gravitylover

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

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.

Flagstaff AZ is the right place. 2 hours south and it's summer 330 days a year and a few minutes uphill and you get 200+ inches a year. The city itself is at just about 7k feet and is actually a very affordable place.

It creates it's own cold air

Yep. When that 1" snowfall causes a car to slide into a pole and knock the power out when it's 22° it quickly becomes "an event". When you can't flush for days because the well pump can't run it sux...

Dude he called me out a couple of times We enjoyed each others company

WWBB That's it! Boom haha that place was an unmoderated party LOL he blew up weekly.

4:20 actually

I guess I missed on the sarcasm. The wind there is terrible. I don't remember it being such a problem before that chair though but my memory may be clouded by rose colored lenses I'm saying, in general, I really miss surface lifts. You could always stay out skiing when they were everywhere, chairs also used to be much lower and below the top of the tree line so they could keep running longer. Just look at the phenomenal run the red chair had at Magic, that sucker hardly ever closed.

When there's wind? Yeah... I love t-bars and pretty much all surface lifts except rope tows.

One thing that really stands out to me is how few times there were more than one such storms in any particular year. It happened more in the last 18 years than the previous hundred.

I could almost see it if the bay was frozen and the ocean slushed over like last year. A sand bar that holds no heat at all would actually become a heat sink a few feet above sea level.