Your area will eventually jackpot again - this one wasn't just in the cards. Your overall seasonal forecast was pretty good with what the generalized weather ended up being for our area.
It's almost fantasy baseball season. Enjoy the other things in life! My dynasty league is hitting season 20 this year...
I've been converting the radar loops from GIF to MP4 files using Handbrake. It's free. You set the GIF file as the "Source" and then I use the preset "Social 25 MB 5 Minutes 360p60". Seems to take the largest GIF's and get them below my rather low attachment limit size. You can play around with the presets to see which one works best for what you want to post.
GIF's are very inefficient for showing motion graphics, they just happen to be an open standard that's been around forever, so if you don't have a file size to worry about they work, especially since it's easy to take one still image and make it a frame in a GIF.
Updated Public Information Statement with Snowfall Totals and Wind Gusts is up: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=box&issuedby=BOX&product=pns
Heh - gusted to 65 MPH here as well in the AM. Looks like my 30 burger holds up to the spotters in my area. Amazing.
I'll be honest, I'm only judging based on whats close to the house. Sometimes that's denser because it melts a little from the heat leaking out and making it settle. I'm actually hopeful it's more powdery so I can try and cut through it with my very undersized snow thrower if I chop it down appropriately.
Yes and it made it that much more of a big deal to end up with so much. Some locations started with light rain or drizzle, if I remember the lore correctly.
We may not see another blizzard of 78 in our lifetime. It's like the hurricane of 1938 of winter storms. The way that low tucked in and then closed off and stalled - yet all the other pieces fell into place in 1978 seems to have not come close to have been replicated since then.
Today if we see a low that close to us on the models, we're thinking where is the mixing line going to setup!
Not at all. That didn't even enter my mind. I'm thinking government waste and corruption, bridges falling down in disrepair, high taxes and cost of living.
But if that's what entered your mind first, that's something for you to address, not me.