Nice and picturesque? More like miserable and dreary with a cool snowy blast. 3 hours now of 30° drizzle kinda sux. 2 blockbuster storms, plenty of "real" cold and snowcover for almost 3 months made it a pretty damned good winter. I'm done with it
How many hours of rain at 30° is ok? It's been steady freezing rain for an hour. Yuck.
That's the other side of town from where I am but higher into the Taconics. Looks like they got a little more than I did before it flipped to sleet and rain.
I measured 1.8 right after it ended. It was pretty amazing watching it snow like that but in many areas it was melting almost as fast as it fell. Anything in an area that would be sunny saw a slushy accumulation up to an inch, while "dark" areas are 1 to almost 2". Early and late season snow patterns are always interesting.
Heh, I didn't take any, was too busy ogling it and standing there listening to it thump on my head I also can't figure out how to delete years old pics so I can post new ones.
This is insane. It's absolutely dumping the hugest flakes ever. There has to be someone else under this band. I can't be the only one appreciating this!
I looked out and thought 'oh bummer, I hate dense snow-eating fog'. Then I went out with the dog and realized it was freezing. That changed my mood pretty quickly It popped above a few minutes ago and now the sun is trying to come out.
And now it's beautiful. Bright blue sky, blinding almost, it's up to 42° and the streets are dry, narrower than they should be but what's cleared is dry. It's pretty amazing how quickly this stuff is compacting too.
^ lol
I guess it's not a surprise that they're different but 30% is a pretty big difference so I figured it was worth mentioning.
I'm too stupid to remember to write things down so I'm not sure. I looked back through our threads at my posts the other day and came up with about 50 and didn't go back further. I'm sure I missed one or two small ones and only went to like mid December so...
3" on the garbage can top but 4" on the driveway. Usually the elevated surfaces are higher but it's pretty warm so the area is surrounded by warm air and the ground is frozen.
One of our cars ended up parked right where the biggest drifts formed on Monday morning. There's a painfully dense 3-4 feet piled on it that I'm struggling to get off. Ya think if I accelerate and brake really hard by the end of the driveway it'll slide off? Wind that little turbo up and put all the trust in the brakes 50 feet later... What could go wrong?
Update; Looks like there are some 21 and 22s within a few miles on 3 sides of me so I'm going with it. 2 storms put me at the 1981-2010 average, the clipper parade before the storm last month put me over the 91-2020 average
There's a bunch of 18-19s east of me but they missed the best of the def zone dump that sat over me for hours. This one has bigger drifts than the one last month but, because it's so much warmer, compacted and condensed quickly. Did I break 20? Probably but there's no place on my property that wasn't badly wind affected so I'll never really know.
I think my back has aged out of fully appreciating 2 blockbusters in a month