weatherpruf

jan 2005?

someone needs to do a book about the incredible run of the 2000s....i think kocin book ends with the late 90s....i have to dig it up or maybe i donated it awhile back.

you never know what will crop up, just like this last one; i remember in feb 2014 nothing looked good and then all of a sudden an 8-10 paste job materialized......that was it for that year, the next march storm actually got suppressed, leaving us with pixie dust and delayed openings we didn't need....those march storms often suck....

that seems to make more sense...the accuweather graphic showed only gray areas....

speaking of misses....apparently the blizzard of 1966 was 60 years ago today...according to the snow map it slammed everyone except the nj coastal plain and nyc...according to the map at accuweather most of eastern nj was just minutes from big snows to the west....oswego recorded 50 inches ! philly, baltimore, dc all got slammed too. how that missed the metro is a mystery, because the map looks like long island got hit...unless it was the dryslot from hell....or perhaps rain. we'd be gnashing our teeth with an outcome like that....

that will be our best shot at more snow just looking at history. then it's time to plan the garden.

you'd think the guy could afford a decent hair piece.....

no recollection of 3/3/10 at all.....

by the way, though it was rain, it was a beast of a storm and caused lots of outages here; had to move a 60th birthday party for a friend at the last second because the restaurant lost power; we found a hotel that could accommodate us at the last second.

never liked the guy. used to like henry marguisity. that was about it. the guy who was the rutgers phd at accuweather argued vociferously that the. 'snowicaine ' would not affect the nyc nj area much; he also thought 2/6/2010's bands would reach into middlesex county. he was wrong both times. he did answer questions online though and in emails. nice enough fella.

they aren't even done digging out from this one....

chief met john davitt of ny 1 was on wnyc discussing the storm; he happens to be a total weenie....says we are going to freeze for a few weeks here.

the best part of the kocin book is the chapter on near misses...there's one intense ice storm that looks incredible. in any case, the media is honking already and people are talking.....

well it might as well have been a fish storm up here...anyway i remember seeing some stuff about ots before boxing day as well. my two cents, it's probably too much to expect a big one after this so soon, or even at all, based on my observations over the years. i hope to reload with a few more 6-8 inch deals, which i think is realistic. 2010-11 did see 3 monsters, though only two were direct hits out here, and the 19 inch one wasn't really forecast to drop that much; it also mixed to rain before flipping back. since it came on the heels of boxing day, it kind of got lost in the archives....

some brief flurries; overcast with sun peeking through. frigid.

funny i was at the supermarket this morning and everyone who worked there was bragging how they have their own met, one of the cashiers who has a degree....rutgers....we got to talking and he was surprised i knew the terminology so well...i told him i am one of the most ignorant posters on here when it comes to the science, but i know the lingo pretty well by now...we talked miller a's vs miller b's, he said this weekend could be a miller a, and he really wanted to get into broadcasting. rutgers is a solid program. the historical importance of this recent snow and sleetfest i think, was lost on a lot of us; they are still having trouble with cleanup all over cnj.

was in grad school at rutgers; was late for class because they had front loaders removing the snow on rt 18; professor said we can't be late just because of a little snow....we were like, wtf, a little snow??? back then we had a local station, wctc, that could tell you updates.

capitol weather gang has an excellent write up on the challenges of forecasting this unique storm in the washington post, not sure how to link, but it is making the rounds online with no firewall. in short, this was a historic sleet storm, one for the ages.

there was widespread 8-15 so who really cares....looking at massachusetts today and they are posting some big numbers in some areas, though most are not much higher than ours. in laws in maine getting ready. but they have tractors up there.....

i had a chevy colorado for years that was 4wd and it was great i have an awd traverse now and its ok, but it was the front wheel drive minivan that was stuck in the drift. i saw a lot of cars stuck last night; awd is decent in snow.

the jersey shore did much better than i thought it would; you had to go down toward AC for some lesser amounts and even they reported over 6. at least the reports i saw.

i had a hell of a time digging one of my cars out this morning. dam snow blower actually had a piece of ice blocking the tine mechanism. worked fine this morning, but yesterday i was screwed and my hands started to frostbite right through the gloves. i went back inside and warmed up first. reports near me are 10.8 in metuchen, but i think we had more than that over here in colonia. looked to be around a foot with some serious drifts. by the way its hard enough for my dogs to walk on top, and we had no zr that is saw; there was no glaze this morning.

west of elizabeth could be the watchungs.....been on them and it was sleeting or snowing, come down to 22 and its raining......

used to work down at beaver dam rd in the 80s...the old fisherman magazine. fun times. they don't even have a building anymore, it's all online and i heard the office was too far gone after Sandy.

this was a beast. i had to go out to dig the sister in law out; cars stuck all over, unplowed streets, sleeting like the devil out; the big snow blower froze and the tines would not turn; had to break out the old craftsman. my sil has a little electric toro and that little beast tore right through that sleet, which i'm saying had to be a foot or more. any zr on top of this will be a nightmare. it is still sleeting out ffs....never went back to snow.