gravitylover

Nice morning going on A bit breezy but nice air.

Boy tomorrow night and Monday morning are looking like fun. A couple of inches of rain and a bunch of wind. Yay

Yep. Lotsa rain overnight. Looks like ~1.4" over the last day and nearly 2" for the week.

Doesn't get much more dreary than this. Super dense fog and everything is soggy from the rain overnight.

My wife has a booth at the Nyack street fair on Sunday. She needs a nice weather day so that people come out and shop. OMG the wind was serious further upstate. I was in Glens Falls this morning and it wasn't too bad, it started getting good later in Saratoga and after 3 from Ballston Spa to Ancramdale it was the real deal. I actually had to struggle to close the car door at one point and it was like driving through a desert wind/sandstorm for a while with all the blowing dust on the highways. It sure did make for a nice extended dusty colored sunset coming down through the Taconics.

As long as Sunday is nice.

yeah it was nice (other than the rain) but now it's down to ~40*.

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

Or a hat

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.

Anyone have any northern lights happening?

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?

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.

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.

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.

A 4-5 foot thump in an hour would be insane. I've seen 12"/hr for 3 hours and that was something I don't expect to ever see again, I'd like to but I don't think I will. When you're in the house and it goes from daylight to darkness as the snow goes over the top of the window...

Yeah that was the real deal last night. I had all of the gutters overflowing for a while there. Now the yard is a muck pit. I had to move my car out of the driveway yesterday afternoon and put it out by the street on the front of the lawn where i carved out a parking area a few years ago. As the ground finished thawing during the day and the snowbank melted out it sunk a little bit, with all of that rain it sunk in about 4" and I'm going to have to tow it out this morning. It is completely high centered from one end to the other as it only has 4.5" of clearance. Maybe after another cup of coffee

I saw 70 on the dashboard this afternoon, actually I saw 68-69 it was my wife that saw it hit 70, in Danbury. It's awfully nice out there right now, too bad the woods are a total mudpit.

I saw 63 in Wappingers and 65 by KPOU on 376. Yeah the spray from melting snow was pretty significant, used a bunch of wiper fluid today. Heh, brand new tires on warm pavement on some of your local twisties was a bunch of fun today

What a nice day up here in Julian land. Not much snow left here, pretty surprising considering how much there us in CT. Yup the moths came out at my place a few days ago, so did the spider crickets