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It's flaking. Looks nice.

I guess we really need to appreciate this wintry week because it's not looking so wintry for a while. As long as it doesn't rain.

Looks like I'm losing this one (too).

Ooh boy, I'm at 5" for the year so far  Another 1.5" on Friday will be awesome and might even cover the grass in the front yard for the first time this year. 

It's cold out there kidz 

Looks like I got down to 12°, 15 now. 

Oh I forgot, 23/22/SN+ silly snow is hiding the ice

33 minutes ago, bluewave said:

Officially my worst freezing rain conditions of the 2020s so far. 1.5” of snow followed by around .10 of ice. Still some very light freezing rain and 30° just east of HVN. 

You're new to continental living, granted you're still on the water but it's different. You'll see plenty of ice. Don't look forward to it These hills are killers. 

I was almost to 3" before the flip. It sleeted for a while before changing to frozen pellets to a couple of hours of plain old rain, all without going above 25°. It's ugly out there.

Is it even possible to get a storm without rain around here anymore? 

23° and rain for hours SUX! Even with the snow that's still nice and white under the crust it still sux. 

Sux when it stays in the low 20s and keeps precipitating but the total accumulation goes down. Gotta love sleet and frozen stuff

2 out of 3 of the worst days on skis I've ever had, one was at Catamount and the other was at Thunder Ridge. The third was a scary AF day at Squaw Valley. At least from the drive-by distance T Ridge looked ok on Sunday compared to what it could be.

Ping ping Ping  23/22

23/22 with heavy pinging   

23/21 makes for nice fluffyish snow. I'll take it. 

23/21/ENE2 SN

It got mixed up for a while with some pellets and graupel but mostly stayed needle flakes. Now it's back to good snow growth so it's piling up again. Eyeball says 3" but it could be a bit more. It's the first lightweight white stuff we've had in a long time which is nice. 

If it doesn't fill in and snow more I'm gonna finish with an inch. I could probably find somewhere in the yard that there's an inch now but, meh... It's snowing but not enough to matter. 

20/19/NE2 SN-

18 minutes ago, wdrag said:

fwiw on the megalopolis cities first 1".  

DCA AT 4P 0.7.  Since then en ought measurable to suggest at least 1"

BWI at 4P 0.5.  Since then approaching 1.

PHL Trace through 4P.

I've seen 1-2": near Richmond and just southwest of DCA, with 0.5 to near 1" DCA-BWI.

This seems to be a mainly Tuesday morning snow-ice show for our NYC subforum...about a 12-15 hour event. Short term guidance is getting pretty firm on warming aloft NYC and to just west if I95 near or just after sunrise.   I'm not counting on. the globals regarding changover.

Best snow in the broad 4-6" axis in dark blue.  I think this forecast may be 2" too low in northwest Ct/w MA.

 

 

 

That would be two snowstorms in a row where the better amounts go around me to the N/NW by just a few miles

It was 50° yesterday and hasn't been significantly below freezing for any length of time, that firm surface in your yard is just that, the surface. A quarter inch down it's warm mud. Snow will insulate the surface and allow that warm mud to do it's dirty work ( ) and keep the ground from actually freezing. 

7 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Thanks, my sister will be driving in from the Poconos, using I-80, and she said she wants to leave by noon which means she would get here around 3.

 

She'll be behind it, I expect it to move through here (Mahopac) by noon or so. 

edit: Maybe more like 1

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

now it's raining here too and the wind is really gusty-- it's windier right now than it was at any point last night!

arctic front coming through?

Cold front for sure, I'm down 9° 

It was beautiful and sunny. Now it's raining. 

This wasn't about how much, I got .75, it was simply about more water. The wind was more significant than a few days ago and the rain came down in sheets for 2 hours straight. My foundation really needs a few weeks to dry out, the water is just seeping through in a few spots now so the shop vac (and my ears) are getting a workout. At least if the surface freezes up next week the ground will get a chance to drain which is good but that means my driveway will become useless if I don't sand it every few hours.

I need to move... 

My hill started pumping the water out overnight. It's spilling out of all the typical spots and a few new ones. The flow into my basement isn't as bad as last time, probably because of the new pressure relief valves  

I don't need or want any more rain. See what y'all can do to steer it away. Thanx. 

I have driveway piles but only because I put as much as possible in 2 small spots

i thought I was getting away with a dry basement this time because there was no water yesterday. It found it's way in overnight and now it's a half inch deep again

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

some of the dead wood fell during the Dec storms too...not much fell around here last night....

Yeah my worries didn't pan out either. Hopefully the weakest are already down. 

I think that with the ground thoroughly saturated most of this ran off. My driveway is usually like a small creek when it rains this much but the flow is already half of what it was 30 minutes ago whereas the last few it ran for days after the rain stopped.