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  1. gravitylover
    Pack building? Yeah, I don't see it. Looks warmish and dry for a while. I did move the snowbanks as far back as I could just in case though I was so right about how that long duration wind direction would affect the snowfall amounts here, a few miles west along the Taconic spine got significantly more than I did and IMO it's all due to the exposure and duration. It certainly isn't because it saw a band that the rest of the region didn't since the higher amounts are only along the easterly faces and fall off immediately as you pass to the west. I didn't expect how dramatically the amounts fell off going E and SE but I'm not all that surprised as it seems to happen that way pretty often.
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    A few miles made a huge difference here. I went for a drive and I got right about a foot, 3-4 miles west got at least 4-6" more than I did and 4 miles east is easily 4" less. The combination of elevation and exposure was the determining factor in how much you ended up with. As you go east it drops off pretty quickly and is much more sheltered, west of me you head into the Taconic high country and I live on a standalone hill in between. The sheltering below me sometimes helps in windy storms but not this time and west of me it ramps up and catches the snow when the wind is out of the ENE/NNE for so many hours as does my hill. I went through a few spots along the spine that were easily 16" and the banks along the roads are a foot higher than on my hill while east the snowbanks peter out to almost nothing pretty quickly. Danbury seems to have gotten about the same foot as I did but it's much denser and has set up and compressed down to 6-8" in most places. The wraparound snow at the end gave me another 1.5-2" and covered up the bare ground and grass that was showing on northeasterly exposures that the sind had scoured clean all night so that was nice. This was a rare storm where my winds stayed out of the ENE/NNE the entire time and they're still persistently staying out of that direction so the temp dropped of quickly. It popped up to 30-32 under bright sun but is down to 22 and dropping fast.
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    Snow is done finally, cloud deck is thinning and the wind is over. Ended with about a foot, tough to measure when it goes from bare ground to 3' deep within just a few feet. Half of my front lawn still has grass showing and the other half goes up to 2' so, yeah... That warm layer made a mess, I would almost definitely have made it to 15+ without the weight and density of sleet and pellets compressing the pack. Good storm, I'll take 3 or 4 more just like it. See what ya can do about that would ya
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    With the extra fluff this morning I definitely got to a foot. Good storm. Another 3 or 4 like this and I'll be happy.
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    Tough to call it 12" but it's definitely more than 8. I was spot on with the pack compressing sleet/pellet mix and my overall depth call. For such a cold storm this is some dense stuff and it's still coming down at about .5"/hr. I had drifts almost 3' deep just feet from bare ground. There's no way to get decent measurements with this storm.
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    Why don't they have snow climo at POU anymore?
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    Hey new neighbor. I fell asleep and missed what looks like it was a good storm. The wind did a heckuva job smoothing everything out, it goes from nearly bare ground with grass showing and clean cars to drifts 3 feet deep filling in all the holes. Measuring this one is gonna be fun. Radar looks like there's an ugly dry slot that wants to shut me off and unless this thing pivots now its over soon. Is that about right? I haven't had coffee yet.
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    Fell asleep Looks to be at least 8-9" but the wind has smoothed everything out nicely so good measurements are gonna be tough. A whole section of my front lawn still has grass showing and the other side looks to be at least a foot deep and the cars are pretty much clean (which is nice). Looks like I missed a fun one when I fell asleep
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    I've been able to hear it hitting the front of the house glass for a bit now. That doesn't usually happen with just snowflakes. It's hard to see the pellets but you can see them bouncing off things so yeah, that warm layer is real and doing it's thing. Visibility is back up to a quarter mile or more and the flakes are broken and small. Backside snow? I won't count on it...
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    It's officially dumping. I can't see my corner ~400 feet away.
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    I just did the first scrape. The new pusher shovel works nicely I'd be comfortable calling it 4", if it's not it will be in a minute or two. It's officially dumping, I can't see the corner about 400 feet away. SN++++? The wind is whipping, it's cold and it feels pretty good to be out in a storm like this again, it's been too long. Ya think that NAM 3k above has potential? It looks like it has me around 18". Oof
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    Where'd it all go? While it would sorta suck it wouldn't surprise me if it just fizzled away. I mean, it is still 2020.
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    This stuff is so light and fluffy I want to go use up the last of the gas in the leaf blower and clean the driveway
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    I'm exactly the opposite end of the county and right on the Putnam line (literally, just 1k feet from it) and expecting ~15/16". It's coming down for real now. 1/4mi vis is optimistic. Bring it...
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    Yup DP up to 18 here too and the snow is much heavier, down to about 1/4 mile already.
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    23/18/NNE 5-10/SN+ Yup it's wintry.
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    First few flurries are happening now. Temp is steady but DP is up a degree and a half.
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    24/5/3-5 Variable but mostly E It's dry, I've been under reasonable radar returns for a while now so apparently it's gonna take a while to saturate this column.
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    During PD2 the heavy sleet made it up to Patterson. I was shoveling out my store and lot when it started and the snowpack lost 5-6" in just a few minutes when it started. It really is surprising how far inland those warm pushes make it in these dynamic storms.
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    A few days ago I called for 8-12, I could see upping that a bit but the 15" calls around here feel like a stretch. That warm nose looks like it shows up right about when the heaviest rates get here, to me that says a whole bunch of snowpack squishing sleet and freezing rain. I'm just close enough to the water and open to the ESE/SSE with the real high country just to my WNW so the easterly component to the wind has me concerned that I'll be looking at hours of wet flakes and mixed precip while most of the rest of you are under 2-3" per hour rates.
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    Yeah right now to my ESE it's bright and the sky still has that great early morning yellow glow and as you go overhead it grays out and it's dark(ish) to the WSW, there's a refreshing N breeze, you can feel it coming. Temps around the hill range from 20-25 depending on exposure and height, dp's are all 7-8 and steady NNE @ 4-5. I know this isn't an official looking ob but being able to look under the cloud deck and see the leading edge evolution is pretty cool.
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    When I was in Patterson the other day I saw a highway dept crew checking the storm gate at the entrance to 84. They knew... That's where the road gets closed and traffic is routed onto secondary roads, it's counterpart is at the bottom of the hill where the Taconic crosses. The temp stayed a few degrees above the forecasted low, likely due to the clouds that never really cleared but, it's 19* now so not a bad starting point. There's also a nice light northerly breeze which is always encouraging ahead of a storm. Is that warm nose still peeking in during the heart of the storm overnight? While it is kind of nice to have a sleet layer holding the snowpack down if it gets as windy as forecasted it also makes for shitty shoveling. I got a new shovel yesterday though so I'm stoked
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    19/8/N3 Thin cirrus muting the colors of the sunrise. I wouldn't complain if the temps could hold this low until the precip starts.
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    Looks like the hill country SW of Syracuse got buried in this one. The time? What about the hair... 5 decades of weather watching around here and I can only think of two or three times that backside snows actually amounted to anything of consequence. Christmas 02 being the most dramatic of them. As mentioned above. What a cool storm that was right? From a cold rain to a foot of glue in just a few hours. The biggest problem was how wet the lower layers were and how hard they froze overnight. That was one of the worst shoveling episodes I've ever experienced and I had to get it done so I could leave home at 6am for work. No sleep at all that night... The tiny sliver goes right over the Mt A massif. There's a 'big rock' named Mt Agamenticus in that corner and it has a habit of drawing whatever last little bit of storm is passing by and amplifying it. When the ski area was operational they would often record absurd snowfall amounts when the mountains in the vicinity would show a few inches. Now it's just a conglomeration of awesome mt bike trails but it still gets crazy snow.
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    You really think that far N or W?
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