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  1. 43 minutes ago, brooklynwx99 said:

    yeah, there definitely is no comparison. there is a much higher frequency of larger storms than there ever was in those decades. LI was also a lot less snowy. unless you guys want nickel and dime winters with 10-20" of snow

    To tell ya the truth, yes I would rather have a nickel and dime 20" over the 4 shots it took to get me there this year with one of those being a foot. Isn't 10 or so small events preferable to 4? My recollection as a kid in the 70s was winter seemed to last for a while even if it wasn't significant snowfall compared to the recent cool shots between nice days. 

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  2. 56 minutes ago, the_other_guy said:

    I don’t know about anybody else but for this non-winter, there’s not a tree or shrub or fence on my property that has not been damaged by the heavy wet snow that froze over on several occasions. Very messy as I assess spring clean up

    I just said that in another thread. My yard is too soft to do a real walk around but it's a mess with sticks and branches down and all of the tall flowering weeds that I let go are down and broken. Cleanup is gonna take a while this year. 

  3. 5 hours ago, the_other_guy said:

    That’s not what I read. I don’t want to swear by it, but it seems like the castle was there without an issue. There was concern that they wouldn’t have enough ice, but they did and they finished it the day before.

    Yup they finished it but then it rained before the event and it had to come down. 

  4. Saranac Lake had time to build the ice castle on the lake ice for their winter carnival but the day before the temps torched and it poured rain. They had to pull the castle fown and cancel a bunch of stuff. 

  5. 1 hour ago, snowman19 said:

    I’m sure no one is going to believe this, but the new EPS and GEFS folded on the “better” PAC and Atlantic in the long range. The GEPS never really bought into it and the weeklies kicked the can down the road to late March for the fantasy “good” look the other day. The SSW is falling by the way side too. This one is destined to be a ratter right to the bitter end….
     

    Gonna stop at an organic stuff nursery on Monday and grab some soil. Time to start making food :tomato:

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  6. I wish my brain was wired differently and I did nerdy stuff like keep records, or at least informal notes, about stuff like you guys keep weather records. You'd think it would've come to me to do things like that, since I was a kid I used to like reading Thomas Jefferson and others weather accounts from back then but my lazy brain never told me to do it. The other thing that totally gets me is I didn't do more to clear the yard for better light and plant fruit trees when I moved to this property in 1996. Man I'd love to have a mixed assortment now especially considering how expensive good produce has gotten. The hindsight that comes with age is both entertaining and frustrating at the same time as the 'coulda shoulda woulda' thing gets into your head. I think they call it wisdom but I hesitate to attribute that word to me :grad: I bet that @rclab has some insight ;) 

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  7. If I hadn't just gotten an unexpected foot of fluff with less than .4 liquid I'd be even more pessimistic than I am going forward. Not even hitting 24" two winters in a row is pretty disappointing though. I wish I had a decent way around this stupid warm Pacific but since I don't this pessimism is starting to win and I don't like it. I know, there's a balance and we'll find it soon enough, my worry is that balance means I live at way too low an altitude. 

  8. 4 hours ago, the_other_guy said:

    Was it supposed to get this warm today? I had a forecast high of 46. I’m now up to 54.

    I know it popped the 50 mark while I was out but my dumb ass forgot to look at the temp on the dashboard. Here on my still snow covered hill it stayed at 45. Yup, still mostly snow covered :) especially northerly aspects where there's still a few inches but my backyard still has 2-3" too because it's sheltered. 

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  9. 2 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

    .96 of an inch of rain at BDR this month-first dry month since last May/June.

    Wow it doesn't seem possible with how soggy everything has been but yeah, I'm at about .8 for the month and half of that is from last night's glopfest. 

  10. 32/32 and snowing hard with huge flakes. It's funny though how it's so wet it won't accumulate more than this half inch thick layer of goop and it's not really doing any good on the existing snow either. This is the biggest flakes of the year which is nice considering it may be the last. 

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  11. Backyard still 100% covered but front yard torched out with the sun this week. It's been cold at night but not really. 20" for the year which is 3" behind last year's total and about the same as the total the year before if I remember right. A far cry from the previous 48+"/yr average. I think for a while up to the early 2000s my total was in the low 40s but it bumped up nicely. Now... :fever:

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  12. 2 1/2" on the previously cleared slate patio and 3" on the board on snow. It stayed cold here right up until the snow wound down but when the blue patches started showing through it jumped 5° real quick. I think that this is as wintry as it's looked around here in a few years. It's kinda nice. I'm at 22.? for the season so not terrible considering we have a good month of potential left but I'm not feeling another ~26" to get to average. 

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