gravitylover

Hardcore back-loaded winter? Maybe, but I'm not feeling it right now. It seems to me that you'd need some real cold somewhere to be able to generate enough to do us any good down here and there isn't much to draw from and build on.  

I've been saying pretty much the same thing about the PNW for decades. Constant rainforest type wetness is miserable but we get more rainfall annually than they do particularly here in the reservoir zone 45 miles from the Sound. For the last 7 months it's been equally as soggy plus we've had the torrential rains that they rarely get adding another ~25" of total precip making it doubly unpleasant. We also use an inordinate amount of road salt which ruins our cars... 

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

when did Mother Nature decide that we're in Ireland?

 

I haven't looked it up but I have a feeling that the 70+ inches of rain I've had since June is wetter than the average annual anywhere in Ireland. 

It's been 6 straight months of shit weather. 

1 minute ago, Brian5671 said:

yeah it was around March 10th or so.   It was 33-34 in most of the area here with white rain or minor accums on the grass-inland and elevated areas got crushed

I dunno about crushed but it was the only storm that gave me more than 6" last year, I think I got 9". blah 

Temp popped above 32 and the fog formed. At 33 now and the vis is dropping fast. I hate when I can see the melted snow hanging in the air... 

It flaked lightly for a while here too. 

8 minutes ago, wishcast_hater said:

We’ve seen enough rain the past year, no thanks.


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Yeah really, no rain until May please. 

Here too. At least I've had mixed frozen pellets but at 38-40° it might as well be just rain. 

Quite the range of temps here this morning. It's 15 up here and as low as 6 at a low spot a few miles away. Average looks to be about 12 with KDXR 12 miles away at 9°.

36 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

wow it's absolutely amazing there are records from 1835! I wonder if we have snowfall records going back that far (for NY as well as for Charleston.)

 

Back into the 1700s there are pretty detailed notes available from many E Coast cities and many agricultural areas too. Someone will post something and I end up going down a two hour rabbit hole but never remember to bookmark the sites 

Looks like it's 15° up here on the hill now, got down to 8° early this morning. The town highway dept garage a mile away and 250 feet lower only got down to 10 but is 13.5 now. 

1 hour ago, JustinRP37 said:

And finally anyone saying winter is done on January 20th should be auto banned in my opinion. That is like saying summer is over July 20th because we have a week of 70s coming up. I get it, and anyone saying winter is done, yeah you could be correct. But if it does indeed snow then you should never offer an opinion again on a weather forum because nobody on January 20th knows with 95% confidence or more that we won't see at least one snowy solution by April. I also noticed many people saying we would be buried in snow during this "favorable pattern" so again we don't know much. With all the fancy tools and knowledge we have, look at the accuracy of 7 day forecasts. Hell, how people like JB still have a job constantly calling for colder than average temperatures or extreme weather constantly, it is mind boggling. Avoid the X folks (both the website and the drug). 

Winter is over  

48 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Was one in January and the other one in February? I think the January one was probably the 14" (close to the total in NYC) and the other one was around 18" (but JFK reported that as 14" too for some reason, even though there was more snow to the east of NYC, which recorded 18".

 

Sounds right. The old memory banks aren't so efficient anymore 

Temp is up .3° from the low, it's 13.6 now. 

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

JFK reported 14" in that storm though.  That looks like more than 14"

 

We had 2 storms a few days (weeks?) apart, one was 14" and one was 17" in Oceanside. That's the winter that cemented my weather weenie status. 

If I slant-stick it I'm at 8" for the season!

7 1/2 for the season. Woohoo 

Looks like the last of the tiny flakes are fading away. That was a nice wintry-look day and considering it snowed all day and never went above 25* the roads were in surprisingly good shape. 

7 minutes ago, FPizz said:

Did it all eventually work out?  Otherwise sorry to hear, just bad timing.

Nope. 9/11 happened 3 days after I got my big winter order and then people here stopped shopping for a while and then it didn't snow. That hurt pretty badly and I never got past it. Finally bailed out spring 05. Of course then it really started snowing for the next 10 years 

6 minutes ago, FPizz said:

96-97 through 01-02 had 5 out of 6 bad years with 2 years below 6" here.  The whole 90s pretty much sucked outside 93-94 and 95-96.  92-93 was just about average.

Of course I opened a ski shop late '97 and struggled with it through 04. I was right down the street from Thunder Ridge and it only snowed a few times the first few years which made it a little difficult. 

Yep, this one's about done here too. 2" is .5 more than I thought I'd get so that's cool. It snowed nicely for a while, small flakes but it was coming down, and it's on snow so it added up. 

2 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

You're a bright guy, I'm sure you have some ideas on how to pump the heat out of the oceans, even if we have to spend trillions of dollars to do it, in the long term, it would be worth it.

Dude, you could use space lasers to saw off the Ross ice shelf then tow it to the west Pacific. As it melts it'll cool the water! 

I'll take my half inch and be happy (no, not really). At least it'll help keep the surface white for another day or two.

Yeah I saw that but my confidence level is kind of low at this point. It would be nice if this week's snow was still on the ground and gets some more added to it before the end of the week wetness.