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Green haze in the air today from pine tree pollen around here today.

Really died back here at this moment.

Pretty Awesome - cell phones do much better with aurora as compared to eclipses.

Nicely here now. Clouds have cleared for the most part.

The high thin clouds are obstructing it - definitely a source of light not normally there to the north but scattered by high clouds.

Some clear patches here in New Hartford - looking north-northeast there is a dim glow that is not normally there - enough to make out the tree branches on the top of the tree line.  I know right after I go to bed it will get interesting...

Just got back from Burlington to New Hartford.  Traffic for a Tuesday morning was pretty heavy, but nothing like yesterday.

Absolutely nothing compares to this.  Amazing seeing the wall of darkness race out of the Adirondacks across Champlain followed a couple minutes later by the wall of light doing the same.  A couple of coworkers were saying that we were at 92% that should be close and I was not really sure.  Glad I made the trek because this ain't like grading and exam 92% does not equal 100%.

Great photos everyone - I quickly gave up and just drank it all in.

8+ inches here in New Hartford and climbing.

6 inches here in New Hartford.

5 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Yup. I grew up in West Hartford and went to school in the 90's and 2000's. 

1. West Hartford hardly ever cancelled...I mean ever. Hell, it was a blessing if we either had a delay or an early dismissal. 

2. There is only one time I distinctly remember it happening. I was in middle school (so sometime between 1999-2002) and we had two days cancelled in a row. Its funny because it was supposed to be a very large storm (I think a two part) and it kind of busted. I think in total we got around 8'' or something...maybe it was 10.

I guess I'm getting old - we had t wait for Bob Steele to read out the names in the 70's on the radio every half hour.  That was the only source.

Intensity really dropping off here.  Fun while it lasted.

Dry slot racing in looks to mean business.  Too bad - this was a pleasant surprise for sure.

I'd be OK if things don't start snapping - a lot of dead ash trees everywhere so anything is possible.

This is the way to run a 33 degree snowstorm.  Right around 2 inches here in New Hartford at 1k feet.

Just flipped back to snow here in New Hartford.

Hoping round 2 gives us a couple more, to my untrained eye, radar over eastern NY starting to look a little ragged.

Looking out at the snow stake - we have 11 inches in New Hartford.

2 minutes ago, TalcottWx said:

If you ignore snow totals, you will see it keeps highlighting the same areas around Burlington, New Hartford, up to MA border. 

It is time for us to rock one of these storms up here in the hills - maybe this will be the one.  

We get more heavy rain on Saturday, I'm going to need to chain the cap on the well head as it has been pouring water out since last weekend.  Never had that happen before.

And there goes the power.

So far nothing remarkable here - there was a few minor gusts when it started but now it is just raining with some thunder.  

It is freaking dark here in New Hartford and quite loud just off to the west.  We'll see if anything pops out this.

Looking down stream on radar, it looks like the bulk of the heaviest rain is done for Litchfield County - unless I'm missing something.  2.00 inches total here in New Hartford from this morning.

On 3/16/2023 at 1:44 AM, The 4 Seasons said:

If you have an updated number for the season, let me know. I'll check the New England Snow page but some of you aren't on there @tavwtby@TalcottWx@Connecticut Appleman@JKEisMan@FXWX and anyone else from Litchfield/New London counties 

 

Sorry - I unfortunately don't have a seasonal total that I would trust as I was away for a couple of the smaller events this season.

If we could hold onto this rate of snowing for a while, it could be fun.