Juliancolton

The soggy, half-frozen ground is a real pain in the arse for the fireworks show I'm doing tonight. Most 1.4g pyro devices just have paper or cardboard bases so they wick moisture right up into the clay plugs and then it gets dangerous. Tarps aplenty I guess.

Also, judging by the main discussion thread, the over/under for January is set at +15F. I'll take the over.

Maybe the real good pattern is the friends we made along the way.

Spring cancel as it's pelting sleet now with a nice mushy coating on everything. At this point I genuinely can't tell if I'm hearing plows or thunder

There's a full-fledged thunderstorm taking place here. Loud, sharp rumbles.

It's almost tradition at this point for Feb and March to carry the whole winter. I'm keeping the faith.

A fitting end to the year of feast or famine precip in the interior:

I'll never understand how anyone can hold the opinion that humans have no planetary influence. We've created and destroyed seas and deserts (often by accident), annihilated entire cities in an instant, and replicated the Big Bang in laboratories just because we were curious. Deliberately extinguishing all life on earth would be trivially easy, so to think we couldn't inadvertently do any damage over the course of centuries is absurd.

I'll say it so nobody else has to... sunny and AN is actually pretty nice for Christmas week. You're welcome.

In hindsight that was probably another dead giveaway, in addition to the red flag Bx noted... It's pretty much impossible to walk anywhere that's not treated pavement now that there have been a felt thaw/freeze cycles... especially as you can no longer dig your heels in. The slightest grade requires microspikes.

This cold snap has been a bit of a fail. Seasonably chilly.

UKMET making a run for -10F tonight, let's do it!

Is such a thing even possible?!

Yeah, the ice made for some really striking visuals today. Still not sure it was a fair trade for my 4-7" tho

Sweet shots, folks. Agree about clouds returning sooner than I had hoped and anticipated, though the sun still did its job on most of my driveway. South-facing slope FTW (or L, in most cases).

Funnily enough, that's probably the whiff that gives me the least indigestion out of all of them in the new millennium. I think it's because I got nothing – not a trace, not a single flake – so the blizzard to the south may as well have been in Alaska. There was no tease, just a snowstorm that hit somewhere else (which happens every day of the year). It hurts much worse when there's some snow to provide a taste of what is transpiring just miles away. 5" in Feb 2006, 4" Feb '10, 10" Feb '13... that sort of thing.

Imagine bitching about only getting one historic blizzard per year

We'll get a few hours of sunshine in early afternoon tomorrow with temps likely breaking the freezing mark. I think as long as we do a serviceable clean-up job today, we'll be able to avoid locking in the ice through the upcoming cold snap

Nice. Best of both worlds.

I still have hopes of making my move to NS within the next few years. Somewhere near the shore in Lunenburg County would be ideal.

.5" snow/sleet before over to freezing drizzle. 28F Misery loves company with this one!

People make such an occasion out of the first flakes at their location. Hear ye, hear ye! Whereas, upon this day the sixteenth of December in the year of our Lord two thousand and nineteen, a tempest is inaugurated at this location; and, whereas, the elements being of such temper as to render water vapours coalesced into fine crystals; therefore, let it be known...

This is a wicked warm layer. Mesos seem to be trending back toward a sloppier solution this evening after it looked like a mostly-snow event was possible.

I had the same thought this morning, then figured, "Eh, what's the difference?" If it doesn't work, I'm not getting another one by midnight tonight anyway

The latest GFS is almost entirely freezing rain for most here, ending as light snow. The trend has been for a slightly tighter circulation and as a result we get a northerly low-level flow throughout the event, supplying the fresh cold air source necessary for an ice storm. My annual reminder that ice accretes on elevated surfaces (everything that isn't the ground) at about 0.75:1 on average so you need to be especially careful with modeled freezing rain totals which, as far as I know, still assume 1:1.