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17 minutes ago, Chris12WX said:

Only a completely different topic.....stepped outside this morning and heard a bird call and my first reaction was "that's a spring bird." I don't know bird calls, but thought it interesting that my brain's first reaction was spring to hearing this specific bird.

i heard the same thing yesterday morning and had the same thought-spring birds, whatever they are

when the headline is "xx city had the warmest month on record!!!"  that's the problem I am talking about because it is due to bad data 

5 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Need to get this to bomb out further north. That’s the only way to bring the dynamic snows up here. 

100% chance that little blue bullseye right over Taunton, MA verifies. 

calibrating an instrument that is used to measure to the tenths to +2/-2 is ridiculous. i know nothing about weather instruments, but know a little about scientific instruments, and can say for certain that that standard is just wrong. it should be like +0.5/-0.5 at worst.

not to mention how much a 2.0 degree error can skew the whole CC argument one way or the other.

1 hour ago, jbenedet said:

This logic...

Then how do most areas in an around Presque isle have 20" or less on the ground?

Sublimation. Compaction. And much less so - melting. If it's not snowing, your pack is decreasing in size. Pretty simple. 

Anyway. Throw a ratio out there - it's a lot higher than 50%. 

dude-it has rained all the up through Pittsburg multiple times this season. they couldn't even open the snowmobile trails until late January (around the 20th) due to all the rain they got. i would say Pittsburg is prob around 50/50, and @dendrite is around 70/30 rain/snow for the season

low of -15 for a few hours early morning. all the way up to 0 now

-11 / -25

-6 / -20

51 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

WTF??  What a stupid statement. We haven’t had blocking in years here, and have had some monsters the last decade. 
 

Then this December we had monster blocking and got skunked. Lol. 

he is from Rockland County, whereever that is-not in NE. he knows not of which he speaks.

1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yeah as much as I love outdoors/mountains/lakes/etc....being that far from civilization full time with small kids doesn't exactly give me the warm fuzzies.

 

all work and 2 kids makes Will a dull boy

24 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Power is out! Yes 

if you don't have a generator, you might want to get one

5 minutes ago, Chris12WX said:

What’s our February futility record?

technically i had 4" Feb 2012. BUT 3" fell on 2/29 (leap day) so it doesn't really count 

high temp 29 at 4AM

currently 12 degrees and dropping steadily

1 hour ago, snowman19 said:

The same crew that has been wishcasting snowstorms since November for DC/BAL/PHL/NYC is trying to wishcast next weekend into a another snowstorm for them. You’d think after being wrong over and over for the last 4 months they’d get embarrassed, humble and stop but nope. The hype machine is still in full effect

41 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

Another rainstorm for NYC, that’s not a snowstorm pattern. Stop believing twitter, they’ve been wrong all winter

40 minutes ago, SRRTA22 said:

Youre only allowed 5 posts per day?  someone humbled you it looks like. 

 

30 minutes ago, snowman19 said:

The whim of a moderator in the playground NYC forum with a grudge and very weird obsession with me, I think he has a basement setup like the one from The Silence Of The Lambs

Just now, SRRTA22 said:

I mean you get off on trolling people who like snow, for the life of me I can't understand what grown ass man does that , but to each his own 

https://www.americanwx.com/bb/forum/11-new-york-city-metro/

17 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

If it's -10, I'm out there in a speedo with the boiling water in a pot trick. Fisher can retweet that.

then our friend will retweet it stating that you are wasting a valuable resource and likely to be causing future droughts.

22 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Although they didn't cancel school for 1/16/94 or 2/6/95 down here....so maybe they just never will. I walked to school over a mile both of those outbreaks.

 

edit: meant 1/19/94....1/16 was the first one that month which came on a weekend

barefoot, uphill both ways?

non-weather weenies have no clue about the temps tomorrow. i was in a meeting earlier and this one chick was saying how the high was going to be 19 tomorrow, so "not too cold". I didn't have the heart to tell her that unless she is awake at midnite, there ain't no way she will be seeing 19 degrees at any point tomorrow.

58 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Groundhog saw its shadow. 6 more weeks of spring continues November!

FYP

9 hours ago, mreaves said:

Yeah, that was me, I think. I’m definitely worried about a short season. It’s a curse, we get snow and things are good but I’m always worried about what comes later. I need to just enjoy the present first. 

yeah, I think that most snowmobilers are worried about that. @powderfreak it is much different than skiing. Ski areas can make snow to get through the lean stretches, and extend the season, but snowmobilers don't have that luxury. we need to get out there as often as we can while we have the opportunity, because the snowmobiling season can end on a dime. Trails are usualy pretty crazy once that first snowfall comes and trails get opened up.

you guys all know that even if futility is in sight at the end of Feb into March, there will be a blue bomb to f.uck it all up.

On 1/30/2023 at 11:45 AM, hazwoper said:

so, for those in the know at Stowe (@powderfreak) how terrible is it going to be there Friday and Saturday?  Heading up with family and I know the cold is going to be brutal.  What winds and chances of lifts shutting down?  This is pretty terrible timing for us.

no way to sugar coat it-it is going to be brutally cold. unless you have extreme cold-weather gear, you are risking frostbite-toes, ears, fingers, face etc.

56 minutes ago, UnitedWx said:

That was it!  We used to go with a group of 30 guys, the guy who arranged the trip owns Dalene Flooring in CT. We were prepared for the cold so it didn't bother us however a couple sleds needed help to start on morning. A little use of the leatherman allowed us to "Borrow" the hair dryer in one of the bathrooms at a motel to warm their engines Cleaning staff shared their extension cord lol. I wish I could remember where, one night we stayed at this huge log cabin like hotel up in the middle of nowhere. I think it may have been in the Jonquiere area?

not sure, but we stayed at the Holiday Inn in "downtown" Jonquiere. That was at the height of the truck/trailer/sled theft debacle that was going on in QC at the time, and the HI had a gated/fenced in pool area to park sleds. there were several actually parked IN the pool-there was a lot of snow that year.

14 hours ago, UnitedWx said:

-44F Getting in late on a snowmobile trip up north of Quebec back around 2006 or so. I think we were northwest of Lake St.Jean. Three of us hung back to help someone with sled trouble and didn't get to the hotel til 8:30 at night. As soon as I took off my helmet and balaclava, my nose instantly froze shut! Crazy experience 

holy cow I was there the exact same time (Feb '06). we drove up to Q City, then rode from there up to Jonquiere. then around lac St Jean and by Mt Valin. it was a very fun trip, but super cold. we were all dressed for it and were fine. lots of stops at the remote "relais" to warm up.

One thing i do remember quite well is one of my buddies on a Yamaha, that had the exhaust out the back by the tail light. we got to an intersection and he was stopped, and I thought his sled was on fire-but it was just the exhaust.

46 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

What do you average per year ? And where are you YTD? How much are you expecting to finish with?

average: ~65”

YTD: 30”

expect: 30” more 

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

Bloody Sunday 

is there any actual liquid in there?