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  1. gravitylover
    Yup DP up to 18 here too and the snow is much heavier, down to about 1/4 mile already.
  2. gravitylover
    23/18/NNE 5-10/SN+ Yup it's wintry.
  3. gravitylover
    First few flurries are happening now. Temp is steady but DP is up a degree and a half.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. gravitylover
    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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. 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?
  11. gravitylover
    Yeah, I checked our car that we didn't use today and all 4 doors are frozen shut.
  12. 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.
  13. gravitylover
    Well they're not supposed to be traveling and visiting family in small settings so that won't happen this time. Right?
  14. 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.
  15. gravitylover
    Nice coating on most things unpaved. Feels wintry.
  16. 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...
  17. 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.
  18. gravitylover
    4 hours later and it's still flaking.
  19. 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.
  20. gravitylover
    It's snowing
  21. gravitylover
    1.6" final, some good wind and a few flakes for effect. Interesting storm to watch which was nice.
  22. gravitylover
    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.
  23. gravitylover
    Well, todays washout was a dud.
  24. gravitylover
    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?
  25. gravitylover
    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
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