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It's your comment about warm front making it into northeast Mass?

New low for you!!! You have to be pretty fk-up to post such a comment!

Were still working

Over the years, not lately though, we've gone through periods when DPW would recommend school delays so their crews could do treatments or push corners back and get their crews off the roads so kids were not standing around in the dark while they

He lives in a magical place...

2.0" at 1,110 ft in Burlington...

It is a bit weird... Just talked to the DPW from Wolcott (northern New Haven County) and they have about the same as here, but my other contacts and clients across southern and central Litchfield County have a wide range of snow amounts; from a coating to 2+ inches... Was talking with one guy and radar showed his area under some great returns, but he said it was very light with only a coating on the ground.

Burlington CT... Local and state police having a hard time keeping up with accidents across Litchfield County Rt 8 and western portions of I-84.

28 degrees and heavy / windblown snow here at 1,100' in Burlington, CT

House shaking and rumbling sounds being reported from my daughter on the Cape and others...

I'll send along later today...

5" is the average now in Burlington!

4.5" here at 1,100 ft in Burlington, CT...

Not that most on here care, but the thought process for many of the early dismissals today was the concern for the increasing road coverage, especially in elevated areas, once past the 2:30 pm period. The concern was the late elementary school bus runs during the 3 pm to 4:30 pm period. Knowing full well that many lower elevation would liked stay mainly wet. To protect the late bus runs, you have get high & middle school runs done by 1 pm or 1:30.

2.5

Solid ground and road coverage across hills of western Hartford County... Burlington, Czt

Especially across nrn CT... Also not nearly as cold.

Not what I was hoping for???

Given the widespread hilly terrain induced snowfall differences across much of CT, including portions of Fairfield and New Haven counties, road conditions can vary tremendously across one town... Just another item in the mix that school districts try to determine the best course of action. I remember storms where you could literally have a normal school day on the south side of Wolcott, but it was a no go across the north side of town near the Bristol border. Unfortunately, there they don't cancel schools for just a certain number of streets. Tomorrow comes down to snowfall rates and whether or not DPW crews can keep roads mainly wet or a bit slushy if rates stay under 1" per hour. The answer should be yes, but if an area gets into solid banding for 2 or 3 hours then all bets are off...

While most on here understand, many folks forget how disruptive heavy sleet can be...

Euro qpf actually increased from 6z considerably across CT; back to just under an inch across srn CT... this is all about how quickly a flip to sleet occurs; miss that timing by an hour or two and snow amounts are back to 4+ inches... Could be a crap load of sleet & ice???

The convergence / divergence model plots are also indicative of maxing out qpf... both 300 & 250 mb model plots, as indicated in the 6z gfs run at 7 am Friday, show a strong signal for heavy precip totals..

Most, not all, of the snow removal / maintenance folks I deal with decided to go with a yearly fee this winter and are perfectly happy. I have discussions with my clients in Aug/Sept and discuss whether to play the odds of a yearly fee or a per storm contract. This year most decided to roll the dice with a yearly fee option, and are happy, so far with the winter tenor. As for the litigation side of things, I deal with many dozens of those case every year. Juries are quite open to siding with the snow removal guys, if they can show a well-documented work procedure. I always recommend an after clean-up brief video, or at least pictures with a logbook of times of cleaning and treatment applications. Most juries understand the nature of Northeast winters and fully understand it is impossible to clean surfaces to perfection; especially when dealing with parking lots / driveways and walkways that were being used during an event. The key is to document, take pics and/or video each storm. It might sound tedious, but it can make all the difference when it comes to lawsuits.

Agree... If you thumb through the KU book and use the MBY mentality as your guide, any one person could cross out about 70% of the events. We could rename the book from 'NORTHEAST SNOWSTORMS" to something like "NORTHEAST SNOWSTORMS FOR SOME; NOT SO MUCH FOR OTHERS?"