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5 hours ago, crossbowftw3 said:

Honesdale just to my west received 17”. I measured anywhere between 15-16 at my location.

You must be real close to Narrowsburg Ny? I have a buddy who lives in Beach Lake. He just called and said the drifts were real bad in that area. I'm just south of Hamlin Pa, on the very northern edge of the Pocono Plateau close to 84.

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11 hours of freezing mist with sessions of light snow all glued to the ~18-20" on the ground has made this one of the more annoying big storms in a long time. I have the important stuff cleared, now have to detail it over the next few days so there's room for more. The hardest part ahead is digging through the street pile (5' high and 10' thick) and up the front yard to get to the oil fill by Friday for a delivery. 

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3.7° right now with a 20 inch or so snow pack.

One of those times where I won't mind getting a storm this weekend but I'm not gonna live and die with it either. I'm pretty content right now with the way things are and look.

The one thing lacking so far this winter has been extreme cold. I've been below zero only once -1°, Daytimes have been cold but for whatever reason we haven't had one of those nights of clear, calm, and widespread radiational cooling to negative double digits. I'm nitpicking I know.

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Moving this stuff is a project. The top 6-8" comes off in big heavy chunks and then it's all grainy and just falls off the shovel. Pain in the back... Uggh. 

I've been here for 30 years this spring and I've never seen such terrible work by plow drivers all over the area. I don't know how badly understaffed or underfunded they are but if they would just slow down and pay attention it would go a long way. Nearly every intersection I went through, from here to Pelham Manor, the downstream snow bank is 4-5 feet from the curb and breaking down. Pretty often you're forced over the line and vehicles going the other way don't expect it so there's no room.

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-6 will do it for me,  -5 now. Snowpack at both stakes, opposite sides of the yard, are at 13.5" this morning. Sure theres been zero melting but sublimation and settling happens regardless. The storm this weekend ain't happening for us, would like to like see a number of small events, at least, in the next couple weeks to add back to the pack. 

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That pack depth map looks about right. Funny how the banks are so big and in the way, when we've had so much more on the ground before with fewer problems. I think back to the 40" pack a few years ago and, unless my old brain is more muddled than I thought, it seems like I had more room for snow than I do this time. *shrug* Anyway... I'd be good with another string of small, northern stream events keeping the pack fresh for a few weeks.

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3 minutes ago, gravitylover said:

That pack depth map looks about right. Funny how the banks are so big and in the way, when we've had so much more on the ground before with fewer problems. I think back to the 40" pack a few years ago and, unless my old brain is more muddled than I thought, it seems like I had more room for snow than I do this time. *shrug* Anyway... I'd be good with another string of small, northern stream events keeping the pack fresh for a few weeks.

The piles and banks are huge and I atribute that to the higher than expeced water content in the snow. Something to keep in mind as we move towards spring.

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Could be. I definitely noticed that a shovel load of a particular weight was larger than in warmer storms. Because it's been so cold the crystals are staying intact better and there's more air in the pack so it takes up more space. A little warmth and this stuff will compress pretty quickly. Good call.

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I've had four below zero mins so far this year, the most I've recorded was 15 in the '14-'15 winter. That winter is also my longest consective streak of below zeros, which was six. I'm currently at six days in a row below 32, the most I've recorded that was 14 days in the '17-'18 winter, and interestingly that winter I recorded a total of 23 days below 32 degrees. 

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