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Could be. I definitely noticed that a shovel load of a particular weight was larger than in warmer storms. Because it's been so cold the crystals are staying intact better and there's more air in the pack so it takes up more space. A little warmth and this stuff will compress pretty quickly. Good call.

That pack depth map looks about right. Funny how the banks are so big and in the way, when we've had so much more on the ground before with fewer problems. I think back to the 40" pack a few years ago and, unless my old brain is more muddled than I thought, it seems like I had more room for snow than I do this time. *shrug* Anyway... I'd be good with another string of small, northern stream events keeping the pack fresh for a few weeks.

Moving this stuff is a project. The top 6-8" comes off in big heavy chunks and then it's all grainy and just falls off the shovel. Pain in the back... Uggh. I've been here for 30 years this spring and I've never seen such terrible work by plow drivers all over the area. I don't know how badly understaffed or underfunded they are but if they would just slow down and pay attention it would go a long way. Nearly every intersection I went through, from here to Pelham Manor, the downstream snow bank is 4-5 feet from the curb and breaking down. Pretty often you're forced over the line and vehicles going the other way don't expect it so there's no room.

Boy, they did a terrible job clearing the roads on my hill. Rt6 is fine but everything else I was on was sketchy at best. Then you have the crappy plow guys that push across the street and leave a bump in the bank.

Interesting expanding area of light snow happening. It's been getting progressively heavier for the last 20 minutes and is starting to coat things now. Pretty cool.

11 hours of freezing mist with sessions of light snow all glued to the ~18-20" on the ground has made this one of the more annoying big storms in a long time. I have the important stuff cleared, now have to detail it over the next few days so there's room for more. The hardest part ahead is digging through the street pile (5' high and 10' thick) and up the front yard to get to the oil fill by Friday for a delivery.

Yeah my difference would probably have been more like 7" as it flipped between precip types if my board hadn't been blown nearly clean by a gusty 30 seconds. Gotta find a better spot but it's hard because that's the only one not ringed by tall trees. I'm good calling it at 20+ because that's what fell but if I left it untouched until the snow ended it would likely be down around 13-14.

Hours and hours of mist at 14° did a good job of locking in whatever wasn't shoveled. Fugger, this sux to shovel Now it's snowing lightly and covering everything again too.

Snow in the back is too deep and the dog refused to go out so we got dressed, I shoveled a new path to the lower driveway and we went for a walk. I didn't get the bottom half because this stuff is stupid dense and the plow went by twice I got another 4" or so bringing me over 20". At 12:30 it was still precipitating some form of frozen grains at 14° helping this stuff to firm up even more. Yuck

I'm 12 miles from KDXR and I can confirm, it's been absolutely hammering here since about 9am. I'm over 20" now.

When I grew up they'd do a circle and clear near the curb and leave a big pile in the middle. It would be almost impossible to get out of the driveway.

Mostly, yes. It turned really grainy with some sleet but it is changing back to almost all snow now.

Visibility is pretty good now, at least 1k feet, still snowing pretty hard but it's grainy and sleety. 14/14/ENE7

I'm in Mahopac and getting really close to that 20. If the taint line stays in lower Westchester I'll go over.

Wow, just wow. Easily past 15" with 70 feet of driveway piles head high or better and visibility is still less than 2 blocks, so about 500 feet. Temp is up 10° and shit is getting dense and heavy. 15/15/E5G14/SN+

I got 6" from 12:20-2:30 and that was on top of the morning 6". Driveway piles range from mid-chest to head high already. The wind blew my board nearly clean Doesn't it figure, the only neighbor with a snowblower didn't come out until after I finished shoveling the plow pile

I'll be sniffing the taint Heh. If it stays below or at the 287/Merritt Pkwy it'll be perfect and I'll end up in a def band

...before stalling nea...? Near where?

Total fluff at 5° but the flakes are tiny now as opposed to the frisbees I had for a while. 4" down so I'm at least an inch ahead of what I expected at noon, so that's nice.

Fluff!! If all snow was like this I'd even shovel the neighbors driveways

5/2/NE4/SN+ At least 2" down. Heading out now

First plow just went by. Time to go move the heavy stuff 5/2/NE3/SN+

I just finished fixing up my shovel collection. I'm ready

It's good to see ya dude! Hope all is well.

And there's another one coming if this guy is right https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-collapse-stratospheric-warming-february-2026-cold-united-states-canada-europe-fa/