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3.1" of slop from the great coulda, woulda, shoulda storm of November 2019. 1.5" on the front end overnight last night than a bunch of freezing rain and rain then back to another 1.6" of snow on the backside. Over an inch of liquid from this, so a little colder in the 800-900 mb layer and boom this would've been a solid foot of snow here. 

5" depth on the ground. 

Crap-o-rama looks to be en route here tomorrow. No cold high to the north, FTL. A month from now you can get away without a cold high to the north more often, but this early in the season it can be tough even here to get a good snowstorm without it unless if midlevel forcing is enough to dynamically flip things to snow. NAM is warm between 800-900 mb and Euro too although I can't see soundings from it. HRRR looks like isothermal pasting but it's still beyond it's useful range.  

Freezing rain to wet snow is what I think here, 2-4". Hopefully the freezing rain won't accrete too much, but with heavy rain and surface temperatures at or just barely below freezing I don't think it'll be too bad as the water will drip off before it can freeze. 

3.4" of wet snow this morning. Winding down now. Started as 0.4" of rain at 31-32° F, but it didn't accrete. Flakes were huge for a bit this morning as the best lift and snow growth came through. Photo from just before 8 AM. 

2.7° F this morning. Absolutely glorious!!! 

The radiators will really mount up tonight. Widespread subzero temps in NNE's cold spots tonight?

1.0" snow, 0.17" liquid equivalent snow and rain. Underachiever, but I wasn't expecting much to begin with. I may go down to near 0° F tonight, which is incredible for this early in the cold season.

Enjoy it up north folks. Maybe a get a couple of inches on the backside tomorrow morning, but this is not a S VT storm. 

Watching the potential for some freezing rain down here later today and tonight. 

1.4" total. Still some random flurries dancing around. Winter has arrived...

Steady snow and 32.6° F with a slushy coating on the grassy surfaces. It was cold rain occasionally mixed with mangled flakes much of the day, but it finally made the transition to all snow about an hour ago. 0.25" of rain before changeover. 

Anything less than 100" is a ratter in my books. The ratter of all ratters in these parts was without a doubt '15-'16. I'll gladly take another '11-'12 any day over that year. 

Last winter wasn't bad with ~150", but I would've happily swapped November for December. Novie was crazy, December stunk, January after the first week was okay, February and March meh at best. 

Shot this about a week ago on the lane beside my property before the big windstorm took almost all of them down. Just a few stragglers left now on the Beeches and Aspens. 

The golden yellows of the Norway Maples are coming out in the valleys with the mostly bare hills all around.

1 hour ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

Nam gives southern greens several inches over to Mitch at 2.4K

 

Sell. Maybe a slushy coating or an inch if it goes over to snow at all, which I'd consider a win this early in the season.

I'd say we're just about at peak here. Not sure what this talk about muted colors is all about, it's gorgeous here. Lots of reds and oranges again this year. 

Almost peak here above 2K in S VT. Should peak within the next few days. Nice color, but still some greens while a few of my red maples are starting to go past peak already. Last year it seemed like everything changed at once and then dropped at once. 

I actually like the new skin, and more importantly, it functions much better. The old one made my Macbook get warm and the fan running a marathon. I'd have to open Safari just to view AmWx as it would run better in Safari than in Chrome, which is my default browser. 

The US has so many infrastructure problems in general, not just the northeast. Perhaps if the wealthy folks and corporations were forced to actually pay their fair share of taxes, we could solve a lot of these problems. The sky is the limit with socialism...how about a bullet train like the ones in Japan that runs from the Berkshires to Boston or NYC. That would be a huge boon for our economy out here, which struggles big time. Houses sell for way under market value and/or sit on the market for years.

What's happened to this forum? I remember it having a cold, snow bias pretty much all the time. I guess I'm still one of the hardcore old school cold and snow lovers on here. I'd slam the button for a -12 anomaly every month of the year without hesitation and for >200" snow each winter.
 

Full on moderate color happening here now. Lots of reds emerging. We're about a week ahead of last year at this time, which peaked October 5th-8th. Took these with my drone earlier today. 

23 hours ago, tamarack said:

That's what I have, and for me it's more like 5 hours than 10.  Except for the time we were camping/fishing in Deboullie Twp (25 miles SW from Ft. Kent) in June 1996.  I really don't like the stuff but there are things I like even less, such as hundreds of blackfly bites.  Had to apply as we transferred gear and canoes from vehicles to pond.  Just over an hour later we got to the west end of Deboullie Pond and the blackflies were biting hard so I put on more, which was effective for about an hour.  After that I looked for hiding places as hourly apps of Ben's 100 would not be healthy. (Found 2, our tent in the sun, about 120° inside with 1,000 flies trying to fly out thru the roof, and a much nicer place next to some ice and snow in the boulder crevices NW of the pond - too cold for them.) 

