Spanks45

agreed...I think winter forecasting is pretty much voodoo at this point (could be due to the changing background climate making analogs almost useless, probably why Bastardi is wrong 99.9% of the time these days). I see countless forecasts every year that end up wrong or revised over and over again to make them look "better" and when they do end up getting them close to being right, it is usually for the wrong reasons. We get snow in October and April/May (Tip did call the October snow well in advance, kudos). Nino's and Nina's don't even act like the normal events of the past...I love the tracking aspect of weather, regardless of rain or snow...

I moved to CT in December of 2014, my previous "record" year was 72" during the 95/96 season living in Millersville, PA.

Best snowfall season I have ever experienced in my lifetime of 37 years(I measured 73 inches where I lived in Newtown)...hoping to someday top that year without having to move north.... Any ideas on the record snowfall for a season is for the Southbury/Newtown region is?

No kidding, in December on top of it....yet a polar bear belches and it snows to the coast, in October...

Its a great grill...I had the previous model for 11 years, 6 of those were spent in the salty air of Delaware which led to premature rusting.

Up to 62⁰, now the sun is out...feels great! Turkey is grilling away.

The ridge is well north of Alaska past 14 days...that should deliver some arctic air and shut off the Pac for a while

greatest decision my family made! We have actually been homeschooling for 3 years now and haven't missed a beat...We have missed the lack of sports though. Thankfully we moved back in August and our cul-de-sac has multiple families with kids almost all the same age and they are getting together to play almost everyday, social distancing of course. I can;t even imagine what it would be like if both of us worked and had to deal with the on and off remote schooling, just a nightmare.

a friend's parents just got it, from simply having an uncle stop by and help out with a few things around the house. Both parents are not doing very well at this point, amazing how 1 simple interaction could lead to dire consequences.....we need some sort of vaccine asap

its like finally getting the EURO to latch on to the blizzard being shown by most models....GFS is Nevada at the moment, might show the blizzard after the snow starts falling

After last year, day by day is probably the best way to go...but yeah, expectations are low. I didn't get to experience 2010/2011 up here, so let's go and do it again!

No pigs please.... hopefully the blocking we have seen recently has something to do with the solar min and not some random garbage. Possibly seeing some rounds of blocking this winter. Probably the typical massive swings 0 to 60 degrees in 24 hrs with little snow retention with and average winter is what we can hope for I guess....

So the the stronger we get here, the more it can impact our region.... Great, our winter was looking grim before, now we might as well go full ratter at this point. So the wild card could be the solar min. Expectations remain low going into October.

No piggies please....September through March, but it is 2020, so why not

This guy has been around 2 out of the last 3 nights....first at 430 am and last night at 815 pm, 5 minutes after I had the dog out. I do not really want to run into him.

Great views from my house as it sits at the high point of the "valley". I don't think those hills will effect much, might end up staying under 32 in freezing rain events though. The breezes are great, so much better than our last place, surrounded by trees, never had any breezes, always felt stagnant.

The bottom third, that the main unit is attached to is a galvanized steel pipe. The anemometer is attached to an aluminum pole that is used for a roof rake. Since it doesn't snow anymore, I figured the pole would get better use holding an anemometer...

Finally got the Davis setup, temporarily at least until I get the garden built and the anemometer on top of the house....

In Southbury, looking toward Woodbury....

North of here, right before the crazy winds and power knocked out again...

Yup, I have no time to deal with anymore of that...a nice steady rainfall is fine by me

This looks fun, hopefully it makes it here...

Flakes flying here again, deck is a sheet of ice with a coating of snow...31.1 this morning.

Wind is whipping, temp down to 35 and now we have some snow falling....what a May 9th!

Midlevel magic ftw here in wct...snowing moderately but the heaviest seems to be over now...