Great Snow 1717

Just now, North and West said:

When everything’s an emergency, nothing is.


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A strong candidate for the Post of the Year Award!!

33 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

The Tuesday/Wed illusory snow threat is about to disappear on the operationals.

UL ridging builds highest over our heads—troughiness in SE Canada/NB, vanishing. Notice the ridge axis progression eastward over time…

SNE:

As I mentioned the other day, the sands in the hourglass are diminishing with each passing day.  At this point it is going to take a lot to raise the winter grade to a C

30 minutes ago, UnitedWx said:

Models changing more than I change my underwear, don't like it... check back tomorrow for as the models turn

13 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Greenskeeper has about the same odds of buying an NFL franchise lol

Surely you are not  referring to the football league....perhaps you are referring to the Nonsense For Life League???.. 

4 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

I'll also add there are important things to discuss about humankind's impact to the environment besides climate change-- overhunting and overfishing as well as pollution and usage of pesticides not only adversely impact the environment, but our health too.

We were discussing the impact of overfishing in our subforum earlier

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_northwest_cod_fishery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_Line_(book)

Clover, a former environment editor of the Daily Telegraph and now a columnist on the Sunday Times, describes how modern fishing is destroying ocean ecosystems. He concludes that current worldwide fish consumption is unsustainable.[2] The book provides details about overfishing in many of the world's critical ocean habitats, such as the New England fishing grounds, west African coastlines, the European North Atlantic fishing grounds, and the ocean around Japan.[3] The book concludes with suggestions on how the nations of the world could engage in sustainable ocean fishing.[3]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_fishing

The journal Science published a four-year study in November 2006, which predicted that, at prevailing trends, the world would run out of wild-caught seafood in 2048. The scientists stated that the decline was a result of overfishing, pollution and other environmental factors that were reducing the population of fisheries at the same time as their ecosystems were being annihilated. Many countries, such as Tonga, the United States, Australia and Bahamas, and international management bodies have taken steps to appropriately manage marine resources.[6][7]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Marine_Foundation

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pauly

 

Through the 1990s, Pauly’s work centered on the effects of overfishing. The author of several books and more than 500 scientific papers, Pauly is a prolific writer and communicator. He developed the concept of shifting baselines in 1995 and authored the seminal paper, Fishing down marine food webs, in 1998.^[7] For working to protect the environment, he earned a place in the "Scientific American 50" in 2003, the same year The New York Times labeled him an "iconoclast". Pauly won the International Cosmos Prize in 2005, the Volvo Environment Prize in 2006, the Excellence in Ecology Prize and Ted Danson Ocean Hero Award in 2007, the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology and Environmental Sciences in 2008,^[8] and the Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2012. In 2015, Pauly received the Peter Benchley Ocean Award for Excellence in Science.^[9] In 2016, he was honored in Paris with the Albert Ier Grand Medal in the Science category.^[10] In 2017, he received, together with Dirk Zeller as part of the Sea Around Us leading team, the Ocean Award in the Science category.^[11]

Also in 2017 and specifically on French National Day, he was named Chevalier de la Légion D’Honneur.^[12]

Pauly has written several books, including Darwin's Fishes^[13] (Cambridge University Press), Five Easy Pieces: How Fishing Impacts Marine Ecosystems (Island Press) and Gasping Fish and Panting Squids: Oxygen, Temperature and the Growth of Water-Breathing Animals.

Views[edit]

To date, he frequently expresses opinions about public policy. Specifically, he argues that governments should abolish subsidies to fishing fleets^[14] and establish marine reserves. He is a member of the Board of Oceana. In a 2009 article written for The New Republic, Pauly compares today's fisheries to a global Ponzi scheme.^[15]

 

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline}

 

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_down_the_food_web}

what are the odds of greenskeeper reading your post??? lol.....about the same as my odds of winning The Masters in April...

