Jackstraw

And the totals are beginning to drop lol

Been off and on since noon. Nice band set up overhead now w/ +SN Hallmark nickels falling for the last 30min. May end up w/ 2 before all is said and done. Also getting some decent drifting out in the country.

Wasn't there a discussion a couple 3 years ago, or more, about why snow seems to disappear under evergreen trees even when it's very cold? I tried to search for it but can't find it, probably me doing something wrong. I'm only asking because once again under a grove of evergreens on my property the snow is completely gone exposing bare ground. 5 inches poof, gone in a week without a temp over 20. May not of been this board but still, and if I remember there wasn't an exact reason. Could be wrong, just curious.

You had a chance to get up to the mtns this winter? They're having a pretty good year below 3k feet. Can be iffy on the Carolina side a lot of seasons. My ex wife said Maggie valley as had a really good winter so far.

Got a nice burst of Texas flake +SN just before dawn this morning for almost an hour. Enough to completely cover the dogs in about 10 minutes. Rough measurements of 1.5 to 2 around outside this morning for the 24 hour period. Looking like our friends south of I70 in IN are getting some well deserved amounts. Seeing a lot of 2-4 inch reports down there, and it may stick around for more than a couple days. This pattern can stick around for the next 2 weeks as far as I'm concerned. It's been a while since it's looked and felt like winter around here without frozen slop or torturous barren cold being dominant.

Been SN to -SN here for the last 2 or 3 hours. Pixie to quarters and back again but steady. About an inch so far. There seems to be a touch more moisture than forecast (doesn't take much with these temps) and the subtle forcing seems to be hanging around longer than forecast. Returns to the west looking decent so maybe add another inch or 2 by morning if we're really lucky. Keep the Swoop McClain ripples coming

I'm happy where I'm at. As long as the BCZ pretty much ripples along where it's at it keeps my mini glacier in place, keeps any brutal cold just to the north and keeps a to much rockin WAA to my south. I prefer a weeks long chilly winter phase with 1-2 here and there and a 3-5 tossed in for good measure. We don't get a winter spell like this very often so I'm on board. Better than a potential big dog that usually fails along the I70 corridor followed by frozen mud.

This season was the first time I have rooted against the Bucs since Steve Spurrier took them to an 0 and 14 record when I was 14 years old., leaving the Chiefs as my favorite team for the newly formed Bucs. I have been a Bucs fan since their inception. I have suffered the ridicule, the embarrassment, the attacks for being a Bucs fan. The entire time the Bucs were in the black and blue division that is most of this sub, and every team chalked up two wins before the season even started because they each had 2 with the lowly Bucs. I lived in Florida and got 2nd degree burns from sitting on the shiny aluminum benches that some engineer from Green Bay thought was funny to put in the Big Sombrero, in the Fl. sun, creating a human BBQ pit. I went to tons of home games where there were more Bears, Packers or Lions fans than Bucs fans and they treated those games, and the area, like middle aged men on Spring Break. I held fast for this team for 45 years. 45 years of humiliation. 45 years of ridicule. 45 years of being the skinny kid shoved in the locker. Those 2 flags right before halftime were as suspect as Bellichecks alleged involvement in low pressure balls. I bailed this season because of GQ. I will never return to the team of my adult life as long as GQ is there. The words of Polonius.. “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

Make that 2 bartender, I'm buying, make 'em extra dirty

Had about 30 min of fat flakes and vis down to a 1/4 mile, at least thats how I measure vis to my neighbor thats a half mile away. I couldnt see his street light for about 20 min thats usually a 1/4 mile vis. Swept a half inch off the deck. Fat flakes were 3/4 by themselves lol. I'll call it a disappointing half when the offices were forecasting 1-3. Temps rose from 11 to 16, but finally now falling towards the forecast 0 low. We shall see

^ Lmao on that disco .... Use caution while traveling outside. Wear appropriate clothing, a hat, and gloves.

Hell yeah. Those Cornhuskers can weenie spring all they want. It's hard living here in the winter hinterlands lol.

Whatever. My winter just started. BBQ on ice till I get my fill lol.

Well these reports aren't encouraging. Thought we might squeeze out a couple around here. Have to reduce the 10 day clown maps by 2 inches now

You seriously want to double GFS snow amounts 2 weeks out? If the fantasy range brutal cold the GFS is bringing happens Birmingham AL is gonna get more snow than we will lol. It's advertising 2014 cold and trust me we're not built for that, don't want it, MN and IA can keep it.

Where are you at? I've been underperforming temps for a month.

Great time to clean the freezer and not be in a hurry lol.

Man, that cutoff to the south is just brutal. I don't know if I can handle a 10" snow with 25" just 50 miles to my NW. We always get robbed

I can attest. Had to go to Marion and it was some heavy heavy stuff. Texas flakes. WAA finally moved in but that 2 hour burst protected our snow pack. I still have 4 inches of concrete on the ground. Was very concerned we'd lose it before this cold spell and have a barren tundra freeze out. Me being a clipper fan, if we've got a nice layer of glacier on the ground and get into a clipper or quasi clipper pattern for 7-10 days that results in a decent winter for us. We get a few weeks of not having to worry about precip types. If they're hybrid clippers just means they're juicier and instead of 1-2 we might get 2-4. 3 of those in a week on top of a 4 or 5 inch glacier, with clippers being normally windy, usually leads to some really nice drifting. I've seen a clipper drop 4 inches on top of a 2 or 3 inch glacier with 40 mph gusts and temps in the teens create 3 foot drifts in spots. Horizontal avalanches is what I call them lol. I love clippers in our climo

Forecast low of 24 here. Current temp of 13. Was forecasted to be a high of 36 earlier Wed. never got above 25. Talk about underestimating a mini glacier snowpack.

I like cold but please no 2014 repeat....

That stick is slanted about 3 degrees to the right, about 87 degrees instead of 90. Penalty! lol. Congrats

^ I'll run out of bandwidth before it hits

As you know I am the King of the Redneck Slant Stick. Reviewing reports, will be issuing penalties soon

Well you could've cut the corner for the mail person for gods sake lol