radarman

Wow

Piqua OH   73/37

A few thin high clouds but can't ask for better really.  

West central Ohio where I'll be has been 50/50 with respect to clouds for like a week now, but I'm optimistic the traffic won't be too terrible at least

2 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

Someone who gets excited for a 940mb low on satellite off Newfoundland finds viewing a total eclipse in person as boring. 

He does know there's a new moon involved right?

44 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Imagine paying and traveling only to have clouds. Hopefully many don't but Euro is sketchy

Not sure why you're staking out the meh position here.  Seems out of character.

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Bong?

It was 630 AM or something.  Not that you'd rule it out back in those days.  But my initial thought was a brutal hangover until I heard the windows rattling.

18 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

 

in the goat conversation

1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Some coworkers felt it here in Central Mass.... I was oblivious to it as usual

i felt nothing and liked it

4/20/02 was a different story.  Woken out of a sound sleep that morning.

Superlative powder day at Magic.  Hammered snow from 9-11 especially, 1 lift pole vis.  Game fully on.

Effectively 100% open at Magic today by noon.  All the best terrain with no hesitation.

8 minutes ago, bwt3650 said:

https://blog.sugarbush.com/mountain/a-deeper-dive-into-the-heavens-gate-lift-replacement/

And here’s the answer…they really didn’t have to explain all this, but wow, nice write up!

Meh, their Ellen ops have sucked for years and I seriously do love the place so I take no pleasure in saying that.  All their staff leaving isn't a circumstance beyond their control, especially knowing they'd have to close portions of LP early this year.  

Magic is teasing a bonus powder day opening mid next week.

FWD is starting to mention the increased chance of cloudiness over climo.

15 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Amazing to me that there's not that much flooding. Willing to bet most places in SNE are at or nearing all-time 365 day rainfall totals. I suppose if you spread it out It tempers it somewhat.

If that next storm dumps rain in VT on top of last week's snow we'll go solidly into flood stage, but probably not major flood stage.  But if it dumps another 1-2' of snow then we'd really be poised for big floods with any follow up rainstorm.

CT river going up up up

Troughing in the 4 corners region has been pretty consistent on the ens.  Not sure how much is climo weighted at this range.  For the DFW area it's a setup though where'd you'd typically see stratus streaming north out ahead in the morning and possible convection as a dryline moved east later in the day/evening.  With breaks in the clouds at some point in between maybe?  Still a long ways to go obv.

Spectacular winter bluebird at Sugarbush.  Crowds limited the vert, but definitely got our workout in with wall-to-wall moguls.  Good day to be alive.

5 hours ago, snowgeek said:

Stratton was bluebird. Clouds forming on the southern windward side quickly evaporated on the leeward side. Snow was soft and easy to turn in. I had trouble finding bumps. The firm base under the spring corn just refused to bump up. But what a glorious day with no lines and a festive vibe.

 

Awesome dude.  Skiing on soft snow and under blue skies is just so much fun.  Reggae music and the smell of hamburgers.  Folks in dinosaur outfits and all sorts of happy weirdness.  Soft bumps and edgeable greyish brown ice.  Absolutely love every bit of it.

Maybe signs of a western ridge around the ides?

Pretty strong gusts here.  Umass radar has 65 MPH velocities a few hundred feet off the deck

What a frickin day today... near perfect spring skiing, albeit not spring.  

8 minutes ago, dendrite said:

It won’t be long before those lone star ticks are even up to my neighborhood. They’re more aggressive than other ticks.

A smorgasboard for the chickens

I was on the runway at Chicago Midway and snow came in pretty hard.  We sat there for 45 mins or so and it looked like 1-2 accumulated on grass in that time

36 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

 I would absolutely take 2012 if offered.

it's hard to fathom the misery that a pre-AGW climate would cause in here

This morning's half inch pushed us past Feb 2020 to 2.5" for the month.  Still have a chance to add to it next weekend, but no guarantee, and curtains for the month thereafter.  Not sure if we've ever had a snowless February here, but I kind of doubt it.

Also had a 0" for December.  Willing to bet we've had a completely snowless December before but not in a while.  2018 I recorded a grand total of a quarter inch.