gravitylover

Have fun down there. I'll be cleaning my driveway with a leaf blower

I only got a dusting but it's so nice to see an old skool clipper pass through. Maybe I can break the 20" mark for the season tonight/tomorrow ... ?

Right! I have accumulating graupel winding down now.

Nice little snow showers moving through. It's mostly graupel but it looks good in my "snow lights"

It's kinda nice seeing all this talk about a Clipper but I'll be disappointed if it's more productive on the coast than here in the northern hills.

Yup, final is 12". It ranged from 9" on a southern exposure that saw a fair bit of wind to 14" on car tops and garbage cans. Around the yard on the ground ran from 11 on the flat to 14 on the N side in a shady spot. It looks great, I have 5 foot high snowbanks at the bottom of the driveway for the first time in a few years, the roads are dry already and I didn't run out of beer before I finished shoveling. Good storm! Puts me at 20" for the season

My new board got disturbed so it's useless but I easily have a foot of goo. I'm kinda surprised but I'll take it!

I would've had a real reading for y'all because I finally put out a board for this one but a branch came down and disturbed the whole area where it was Anyway, I'm good with calling it a foot, there was 8" on the flats when I started shoveling and 2 hours later there was another 4" when I got back to where I started. It's still snowing nicely but it's mostly needles and broken flakes and it's not like it was under that crazy backside band. This is some heavy stuff too, shoveling is a full body workout

At 3am it hadn't started yet, by the time I got up a bit before 7 there was 5" on the ground. It's that clumpy stuff that balls up on bushes and trees making it look like more.

32/29/NE4 heavy virga

I like the 2-12 call. That's pretty much what I said to my wife a few hours ago.

They don't want the plane stuck on the ground in NY

That's what I was thinking. Yay for chaos

If the EC is right and I only get ~4" and they get a foot or better " down south" they'll be ahead of my seasonal total. That'll sting a little

Ehh, the north trend will bring you back in

They have me at 8-12. Yeah? I'll get the leaf blower ready.

So, does this incoming mess feel like it's gonna be a wet > white 3" slopfest to anyone else? Can we just shoot this one in the ass and move on to spring? I need shit to start leafing out and suck this ground dry not more wetness. #snowornothing! ?

So where are you moving to?

Bite your tongue I'm good with it being 287 and you should be too.

I walked out the hotel door this morning and it's 55°. Not quite what I expect in Chicago in February.

Would we be surprised?

I dunno, the Tug Hill and Thousand Island zones aren't as sparsely populated as they used to be but it's not an economically strong zone. There are some ok little towns and the west facing slopes above the valley floors get dumped on. There are some small successful zones and a fair bit of opportunity if your work doesn't depend on locals to earn money. The best skiing isn't at the biggest areas and has been mostly flying under the radar for 75 years. That upslope happens pretty regularly at Titus which is one of the most underrated powder areas on the east coast. I spend a bit of time up in the North Country in the warm months and the locals will happily tell you that it doesn't really snow much on the flats anymore but pop 100 feet up and it's like the old days. They love it because it makes moving around in the winter that much easier than it used to be but they do have more ice so it's not that big a win. The bulk of the 'Daks has always been a fickle snow zone, just look at the history of problems with the ski conditions in and around Lake Placid and Saranac but you rarely hear about McCauley or Snow Ridge having a total dud of a season and Oak, Royal and Woods Valley always seem to mostly satisfy their skier base.

So if we get rid of all the cows and assorted other blowhards we should be able to cool the earth sufficient to get that snowfall average back up

You mention the "Goldilocks period", it was called that as far back as 50 years ago in a scientific journal I used to read in elementary school. There was a lot of discussion about how that zone might evolve as thresholds were reached and, for the most part, it was right. Over the ensuing decades I've watched the progression and been impressed with the understanding that those scientists had back in the mid 70s, long before anyone else was blowing that horn.

Lush grasses, fruits and beans moved north into their territory as the climate changed. This made them more gaseous than before...