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  1. gravitylover
    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?
  6. gravitylover
    WWBB was before that or about the same time. Lotta years ago...
  7. gravitylover
    Ooh gotta find me sum o' dat. I've been drinking Mollys for a while now because it's half the price of Baileys. Alright so since you put that red dot pretty much over my house I guess it's time for me to learn how to read these things. I'm totally just guessing here - it looks like it starts out in the mid 20's and soon after the storm starts there's a warm push at 800>700mb (what do these numbers mean?) for a short time before it crashes (likely as the storm approaches our latitude). On the simulated radar why is it showing a white (dry?) slot from the dot southeastward?
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    Yeah, I checked our car that we didn't use today and all 4 doors are frozen shut.
  9. gravitylover
    That 3/18 storm was a disaster here too. A week with no power with snow and cold sucked. No I mean it SUCKED. Yup, gonna fire up the generator tomorrow just to be sure that all is well. I'm also going to go find a new shovel.
  10. gravitylover
    Good move! That's some funny sh*t dude So 12-18 for me huh? Guess I need to go find a new shovel tomorrow, wore my old one out scraping pavement last year.
  11. gravitylover
    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.
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    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.
  13. gravitylover
    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
  14. gravitylover
    Hey @wdrag where can I find that same info for KDXR, HPN and SWF?
  15. gravitylover
    Yeah but you would rather we did. It's ok we still like you.
  16. gravitylover
    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.
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    Well they're not supposed to be traveling and visiting family in small settings so that won't happen this time. Right?
  18. gravitylover
    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.
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    Nice coating on most things unpaved. Feels wintry.
  20. gravitylover
    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...
  21. gravitylover
    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.
  22. gravitylover
    4 hours later and it's still flaking.
  23. gravitylover
    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.
  24. gravitylover
    It's snowing
  25. gravitylover
    1.6" final, some good wind and a few flakes for effect. Interesting storm to watch which was nice.
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