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Thanks! Booked the central Tug from Tuesday - Sunday up at about 1,350 ft. @stormtracker this is the kinda trip you need to book w/the BF and leave Florida to the gators and grannies lol.

Oh god, please no blizzard warnings here lol. The last two were sunny and rainy. Further north, looks like a long duration lake effect event east of Ontario. Think I'm heading up there Tuesday after work, trying to split the uprights between bands. GFS paints around 80" totals for the week. Likely overdone but this is a potent front with decent anafrontal moisture so if a band can stay stationary for a period of time, crazier things have happened. It'll be my first chase of the season and I'm just itching to get up there.

This has turned into a pretty intense day. Heavy snow showers continue, temp is now 30 degrees lower than midnight and while it's next to impossible to measure, I imagine we've received 2 inches so far. The Wisp cams are fun

Temp was 54 at midnight and has now fallen to 32 with very heavy snow showers moving through and a gust imby to 61 mph. Brief return to winter!

Let's hope you're right because temps approach or exceed +40F almost up to the shores of the Hudson Bay around NYE (that's got to be 50-60 degrees above normal?). 12z GFS has essentially no snow (outside of a bit of lake effect or at the highest peaks of New England) east of the Mississippi and south of the US/Canada border. Fingers crossed this is a model burp and some semblance of normalcy ends up being what we actually experience.

I'm already rising, so my high was 16.9 around 3:30 (or so I thought), fell to around 15 a few hours ago and is now 17.5 and continues to slowly rise. You may not be far behind.

Cold hi of 16.9 today. Remained mostly cloudy but no flakes.

1.9 this morning - like some others, didn't move much overnight. Still a few flurries dancing about capping a great weekend of winter.

It's 2.8 here with well over a foot otg. If it were to clear out and go calm, I would end up well below zero.

Interesting convo @ su casa for sure. Kinda like mine...a husband from Ecuador who now works at Wisp...as a ski lift operator. I can't make this shit up. His then 76 year old Mom was here last November when I got a foot - she never saw falling snow until then. It was fabulous watching her be just like a little kid. Altho I just can't understand why he didn't want to go tubing today lol.

I just finished shoveling (again) and had 2 squalls move through this afternoon and each one dropped at least an inch. Didn't expect the intensity that they've shown today as there has been multiple instances of true 0 visibility. A really nice overperformer and it's very cold: 5.8 above outside now. In keeping with the winter spirit, I have a big batch of beef and veggie soup on the menu for tonight. I came *this* close to chasing the L. Ontario LES band this weekend and am glad I stayed put.

You're my early warning detection lol. I got under that band and had over an inch in about 20 minutes and the temp fell to 7. Days like this make all life's problems kinda melt away (no pun intended). Great pic.

It’s now 9.3 degrees. This was a tough measure, but am going with 13.1”. Light snow continues with now a definite wind chill to deal with. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

11.6" so far, temp 13.3. Snow is total fluff now and continues to accumulate rapidly. Very little wind. Nice event after the blizzard bust from earlier in the week.

Right at 4" so far. Temp has fallen less than a degree since the snow started around 3 PM. 26.4 currently with just pixie dust but upstream radar looks pretty good. Been a fun winter's day.

Snow has begun in SW Garrett County. Next stop: you!

At a minimum, maybe what this means is as we cook Christmas dinner and the oven is on, we won't have to run the A/C like I've had to do more than once in Richmond.

Ended up with 3.1" overnight. Certainly a beautiful, frosty morning (temp now is 19.8, which is the calendar day's low so far) but never did we really experience blizzard conditions. The highlight, of course, tho was the loud thunder during the "peak" last evening. If you want to enjoy really good conditions at the ski resorts, and they are currently excellent, better do it in the next week. Oy vey, don't like what's coming.

Things have finally picked up. In the past couple of minutes, two incredibly loud claps of thunder occurred. The only other time I've experienced this was during a LES event off of Erie a few years ago. It sounded just like something you'd hear during the summer. Very, very cool. Maybe about a half-inch so far.

So the winds have gone completely calm, there is no snow on the ground (or falling from the sky) and temperatures are above freezing with no visibility restrictions. This isn't the kind of blizzard I had in mind.

More or less normal.

It's a bit deceptive outside now at least imby in southwest Garrett County. Temp is 44 with the sun shining - hardly what you would expect for a blizzard warning (begins in 45 minutes). In fact, the last blizzard warning I had last winter, the day ended up being sunny for 90% of it with next to no snow and very moderate winds. But today, I've had multiple gusts exceed 50 MPH and if/when the snow begins, it'll be tough going. So...bring it!

Ehhh just draw a second line on your Covid test and c'mon out.

View from my hubbys “office” today at the top of Wisp. Let’s see what it looks like tomorrow.

Looks like tomorrow and especially tomorrow night out here on the Allegheny Front will be interesting. We've just been upgraded to a Blizzard Warning.