HIPPYVALLEY

Yeah, it doesn't actually excite me, I just need something to happen. Losing the snow suck tho'

The cutter on Friday sucks, but at least the weather will be a little bit interesting that day.

This has been one of the most boring “active patterns” ever and the fact that we have the cold air has been a bit maddening.

It’s going around all of the schools. Wife and kid had it and I’ve somehow been able to avoid it even in a small house. Beer and long, brisk dog walks in the cold night air maybe saved me. Today is kind of raw crap with the overcast. I was expecting a sunny day.

Correct

There’s close to 8” of black ice. You could drive a tractor-trailer truck out on the ice. It’s not going anywhere with one warm day.

I get out in the weather a few times a day, the dog certainly aids that endeavor, it's been a cold December. Still 75% snow cover of at least 3" here and it hasn't snowed in two weeks.

He’s pretty realistic and somewhat conservative when it comes to snow.

No, you’re not playing right, you need to constantly be dissatisfied and fretting about the next storm threat.

Lean times.

That sounds fantastic and fun to witness!

But you know it will just ride out as months of purgatory, so we may as well hope, the pattern tends towards snowy outcomes for New England.

Luckily, very little snow in Franklin County today so everything should be like glass after the rain. Folks are out on the ice fishing everywhere. I’m might walk out on Barton Cove tomorrow with the chisel to see how much ice there is. Guessing it’s probably 4 to 6 inches. There’s already a few pop-up shanties set up out there.

As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.

NW MA was a shutout but models all at least agreed on that! No complaints, it’s been full on winter here for two weeks.