KamuSnow

Heavy snow here too, temp 32, dp 30. Beautiful outside! Everything is covered except the driveway in normally sunny areas. Guesstimating an inch or so. Love these snowy weekends!

Had a letup with pretty light snow for a while, now getting nicely busy with moderate snow and bigger flakes. 32F, dp 29. 

52 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

All snow, wind swept semi sideways...almost squall like. 

Talk to me, lol. Mulch whitening occurring here.

Temp dropped from 44 to 37 in about 30 minutes, with howling winds. Sleet started mixing in just before 9 am, now snow mixing in for about the last 10 minutes, temp currently 35, dp 31. It's a beautiful thing!

Love this kind of talk from the WPC (even if we aren't in the bullseye):

36 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

I've seen/read a lot of weenie things but never heard of this. Probably because I've never used some sort of snow board but I'm sure it's happened...nothing phases me when it comes to weenies.

38F

Here you go, this is the closest I could find - Nicerink. Looks like it starts at 26k. Your own backyard skating rink! 

13 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

I've seen/read a lot of weenie things but never heard of this. Probably because I've never used some sort of snow board but I'm sure it's happened...nothing phases me when it comes to weenies.

38F

Never heard of it either, I just made it up, lol. But like you said, I wouldn't rule it out.  At the same time I've googled a few things over the years expecting some hits, and come up empty. This could be another one.

2 hours ago, RedSky said:

5" falls with 1" on the ground 

Better get out your refrigerated snow board!

Under a STW here but it looks like we're in a gap between segments. Pretty windy, not too much rain so far.

I can hear spring peepers, lol. Is there a wiggum rule for that? E.g., peepers the 1st week of March means snow within 2 days?

Warm and humid here, 61F with dp not far behind at 59. The front porch has puddles on it from condensation (north and coldest side of the house). Might be a good afternoon for shorts!

1 hour ago, Birds~69 said:

Ok, I gotcha. 

I'll admit, I spent less hours/time this year than previous years. Mainly because I'm sick of wasting time when I could be doing something more productive and in the end we ultimately get shafted. But I still spent way more time than the average sane person...

37F  

Probably true for most of us in here, even if we "cut back", lol.

2 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Temp here is now up to 36 (dp 35) and the sun is trying (but struggling) to peak out.

I wouldn't mind, the ice in the trees looks even better in sunlight.

5 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

LOL at the remnants.  It's like a seedling of the original snow pile.

Lol, it's been a good run. That snow has been there since Jan. 7th. Might make it to March 1st.

Got about .08 to .10 accretion here, not too bad at first glance, although the bamboo is not happy. Gonna have a little work there. Note the snow pile, it's been hanging in there! Honestly didn't think it would make it through Wednesday, but there it is, lol.

Getting some very light rain here. 33F, dp 19.

Been getting off and on snow pellets for the last hour or so. Currently 34F with dp at 16.

Eta, just now started getting mainly sleet.

5 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

6z GFS and 0z EC for the potential mix storm Feb. 25 - 26 (edited to add the Canadian).

Wiggum rule gets another shot this week. My point and click says 65 on Wednesday, and a chance of snow on Thursday. I like it!

4 hours ago, JTA66 said:

Wind advisory posted for tomorrow. Trash cans back in the garage, let ‘er rip!

34F

Yeah, 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month here you can burn sticks from your yard, and we have a few down after last night and this morning. Might have to get up early, lol. 40 - 50 mph wind gusts makes it a little hairy. So we'll try to be done by 1 pm.

Another Snow Moon pic. It's beautiful out!

1 hour ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Th report image that was posted with that total of 69.8", appears to be the total snowfall for the whole month of February 1899.  Based on that report, it was a recording of daily readings with snow having fallen on Feb. 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th and then nothing until the blizzard event, where there is a report for Feb. 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th.  And then there was no more snow for the rest of February.

So that 69.8" measurement was the total of a bunch of days of snow between Feb. 1st - Feb. 15th, where out of those first 15 days of February, 9 of them produced some kind of snow.  There was 1 day in that period where it appears there was some rain (or a mix) and the other 5 days during those first 2 weeks, there was no measurable precipitation.

The column for "depth on ground at time of observation" does not appear to be filled out so he apparently measured whatever snow fell each day and then cleared the board for daily individual readings that got totaled at the bottom of the column.  I know there is an option to do whatever the depth is (without clearing) to establish what the snow coverage is as it changes from day to day, but he apparently didn't do that and just totaled the individual snowfall readings. With no further snow for the month after the 15th, and that figure got transferred to the far right "Monthly Summary" section for both the pre-printed "15th" (mid-month) total "on the ground" and final monthly "total".   

There is some "5.24" lightly-written annotation diagonally across the Feb. 12 - 13 entries in that depth column, but I don't know what that means or if it is something that was done by the archivist later in the history of the document because it doesn't appear to match the observer's handwriting.

What is fascinating about that report though is that it almost mirrors some of the types of things that happened in 1996 (although 1996 didn't have the brutal cold of 1899).... I.e., there were several little snowfalls around the big one and a warm up in there too - in fact for the 1899 reported record on Feb. 19,20, 21, 22, & 23 the highs were 50, 58, 58, 59, and 50!  It looks like it also started out cold on Feb. 16, then the warm air came in and there was 1.20" mix (sleet/rain - and he did list the 16th as being a day with sleet) and then the next couple days registering more light rain.  Then more warmth and more sleet/mix (the 26th) and rain (27th).

 

That 5.24 looks like the LE precip for the 12th, 13th and 14th. Looks like 10:1 ratio was assumed based on snow measurements, since it's pretty consistent.

2 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Am watching the lows this morning but it appears that my low (with 35 minutes still to go before sunrise) has been 12.  Currently 13 with dp 7 (and a Full Snow Moon soon to be in the offing for the next couple days).

Made it to 13 here early this morning.

Snow moon at work around midnight last night :- ):

2 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Yep, and rain. I think his rule is mainly in effect till Feb 10th? Then majorly declines... 

25F

Yeah, gotta have some cold air afterwards. It worked well yesterday, lol.

54 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

One of the more brisk days out there this winter w/the occasional wind gust and all...

62 on Thursday, looks like a missed opportunity for the Wiggum rule. Nothing showing the next 5 days afterwards temp wise or precip wise. 

Wound up with 3.0" here, exceeded expectations by a little, especially with 2.9" on the far end of the driveway in a shaded area. We did succumb to the call of the snow pile and shoveled it over to the pile :- ). Pic is from this morning:

Measured 1.9" here, still getting some light snow. Nice to see everything snow covered again! Nothing on the driveway except at the far end where it's shady. Don't know that I'm going to bring that back to the snow pile, lol.

Yesterday was really nice, spent the afternoon splitting wood, tested the results (lol) last night in a kettle fire, watched it start snowing a little after 11 pm, had a dusting by the time we went inside. Beautiful day!