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I think I'm still at or under 10". It almost felt like winter for a few weeks there, a few days sure did, but it really doesn't feel any different than November or March.

I got a dusting! Yay 

Well that was the shortest winter in a while. The forest is starting to wake up with new greenery and even some flowers popping.

Here's an odd observation - When the early month cold snapped last month most of the ponds and reservoirs had little to no ice other than in shallow coves but over the last 2 weeks that ice has expanded and in a lot of cases is nearly complete on the more sheltered ponds. This ice growth happened while we stayed above freezing for 8 days! I'll be curious to see how the warmth and rain today and tomorrow affects it but the last one had no effect at all, the ice kept growing.

Pretty cool vis sat loop this afternoon. That SW>NE boundary is fun to watch. 

It kinda feels like it wants to snow some more, the clouds have lowered and thickened and it just has that feel to it.

Who wants to go for a mt bike ride tomorrow?

It did. Nice to start the month/year/decade with flakes flying. 

I'm wondering if that blob of light snow moving through the Catskills is going to hold together long enough to make it here. 

One thing that really stands out to me is how few times there were more than one such storms in any particular year. It happened more in the last 18 years than the previous hundred.

I could almost see it if the bay was frozen and the ocean slushed over like last year. A sand bar that holds no heat at all would actually become a heat sink a few feet above sea level.

Check this out 

I'm just about 8 miles from where that Shrub Oak ob was taken and I got 2.6".

Well, shoot. My wife and I have been debating whether or not to commit to a 2 day outdoor event (in the hills of Dutchess County) on 11/3-4 to kick off holiday sales for her new small business. I'm not comfortable pre-paying for a spot that may be cold and wet if this end of the month scenario plays out to the cold side which appears to be the consensus at the moment.

39 minutes ago, Rjay said:

Historic heat wave

Take that back  No more, just no more...

Halloween will get snowed out again for the third time this decade. 

15 minutes ago, Rainforrest said:

Definitely not good. We’ve already had 103 inches so far this year. I don’t know how much more we can handle. 

103"? WOW. 

3 minutes ago, Isotherm said:

 

They're not supposed to as per official guidelines. They should be taking intermediate depth measurements to capture maximum depth. Unfortunately, there is a ton of miscommunication on this issue.

Yeah there can be significant differences in max depth and regular clearing amounts. Like was mentioned in that writeup, 30" was out of line. 

1 hour ago, Snowshack said:

BN D, J, and F is just too much to ask for!  For now I'll take December evolving as modeled and no one mountain biking in shorts at Christmas.

 

Hahaha 

2 hours ago, Paragon said:

I'm not a cold and dry kind of guy- that's a killer on heating bills with no joy.  Give me snow and teens/20s, or give me 60-70 degrees with sunshine in the winter!  Actually, if it's not snowing, today is perfect!

 

 

 

 

That 65 degree Xmas Eve a few years ago was wonderful. Mountain biking in shorts and t-shirts that night was something I'll never forget. There was a whole bunch of riders out hootin' and hollerin' and just having a big old time like it was mid summer. I wouldn't mind another one like that  

5 hours ago, bluewave said:

Aerosmith played there in 1980. After Speaks closed down, none of the other clubs in that spot were as good.

http://stubstory.com/aerosmith-on-long-island-1980/

Very few of the old clubs were as successful much later than that either. At that point small shows had transitioned to theaters rather than clubs but there was still a strong bar band scene and very occasionally the bigger bands would show up for those bar shows. 

11 hours ago, bluewave said:

U2 actually played the Malibu back in 1981 before they became so famous.

 

 

I remember that well, my neighbor didn't stop raving about it for days afterwards. That was a year or so before I started going there because they didn't like my fake id 

1 hour ago, Dan76 said:

I remember seeing a sign for the stray cats outside J Pauls in oceanside probably 1980ish

I remember that too. I also remember some of the incredible shows the club in Island Park used to get when we first moved to O'side in 1970. Most of the really great stuff, The Doors, Grateful Dead was slightly before that but until ~73 that place killed it.

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

I have seen Joan Jett several times around town in Long Beach. She filmed a video a while back on Franklin and the boardwalk.

 

 

She used to live in Rockville Center right at the edge of the RVC Country Club. Nice house  

3 hours ago, bluewave said:

That's a great station. I grew up going to a bunch of concerts in that format when it was still called new wave. The old Malibu nightclub in Lido Beach would host the WLIR concert series. Got to see They Might Be Giants live in that smaller club setting. The bigger shows would play in venues like Jones Beach when the bands got more famous.

Oh man I saw some great stuff at Malibu. We used to walk in from the beach side and half the time never got asked for money. The Ramones and so many others...

2 hours ago, psv88 said:

Lithium gets old, repeats same songs. 94.3 the SHARK is pretty good out here, and 90.7 WFUV is a city station which is good for alternative music. I only like the Adam Sandler Hannukah song. 

Seeing Dark Star Orchestra at the Paramount in Huntington Sat night, love that venue.

DSO is great. I used to see Jeff in small bars around LI over 30 years ago.

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

94.3 and 90.7 have been my main radio stations before 92.3 just changed to the new format. Many radio stations get into the repeating songs since that how the modern formats have evolved. There is so much more that can get played but gets left out of the regular playlists these days.

90.7 is still good but without Pete and Vin it's just not the same place it used to be.

32 minutes ago, uncle W said:

I miss the good ole days when Cousin Brucey and Scott Muni were on the radio...

I miss so many of the old dj's. Vin Scelsa recently retired and Pete Fornatale died of an aneurysm so they're both gone from the air but there are a couple still working from the late 60's and 70's on Sirius/XM. Cousin Brucie is still on Wednesday and Saturday nights on channel 6, the 60's channel, and I listen to Carol Miller, Meg Griffin, Dusty Street and Jim Ladd regularly and I think that Dennis Elsas is still on the air here in NY. There's really nobody like Scottso though.

3 hours ago, Dan76 said:

Don't know if it was that whale but there was one up near the sewage plant the same time, went right past my friends marina.                                                                                  I saw three right off the big M (bridge) 3 years ago scary when your in a small boat and their coming out.

I'd think that most of Great South Bay is too shallow for critters that big especially at low tide. Haha I bet it's sketchy being in a small boat and these things that are triple your size are around. 

A bird hit by a car in NY? I'm so surprised   I know that I've seen some great birds along the barrier beaches and on Long Island golf courses over the years. 

That's fantastic. I can't imagine it ever having been like that back when I was growing up down there.

On 11/17/2017 at 8:53 AM, bluewave said:

 

That's really cool.