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That machine is on display in Athens, along with some really fine computer imagery of how it worked. It is truly a marvel, both conceptually as well as practically it is a marvel. Note that it had multiple gear trains, precision crafted to replicate the movements of the planets. The instructions were on the box, they were only discovered in the last couple of decades.

Northern California has been getting sustained rain for the last three days, if the radar maps are to be trusted. Has anyone any insight as to whether that is materially more than usual?

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A dusting to maybe an half inch of very fine snow on the UES in Manhattan. Snow is continuing at a slow rate at 9.00PM..

The memory hole concept is alive and well, especially in DC.

Don, Was January 2925 precipitation in NYC the lowest on record or was the drizzle yesterday enough to prevent that?

Seems to me that the Paris Climate Agreement was mainly eyewash, hence there will be no effect. Reality is that China and India, the largest coal users by far, got a free pass for promises to get better sometime in the 2030s. Now that the US is out, it will be business as usual, with perhaps less need to pretend to be green.

Walking through the Park showed snow cover pretty thin, consistent with the official 1.6" estimate. However, the ground had been wet and it is possible that the initial snowfall was melted, Certainly there was a lot of ice patches where snow had been cleared. The most accumulation was definitely on the rustic wooden fences, they had easily half again as much snow depth as the ground, probably because their surface was pretty dry when the snow began.

Seems legit, I don't know where they measure, but walking around in the Park it's about 2" all over.

Maybe 2" tops here in Manhattan's UES. My hopes for 4-8" were dashed. But it's better than nothing and it should stay around for a little while.

Now steady snow on the UES, roads with about an inch of snow/snizzle. Still seems well short of expectations for me, but hopefully I'll be delighted tomorrow morning.

Perhaps you're getting a jackpot, but I'm not. Here on the UES near 90th St, it's thin snow and at most a half inch on snizzle on the roads.

Nothing on the ground and no precip currently at 6.45 PM here in Manhattan. Seems a bust.

Interesting, I use https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=DIX-N0Q-0-48, they have much less precip. Are there standards for what the radars show?

The radar says I'm almost done, just one more band to go. So I'm not hopeful of any more than an inch at best.