Juliancolton

I just tried to order Chinese takeout and they said at least a two hour wait, LOL. Time to go trap snowshoe hares or something, I guess.

41/29 with a touch of drizzle. Little more concerned about low-level temps than I was this afternoon.

I've really been pining for some prolonged warm wx lately, but there's no question that I'm enjoying tracking a frozen precip event one last time. Almost offers a little sense of normalcy. 2.9" gets me my biggest snowfall since Dec 11th. That 19-week drought isn't toooo much shorter than the presumed off-season. I think that's a decent total to shoot for up here before the 900mb level torches around midnight. The potential really goes up with even just a bit more latitude and elevation. 6-8" not out of the question up near the tri-point around Millerton and Salisbury.

Good, old-fashioned April showers here. Relaxing in a way, though I wouldn't have minded a little thunder or small hail for extra pizzazz. Final flakes of the season tonight/early tomorrow?

This is my take as well. Retailers throw out an unfathomable amount of food 99% of the year to make sure supply is there at crunch time. Most people did their big wholesale hauls two weeks ago and are getting back into a normal-ish grocery buying routine, so with pantries full and money increasingly tight for just about everyone, you probably won't see folks singlehandedly clearing out entire aisles from this point on. The food supply chain is resilient. If certain items start running low, reasonable facsimiles will quickly take their places. And while I'm obviously a big home gardening dude, I'm under no delusions that I'd be able to sustain even myself for very long just on home veggies. Potatoes are one's best bet considering yield per acre and nutritional value - you could survive for 6-8 weeks just on potatoes before mineral deficiencies caught up with you. That said, they aren't fool-proof to grow and can be rather unreliable from season to season. Plus, if we ever get to the point of all-out famine in this country, there'd be a lot of other problems that few of us would be equipped to deal with.

Cool wx stuff could be ok pretty soon, but I never plant anything tender out until May 1st with strong consensus for a warm pattern at that juncture. Not wise to bet on no freezes in April, even in the torchiest winters. Even if I were confident enough to plant annuals a month early, I'd still rather wait until the traditional mid-May with how many pests and diseases we have to deal with these days. Impatiens and tomatoes are ravaged by blight before August even with a normal planting schedule.

Bastard.

It seems like our window for climbing into the 70s is closing. Maybe a brief shot of mugginess just before the fropa.

There was nothing left OTG here by around 8. The cocorahs observer down the road logged 0.7", so I guess I'll use that for my records.

Same here. As far as I'm aware, it was the first frozen precip here since the Feb 12th front end "thump". Agree that the mud is a major issue this year. I'm sure in 12 weeks we'll be talking about stunted lawns and low reservoir levels, but for now the world is our swamp.

Rain is moving in way earlier than I expected/hoped. Urgh...

Well that's the annoying thing, you just know we'll all get our April 5th 4.8", just to nudge us closer to average. If I have to suffer through a winter like this, I want the stats to back it up.

You know the worst part about winters like this? You can't just put off yardwork until the spring because it's always the spring. There's just no excuse to procrastinate.

Stockpiling toasters now, just in case we make it three in a row next year.

Not even a flake. I'm starting to get the feeling this winter sucks a little.

Under-reporting will have been a big issue with this event because of the rapid changeover at possibly the most inopportune time of the day... 1-4 am. Most people didn't measure until 6 or 7 am, according to the PNS reports.

You should know me better than that Luckily it changed over by 1:30, which isn't too bad. I've stayed up later than that for Euro runs and election results.

It's coming down pretty hard now, enough to whiten the grass and even for flakes to linger on the pavement for a few moments before vanishing. If CC is to be believed, rain should be approaching 84 as I post. Do I stay up another 90 minutes to get the measurement for my records? decisions, decisions...

Wet-bulbed down to 34 but that's about all she wrote as it's close to saturation now. White rain ongoing

39F is a fantastic temp to start off a front-end thump

I had .6" at 6 am as the rain started. Enough to knock 19-20 out of contention for my least-snowy winter at this location but now a distant memory.

970.2 mb will do it here it seems. Ticking back up now.

Looks like the low is about to pass between MGJ and SWF. Down to 974 mb here.

You can't shut the blinds angrily enough for a day like this...

Honestly not sure. I would lean toward it being flu because of the full-body aches and stiffness. Unfortunately I neglected to get the shot this year, so it would serve me right I suppose.