Connecticut Appleman

The Cornwall/Falls Village area here in Connecticut is insane with black gnats all summer long. I used to do outside work there in my younger years as well as my in-laws used to live there and from May to Frost it was miserable to be outside unless there was 40 mph wind.

Pretty wild winds as that moved through here in New Hartford!

I've got +/- 2 inches of solid ice on the driveway. Put 200 pounds of salt on it earlier and it is just laughing at me. Driveway is about 1/4 mile long and only really worrying on the inclines - we are about 60 feet below the road. I teach salt application trainings for public works and well in this circumstance everything I preach will go out the window because I could not get out to the road right now if I had to.

Front has not reached here yet - temp has not changed yet.

I would say just a hair under that - I hate trying to measure accretion.

It will be quite interesting to see what happens. The whole house generator may get a workout. The power has already been flicking all afternoon. So many really dead rotting ash trees waiting for gravity to win and this may speed this up.

Is the colder air still expected to come into NW CT to come in around 7-8:00? Man, the ice dangling in the trees is going to be something when the wind comes up. Right at 32 degrees now.

Trying to tickle to 32 here (31.8) but the trees have really started to accumulate ice. I'm at 1000 feet in New Hartford, not sure what it is in the valleys around me. If the trees don't shed before the wind picks up - oh my. Heard a couple of trees snap down in the woods.

Was just looking at that myself.

Light coating on everything here in New Hartford - 22/15

First few flakes coming down - sky does not have the usual menacing look to it like it normally does when it means business.

Litchfield County Approved

Died back quite a bit right now in NW CT. Hopefully comes back.

Just picked up a quick 0.24 inches in a quick downpour.

Wild 6-7 minutes here in New Hartford. Probably took 10 years of life off the electronics with all the power flickering, going out and coming back on. Power on here with the storm past.