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I think it's the old "reloading" thing. Early Jan, actually from Xmas on thru most of Jan used to be cold, then reload.... indigenous people's summer....then mid Feb, to late, gave some great storms back in the way back. Then March was a crap shoot. Now, who knows.... but people saying no more chances before Jan is even over, maybe right, but maybe not. The actual weather generally has something to say about these things, lol....and I've never seen a script.

Well, Climo likes the last third of Feb for Ga snows, so it's in the bank....right?? A three peat for 2025. And this time the big one for Tony...not these piddly 1 inch snows with a little ip, but a three inch ip with a little snow. Make is so, Mr. Abacus...if you please

Always broke the stalagmite everyday to stop it damming. And I agree about the pencil width, and it's the hot water that freezes first, but the cost of heating water is way out weighed by the physical cost of lying on your back in sub freezing temps working on pipes. In my case the out door faucet was near the kitchen and on the same line as the sink, so I needed to keep water running in the line. So much depends on how insulated you are, how hot the house is, wrapped pipes, heat tape, etc.

I always wrapped mine really well, and if it was going really low, let them run a pencil lead stream. That was my studio where I used the stay, and it was up on blocks with little insulation. A better house might do with just being wrapped in thick insulation. And I always blocked mine from the wind.

It's a well built brick house with double pane windows, so it never got below 46 in the house, and the basement with the pipes either as it's under grade on three side. I burned wood in the fireplace, and slept under several thermal blankets, so I was fine. Thanks for worrying. My studio has a full tank so I could go down there to warm up, or even sleep if I'd gotten too cold. And I had an oil heater for the laundry room, and a small ceramic heater for my feet. I was amazed at how warm the house stayed with it down to 12.5. I've ordered some more ceramic heaters, and I learned I've been wasting gas heating the basement when it didn't need it. So I'll save money in the long run and use way less propane...after I pay off the electric bill. It was a good warm up for an ice storm, as the space heaters will have to heat the house if the power goes, and I'll be way more conservative with the gas. I have to learn to live in a colder house, but being on blood thinners I don't deal with the cold as well as I used too. Learned a lot from the experience for sure. Electric water heater. And of course all the gas companies were dealing with their own customers demands in bitter cold, so you can't just call someone...they don't answer the phone.

Any kind of frozen is anomalous these days. I'm counting on anomalous to get my winter thrills. Usually it's spring by now.

My propane driver got mauled by a dog on a delivery two weeks ago, so I've been without heat for 10 days. Not fun, in the coldest air of the year. I'm like the pioneers, lol.

Well, he deserved sleet rather than zr, so I was glad to help, lol. Seems we are usually too far south, or too far north. One of these days though we'll be just right...and not for zr.

Hey, El K. Hope you got more than I did! Seems like Perry was in the good band.

Same reason the airport rarely represents what the rest of us experience. I'd much rather see a variety of reports from around the area, but that's not practical, I guess. I get a much better idea of a system via obs on weather boards.

It looked like goofy was showing zr in the long range.

Did you buy dry ice? Or risk it due to your trusting it would be ip/sn? And looking ahead it looks like the pattern wants to bomb us with zr, so don't take those power packs back.

It looked like a concentrated Zr attack in the long range. Don't like that look, so I'll just wish it to be sleet, lol. Plenty of time to get that low further down.

From over at the Exp station temp 2l.8 Rh 53.1 dpt 12.9 wb 24.2 Can't say it's snow there, but my friend nearly a mile to the nw has what I have, so it not just because I'm so handsome, and have the moles thruming for Larry.

Just got to get that dry air saturated. It's just pin head flakes blowing about, but reports back down stream describe how it fattens up over time, so I'm expecting everyone under continuing virga will see something even if it's just a flake.