Connecticut Appleman

NW CT looks workable on the18Z GFS...that being said, I am currently having trust issues with what any model has been spitting out.

Wind has come up and getting some snow shower action.

Barometric pressure seems to have bottomed out and starting back up here in NW CT. Temp back down to 32 from a high of 33. Maybe we can squeak a cheap coating of snow out this... Sad that coatings of snow have become noteworthy. To the folks up north - enjoy! Serious snow envy down here.

Just finally hit 32 here. Never expected to be below freezing for so long. We are getting the periodic flick of the power.

Good call - paving should not be done this time of year unless it is an emergency. I have been a pavement materials engineer for just about 25 years and rarely does anything good come from work done this time of year. Unlike concrete, there are very few things that can be done with asphalt to make it work this time of year. Now back to this week's weather mashup - with what will hopefully be a better outcome!

The German's haven't bombed pearl Harbor...yet.

Was living in Norfolk at the time and was trying to plow at the place I was working and it was immovable and topping over the plow. Had to get someone with a front end loader to move the snow from the parking lot. Don't remember how much snow we had - but it was a lot. We also lost power for two days.

Great write-up. Sounds like we need to roll snake eyes 5 times in row for this to work out to something substantial.

It is amazing how things can break positive or negative. In the first half of the 2010's, no matter how good or bad the overall look was, it always felt like things always seemed to break for the better. The second half of the 2010's, just the opposite and I'm talking in my backyard. Even though the winter of 2011-12 was overall horrible, that little snowstorm at the end of October surely made the entire winter season memorable. All I can do is hope for something more substantial to come along as this is our second winter in New Hartford at 1,000 feet and we haven't really much snow since we got here.

Nice big flakes for the finale. Barring something wacky - 3 inches looks like it will just about do it.

You beat me to it! I saw the lightning and was waiting for the thunder and then it rumbled the whole house.

Just had a flash of lightning and thunder - pretty cool.

32.2/32.2 here at 1,000 feet. Light glaze on everything. Is this the push of colder air? My sister lives in Colebrook and said everything is really drooping up there.

We seem to have bottomed out at 31.8/31.3. Been steady there for an hour or so.

Nothing crazy - would allow us to run AC in the summer if necessary and not have to worry about running other things such a well pump and other appliances. We freeze a great deal from the garden so we have a couple of freezers that I would hate to lose. The cost differential between a 12, 14 and 20 kW unit was pretty minimal (it was about $500-$600 difference for actual generator between the 12 and 20 kW units) in comparison to the rest of the install cost and then I can run anything without having to worry. Also, going that large saved us some money because we did not have to move circuits out of the main panel into a sub panel.

32/31

We'll see how this goes. There is something to be said for having a 20kW generator and 1,500 gallons of propane in the tanks. I'm right at 1,000 feet.

33/30

35/28 with light rain. Wind has had a southerly component to it all day. I'm assuming a northerly component will kick in at some point otherwise it will just be cold rain, which is OK with me.

34/28

Even at 1,000 feet out here in NW CT, my expectations are low as the warm air usually wins out pretty quickly. Right now, it does not look like there is much wiggle room without having a 33* rain.

Last year we built a new house with really good insulation and buried 2-1000 gallon propane tanks. We used just over 400 gallons of propane from the beginning of February to mid-October. Cost us just over $500 to top off in October for the winter. It is well worth owning the propane tanks to make shopping for it possible where as with leasing, you are stuck with the company you leased from. We use the propane for heating, hot water and whole house generator. We also installed solar panels which we purchased, with a break even period of around 9 years. It sure is nice getting a monthly bill from Eversource for $10!

I grew up in Norfolk and lived there for my first 26 years. It is a magical place for fans of snow - for SNE, it is about as good as it gets. I now live in New Hartford about 15 miles from Norfolk and while a big step up from Ellington, it is still not even close to Norfolk.

Thoughts on trees shedding the ice tomorrow before the cold front comes through and winds come up?

Temp here down to 34. Given the rate of drop, it is still and hour or two away from hitting 32.