wxdude64

Well, the first 'warm' day forecast was a fail. High was 35.3 degrees (at least above freezing) vs forecast of 43. A lot more clouds moved in around noon (or we'd have hit 43 easily) and temp locked right at 35 rest of day. Now down to 32.1/12.0 at 6 pm.

Low was 5.4 degrees, a new record for the date, beating 1995's 7 degrees. Currently 7.3/1.0 at 8 am.

Set a new 'cool max' for the date at 20.6 degrees. Old mark was 28 degrees from 2010 and 1995. Low this morning was 6.5 degrees, no record.

So back to the early/mid December look. Model atmospheric memory at work.

And wind, can't forget (is that possible?) the number of days we've gusted 30, 40, 50 mph this winter.

Had a 46 mph gust at 2:20 am here. About an inch of snow, though that is an average as last night's wind whipped stuff was a struggle to measure. Absolute crazy 15 minutes last night around 1:30 am. Snow and wind brought vis down to a couple hundred feet at most a couple of times. Easily would have been 2-3 inches if it had continued for an hour. At 7 am CoCoRaHS report I had spots that had been cleared still clear and spots in corners/edges with 6" of new snow. Currently 17.4/1.1 at 10:50 am with NNW wind at 10 gusting to 26 mph, WC 5 to -1.

11/11 0.1 11/30 0.1 12/02 0.2 (sleet) 12/05 3.8 12/06 1.5 12/08 0.5 12/09 5.1 01/17 0.1 01/25 4.5 (mix of snow and sleet) 01/26 2.8 (95-97% sleet) 02/04 0.3 02/07 1.0 Total 20.0

Not sure how long we will be in this band/squall going thru but she's a doing it right now. This camera about 3 miles from the house.

Because you don't make 150K/year?

Light snow last 1/2 hour, 28.8/22.7. Just starting to whiten things up that aren't already white.

Is there a 'person of retirement age' spot to post in the medium-long range discussion? Unless the SS increases dramatically, I won't make that level.

A whole year's salary??

WOW. I'm with @psuhoffman on this one, someone needs to go with @dailylurker on a LES Tug Hill event and get a healthy snow fix, stat.

Made me go look. A LIGHT snow is falling here. It'll have to pick up the pace to amount to anything, but still nice to see falling. 32.0/29.8

Hey, don't get too upset, I got 0.3 out of it.