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On 11/17/2017 at 8:53 AM, bluewave said:

 

That's really cool. 

I had to make another quick round trip to the NEK yesterday and it sure was nice to see winter and drive while snow was falling during the day. The roads were pretty much dry but I'm glad I swapped to the winter wheels/tires on Thursday because with temps in the 20's my summer tires would have been like hockey pucks on the cold pavement. Looks like some snow potential around here in the fairly near future  

Yeah just as I was about to get a fire going and pull out some lights, about 3 hours into the outage, the power came back on.

It sux when it's ~40* and the power goes out. The house cools down pretty quickly  

34 minutes ago, North and West said:

What? 

I took it as a statement that the Arctic Ocean at Barrow isn't frozen yet. Looks like the sea ice is getting a slow start (again) this year.

36 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

Boooo. What's your temp? 

33 here, about .3" on the board and still falling  

Hovering between 35<>38. From the webcams I can find active this morning it looks like the wet/white line is around Wingdale/Dover Plains. I'd be curious to see what it's like over the higher terrain but there aren't any cams over about 700 feet that I can find.

Cold rain  

Earlier I thought I saw 14 but it looks like it was 16. The local mesonet sites don't get as cold as some of the private stations but they're also much more wind exposed and out in the open on hillsides rather than in neighborhoods with denser tree cover where the wind falls off sooner and for longer.

11 hours ago, WeatherFeen2000 said:

And my forecast  but who's counting

yeah but we forget what you say a few minutes after you post   

Huge flakes. Huge.

^^ Hobbyist not met but a very knowledgeable one and always respectful, well spoken and gracious. A true asset to the community.

15 hours ago, Dakota said:

Looks like I made the right choice; as some light snow has broken out here with the temp down to 21 F with a very gusty North wind.

Up at the station just outside of Lead / elev. 6070'; its down to 13 F.  

 

Welcome to winter

2 hours ago, Dakota said:

I just called them and the gentleman indicated that I do not even have propane; but rather natural gas as the source of heat...

He indicated that it is delivered as electricity might be delivered; and there is no gauge or tank to be read to ascertain if it is nearly empty...

It is interesting; how well-versed I am on ethereal matters; and yet I can be so utterly lacking when it comes to simple affairs that occupy the temporal realm...

 

Feet on the ground there girl, get with it  Where you're at now you need to be more in touch with this stuff. I'm surprised you didn't realize that there isn't a very large propane tank somewhere outside the house that's accessible to the street. There should be a meter where the gas line comes into the house.

I hope Sunday morning is a bit warmer. I'm leading a group ride at Cranberry Mt and if it's too cold nobody will show up. Wussies  

Boy is it gross out there now. Pea soup fog and dark. #bringbackthedrought 

35 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

I wouldn’t recommend doing that with a moose

In most circumstances I'd agree with you and I would do all I could to slow down and reduce the impact but unless I could guarantee being able to maintain control (grassy median or similar) or at least have a fair chance at it I would still choose to hit it rather than point the car off the road. The elk I hit was at around midnight 30 miles from the nearest town and it was 15* and snowing. Thankfully it slipped and fell so I didn't take it out full on and I was in a nearly 6,000 pound Landcruiser wagon so I pretty much went over it but did get a piece of antler through the radiator and made a general mess but I survived to be able to tell a great story rather than some other folks I know that chose to try and miss them and lost to immovable objects or launched off and rolled.

12 hours ago, Dakota said:

 

I've taken a few trips; into both N. Dakota & NE Wyoming; and getting caught on the roads out here in winter is a serious matter.  Many of the state & county roads come equipped with gates at the intersections with the larger highways; gates that lock shut during large snow events so as to preclude any travel into almost entirely uninhabited regions; places where if one broke down during a bad storm; it would be all over but the crying.

Places like that taught me to never make a radical maneuver to avoid a critter in the road. I've watched cars fly off the road to miss things that they would have plowed right through and been able to continue on their way instead of having a wrecked car and being stuck out in the middle of nowhere freezing their patooties off waiting for help. A couple of times I've given people rides into the next town because I wasn't going to sit and burn a tank of gas waiting for a tow in the morning. I've creamed deer and once an elk rather than risking my safety to miss it. Thankfully none of the things I've hit disabled my vehicle but I'd rather be disabled on the road than upside down in a ditch or possibly worse, at least if you're on the road you have a chance at maintaining control but once you're off the road it's out of your hands entirely.

No please ^ I need Wednesday to be nice or at least not wet.

Kinda dingy day out there today. Blah.

Just now, Stormlover74 said:

One thing I also noticed is usually by late October ladybugs start making their way into the house seeking warmth but I haven't seen one this year

I had one  

13 hours ago, Dakota said:

 

Remember that the Entire Universe is predicated on precision mathematics; and it is from this concept….inexplicably & inextricably linked to hyper-dimensional physics….a tetrahedron inscribed in a sphere….upon which all things stand.

 

That's why my world is so fkd up... Math and I have never played well together  

Mowed in shorts and got most of the leaves cleaned up in the front yard now on the the back  Not looking forward to that at all so hopefully it's the last one for the year.

Looks like a line of showers for this afternoon, what do you think the chances are it reaches as far south as the Westchester line? I'm trying to decide where to go ride.

...and back to humid and stuffy outside in November  This climate change transition thing sux. Lets just get it over with and go warm until we get a devastating volcanic eruption somewhere to change it back to the old normal.

49 minutes ago, NJwx85 said:

...It's always a great feeling that first day in late March when you can open up the windows and breathe in the fresh air after being cooped up for the previous 14 weeks or so.

I love snow as much as anyone, but I have no use for cold. And the older I get, the more and more I hate the Winter. I take solace in knowing that legitimate Winter in these parts is usually no more than a 12 week affair, and hopefully this year it will be even less.

You need to get a fat bike and some good active outdoor winter clothing. There's nothing like getting out in the woods during the winter when everything is in a state of hibernation and the snow is just right. You don't even notice the cold if you're dressed right. There are some great places around the metro area for winter riding and just over the line in PA there are groomed trail networks where fat bikes are allowed and you can go for miles and miles in the quiet solitude of winter. There's no such thing as being cooped up, it's what you make of it  

I've always gone with the 3 hour parameter. 

11 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

I'm up at Bash Bish Falls and she's roaring today... mist soaking me and the camera hundreds of feet downwind. My guess is the falls and creeks in the area are at their highest discharge levels in a couple years. Hope to hit Kaaterskill and maybe a couple others in the next day or two while the runoff is still at peak.

Cool, I've seen it running hard in the spring and it's like a much bigger falls when it's like that. Lake Mahopac is out of its banks right now, more than I remember it in the 21 years I've been here.