9 minutes ago, DJln491 said:

Some tiny flakes in W. Hartford.   No dim sun though 

a few flakes here in methuen

1 hour ago, Snowcrazed71 said:

Lord ...... You want ice in the worst way. You ever try cryotherapy? You can freeze your ass off and get encrusted and ice ( if you go and soak and wet of course ). You are one of a kind Kev..lol

13 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

One thing I don't mind about CC is the increased frequency of larger events at the expense of currier and ives shit. Sign me up for that....I am okay with missing out on days like Tuesday in favor of more like January 7th even if the overall total drops a bit.

..I disagree.  I've always like the smaller events in addition to the larger events.

12 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Yea, the climate is definitely warming...no doubt. But on top of that the multi-decadal pattern has been tilted against the east coast. They have been doing just fine out west, despite CC....and again, I get the CC predisposing us to MC forcing argument, but I am not ready to accept that as a permeant change, just as I wasn't with respect to the GOA "warm blob" phenomenon that we benefited from last decade. 

Many parts of the west are helped out by elevation.

3 minutes ago, Allsnow said:

Have any thoughts on February? Perhaps gets better as we get deeper into the month? 

..the sands in the hourglass are getting fewer and fewer with each passing day..

4 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Agreed. I used your measurement.

..just make sure you have the royalty check out to me by Friday...Thank you!

2 minutes ago, jsw said:

Eyeballing about 3 inches here in downtown Brattleboro.

best be accurate or else the Tolland Society for Accurate Snow Measuring will be paying you a visit...

10 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

@wx2fishlives just NW of me with 3.8" and @Great Snow 1717also in Methuen measured 3.5" prior to sleet...is that unreasonable? I couldn't get to it until several hours after IP/frz rain.

1717 is not someone I would suspect of inflating amounts, as he is conservative and not a snow weenie.

 

I love snow BUT there is no incentive for me inflate amounts. I may be mistaken but I think wx2fish said he lives close to Route 93 Exit 3 so it makes sense that he had slightly more than the 3.5 I measured.

11 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Why not 4.5 or 5?

Because I measured 3.5 right before the change to sleet. The sleet and freezing rain that followed the snow compacted the pack down to around 3 inches......I'm sure a weather savant such as you can understand why 3.5 inches rather than 3 inches is the most accurate measurement of the snow that fell...

9 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

Parents have more power than they should . Tell the parents to keep Johnny home if they want and be more concerned he wants to be a “furry” or referred to as a “cat”

I know many people who work in education, all of them would agree with your post.

58 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

@Great Snow 1717How much in Methuen?

3.5 inches before the flip to sleet.

Great forecast by Matt Noyes.

1 minute ago, met_fan said:

You want to know why superintendents cancel school so quickly…we were not canceled today and now there’s a local news van parked out front because so many parents have complained.

back in the day parents did not complain...

45 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

@Great Snow 1717How much in Methuen?

24 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Swell. Looks like rain next week? Ugh...

no surprise  there lol

About 1/3 of an inch in the winter wonderland known as Methuen...

19 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Furnace to me is +20. That’s near peak winter climo so it’s 55-low 60’s as high confidence attainable in SNE. Maybe a peak day or so within which challenges ATH’s closer to 70 in local spots. That’s my current thinking.

.....Currently Boston is averaging 5.8 degrees above normal for January. And that follows a warm month of December.  People can deny it has been an awful winter but it has been an awful winter. 

16 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

I didnt include those, because we knew those were coming before the snow even fell, and the fact remains you scored huge…more than everybody else did. 
 

Had you received nothing last Sunday, or scored an inch or two, I could understand the F- to date. But that’s not what happened. 

Personally I don't care that you do not approve of the grade lol...

56 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

It’s the same problem posters all the time. Whining babies. The guy gets 18 inches 6 days ago, and he says F-.  That’s just Unreal. 

You conveniently forgot to mention the 2 warm soaking rainstorms that wiped out all of the snow....

1 hour ago, Allsnow said:

After this week is winter over? 

Can something that never began be over with???

1 hour ago, radarman said:

literally not a week since jackpotting a big storm-- must be something in the water

You're right there is something in the water.. all the melted snow that fell last sunday