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18 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

Yeah.  We all took the big hit today, its basically gone for now.

Yup all gone, a few patches on north facing hillsides on the way home from work but they'll be gone soon too. Hopefully we get a bit more from the opportunities coming up. I'd love to see us end with a foot or more.

Anyone have any snow left after today? I'm down to spots. Before it got dark the woods were still mostly covered but it has that late March look, you can tell it will be gone tomorrow.

Sure looks like it wants to snow out there now.

I don't keep track but I'm a bit over 8" now for the season. When is the last time we got a foot or more in December? Feels like we have a chance to get there this year. I hope the winter continues like this, I just spent a ton of money on new tires for my Durango this afternoon  

Yep. Where did the like button go?  

1 more inch to add to the total. It's cold and it looks and feels like winter 

7 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

That was just an atrocious run all around. Hopefully we can get one more snowy system to pop up in the next 7 to 10 days before the trough migrates west.

If this is how it's gonna be from now on, I guess I should ask Santa for a mountain bike...

Well yeah, everybody should have a mountain bike or three. It's good for ones soul.

No snow here, just clouds  

Nuthin' but rain here  

Here's an interesting observation - Over the course of the day the soil temps have gone up 3-6 degrees according to the local mesonet stations. Since there's been a solid accumulation insulating the ground it's climbing about 1 degree every 3 hours. A couple of times over the last few years I've mentioned how I think ground temps affect the quality and durability of the early season snowpack and how important it is to be frozen to a significant depth before the pack starts to build. Now I can actually see it and confirm what I've been thinking for so long. Back to your regularly scheduled programming  

1 hour ago, Juliancolton said:

I don't know if it's just freeways that count as the main roads, but the state-maintained thoroughfares on this side of the river were definitely in rough shape. Lots of cars in the ditch and stranded halfway up hills, etc. I guess it's to be expected when the first real storm of the season is an overperformer... crews get caught off-guard and people just forget how not to suck.

5.0" now... that would have been safely beyond my "best case scenario" figure if you asked me last night.

That's more like a statement on the general state of society lately  

Well this certainly turned into an overperformer here. I've been under this very persistent band for the last few hours and it just keeps coming down. In fact for the last hour it's been rather heavy and accumulating nicely but the flakes are really small. 28*, wind is N/NW @ 5mph  

About 2", still snowing nicely but the flakes are tiny now, temps are slowly dropping, streets are totally covered, looks like winter  

Virga Virga Virga - What a storm  

Here's one for the Thruway system

http://www.thruway.ny.gov/travelers/map/index.html?layer=cameras

This is regional. Click the box on the menu on the right side next to cameras and it shows for all over the area, some in CT and NJ and a whole bunch in NY.

https://www.511ny.org/

I don't know what's up with this but there used to be a bunch of links through this page

https://www3.westchestergov.com/news/3959-use-the-county-traffic-cameras-to-plan-travel

WU has the links for all of the Taconic cams here and actually all of the NYDOT cams. Some links work, some don't. You may want to try to save some of the links because it looks like next week they are removing the page forever.

https://www.wunderground.com/webcams/nydot/547/show.html

More

http://data.lohud.com/embeds/NYCtrafficcam/

12 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

In addition ti the Thruway cams we now have the Mesonet cams to do a virtual lake effect chase.  

And a pretty good selection of highway cams along the Taconic and a few other major roads here on the east side of the river. Couch touring with a fresh cold beer is the best way to travel when the weather is uncooperative.

Looks like it's gonna be slickery out there this morning.

I was just looking at some of the local mesonet stations and the soil temps are still really high. With the warm rains coming later this week it's going to go even higher. Doesn't bode well for a long lasting snowpack if the cold shot coming does put down a reasonable amount of snow.

1 hour ago, Snowshack said:

BN D, J, and F is just too much to ask for!  For now I'll take December evolving as modeled and no one mountain biking in shorts at Christmas.

 

Hahaha 

2 hours ago, Paragon said:

I'm not a cold and dry kind of guy- that's a killer on heating bills with no joy.  Give me snow and teens/20s, or give me 60-70 degrees with sunshine in the winter!  Actually, if it's not snowing, today is perfect!

