LongBeachSurfFreak

Days one and two this past weekend at Killington. Natural snow was very limited with only a few inches. Being killington there was plenty of man made snow on the trails that were open. The problem was it was packed and by the afternoon the bottle necks were so pushed off that it became a dangerous Ice to moguls mine field. I saw multiple serious injury’s. There were way too many beginners out for those types of conditions and no easy terrain open. I took it easy after my double injury winter last year (broken collar bone followed by shattered wrist).

Interesting, I had 6” in Wantagh. I wonder if it was your proximity to the sound.

Yup! Perfect timing for this first cold shot. It’s not last November but it’s something

Today cannot be good for early season snow making. Anything made already is getting rocked. About as good of a melt scenario as you can get!

Nothing at all in wantagh, car coverer in Long Beach. Interesting snow patterns with that one. Nothing on the north shore hills near the warm sound but a strip of 2” around the LIE

Ready to do some exploring this winter with the full icon pass. We really need a full scale pattern change to avoid cutters and lots of ice.

Going with a full Icon this year. Based at Stratton as that’s where my house share is. My friends in the house are all on the ski patrol so they aren’t leaving Stratton ever. The good thing for me this winter is I’ll be able to get out and explore. Planning on doing killington a bunch and a late season sugarloaf expedition. That mountain is big on my list of places to ride. I’m also doing my first out west trip to aspen for spring fling in April. Heres to hoping we have an ice free winter!!!

Gloria is my first weather memory. Watching LIPA remove the top of the big Norway maple in front of my house after it split and took down the power lines. I would have loved to have been a little older for that one. Probably the strongest winds during my life time with a brief period of 90mph gusts with what was most likely a sting jet caused be extra tropical transition.

NYC bans anyone from entering the water. Including surfers. Canceling a long run body surf competition Saturday during premium conditions. Talk about over reactionary

The real challenge is for cheaper and more effective solar cells. I saw something on solar cells that were super thin like film and this flexible. They could hypothetically be wrapped around pretty much any object. That’s the holy grail of solar technology.

Very true, that’s not cement by any stretch as it would have stayed open. Looking forward to a less injury filled 2019/20!

Not a great track for a high end landfall. Trajectory has too much land interaction before landfall. Good for what I assume are poor people living in substandard housing. All of the money in India is in the major city’s with the rest of the country still relatively poor.

Nice to see some positivity. I agree, while it may not be a blockbuster KU I think we get at least one solid warning event sometime between 2/15-3/15

At least there is some positive news on that front today. Still plenty of prime snow season left. The island especially does well late season when near shore water temps are cold. Which they will be after this next cold blast.

Agreed. The big arctic events In the city that set their record lows were big CAA events so it was likely similarly cold even at west Hampton

Wow, that’s more like an incredible winter. Below zero in 3 seperate months! Snow cover days must be near the top as well. The February storm was most likely a coastal hugger so I would assume inland there were probably totals over 3’.

13.5” on 2.95” liquid is insane. Must have been a ton of sleet. That would have been a nightmare to clear. Good analog, though I doubt we see anything close to that magnitude of cold.

No mention of feb 5/6 2010? that was a mind boggling bad luck storm for us. Has to be the number one dissipointment of all time

Absolutely epic conditions must be occurring in Saipan currently. Surprisingly the island is pretty built up. https://mobile.twitter.com/NOAASatellites/status/1055128171014709248?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

I agree but it waxes and wanes so we win some and we loose some. As long as we do not have a repeat of 01/02 where the whole country is wall to wall warmth I’m ok with loosing a couple

That’s exactly what I’m thinking. It’s going to be winter cancel and then kaaaaaaa boom

I’ll second this one

My question is, why are people A. Outside B. Driving? In legit hurricane conditions?

Best OHC in the world, that region creates monsters. You could fit Florence in Tips CDO

September 15th