gravitylover

Maybe you have some garage space I could borrow for a week or so. I have a good friend who's a high level mechanic that lives up there and he offered to help but only if I have a garage to use. I'll bring beer You are always welcome here. Consider it like that cozy lounge where your buds are hanging out with chilled cocktails.

Y'all keep doing this to yourselves time after time, year after year... There's a reason models can only give us an idea of what's to come more than about 3 days out. Until all of the factors are in a zone where they can be accurately sampled the data is insufficient to lead a more accurate solution. I see that they were flying off the west coast getting samples earlier and the result was nearly instant. Maybe someday we'll have a better way to get accurate data into the models sooner but until then all you're doing is making yourselves nut(tier).

Depends on how much you enjoy mud and slush.

I wouldn't complain if that happened, I'd be bummed to miss a good one but if it warms up next week like everyone is talking about the sting of not dealing with mud and slush won't be too acute My truck has been DOA for over a month now and I need a stretch of warm and dry weather to deal with it. I'd take it to a shop but the only ones that want to do this job are backed up for 2-3 months so I'm stuck doing it solo. Anyone here ever pull a supercharger off a Jaguar motor want to come help?

Yeah but you're only seeing the numbers after the fact. You know that being "in it" can be a much different experience than it would seem to have been "by the numbers". We had some events that were more significant, cold that was deeper and more pervasive, some ice events that don't even show up and, on LI in particular, it just generally felt like winter more than it does now. I'm curious, does the lake at Grant Park still freeze up sufficiently for skating? That used to be a really popular place for us kids to go for weeks straight every year.

@BxEngineHaven't been but we will probably take a ride up to check it out one day this year. I keep trying not to get too invested in this potential but I kinda can't help it sometimes. Even if you cut the Euro down by 75% it's still a nice storm if you think outside the last ~20 years. Setting your expectations low is a good way to get through much of the current world we live in.

A couple more tenths here. Keepin' it fresh and white...

Yay another 3 cents

I have steady light snow now too. 25/24/SE3/SN-

Umm? No. More than a few minutes inside the benchmark and I ice/sleet/rain. I would much rather you guys get fringed than I get fkd

Because it shows what they want it to

And now it's flurrying and backlit by a low angle sun against a dark grey cloud backdrop. It's all crystally and sparkly

Maybe you should try napping more often? Ya know, a little power nap around model release times... Couldn't hurt

Hey I'll take this, it's been beautiful all night. Twinkly, slowly accumulating snow falling slowly then enhanced towards the end with bigger flakes taking their time getting to the ground. Now, the bright moon is flickering through windows in the fast moving clouds making the air sparkle for a moment at a time.

It's still snowing here. There's easily .3 and it may be .4. This enhancement at the end is pretty cool as the flakes got big and fluffy a little while ago.

It has been snowing nicely for about 2 hours now with about .2 down. Snow surfaces are staying white and fresh looking. I'll take it. @wdrag nickels are good but this is still just 2 or 3 cents.

...when you turned them on and had to wait for it to warm up... Yeah, I remember.

Le'go my eggo?

Haha yours too? My dog goes a few feet out, shakes a paw and looks back like she can wait as she turns to come back in. I'm good with 3" but it does kind of feel like wasted cold and wasted potential.

@wdrag your freshening bit of happiness is my favorite part of winter I think. Sure, who doesn't love an extreme event but it's those nickels and dimes that keep it looking and feeling wintry and are (mostly) harmless.

It stayed above 0 here on the hill, the lowest station went to 3. Whatever, it's cold

It could work out but it could also be a not quite cold enough modified CP air mass bumping into cool not cold maritime air leaving us with 31-33° rain.

I got 17" of tree snapping glop. The forecast busted low

Me too and I guess bust is a subjective term because I remember a fair bit of disappointment until I took some meteorology classes in college. Ooh big bust but then total salvation a month later. That was, far and away, my favorite period of winter weather growing up on LI. The rest was really pretty lackluster outside of a few events and ice storms.

Were you in O'side back then too? Oh heck, that was pretty much the only time it snowed in the early 80's, how could the sidewalks have been that icy?