gravitylover

Yup all snow with a solid easterly breeze @6-10.

Temp steady but DP is up to 19, snow is heavier and most importantly the wind is up significantly and E @10.

We should have a thread with cam links all around the region. Hmm

Flipped to moderate (all) snow here a few minutes ago. Alright time to get down to business. 23.7/18/NNE1/SN

DP up 2 to 17, wind is moving around to the ESE from the ENE it's been all day up till now and it's moderate to heavy sleet now and starting to accumulate. It just got dark too so I'm guessing that the cloud deck is thickening due to convection somewhere close.

I'm up to 17 now just a few minutes later and the wind is moving around to ESE rather than the ENE it's been all day. FYI I'm ~15 miles west of KDXR.

I'm not too far west of you and mine jumped from 11/12 to 16 in about an hour.

That's a heckuva dry slot Holding steady at 24/ENE3/15DP (and rising) with showery mixed light sleet and rain.

I'd like to see what's going on upstairs. It's mixed sleet and rain here which tells me it's alternating layers of warm and cold with a warm layer pretty low down.

Mixed sleet and rain, temp up to 24, wind is down to near calm but with more of an easterly component than it had been.

Up a degree to 23, wind still very light NNE @ 2. There was a very short graupel/sleet shower a little while ago.

Graupel/sleet here too but only for a few minutes. Temp up a degree at 23 with the wind out of the NNE @ 2<>4.

Up to 22 here, wind has gone nearly calm, ceiling to the north and east is still high with breaks in the clouds but south and west is gray and ominous. Are we going to see enough ice down here that I should be worried about the power going out? I haven't test run my generator in a long time :blush:

Wow @ the Berkshire high country with 3'+ Looks like Berkshire East is going to have their season nicely set up. I'm not real happy that the heavier focus has tightened up on the west side of the river and it's like it stole the moisture from the east side as I'm down to ~5" on this.

20*/NNE 3-5/DP 12* in Mahopac at ~750 feet where this particular station is a few blocks away from me.

IOW if it's good for me it's obviously doing the right job.

They took the snow out of my Sunday overnight forecast and changed it to freezing rain and sleet. It's time for a south trend to start. Added up the two day total looks like 9-12 here.

It's been a long time since we've had a good old fashioned long duration storm. Bring it!

Tight for a semi is different from what todays passenger vehicles handle without breathing hard. Even our Forester is comfy at 10 over through there. No I don't think 84/81 would be any better at all, in fact I think it will be worse. The Poconos get it just as bad as the Endless Mountains and southern Catskills in these setups, they all run similar elevation and are only separated by about 75-100 miles. Take a look at that WSW posted above and tell her to leave tomorrow afternoon or at 5am (not 7 ) unless she wants to wait for Tuesday. I have 20 year old twin daughters and there's no way I'd be ok with them heading into this on Sunday. It's going to take her at least 8 hours and probably more like 10 if she waits until 9am to leave. It doesn't matter which way she goes she has to go over 1800 feet and will spend 100 miles or so above 1500, that's where this storm will really be firing on all cylinders.

84 gets quiet but never really goes dead, it's just too important a route for trucks. 17 sees next to nothing for truck traffic other than local deliveries because the section east of Binghamton sucks. It's tight and twisty and the speed limit is too low. Speaking of speed limits watch out around Monticello, the troopers out of Thompson have some pretty high numbers to hit and they're aggressive. I got pulled over less than 1/2 mile from where it goes up to 65 doing 65 (in a 55) and it's crazy expensive. I get the college kid not leaving early thing (I have 20 year old twins that are juniors at West Conn)but this is one of those times where she needs to grow up and get it done. Either that or leave Saturday. What's usually a 4 or so hour drive will be 8 on Sunday.

84 is a bigger road but also has more traffic. That does two things, one it beats up the snow on the road and makes it more challenging, the second is there are more other vehicles around to do dumb things and ruin your day for you. While 17 is a bit isolated in spots it's a good road and with less traffic should be fairly easy to travel on as long as it's not icy. I'd leave super early, like 5am, to get out ahead of it because once she pops north of 17 and is on the small roads things can get dicey in a hurry.

24 @ 6:30 with a really nice sunrise in progress. That radar thing is annoying. Not because they need to maintain and upgrade it but that there isn't an alternative. The space between the NOAA radar sites is pretty good and gives reasonable coverage outside of the most mountainous areas and I've never had a problem with that, what gets me is an alternate system has never been put in place. Whether that system is gov't run or commercial it seems to me that there should be one but there isn't. Do airport radars have the ability to be used as weather radar in addition to their primary purpose?

P&C for here has 80% chance of snow from Sunday afternoon into Monday morning. I guess I gotta get the driveway cleaned up so it can be shoveled, tomorrows project.

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