IrishRob17

I like driving in the snow when the idiots stay home. I remember driving during the State of Emergency in Feb 2010 and it was awesome. 

9 hours ago, Hitman said:

I had that kind of day yesterday.  I was under the impressiom that Sunday was going to be a big ‘nothing burger at best but found myself running pre storm errands this morning.  Filled up the truck, stocked up on windshield washer fluid and bought a new humidifier (with the stove going continuously for 2 weeks the indoor humidity was down to 25%.  No bueno.).  And made a pot of chili.  When I finally had a chance to look, things seemed to be breaking our way.  Still have to reload the wood pile but I’m really looking forward to this weekend.  

I have a whole house humidifier that does ok but still have one in my bedroom too. I'm sensitive to humidity either way, too much or too little. Things do look to be going our way and as you pointed out, with the cold coming in we'll have some snow cover to go with the pond ice. I'll have to look at the winds after but I'm guessing we'll get some drifting afterwards as well. 

1 hour ago, Hitman said:

giving the wood burning stove the night off.  Its definitely going to be needed continuously next week.  Liking the outlook.  dont want to count any chickens, but snow on sunday of a holiday weekend followed by cold has a nice ring to it. 

I had such a shit day at work today that I have not had time to look into or think about this storm but this post is spot on. And as for Monday night...GO IRISH!

Have had steady light snow most of the afternoon around here., .2 on the board. 

9 for the low for me as well.

2 hours ago, golfer07840 said:

No idea if this is where to post this question, but many eons ago, they used to be a sun angle chart that showed what date the day's sun angle was equivalent to.

 

Hopefully that makes sense. I'd make my own, but I can't recall if Dec 22nd is equivalent to December 20th? And then it works back daily until you hit June 21st? 

Yep, you got it. On my chart 12/20 and 12/22 are equivalent. Someone smarter than I may make a correction on that but I figure its close enough. 

Love see pond hockey each afternoon in the park. 

.5 this morning, 14.3 on the season

On 1/2/2025 at 7:46 PM, Rjay said:

@IrishRob17

LFG!!!

My son flew out of DFW to Miami on Wednesday. It was killing him to be leaving the storm but he had to do what he had to do LOL. Some PSU fans put the ass in class where he was sitting last night, throwing empty beer cans at him but he had the last laugh. No one owned up to throwing the cans when he turned around so at the end of the game he turned around with one of the cans in his hand and simply said "Got any more?!" Crickets of course after that. HERE COME THE IRISH!

17 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Whatever

I'm fine with this

Good because you don't have a choice. 

5 hours ago, gravitylover said:

A month of easterlies in the fall was odd. We've had some windy periods in the winter before, maybe not this significant (?) but, I think a big part of how we're reacting is that we haven't had much the last few years and memories are shorter than they used to be. I don't know about others but I'm less tolerant of the cold than I was so that's part of it too.

4 hours ago, hudsonvalley21 said:

Definitely feeling like winter especially with the windchill effect. Took down the outside Christmas decorations yesterday, on the plus side, little snow cover to move thru. Hopefully we don’t get the winds up to 60 today as Walt was mentioning in the earlier post.

I'm somewhat less tolerant of the cold but much less tolerant of a cold wind. Last Thursday I took down my outdoor decorations before the wind picked up in the afternoon, wanted to get it down before the freeze set in. I was in a t-shirt for much of it even though temps were in the 30s. If I'm doing something, the cold doesn't bother me too much it's when I'm just sitting or stand out there that it can start to get to me. 

4 hours ago, sn0w said:

This wind is really killing ice formation on the reservoirs...still have open water in tons of spots that would typically frozen over at this point if not for the 25+ MPH winds every single day. Really want to get out there and ice fish, been a few years at this point.

 A man fell through the ice the other night in Lumberland. Lets be careful out there.

Don't know if it's my imagination but it seems like this has been one of the overall windier stretches we've had in a while. 

Another clean up that the leaf blower took care off. 

The bride measured .2 on the board at home.

On 1/4/2025 at 7:26 PM, wishcast_hater said:

Can anyone show me a past HECS where the scenario wasn’t complicated?


