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1.9"/0.11" final

Just melted down 0.09” liquid...so about 17:1 ratios.

1.5” so far

27.0° -SN/SN Maybe an inch and a half out there? I’ll measure in a bit. Looks like it should be done within an hour.

Would prefer to keep the obs in the banter/obs thread and leave this for the pattern disco.

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I individually close everyone's sigs yet keep updating mine. Because that's how I roll.

High terrain will eat a lot of that up. A decent little refresher though.

Oh, he has the accent.

Yeah awesome. Screwed in the memorable storm but jacked in a forgettable fart.

May need your milf lube

Sweet. Thanks.

Would it be a problem adding a few more years so we can add totals from seasons prior to whatever you have there (2010-11 I think?). My first season with data here was 06-07.

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I think he meant he was the last to be on board?

I can't wait for my warm cold frontal passage.

I'm afraid not. Peak dews are under the Grinch threshold of 60F.

Yeah that seems high Ray. I forget what your station shielding looks like. Is it loaded with snow blocking the passive airflow? I think some of those passive shields can be susceptible to reflected solar radiation from the underside as well. The ASOS sites around you were all in that 37ish area. We had a lot of sun up here and even CON only reached 39F.

The TWC radars had basically 2 colors in the winter back in the early 90s. Light green was your light snow and the medium green was your mod/hvy. Dark green was damn near impossible, and I think yellow would've required an avalanche.

Not to get too off track from the disco, but someone from the boards created a WxStar 400 emulator back in the Eastern days. I believe it was someone from Maine. Anyway, a version of it is still available. It runs on your PC and retrieves NWS wx information. Knock yourselves out. http://www.taiganet.com/

Kenny G and The Rippingtons while waiting for the hourly current conditions update around the top of the hour. The music of my childhood. And you always wanted to see the big snowflake in the extended forecast (obviously the current conditions too).

I miss those TWC sfc maps. I was always tracking the bright white back in the mid 90s.

They should keep a stat for liquid equivalent in the form of snow/sleet. Basically the monthly precipitation with the RA and ZR filtered out. I know in the climo data of yore a lot of weenies separated the two out like that, but most just labeled any snowfall as 10:1. So you got a lot of 5" / 0.50" garbage.

I don't get a lot of paste outside of the bookend portions of the season, but I get plenty of dense powder from all of the SWFEs. I kinda like that type of snow...it gives the feeling of powder, but it doesn't get cut in half 12hrs later nor sublimate away after the first glimpse of a BINOVC. For infrastructure effects, really it's just SWE that matters. I always laugh when a place near BUF gets like 50" of LES and within a few days the pack is like 6". Once the plows toss it to the side, 30" of 30:1 LES looks the same as 10" of 10:1 in the snowbanks and it doesn't take any more force for the plows to push it.

I always kinda based that on water equiv. Basically 10” of 10:1 snow will eventually glaciate its way down to the equivalent of 3” of 3:1 sleet. Both would have the same 1.00” water equiv. It’s not a perfect relationship, but that’s always been my rough estimate. So 15” of snow should have more staying power than 3” sleet. There are some caveats though as fresh fluff has more exposed surface area so it can sublimate more quickly than solid ice can.