gravitylover

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.

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.

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

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

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

I just looked and Old Forge/McCauley Mt only looks to have gotten about a foot from this storm but with the wind up there it's hard to tell. The ski area is closed and not reporting. I think I got to 0 in that Dec cold snap but otherwise yeah, it's been one of the warmer winters I can remember here. We've definitely used a lot less heating oil this winter than usual.

It's funny though, with so little precip for the last two months and the ground never really droze just how wet the surface is. We barely got any rain and if you step off the pavement water comes up around your shoe like squeezing it out of a sponge. It's amazing how much moisture the soil has retained after 2 wet years. I think that in a regionwide drought scenario where dry begets dry that would be the case but it has been so wet for so long locally and regionally and with temps generally being a few degrees higher there's moisture and heat energy that has to get "squeezed out" eventually. When that will be is anyone's guess at this point.

Yeah I just spent t the days Sunday and Monday in the woods and it's amazing how dry it is. This moisture yesterday and today isn't going to put a dent in the dryness. I fully expect a serious fire season if things don't change.

You need an excuse to procrastinate? You're still young, it gets easier Over I like 65 degree mt bike rides in February.

^^ He melts

Yeah I've gotten more than my share just scrolling through the threads. It's opened up all sorts of time so I can waste it on Fb or other forums.

Yup. Yeah names get away from me, you could be right.

No it's he who was known as nycweathernow aka Tony. He's been floating around for years under a variety of names, he gets banned and comes back over and over like it's a game.

Anecdotally I can say that I agree that the spring and early summers after low/no snow winters have dramatically lower numbers of ticks and fewer of those are as aggressive as they are after big winters with long duration snowpacks. Last year was one of the lowest infestations in a long time, spring 2012 was even better and I think that was because it was drier.

I'd love to get a look at that report and research. Is that something you can post here? With all the time I spend in the woods it's important and I try to read up on it as often as I can.

I looked at cams and by noon it looked like the rain line was just about to Saratoga, maybe 1 exit south of town. The road was completely covered from there up right down to the Thruway. I had solid mist all afternoon. I hate this stuff, it doesn't measure up to squat but it thoroughly soaks everything and keeps it wet and makes mud, lots of mud. The coming dry and cool ought to do wonders to dry out the surface, boy I hope so.

Looks like it's a mile or 2 north of me

Yeah but the first storm in that series was a disaster up here. The sheer number of trees down, roads blocked (and closed for days) and power out for a week was a HUGE pain in the rear. No heat for a week when the highest temperature is in the 20's sucks.

I got down to 4°

1 storm of consequence doesn't "make a winter", at least I've never felt that way. Sure it might get the numbers about where they need to be but IMO that's not what it's all about.

I'm still confident that we'll get a decent storm but that won't make it a good winter, even if it's a 2 footer it won't make it a good winter.

Just gross out there now. 33° with mixed regular and white rain with dense fog.