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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.

Microclimates for the win. I'm sitting at 37 up towards the top of the hill here but down in town it's 28 and the difference was a couple of degrees wider a few minutes ago.

57 tomorrow afternoon? I'm so glad I work for myself and choose when I (don't) work so I can get out and go for a nice mt bike ride tomorrow. Who's coming?

A little under 1.1 here.

I got lucky and while not quite dry slotted it's been mostly light to occasionally moderate for short periods for the last 4-5 hours, I'm at 1.05" since last night and it's up to 37

If only... Yup. .85" on a dreary, soggy, raw 36 degree day.

Damn skunked again on a meteor shower. This one tonight is supposedly super rare and only lasts for 15 minutes but of course it's cloudy. Again

Well how'd that weather go for you today Julian? It looked like it was white for a while. When I left home this morning to head for Syracuse I was going to head up the Taconic but as I came around the north side of my hill I could see winter about 5 miles away. When I left home it was 39 in the driveway and the north side of the hill was 37 and I could see snow falling just a bit north of me so I changed my plans and went out to Rt 17 and up 82 to stay south and west of winter. It worked. The whole way out across the river I could see winter to my north and it finally stopped looking grim around Middletown where it went to partly sunny until I got to 81 but it stayed warm (38-40) the whole time.

What's the average high temp for around here now? It seems that my 40 this afternoon is pretty low. Another dreary day, I was hoping for some sun and a breeze to dry things out a little. Guess not...

Wow man, just wow.

1.3". There were some pingers as it pulled through before sunrise. I'm ok with no ice accumulation. 35* now and headin' up. Looks like an alright rest of the week coming up.

1.1" and it's up a half degree putting it at just about 34. Beautiful

Great. Now it's 33 and getting windy and drizzling harder. Yuck.

Days like this are pretty depressing. When it's heavy mist/drizzle from ~6am on and it stays at 40* or under the whole time it's just miserable to be outside. At least it's not windy too.

REI = No. I'm an independent retailer supporter. I know too much about the inside workings of REI to ever want to support them. They're also doing a pretty good job of ruining the opportunity for those indy shops to make a living by working with what's an unsustainable margin for them.

Well the forest seems to have gone into hibernation quickly this year. Even though it was warm today it's pretty much frozen solid where I was late this afternoon. There's a bit of fast flowing open water but slow spots were iced over, puddles are blocks of ice and everything is firm and asleep. It's weird because there's usually still some signs of the summer that was but this cold snap shut that right down. No bugs is nice