Sparky

That wind.

Strong winds and heavy rain.

76.50

Tell your friend the latter.

Longing for the wonderful winters of yore. Like 13/14.

Your Saints were a good help for the Ravens.

Damn that moon looks big tonight.

Actually that was a separate storm from the one I am talking about. The midwest (Ohio) blizzard was near the end of January. The one I am talking about was an eastern seaboard coastal system that developed way out over the ocean in early Feb around the 5th, 6th but moved to the northwest into New England with major wrap around side effects into northern MD, New Jersey, Eastern PA, Delaware.

I'm getting some hail!

I know I sure appreciated those two winters after the disaster winters prior. Actually you could back it up a year to 76-77 which was a special winter in its own right with sustained bitter cold and snowy landscape that endured for a good month or more. But I finally got my snow fix with the Feb. '78 blizzard, it was more like a mini-blizzard in Baltimore (where I lived). Baltimore got some intense wrap around bands from that primarily New England storm. It snowed hard for 5-6 hours on strong northerly winds that gusted approx. 45-50 mph. Dropped a good foot of snow on most of Baltimore and the winds created drifts I hadn't seen since the big blizzard of '66. Then of course the monumental February of '79 was great with the sustained cold, two heavy snowfalls each around 6" followed by the big dog PD1 (snow on snow).

PD II (25.5" IMBY) was the storm that could have eclipsed the Blizz of '96 (30") in my backyard if it weren't for the changeover to sleet Sunday night for several hours. I figure it would easily have reached 35"+ if all snow. But every other thing about that storm was plain boring compared to '96. There was very little wind, little drifting, and even the snowfakes were small and unimpressive to watch falling. The flakes in '96 were smallish too, but not quite as small. But '96 had some kickass wind on Sunday evening and through the night into Monday morning which gave it a genuine blizzard look and feel. Drifting was about as impressive as I have ever seen. Mind you it is pitch black at night where I live but whenever I flicked on the floodlights on Sunday night to see the action all I could see was a sideways curtain of snow blowing around the house. I could barely see the darkness of the woods that lie about 100 feet in the back. The only other storm that gave me that '96 look and feel was the 2/10/10 blast (27" IMBY) which had much larger dendrites to enjoy and was compressed into a shorter period of time with heavier rates. 2/10/10 was like a blend of '96 winds (though not as intense) and PD1 (Feb 79) snow rates. PD 1 is still the rates king though. That's when I saw 10" in a 3 hour continuous period which I haven't seen beaten since with a total of about 20" in the end.

2.70" so far.

2.15" storm total so far. I have well over 70" on the year.

Have you forgotten last Christmas? That had a HECS look on Christmas day scheduled for a few days later but never panned out.

8.30" November precipitation total 70.04" ytd 6" November snowfall

1.77" today 7.98" for the month 69.72" for the year.

^^ why guesstimate snowfall to the nearest tenth? Seems silly, just round to nearest inch.

Currently 24 midnight high 34.

After a high of 39 I still have a white landscape, pretty cool for this early in the season. I would est. a good 3-4 inches depending on the sun exposure. I recorded 1.22 liquid equiv. for this storm. That makes 6.21" for November alone already and 67.95" year to date.

11/15-16/18 - 6.0 (picked up additional .3 in early morning squalls)

In the fading light this November night

My Under the deck pic

Still a chance for overnight additional accumulations (especially the northern tier he says with a whisper).

around 5.75" mostly sleet now unless ......