TugHillMatt

Thanks for the advice. East Aurora seems to be quite close to the snow maximum area. I would really like to find something in the Springville area.

Thanks for your kind words, bud. It has been a tough time...Had to run down to PA for another emergency with a family member who has some serious mental illness but won't admit it. Wife and I are ready for things to slow down. Yeah, this has been quite disappointing on the Southern Tug. I think a good thing coming out of this next move is it is better for my wife. She has really been struggling here, and didn't share it with me until after the layoff.

I have been looking for some opportunities over your way too. Actually applied to something in Hamburg. A few other places were East Aurora, Eden, and Warsaw...and a few things down in the Cattar./Houghton area.

Band set up over me and is dumping. Hopefully it can stall out overnight. Conclusions from our trip today: Ithaca: wife liked it but I hated it. Way too suburban with an "all about me" vibe. Congestion. Yuck. Cortland: We both really liked it. The downtown has a really neat "blast from the past" character. Big enough for all the amenities with beautiful countryside immediately outside of city. Cazenovia and Hamilton: Nice towns with beautiful homes! All the homes in Hamilton have tiny plots for yards though. Colgate university there is beautiful and MUCH bigger than I had expected. Just from how it looks, I imagine it is an EXPENSIVE school. Madison county also had a substantial amount of snow. Great thing is my wife is on board. Certainly not the Tug in terms of snow, but western Madison county averages about 125 inches.

The wife and I are going to check out some of the towns I have found jobs in and applied for. This includes Cazenovia, Morrisville, Hamilton, Truxton, Cortland, Lansing, and Ithaca. I am personally hoping for a job in Madison county, as it is a beautiful rural area with nice towns...and gets some good uplifting events.

Still waiting on a lake event to drop double digits here. I wonder how rare it is to have a winter that doesn't have one.

Nice. You guys have had many great surprise snowfalls over in the Buffalo area.

Yep! We still have a month and a half....right? Lol....biting my tongue.

Everything is so dramatic and the on-screen "Mets" appear like idiots not knowing what they're talking about..... while trying to be all edgey and fidgeting with their tech devices. Insufferable.

Well I was going to try and get back to Redfield to work on packing some more and experience the lake effect snow event. But it looks like the same garbage Westerly wind transition zone stuff we have had all winter.

I seem to remember Joe Calhoun long ago once described it as 3 to 5 inches. 6 inches or more gets a more significant title.

Yeah, the "new GFS" has given me about 600 inches on the season.

Southern New England is looking good for this "sneaky snow" (so stupid) that The Weather Channel is calling it. Lol They could get 6 to 10 inches.

Horst lives in Manheim township, just north if Lancaster city. That would be about 5 inches for him.

I might be down at the family's house in PA this weekend. Would be nice to experience a good snowstorm down there. Good opportunity to help clean my parent's long driveway!

Still looked like we had that snow during the day here. Seem to be battling dry cold air pushing in here with those NEly winds.

With this past system, flake size was not really that spectacular until the last few hours overnight. I imagine SLRs improved greatly at that point.

Yup. No blocking to help us this winter.

Don't get excited by anything the New GFS shows. I would have 800 inches of snow by now...

Thanks, guys. He was diagnosed with throat cancer several months ago and it has advanced very quickly. Tumor burst over the weekend and he is internally bleeding...they tried surgery. Cancer...such an awful thing. They gave him 24 hours, and it is now 5 days later, he is in good spirit and laughing, and the family is having a good opportunity to share memories with him. It hasn't been a very exciting winter on the Tug for lake effect snow. Not one long lasting event, nor any that have brought more than a foot.

I am coming down to Mount Joy with the wife tomorrow to visit her uncle in Hospice. Will be nice to see Lancaster county covered in snow. 9 inches up here yesterday with over 2 feet on the ground. Good weekend to come up if you are a sledder.

9 inches here yesterday. Snow depth over 2 feet. Great weekend coming for sledders.

Largest flakes have been falling the past couple hours with what looks like an upsloping event. Looks like a good 8 inches out there!

Mentioned this earlier...freezing rain in Michigan. Warmer upper layers contributing to ice. Farther north and west...2019 trend lives on. Might work for us up here though.

Nice. With what is happening in the Midwest and recent model runs, this definitely took a farther north track.