snow started in what must have been the last thirty to forty minutes. It's already sticking some!

I don't think it snowed here at all last night. I know it wasn't going to be much but that's lame. It also got above freezing rapidly after the sun came up and now it's 43 degrees.

Got maybe 4 inches. "Meh" for my first "Winter Storm Warning" storm in CT, but it is thicker than most of the stuff I've seen here so far and is quite pretty!

My family in southern Tulsa county, OK reported 7 inches. More than I've yet to see in Connecticut this season. Congrats, you all. I know these storms are rare in the region. I know because I lived there not too long ago and it was depressing.

My former home state and region getting more snow than me in New England just ain't right. Enjoy, you all.

So... this is definitely a bust, right? I'm not seeing any accumulations in the forecast at all. We got more snow the other day (one inch or so. It's all blown away by now). Lame. Reminds me of how it was back where I formerly lived. All of the storms go either North or South. Literally... You can see that back in OK just over the past two storms. One storm went just above NE OK, this one's going just below NE OK. It's depressing. It's one thing for that to happen with a couple of storms, it's another thing for it to be a trend over years and years which it has been down there, and apparently the trend here hasn't been great either.

Seeing some light snow in western CT. A pleasant surprise.

WUnderground suddenly showing inches of snow on the 11th. I'm not getting too excited. That's six days out. I know how this works.

Saw a headline about DC getting a 'snowstorm'. Meanwhile, haven't seen any snow I could call a "storm" in CT yet, and no snow at all in the forecast. Technically December was snowy, but each event was minor.

Overall I enjoyed this December. The weather was seasonably chilly and there was snow on the ground on Christmas and other parts of the month. The snow totals were small, but I can't complain much. If the weather were like today all month I would have been feeling crappy though because today legitimately feels like winter where I came from. Thankfully, that's not the case. The seasonably chilly weather will return soon!

Snow happened before I woke up, I don't know exactly how much fell, I just know that it filled in the patches that had melted. Above freezing temps caused some melting again but looks like we should be at the 1 inch threshold for a white Christmas tomorrow morning. My first Christmas in CT/the Northeast and the first white Christmas I've seen since 2009.

Yes, but with the upcoming few days I expect melting. Even though it's well below freezing, the sun does a lot of damage.

So it looks like CT is going to miss out on this. For shame. Haven't had a White Christmas since 2009 where I came from. Oh well, a White Christmas is a silly notion to hope for, though isn't it? We have a White Winter Solstice here and that's good.

On the western end of the heavier band right now. I'll take it!

No ruler here. but I estimate around 4 inches here north of Waterbury (into Litchfield county) but I could be wrong. When I woke up I saw on social media a link to NWS reports and Bristol got 6.5 inches. I wonder if that's true! That certainly wasn't projected anywhere in Hartford county.

I say central even though I'm more western right now. I'm north of Waterbury.

Snow started here about 30 minutes ago. Went from flurries to moderate snow pretty rapidly. It started sticking even on the pavement pretty quickly.

A dusting where I'm at. Didn't expect that at all.

I see. Thanks. I thought I knew my precip types, but turns out there's a lot more to learn. I previously saw this happen in the mid to upper 40s once and was just as confused back then. Interesting phenomenon.

So... Uh, it's like snowing (or sleeting? It's falling like snow, but is more solid) outside here in central-west CT and it's also apparently 44 degrees at the same time. WTF? I thought it was supposed to be sunny today. Oh well, not complaining.

Woke up at 7 to a very light dusting (at best). It's long melted now. Still, was impressed as I didn't expect any accumulations at all when it never got anywhere near below freezing. Must have been a band of heavy snow... but I missed it because I was asleep.

Yeah, there's a reason I moved to New England versus any other region of the country. Although it's fair to say that snow, ice, and cold weather can be devastating under specific circumstances (such as losing power when the temperature is well below 0F - but even that's much more likely to happen in the Northern states in the center of the country like Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, etc. as they get the most frigid of temperatures), I'll take my chances with the cold over constant threat of tornadoes, hurricanes, and bad earthquakes. I can see why people are fascinated with bad tornadoes and hurricanes, but all I see is the devastation - the people who lost their lives, their homes, their jobs, family members, friends. etc. A 'boring' hurricane season is a good thing. Which this one wasn't for people in the Southeast, but was for us. I know that this puts me at odds with people here who the fascination takes over so I try to post sparingly to not be arguing with people all of the time. Come winter, though, I'll be hoping for the big winter storms that everyone else is here and will maybe fit in a little more. Speaking of politics, that's another thing, much prefer the politics up here. My former state often makes national news with its embarrassing politicians and the nonsense they are up to. It's a sad place for the worst of the worst to rise up and try to gain attention.

Finally a seasonable day here in the 50s, but I wish it were cloudy. It has been sunny so much lately. Too much for me.

Seeing Michsnowfreak's post made me want to go back through the history of snowfall in Hartford. I was suspecting that maybe the mild, weak winters that you all have been experiencing in New England are actually kinda like the winters I used to have back in NE Oklahoma before the mid to late 2000s. So your weak winters would be like the better winters we had down there. LOL Nevertheless, I saw that Hartford only recorded 3 inches in the winter of 2001/2. WHATTTTTT?? That is bleak. That's like modern NE Oklahoma winter nonsense. I would cry if that happened this winter up here.