weatherpruf
-
Posts
5,431 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Blogs
Forums
American Weather
Media Demo
Store
Gallery
Everything posted by weatherpruf
-
it snowed over a weekend iirc.....my son was supposed to have surgery that almost got canceled. that melted and then it snowed again on sunday i think....both around 5-6 inches...
-
so its a false alarm then....
-
i can almost assure you if he were 13 he would not be here...you know what he'd be looking at.
-
south jersey seems better off, but north is hurting.
-
now i know it won't happen....
-
what the heck....a few days ago people were in here talking about how winter is over, or snow is done, its too dry, and i even read a piece in nj.com that we are near drought conditions....well we shall see...
-
believe we had a couple march events back to back in 2019? melted right away, also feb 2018 iirc...
-
because i have a gas station on the corner and can get fresh gas easy.....and i hate to leave gas laying around in cans for weeks on end. also have an electric toro that rips through snow easily; it did so in the last storm. so i'm good, though the tire on my big machine needs replacing. i don't know how the bitter cold affects gas sitting outside in cans, but it probably isn't good.
-
2014?
-
i suppose emptying the gas for the blowers might have been a mistake. we'll see.
-
my weather opinions are never worth very much tbh....but i think we are done. it's getting warmer, it's been dry, and i just emptied my gas tanks for the snow blowers into the cars....that said i was around for april 82...ran into a former colleague who was my kids principal and my homeroom teacher in high school...she said well you probably weren't born yet in april 82... i was 19....i've seen a few april snows, one in the 70s when i was a kid and a couple in the 2000s, , but they were wet snow events; 82 was a true cold weather blizzard of a foot or more. i see you're in perth amboy; i was a regular of the sea pigeon and the late captain marty haines, who was a friend; we lost him in 2022, he was still running boats for ny water taxi....died on the boat. there was a burial at sea of his ashes with all the local ny harbor ferries saluting him.
-
those arborvitae live a long time and ours were planted in the 50s before any deer were around.
-
but who was better...sammy or david lee?
-
yes, my late sister was a resident at the developmental center in hunterdon; which was considered state of the art when it opened in 1968....we used to see deer out there when i was a kid; around 1996 i started seeing them in rahway near the river; now i have them eating off my lawn; i saw a bunch on a guy's front lawn yesterday near metropark; they are all over menlo and woodbridge malls, and staten island; they swim across the arthur kill. but we also have foxes and coyotes now; the coyotes are not true coyotes; they are a mix of wolf, coyote and dog....this is what the dna tells us; the loss of wolves meant females took up with male coyotes out of need. and how dogs got in the mix well, you can imagine.....the cartoonist Larson had many comics with wolves and dogs....also to be found in the area parks are bald eagles, and i was startled by one at menlo a few years back, and the red tail and cooper hawks feed off the pigeons and rats there...
-
we've at least had a wintry look and feel. but it has been a huge let down to see nothing and at this point, i would bet against anything major happening from here on out. drought is the culprit here. better than incessant rain like 2007's la nina and pumped southeast ridge. even then we managed two sleet events. can't buy any precip right now.
-
colorado is desperate for snow and warm....
-
nj.com has a piece today on the lack of rain; north jersey is under drought conditions. they need the snow to melt and feed the reservoirs. and we need rain, snow, sleet whatever we can get...
-
this. can't fish, can't garden.
-
2015 was my best storm in march....nearly a foot, super cold and all fluffy.
-
i only got hit with one of those march storms directly, but it was a doozy, and it was the last one....pretty decent snow 8-10 inches or more.
-
they are STILL digging out here; rte 27 near metropark today...got slowed down by it. they just dug my street corner out yesterday. most normal people think this was the winter from hell and are done with it; they are giddy over 50s next week, if it happens.....
-
yes and we still had power issues from Sandy...my pup was a few months old and loved the snow....about 7 inches here but 13 in ....freehold. that pup is still going....
-
agreed, but it was still better than many others we've suffered through.
-
i'm still navigating the piles and hit one again today; still can't park on the street, still have to wear ice grip shoes, still freezing my ass off on morning walks. today seemed balmy. yes i would have liked a few more events; but we had a few in december, and then we had a major storm where we almost had a foot here if not for sleet, in a regime hostile to snow chances; and it stuck around forever. they were digging for a week here. let's take the win guys. it does not look like much else will be happening, but i would take this every year.....
-
must have missed nj altogether.. i remember a few slushy inches around that time....perhaps that was the one?
