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44 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I knew it helped.l with traction. But I thought most got away from sand due to the environment issues it causes. 

The sand does temporarily help with traction, but after 30 cars or so go over it, depending on speed, there is no sand left in the wheel paths.  I have done a lot of work on this for CT and as chloride levels in ground water continue to increase, it is amazing to me how many people think of the good ole days of sand not realizing that there was salt mixed in with it.  Without the salt, it would have frozen in the back of the truck.  

The sand is an environmental headache as they clog rivers and streams and generate hundreds of thousands of tons of sweeping that need to be disposed of which is not a cheap or simple problem.

LR model theme for this winter:  hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies - Shawshank Redemption

2 hours ago, tavwtby said:

I'm up in Burlington for a couple days and my dad said there was 2.5" in Winsted, anyone close to confirm? I hate when I'm not there to measure, and don't yet have a cam to record. thanks in advance...btw, nice dumpage up here on Friday, looks like about two feet otg in Burlington maybe a bit less depending on where you go.

That sounds about right.  We had right around 2 inches here in New Hartford.  It is just a memory as it has all but melted.

NW CT looks workable on the18Z  GFS...that being said, I am currently having trust issues with what any model has been spitting out.

Wind has come up and getting some snow shower action.

Barometric pressure seems to have bottomed out and starting back up here in NW CT.  Temp back down to 32 from a high of 33.  Maybe we can squeak a cheap coating of snow out this...

Sad that coatings of snow have become noteworthy.

To the folks up north - enjoy!  Serious snow envy down here.

Just finally hit 32 here.  Never expected to be below freezing for so long.  

We are getting the periodic flick of the power.

1 hour ago, weathafella said:

Did some reading....gonna postpone the driveway work until spring.  First bona fide wintry week Wednesday on in quite awhile on the way.

Good call - paving should not be done this time of year unless it is an emergency.  I have been a pavement materials engineer for just about 25 years and rarely does anything good come from work done this time of year.  Unlike concrete, there are very few things that can be done with asphalt to make it work this time of year.

Now back to this week's weather mashup - with what will hopefully be a better outcome!

The German's haven't bombed pearl Harbor...yet.

Was living in Norfolk at the time and was trying to plow at the place I was working and it was immovable and topping over the plow.  Had to get someone with a front end loader to move the snow from the parking lot.

Don't remember how much snow we had - but it was a lot.  We also lost power for two days.

24 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Regarding next week's potential....

https://easternmassweather.blogspot.com/2020/01/all-eyes-on-next-sunday-monday.html

Great write-up.  Sounds like we need to roll snake eyes 5 times in row for this to work out to something substantial.

It is amazing how things can break positive or negative.  In the first half of the 2010's, no matter how good or bad the overall look was, it always felt like things always seemed to break for the better.  The second half of the 2010's, just the opposite and I'm talking in my backyard.  Even though the winter of 2011-12 was overall horrible, that little snowstorm at the end of October surely made the entire winter season memorable.

All I can do is hope for something more substantial to come along as this is our second winter in New Hartford at 1,000 feet and we haven't really much snow since we got here.

Nice big flakes for the finale.  Barring something wacky - 3 inches looks like it will just about do it.

Just now, Ginx snewx said:

Thundersnow and sleet in New Hartford Ct

You beat me to it!  I saw the lightning and was waiting for the thunder and then it rumbled the whole house.

Just had a flash of lightning and thunder - pretty cool.

18 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

Just changed to sleet here

32.2/32.2 here at 1,000 feet.  Light glaze on everything.  Is this the push of colder air?

My sister lives in Colebrook and said everything is really drooping up there.

We seem to have bottomed out at 31.8/31.3.  Been steady there for an hour or so.

Just now, MetHerb said:

What do you have the requires that much power?  My folks have a 7.5kw model and can run everything in the house, just not the stove and dryer at the same time.  That's three times that so I'm guessing you have some pretty serious machinery that you need to run.

Looks 34° here...

Nothing crazy - would allow us to run AC in the summer if necessary and not have to worry about running other things such a well pump and other appliances.  

We freeze a great deal from the garden so we have a couple of freezers that I would hate to lose.  

The cost differential between a 12, 14 and 20 kW unit was pretty minimal (it was about $500-$600 difference for actual generator between the 12 and 20 kW units) in comparison to the rest of the install cost and then I can run anything without having to worry.  Also, going that large saved us some money because we did not have to move circuits out of the main panel into a sub panel.  

32/31

6 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

Ya we are.

The poster at 1K in W CT seems truly screwed with icing and i would say Greenfield Chris likely as well,  looks like anyone near 1k in Western SNE is lights out

We'll see how this goes.  There is something to be said for having a 20kW generator and 1,500 gallons of propane in the tanks.  I'm right at 1,000 feet.

33/30 

35/28 with light rain.  Wind has had a southerly component to it all day.  

I'm assuming a northerly component will kick in at some point otherwise it will just be cold rain, which is OK with me.

34/28

Even at 1,000 feet out here in NW CT, my expectations are low as the warm air usually wins out pretty quickly.  Right now, it does not look like there is much wiggle room without having a 33* rain.

Last year we built a new house with really good insulation and buried 2-1000 gallon propane tanks.  We used just over 400 gallons of propane from the beginning of February to mid-October.  Cost us just over $500 to top off in October for the winter.  It is well worth owning the propane tanks to make shopping for it possible where as with leasing, you are stuck with the company you leased from.  We use the propane for heating, hot water and whole house generator.

We also installed solar panels which we purchased, with a break even period of around 9 years.  It sure is nice getting a monthly bill from Eversource for $10!