somecallmetim

My first memory is from when i was 2, looking out the windows, which were low to the floor, at the great ice storm of Dec 1973 in CT. Mom says i sat on the counter as she did dishes, clapping every time a tree fell in the backyard.

This was me before cable. This plus reg radio, and trying to switch between the three local news stations at about 20 past 6 or 11 so I could catch channel 3, 8 and 30 weather forecasts in CT.

Never having expected snow here in Alexandria, I'll take as a Phyrric victory that the qpf seems to have outperformed. .64 so far.

And here was the WPC 7-day map on Monday afternoon.

Today and tomorrow is actually a great/efficient time to water anything that needs a deeper soak, as you're not having to wet the first couple of inches.

Managed about .25 of drizzle/light rain in Del Ray Alexandria this am. A lot more useful than .25 in a thunderstorm.

Down in Alexandria first storm came from the south, now line incoming from the west. Don't see that often.

Closest pws to us in Del Ray was 1.38.

.3 here in Del Ray. Mostly missed to west then east, but some soaking heavy rain instead of deluge. Lots of distant thunder with a couple very close strikes.

With the massively shifting precip totals over the last few days, including everything from a near complete miss on the 3k NAM to a proper 4.8 inch NAMming and some big numbers showing for several Euro cycles mid-week, it's yet another reminder of the falsity of "this only happens in with east coast storms in winter" (which I know most of us know).

That doesn't surprise me--when the storm arrived here in Del Ray, it came in like the derecho. You could hear it coming down the hill, and it was the strongest, or at least amongst the strongest, gust fronts I've seen with a storm in my 9 years at this location.

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If I squint I can see the logic. Even in a leap year February is barely a month, so obviously it shouldn't count. It's the Delaware of months.

We don't know each other, but our tastes in beer do and get along fabulously.

I saw -28 twice in Vermont back in the early 90s. The second time, a storm cut west and it warmed up and rained the following day, which shows that cosmic injustice and heartbreak comes even to the North Country.