gravitylover

I think Brian hit on something there. It is a continuation of the high minimums that we've been experiencing since late last winter. It sure doesn't seem like it for the last 20 days or so though with temps in the teens and twenties most nights and sort of warm days but nothing exceptional. I hate when numbers prove anecdotal obs wrong

Thankfully that's not the case outside the cities. We've seen mid teens a few times this month. While it's not especially wintry it has snowed (and stuck) a few times now and it doesn't feel like an extended autumn like some years do.

.8 and still flurrying. With it stuck to everything it looks very Christmasy

Just got down to 32 a little while ago. Looking forward to 1-2".

Tomorrow

I still want the quieter cordless, there are some places where I do trailwork that a feature like that is important. If you want to jump through all the hoops and get work approved then get permits and such it could be a year or more just to cut out downed trees. Most times you're better off just going out and getting it done but the noise of a gas saw will get ya busted. As I research these I'm finding that a good reciprocating saw will do pretty much everything I need including cutting trees/branches up to a foot diameter and be more versatile therefore more useful so I might go that way. I'll be tackling a bathroom remodel next year and have some other projects that a sawzall is necessary for so I might just go that way.

I'm tired of them retiring early because I leave it for too long with modern crap ethanol gas and the carb needs to be rebuilt and I don't feel like dealing with mixing the fuel anymore. I also want one for doing trail work because they're lighter for transport miles into the woods and they're quiet.

Someone started one a little while ago. Glad to see you're mostly on board with it happening

I thought I saw a few while I was out cutting up the tree that came down yesterday. Boy, talk about wrong tool for the job. I was using a 30 year old electric chain saw with a pretty dull chain and ran out of chain oil after the first major cut so had to drip bike chain lube on for the rest. I cut enough up that it's not suspended and under tension or leaning on other trees anymore, gotta get a real saw to finish it though. On to chainsaws Does anyone here have any direct experience with some of the new high power rechargeable saws? I see a nice 60 volt Craftsman and a few other nice looking pieces from Stihl and Milwaukee. Any thoughts...? Does anyone have a mill I can borrow for a day or two? I might just get a Granberg Alaska Mill and make a few nice slabs.

Well, at least I've had coatings a few times, ground intermittently frozen and temps cold enough to make it feel wintry. Two of those coatings were enough that the town sent plows out on the hilltops.

Yeah all you have to do is think about rain and that road closes. So with a gov't shutdown what aspects of the NWS will stop working? NOAA, NCEP...?

2.9" of soggy including last night before midnight. Mosquitoes are out and there are a variety of small crawling insects that I don't usually see this time of year too.

Just about at 2" now. When the wind kicks up big branches fall, it's sketchy out there. Soooper soggggy too

I was sick of rain before Memorial Day, it's only gotten worse since.

Yeah the trees aren't as resistant to winds from that direction. This one was weak and mostly dead anyway, it's a good thing the neighbor decided to store his RV for the winter or it would have sustained some damage.

61*, 1.8" so far and it's pouring. I lost a good sized tree in the yard this morning, fortunately it didn't land on anything.

While the temps are pretty well above freezing the clouds have inhibited ground thawing so it's still frozen here. At least in the beginning of the storm I expect a fair bit of the rain to just run off which will make any flooding problems worse. As the ground thaws we'll get down to the mud and thoroughly saturated ground and whatever new falls will have nowhere to go. It's going to be a mess.

Yeah the fact that all of the drainages are frozen and are also already bankfull will be a problem especially considering how much of the snowpack is still soft and will degrade very quickly.

Damn, one of my kids is up in VT skiing with a group from her college and will be leaving there Friday afternoon to head home in the school van. Sounds like some wonderful traveling conditions.

Should make it like some of the FB pages where you have to answer a couple of questions. It might weed out some of the riff raff. RJay and BX need the work

It flurried for a while last night but didn't amount to anything. About 20 miles east of me there was a good, solid coating on the ground at 7am this morning. Wintry day today, cold but not bad if you were out of the wind. The next two nights ought to be good and cold. It's like winter wants to be here but can't quite settle in though, if the chatter in the main thread is right it looks like we're about 3-4 weeks away from the real deal.

Snow is pretty much gone, it was nice for a few hours, made the neighbors holiday lights look nice.

I'm generally pretty tired of your warm doom and gloom daily posts but I'll happily take a 70* day before the end of the month. I loved that uber warm stretch around Christmas for a couple of years, there's just something great about riding mountain bikes in shorts and t-shirts on (or near) Christmas Eve that I can't quite quantify but it's surely there

I ended up with another nice .2-.3" coating. Stations within 10 miles of me registered between .89 and 1.36 and the closest is 1.24. It's so fkn soggy out there

.2/.3", 33, everything including the street is coated. It's pretty much over now and it looks like winter again.