gravitylover

My temp is slowly rising here. Started at 16 and heavy snow for a few hours then as the temp approached 20 it changed to sleet. It's been sleeting now for almost two hours and, well, yuck Temp now is 21 at the house and 24 down on Rt 6 with heavy sleet. What are the chances it gets above freezing at the surface?

Damned ice dams I think I broke my nose this afternoon. I was on the ladder whacking away at the ice at the edge of the roof and a chunk, had to be 20+ pounds, broke loose. It hit me in the face because I was watching what I was doing, as any sane person would when whacking their house with a 3 pound mallet. F'n thing hurts...

So what are we thinking for the HV Monday night-Wed? Where's the rain/ice line gonna end up? I just spent three hours breaking the ice dams off my roof. Split my nose open twice and had blood running down my face

When I got in the car it said 7* but as I went through the hollow at the bottom of my hill it went down to 0*!

My numbers seem to jive pretty well with other spots in the Taconic/684/22 corridor except the guy in Somers. He's been about two or three inches high all three times this year. Wow, did you guys check out that list from Upton? From New Fairfield down through Ridgefield were all over 20"!

14". Do I win? I'm starting to miss the winters where we got it 3-5" at a time. My shoulders/wrists/back are too old for this 12+ at a time

Well it was interesting for a little while but now it's back to moderate snow. Just east of me it's still the real deal under that band, check out some of these cams from Danbury - http://web.ci.danbury.ct.us/trafficams/

CBS in NYC is Accuweather now so that should have been expected after what Henry M said earlier.

This - ...THE CHAIN REACTION AND EXPLOSIVE DEVELOPMENT WILL CREATE SNOW MUSHROOM CLOUDS AND STELLAR DENDRITIC SNOW CLUSTER FALLOUT. WELL...THAT MIGHT BE OVERSTATED A LITTLE BIT...

I too would be happy with 6-10 but would like more so I don't have to go to work early tomorrow. I really want this to start and end later so I don't have to go in at all. I really expect the trip into the city to suk.

I too was informed that unless it's illegal for me to be out on the roads I'm expected to be at work. The owner is out of the country with his son (asst. mgr) and my other assistants wife is expecting ~20th. My luck she'll pop a bit early So did anybody get a look at 0 and 6z info yet? Looks like the jackpot might be ever so slightly east/northeast of us but we look to do alright with a foot or more by the end of the day Wednesday.

I think the Somers one may be just a touch high. I'm at almost the highest elevation in the area and Somers is right at the end of my block. I don't think I got over 8". What I did notice coming home last night is that south of about Yorktown there is noticeably less than from there up with the obvious demarcation between nuisance snow and winter storm being right around I 287. I never thought I'd say this but, why does the most active period of the winter so far have to be when my boss and asst. mgr. are out of the country on vacation and the wife of the other asst. mgr. is due next week? Can't the snow just hold off until the last week of the month

Heh, forgot to add a trip report - The roads were getting covered at 7:30 when I left Mahopac and the Taconic/Sprain/BRP/FDR were just wet all the way in. Easy, smooth commute. The heavy stuff is just getting here (downtown) now. Temp ranged from 22* at the north end to 32-33 here.

Yeah but park and ride doesn't jive with a retail schedule. Carpooling is really tough for me because I can't guarantee what time I can leave at night. I didn't know that they had added spots at CF. Goldens is where I used to go and it had gotten horrible, I guess it's changed as more people are out of work now

I took the train for about a year but it sukked! Driving is so much more pleasant. It really only takes me about 80-90 minutes each way which is less time than it took me on the train. It's also less expensive (sorta) now that one of my fireman buddies hooked me up with a parking permit. The biggest problem with taking the train is I need to leave my house an hour and a half earlier in the morning just to get a parking spot at the station that doesn't leave me with a $38-60 parking ticket. If you don't get there by 6:30am there are no daily pay spots left and since the stations aren't in my town I would have to pay $1200+ a year for a parking permit and the wait is a year or longer, then if you don't have the money available, and the day off from work to go pick it up, the day after they expect you to get the letter they sell it to the next person in line. When I was commuting that way I only saw my kids on my days off, 5 days a week without seeing your kids sux as does getting to work 90 or more minutes early. Today with the weather it's obviously going to take a bit longer to get in but I'll turn up the tunes and watch the sh*tshow that's bound to be going on around me. Back on topic - It's been snowing lightly here for almost an hour now. Schools are closed and I'm headed off to work in an hour or so. See y'all later.

That's cuz we live upstate I work downtown and the people I work with think I live in never never land. "Oh my god it's like 60 miles man, that's far."

56* this afternoon and now 32* and snowing (very lightly.) Hopefully this means winter is back

Traveling is fine until you get into NYC. It's a mess down here! There are still streets blocked with cars that have been there since Sunday, sometimes three or four cars on a block. This morning there were five cars on Houston St in the middle of the street that the plows just went around and there were tour buses stuck all over the place, especially Chinatown. If you need to come into the city don't do it with a car, there is no place to park.

Wow! That was some exhausting shoveling. This stuff, while being exceptionally cold and dry, was soooo dense. My forearms are still pumped and I finished almost four hours ago. I hope I moved it far enough from the house so if it rains next weekend my basement doesn't flood

Gonna get outside in a little bit here, need more coffee first It looks like I didn't get much more than a foot and judging by the 13" they reported in Danbury I think I'm about right, it's gonna be tough to get a decent measurement. I guess my early storm estimate was pretty good.

I think I'm a little over 8, maybe about 9" now and the temp is 16*. This wind is incredible! There are three foot drifts against the front of all the houses across the street from me. Those heavy bands that came through about an hour ago had a bit of sleet and graupel mixed in.

That's what I'm saying. No greed going on at all. I actually didn't allow myself to get my hopes up for too much because this kind of storm isn't supposed to happen in the strong nina (blah blah) and figured it would be cool to see a few inches and some wind. Don't get me wrong this is really nice to see! Anyway, I don't really expect much over a foot where I am so your E of the river estimate may be just a bit high. I'm hoping you're right but... Back on track - The wind is absolutely howling now!! I think I'll go out for another walk then come in, open another beer, make dinner and light a fire.

Heheh! Neither of us are willing to commit to that 2"

Closing on 2" now I'd say, this stuff is blowing all over the place. It's light and dry but the flakes are badly fractured and most are very small so it's not accumulating too well. The wind is easily sustained at near 20mph with branches cracking along the ridgetop above me. Very few uninjured flakes are making it down but the ones that are are just beautiful fluffy wonderfulness. I think the estimates of 18 or more may be too high due to this stuff being able to pack in much more densely thereby reducing accumulations. At least in my backyard...

1/2" on the ground, wind NNE and temp at 21*. Waiting on the thunder