gravitylover

Just gross out there now. 33° with mixed regular and white rain with dense fog. 

I was going to do the right thing and measure before the rain but... sleep. My last eyeball measurement was about a half inch but it was snowing pretty hard at that point. Now, after ~8 hours of rain and fog there's still a nice coating on natural and elevated surfaces, pavement never got covered. It's still 32° so maybe it'll hold on for a bit longer.

5 hours ago, forkyfork said:

the models show a saturated layer trapped under an inversion tomorrow morning so we should see some dense fog. if you squint you can pretend it's snow

I've been doing that for a few days here.

32.5/30/S2/SN- It's light to moderate white rain really, such a tease

I have light to moderate white rain, temp is on the way down and is hovering at 32 at the moment but with a mostly south wind I'm questioning whether it goes any lower. 

While it's always nice to see flakes it kinda sux when you know it's futile. I think I'm over this winter.

3 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

the sunless part really pisses me off, I hope we dont get that for the spring and summer.

More sun = more growth = more allergens waiting to ruin your day  A couple of years ago we had a very wet and gloomy spring that didn't really end until around Memorial Day. This left the local forests with nearly no understory until late June and it never fully recovered from the slow start. Unfortunately the mold was pretty terrible...

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

9 days in February with at least a T of rain so far. But not much total rainfall to show for it. We can remember the heavier rainfall forecasts for last Friday got lighter the close in we got. Welcome to Seattle.

Data for NY CITY CENTRAL PARK, NY
Click column heading to sort ascending, click again to sort descending.

Date	Precipitation
2020-02-01	T
2020-02-02	0.07
2020-02-03	T
2020-02-04	T
2020-02-05	T
2020-02-06	0.51
2020-02-07	0.25
2020-02-08	0.00
2020-02-09	0.00
2020-02-10	0.37
2020-02-11	0.31

It's not about actual amounts it's about soggy, boggy ground and gloomy uncomfortable conditions. I just spent 11 days on the road with a 6 of those in S Florida. As the weather broke last Sunday and the sun came out I felt different. By Monday afternoon in Key West I had been wearing sunglasses and short sleeves for 2 days and I was thinking more clearly and feeling better. Over the course of the week I definitely felt like I was functioning better overall. On the drive up it was clear and sunny and all was still well but waking up to the gloom and mud here yesterday sent me right back. I'm having the hardest time getting back in the game and working again.

Yay for over 12 hours of dense fog  I'm so sick of soggy.

34 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

great year for VT/NH/ME ski resorts.  I'm heading to Okemo in March-hoping the snows continue for another month

 The difference a bit further north is significant. It was thigh deep or better at Smuggs this morning. 

9 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Same areas keep getting hit. Getting old.

My friends in northern VT, northern NH and the Daks are lovin' it.

4 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

there's really no abnormally cold air anywhere.  I think we pull a perfect game/no hitter and go the way of the great snowless winters like 1972-73, 1997-98, 2001-02, etc.

Although 1997-98 did have one meaningless wet snowfall event on the first day of Spring.

 

And holy sht what a storm that was. 17" of tree snapping glue! It fell in just a few hours with insane winds and the temp dropped 30 degrees while it was happening. That was one of the most memorable and damaging storms of the last 25 years where I live.

I had a great looking dusting.

Solid winter going on apparently. It's similar around the Daks and Green Mtn spine up north from pics and reports.

Well, I got home just in time. It fizzled for 5 minutes as the temp dropped from 34 to 32 within the last 3 miles of home. 3,489 miles with nothing more than some light rain in the Lower Keys and finishing with heavy flakeage as I pulled above 500 feet coming up the hill.

It's snowing nicely here at home and I have a cold beer helping me to wind down after starting the day 700 miles away and having lunch on the beach in Virginia. 

1 hour ago, Animal said:

My younger nephew reported near 20 inches at the Northwood school in lake placid with the recent storm 

I've been there, had friends that were students 35-40 years ago. Is it still populated by mostly rich fk up kids that smoke an inordinate amount of really good weed?

I'm ok with it, we don't need them anyway.

So what's it looking like on Sunday? I'm driving back from FL and have summer tires on the car.

12 hours ago, HVSnowLover said:

Yea I feel I need to go somewhere at some point this winter to see snow but Killington is too far thats why I wish the snow line actually would at least push down to the Catskills.

Too far, you're kidding right? Why do so many people think that anything outside their regular routine is too far to drive. I know I'm on the other side of that, I'll hop in the car to drive to Burlington to have a beer with friends, I'll go to Ellicotville to go mtn biking and I just drove to The Keys because it's easier than flying and renting and stuff. 2.5-3 hours seems like a nothing little ride...

25 minutes ago, Rtd208 said:

I think some of us are getting to caught up in what the models are showing instead of what the pattern is doing.

Ya think? For many the hobby has morphed into modelology rather than meteorology.

4 hours ago, Snow88 said:

Inland weenies rejoice 

Dude you really need to just move. You're NYPD right? Head for the north Bronx or Westchester. 

39 minutes ago, bluewave said:

 

Wow

36 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

Stunning.

I was going to use a different word.

No driving was pretty sketchy and I was kinda busy   I have the worst tires on my car for cold slippery roads and this was right at that hairy edge of "oh shit". I've only seen it happen at MUCH lower temps and only when surfaces are already frozen and coated. With everything including the air well above freezing this was so unexpected and awesome to experience. It was right at that fuzzy top edge of the cloud deck and there was nothing at all above or below that thin layer. I obviously didn't have much to do other than cruise in the dark after that so had hours to sit and analyze it and just kept buzzing about how cool it was. I think my wife got a little bit annoyed  

Woot I'm famous  

2 hours ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

Was there any snow remnants anywhere along the higher elevations of 81 in Virginia?

Nothing other than the rime accumulations that were happening while we drove through.

11 hours ago, weatherpruf said:

It could be cold and dry. That would suck more. 

I'm hoping to set up a snowmaking system at home so this would actually work well for me. 

I'm in FL but my kids said it was snowing at home last night. 

The Blue Ridge Pkwy and Skyline Drive is one of the best drives in the country. It adds at least a day to the trip and if you have time is absolutely worth it but, not at this time of year. 

I wanted to add that when we were driving through the riming zone the sky was blue above us and when we'd pop up a few feet above the cloud the temp would jump and we were back on dry ground then would descend back into it again. 12-1500 feet above the clouds it was 5>7° warmer than at that riming point and right below it was dry too but there was a ~300 foot thick zone it was happening in. Cool stuff...

I saw something I don't think I've seen like this before today. On I81 in VA as we got above 1200 feet and reached the upper reaches of the cloud deck the temp dropped to 35 and the rime frost started accumulating. At one point around 1500 feet it was an inch deep. It was so pretty the way everything with any sort of westerly exposure was dusted. I've seen riming before but never accumulating on otherwise bare ground with the air above freezing. I also didn't realize that 81 and 77 run at such high altitude,over 2k for a long time and popping up to 2900 at points.

Well, it looks like I'm getting lucky with a nice weather day for a drive to Florida. I'll be back around the 10th so if it's going to snow this winter this is when it's going to happen. Enjoy the snow guys