Connecticut Appleman

About half an hour ago - I was sitting on Route 20 right at the end of the runways at Bradley and looking south there was a very interesting cloud formation extending below the regular cloud deck with a ton of lightning coming out of it. Would have liked to take pictures but not possible safely.

It looks like it is trying to fill in back here in New Hartford, but so far nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

West has not been best 0.03" total out here in New Hartford. Pretty sad.

I surprised to not see any lightning here in Litchfield County.

I can skip the the damage aspect of this event (or non-event), but I would really like some rain. So far a total of 0.14 inches over the day day. Grass still dry under the trees.

There goes the watch for SNE - I guess we will see what comes of it.

As I posted in the banter thread - Northeastern Mass was insane with pollen, it actually improved as we came down into CT. It looked like smoke at a distance, but it was greenish color. Nasty!

Drove home to CT today from Maine and the pollen in the in Northeastern Massachusetts was crazy. The air had a sick green color to it from the start of 495 down to the Pike.

Sorry to hear that Tip, sometimes life can have a cruel streak.

Wind is screaming here, pretty awesome. Power has been blinking a lot. Have a really long steep driveway (1/4 mile) and just went out to scrape the crud off the driveway and it is frozen solid. John Deere with 59 inch snowblower was not going budging it. Luckily it is March and tomorrow should do wonders. (Just like to keep the driveway open in the event of an emergency.)

Fingers crossed. I would at least like to completely cover the grass once more.

This thing is really cruising. Radar starting to shred in southern NJ and SE PA.

It has improved - for a while it was baking powder.

Down to 30 - hopefully snow growth improves otherwise it will never cover the grass.

If we can get into some heavy snow for a little while the way the wind is blowing - that could be awesome.

The transition to snow has begun.

Sticking with seasonal persistence, there is no way we end up with more than 5 inches

Just pinging here. at 32 and the wind is starting to crank.

We might have hit 6 inches once, but we have really struggled to get past 5 inches in virtually every event which is probably where we will end up tonight.

Just under 5 inches here in New Hartford. 5 Inches has been a popular storm total here all winter.

Nammy showing signs of life for Wednesday event. Not expecting much here for tonight.

We did exactly that with the high efficiency boiler and the whole house generator.

Built a house a couple of years ago. We buried 2 - 1,000 gallon propane tanks (which we own) and paid for partial depth spray foam insulation then fiberglass on top of that. We heat using hydronic radiant heat for whole house - much lower temperatures coming off the boiler which makes it more efficient. I can't complain, over the last year we used a little more than 800 gallons of propane and just got a fill up for $2.13 a gallon last week. My wife did not want to do the spray foam for $4k - she is very happy with it now. If you are building a house, it is well worth spending the cash for efficiency upgrades. Many of the upgrades can't be done after the fact.

This thing is cruising. It will done here in another hour or so.

Flakage getting that look like sleet is getting close here in New Hartford. Eyeballing 3-4 inches right now.