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Update; Looks like there are some 21 and 22s within a few miles on 3 sides of me so I'm going with it.   2 storms put me at the 1981-2010 average, the clipper parade before the storm last month put me over the 91-2020 average  

There's a bunch of 18-19s east of me but they missed the best of the def zone dump that sat over me for hours. This one has bigger drifts than the one last month but, because it's so much warmer, compacted and condensed quickly. Did I break 20? Probably but there's no place on my property that wasn't badly wind affected so I'll never really know. 

I think my back has aged out of fully appreciating 2 blockbusters in a month 

Hence the shear pin sarcasm

Snowblower? Mine looks suspiciously like a shovel. It never leaks, it's lightweight and easy to handle so if I twist and flick just right it has a pretty good throw distance. If I twist wrong the shear pin still breaks though.

Man... This could be over now  It did get lighter for a little while but then ramped right back up about an hour ago. Now it's pounding small flakes, drilling into everything, on a stiff NE wind. At least the visibility is better because the flakes are so small. Pretty much the only engine sounds are snowblowers, chainsaws and quads and only one plow guy has been down my street all day. I stepped a few feet into the front yard and went in up to my crotch. There's a lot of snow out there.

Just now, Blizzardo said:

This mega death band has just been rotating over me. I have never seen rates like this for such a long period of time. 

Me too. Fuggin insane...

Holeee shit this just won't let up. I shoveled 1/3 of the driveway earlier and now it's filled back in completely. The only reason you can tell I did anything is 40 feet of 7 foot high banks. It's back to shin>knee deep where I shoveled. At least the town plow hasn't been here since ~3am so the plow pile hasn't gotten any bigger 

Tough to measure, I got between 4" to waist deep. For the most part it was knee deep when I came in a half hour ago. I've been under that band, right where it crosses the cone of death, for hours and it's insane. 2-3"/hr being blown every which way, everything is coated an inch thick but trees and branches are blown clean.

Well over a foot, probably more like 15+ but the wind has it moved all around. I went to let the dog out but the drift against the back door is 3 feet high and about 15 feet thick. That's gonna take a while to move Plow pile is up to the mailbox and reaches at least 10' into the driveway. That's REALLY gonna suck to move. On the upside, visibility is up to about 300 feet.

It's here. Temp is slowly falling, down to 29 now 

I guess this is the OBS thread too? It's been flurrying here for a bit with a stiff SE breeze picking up @ 31°. 

Got some beer and an interesting cheap bottle of Bourbon, gotta get a mixer tomorrow. I haven't started the generator in way too long and only have some old gas so I guess I should get a new gas can, fresh gas and a can of starter fluid. 

My back hurts already.

Barely a dusting here. There are some cool crystal shapes in it.

Yeah what's with that Hudson Valley gap? 

Yep, flurrying here too

1 minute ago, Santa Claus said:

i’m not saying it’s wrong btw can we just not take it as an inevitability.  we’re all professionals here

1 minute ago, NEG NAO said:

even if it is half wrong its still a MECS

Sarcasmometers need recalibration

7 minutes ago, Santa Claus said:

well here’s another possibility

that the GFS is wrong

Nah, that never happens 

I don't even want to go out to get the mail.

This incoming storm has *shitty* timing. I'm supposed to dose up on that innards cleanser at 6pm Sunday for a colonoscopy at 7:30 Monday morning. I'm guessing I won't be in any shape to go out and shovel the plow pile at 6am right after I take the second dose  

32° with moderate rain 

^^ You're too far north

Well, considering the last few years I'm already above the new normal

I had to go out to Montauk yesterday. It was weird to see as much snow all the way to the east end as there is up here. They also never came out of the soup so the temp stayed in the upper 30s.

.1+ 

I don't remember those years being that long. I also don't remember what my wife said we're having for dinner in a few minutes  

This is definitely the most days with snow cover in the 30 years I've been in this house. It almost balances out the slightly under 2000-2020 average to keep the winter an A. Almost.