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Flakes! Well at least I got to see a micro dusting on frozen puddles  I'm pretty sure this is the first February of my life I haven't had snow on the ground. Even on the worst years I went somewhere and went skiing, didn't even do that this year.

^^ You will soon.

I missed the showers that came through at the beginning of the month so this will be the only snow I see this month, really hoping this line holds together.

I just looked and Old Forge/McCauley Mt only looks to have gotten about a foot from this storm but with the wind up there it's hard to tell. The ski area is closed and not reporting.

I think I got to 0 in that Dec cold snap but otherwise yeah, it's been one of the warmer winters I can remember here. We've definitely used a lot less heating oil this winter than usual.

You need an excuse to procrastinate? You're still young, it gets easier  

Over  

I like 65 degree mt bike rides in February.

I looked at cams and by noon it looked like the rain line was just about to Saratoga, maybe 1 exit south of town. The road was completely covered from there up right down to the Thruway.

I had solid mist all afternoon. I hate this stuff, it doesn't measure up to squat but it thoroughly soaks everything and keeps it wet and makes mud, lots of mud. The coming dry and cool ought to do wonders to dry out the surface, boy I hope so.

Looks like it's a mile or 2 north of me

I got down to 4° 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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  

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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.

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  

I think it's more important that it flurries enough to whiten the surface of what frozen stuff didn't get washed away. It also looks like it's snowing fairly hard along the Berkshire Anticline right now. 

What's wrong with oatmeal? Meh...

It's snowing

I go for milk, cookies and beer. Yes it would be devastating if I couldn't have these things, especially the cookies and beer.

It makes me think of cookies.

A lot of things make me think of cookies 

35* windy and wet. Ooh boy fun.

I got so thoroughly hosed on that storm. I think I was right about 6". Meh...

So in the last three days I've rolled through every significant mountain range within 100 miles of home, The high country of the Taconics and Berks look the most like they should look this time of year but the only snow on the ground is from the storm last weekend so it's thin. Northerly slopes in CT look surprisingly good, I think because the last storm finished with some wet stuff so like by me the snow is packed down better and not all sugary. It's too bad it's about to go away because it's almost there... You know it has been warm though because there is ongoing construction just about everywhere and below 1k you're hard pressed to find fully frozen bodies of water and real winter really is above 1500 other than in select spots especially in the Catskills.