gravitylover

I don't think the last little pile will hold out until tomorrow so I threw a few snowballs today just because. What can I plant that's cold hardy enough to withstand another month of cold nights? Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli...?

Well, with .9-1" around the hill yesterday that does away with that deficit. The big thing is how much water the melting snow put into the ground compounded with that inch of rain. The precip numbers alone can't tell the story accurately. What do the numbers look like since the fall, so the last 6 months?

I was hoping that the couple of days between melt off and the rain was enough but no, the basement is flooding I think it's either coming up through the old floor drain or through the wall at the northeast corner where the snow held on for the longest.

We'll be calling him Scatman... He's gonna have to change his avatar pic.

I think I saw 7 flakes this afternoon. Woot

That's a scary read. Batten down folks.

The neighbor across the street blew all of the snow off the driveway into one spot and that's what I see from my desk so that's nice but even my 6 foot high shovel piles are nearly gone and black on top so they don't look like snow anymore. Oh well, so it goes. @CPcantmeasuresnow yeah maybe but that was a pretty intense couple of weeks with a boatload of snow and 50 something days of snowcover hits my long duration snowpack requirement. We also had a multi day storm, a few times where it snowed a couple of days in a row and a good December storm. January and now March killed it though so yeah it's quickly falling through the B's.

That A- grade is slipping away. 3 weeks with no wintry precip of note and barely a prospect of any more before the end of the month will kill the enthusiasm from the near record preceding 3 weeks. The convective graupel day last week helped but not enough. I need at least a 6+ with snow on the ground for a few days to keep it there. That said, I'm fine with it going straight to the 60's and staying there when this cold(ish) airmass moves out, in fact I'm pretty sure it's what I want to happen.

Too few words for that many syllables.

The upside to all the wind is how quickly the ground surface is drying up, my yard has gone from a quagmire to reasonable in 3 days rather than the typical 2 weeks.

We got lucky and it was only out for about 45 minutes. A huge pine tree took out a pole 100 feet from the corner and they were able to reroute it and get my street back up. If it had been one pole down the line we would have been out for 8 or 9 hours while they repaired the damage like the houses further up the hill.

This wind is the real deal. Power was out for a while, it's back up now but keeps flickering. I was out and coming home was going over some big branches, one was big enough I needed to raise the (air) suspension on my Range Rover to get over it without high centering.

And the power is out

That was a really cool convective snow squall that blew through here about an hour ago. The graupel pellets were huge, like snowballs splatting on the windshield at about the same 50* as mentioned above. Cool weather...

I've been going around the yard picking up the crap that comes out as the snow melts and securing stuff ahead of the wind tonight and keep sinking in the mud. It's nice to work on the car and catch up on some minor rattle stopping projects.

Same here. Some of the yards that drifted in during that first storm are still 6+" deep and north faces are still pretty well covered but otherwise it's mud city. My yard is nasty, even the dog doesn't want to go off the patio.

I saw 72 on the dashboard and 74 at 2 banks today.

Good waterproof boots. This is some good mud over still frozen ground ~3" down.

Those flurries turned to mist then thick fog as the warm moist air won out over the dry air that was in place. The fog was super thick this morning but it's all burned off now and warming up nicely.

Anyone else getting very light flurries? I just let the dog out and was pretty surprised to see it happening.

My backyard is still over 75% covered but only for a few more minutes, the front is torched. For the most part the snow disappeared down here yesterday other than shaded northerly areas but I have a feeling even most of that goes today. My driveway piles that were 6' high are down to about 2' and the one on the sunny side of the driveway is nearly gone. And so it goes... The 60+ temps yesterday felt so good. I could really do without any more winter this year.

You're a perfect candidate to move to the Florida Keys. I'm starting to reach that point also. I really don't want any more cold this year, the kitty is empty and I don't want to have to make the stretch to fill the oil tank again. I also want the summer to stay 80* or under because NYSEG doesn't really need the money for us to run the AC.

Unless it snows in May like last year.

Yeah I forgot about the not getting below 0 part so that keeps it at B+ now and another big storm with a few days of snowcover would get it to an A-. Boy it's nice out today.

Low temp this morning on my side of the hill was 18 and everything in the area with a southern or eastern exposure stayed at 18 or above while the stations with a northern or western exposure dropped to ~14. Microclimates have always interested me and with the plethora of data available now you can really see it.