Cold Miser

About 1" at home on Lava lake.

Ride to work was fine.  Roads have been overly treated with metal eating salt.

Season total @ 7.75"

26 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

How thick is the ice? Looks thin.

1/2" maybe.  Sh.it will disappear faster than my hair did after college once it gets into the 40s and 50s

Woke up to a frozen lake yesterday morning ...All so it can slowly melt away over the coming days.  (The underground lava river must have temporarily stopped flowing)

42 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Thanks! I can add that for sure, i got that 16.8" from cocorahs thats actually a westfield station. Looks like they are low for the 16-17 and the Nov 1-2" they got is missing as well. I'll use yours instead and redraw that, based on the nohrsc it looks like that 2' line is pretty close to westfield. As far as the North Granby report, i left out any outliers that were extremely high or low based on surrounding reports. That report is also a little sus to me anyway. 

@UnitedWx i just added your report and updated the contours on the 20" line if you want to go back and take a look at it.

 

I saw it, thanks man. i left it out due it the surrounding areas all being in the double digits. It would be hard to draw that in and incorporate it, i would have to put like a 1 pixel dot of the 5-10" color of your house lol. I don't doubt your report at all though, you just seem to be in a really shitty area. 

That's insane, when BDRs beating you know you done f'd up. LOL

The shittiest.

7 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Finally finished the SNE snowfall to date map. This thing is a bear to do. If you guys like it i'll keep doing them throughout the winter, otherwise i might just do it at the end of the season. The CT one only takes about an hour to do but this one took about 5 hours. The vast majority is finding and verifying reports on here, cocorahs, climo sites, etc.. There was a little smoothing i had to do with the isonifs, but if there is any additional reports or corrections i will add them. Thanks!

I used the reports for contours obviously but also the gridded snowfall analysis from nohrsc as a guide https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/snowfall/

 

Don't forget my area with the 6.25" so far.  I am on par to hopefully not beat last year's winter of 11".  Fingers crossed for torches and rain all the way through March.

On 1/21/2024 at 11:04 AM, Damage In Tolland said:

 

lol. I'm still waiting for the beginning.

12 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

But now I look ahead and anger grows.

https://youtu.be/gXLY1Svth-w?si=usUHmDyTuS5gWHK0

F for this winter so far.

...Winter walk kind of day.
Cove has been frozen for a while... You can see one of my neighbors setting up ice fishing on the left, and another neighbor on the right clearing off the snow for ice hockey. But, you can also see the open lake in the distance... Water, and what always seems to be a perpetual nw wind that never allows the water to be still to freeze. Breeze...all day, every day for infinity.  That plus what must be a hidden river of LAVA under the lake are aiding in it not freezing. 
 

Just 10 miles away a bigger lake in Mass is completely frozen, plus every small and large pond in between. 

20 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

He is a fucking dick just say it. Not a met either. Just an asshole

100% positive you were smilin' while typing that.

6 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

“To determine freezing degree days and how fast your favourite lake will build up ice, start by taking the average temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 24 hours.  So, let’s say that the daytime high yesterday was 30 F and the night time low was 20 F.  This means the average temperature was 25 F.  Now, subtract the average temperature (25 F) from the freezing point of water (32 F) and we get 7 freezing degree days.

If the day time high was 20 F, on the other hand, and the night time low was 0 F, the average temperature would have been 10 F, giving us 22 freezing degree days (32 F – 10 F = 22 FDDs).

See how simple it is?

Now, based on the studies that have been done, once a thin sheet of ice has formed on a lake, it will typically increase at the rate of one inch / 15 freezing degree days (FDDS).

So, if we go back to our examples, this means that on the relatively warm day, when there were 7 FDDs, the lake made about one half-an-inch of ice over the 24-hour period.  But, on the much colder day, when we experienced 22 FDDs, the lake made about 1.5-inches.”

https://myfishingpartner.com/how-fast-does-your-lake-make-ice/

 

I have used similar guidance to determine thickness...But I would not go on to ice that was less than 5 or so inches.  I can't imagine the ice being more than a few inches in the Taunton area.

10 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I was walking the dog a few days back and a big “v” of geese flew over low. Freaked the dog out.  At least they were going south. 

F.uckers can be nasty. People who rent places here learn real quick not to feed them.  They come right out of the water and chase people. 

5 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Pond skating galore around here today. May be the only time this winter 

Really, with ust a couple of constant days below freezing?

Looks and feels like winter. Lake not frozen so the geese are digging the scene.

4 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

https://x.com/ttasselwbal/status/1748501995093131391?s=46&t=dhcbvkjmRcyBVQtDxJ3lRg

Congrats Baltimore.  Maybe Lamar Jackson is a closet snow weenie. 

49 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Close the shades

Not smilin.

I am officially over the half foot mark for the season with 6.25" after yesterday's .5".  Not too far from 18" for combined last season and this season.

For those interested in some tug hill snow cams, many of the snowmobile clubs and local establishments have them up, and can be found here:
@WinterWolf

https://www.northernchateau.com/w/webcam61.html

1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

cmon i think you got like 3.5..thats better than yesterdays 1.7, no? cheer up buttercup

You robbed me of my  additional .25 (2.25 total) on your map. lol.

3 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

Measured before the flip or now 

About an hour after.  The actual measured amount was less, but I added .25+ for compaction, etc.   

@The 4 Seasons

2.25" in Dayville.

1 hour ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

Coming soon to the AMWX streaming service...

 

Why?  What's the WX connection/connection with a post in this thread with this?   ...Or out of all of the different internet forums that you have open at once (minimum of 10), did you post this one here by mistake?

...Not terribly windy last night, but Eversource was prepared by setting up the portable generator that would be used to get our neighborhood running if the power went out. 

My main route to work was closed due to a particular spot along the Mashamoquet Brook in Pomfret that frequently washes over route 101.  If the road does not close, the area sometimes becomes a spot for people to stop and take photos of the house that becomes surrounded by water.  During very heavy events the dude sand bags himself in. (see photo below)

Driving to work there were multiple spots along route 6 where it was apparent that water washed over the road over night. 

42 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

That doesn’t even make sense. Lol. C’mon pal, you’re just being ignorant now.  

lol. Right?  With this logic I might as well shut the shades until November for my next chance at seeing snow.  

What buffoonery. 

@The 4 Seasons...3.5" total here in Dayville village in Killingly (more of a lower, western part of the snowier east East Killingly area)

My call of a whopping 2-4 for my area verified.

3.5" total for my part of Gayville (Dayville) while the totals around me were any where from 6" to 9".

Temps must be dropping...That 1.25" of heavy, water logged snow is turning into a nasty sheet of ice.  I just went and cleared windshields and sh.it is starting to freeze solid.  Nasty.

Eversource dropped off a large portable generator to power our neighborhood again in anticipation of heavy lines today and the wind follow up this week.  

Damage is coming here, but not in the form of heavy snow.