IowaStorm05

If it happens once often it can happen again and again. Not every time, but often enough.

I feel like only on the East Coast can you have it be 7 degrees the night before a rain storm. Yeah I know this can happen in South Dakota…. But it’s odd. I WANT SNOW.

It’s a compelling argument…. Because if you do clear a surface after 4 inches of snow, then 5 more inches subsequently accumulated on said surface, you got your 5 inches. But the earth does not clear itself in such a way. Your back yard is going to have the end result of the two events. The solution could be offered to just say “the water content of our snowpack increased by .30 today. There are now 9 inches of snow on the ground, when yesterday there was 7.5”

I’m sure you have! And now that we are done with that it’s time to argue about the standard size kitchen trash cans and bags is too small. If you live in a big apartment it’s annoying to have to take it out almost every single day. If only they changed 13 gallon to…. 19 gallon. Might be better.

I don’t fully understand the practice of “clearing” because to me it seeks to inflate or alter what is actually going on. What I mean is that…. Since we, as laymen, measure snow depth by how deep the snow is on the ground, it should be measured just as it ends up by the end of storm. The action of clearing is like half-way to the practice of measuring water content in the snow. The water content may vary but 2 inches of snow is read as 2 inches of snow. If it were me I just stick a ruler in the snowpack and measure it’s depth. I can get an alternative true measurement by measuring the water content within. But since we measure snowfall by it’s accumulation as laymen and not it’s water content, might was well not bother clearing just because we know that by the time 20 inches has fallen as a snowpack, it’s gonna be compacted to a certain extent. In my mind clearing several times to exclude settling is not relevant… it only measures what the accumulation could have been if only it were not subjected to the laws of physics. who am I to argue about procedures, but it’s how I understand it.

Omg wow. That is odd coming from someone who is used to normal graphs. So basically where it says 10c that is not delineated by a line perfectly vertical, but diagonal. I knew there just had to be something I was doing wrong because I’m not stupid enough to believe the other people who frequent this board are going to make such an oversight. In fact as a mere hobbyist, albeit a lifetime one, I only recently became interested in these “sounding” reports and previously just avoided them.

Yeah I know….. the red line is temperature? It shows that at ~800 that the line has a peak temperature reaching around 9 degrees celcius according to that. It is even circled and is just above and adjacent to 10. I’m in no way busting any balls I’m just trying to figure this out or how I’m not interpreting this if I am wrong.

I am sure it must have to do with having a lower population in relevant areas, but they don’t really make these storm result maps for winter storms that slam California and Nevada…. Or anywhere out west really. Id like for them to do that…. But it probably has to do with spotter population being less dense, lots of vast empty space between towns. You can’t make a high resolution observation map with the only observers are birds and rabbits. It couldn’t be that humans out there are less interested in significant weather, could it?

I wonder what the odds of climate change related weirdness causing some winter nowadays where we get 7-10 feet of snow over a 2 or 3 week span of time virtually for all of us. Would that be too much?

2” Xmas eve plus 13” yesterday means Willimantic at the river is at 15” for the season so far. Roughly 37-40 per cent of average? I know that some of the higher spots within a few miles of me saw 14 to 15 inches yesterday which makes sense since my location is a relatively lower spot, at 230 feet, in the river canyon area. Fluff factor.

I don’t know because I lived in Seattle then.

I once lived in a house that was close to a ledge above a freeway and that would reduce my totals when wind came in from that side.

I am celebrating this massive snowfall that was far easier to shovel out than I ever could have imagined. It took me 15 minutes to dig my car out……of 13 inches….. with a plow snowbank behind the car……. With a plastic dust pan. that don’t happen much “around these parts”

I don’t even remember the last time we got one of those clippers. Wasnt them clippers a big thing from like 2003-2005? I do recall several snow events that clipped the coast with light snow while Woonsocket was cold and dry.

Sad to see her go. She was good to me.

Time to move to Marquette.

If that happens it justifies my calling out even more because blowing snow ****s with road treatment.

For some of the models this is a major bust high.

Ours is down pat at 13”. Our elevation and river proximity likely trims ever so slightly the totals this time.

I would imagine a place like Westerly must surely have more than 2 inches yet? It could have been a report from a couple hours ago with no new ones since? Because I see good banding on the SE CT and RI shore

I actually did call out of my 4-9pm shift. I’m just a cart pusher in retail…. And it’s a 40 mile drive there. (Pay is OK tho). I realize things might be slightly better in the afternoon, it will be worse tonight after dark again in some spots. I do not own a shovel, which I guess I should get…. But I never thought of the fact that when they plow they bury your car into its spot. Ill have to get out eventually and this isn’t going to melt. I will dig this afternoon and by tomorrow morning roads will be in better shape. im not getting myself killed driving across the state for 80 bucks.

Maybe but if they get enough reports from whoever over a geographic area i am sure they will get it. Fun fact I was an official spotter for a couple years out west in Reno, one time I called in when we got way way over a foot in a narrow band that was stationary over us in 2010 and they were indeed shocked with disbelief. But it happened, though most areas got 5-10 inches.

Oh dang it you’re right. I’ll resubmit when it’s over. I said it was still snowing at least

Thanks. I tried to submit via web but it failed to send