Winter cancelled/uncancelled banter 25/26

[Santa Claus]

On 1/23/2026 at 9:23 PM, Santa Claus said:

i am using powders and spells to discourage the warm nose on Sunday

it is working

[Volcanic Winter]

I just don’t want the ZR, I’m pretty much fine with any other outcome at this point. 

I don’t recall too many ice storms growing up in CNJ, but there was one notable in my memory shortly after I started driving - had to be 2005 or 2006, I remember power sliding on the windy roads near my house trying to get home in the morning after sleeping over a friend’s house. Was driving an WRX at the time and distinctly remember feeling like it was the sole reason I didn’t end up in a tree. Was in interior Monmouth Co. Only cool thing is the unique crystallized look on surfaces, pass on everything else.  
 

I have though driven on ice covered mountain roads in Iceland a couple years ago, and it was a butt puckering experience I won’t soon forget. 

[NorthShoreWx]

5 hours ago, Jebman said:

Thus far tonight, 23 degrees, sleet and ZR bands continue apace, with half inch sleet accumulations on every surface, with about three sixteenths of an inch of pure ZR ice on top of that. The friction coefficient is extremely low and I have already experienced several near-disastrous episodes tonight as I tried my best to get sleet and ice accumulation measurements. Damn shoes are so slick! Railings are ice covered and VERY slippery, really not much help at all and I am most assuredly not the young man I once was and I really have to be super careful. This ain't 1994 no more! It's the mid 2020s and I'm OLD!

Oh man, Jeb is getting old?  Say it ain't so.

[jm1220]

13 hours ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Slim chance of that.  I'll take the under.

I cashed out from NYC and put my money into yes for 20"+ in Boston and a little on 24"+. I'm thinking under 10" too especially how they measure but it should really rip until 2-3pm when sleet will barge in. And then it's a question of how much QPF as sleet, that counts too. 

[NorthShoreWx]

1 hour ago, jm1220 said:

I cashed out from NYC and put my money into yes for 20"+ in Boston and a little on 24"+. I'm thinking under 10" too especially how they measure but it should really rip until 2-3pm when sleet will barge in. And then it's a question of how much QPF as sleet, that counts too. 

Find out what the guys from the Central Park Conservancy are betting.

[nycwinter]

probably have to go back to the 96 blizzard since we had snow in these cold temps in the city..

[North and West]

probably have to go back to the 96 blizzard since we had snow in these cold temps in the city..

2003?


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[Stormlover74]

16 minutes ago, North and West said:

2003?


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Snow began falling when it was 14 there so this is even colder

[Santa Claus]

these people on the road man i wish them luck.  it is nasty out there.

[North and West]

these people on the road man i wish them luck.  it is nasty out there.

Use your sleigh, reindeer man.


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[Santa Claus]

9 minutes ago, North and West said:

Use your sleigh, reindeer man.


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santa’s got glaucoma too man he can’t be driving in this