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gas remains low in price. you are paying more because utilities are upgrading pipelines and infrastructure and passing the costs on to you. only about a third of your bill pays for gas, 2/3 pays for other costs. in fact, utilities do not make money on gas, but all this other stuff. source; npr, morning edition, oct 12, 2025.

it was common in the 90s to see extended mild temps. with a few years exceptions, obviously

too large really, with too many differences....i mean parts of pennsylvania are considered nyc metro region. even very big storms like jan 2018 can be negligible just 90 mins up the parkway....

winter was done by feb 1st. best we could do was an ice storm and a rain noreaster that downed power lines. but it was an epic four weeks....

i would not bet against more snow this winter, meaningful snow at that....

no....my son did, but he had covid. he got on paxlovid right away and it kicked the virus' ass. he's also vaxxed.

how would that help misery? florida is a miserable place. folks had a home there for many years. never could stand it.

family dealing with both covid and flu, and daughter getting over unidentified throat infection she had on and off for a month; it took 3 rounds of antibiotics and steroids; she lost her voice too. yet the throat scope with a camera showed hardly anything; all tests were negative and they went after them all, viruses, strep, you name it. i won't mind a few days of warmer conditions so my hands will stop bleeding and i can sleep at night without itching all over from dryness.....then i'll be ready for some more snow, and i don't care what the teleconnections say, so far this winter has snowy written all over it. we'll see.

a colleague had a photo of his grandfather standing on the ice next to the old orchard lighthouse, washed away by Sandy in 2012, and his great grandfather went out during the blizzard of 1888 and was never seen again.

good question, but heating systems are more efficient today. intresting is that a mechanic told me today's boilers and furnaces are only good for about 10 years; he said its not your dad's old furnace that lasted 40 years....

i couldn't see it; i went out during one of the dry slots and that was it. went to bed watching the revolutionary war series, turn. kinda slow, though jamie bell is a fine actor. woke up to do my morning walk and was surprised to see i had to dig out first. and it is still snowing lightly. gonna get some photos with the christmas decorations still up, though we had to ditch the inflatables with all the wind this year; that stuff just isn't good for these parts. i do remember telling my wife that damn snow plow keeps passing by and waking me up, what gives? then i went back to sleep.

something unusual happened...we got an end dump instead of a front end thump....when i saw RU talking about bands last night i figured meh...woke up to around 3 in on top of a firm sleet base, making for a picturesque winter day that requires plowing; the plow guy came by a lot last night, wish he'd done that the last storm where we had nearly 7 in...still i was very disappointed last night, but like the feeling you get when your team pulls off a last second tie in a soccer match, it feels like a win even if it wasn't....and hey its only december....i know we're supposed to have a front loaded winter that sucks, but if i knew nothing else, i'd say we are on track to see some more of this in the upcoming weeks. til the next my friend....

nice photo

earlier a met posted 1-3 for this area and i thought he was nuts.....turns out he was overestimating. next.....

like general gordon's rescue party in khartoum....

didn't even pick up 1.....clearly over in nj. if that ruins it somehow for those who actually got a snow event, try looking at it from our point of view....we know we are not always in the bullseye, no one ever is....but come on man, i legit had more snow from the minor event earlier this week....since not much was expected, getting half an inch of fluff was a nice surprise. getting half an inch when at the low end 3-6 was expected, and 4-8 being the general call, is just a massive bust. in today's day and age, with all this more sophisticated equipment, they still make the kind of whacked out misses i used to see 25-30 years ago. i had relatives leave the state early to avoid the storm; then again, not really sorry about that....so maybe there was a silver lining....anyway enjoy what you got. watched two bizarre movies to pass the time, chainsaw man and bugonia....don't waste your time on either of them.

not even you were this bearish....credit it where it is due. this thing sucked in most of nj. feel bad for arguing with the dude at the gas station today when he thought i said cash when filling the tank for the snowblower.....

this has got to be one of the biggest busts in this area in years; i'm thinking not quite as bad as jan 2007, where there was a heavy snow warning and nothing happened at all..... but this was bad for our area. worst in a decade or more. it's barely a car topper, jfc.....there ain't nothing filling in here; this thing is done out here.

never snowed here; all sleet and didn't even cover the grass. there's a bit of a glaze but as far as sleet storms go, this doesn't even register much in that regard out this way. at this point, nothing is going to save the day here, so i'm good with a quick exit. snow blowers are ready for an actual snow storm should we get another one this winter. cheers.

this sucks for us. no other way to spin it. we just aren't in the mix. that's ok when expectations are muted, but all this talk of biggest storm in four years....we had nearly a foot here in feb 24. it's a wide subforum, i know, but a sleetfest, and not all that big of one, was just not expected. at least i'm watching a bad movie with my daughter, chainsaw man, which i can't make heads or tails of, but its quality time with the daughter, i guess....

oh yeah the snow thing is kaput. i can see that. looking forward to the next threat, hope it isn't a month from now.....

i heard nothing about freezing rain here; but nj 101.5 which i hate listening to but i needed a traffic update, did forecast it.

maybe not; sleet is a real hazard and they would rather not give people the idea its ok to hit up the bars at the jersey shore.....

its been my experience that, when this happens, even areas expected to do well fall short. seen it a thousand times. i don't think anyone is gonna get buried at this point. that's been my experience over the years.