Juliancolton

Just flipped to rain in the last couple minutes after 0.9" of snow. And with that, to bed...

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

The top of Hook Mountain should be good...

That'll put the kibosh on all the leaf buds and flowering bulbs that sprouted during the last warm spell. Shame.

Eh, two coatings followed by 1.5" of blink-and-you-miss-it slush after three weeks without a flake is pretty consistent with crappiness.

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.

I've now recorded my first measurable snowfall (0.1") in 21 days.

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...

I had mosquitoes and swarms of gnats during the day yesterday, and the moths were out while I was trying to get some work done by headlamp at night. Very annoying and more than a little alarming.

I for one am very glad to hear that there were no lazy people before 2006.

No thanks, I still have the regular fever.

I'm changing my name to CPcantmeasuresnowcantmeasuresnow

Light dusting of snow here, 32.7F

Nah, I got eviscerated a couple days ago for saying this weekend wasn't happening. Good thing we stayed the course.

We wait with bated breath to learn whether winter is still over tomorrow. Keep us posted.

Through the end of March is definitely valid at his latitude. Even down here in the valley, March or April was the snowiest month in four of the last seven winters. It's always possible we shut it down for good in short order, but if you could only reference climo, it wouldn't be a stretch at all to allow for at least 8 more weeks in the interior.

At least we get an extra day to enjoy the new and improved pattern on account of the Leap Year.

You're mean.

I strongly feel that the problems are more fundamental than that. The ridge out west is poorly oriented, very broad, and progged to be further assaulted by the strong vort lobe falling south from Canada. There's just nothing to reliably drive the northern s/w down through the base of the trough in the fashion of big phasing systems. The disturbance leaving the Southeast coast tonight is definitely not helping, though given the lack of any meaningful baroclinicity along the coast in the first place, that may not matter much in the end, either.

"All cold, all the time," to borrow a phrase from our neighbors in the NE subforum. Applied to forecasters (and then some) who show a consistent wintry bias in their outlooks...