weatherpruf
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When I hear the local forecasters saying " COULD be 1 or 2 inches" I know not to pay any more attention to it and hope for another event another day, which hopefully won't be 3-5 years from now LOL.
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That ice was worse than I expected and I'm still chopping out. It also cracked my windshield. I had to dig out my scrapers, I didn't use them last year. I did nothing to the windshield, it had a tiny crack but was cased in ice. I turned the defrost on and went inside. It was cracking further driving my daughter to work, you could hear it. Went from an inch to clear across the windshield. Gonna cost me.
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Flounder are no mystery. They are overfished. Lobsters are definitely moving north. Interesting story, after the April 82 freak blizzard, the flounder in the bay migrated into the Raritan River, looking for warmer water; spring sun can warm shallow waters faster. Seen a few April snows, but nothing like that one. Suspect most here are too young to have seen it. Here's hoping we see something Friday; you guys have gotten my hopes up too much lately....
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The seafood industry has been trying to promote sea robins for awhile now. It hasn't worked. They are good eating, for the little meat you get from them. Besides, I have a soft spot for a fish that talks back to you....urp urp....
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Had some blockbuster events though....the Jan 82 storm that brought the DC flight down into the Potomac, the April 82 blizzard, followed by the Feb 83 blockbuster....then nothing til Jan 87. That was it for the whole decade, really...
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In other words, I still don't need to take the snow blower out of mothballs.....going for that incredible stretch from 97-2000 where I didn't use it once and the hoses dry rotted.....
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I only remember one of these hitting near me, March 2013, and it was melting as fast as it was accumulating. Around 4-5 inches.
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That is amazingly good news! You will also see them on the wrecks offshore all summer and fall...with roe in them, so they must be spawning there. The downturn has to do mostly with commercial overfishing; they have tried to blame sea robins ( I am not making that up ) but honestly, you don't see them like you used to either. I last fished Barnegat in 96 near the power plant, where the flounder were in the creek ( nuclear flounder! ). But we always had much better fishing in Raritan. All we have in the bay now is stripers.
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I used to be flounder fishing the Shrewsbury River the last week of Feb in the 80s. Sadly they are nearly extirpated and scientists don't think they will recover, but I caught one in LI Sound last fall while porgy fishing.
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The infamous 2/6/10.
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I hope it won't be as lame as this one. God, people are snow starved here. it never even covered the grass here and, turned to rain, for a prolonged period. I consider it garbage, like dozens of events in the 90s. And the rain is making walkways hazardous. At least I used some of the salt I've had on hand for 3 years.....I don't expect much these days but boy was this disappointing. Hope it was better where you are.
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Send them a thank you note. Worst accident I ever had was in half inch of snow in 98 in March, when no one bothered to salt or plow. Live in a place with low taxes, get low services. Taxes are the price of civilization.
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Couldn't get the grass covered here in NJ. Not a huge bust but my son had a conference moved to Zoom today. I should have worked for the state....anyway looks nice out, gonna take a walk and then decide if it is worth shoveling/ snow blowing or not ( it isn't now ). Dogs don't like the snow; the old guy has arthritis and the new pup is a fair weather dog.
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Don't even think about taking up ice fishing.
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Too dry, too warm, to north, too east, too south, suppressed.....I mean there is always some reason to expect less than forecast. I can count on one hand the number of times my area jackpotted or got more than expected. I don't get worked up over anything less than 5 inches. My only worry is people haven't driven in snow for a few years now and they are likely to be bad at it.
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I gotta disagree here. We know better now, and nothing is so important that it can't wait, except for medical and essential workers. School can wait, can be done online, can be made up. Yes we drove in the bad weather in the past. I got stuck in the heavy dump in Jan 87 that was not well modeled; I never saw snow come down like that. I drove a Chevy Monza, rear wheel drive on an 8th of a tank. I could have died. They let us out at 10 am from Piscataway. Took me 4 hours to get to Woodbridge. In Dec 92 I got stuck teaching a class all day with no power because they didn't think to cancel classes with a huge storm coming. And, we also have demonstrably worse weather now, witness the pics above in Metuchen. Nothing personal here, I just don't think the risks are worth it.
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Which is a good reason it was rightfully canceled. It's a kid's game, and not important enough to risk lives for.
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They might not make sense but I would bet against snow at this point. I'm not getting excited for 1-3 anyway. Those types of events often don't deliver even that much. Need something better, Ant. This is getting ridiculous. Might as well be living in Atlanta. Cheaper living at least.
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I never break out the equipment for 1-3 around here; totals here are almost always on the low end so I'd expect a little more than a dusting. Just can't get it together the last few years, and it is on here that I have always read to throw in the towel after Jan 15. Well, we got two days....there was a recent article in Nature that said snow loss is nonlinear; when the tipping point comes you just lose it. Are we there? Don't know. The person who summed up the article talked about this then turned around and said the article was mostly about snowpack, which is different. Whatever the case may be, there are parts of my 2019 Craftsman that are dry rotting already. Not sure if its worth replacing at this point.
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I haven't seen 8 inches here in years.
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You can see those prices at Bloomie's in the Short Hills Mall....I remember reading about a working class kid who went to Harvard....they gave him 100 bucks to buy a coat, as he didn't have one. It's apparently a Harvard thing. The other students said like, dude, just go into town and get a Canada Goose...he said he didn't have the money; they said dude they take Venmo...they thought he just didn't have cash.....you can get a coat for 100 bucks or even less to handle winters at Harvard, but probably not for the temps in Edmonton.....
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Frank was an eye doctor, hence the Dr Frank Fields....making it sound like he was some sort of PhD in weather. Dude lived to 100. Even son Storm is retired at 76.
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I always saw some of the older crowd here telling folks back in the aughts that they would have pissed on a spark plug in the 80's for an 8 inch storm.....I'm guessing these days there are a lot of wet spark plugs around.....
