IrishRob17

Multiple rounds of flurries here today.

The wind is here

Some folks at work have to deal with PM 2.5 on a regular basis. I’ll have to remember to ask them if they can share a link.

Wow! I knew the air was getting better but thats impressive. I just went to that site and have to get familiar with but see Newburgh is in the low 30’s this morning.

A unexpected rumble of thunder here

I’m finally free from voluntary quarantine and my infant grandson had to get tested yesterday, thankfully his fever broke last night though...not a fan of the new normal but at least the yard is all cleaned up and ready for spring and summer! Hope you all are well during these crazy times, especially our first responders.

Yea, there are no food shortages but at least in the OC the trucks are about 36 hours behind. If people just calmed the hell down and stopped hoarding there would be zero issues with the shelves being empty. Hoping for a picturesque snowfall tomorrow morning, we shall see.

Now that I raked half the yard I’m sure I’ll get enough snow on the trees to bring down plenty of twigs.

I’d be shocked if there was leaf out along 17 even with the mild weather but it’s coming. There are buds around here and some bushes have some small leaves starting to emerge. I did have crocus bloom this week.

We should still approach the afternoon with an abundance of caution...

I don’t see any lightning strikes on Radar Scope

FYP

Work is nuts with COVID-19 preparations but I digress, woke up before dawn to .1" so I'm on the board for March! Winning...

And I hear peepers down along the river...

I had a few sleet showers a couple of hours ago

With 2.2” for Feb that makes 20.9” on the season here

No doubt about it.

The last season that my low for the winter was above 5 was '07-'08 when the winter low was 7 on 1/3/08. My low for this winter is also 7 on 12/8/19.

I have to look to see what my Feb total is but through the end of Jan I was at 18.7" for the season. '15-'16 was a season total of 12.1", '11-'12 was 23.5", so this year is better than four years ago at least. What did you get in '15-'16?

Animal dropped the big one

So are we thinking we are in a delayed but no denied pattern or is winter over? Please advise.

Possibly. There was enough here that some of the roads were plowed.

.7 this morning before the changeover

I was born in New Hampshire but raised in NY since the age of 5 so I’m luckily familiar with many of the sites up there, I go up about once a year. The museum in North Conway is cool, been there a couple times, glad you got to see it too. I’ve been up there spring, summer, and fall but this was my first trip in the winter since 1982 so it was long overdue. I’ve driven up Mount Washington a couples times, rode up a couple times, took the train my first time up and have ridden in the coaches up in summer and now winter. The Mount Washington Auto Road runs snow coaches in the winter, well worth it for folks like us especially, here’s a link: https://www.mtwashingtonautoroad.com/snowcoach-mock-up I was up Whiteface once in the fall, that was also beautiful. Here’s a couple photos this morning from the top of Kancamagus Pass.

Here’s a few from today from Franconia Notch, Mount Washington, and Crawford Notch. I’d say the Mount Washington Snow Coach is a must for winter enthusiasts. The took us to just over 4,000 feet where it was -2 with 40 MPH winds and higher gusts.