Connecticut Appleman

Looks to me that the GEFS are really sliding east without much northernly movement through 96 hours.

EPS mean really stretched east by cluster that blows by Nova Scotia. Otherwise significant number of members west of the mean

For Boxing Day storm in Ellington/Somers we had so little snow it was really bizarre as the farmland on some drumlins in Somers just norths of Ellington had all the snow blown off and everything was covered in dirt. The winds picked up the soil and covered what little snow there was.

NASA has spotted the Cosmic Dildo and they are trying to determine if it will hit eastern North America.

1978 - Channel 3's name.

Out here in western CT - I could learn to like that EPS look with a little west lean.

Love it if the cold holds strong for a little while longer than expected and have some of the heavy stuff come through.

We are going to be very close to the really good stuff on this one - but will probably be 20-30 miles north of us here in Litchfield County.

Light snow 20/15. The race is on to see how much we can squeeze out before the warm air ultimately wins.

I'm hoping to get a reasonable event as the past couple of years have been better out east.

Been holding at 20 degrees - DP has been slowly creeping up currently at 13. Surface winds have been constant out the north so far.

I'm right at 1,000 feet.

Really don't know what to expect out here in Litchfield County. I would not be surprised with 2 inches or 10 inches.

Found the pressure wave on mine as well. Never thought to look until I read this thread.

There was an event in 1983 were it was snowing so hard all day that we couldn't see a telephone pole 50 feet away from the house. It must have been fairly localized in Norfolk as we were part of a regional high school and we got the whole week off, while the other towns only had two days off. Went outside with my friends to go sliding and is the only only time I have ever been scared in a snowstorm as I was walking down the middle of the street and got a 0.1 mile from home and I had no idea where I was.

Would have loved for the Feb 2013 event to be during the day to truly appreciate how hard it was snowing. When reverse 911 calls are going out asking homeowners to turn on any outside lights on because the town plows were unable to tell where they were - that is crazy.

October 2011 - incredible damage. Not much winter after that, but that one left a mark. 1978 was crazy as well.

Down to 0 here.

Even though ice is below 32 degrees, on a molecular level there is a small amount of liquid water on ice on the surface of the ice. The colder it is, the less liquid water there is. De-icing chemicals are hydrophilic meaning they attract water. The attraction of water starts the production of a brine that will really cause the ice to go away. The dissolution of rock salt in water will actually cause the temperature of the area around the salt to go down. Here is a link to a video that has a good explanation of how salt works. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2015/january/how-does-salt-melt-ice-video.html

Salt does not require sunlight to work. The warmer it is, the better it works due to the thermodynamic equilibrium of the ice. All de-icing chemicals need to be dissolved in water to work.

There is a huge problem with salt contamination of ground water and drinking wells. This is a growing problem with no easy solution. Sand does very little (especially without salt added to it) as traffic will kick it out of the wheel paths very quickly. Research has shown that after 30-40 vehicles going over sand going at 35-40 mph will kick the sand out of the wheel paths. Then in the spring there are 100's of thousands of tons of sand that have swept up and properly disposed.

Now that I have moved back to NW CT after spending 20+ years in Ellington, I can appreciate what you are saying with the benefits of coastal storms by being 35-40 miles east. Growing up here in NW CT, we seemed to have more storms where p-type issues in SE CT was more common and those were the ones were we would clean up in NW CT. My appreciation for the small weather variations in a small state has grown over the years having grown up in the snow capital of CT, then living on the eastern edge of death valley and then moving back to the hills.

5 inches out on the snow stake this morning - a positive win for a change.

Front just arrived here - wind really came up quickly.

Looks like our few remaining oak leaves in trees will live to annoy another day. Virtually no wind at all. Lightning is really violet colored.