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  1. gravitylover
    What a great snowfall. It took a minute to stick to everything because it was 38 when it started but once it did it was off to the races. I'm easily at 2", more on elevated surfaces like bushes. It looks like a lot more because everything is all puffy and rounded. 33/32/S1/SN++
  2. gravitylover
    ^^ Here too. 38/30/SW12G22/SN-
  3. gravitylover
    Arrival time east of the river?
  4. gravitylover
    It's warming up in a hurry, 29° and climbing under deep crystally blue skies. The mud is gonna be the real deal this year, there's a ton of moisture locked up in this snowpack. I had to break it into little icy chunks to move it yesterday.
  5. gravitylover
    I didn't pay too much attention overnight but when I woke up this morning it was between 8-12 around the area, that's at least 5-8 colder than predicted. It's still only 9 at KDXR at 8:45. Tomorrow is starting to look like a plowable event, maybe more to my WSW than here but that's ok.
  6. gravitylover
    Man that sunset during a super heavy snow shower was sublime. So colorful and so subdued with the most wonderful diffuse lighting I've experienced in years. The colors were being bounced and diverted and scattered and sparkled and... OMG it was fantastic. I would have missed it if I wasn't out there doing my best for my wife who's broken and scared and melting down because that's what we sign up for. I got the whole line shoveled out, all 120 feet of it, from the back door to the street so I can get my truck up the hill to save the agony of getting her down the stairs and icy driveway. My fkn back and shoulders are already stiff, sore and hurtin' but I got 'er done and my watch only alerted me to dangerously high heart rates a few times.
  7. gravitylover
    Thank you Don.
  8. gravitylover
    It has been snowing almost all day again, there were a few breaks for a few minutes here and there but I don't think I've gone a full hour without snow falling since the sun came up this morning. Right now it's sunny with dark clouds all around and snowglobe snow floating down. It's just beautiful out there. 33/21/NE4/SN-Flurries
  9. gravitylover
    That tail end snow added nearly 2" of fluff bringing my event total to right about 6". It is quite photogenic, the different precip types each stuck to something so everything is covered and due to the fluffiness of the end stuff even the ugly streetside piles are soft and white (for a few minutes longer). I approve of this storm and would take more just like it
  10. gravitylover
    Tell them to use SWF next time. It was still snowing until a little while ago. Gotta love when you get fluffy lake effect on the backside of a multi day storm. That stuff added up to nearly 2" bringing my total up to about 6" for the event.
  11. gravitylover
    That last round was pretty great, of course I passed out and missed most of it but I can tell from the fluffy surface how good it must have been. It's still flurrying but now the wind is out of the NW for the first time so it's different.
  12. gravitylover
    Yep that was me. It's pretty bad with 2 fractures, a radial and a bone chip, and a torn deltoid ligament. She's going to be laid up for a few months at best.
  13. gravitylover
    I thought it had ended around 7 when I posted but it just keeps going. Not hard, not really of consequence at all but the flakes keep falling.
  14. gravitylover
    Long duration storms and long duration snowpack is (for me) the determining factor in a good storm and good winter.
  15. gravitylover
    And now it's legitimately heavy snow again and as it cooled off everything that had melted off is instantly covered in a nice thick coat of white again. 30/28/W2/SN+
  16. gravitylover
    And I thought it was over... Nope, snowing nicely again. Not great growth so small flakes so far but it's covering everything that had melted off and since it's already pretty much the end of the day it looks like another night with snow covered streets. 31/28/N3/SN- :: Just as I'm about to hit submit the flake size started growing. Looks good out there again.
  17. gravitylover
    This one is within a few minutes of being done here I think. That will make it a few minutes shy of 28 hours on non stop precip (unless it stopped for a few minutes when I was asleep but I don't think it did). My total hasn't budged since this morning after the heavy burst of big flakes so 4.5" it is but it's the densest and most interesting texture I've dealt with in a long time. I've totally enjoyed this storm and would take a few more just like it. Gonna go do a final scrape with the pusher shovel and see if the filtered sunlight can melt some of this stuff off a little.
  18. gravitylover
    It ought to be over here pretty soon now. Nice storm. I'd take another couple just like it but not for another 9 days. I gotta get this new driveway dug in up the front lawn because I need to move my wife around a few times next week before the surgery then get her back into the house Friday evening after it's over before her pain meds wear off.
  19. gravitylover
    My wife needs surgery next Friday and we have doctor stuff Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday leading up to it so small or nothing is my preference until she's back home and doesn't need to be moved around. See what you can do to make this one go away. Thanx.
  20. gravitylover
    The sun is bright through the clouds now but it's still snowing nicely, temp is popping above 32 right now so cleared surfaces are melting off. 27 hours of non stop precip with every type of frozen other than convective types with 13 hours straight of frozen crystals of some sort and a 30 minute sleet layer has made this one of the densest and most interesting textures in a long time. While I will only end up with 4.5" total it has been a very entertaining storm. 34/29/NE2/SN-
  21. gravitylover
    I'm just short of 27 hours of non stop precip now. Those micro granules as you called them fell for 13-14 hours straight and made for one of the toughest to shovel substances I've seen in a while. It was like it was bonded to the surface underneath and packed in so tight it peeled off in layers rather than breaking up and lifting off. It's windy now and snowing sideways as often as down, spots that people managed to shovel down to pavement are staying clear and even melting off somewhat, cars that were brushed off are melting off too but it's snowing hard enough that it's accumulating on pretty much everything else. We are definitely to the point in the year the solar insolation matters. It's just popping above 32* here now so the accumulating part is probably done. 32/28/NE2/SN-
  22. gravitylover
    Sun is out again while it's snowing nicely. Too cool. Easily 2" since 5pm, probably a bit more but I haven't been outside yet to check. I get the sense that it's drying up but radar looks good for a while longer.
  23. gravitylover
    Back to big flakes. Wind is up a bit also.
  24. gravitylover
    Still snowing
  25. gravitylover
    Good morning all. It's still snowing here! I obviously slept some but not a lot and not for very long at a time and unless I missed a short no snow falling period it's 21 hours non stop now. It has been light with very small flakes since about 5pm yesterday and has been the slowest accumulating snow I've seen in a very long time, it has only built up about 1.5" since that time bringing the total to ~4.5" for the event. 24/23/NE3/SN-
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