gravitylover

Yup it gets like that in Tahoe too, I was amazed that it could even snow that much.

Or a hat

It has been between 20-25 for the last few mornings here. It warms pretty quickly to a warm feeling mid 40's but I sure would like it to be more like 60

Alright, time to warm it up out there and maybe knock that wind down a bit. I really need to get out there and keep working at solving my car repair problem but it's fkn cold and unpleasant and I'm a whiny old guy.

I had nothing down here. Some friends in VT said it was very mild but noticeable so you might have had a chance.

I had partly to mostly cloudy all day. When the sun was out it was awfully nice. I spent the day in the driveway struggling with a car repair that went way above my pay grade and has my car disabled in the driveway on jack stands. A buddy stopped by with his chainsaw and helped me cut out the trees that were only partway down in the my yard. Now it looks like a war zone but there's only one, that we can't get to, hanging precariously. Then I went back to the car and tried some more before it got too cold and dark because it's mostly cloudy now and getting dark too early, thought I'd have another hour. IOW I spent all day outside and it was a nice crisp spring day of yore.

Yeah I just saw some pics of some north facing stuff around Chatham that still had 3-5" on it this afternoon.

I have seen 2 so far. I bet today's warmth kicks it in. I'll check some of the places that were really bad last year and update later.

I hadn't considered that but the theory does have potential. The bug season did start awfully strong with the winter warmth.

Strangely enough even with all of the rain and persistent humidity the bugs last year were less numerous than many similar years although some insects were significantly more of a problem. We had spider crickets that we've only had a few of before and the black flies were terrible in some spots. I know that hemispherically the flying insect count was way down and around here, at least most of the places I was, the mosquito population was a fraction of the year before.

Anyone have any northern lights happening?

There are some pretty high spots up on the Tolland plateau that do well with backside snows in storms like this one. Even I84 tops out over 1k feet and the hills around are quite a bit higher.

I have some mildly tilted asphalt that's relatively well protected from the wind and some good rocks that work well as wheel chocks. I'm gonna go for it but maybe not today, it's just too cold for me and my old hands.

Yeah that radar last night looked like it was running right down the 22 and 9 corridors for a while, hopefully the high terrain got something good out of it. I got a good coating on the ground even the street was covered earlier, it's windy and cold just like a good spring day is supposed to be... I really need it to warm up because I have a hardcore car repair to do so I can get back to work this week. Anyone have a warm garage I can borrow for 5 or 6 hours?

Looks like winter is back for a day, it snowed overnight and coated the ground nicely. The wind is roaring through the trees, not super strong but enough to make a good noise, it's 30* and the ground is frozen which is nice because the dogs didn't come in all muddy this morning.

Yeah no accumulation here, it started to on parked cars on the north side of buildings but melted off just as quickly when it stopped. It was nice to see and wasn't a hassle to drive in which was good. Looks like we're borderline for a northern lights show tomorrow night https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-watch-effect-23-march-2019-utc-day I might have to take a ride up north of I90 if the clouds break. I know my wife and kids are eager to see them, I've seen them many times but they never cease to amaze.

It wasn't super windy but it was roaring through the trees. I like it when it sounds powerful but there aren't branches raining down. That was such a great storm. I got 17" in just a few hours after a nice warm spring day leading up to it. That was one of those early springs and the trees had pretty much leafed out then THUMP. Unfortunately it brought down a ton of branches and lots of trees. It really was a mess but it melted in no time so the cleanup wasn't so unpleasant.

37* and snowing pretty hard in Danbury right now.

Its snowing pretty hard right now in Danbury

Just a feeling but upslope areas in the western Greens could do better than the Daks. I'd head for Smuggs or Jay area.

Looks like Petersburg Pass is in for a March Mauler. I'll be up that way on Tuesday, hopefully it still looks wintry with springtime sun dried roads.

We really need the trees to leaf out and suck some of this water up. The forests are soggy right now and mostly not pleasant places to be. My yard is a disaster with two trees down and dozens of big branches and hundreds of twigs and small branches and it's so soft that I can only access some parts of it without sinking in an inch or more.

I tried to clean out my planter boxes yesterday to get things started but they're still half frozen. Someone needs to start a garden/gardening thread.

My most likely faulty memory from growing up on LI was that spring kicked sometime in late March or early April at the latest, at least north of Merrick Rd, and you could pretty much count on good weather for Easter/Passover almost every year. Even at my parents house ~1 mile south of Merrick Rd we could usually count on the forsythia and willow bushes blooming for Passover. Here in south central Putnam County I usually figure it's about 4/15 before it gets decently reliable but this decade it really has been a roller coaster for April. 2012 we had a wonderful 5 week stretch from then end of March into the beginning of May with temps in the 70's every day and not a drop of rain. Things dried out quickly as the trees leafed out and sucked the ground dry, unfortunately that also left us thirsty by early July. Last year it was May before it dried out and warmed up.

D-. Too much wasted cold, too much ice and sleet, too much rain, rotten "snowcover" days and only 30" of total frozen precip. I'd give it an F but it was certainly more wintry than 11/12 which was the recent benchmark for dud winters.