gravitylover

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

I'm good with it like this Still some cover in shady areas and a bunch of water ice that's gonna take some real warmth to make that go away.

All this chatter about it maybe staying warm, or at least not cold, into January and the abundance of ice storms the last two years is pretty disappointing. The end of the 17/18 winter was 2 ice storms, 18/19 started with one then had 5 in a row to end the year with one snow storm mixed in there then this year started with 3 already. If this is the new climate normal for my area I'd just as soon see 50 degrees every day and bail on winter altogether, this from a guy that's been a dedicated winter lover for his entire life and lived the winter life for 25 years between being a ski bum at some of the greatest mountain resort areas on the continent then opening his own ski shop. We've had a few warm days now but with the melt and overnight refreeze my patio, steps and driveway are a disaster. At ~3am this morning I heard someone honking incessantly in the street by the house so I got up to see what was going on and one of our cars had slid out of the driveway and was blocking the street. I parked it on nearly dry pavement when I came home yesterday but the ice crept underneath as it froze and the car slid.

I saw 58 in the Hartford area this afternoon. A little later I was north of Waterbury on the north side of a fairly high ridge and with the temp around 55 there was very little melt, there's still a solid 1" icepack there.

I don't know about +10 but if the lows aren't so low I could see getting to normal.

My boss at the bike shop I managed in the city loved wearing shorts year round because he thought it showed how much he loved riding bikes in good weather. He'd show up when it was 20 degrees wearing shorts. There's another bike shop owner in Brooklyn that also wears shorts year round for the same reason.

I dunno, I dropped below 10* yesterday and just about got there again this morning. I guess that's mostly normal but it sure does feel significant when you're out in it. Looks like it's going to be more tolerable for the next week or so after tonight which will be nice. It will be nice to see those warmer temps next week to get rid of some of this ice, walking out the front and back doors of my house is a sketchy endeavour at the moment.

Looks like the chances of a white Christmas are pretty low now.

^^That goes back to what I've been saying for the last 2 years. What we've known about all of these different indices and their effects on our sensible weather aren't what they used to be. As the global climate is changing the effects will be different than they have been historically. How we forecast using this new regime is also constantly changing and it shows in how bad short term predictions have been, forget about mid and long term. Another day of striking visuals with the ice still plastered on everything.

I realized later last night that it had to be 1978 not 77 because I was walking home from junior high not elementary school.

I don't think you can put a number to it like that. IMO historic is a combination of things that combine to create a very high impact event. For instance, that May frontal passage that spawned all of those tornadoes that devastated areas around here, that March storm two years ago that knocked the power out for a week here or 4/1/97 where I got 17" in less than 3 hours and hundreds of trees came down and the streets were blocked for 2 days so that I couldn't even get out of my dead end or more than 2 blocks in any direction after me and the neighbors cut the trees out of our street. We were super hungry by the time we could get out to get food. I was walking home from school in Oceanside when that hit. Vis went from normal to 150 feet in seconds, the whole world went silent, cars started sliding off the road into front yards and it was a huge mess. If my memory is right it really only lasted about 20 minutes but we got a few inches. It was 15 years after that before I saw those kinds of snowfall rates again in Lake Tahoe where 10-12"/hr happened several times the winter I lived there and I spent 6 years in the Rockies before that and never saw more than 5-6"/hr.

Yeah 17/9/SSE8 with gusts to 13 is pretty unpleasant.

I wouldn't call what I have on the ground 1" but there's no way it shouldn't count as snow cover IMO. I was actually thinking about that yesterday and decided I'm going to call it good. That means I have 14 days of snow cover this month

That means going outside and it's cold out there man Those pics rarely turn out good anyway so I don't bother. Hmm, that PNA shot looks like a solid potential for a NYE storm.

Still 10° and with the low sun angle it's really pretty with all the ice on everything.