 

 

 

 

That 65 degree Xmas Eve a few years ago was wonderful. Mountain biking in shorts and t-shirts that night was something I'll never forget. There was a whole bunch of riders out hootin' and hollerin' and just having a big old time like it was mid summer. I wouldn't mind another one like that  

A couple of chilly mornings lately to remind us that it is pretty much winter but the afternoons have been really nice. Things are starting to dry out again though but this time it needs to freeze up rather than rain. Amazing how so many trees held on their leaves through the hard freezes even though those leaves are dead. LBSF touched on it in another thread and said that a lot of the leaf stems didn't weaken enough to fall off and that we may see significant tree damage because of it. It seems like they may have a hard time leafing out in the spring because the new leaves won't be able to use those branches to grow from but I haven't researched it so don't quite know if that's what the reason is it just sort of made sense to me. 

5 hours ago, bluewave said:

Aerosmith played there in 1980. After Speaks closed down, none of the other clubs in that spot were as good.

http://stubstory.com/aerosmith-on-long-island-1980/

Very few of the old clubs were as successful much later than that either. At that point small shows had transitioned to theaters rather than clubs but there was still a strong bar band scene and very occasionally the bigger bands would show up for those bar shows. 

11 hours ago, bluewave said:

U2 actually played the Malibu back in 1981 before they became so famous.

 

 

I remember that well, my neighbor didn't stop raving about it for days afterwards. That was a year or so before I started going there because they didn't like my fake id 

1 hour ago, Dan76 said:

I remember seeing a sign for the stray cats outside J Pauls in oceanside probably 1980ish

I remember that too. I also remember some of the incredible shows the club in Island Park used to get when we first moved to O'side in 1970. Most of the really great stuff, The Doors, Grateful Dead was slightly before that but until ~73 that place killed it.

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

I have seen Joan Jett several times around town in Long Beach. She filmed a video a while back on Franklin and the boardwalk.

 

 

She used to live in Rockville Center right at the edge of the RVC Country Club. Nice house  

3 hours ago, bluewave said:

That's a great station. I grew up going to a bunch of concerts in that format when it was still called new wave. The old Malibu nightclub in Lido Beach would host the WLIR concert series. Got to see They Might Be Giants live in that smaller club setting. The bigger shows would play in venues like Jones Beach when the bands got more famous.

Oh man I saw some great stuff at Malibu. We used to walk in from the beach side and half the time never got asked for money. The Ramones and so many others...

2 hours ago, psv88 said:

Lithium gets old, repeats same songs. 94.3 the SHARK is pretty good out here, and 90.7 WFUV is a city station which is good for alternative music. I only like the Adam Sandler Hannukah song. 

Seeing Dark Star Orchestra at the Paramount in Huntington Sat night, love that venue.

DSO is great. I used to see Jeff in small bars around LI over 30 years ago.

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

94.3 and 90.7 have been my main radio stations before 92.3 just changed to the new format. Many radio stations get into the repeating songs since that how the modern formats have evolved. There is so much more that can get played but gets left out of the regular playlists these days.

90.7 is still good but without Pete and Vin it's just not the same place it used to be.

32 minutes ago, uncle W said:

I miss the good ole days when Cousin Brucey and Scott Muni were on the radio...

I miss so many of the old dj's. Vin Scelsa recently retired and Pete Fornatale died of an aneurysm so they're both gone from the air but there are a couple still working from the late 60's and 70's on Sirius/XM. Cousin Brucie is still on Wednesday and Saturday nights on channel 6, the 60's channel, and I listen to Carol Miller, Meg Griffin, Dusty Street and Jim Ladd regularly and I think that Dennis Elsas is still on the air here in NY. There's really nobody like Scottso though.

Random flakes floating around

3 hours ago, Dan76 said:

Don't know if it was that whale but there was one up near the sewage plant the same time, went right past my friends marina.                                                                                  I saw three right off the big M (bridge) 3 years ago scary when your in a small boat and their coming out.

I'd think that most of Great South Bay is too shallow for critters that big especially at low tide. Haha I bet it's sketchy being in a small boat and these things that are triple your size are around. 

A bird hit by a car in NY? I'm so surprised   I know that I've seen some great birds along the barrier beaches and on Long Island golf courses over the years.