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gravitylover

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  1. Yeah that 24 hour number is going to be wrong too often around here. Sure maybe if it's 16 degrees with no wind and perfect antecedent conditions it will give you a close enough reading but here that will frequently leave you with half or less compared to what actually fell. I don't make official reports but will continue to use the max depth numbers for myself and my entertainment and will modify the timing on checking that depth as the temp and p-type fluctuates throughout a storm because it's almost never consistent here.
  2. Of course 10 minutes after I posted the graupel started, 5 minutes after that it changed to snow. It has been getting progressively heavier and now moderate snow is accumulating on all but paved surfaces. 33/33NNE3 yup lotsa 3's.
  3. Started as sleet, changed to rain the ice pellets and a few small flakes before shutting off. There's been some drizzle since but that's it. Blah
  4. I dont know if it's like this everywhere but I'm at an outdoor craft fair in Patterson (NY) and it's foggy, misty, drizzly and cold at 41°. Yuck.
  5. Well they're not supposed to be traveling and visiting family in small settings so that won't happen this time. Right?
  6. From all the fresh brine and salt around Danbury you'd think we were under a blizzard watch. The roads were soaked with brine and shady corners had layers of salt. WTF, it's not even supposed to go below freezing again for a few days.
  7. Nice coating on most things unpaved. Feels wintry.
  8. You know when you can tell that a weather station site is bad compared to the rest of the area it kind of sucks if it's the one on your street. I've been comparing this one to the rest of the area for a while now and their temp is always higher, rainfall is always lower and wind speed and direction is always different than the others. The temp difference becomes very evident when it's cold, today it's 5 degrees warmer than any other in the area and as much as 8 degrees warmer than stations I know are situated properly. It's on the roof of the house just a foot or two from the peak venting so that probably accounts for the temp being so high and I'm betting that the chimney 4 feet away messes up the airflow. Since the leaves finished coming down the precip numbers have been closer to the others which kind of tells me that it gets blocked up easily and they don't go on the roof to clean it. Good thing there are so many others now but I was looking forward to having better info than in the past with this one just down the street. Oh well...
  9. 4 hours later and I'm still seeing random flakes. A few even got together and are having a little accumulation party but only a few, the rest got blown away. I just pulled the last carrots of the year yesterday. I'm looking forward to this little warm shot, most of my beds froze so it's perfect to turn them and get the moisture distributed better for winter composting. I procrastinated putting in the garlic so it needs a few warm days to get it settled after I put it in tomorrow or Thursday.
  10. Anyone else getting snow? It's been flurrying here for about an hour, accumulating a little bit in wind sheltered spots around the patio now.
  11. 1.6" final, some good wind and a few flakes for effect. Interesting storm to watch which was nice.
  12. 39/37/NE9/L+ What snow I got was pretty short lived but did give a nearly opaque coating to the top of the BBQ grill for a little while.
  13. 36/35/NE6/RN*SN- As wet as it is after getting 1.2" in 12 hours it will be a while before snow could stick but a few more heavy bursts could bring the temp down just enough...
  14. Of course, within an hour after I posted that it started raining. Up to just about a half inch already. It has been a steady soaking rain for a few hours now.
  15. Heh, I saw the latest tfl video and had to laugh and they're not the only youtubers having problems. JC is right about it really not being much better with the domestic products, there are just so many more that the problems seemq smaller. There is this Lucas guy running around in the trucks systems depositing gremlins in random spots that's kind of entertaining. So what, 2" of snow Saturday with some rain and wind late today/tonight?
  16. These nice warm days have to end, they're getting expensive. Every time it's warm out I head to the driveway and start working on my new (to me) Range Rover. Well, the damned thing is 14 years old and the plastics are getting brittle and every time I pop a trim piece off I snap tabs and it doesn't fit right afterwards. I'm getting mechanical things solved but ending up with whistles or rattles. FYI supercharged Jaguar motors are all sortsa fun
  17. You weren't around here in the 70's and 80's were you?
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