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- Birthday 03/10/1946
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Brattleboro beat you.
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You are correct, thanks. Another 8-10" atop what might fall Monday and Wed/Thurs and we'd have quite the pack.
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Nice, though that includes 2 and possibly 3 different storms. Maybe some more high-ratio pow; average here is close to 10, highest winter (98-99) was 12.4 and to date we're at 14.3. Apt to retreat as normal temps climb.
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We may or may not get anything signif9icant, but the grandkids in SNJ (about 25 miles SSE from PHL) are progged for 10-16. With 2 decent storms already and the cold (especially Jan into Feb) they've probably had more days with snow cover of any winter since moving there in 2015. Three years ago, their total "cover" was a flurry that turned the grass to light green.
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High end of the forecast range due to high ratio - 5.7"/0.34" LE, ratio 17:1. 23" at the stake.
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Yesterday was pure sun, little wind, 39/2, mildest max of the month so far. Low was 1 this morning but clouds moved in late morn and probably won't let the temp get past the low 30s.
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Near 32, TD probably mid-teens (IZG 1 PM 32/15) and clouds thick enough to block the glow spot. Should wet-bulb into the 20s and maybe some decent ratio like 12:1.
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That's where GYX is for here, while channel 13 has us in the coating-2" color, and a lot closer to nada than to 2-4". Yesterday it looked like a whiff.
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A wider stripe but otherwise looks like today's miss. Maybe 1-2 here, and GYX has Monday as another miss (though that one's 5 days away and things will likely change a few more times).
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One more time on the fringe? Or like today with breezy blue sky.
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Two good storms here, 24" and 13.2", but by Dec 15 we'd gotten 51% of the snow season total, which was about 15" BN. January did have our coldest afternoon highs since Fort Kent on 14-15, with -11 and -8, and a stiff breeze. (The -11 was spoiled by the -7 at my previous evening's observations.) where's my projected 35" over the next 7 days???? Maybe move the decimal point one space to the left?
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Same here but without the flakes. Sun tried but failed.
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3rd year with a stinker month within met winter? Feb 24, 3.7" Jan 25, 5.6" All the above maps leave this area in the north fringe, though it's 3-4 days out.
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So far, we're running behind Feb 2024 (our driest Feb of 27) for QPF. Have not had a truly powerful storm this cold season here - closest probably the southeast rainer on Dec 19. One could dispute my comment, citing 19.6" on Jan 25-27, but that was a product of freaky high ratios. LE of 0.77" and 10 mph breezes don't spell powerful to me. (That said, the 6 hours of floating feathers 7A-1P on Jan 26 is the prettiest spell of snowfall I can remember. That 6" addition was 98.5% air, far beyond any air/water ratio for a snowfall greater than one inch.)
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I've seen little snow devils but nothing like those pics. The only dust devil I've seen came in the hot summer of 1966, where I was cooking burgers and dogs in the lodge at Curtiss-Wright's employee lake resort in NNJ. On a hot but dry and near-calm August, the small (<20 ac) lake was suddenly full of whitecaps from a north wind gusting probably to 40 down the long axis of the lake. The spinner formed at the south end of the lodge, moved against the wind behind the building, then headed across the water. On the way it tossed the thick cushion from a 6-foot lounge chair about 50 feet up into an oak while flipping the wooden chair end-over-end to the water's edge, also flipping the 14-foot rescue boat. It picked up the thigh-high steel base of an outdoor ash tray and carried it round and round across the lake and 30-40 feet off the water before hitting the far side woods and dissipating. My guess on why it formed was that the wind passing north-to-south past the lodge caused low pressure at the south end of the building, and air curling into the "vacuum" started to whirl and kept on spinning for several minutes. The sudden wind itself lasted less than 15 minutes.
