gravitylover

Is this course open for public play? I love playing small, out of the way courses and I'm up that way 2 or 3 times a season. I never understood why they hold that tournament at this time of year. It can be rotten in the middle of the summer right on the water there but in February? What's up guys. I've been playing since I was 7 so, 45 years. I still hit a mean drive, unfortunately it doesn't go where I think it's going to go often enough. Every now and then like about 5 years ago on sun baked hardpan I put one out at 335 and it rolled to within 6 feet of the pin. One putt and it's the only eagle I've ever had. Well, the only one that counted. I had one on frozen ground back in high school and the ball just kept rolling like it was on a highway and rolled onto the green ~ 500 yards out. It was February so there was no hole or pin so we just chose a spot and when I putted the ball rolled over it. We also used to keep a ball in an inside pocket so for every shot, we'd pull it out and swap with the cold ball so we weren't always hitting frozen balls which was nicer on our hands.

I lived in Steamboat for 6 years back in the late 80's and early 90's. It rained there more often than you'd imagine. I remember one day in particular where it was heavy rain and 45* at the base and freezing mist and rain and near 0 up top. The whole mountain turned into a block of ice, some of the trees came through in great shape but the trails were terrible until they got groomed a few times. I spent a winter at Targhee/Jackson and it got wet a few times too. I know it rains in the winter at Big Mt Montana and all of the ski areas in Idaho but I haven't had the pleasure. Tahoe? I lived there for a while too, forget about it, when it rains there it doesn't fool around. After rolling through a 6 week blitz of over 30 feet it rained 3 or 4 times followed by raging winds and a 40+ degree temp drop. Those mountains would freeze solid 6" thick (on top of a 250-300" base) and it would be unbearable for days until it warmed up and then it would be the most glorious corn ever.

Oh yeah, much. I was just showing how readily they'll shut stuff down up here. Reality though is that 4" is the same amount everywhere and the impact is a bit greater in a place as hilly as around here.

Yay more mud

My kids go to Western CT State U in Danbury and a few of their professors have already decide they won't have school on Tuesday so they emailed out or posted assignments already. Granted there are 6k students and a ton of staff that commute so they, and most of the colleges around here, have very low standards for when they close.

"...dark clouds..." Haha yeah just the idea that it might snow or sleet later in the day is enough for them to cancel school here. The bus dept. says 'No we're not taking that risk' and the schools have to close. It does get pretty sketchy on some of the hills around the town so it's probably the right call but... geez Nice post @RU848789

I got lucky with the trees last year, it's this winter that it became a problem.

There were at least a couple of small storms through my growing up on LI years that we got snow days from school at least once a year most years. If it wasn't for snow it was for ice. Nah last summer was brutally humid and uncomfortable a lot of the time.

That's alright they really need the water. The deep snowpack they've got out there this winter means we will be able to afford to eat fresh fruits and veggies this year.

Boy did I hate those storms. Inches and inches of sleet. That was some of the most annoying stuff ever to have to move with a shovel. It was like ball bearings rolling around and off the shovel. Too many inches Then to make it worse the first storm of the next year was all sleet too.

Again?

Yay more rain!

On the upside, it's pretty painless to shovel rain out of the driveway.

Approximately the same amount of time away from the solstice since the last similar temperature. I'm not sure what the significance of that is, if any, but it occurred to me so I pointed it out. Hey, I tell ya what. This warm weather stuff is kind of nice so if you could just hold off on the cold talk some of us would appreciate it

I was wondering about that possibility.

When I lived in Colorado those padding the stats snows were what kept the ski conditions awesome. Under a strong high, which is the majority of the winter, it would snow 2-4" a night 4 or 5 times a week. The streets wouldn't melt off between mid December and late March except for the main highway/main street and even those would stay snowpacked for 6-8 weeks and the surface on the ski areas would be soft all the time. Sure we'd get a couple of big synoptic storms and those would ensure the totals would get over 250" but it was the pocket change snows that would keep it fresh and white.

60* feels pretty good

That's all December was, pennies though not nickels. I had a total of 1" for the month and it snowed 4 or 5 times. At least I can call January 5" That puts me at 13" for the season so far, not sure where that puts me in relation to last year. Yup I was looking at how much the ice surfaces melted on the lakes and reservoirs today and thinking it will be gone in just a few days. It really does feel like winters back is broken. I didn't have that feeling last year when we struggled through 6 weeks of non winter in the middle of the season though.

I didn't check for the low but it was 11* at 1am when we got home from a show. 33* this afternoon feels like springtime

Much warmer this morning than yesterday, it's 7*.

I think we went 5 weeks without a drop of precip. It was right as the forests were sucking the ground dry as they leafed out and things were dusty before Memorial Day. There was some awesome early season mt bike conditions from early Feb right into summer.

The last real spring was 2012. I'd take one of those again.

-4 @ 7am, I don't know if it was colder before that. That's still about 10 degrees warmer than the lowest low last year. ~13" of snowfall for the season so far, not feeling another 3' before it's all over so chances of making it to average are slim this year.

There were plenty of other reasons to have disliked the 80's too.

-4 here too. Nice sunrise.