Juliancolton

Already down to 1F and in a state of total freefall until the wind picks up at some point tonight. The snow is making that squeaking noise underfoot, doesn't get much better. Gonna head to the river for sunrise in search of some nice sea smoke. Probably only a few days to see that before there's not enough open water left.

-3F currently. The first of many subzero mornings it would seem.

I hadn't heard that before, very cool. Thanks and merry Christmas! That last band packed quite a punch and I ended up with 3" even. Super pretty stuff for Christmas morning but like you say, the wind is already starting to knock it down from trees.

That's the spirit! It'll be just like the Christmas truce of 1914 except even more unlikely. My yard does pale in comparison to these guys just down the road from me but many strangers stop and say they like mine better simply on account of not being seizure inducing, lol

Nothing here yet, but still enjoyed a nice Christmas lights jebwalk around my yard to admire my work on the decorations this year. Up over 35,000 lights and managed to keep everything shipshape right up until the big day. Life is good

Albany apparently expects mixing even all the way up here with 1-2" storm total. Too much eggnog up at the office.

GFS is juicy tomorrow night... half an inch of liquid for most of us. Still looks like a relatively dense snowfall so shoot for 10:1 to 12:1, which nonetheless opens up the door to a 6" jackpot. Seems slightly overdone with how late the secondary low blossoms relative to our latitude. I envision most of us picking up a general 2-3" from late evening through the wee hours, then 1-2" in a short period when that modeled mesoscale band pivots through between 5 and 7 am. 3-5" seems good to me from a forecasting and personal preference standpoint.

I always miss out on the fun. Never got icy at my place.

Switching gears, I've just had a look at the Euro for Monday morning and it's definitely a nice solution. While it's hard to ascertain snow amounts without forecast soundings, the .2"-.3" of liquid would amount to a general 2-4" given climo ratios... surface suggests a pasty appeal though. If that pans out, it doesn't get much better. Folks walking up on Christmas morning to a fresh Currier and Ives blanket of snow, but not enough to cause any serious travel issues, with clearing skies by noon. Literal perfection.

Afaik, it's standard procedure (maybe even a legal requirement?) to keep sensitive archaeological sites under wraps until the relevant authorities have had a chance to poke around. It makes sense, would just be nice to actually get someone on the case.

There's a little bit about them in this older NYT article shortly after the initial discovery but the state still hasn't disclosed the exact coordinates or any real details about the apparent walls. Hopefully someone gets the funding and approval to take a closer look at some point... it's been over 15 years so I'm not holding my breath. Had some brief periods of sleet earlier but nothing now. Tomorrow looks like an all-day 34F rain, lovely

Just a few minutes off 84 in northern Putnam County. There are hundreds of these stone chambers in a relatively small area and it seems like a disproportionate amount (assuming they're just colonial root cellars) are aligned with the solstices and/or equinoxes. You probs know by now that I generally follow the mainstream ideas about most things but the alternate theories about ancient stonework in the mid-HV are hard to completely ignore... you could explain away most of it until you got to the 3,000+ y/o rock walls in the middle of the river floor off Storm King, then it gives pause

I was supposed to light regular candles? Ah crap, I misheard and lit some Roman candles. No wonder everyone gave me dirty looks...

A couple years back, some of us were talking about the stone chambers in the area and their supposed celestial alignments. I finally made it to the "Winter Solstice Chamber" in Kent this am and it was definitely an impressive sight with the sunlight perfectly streaming in through the doorway. I did sort of get caught off-guard by the pagan chanting and Druid peace rituals. For some reason, out of about 50 people there, I was the only one who couldn't feel any connection with the spirits.

Seems like decoupling has taken place. Down to 11

17/3 right now and that's still with a wind stirring things up. Should have no problem getting below zero for the first time this season.

Pretty confident, this one.

For some reason students and educators alike pay close attention to the twitter musings of Ben Noll, and last week he said there was a 60% of a snow day yesterday in the Hudson Valley. I don't know how he figures those odds but folks in town here were really counting on their day off. I can understand the kids being bummed out, but while I have great respect for the work that teachers do, I don't get why some seem to feel they're entitled to be spared a day's work because somebody said frozen water would fall from the sky.

Yeah, snow growth looks good. The whining from co-workers, parents, and drugstore clerks is really gonna start ramping up if we wake up to plowable tomorrow.

Flipped to snow this hour and approaching an inch on the board. Pleasantly surprised.

That was just an atrocious run all around. Hopefully we can get one more snowy system to pop up in the next 7 to 10 days before the trough migrates west. If this is how it's gonna be from now on, I guess I should ask Santa for a mountain bike...

36F with drizzle, lovely. On the plus side, glad to see the ineludible Christmas torch is starting to take shape on the horizon. You'd know something was seriously wrong otherwise.

Looks like a win for Albany's conservative methodology.

It's a shame the eastern trough is so amplified and we couldn't get this thing to just scoot underneath us as a conventional clipper for a reliable 1-3".

5.8" will do it here. Just enough to get that puffy marshmallow look that I'm a big fan of. We hit the ground running!