HIPPYVALLEY

According to several folks, it was meh’.

I mentioned the other day, the ice buildup on the rivers is already impressive. Another week of this, and it will be insane. Bye-bye Vermont, again?

Groundhog says six more weeks of this and then 10 weeks of April!

Yeah, this part of the valley (Greenfield to Brattleboro) is where wind goes to die.

I'm right around my seasonal average but that will trail off quickly if the next few weeks are futile. I have had snow in my yard since Dec 2nd so there's that. I like the deep cold, I've just been a little lazy with the wood stove so our heating bill is higher than normal.

If it wasn’t for last week’s storm, most of us would be looking at a pretty piss poor winter. Nothing I can do about it, but it’s really irritating to be wasting peak Climo with cold dry days.

Yeah, I think a snow pack reduces ice formation rate by 50%

What? People literally been ice fishing here for close to eight weeks.

You hate to see it, but I’m still praying for a dry spring and summer.

-4F there have been at least 12 mornings below zero in Greenfield.

Wrong

I said six weeks because I know if I said eight people would jump down my throat about how March is barely a winter month and we rarely get March snow anymore, etc.

We’re going to need at least two more warning events and some smaller events to get to normal. We have about six weeks to do it, but I haven’t really looked at the long range. I have to go back and calculate my totals but I think I need at least another 20” to hit my average.

This winter seems much colder than last, right?

They were reporting flurries there this morning. My friend in Clearwater said the water temperature in the golf is below 60° now. I’ll have to check because that seems low, but definitely cold down there.