gravitylover

I got a dusting! Yay

Sorta, I had a fair amount of pellets and graupel with that. Calling this an event was more sarcasm than reality I barely have more than a coating but I'll call it a dusting because it sounds better.

Nice dusting on everything. I hope this isn't the only all snow, no ice event of the season.

Of course that was the second year for the ski shop I had just moved into a new building. It didn't snow and things were worse than touch and go until a friend helped me out and we turned it into a mt bike shop in March. I think the local ski area, Thunder Ridge, had a season total of about 15" and that included 2 sleet storms.

My p&c added some snow in before the precip pulls out tonight.

I was hoping someone would get it. LOL.

I'd take another December '15 any day. We hardly had the heat running and I was mountain biking in shorts and t-shirts right through Christmas, 65* on Christmas eve at 8pm in the woods was awesome. If it's not going to be truly wintery spring is just fine. Give me snow or give me warmth, this in between garbage we've had this year is annoying.

.04" yesterday and nothing today, 44°. Not much of a storm... It is super thick fog with a few random raindrops falling now though so everything is soggy.

Well that was the shortest winter in a while. The forest is starting to wake up with new greenery and even some flowers popping. Here's an odd observation - When the early month cold snapped last month most of the ponds and reservoirs had little to no ice other than in shallow coves but over the last 2 weeks that ice has expanded and in a lot of cases is nearly complete on the more sheltered ponds. This ice growth happened while we stayed above freezing for 8 days! I'll be curious to see how the warmth and rain today and tomorrow affects it but the last one had no effect at all, the ice kept growing.

I could definitely see a big storm or two, it's all about the timing, that could get most of the area close to normal before that window shuts in late March but I also don't think the rubber band is going to snap like that either. Quickie little cold shots making people remember that it is actually winter will stick out in their minds and make it seem different than the numbers will prove out. If I don't have to worry about heating oil bills for a few weeks I'm good with it Dec 15 was great, I don't think we even used 30 gallons that month so about a third of normal.

I was out on my mt bike yesterday and on S/SW exposures there is new growth popping through the leaves. I saw a few flowers too and the mosquitoes are doin' their thing already. This explains your allergies kicking in. The forest had started to go into hibernation but now it stopped and is moving forward. This is the same thing that happened in 11/12 and 97/98. If this fake cold shot doesn't shut it down again I'm gonna get ready to throw in the towel.

I hear it's pretty dry in eastern Australia at the moment

And we bid adieu to the '19 thread It was a challenging year for me but things are looking good going forward. Thanks for listening to some of my shit early in the year when I was kind of wrecked and in a tough spot.

Pretty cool vis sat loop this afternoon. That SW>NE boundary is fun to watch. It kinda feels like it wants to snow some more, the clouds have lowered and thickened and it just has that feel to it. Who wants to go for a mt bike ride tomorrow?

It did. Nice to start the month/year/decade with flakes flying.

I'm wondering if that blob of light snow moving through the Catskills is going to hold together long enough to make it here.

Yay 36 and drizzling

Didn't even make it to sunset. I'm looking forward to a storm where what falls is quiet and the only noise is the wind.

What a potpourri of precip going on. A little while ago it got really dark, the rain was pelting down then the lightning and thunder started and right on cue it started hailing heavily. It was pea to dime sized hail for about 4 minutes but I drove west through it. Right after the hail ended it turned to mixed heavy sleet with rain then a few miles later (and 300 feet uphill) it was mixed rain sleet and snow. Now here at home it's mixed rain and sleet, mostly sleet, and it's accumulating.

So what are the chances we ice before this is over? It's only 37 and that's 4 lower than forecast so I'm thinking it won't be long after sunset before the cold enough is here rather than early AM like I"m seeing.

These warm minimums are really starting to bug me

My wife has been calling me scrooge for a few years now

The krusty old folk are still running the show because they're the ones that run for office and vote. Change that paradigm and everything else will change.

That January 93 referenced above put down 25 feet at lake level in Tahoe. I lived there and no, I didn't enjoy shoveling it but I did have some great ski days.

Ooooo puppies