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Not quite sleet here; not pellets anyway. More like a less fine snow. Weird.

Oh I remember it alright. This one is performing better for us over here. Also not as heavy a snow as that one, which was the last snow until Feb that year...

I'm really surprised. It wasn't bad with the old two stage ( i've got a new single stage on order it's actually over at Sears, but not tonight ) and the dog loved it. They even let us out a little early, putting me in the unusual situation of leaving before some of the students, whose busses were delayed. Didn't have much trouble getting from Fords to Colonia, but the off ramp near metropark was snarled.

They are out in my town and they did pretreat. Our property taxes at work...

Props to all those like Anthony and a few others here who thought this thing could perform. It really has. I'm eyeballing around three maybe four. Looking better than most of the storms in these parts than last winter....no changeover yet. Nice front end dump. My only concern is a superstitious one; in years when we've seen significant Nov snow in these parts, it has been pretty uneventful the rest of the winter. In 2012 we did get some of the Feb blizzard, but in 89 IIRC that was it for the year. Means nothing, I know....

Like I said.....other than the time of year being a tad early for snow, 1-3 is not something to get all hot and bothered about, especially if a lot of rain is gonna wash it away. And I doubt it will be that much. Yet I have people at work expecting 5-8 inches in the Middlesex County area so that's what happens in the age of social media.

I don't think anyone reasonable expects much in the immediate NYC area.

Just ordered a new snow blower. So I'm ready.

TBH, we were just outside most of the big storms last year in our area. I have seen snow in Nov, heck we had significant snow in Nov 2012 right after Sandy, with Freehold getting 13 inches. Maybe Unc can check this out, but Nov snows seem to correlate with less snowy winters IIRC. Let's hope for an interesting winter.

I never use the electric start, as the machine won't start in the cold with it. But most units have it now.

The slushy storms we get around here are no pleasure to clear! Forget the end of the driveway, slushy water and ice that freezes overnight. Well, the best insurance against getting big snows to buy a new snowblower....

Excellent discussion.

Could be the warmer climate shift. I've read the increased moisture is what might lead to these hyper snow storms, delivering to areas that were not snow meccas when I was a kid, places like Monmouth County.

Am leaning toward the Toro after reading a lot, but I like the easy access Honda has for the spark plug.Just tried to start my old 2009 MTD and can't easily get to the plug. I am exhausted just trying to start it. Someday engineers will make an electric model that can throw snow with power and isn't all cheap plastic that will fall apart. Until then, we're stuck with gas. Once you've been around a few years, you can spot trouble before it starts. The smallest toro has a cheap plastic lever for the choke. Now you just know that ain't gonna last. Gotta admit, my little electric toro still runs after ten years, but every bolt had to be replaced. here's to lots of 6-10 inchers this year ( over 12 is too much for me to deal with anymore! )

I know it's still fall, but the Oct Noreaster ended the fishing season and it feels like winter. That said, anyone have a suggestion for a single stage snow blower? Getting too old to move the two stage around, they are great for moving snow ( as long as it ain't wet ) but hell to turn and back up. Plus they can't get into smaller places. Every model I read about has issues, from Toro to Honda. Leaning toward Honda, but the chute is FUBAR from the reviews I've read. Figured enough snow weenies around here would have a suggestion.

My son came home with a picture he took of it. I didn't know what the fuss was. He's an ecology major at rutgers, likes to go to the Park and stops at the zoo for an hour or two.

These storms throw up huge swells even when they are well offshore; even tropical storms can do this. It's the one thing I get seasick in. This storm is gonna hurt, not like it will to our south, but there will be impacts. For reasons that I never understood, the fish turn off in these swells. Don't if the bottom becomes unsettled or what, but they just shut off. It's actually been bad enough the last couple days and today's storm is no slouch.

We can hope. Even so, no matter what it does, these coastal easterly winds are killing the fishing season here. I guess the surfers like it. Gotta be some hazardous undertoe out there.

Indeed, 1-3 for NYC. They are professionals too. They have as much claim as the others. So I don't know what to expect in reality. If its 3 inches for the city then everyone is right. Though they are still saying 4-7 on WNYC today.

Not gonna pan out that way He's not too different from NWS really, he is justa little too far north with the1-3 area. Bring it down to a little south of 95 and he'd be in line with them. He could very well be right though

Good discussion. Thanks.

From what I see here, in central NJ, we need a neg NAO for a big storm. The storms that were not during that phase busted here but delivered to CT and LI. Seems clear evidence to me. Of course, anything is possible I guess.

I can't find serious scientific literature that refutes AGW. I have looked. I don't count folks like JB or weathermen who deny the science, it's clear they don't have enough credentials to be taken seriously. We are in deep doo doo....

People just don't wanna believe it because it is, as someone once said, an inconvenient truth....