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  1. weatherpruf
    When this one is on board I usually buy some gas for the snow blower ( s ).
  2. weatherpruf
    Frankly, I just need something to keep my mind off current events. A decent 4-8 inches will do. But it could be more than that. Or less. We'll see....
  3. weatherpruf
    Just like old times....
  4. weatherpruf
    Same here. Don't need 2 feet. I too have a couple of new snow blowers ( sears was blowing out there inventory, got a yard machine 28 inch for 299, got a 24 inch Craftsman for 159, both dual stage; the Craftsman had to serviced before it even ran! though the mechanic tells me they are all made by MTD....
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    This is days away. I've learned not to assume anything til almost the day of, and even then it doesn't always unfold the way it is expected to.
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    Gotta admit, I was in the parking lot at Target and had CBS news on, and they seemed to be kinda sorta thinking this might be a big deal, something about long duration....time to start paying attention.
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    FWIW I don't think the history matters much anymore. We've just lost almost all Jan with nada. hard to see pulling out 20 inches the rest of this winter. Saw many just like it in the 80's. However, i wouldn't place bets on mother nature. If I knew the future, I'd be rich....always appreciate your informative posts.
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    A whole lotta nothing for most of us....
  9. weatherpruf
    Well we don't want suppression....
  10. weatherpruf
    Kinda the same thing every winter lately...guess we have to depend on these kinds of events to sometimes deliver, because the 'favorable" patterns just seem out of reach every year....
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    On NY weather archives the guy mentions it, and two more storms that winter that I can say confidently did not effect me in this area. Weather service archive for Mt Holly ( my area ) mentions nothing about this date. It must have been some very tight gradient because I don't remember any snowfall at all of significance that whole winter, indeed the Star Ledger ran a cover story on what ever happened to winter that year....
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    That was a very mild winter, my first year teaching in Elizabeth; are you sure we aren't talking about a different year; there was a storm near Thanksgiving in 88 or 89; can't believe I wouldn't remember something in 1990.
  13. weatherpruf
    It actually was true 30 years ago. we had a long stretch of next to nothing.
  14. weatherpruf
    I surely would have remembered that so it must have been well east of us;; there was no significant snow in these parts until march 92.
  15. weatherpruf
    it's really been about the same give or take a few inches, for a long time; the 70's and 80's were not that snowy, but the decades before were. I've always thought the median was a better measure, or even the mode. Averages don't give a clear picture, because some years are off the charts in either direction.
  16. weatherpruf
    Snow has always been a source of uplift for peoples' moods during winter. The most depressing thing in winter are short, overcast rainy days that come back to back. That is in fact how winters are in many places where snow isn't common; England, Ireland a lot of the US....snow lifts people's moods because it brightens things up. Using the snow blower and having the dog leap into the air chasing the snow was the most fun I've had in a long time. It's back to overcast and damp today ( though it did snow a bit earlier ).
  17. weatherpruf
    I haven't been 140 pounds since 1979.....
  18. weatherpruf
    I actually read something to that effect about Toronto as well, that they were behind Chicago or something in that regard. So again, it's not really a snow mecca. A little more on average than NYC ( 17 inches more ) due more to its being colder with smaller events that are typically rain or mix messes here. Montreal is in its own class for a big city.
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    I was watching a tv show recently filmed in Toronto, Orphan Black, and seeing the scenes of snow piles in the suburbs i decided to look up their average. It isn't as snowy as some might think; they average around 47 inches ( wrong side of the lake for lake effect ) and then looked up Detroit ( 33 inches ) and Chicago ( 35 inches ) and Boston ( 48 ). So really NYC at 28-30 is fairly snowy. But once you go south it starts dropping a lot. Boston is about on par with Toronto. Montreal however, averages around 83 inches, Quebec City 150...at that point its too cold a place for me; was there in July and stayed in a ski resort that functioned as a hotel in the summer; there was no AC. They told me don't worry open a window at night you'll be fine. They were correct.
  20. weatherpruf
    The store I bough them from is cleaned out, even though it is in S Jersey and no real accumulation expected there ( but I suspect a lot of people up north, like we did, took the hour drive to pick them up ). If I were enterprising ( which I'm not ) I could get some serious cash selling these off even at a substantial discount ( I paid 299 for one machine that retailed for 1100, and 149 for another that retailed for 950...liquidation sale ). Admittedly, one of them hasn't been able to start ( I suspect old gas, as there is a varnish smell; the story was that floor models come with some gas for testing; we'll see, final sale but warranty still effective; but they gave me the wrong machine, what a screw up; the one I ordered for that price was a smaller single stage; my wife picked them up and even argued with them that it was the wrong one, they insisted the bigger machine was the right one and that the picture on the receipt was wrong! ) Now they said ok well we'll just change the paperwork so you can prove purchase. Didn't even ask for the price difference. No wonder ( big retailer ) is going under....it's like they already took the loss and don't give a crap.
  21. weatherpruf
    Yes, i wasn't even paying attention. I just bought two snowblowers and they were a steal. Since I ordered them they are flying off the stockroom floor....
  22. weatherpruf
    As a recently retired mental health professional, I would say that many people need professional help these days, and that is not a put down. More people should take advantage of the help that is out there.
  23. weatherpruf
    Bear in mind that the last 2 winters or so are the anomaly, as is 96. A normal winter should have some snow events around here, decent ones at that, and when they aren't happening it is odd ( though perhaps to be expected in changing climate patterns ). So, I would say, if you despise snow, there are plenty of places that aren't too hot that also don't snow much; TN, NC, upper GA, even KY and southern IN. I like a good snow, but don't want to move to ME where it snows a lot. And in a winter with such a serious pandemic, I'm not big on a bad winter with a lot snow either. But we can enjoy one after almost 3 years of nothing, right?
  24. weatherpruf
    And it was a lot less than we were expecting; like all but one storm that year, the bulk of it happened south of our region. We still wound up with 9-12 or so in some places, but overall it set the tone for the rest of the winter.
  25. weatherpruf
    And yet the seasons and limits for black sea bass get shorter and shorter....when I was a kid it was colder and there were plenty of these around; they would stay inshore til well into November. People were more focused on winter and summer flounder then, so didn't pay much attention to them. The red hake, known locally as ling, was so plentiful we'd shake them off the hook so the captain wouldn't stay on them. I actually do not see much change for either species in that graph. Fishing stocks are so depleted now it is hard to draw firm conclusions, though it makes sense that we should be seeing warm water species more frequently. However, most of them are quite depleted as well. The southern puffer is a fish that has made an appearance in local waters, and unlike the edible blowfish, it's poisonous.
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