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  1. gravitylover
    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.
  5. gravitylover
    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
  6. gravitylover
    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...
  7. gravitylover
    Yup DP up to 18 here too and the snow is much heavier, down to about 1/4 mile already.
  8. gravitylover
    23/18/NNE 5-10/SN+ Yup it's wintry.
  9. gravitylover
    First few flurries are happening now. Temp is steady but DP is up a degree and a half.
  10. gravitylover
    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.
  11. gravitylover
    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.
  14. gravitylover
    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
  15. gravitylover
    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.
  16. gravitylover
    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.
  17. gravitylover
    You really think that far N or W?
  18. gravitylover
    WWBB was before that or about the same time. Lotta years ago...
  19. 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?
  20. gravitylover
    Yeah, I checked our car that we didn't use today and all 4 doors are frozen shut.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. gravitylover
    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.
  25. 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
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