gravitylover

That's some serious fog out there.

It's ugly out there today, cold with light mist. I was hoping for a nicer day than this.

Those tornadoes in May '18 wrecked a lot of the best mountain bike trails around here. The majority of those are still blocked and starting to fade away. Unfortunately there's very little hope of getting them cut out and the trails reopened because the state and county won't give permission. It sux.

Yard cleanup and garden prep.

I can't remember the last time it stayed so muggy that the streets stayed wet all day and never even tried to dry.

It was a little muddy. Funny how I still like playing in the mud like I did 50 years ago...

Yup I'm a fan of riding in 65* weather in January so that's what I did.

Yup, I grilled last night and probably will again tomorrow. It's kinda nice out there right now and looking like it's just gonna get better. What should today's outdoor activity be?

That's a crazy bright full moon tonight.

When you get 10-12"/hr for 5 hours straight and the snowbank outside your window goes from sill level to over the eave and it gets dark in the living room at 1pm it really sinks in how awesome and terrible heavy snow really is. 16 hours of shoveling the next day totally brought it home. Thankfully the 7-11 across the street didn't run out of beer

It's definitely not what it's supposed to be like around here. Ah well, enjoy the low heating bills.

I think I'm still at or under 10". It almost felt like winter for a few weeks there, a few days sure did, but it really doesn't feel any different than November or March.

I got a dusting! Yay

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.

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 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

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.

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

Ooooo puppies

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'm a sales rep and travel all over the state, there are some unbelievably affordable spots and many of them are in serious snow zones. The hill towns south of Buffalo and the western Fingerlakes towns south of Rochester are just plain cheap places to live. Problem is persistently wet or white and grey and windy conditions are the norm but the good days are superb. Big snow in the winter making for great skiing and fat biking so if you can handle the cold you're good and beautiful continental influenced days in the summer with incredible skiing, mountain biking and fishing. The people that are making a living out there really seem to enjoy where they live, unfortunately that's getting harder and harder to do.