gravitylover

That was a fun inch. Next.

Winding down now. Looks like I'll finish with right about 1". That was fun.

Wow good little storm rolling through. Lowest visibility in a few years.

Visibility is down to less than 200 feet now. Boom.

From flurries to can barely see 250 feet in less than a minute and the wind is howling.

I have light snow starting to fall now. Clouds have been lowering and thickening for the last half hour or so. It looks like the main body of the squall line is still west of the river.

What town is that? Nice farm.

Wow

The road over the Gunks has an awesome view to the west after you crest the top. There are also two view spots on the Taconic with long views all the way back across the river to the high peaks of the Catskills that are great for something like what you want to do.

Some places... If I put the last storm down as the ~4" before the change to freezing rain then I'm at about 4.5" for the month. That doesn't speak to how difficult the conditions have been for a good number of days though and will be today and tomorrow. Hopefully I can pull a few inches this afternoon but I don't think there's even a remote chance to get to 10" for the month.

Eek what a crusty icy mess out there.

Not here.

I'd love to go scrape this stuff off the driveway but the wife won't let me. Good thing I have a few buckets of sand and salt mixture.

It's just about over now, 1/2" of white crusted slush on everything and it's freezing up. The upside is it will be cool to look at in the morning, it's going to be sketchy but it'll look good.

Accidents are fun... Glad she's alright. Now it's big flakes but after a few hours of rain, and it's still 34*, over the .3/.4 from this afternoon over frozen ground I have a nice .2-.3" deep layer of slush on everything. This carp is going to freeze up hard.

Now it's big flakes accumulating white rain. I went out and the driveway and street are a couple of tenths of slush that splashes when you step down. This stuff ought to freeze up really well in a few hours

More like right along the Taconic spine from southern Putnam County then it goes east just south of the Dutchess line.

Temp is up to 36 and it's still pouring rain but the wind has moved around to SSW. From the radar it looks like the snow line is about 4 miles to my WNW. At this point I just want it not to change to snow and to stop precipitating before the front moves through. If it does change to snow the ice will be terrible.

Pouring rain here now. Why do I get the feeling that the cold is going to move in and I'm dealing with another ice storm... Fark

All rain here now Looks like we've got another icy mess ahead of us.

From being so wintry this afternoon it went to white rain right as it got dark and washed away what was on the ground. It never stopped snowing but it might as well be rain Current temp is 33 with light to sometimes moderate snow.

I don't think I've had more than a liter or two of soda a year for the last 10 years and that's only because I have a thing for rum and cokes. I drink a couple of glasses of red wine a week and generally prefer lagers (high in antioxidants) and stouts but for the last few years have been down to a total of 8-12 drinks a week max with most weeks being more like 5-8 so really not drinking much at all. As much as I say I have a thing for donuts it probably doesn't (didn't) amount to more than a few a month so also not much of a factor. I eat a lot of veggies, a fair bit of whole wheat or whole grain pasta, mostly organic or free range meats and beans of some sort a few times a week but had eggs or pancakes with bacon or sausage a few mornings a week. We also use only olive or peanut oils in cooking and very little salt in cooking at home but when you eat out it's almost impossible to get away from it. I've also been extremely picky about what kind of fish I'll eat and where it's from, it's too bad that it's so expensive to buy fresh water fish or I'd be almost exclusive with it. As it is I've been eating a fair amount of wild caught north Pacific Cod, wild caught salmon (never farm raised, ever) and occasionally shellfish. More chicken than red meat and when I eat ribs it's usually dry rub rather than sauced. Overall I don't think my diet has been bad, it could always be better but considering my high level of activity I figured it would counteract a lot of the bad stuff. Would ya believe my insurance denied covering cardiac rehab and they're also resisting covering cardiologist and vascular surgeon follow up visits.

28* with very light snow/snow grains falling. .2" otg. I was just in Danbury/Ridgefield CT and there's barely a coating on the ground and it's more like 30*.

22/17/NE@2-3mph

They completely soaked the streets in my town with brine today. SOAKED! Now they're ghostly white. When you drive around you can hear the cars rotting...