 Ten years living in that area and many visits since and I'd never encountered anything close to the density of those little beasts, before or since.  Folks with headnets were literally having trouble seeing thru the eager insects trying to get thru.  Normally when temps get into the mid 80s the blackflies retire to cover and leave the field for the deerflies, which are heatproof.  They could live and bite in the nether regions where they belong.  Ft. Kent hit 91 on our first full day and I'm sure it was just as hot where we were, but the blackflies didn't care.  Even out on the 275-acre pond, 500' from the nearest shore, the blackflies were thick - maybe too little airspace over the land?

Welcome to my world from about Mother's Day to Father's Day. They are insane! Clouds of them! DEET is useless against the little buggers too. The deer flies start about early June, so there's about a 1-2 week period where they overlap, and that's the peak of bug season. Living in a mostly spruce/fir grove, there are plenty of vernal pools and shady spots for them to reproduce and take shelter.

Then there's a period of horse flies that starts about mid July and runs through mid August. Very large flies, but they aren't nearly as aggressive as the deer flies, and they tend to go for the legs where as the deer flies go for the head or arms. No mosquitos this year though due to the dryer summer we've had. Virtually no biting insects now, thank God. One of the small downsides to living in the woods of NNE (well, CNE if you go strictly by my latitude). 

1 hour ago, alex said:

Official low here of 31.6

Wow, congrats! 9/10 is not at all early for your first subfreezing low there, correct? I recall you getting frost/freeze in June, July, and August in past years. You radiate really well.

49.1° F low here. It clouded up overnight, so not much drop. I can't radiate, but I've had lots of 40s at night and the leaves are definitely starting to turn. Low diurnal temperatures and CAD dominate here.

13 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Don't move to S VT, if you drew a triangle from Pittsfield MA to Stratton and over to the Monadnocks it has been, relatively speaking, wrt other parts of NE, a snow desert the past 10-15 years.

When we moved to Greenfield in 2007 I was so excited to be close to the N Berkshires and ski areas like Mt Snow and Stratton.  Let's just say my expectations have been tempered considerably.  I don't really care if it snows imby as long as I can drive an hour to fresh tracks but those days have been a bit more limited than I would have imagined.

Don't move to Bennington. The highlands of S VT have done pretty well IMO, with the notable exception of the infamous '15-'16 futility winter. I'd rather join James down in Harwich than live in Bennington...it's that bad. Horrendous shadowing there on E flow and they don't usually get much more than flurries, light snow from the upslope on W flow. At least Harwich can get some big storms once in a while, even if they're not all snow. Pittsfield shadows on E flow too, but not as badly, and they do better on W to NW flow events. 

13 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Mitch disagrees.  Snow from Oct to May with max pack of 5 feet in his yard haha.

But I actually think your area has been screwed more than most.  Even SVT has had some sick deform bands in recent years.  I do think ALB CWA up into VT has had better luck than your area recently.

I think this is true. I did well with the trio of storms in March '18 and there have been some decent events here in the past few years. It's been a tough stretch in the CT River Valley since the Nemo blizzard in 2013, which had a nicely placed deform band.

Albany isn't as bad as many make it out to be. It's in a good spot for synoptic snows, and is too far west to get bad shadowing on most E flow events. They can actually upslope slightly on NE flows (i.e. March 2, 2018) with highlands to the SW of them. Retention is terrible being in the Hudson Valley and they don't do well with elevation type events, but the ~58" average there is respectable. I've seen many events where ALB beat out PSF, AQW, and DDH simply because of terrain effects.

It's not just you, I've been noticing these symptoms too on my Macbook using Chrome. The page loads as I scroll down as opposed to loading all at once when I click on the link.

As such, the page is slower to load and gets my computer warm and the fan cranking. Annoying...

On 8/8/2019 at 9:04 PM, dendrite said:

What kind of tree?

Paper birch. 

I had this big guy stop by a couple of times last month. Looks like the same bear as far as I can tell. He's been a nuisance getting into people's trash and stuff. There are signs warning people not to leave trash and garbage unattended. VT Fish and Wildlife tried to track and catch him last year to no avail. 

I also had a double fox sighting at the end of the clip. Pretty cool how another enters as the first departs. 

Black flies -> deer flies -> mosquitoes -> horse flies. The next blood sucking insect season (and yes, the seasons overlap too) has arrived and it is horse flies. Although not as aggressive as the deer flies, these mofos are huge and hurt if they manage to land on you for a bite. 

Despite the bugs, this weather is super comfortable. The dew points are everything in these parts. Anything under 60° F is good, less than 50° F outstanding.

83.0° F high today, which is my max so far this year. The big story with this airmass is the dews, just awful! Topped out at 77° F on my Davis. 

Down to 66.8° F after 0.10" of rain from convection, so no > 70° F minimum today despite having a "low" of 71.5° F last night. 

Thick cloud cover this morning, 73.8°/72° F.  Low clouds too...possibly some upslope going on with the cross barrier flow along with the MCS debris? It was clear with hazy sun at 7:30 AM.

Overnight low was a whopping 71.5° F.