gravitylover

How many hours of rain at 30° is ok? It's been steady freezing rain for an hour. Yuck. That's the other side of town from where I am but higher into the Taconics. Looks like they got a little more than I did before it flipped to sleet and rain.

I measured 1.8 right after it ended. It was pretty amazing watching it snow like that but in many areas it was melting almost as fast as it fell. Anything in an area that would be sunny saw a slushy accumulation up to an inch, while "dark" areas are 1 to almost 2". Early and late season snow patterns are always interesting.

Heh, I didn't take any, was too busy ogling it and standing there listening to it thump on my head I also can't figure out how to delete years old pics so I can post new ones.

This is insane. It's absolutely dumping the hugest flakes ever. There has to be someone else under this band. I can't be the only one appreciating this!

I think these are the biggest snowflakes I've ever seen!

27° with light snow. Granted I live on a quiet dead end street but it's well salted and it's fully covered.

^^ Just a coating. Looks like 13° will be the low this morning, there are a few 11s and one 10 close. It's cold.

Legit moderate snow now with good growth and large flakes. I got the coating I hoped for. Lol.

So far it's just a whitening, it would be nice to get a coating.

I looked out and thought 'oh bummer, I hate dense snow-eating fog'. Then I went out with the dog and realized it was freezing. That changed my mood pretty quickly It popped above a few minutes ago and now the sun is trying to come out.

I looked out and the car defrosted, it just popped above 32. That was quick.

Yup, 27° freezing fog here too. The snowpack ripened yesterday so it's days are numbered.

A little more snow for us Sunday? After the melt today and tomorrow we're gonna need the refresh.

And now it's beautiful. Bright blue sky, blinding almost, it's up to 42° and the streets are dry, narrower than they should be but what's cleared is dry. It's pretty amazing how quickly this stuff is compacting too.

^ lol I guess it's not a surprise that they're different but 30% is a pretty big difference so I figured it was worth mentioning. I'm too stupid to remember to write things down so I'm not sure. I looked back through our threads at my posts the other day and came up with about 50 and didn't go back further. I'm sure I missed one or two small ones and only went to like mid December so...

An S19 thread? March is gonna be 70° every day, we can put the shovels and scrapers away and we can start riding our bikes soon! How'd I do?

3" on elevated surfaces like the garbage can top, 4" on the frozen driveway.

3" on the garbage can top but 4" on the driveway. Usually the elevated surfaces are higher but it's pretty warm so the area is surrounded by warm air and the ground is frozen. One of our cars ended up parked right where the biggest drifts formed on Monday morning. There's a painfully dense 3-4 feet piled on it that I'm struggling to get off. Ya think if I accelerate and brake really hard by the end of the driveway it'll slide off? Wind that little turbo up and put all the trust in the brakes 50 feet later... What could go wrong?

Eyeball has it at 3". Gotta get out and shovel again soon. Uggh

Another overperformer going on. Uggh

Update; Looks like there are some 21 and 22s within a few miles on 3 sides of me so I'm going with it. 2 storms put me at the 1981-2010 average, the clipper parade before the storm last month put me over the 91-2020 average

There's a bunch of 18-19s east of me but they missed the best of the def zone dump that sat over me for hours. This one has bigger drifts than the one last month but, because it's so much warmer, compacted and condensed quickly. Did I break 20? Probably but there's no place on my property that wasn't badly wind affected so I'll never really know. I think my back has aged out of fully appreciating 2 blockbusters in a month

Hence the shear pin sarcasm

Snowblower? Mine looks suspiciously like a shovel. It never leaks, it's lightweight and easy to handle so if I twist and flick just right it has a pretty good throw distance. If I twist wrong the shear pin still breaks though.

Man... This could be over now It did get lighter for a little while but then ramped right back up about an hour ago. Now it's pounding small flakes, drilling into everything, on a stiff NE wind. At least the visibility is better because the flakes are so small. Pretty much the only engine sounds are snowblowers, chainsaws and quads and only one plow guy has been down my street all day. I stepped a few feet into the front yard and went in up to my crotch. There's a lot of snow out there.