cny rider

Yesterday made me realize how grey and gloomy central NY can be. We went skiing at Plattekill. The clouds lifted out by 11. It was a beautiful bluebird day. The skiing was great too. We got home to central Otsego county. My dark blue Subaru parked in a completely open area was still snow covered, as was our back walkway with direct southern sun exposure. Both had the inch or so that had fallen the night before. It's pretty obvious there was little or no sun here yesterday. If I can't have snow I want sun!

8" here in my yard in central Otsego County. Plattekill claims they got a foot. We shall see tomorrow.....

I like the way this is coming together. I anticipate being under the band of the unliving for a few hours later this morning.

Looking good. We have our tickets for Plattekill for tomorrow.

Great word. Should be used more often.

I just shoveled the same amount here in Hartwick.

That line has gotten pretty hot looking on radar since it passed you. Headed my way now with a severe T-storm watch in effect.

When the King’s speaking, I’m listening.

Crickets....

We do too. We will be out in Buffalo in early March and we were trying to figure out how to visit Niagara Falls Ontario for the day. It just doesn't seem feasible at all even when they make changes to border policy on March 1. Maybe the changes will be better than I'm expecting.

I "like" this post and agree you may be correct but I can't "like" it because I hate it!

We were going to go ski at Snow Ridge today. Then I took the dog out at 0600 and walked on our residual glacier. It feels like it could easily support a 500 pound man. And there's no fresh on top. Time for a good book!

It's in the Dolomites, one of the most spectacular natural settings on the planet.

We were above freezing yesterday and got down to 31F overnight. We still had some old ice on our town roads from last week and the melt from yesterday froze overnight, leaving us with a luge track to get down off the hill.

If you like to cross country ski look for a Burley trailer and get a ski attachment for it. It attaches to you via a harness. We would put our 3 kids in there with snowsuits and blankets. We loved it. They loved it too and often fell asleep with the gentle rocking. Terrain has to be mild though because even the slightest uphill is like climbing Everest with all 3 of them behind you.

So where did the term “jebwalk” come from?

I’ve never been so happy to hear sleet raking across our window screens. Temp down to 30/29 and that did the trick. Looks like pure sleet with some mangled icy flakes mixed in now. Good luck to you guys south of me.

I did a major tuneup on our generator last month. I really don't want to be using it tonight.

31F, dew 30F, rain here. Ice accreting on trees. This is going to get ugly for someone if we don't flip to snow or sleet soon.

My face is pressed right into it. We are trying to flip from freezing rain to snow right now.

Does that snowfall map count sleet?

That is really tight. I'm in north central Otsego County. Forecasting over a foot on the northern end of the county, down to very little at the southern end. Let's see how this verifies.

Cooperstown, with a very treacherous walk up the hill to work this morning. Patchy black ice everywhere.

Interesting they don't eat their own cooking, so to speak.