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Another system where I was literally right on the edge. Out my window to the SE under the cloud deck it was bright and sunny but go 3 blocks over the hill and you could see the snow/precip obscuring the next range of hills.

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/gallery/avalanche-damages-lodge-at-belleayre-mountain-ski-center#photo-1 What a mess I'm seeing pictures all the way up to the border in NH and VT and the ground is bare. Many ski areas were washed clean and need to start from scratch again. In this year of reduced revenues and ticket sales this could put them over the edge.

48/45/W-WSW 7-11 I had to go over to Ridgefield CT a little while ago and other than a few trees down and some debris on the roads there's not much damage that I could see. Here on my hill in Mahopac the wind has turned to mostly westerly and the temp is dropping steadily.

I don't know because I havent really tried. On the NWS app it's not as bad as on a computer so I haven't looked around yet. I know that WU isn't any different which is nice. I have friends in Pittsburgh and they've been saying it's 17° with at least 6" so far. I don't know if we actually end up seeing any of the snow but it's gonna get cold for sure.

I lost power for a few hours but got it back around 5am. Yeah that new radar sucks.

Well that was fun. Huge wind, big noise and no apparent damage. Frozen rather than muddy ground made all the difference, I haven't been out yet but I don't see any trees down out the windows.

That station is just a few miles south of me and situated similarly to me. It's exposed to the E/ESE and on a hillside. The numbers for other stations within a short distance are more similar to Brewster's 51. Most of the area is high 50s maxes but I'll tell you, it was roaring. My wife and kids were sitting in downstairs doorways because they were afraid we were going to have a tree land on the house. Temp and exposure. Up here on the hills and ridges it was impressive. A quick visual scan of my property looks like I got lucky, just a few large branches down. Gonna go charge up the battery for the chainsaw and have some Christmas fun later.

I tried to be so optimistic but the storm just wouldn't listen

The snow is going away in a hurry but really warm air, fog and hot rain for hours will do that

It's been on and off breezy all day and now it's a steady light rain. I saw as high as 56* earlier, it's down a few degrees now to about 50 around the area.

I have friends that headed to their other house in Windham. They're a block from downtown with the creek running through their backyard. I warned them not to go but they didn't seem to care. I think I'm going to call them again now and tell them to make sure the second floor has bottled water and some food so when they have to go up there they're ready for the duration.

Up a little over 10 degrees already since midnight. There's no wind but you can feel a general warmth moving, it's weird but I feel it in the exposed front yard and in the sheltered backyard it's still cold and the snow is still crusted over. How high is the temp going to get here today? Do we see 65 (again on Christmas Eve)? Big temp spreads are cool. Looks like it's gonna get messy overnight. Batten down kidz.

Thanks Walt. I really wanted to get a good view of that conjunction last night but was barely able to see it through the thin clouds. I'm so disappointed, only got to see one celestial event for the whole year due to weather

Throughout the Taconic range microclimate differences are pretty dramatic. I'll see temp swings within a few hundred vertical feet that are more similar to what you'd see for 1k or more in other ranges. Generally you figure 7* per 1k feet but here I'll see up to 10* in under 1k, sometimes well under depending on additional factors like JC mentioned. I could easily call yesterday .5" if the measurement can be taken on bushes or things like fence rails. Most hard surfaces had at least .25" and at one point the flake size got huge and it built up quickly but compacted almost immediately as the rate slowed so a very dense quarter inch coating is my call. So what are we realistically looking at for Friday? I need to make the decision by tomorrow morning about whether we pick up my (95 year old) father in law to bring him here for dinner/lunch or if the weather is gonna suck and I don't want to have be out later that day to bring him home. The decision has to be made early because the facility he lives in needs to deal with staffing and such and we need to cancel his private aide (that costs a fkn fortune on holidays).

It snowed nicely for a few hours, put down a fresh whitening coat of probably a quarter inch. The roads stayed wet, too much salt Looks and feels like winter.

Steady light snow for a while now, it was tiny flakes for the first hour but picked up a few minutes ago and it's accumulating now. 31/26 wind generally out of the east and light. Very nice mood snow for sure.

Berkshire East too. I want to do a tour of places like those and Upstate NY is filled with them. It won't happen this year but it needs to happen soon. Another good sized area popped onto my radar this year, Bristol, and with all the extra time I ended up going down the google maps rabbit hole and sorta laid out a trip. If you could hit it on the right weather cycle there are some pretty kickass powder areas around NY like Bristol or McCauley that fly under the radar even better than the New England areas other than a couple. Pico is great, totally gets you that high peaks experience but at this point you'd be more likely to find me at Middlebury Snow Bowl, another one of those killer powder hills.

I love that place.

I saw +4 at KDXR but nothing lower than 12 within a few miles of my house.

Ha! Don't worry, it's wrong

Here it's 4-6* below forecasted highs.

It's not going to be a cutter/rainstorm. This is one of those years where it wants to snow. Watch...

This new NWS radar product sucks.

I'm whining about my hands after shoveling for over 2 hours and you guys are hurtin' after snowblowing? I have what, 10 years on most of you... Yeah I went there.

Oh and my hands fkng hurt from hours of shoveling. I bet I'm gonna be sore by the morning.