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Any ski/snow eports yet from the Dacks travelers?
We went to Snow Ridge today.  They had the goods.. Plenty of nice soft powder.

Great ski day.

1 hour ago, Flying MXZ said:

41 dry degrees in Delaware County at 1800'.  Enjoy the storm to our north and west!  

There are going to be big gradients in snowfall across Otsego and Delaware Counties.

I'm in north-central Otsego.  We sat at 32F all night.  Just a fraction above so the cars were wet but the ground is a glacier.

The last couple of ticks SE have made our outlook much brighter.

Steady 31F here for the last 4 hours.

Intermittent rain and drizzle.

It's a skating rink out there.

Unfortunately it looks like I'm one county too far east for the best snow action tomorrow.

I just need the low track to head east by 50 miles!

Rooting for all you guys too of course.

1 hour ago, rochesterdave said:

Whiteface. I’m an intermediate+ skier, any recommendations? 

With fresh snow I predict you will love the Wilmington 
trail.

We had moved into our house in 2001 and planted at least a dozen lilacs.

They had all survived the winter and leafed out beautifully.

We woke that morning to about 4 inches of heavy wet oatmeal consistency snow.

Lilacs took a beating.  About half of them never full recovered.  I think it was because they had just been transplanted the year before.

I can still remember my wife outside in her work clothes trying to gently shake the snow off some of them.  No bueno.

1 hour ago, TugHillMatt said:

Nws extended summarizes the winter: 40s, chance of rain/snow showers

The ceiling grade for this winter is now a C-. That's the upside potential with a big turnaround in
February and March that we don't even see on the horizon.

The current grade is D.

F is not out of the question.

If this winter was a kid taking my class I'd advise them to withdraw or audit the class, because the likelihood of an F is extremely high.

7 hours ago, SouthBuffaloSteve said:

Pattern Flip?  lol.

 

 

Oh it's flipped all right.

Flipping us off!

3 hours ago, wolfie09 said:

Practically BM for parts of CNY..

It's funny they talk about the BM track all the time over on the NE forum.

My benchmark here is the center of LI.  Track from Jersey coast ---> center of LI is almost a guaranteed winner here.

9 minutes ago, Buffalo Bumble said:

Quick report from my trip to Lake Placid last Thursday to yesterday...About 4" of snow fell Wed night into Thursday morning, which was good b/c the snow pack up there outside of the higher elevations was pretty much wiped out before that.  A few more inches fell Thursday night, driven by a cold and somewhat moist northwest upslope flow.  While not prolific like we see in the lake effect belts, those upslope mountain snows are great.  Several hours of big flakes parachuting down.  Friday was a bluebird day, and very cold (my car thermometer ranged from -5 to +3 driving around to various hiking spots during the day).  Below photo is facing the Great Range from a place called Henry's Woods outside LP.  Snow started again Saturday afternoon.  Accumulations were initially held in check from downsloping off the high peaks.  Snow picked up early Sunday AM as flow switched direction to the northwest.  About 8" fresh snow as we left town Sunday evening, probably double that up above 4K feet.  All in all a well timed trip to the ADK's preceded by a prolonged winter hiatus.  

Nice!

Did you do any skiing?  Nordic? Alpine?
 

3 hours ago, CNY_WX said:

No, just wondering why you’re even thinking about busting before the storm even starts.  There’s a lot of negativity on this board.

 

Sorry man you’re right.

its January and we haven’t cross country skied or skated on our pond in weeks.  It’s making me crabby.

Was my use of the word "If" not clear?

If this storm busts.....and we really go back into the 40's by late week, then let's just end it.

This is a sad, pathetic excuse for a winter.

I might as well go spend winter in Tucson.

30 minutes ago, CNY_WX said:

Hey that guy is on the wrong side of the road, lol!

He’s just about to make the turn into Wegmans.

17 minutes ago, wolfie09 said:

I had to Google it haha

I have a similar latitude as Booneville (little north) but they are 50 miles east of here and have some elevation. 

Kbgm has about 1/2' in that area..

thanks, didn't realize you are that far west.

28 minutes ago, wolfie09 said:

I'm actually right under the bright banding lol Mix of heavy snow and graupel..

Wolfie how far are you from BREIA (Egypt Road trails)?

Curious if conditions will be good there tomorrow.

Thanks.

27 minutes ago, Geez150 said:

I am 100% a Bills fan and a Josh Allen  fan. And every comment that has been made about them on here I can agree with. My take on Allen is he will get better as time goes on and he settles down more and of course with more help. We need to keep the coaching staff both offense and defense as well as, as many defensive players on the roster as we can for next year. As for the loss I feel everyone shoulders some blame. Allen made too many costly plays, the coaching staff called to conservative of a mid game with the lead. And the defense gave up to many big plays with soft coverage and or poor tackling. Football is a team sport and they truly lost as a team....now back to your local weather forecast lol.

Heartily agree!

There are things that should improve with time for Josh, like his accuracy and his ability to make quick reads at the line of scrimmage.

Of course another really good receiver will help too.  Maybe Duke Williams makes that leap next year.

What worries me though are the impulsive, spur of the moment really stupid things that he does.  I don't know if they can be coached out of him.  Daboll certainly hasn't been able to.

As an example:  Once you've fumbled umpteen times in the season, and cost your team dearly, you think you would start to understand you have to wrap the ball up tight after contact and get down and go get em on the next play.   Seems obvious, right?  But not to Josh, at least not so far.

I'm blaming Josh for some really stupid mistakes in the second half.

He's a great athlete with great potential to be a star QB......but if they cannot beat the stupid out of him it's going to be for naught.

11 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said:

A dusting that is already gone here. Overnight runs look terrible for the next 10 days. Going to need some serious reshuffling to get anything that resembles winter. 

I agree with the others....I'll see your 10 days of terrible and raise to 14, at least on the GEFS.

The Aleutian ridge is driving a pattern that's poison for us.

"Upgraded" to an ice storm warning here.

Not something I desire.

Straddling the line on a rainy day tomorrow versus a potentially damaging ugly ice storm.

One of the rare times I would prefer the warmer solution.

Last night I watched the Sabres play the Bruins.

This morning I flipped though the 500mb GEFS and EPS charts.

I can't even tell which is more depressing but I can tell you neither one was a positive experience.

32 minutes ago, rochesterdave said:

A Rochester special! Man, I gotta get out skiing once before Jackson Hole/ Big Sky. 
Everyone start praying to the snow gods

Hope you post a ski report.  We have never been to either of those but thinking about Big Sky for next winter.

I just flipped through the GEFS and EPS.

No bueno.

Hard to get rid of the deep low out by Alaska........strongly positive NAO and a lot of Pacific flow over the next 10-14 days.

I'm trying to focus on all the times things looked perfect and then went to hell .  Hoping the opposite can happen here.

I'm at work and can't check myself, but the fact that nobody is saying a word about the Euro tells me it can't be good.

That was some game.

What's with the sloppy tackling all of a sudden?

They coulda, shoulda won.  As usual.

1 hour ago, wolfie09 said:

Lol

Wow does that suck.

I mean you look up the word "sucks" in the winter weather dictionary, you get that image.