weatherpruf

a colleague had a photo of his grandfather standing on the ice next to the old orchard lighthouse, washed away by Sandy in 2012, and his great grandfather went out during the blizzard of 1888 and was never seen again.

good question, but heating systems are more efficient today. intresting is that a mechanic told me today's boilers and furnaces are only good for about 10 years; he said its not your dad's old furnace that lasted 40 years....

i couldn't see it; i went out during one of the dry slots and that was it. went to bed watching the revolutionary war series, turn. kinda slow, though jamie bell is a fine actor. woke up to do my morning walk and was surprised to see i had to dig out first. and it is still snowing lightly. gonna get some photos with the christmas decorations still up, though we had to ditch the inflatables with all the wind this year; that stuff just isn't good for these parts. i do remember telling my wife that damn snow plow keeps passing by and waking me up, what gives? then i went back to sleep.

something unusual happened...we got an end dump instead of a front end thump....when i saw RU talking about bands last night i figured meh...woke up to around 3 in on top of a firm sleet base, making for a picturesque winter day that requires plowing; the plow guy came by a lot last night, wish he'd done that the last storm where we had nearly 7 in...still i was very disappointed last night, but like the feeling you get when your team pulls off a last second tie in a soccer match, it feels like a win even if it wasn't....and hey its only december....i know we're supposed to have a front loaded winter that sucks, but if i knew nothing else, i'd say we are on track to see some more of this in the upcoming weeks. til the next my friend....

nice photo

earlier a met posted 1-3 for this area and i thought he was nuts.....turns out he was overestimating. next.....

like general gordon's rescue party in khartoum....

didn't even pick up 1.....clearly over in nj. if that ruins it somehow for those who actually got a snow event, try looking at it from our point of view....we know we are not always in the bullseye, no one ever is....but come on man, i legit had more snow from the minor event earlier this week....since not much was expected, getting half an inch of fluff was a nice surprise. getting half an inch when at the low end 3-6 was expected, and 4-8 being the general call, is just a massive bust. in today's day and age, with all this more sophisticated equipment, they still make the kind of whacked out misses i used to see 25-30 years ago. i had relatives leave the state early to avoid the storm; then again, not really sorry about that....so maybe there was a silver lining....anyway enjoy what you got. watched two bizarre movies to pass the time, chainsaw man and bugonia....don't waste your time on either of them.

not even you were this bearish....credit it where it is due. this thing sucked in most of nj. feel bad for arguing with the dude at the gas station today when he thought i said cash when filling the tank for the snowblower.....

this has got to be one of the biggest busts in this area in years; i'm thinking not quite as bad as jan 2007, where there was a heavy snow warning and nothing happened at all..... but this was bad for our area. worst in a decade or more. it's barely a car topper, jfc.....there ain't nothing filling in here; this thing is done out here.

never snowed here; all sleet and didn't even cover the grass. there's a bit of a glaze but as far as sleet storms go, this doesn't even register much in that regard out this way. at this point, nothing is going to save the day here, so i'm good with a quick exit. snow blowers are ready for an actual snow storm should we get another one this winter. cheers.

this sucks for us. no other way to spin it. we just aren't in the mix. that's ok when expectations are muted, but all this talk of biggest storm in four years....we had nearly a foot here in feb 24. it's a wide subforum, i know, but a sleetfest, and not all that big of one, was just not expected. at least i'm watching a bad movie with my daughter, chainsaw man, which i can't make heads or tails of, but its quality time with the daughter, i guess....

oh yeah the snow thing is kaput. i can see that. looking forward to the next threat, hope it isn't a month from now.....

i heard nothing about freezing rain here; but nj 101.5 which i hate listening to but i needed a traffic update, did forecast it.

maybe not; sleet is a real hazard and they would rather not give people the idea its ok to hit up the bars at the jersey shore.....

its been my experience that, when this happens, even areas expected to do well fall short. seen it a thousand times. i don't think anyone is gonna get buried at this point. that's been my experience over the years.

well, i was hoping you'd be wrong.

yeah you called it. i'm not expecting much to talk about in my neck of the woods. any time i hear about warm noses, waa etc it almost never works out for my area. hopefully we get some better rates but i'm not putting money on it.

a couple inches of sleet is great for sledding if that's your thing. no worries there; if cold enough we have had visitors from south america who enjoyed sledding in little over an inch.

so...there was concern about sleet at the end of the storm.....looking like an all night sleet fest to me around here. seen it a thousand times. hope it changes. sleet just isn't all that interesting to me. on any level.

same, and not that heavy either. it's a lighter sleet, not the heavy pellets.

that's actually edison....but yeah not a good look right now. some say it will change over. i've not seen that often over the years....

some are getting the heavier bands as sleet though, if i'm reading correctly.

yeah. don't like what i'm seeing so far. light sleet here in woodbridge.