Juliancolton

But they've served us so well with seasonal outlooks /s

Thanks guys, I'll check those out. My brother lives in Denver but is in Springfield for work one night next week, so I'm heading up to meet him for dinner. We're not typically the sort of guys who prefer one sort of food over another when browsing for places, so I leave my searches open-ended

What's the best restaurant in/around Springfield?

Don't tell me what to do!

The folks hosting the party asked if I could be ready at 11 since people were getting tired... then they asked if I could be ready at 10. Everyone out the door and on their way to bed by 10:30. One thing about old folks is they know how to run NYE.

The soggy, half-frozen ground is a real pain in the arse for the fireworks show I'm doing tonight. Most 1.4g pyro devices just have paper or cardboard bases so they wick moisture right up into the clay plugs and then it gets dangerous. Tarps aplenty I guess.

Also, judging by the main discussion thread, the over/under for January is set at +15F. I'll take the over.

Maybe the real good pattern is the friends we made along the way.

Spring cancel as it's pelting sleet now with a nice mushy coating on everything. At this point I genuinely can't tell if I'm hearing plows or thunder

There's a full-fledged thunderstorm taking place here. Loud, sharp rumbles.

It's almost tradition at this point for Feb and March to carry the whole winter. I'm keeping the faith.

A fitting end to the year of feast or famine precip in the interior:

I'll never understand how anyone can hold the opinion that humans have no planetary influence. We've created and destroyed seas and deserts (often by accident), annihilated entire cities in an instant, and replicated the Big Bang in laboratories just because we were curious. Deliberately extinguishing all life on earth would be trivially easy, so to think we couldn't inadvertently do any damage over the course of centuries is absurd.

I'll say it so nobody else has to... sunny and AN is actually pretty nice for Christmas week. You're welcome.

In hindsight that was probably another dead giveaway, in addition to the red flag Bx noted... It's pretty much impossible to walk anywhere that's not treated pavement now that there have been a felt thaw/freeze cycles... especially as you can no longer dig your heels in. The slightest grade requires microspikes.

This cold snap has been a bit of a fail. Seasonably chilly.

UKMET making a run for -10F tonight, let's do it!

Is such a thing even possible?!

Yeah, the ice made for some really striking visuals today. Still not sure it was a fair trade for my 4-7" tho

Sweet shots, folks. Agree about clouds returning sooner than I had hoped and anticipated, though the sun still did its job on most of my driveway. South-facing slope FTW (or L, in most cases).

Funnily enough, that's probably the whiff that gives me the least indigestion out of all of them in the new millennium. I think it's because I got nothing – not a trace, not a single flake – so the blizzard to the south may as well have been in Alaska. There was no tease, just a snowstorm that hit somewhere else (which happens every day of the year). It hurts much worse when there's some snow to provide a taste of what is transpiring just miles away. 5" in Feb 2006, 4" Feb '10, 10" Feb '13... that sort of thing.

Imagine bitching about only getting one historic blizzard per year

We'll get a few hours of sunshine in early afternoon tomorrow with temps likely breaking the freezing mark. I think as long as we do a serviceable clean-up job today, we'll be able to avoid locking in the ice through the upcoming cold snap

Nice. Best of both worlds.

I still have hopes of making my move to NS within the next few years. Somewhere near the shore in Lunenburg County would be ideal.