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  1. gravitylover
    It sleeted on and off most of the night then turned to freezing mist a while ago. It's still a heavy frzg mist and everything is glazed.
  2. gravitylover
    @Hitman So, ya got your fill of snow for the season?
  3. gravitylover
    Back to light snow. Everything is nicely coated now. 29/22/SE/SN-
  4. gravitylover
    Of course, I type that and a minute later it flips from nice light snow to huge sleet pellets.
  5. gravitylover
    It's been flurrying for an hour and it's picking up just a bit now, we have a nice dusting. 29/21/NNW/SN-
  6. gravitylover
    31/15 and headed down/up.
  7. gravitylover
    I don't like your odds I rarely hope for you to be wrong but this would be one of those times. Bring on the warmth
  8. gravitylover
    What about frozen or wet on the tail end?
  9. gravitylover
    My p&c doesn't change to plain rain but does have 6 hours of freezing rain after 1-3" of snow.
  10. gravitylover
    ^^ Wow. I've had to drive on interstates and other big roads a bunch of times in the snow and it's always a crap shoot whether or not you make it to where you're headed without a problem or long delay. I'd much rather be on smaller secondary or tertiary roads if I have a choice.
  11. gravitylover
    I think that it could be debated which is higher impact on travel. Sleet mixed with (even just a little bit of) snow, which is the most common way for it to fall up here, is a disaster to drive in. Just snow is difficult but usually manageable if you have decent tires on the car.
  12. gravitylover
    Being on the west slope of the Sierra it always seems to have different (wetter) weather than at the lake, I guess that's why I thought it was further down. I looked at what some of the people that live there are talking about on another forum I frequent and it's a mess trying to get into the basin. Most people are turning around and heading home rather than fight their way up to end up sleeping in their cars somewhere. I80 is not open over the top and US 50 is backed up for 20+ miles. Gonna be a lot of bummed out skiers missing a great weekend.
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    And that's 'down the hill', I wonder what it's doing up at lake level and mid mountain.
  14. gravitylover
    I know more people that live in ME and the other snowy zones of New England because it snows a lot and has serious winter weather than otherwise. In fact ME or NH are high on our hit list for when we finally get to leave here. I'm torn between there and the middle Keys, terminally warm sounds appealing but rising sea levels may put the kibosh on that line of thinking.
  15. gravitylover
    I was wondering what the temps were over that way when it went through. It had just popped above 32 when it went through here so cleared surfaces are just wet. How much of this glacial mess will degrade today and how much will be left when it locks up again tonight?
  16. gravitylover
    It may have been a low impact storm in some places but here it made moving around really challenging and dangerous. 3" of snow topped by 1" of sleet capped by 5 or so hours of freezing mist/rain. Everything is still encased and the whole place is a block of ice. I'm pretty sure most of the crust will degrade with the warmth today but whatever is left will be locked up again tonight and won't go anywhere for the next week or so. Where the storm was high impact it left it's mark and will be a problem for some time to come.
  17. gravitylover
    There are quite a few along the Croton River corridor. I drive up and down between Croton Falls and Brewster at least 5 days a week and see one or two most days, I bet if I stopped and paid attention I'd see more. There is also at least one peacock in the area. I have 2 hawks nests in the yard, we saw a big one the other day sitting on a branch waiting for breakfast to make itself evident. It looks like the drizzle has already moved through this morning, maybe we get a nice(ish) dry day today
  18. gravitylover
    It sure would be nice to see that bowling ball roll across and only gain ~250-300 miles in latitude.
  19. gravitylover
    Well yeah but... Sketchy right? You need to get YakTrax or similar. I'm looking forward to some warmth tomorrow.
  20. gravitylover
    This time it's ok if it goes away, it's just a useless ice pack that's sketchy to move around on. The way the ice creeps into the roads as it melts during the day and refreezes at night is kind of scary too. It is kinda nice to look at this morning with flurries drifting down but I'd rather it be gone.
  21. gravitylover
    So this morning around 10 when I finally went out it was 2" compacted snow topped with 1" of sleet and .2-.3" clear ice over everything. Areas that were shoveled or blown yesterday after the sleet was mostly over were solid ice but also melted off quickly. There's a fair bit of melting on asphalt but not on anything else, this stuff is locked up solid even though it's 37* out there. At least the ice has pretty much fallen out of the trees now because it was windy for a while this morning. The roads aren't bad but they're narrow.
  22. gravitylover
    Every time the wind blows it's an ice cascade as everything falls off the trees. It sounds like breaking glass and hurts when it knocks you on the head. It was bright and sunny up until a few minutes ago, now the clouds are moving in. I'd sure like to see a wall to wall sunny day to melt off some of this carp.
  23. gravitylover
    No that's the theory my wife chose to go with and now we have 3" of ice too. This sux because I'm not allowed to do anything to help make it better, guess we're just going to crawl up and down for a few days until it warms up on Friday.
  24. gravitylover
    What a mess! The ice isn't as thick this time as last month but I think there was a lot more sleet this time so the pack is super dense and the crust is nearly thick and strong enough to stand on without going through. It's slicker than last time too, my dogs can't even move on it so they pooped and peed right outside the door It looks kind of nice though, everything is all glittery and shiny
  25. gravitylover
    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.
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