gravitylover

I don't know what to do with this. I've got from 2" to 40" on the ground. The median is 23 so I guess 23 is what it is. It's been misting for the last 90 minutes or so and was a mix of crystals, frozen grains and big flakes for 2 hours before that. It's only 30* but everything is compacting in a hurry. The compaction started around 7 last night when a round of heavy pellets and sleet fell for a few minutes and then the temp went up over night and everything settled at least a few inches and then the RN. My estimate based on what I'm seeing in the wind and temp sheltered bushes is it was probably right about 30" but I could never count it that way. The driveway banks are well over my head. Waiting for the plow to come again and fill the end of the driveway for me. I always enjoy throwing that wet, heavy, salty, slushy mess up 6 or 7 feet onto the banks

^^Well, it started snowing again a few hours ago. Sometimes it's at the heavy end of moderate but mostly the lighter end of moderate. It probably put down another inch and it's still accumulating now. Edit: 6:55 back to legitimately heavy snow. Yay...

After 3 rounds of shoveling I was wiped out. Ate some brownies, sat down and fell asleep so I didn't get to measure. Looks like it's pretty much done now, at least until the backside comes through, and the (trained) eyeball measurement is saying 2' easily. I'll get a better look in the morning after it settles

It ramped up around 11 and by 1 it was pounding. It slowed down to ~1"/hr for maybe 30 minutes then wound up again. The plow finally came down the street and the bank on the uphill side, my side, was chest high and settled to about 3'. My patio is 3' of dense windpack with 1 drift almost 4' high. The dog decided the (waterproof) entry mat is preferable to trying to get through that. Oh well...

20+

I'm the next town north and yeah, we got pounded. 20+ so far.

First lull I've had since 11am, it's still snowing but nothing like the last 8 hours. That was intense and if the radar is right it's just a few minutes before I'm back in the soup.

Time sensitive but wow, what a cool effect over the ocean and coming onshore and into southern Westchester and Fairfield https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=OKX-N0Q-1-24#

Man oh man... What's out there now is nowhere near as light as it was this morning and early afternoon. There has to be at least 20" so far. Huge drifts and bare ground, gotta love it. I can see some lights through the snow at around 600 feet away but that's it. The street still hasn't been plowed and nobody has been down it now since about 2pm. The people that have shoveled/snowblowed (?) have moved a fair bit of snow to the street downstream of their driveways so there are piles 3 feet deep in the middle of the street. If anything other than a big town plow tries to get through theyre' fkd.

I didn't know it could snow this hard for this long here. I'm in awe. Gonna go do the third round of snow removal in a few minutes when I finish this beer and smoke another one

My goodness it's coming down and the wind is howling. I've been under 1k foot visibility since about 11 and under 800 a good bit of that time. There's well over a foot out there but it's really hard to measure. I had a few spots at 12" in wind sheltered areas at about 2 so they are probably near 15 now.

It's pretty wonderful, dark and gloomy with absolutely dumping huge flakes and large aggregated pellets. I've been under an insane rip since about 1, went out and spent 90 minutes moving snow and put down nearly 5" while I was out there. The trick is to build a snow wall on the north side of the driveway so the snow off the front yards piles up against it rather than dumping into the driveway. I have some nice drifts around the berm and an almost bare spot in the center of the driveway. Perfect wind direction to keep the truck blown clean too

It is still puking out there. I'm easily at a foot now. The wind moved from N to NE and now it's mostly N again. I'm watching for the move to the NW, that should signal the pivot is done.

Man its dumpin' out there. Its been like this since about 11:30. Just coming down!

^^ Yup, similar. I'm just over the east side of a good sized hill and the wind makes it hard. I'm also approaching a foot now, close but not quite. There has only been 1 vehicle down the street all day, someones plow guy from down the street so the street is nearly pristine which is pretty cool. I'm going for another walk soon. It's officially dumping out there kidz. Visibility is down under 1,000 feet now, I can't see the next street down the hill and the wind is hammering from the north. This is easily 2"/hr and probably more like 3+ but the wind... 26/26/NNE16-21/SN++

^^Rechargeable? Looks like it does ok with a couple of inches of fluff. First round of shoveling done. There's no good way to measure this stuff but I'd be ok with calling it 5-6" so far but it seems like its been inch am hour stuff for a while. It looks much deeper in the bushes where everything is settling because of the wind.

What rescue is that? My wife and kids are pushing for a husky puppy. After the snow lightened for about 30 minutes it's back to heavy with large flakes. The wind is a real thing too.

^^ Heheh my dog won't go out, she went to the door all happy and excited and the snow blew in and she turned around and walked away all sad... Got a couple of inches so far of light and fluffy goodness.

Flurries for a while now. Time to roll.

Yeah it looks like it's banking up on the Taconics too, between the valley loss and that I've been skunked a bunch of times. Where it comes back is the extended finish on the northeasterly flow. Flurries started a little while ago. I'll be thrilled with a foot but this 20" thought isn't all bad.

I hope you're right, I need to be out and about getting stuff done between Danbury and home until about 7pm. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/fxg1/WXTYPE/loop25ne.html https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/?parms=OKX-N0Q-0-24-100-usa-rad

That head shape and brindle coat make it look almost exactly like out Catahoola. They're a breed native to Georgia and the neighboring states. Ours doesn't have quite as much white on her face. Downslope from the west during the buildup and heart of the storm then sheltered from the east by the Berks as the storm winds up and pulls out. Yup you're hosed buddy I'm gonna get blasted from both sides, it's gonna snow till Wednesday here. Bring beer Boy that storm was a disaster. Power was out for a week and it was freaking cold

Oh sorry, I meant diverting. I was thinking of the overflow dam when I typed that

Overflow res in Brewster was full of ice fishermen today. Looks like 8-12 here huh?

What are we looking at for start time, Sunday or...?