CoolHandMike

Spent the morning clearing brush from the horse trail behind my parents' house with a tractor and chainsaw. Don't know about you guys, but I am absolutely loving this cold and grey weather. Could be snowier, but I'll take this over any summer day, period.

Looking forward to wxsim saying 4-6 feet of snow next weekend.

What a lovely day of tracking foul weather with you lot. Here's hoping for many more opportunities to do the same before spring!

Looks like all ZR here, too. Now with a little bit of wind mixing in.

After a lull, I'm hearing the sleet picking up again.

Pingers here. Temp back up to 30.

Temps peaked at around 30 here but now it's back down to 28 or so. Snowing steadily again, roads were clear but now are covered again.

Looks like it's stopped here. Sky is considerably brighter.

That makes sense. Guess I'm just used to our usual, borderline 32° snow-to-rain events. This is a nice change from that.

Roads don't look to have been treated too well. I think they brined too soon? (saw the brining on the roads on Thursday) I mean, I know it didn't wash off but still. Picture outside my office looking down at a fairly major 2-lane road:

Untreated surfaces covered. Didn't take long. Small flakes. Temp 26°F and dewpoint 7°F, nice to have snow with temps well below freezing and low dewpoints.

Dark band right over me and few few flakes making it to the ground.

Sky looks menacingly dark to the west. Doesn't have that "snow sky" look to it; more like a spring-time storm front.

Wasn't WXSIM calling for upwards of 12" several days ago? What is it's track record regarding forecasts? Seems foolhardy to me to give it any credence if it's that far off only a few days in advance. Not trolling, asking honestly. Obviously we all want more snow and we all want the medium- to long-range forecasts to be more accurate, but that seems kind of ridiculous to me.

25.5°F and 43% RH about 15 miles north of Avondale, give or take. I'm also at about 450' ASL. When I moved back here in '09 with my SoCal-raised wife, I told her that this is the type of winter we usually had growing up, and then we got hit with the epic '09 and '10 winters, so she didn't believe me. But now that we've had more than a few years of mediocre winters in a row, she gets it. She got hooked on lots of snow during those years and now we ultimately want to move somewhere more north. Somewhere with a real, consistent winter. NFL sounds nice.

So it's looking like we'll stay well below freezing for this entire event? Nice.

64°F and 82% humidity at midnight. I wonder if that line of storms will make it here.

I remember there was a massive, pitched snowball battle on main campus. I also remember all the cars being completely buried. It was epic.

Had some brief flurries here, too. Super nice to wake up to on New Year's.

I'm actually wiling to pursue looking into a subscription type deal or maybe some kind of stand-alone software since I can't seem to be able to get it for free anymore (lol). Might anyone have any recommendations?

So after wunderground's full-screen weather map went to absolute garbage several years ago, I found this site: http://weather.wdtinc.com/imap/imaplite/?MAPID=10937&CLIENTID=20485 While not a perfect replacement, it got the job done. Intuitive controls, handy mapping features, fast and stable. But now it's down as well, and I find myself without a decent alternative. I've got the NWS's full screen mosaic but there's no zoom and it's pretty unwieldy. I won't even discuss the dumpster fires that are TWC/wunderground's current map versions. They just don't work. And I'm not a real fan of Accuweather either as the way they present their radar returns seems way overblown, not to mention that the website controls are less than perfect. In fact, it seems I can't get anything from Mapbox to work properly, in both firefox and chrome... So what's everyone using these days? When I get into storm mode, I like to have up some local Doppler, some satellite imagery, a page for lightning, and a modern, full-screen weather page. I feel like I'm blind without it now, as the Doppler and satellite only get you so far. Thanks in advance.

turned out to be kind of a dud here. Mostly sleet, and it never really got below freezing at the surface. Saw very little in the way of actual snow.