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Floyd --- 14" of the most intense rain I've ever seen. I won't ever forget what I saw that day and we are still able to see some of the results of that day in the local forests. I have flurries now after a misty soggy day. The wind came up a few hours ago, the temp dropped and we're getting a reminder that it's still March.

I think that was the year we went 5 weeks straight dry and warm. The forest was in great shape right up until about solstice time when it dried out. Then it got sketchy with brush fires.

And don't look at the radar and see the snow falling in VA/WV/KY/TN either.

Yeah my friends out there are all on the mt bikes already.

97 did, that's why the April Fool's storm was so destructive. That month the leaves were popping on nearly every type of tree here by 3/15 whereas at this point there's nothing happening yet. Will it green up in the next two weeks? Maybe but somehow I don't think so. 2012 is fuzzy for me but I do remember it greening up early but that may have been ground cover not the trees or I probably would have remembered it.

That wouldn't be all bad would it? Yeah yeah and that's one the top 3 storms of the last 25 years here for the sheer power it displayed and the destruction it wrought here. I rarely get scared by weather, that one did it.

At least it didn't rain for very long but it's soggy again and the fog is getting thick already. Maybe we'll get some t-storms to blow it out later.

The kid needs it sometimes It's nothing personal, I'd feed it to pretty much anyone that kept droning on like that. If it was up to me there would be snow on the ground from mid November to Easter but in a dud year like this one just get it over with, the mud has already been a problem and we don't need more.

You obviously live a paved life At this point in the year a heavy wet snow will do nothing other than make mud, lots of MUD. This ruins most outdoor activities other than walking on the sidewalk (nearest one of those to me is almost 2 miles away), it wipes out the chance to get the garden going early so we can eat fresh food that's good for us and it destroys my business and puts my income off until June. If you want to see snow go find it, stop hoping for an event that will do nothing more than disrupt the lives of the other couple of million people that live in the area outside of your little Brooklyn/NYC paved and concrete world.

Well that's two months in a row ruined now I had a dusting Saturday so Feb didn't turn out to be a complete bust and now today a trace of frozen pellets so March isn't a bust either. We can't even set proper bust records anymore.

Sleet! It's cold, grey and sleeting over me but bright and sunny to my southeast. Weird but I'll take the frozen precip.

Anyone else getting passing moderate sleet showers?

Yeah his year anything that softens the surface if you're south of I90 is a bonus.

Get on the train and head north. Amtrak out of Penn Station goes right to Rutland and Burlington. Take a few days and do it for yourself. No excuses, no friend bailed out, no nothin' just jump on the train and go.

No no no, it doesn't need to be warm and sunny but it needs to not be cold and stormy. 50's and 60's and mostly cloudy are fine, 40's and wet is terrible. It was a rotten winter for doing outdoor things (off the pavement) even though it was "warm and dry" because things never dried out from the wet two years previous. It's time for a nice(ish) stretch so we can get back outside.

HPN and Bridgeport probably got nothing today either.

Flakes! Well at least I got to see a micro dusting on frozen puddles I'm pretty sure this is the first February of my life I haven't had snow on the ground. Even on the worst years I went somewhere and went skiing, didn't even do that this year.

^^ You will soon. I missed the showers that came through at the beginning of the month so this will be the only snow I see this month, really hoping this line holds together.

We still had countless branches falling and power lines down all over. Plows couldn't get through a lot of areas because of the lines down, my street didn't get plowed for 4 days so we were walking and driving over them because it's a dead end. It was super sketchy. Ha! I was thinking that. Is it cheating or just sliding in under the wire?

The October storm was an all out disaster here. We were just recovering from Irene and wham! A foot and a half of glue took down a few thousand more trees and they cancelled Halloween.

Everyone keeps saying this winter didn't count, that one was worse. This year we had early December with some frozen substances, that didn't happen in 11/12. We had one blip in the sequence in January where things were white for a few hours but that was about it. 65 degrees on Christmas Eve and riding in t-shirts and shorts in February with flowers popping in early March.

Equal to 67/68 days before the solstice so ~October 15th.

Haha I even went back in the house to grab a better jacket

Especially hillside/hilltop and ridgeline homes where they were more likely to have a breeze. We would have to live in our basement a few weeks every year if we didn't have central ac, it stays at or below 70 down there almost all the time especially if I block the only south facing window.

It's done man, kaput. A little bit of cold and glop now would just be frustrating. Time to call it...