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I couldn't tell for sure but it looked like the surface had frozen back up nicely. The places that are frozen pretty much look good and firm, if not tonight ought to get them there. I can't get out into the woods yet so I'm stuck looking at ice and trying to figure out if the ground surface is frozen by looking out the car window

If you want winter come slide down my driveway and try not to land on your bum (or worse). That ought to remind you that it doesn't really have to look like winter to be winter. @Juliancolton how's the ice up there? It looks like most of the shallower ponds did ok but there are big open patches in the reservoirs and all of the faster moving creeks opened back up.

I really didn't expect that glacier to disappear so quickly. I watched it happen and I still can't quite believe it. I'm so glad my basement stayed dry, I guess the ground stayed frozen enough. I'm afraid that when it does thaw things are going to get messy though. At least it's back below freezing now.

50 below is cold, really freaking cold, REALLY cold. I've seen temps in the 40's below a bunch of times and the coldest I've been in is 57 below. It hurts to think at those temps. Try stopping at the Kittery Outpost next time instead of BP or Bean. It's a really cool store. It's also a few minutes from some of the best mt biking in the entire area, Aggy or Mt A (Mt Agamenticus) an old ski area with miles and miles of top notch primitive singletrack riding and hiking that will leave you thoroughly satisfied with the time spent there.

Animal did and he is who I was responding to.

Yep snow is all gone in Ridgefield/Danbury CT. It has been pouring for a while now and it's 52*. Dreary day...

Probably but to call it over is wrong.

Poor and quite premature call. 6 weeks of temps in the 50's last year then 4+ feet of snow in March or have you forgotten.

Boy it's wet out there. I'm thinking I need to go downstairs and make sure there's nothing on the floor that will get damaged by water. If this glacier melts off today, which is starting to appear likely, the basement is sure to get wet.

My heart attack and subsequent complications are pretty high on the list too.

In other words, indexes based on previous atmospheric conditions may not be as useful as they used to be. Does this mean that the constant chatter about this or that index can be reduced?

It's high 30's but there's very little melting going on.

I'm still at ~30* but things are getting wet outside. We have to go out in a few minutes so I'll track the temps on the dashboard as we're moving around, the street and driveways on my street are looking wet now where they were still dry a few hours ago.

In their morning discussion OKX doesn't seem to be too concerned with the icing potential later today and this evening. It seems to me that with the whole area being a solid block of ice and the streets, sidewalks and everything else being frozen several inches down any liquid that falls has the potential to freeze especially with ALL of the drainages and storm drains filled with ice and ice banks right up to the edge of the traffic lanes keeping whatever falls in the traffic lanes. I foresee a difficult time ahead.

I assume your area is similar to what I've got here a few miles west of Danbury. We got 4" of snow then filled that up with ~2" of freezing rain bringing it down to about 2" of pack then it glacierized (good word eh) and walking is a challenge. I had a heart attack 3 1/2 weeks ago then some ugly complications requiring surgery so my leg is f'd up which has messed with my balance and confidence walking on anything that isn't smooth. Just going out to the car is sketchy and not much fun.

I saw 2 on a couple of local stations and 4 on the others. It was plenty cold It's not like I'm looking forward to a drenching rainstorm but it will be nice to get ride of some of this ice. I have a feeling it's going to be kind of a disaster though as there's no place for the new water to go with everything frozen solid.

Accumulating ice fog/pixie dust in Danbury right now.

Congrats on getting out in one piece Aren't you glad you moved down south where it's so much warmer You, my friend, will always maintain your relevancy as you share the wealth of knowledge stored away inside. It's a pleasure to have you with us here in this forum.

-2 low, a couple of local stations hit -4. Thankfully the wind never really got going here but it was enough to creat some scary ice falls and bring down more branches. When I'd open the door it sounded like a bull in a china shop as everything was shattering and snapping. My yard looks like a war zone with 2 trees down and broken branches and pieces everywhere.

I dropped slightly below 0, looks like -2.

Big pieces of trees still crashing down occasionally and large ice falls every few minutes keeping me awake as they bounce off the house. Sketchy...

I woke up right about that same time and got a great look out the sunroom window with the binoculars. I'm bummed I slept through the rest of it.

Everything is frozen solid here. It's a real mess.

Down to 18* now, wind is light out of the NNW and it sounds scary outside. I lost a 60 foot tree in the yard this afternoon because a 30 foot long section of a neighbors tree landed on it and split it down the middle. As they came down they damaged other trees that are now really scary, half of one is leaning towards the house and the other half will probably end up totally tangled in the one that's already down across the yard. I'm hoping that doesn't take out an 80 footer that's about 30 feet from my kids bedroom. It's going to be a long night...

Yeah it's just tough when you're used to being so active and always moving to just sit around and do nothing.