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Rolling through lower SC en route to Savannah tonight. We went through the cutoff and got rain from Richmond down to near the SC border. Temps dropped to the low to mod 50s. As soon as we got out of it temperatures rose 10 degrees. Currently 59 in rural SC and clear. Tomorrow we go into summer from Savannah to Naples.

No doubt winter is dark and wet but huge snows are not far away. I went to paradise ranger station around June of 1990. It is fairly low in elevation but has booked 1000 inches in a season.

Yup. We’re outta here tomorrow but unfortunately will be back by the final days of March which spares us some but certainly not all of the awful spring we typically get.

I spent a lot of time there 35 years ago when I was frequently visiting a gf there. Got to see a lot-had Starbucks before anyone ever heard of it…lol.

It’s actually pretty amazing. Summers are dry and beautiful with long days and light until close to 9:30-10pm in high summer. You’re within 90 minutes of epic snows in winter with the occasional snower into the city.

ORD hot 71 today. Normal max for the date is 40.

Get a window unit at least. They tend to be pretty inexpensive these days. My friend has a camp in Wakefield NH on a lake. He has had window units there for about 5 years.

No ac at all? What’s your elevation?

Definitely closing the book on the worst winter in my collective experience. Having my area miss the dump that treated CT so nicely was the final icing on the cake. My March will be beautiful even if I have to endure it in Florida once we arrive around 3/6.

And don’t forget the surprise snow in January 1997 and the multiple March events leading up to the April Fools blizzard. But February 1997 was about as torchy as ot can get.

A ratter of this magnitude rarely changes this late in the game.

Thanks for sharing Ray. Inspiring journey!

March of 1956 is one of the great snow periods of my life and the 3/19 storm was pretty amazing. But ponder this: BOS got 65 inches in February 2015. How crazy is that!

Is the euro control now the op? When does that go into effect if not?

He’s a shill but methinks he’s pulling in some nice coin…

He goes overboard on several issues but the take home is strength training is essential for a better chance at healthspan. Today was a strength training day followed by my usual core and augmented strength circuit plus a call I have Monday’s was moved to today online of the holiday so I had to accommodate that and needed to get up before 9-usually blasphemy! Healthspan is what we’re trying to achieve hence my hard 3 hour walk in the cold last night. Above OT. Sunny and bright but cold today.

It’s been a cold weekend and for now not much warming until at least after this week. In other news our journey to FL departure is now delayed until 3/3. Hopefully it snows because 2 more weeks of this awful winter would be bad if it’s chilly.

But March is a 31 day month. On 3/1 70 is much more highly anomalous vs 3/31. As a kid growing up mid 20th century, the things I grew to expect in March was a big snow event and the first run at 70.

70s in March was common 70 years ago per my memory. I used to realize that March would often give you the first 70 and April 80. Didn’t happen every year but it was common enough.

I’ll root for la nada. Or whatever it is being weak…and the west to warm up. Regardless of enso state if we have a cold wet west our chances go down for a snowy winter.

While I’m glad to see many of you enjoy a deep winter week, it has blown here. Got a total of about 1.25 inches and cold. Fairly useless as our biggest event was 0.75. And today’s squalls missed my house. Just turn it up 50 degrees and I’ll be happy. This is by far worse than any ratter in memory.

Looks like mby is in the 7-10 split and will miss out on the meat of the squall line.

2009-10

Interesting fact: The last time BOS and metro west was eclipsed by areas south of us down to Philly and parts of BWI/IAD area was the last time we had a strong Nino-until this season so far. I’ll be very surprised if my area gets a single event >6” from now on this season. Looks like I’ll leave my snowblower with plenty of stabilized gas in the tank. I’ll continue the practice of starting it once a month over the summer and fall.

I was a freshman that year-just turned 19 just before the mayhem. I just assumed that was winter in the area. Snow in the air the first week of October, solid event around 11/5. Way below zero many nights. Epic period!