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2 minutes ago, wishcast_hater said:

I posted this Saturday night and it was taken down. But when does a massive east coast snow storm come together without ease?


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You posted in this thread on Saturday unless there is another post you are referring to that was taken down.

28 minutes ago, Superstorm93 said:

Anyone in the LHV seeing any pavement impacts with that little steadier burst that moved through? 

 

22 minutes ago, Rjay said:

Let's give this guy some obs from the Hudson Valley. 

Sorry, bust day at work. It was steady light snow for a few hours but has stopped as of right now. Untreated roads/sidewalks are slick and there are numerous accidents reported throughout Orange County. I did have time to report that on mPING earlier, keep that resource in mind as it can be useful. Stay safe out there. 

38 minutes ago, gravitylover said:

Yeah back on WWBB right? That's where I first e-met a couple of those guys.

Yeah, that's one of them, I was on that one in between NE.Weather and Eastern. 

1 hour ago, gravitylover said:

Kinda ironic that the NE guys turned me/us on to Walt and now we've moved away from them. When I spent more time up there I liked the local reports but they're not important enough to me anymore so I don't need the drama.

Did anyone notice how much snow they got at Woods Valley ski area? They were over 60" at open this morning and it was still coming down 3-4"/hr.

I’ve learned plenty from folks up in NE after the years but the first time I read a Walt discussion it was long before this particular board let along sub regional forums. You think there’s arguing now between what NYC may get versus up here, the arguments then on a unified board were epic at times. Folks doing play by play on models for the whole eastern seaboard LOL. 

I did not see how much that ski area got but I was impressed with some of the snow totals the BGM NWS posted this morning. 

4 minutes ago, wdrag said:

mPing?  anyone know what's happening.  Getting a response about impersonating.  Did we have to reload it?

 

fwiw... might have more flakes today in Wantage then we see tomorrow??? lots of fluffy flakes coming down...  been off and on the past 3 days but today is the best yet. 

I had no issues yesterday but just tried to submit a ‘None’ report thru the app on my phone and got “Report Submission Failed. Sorry, unable to submit your report”

9 minutes ago, Hitman said:

 Used to spend a lot of time lurking/learning in the NE forum but it seems that they’ve become more insular over the years.  Seems to me there are more inside jokes and play than discussion of actual weather now.  

And fwiw-Walt’s posts are fantastic and elevate the NY metro to another level.  Much thanks to Walt.

that being said, let’s get a freaking legit snow storm already.

Inside jokes like AWTHDNVIRJ3RH?  Yes, I appreciate @wdragcontributions here as well. 

8 hours ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

Always thankful for this thread. Weather wise I have always found very few similarities between this area, interior SE NY, NW NJ, NE PA, SW CT, and Rich's postage stamp, than 95% of the population of the NYC forum. 

We're a much better match for the SWNE area but try to get a word in edgewise on the New England forum. Tough to do when some individuals have 50k to 100k individual posts. Many good posters there and knowledgeable, insightful information, but a tad snobby at times to anyone whose state begins with New and doesn't end in Hampshire. 

Enjoy the dry week ahead with near normal temperatures = boring. 

That's a good post, I agree. Many solid posters that I've interacted with for decades and enjoy reading most of the time up in New England. To your snobby point, I do recall many years ago now one poster in particular who was questioning why I was even in that forum posting since it was only for people "from New England". My reply to that though is that technically I am from New England, well northern New England and this poster is someone who moved to southern New England years ago, as I was born in Laconia and lived in the Lakes Region of NH. That poster pokes around the NYC forum on the regular so I guess they got over their segregated thoughts. 

29 minutes ago, JonClaw said:

Straight to the weather model porn folder 

Already on social media. 

.1 from earlier

Legit snow squall here for these parts, visibility maybe a quarter mile. 

7 minutes ago, wdrag said:

I think so... If you go back to p1 and see the south shift since 12/30... it should inform those that plaster the page with D8 snowfall, how large an error can occur. 

Agreed but many never learn that, which is astounding to me. Have some flurries in the air here now.