CapturedNature

There you go! No need to hide behind a glass window and look out. Just be glad you're alive!

Whatever outdoor activities folks have or what they would normally do.

Regression to the mean can be a bitch. Get out and enjoy it!

LOL...you guys never would have survived the 80s and early 90s. This was basically every winter. Just enjoy what you have and you'll be fine.

I was just hopeful that before we start putting all time records in the books that there would be some kind of analysis to make sure it reflected reality. Do the guys checking the sensor also look at the siting for issues like you mentioned? My guess is that this is never going to be fixed. It's probably going to go the way of BDL in the early 90s. BDL used to radiate then better than it does now and I remember having discussions over a change that occurred and it's been that way for 25+ years.

With BOS setting a record monthly temp yesterday, does anyone know if that will finally get someone to look at the readings there?

No different than a fake cold 32° and having to scrape your windshield. Seriously, congrats on the snow...it's always special to get hit like that. Happened to me once in the 90s.

I was visiting some of the woods I tap in the spring and drove by Bigelow Hollow - I saw several people ice fishing out there and that's just south of you.

Here in CT when the cable companies were running lines in the 80s they were forced to provide service to streets/towns in rural areas to avoid what happened in Mass. The cable companies were told that if they wanted to provide service to Town X, they had to also provide service to Town Y even if it only had a few hundred customers. The same thing happened in towns like Stafford where most people live in the center of town (Stafford Springs). If they wanted to provide service to Stafford Springs, they had to run lines down all roads in town. Now every town and road has Internet. I honestly don't know why Mass. didn't do that. It's not like these places are truly remote like in the High Plains or Rocky Mountains. In a lot of cases we're only talking about 10-20 miles.

How far is the nearest Internet? Can you create an air bridge from there? If the companies won;t run the backbone, that could be an alternative. You'd need a high spot on either end but you can go 20-30 miles between points. The best part is once you do that you can offer Internet service to everyone around the school. How abut cellular service? I think AT&T & Verizon have rural Internet service packages. It's more limited, but would give you Internet access. Even if the cellular signal is weak, you can use external antenna's to improve the signal.

I'd take this over the 75° Dp's any day. I can always add a layer and still do what I need to do when it's cold but there's nothing I can do over cooling off in that crap. 5° this morning...I love that squeaky sound snow makes when it's cold.

yeah, it was something I normally see around a frontal passage. I was just driving along and bam, dense fog and the temp dropped from 23-24 to 17. Once I was out of the fog it went back up. It's not normally like that either. Gotta live micro climates.

I drove through that are that was dense fog early last evening and this morning it was perfectly clear so whatever was going on clearly mixed out. The temp was pretty much in line with the whole area and there was no fog.

Something lined up tonight because it's usually not like that. It'll be interesting going through there tomorrow morning.

lol...no. Just a big open field in Somers: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9998001,-72.4687698,1206m/data=!3m1!1e3 I just wonder what made the temperature drop so quickly to the saturation point? I drive through there in the morning and occasionally I'll see fog but rarely in the evening like that. Plus the temperature usually is only 2-3° different not 6°.

I saw an interesting phenomenon driving home from work earlier. On my way home I drive through some large open area and as I was making my way across the open fields I encountered an area of dense fog and the temperature dropped as low as 17. As I left the open area the temp rose back up to between 23 and 24. I've seen that happen in the morning but I thought it was pretty cool to see that less than an hour of sunset and have the temp drop so much lower than surrounding areas so quickly without a front nearby.

I had 3" this morning and I'm hoping we get something tonight to have something measurable in the morning.

lol...one of those squares in Stafford is probably my house/woods.

You'll probably have more than I or Kevin will. It's the one thing I don't like about my location. Warm air always moves in pretty quickly. There's nothing south of me to stop it or hills around me high enough to create a bowl effect. The woods looked pretty solid this morning and I think they will hold out.

Yesterday while I was at work in Springfield, I could see that house was pushing 50° while it was in the upper 30s there. When I left at 4:30 it was still around 40° downtown but just coming up the hill on Route 5 into Longmeadow was enough to bump it up into the mid 40s. Cold likes to pool... Looks like I have 3-4" of solid cover still. Let's see what makes it out of today and if we can add to what's left. This is why I was OK with the hours of sleet while others had snow last week - a little extra staying power. It might not be enough, but it's better than nothing.

Made it to down to 1° here. Missed my first zero by 1°...oh well.

FWIW, I keep my weather record 7A to 7A so snowfall I what I have listed for 12/2 for example would have been snow that fell between 12/1 at 7A and 12/2 at 7A. So, I have an entry of 1.5" on 12/4 that fell mostly on the 3rd but after 7A so my storm total was 15", not 13.5". Sorry if I'm confusing the record. My season total is right it's just the dates might be slightly different from others.

That's why I'm OK with the 3-4" of sleet I received. That will take a lot more to melt than plain snow would.

It's winter time...time for a new banter thread.

I'd like to contribute...