gravitylover

Was it supposed to be flurrying this morning?

Make sure you have fuel for your leaf blower because when snow is that fluffy it's fun to just blow it away. Not sure if that was the thought you were looking for but ...

At least it's nice looking through the iced up trees on a sunny day. Hey, I'm trying to find the good part of a day of white rain, rain and sleet during a prime winter storm going on all around me. @Juliancolton it makes me feel better that I'm not alone here

That means you also have lots of water for snowmaking. Gonna have to thoroughly coat the place and bug out the neighbors. I think my 4" eyeball measurement was a bit optimistic. Even on top of the 1/2" ice base it's really more like 3" total for the event. Weak...

Damn you westerners really cashed in on this one. How am I going to catch up to a 10-12" deficit? Well, at least I'm winning for the thickest ice accretion

Tpalm, are you new around here? Welcome. After my last bitch about getting shafted it started snowing, then it snowed harder and for a pretty long time. I haven't been out but it looks like at least 3" and may be closer to 4.

Well at least the temp is starting to come down just a little bit. None of the local stations seem to have recorded winds or precip since early this morning, must all be frozen. It really doesn't look like there's much chance of getting anything that counts tonight, it all looks to be Berks and Catskills on the radar and I bet it will just pull out to the east rather than swinging through. I sure won't complain if I pull a few inches but I'm not expecting it. For all the hype and hassle I'm pretty sure I'm going to end up with about 1 inch. Blah... At least it will get cold tomorrow night and firm things up nicely making for a fun early morning ride on Wednesday.

^^I want one so bad

Another useless storm day. It looks like it's blossoming on radar and I'm just a few miles NE of the goods. Oh well, less to clean up right?

What has been a really light steady snow for the last little bit just ramped up nicely. Maybe I'll finally get over 1" now. It kinda sux when you go over a day of rotten weather and have so little to show for it.

Power is back on 30 with light snow covering and hiding the ice.

Of course I mentioned ice Transformer popped a little while ago and the power is out

Well that was pretty disappointing. I've got less than a half inch of rock solid grey stuff on most flat surfaces, what's not grey is clear. I don't even want to take the garbage out. Icicles are 1" long on branches and power lines. Tomorrow isn't looking too good either. On the upside the hype was enough to get me to clean things up so I could shovel and to secure all the lightweight stuff around the yard somewhat. My kids go to West Conn in Danbury and surprisingly they haven't canceled yet.

It's been raining for hours with a few periods of sleet and white rain mixed in. Everything was frozen before it all started so the lower layer is solid ice and now it's accreting well on everything with icicles about an inch long on the power line to the house. I probably should have thought to get gas for the generator and test run it yesterday huh. Damn...

Yup rain with some sleet mixed in at 27°

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

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.

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:

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.

Exposure is equally as important and in many cases even more so.