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A very bizarre map.

Caving to what?

I'm at 20 here in Manhattan. My farmhouse in Litchfield County CT is 9. Heading up there in two hours. Roaring wood stove and incoming snows. Hopefully we all do well with this system.

Yup. I need 6.5 to meet my December long term average. It's looking possible.

Yes.. Family (23) just left and mom is in my kitchen cleaning up before she goes home. I dont know what I would do without her. She's like ten blizzards when the power never goes out. I love her.

Shove actual accumulation 30 to 50 miles north. Reality.

It will shift about 25 miles NE and put me under the jackpot. They always do.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Bump south??? I want it to keep bumping north. But just a little north.

I'm in Western CT. Usually I hang out in the New England forum, but unless Boston or SE Mass is getting snow, 95% of them couldn't care less, and they stop posting. Hope you don't mind I jumped in here.

Just spoke to my aunt out there. 25-30 steady, 50mph gusts. The poor thing got blown over in a parking lot in Yarmouthport earlier today. Moderate to heavy wet snow right now.

Friday night looks like a battle between the US models whiffing SW CT and the non-US giving a decent event for Western/SW CT.

It was so bad. And on the rare occasion we did get something, it would be on a Saturday or Sunday morning, precluding a day off from school. I don't know how we survived that decade.

After today, probably 3.5" for the season here. Hopefully up to 9.5 by Saturday. I think about 12 is my area's average for December.

I think kids today get twice as many snow days with half the seasonal inches. I don't care one way or the other, just an observation.

Most CT districts will now call school for a slushy inch. School bus drivers are not as adept at handling the busses these days compared to 15 years ago, and everyone is looking for a legal payout.

15 minutes north of you we're just over an inch. Looks like you down to northern Greenwich didn't do badly.

It will be so nice to have some snow OTG if it works out. I have relatives coming up from Florida. They are in their 60s- it will be the first time they experienced Christmas outside of Florida. Hoping this works out.

Last year, my brother had a 12 foot rubber Santa come rolling onto his property from a neighbor about 300 yards away. The Santa got impaled by a sharp branch; the branch had snapped earlier in the day. The neighbor came to retrieve it and blamed my brother for not maintaining his trees. There are all types out there.

Yup, it all adds up.

usually these kinds of slips (called expressive errors or paraphasias in writing/typing) happen when the brain is translating thoughts into language faster than the fingers can keep up, annd relying heavily on muscle memory and autopilot. When typing quickly without full attention, the mind races ahead, leading to omitted words, wrong similar-sounding words, or incomplete ones. A lot of people ask me about this, and happens moreso during acute stress or anxious periods....like when you really want winter to arrive after three years and it still hasn't.

Wind hype not materializing here (yet?). I'm at over 900' on the top of a hill with only farmland/no obstructions. Highest gust at 9 meters was 38mph, under very strong radar returns. When these storms pass and the winds kick from the west/northwest, & inversion breaks down, it is usually much more impressive here in terms of sustained and gusts. (Except for 12/23/22...that was a monster during the main event.)

The only time winds materialized for me, as forecast or greater, was on 12/23/2022- two weeks before my house generator was installed. Lost 3 solid trees, roof shingles/flashing (roof needed to be replaced anyway). Also stupidly left a chair on the back deck which took out 12 spindles on my railing. Power out for three days (right up through Christmas Day), as temperatures had crashed into the single digits. I do not want to experience that again.

Yes, I stand corrected. There was missing info in my data set post-depression from 1929 through 1935.

I only remember the 80s for 3" of snow followed by sleet an slop. Maybe it happened often, though.