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weatherpruf

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  1. I never break out the equipment for 1-3 around here; totals here are almost always on the low end so I'd expect a little more than a dusting. Just can't get it together the last few years, and it is on here that I have always read to throw in the towel after Jan 15. Well, we got two days....there was a recent article in Nature that said snow loss is nonlinear; when the tipping point comes you just lose it. Are we there? Don't know. The person who summed up the article talked about this then turned around and said the article was mostly about snowpack, which is different. Whatever the case may be, there are parts of my 2019 Craftsman that are dry rotting already. Not sure if its worth replacing at this point.
  2. You can see those prices at Bloomie's in the Short Hills Mall....I remember reading about a working class kid who went to Harvard....they gave him 100 bucks to buy a coat, as he didn't have one. It's apparently a Harvard thing. The other students said like, dude, just go into town and get a Canada Goose...he said he didn't have the money; they said dude they take Venmo...they thought he just didn't have cash.....you can get a coat for 100 bucks or even less to handle winters at Harvard, but probably not for the temps in Edmonton.....
  3. Frank was an eye doctor, hence the Dr Frank Fields....making it sound like he was some sort of PhD in weather. Dude lived to 100. Even son Storm is retired at 76.
  4. I always saw some of the older crowd here telling folks back in the aughts that they would have pissed on a spark plug in the 80's for an 8 inch storm.....I'm guessing these days there are a lot of wet spark plugs around.....
  5. Maybe we get our first decent event in 2 years. Figures, I get an offer to come out of retirement and now we'll get the snow....
  6. Well, just poured the generator gas into the cars and left a bit for the smaller snowblower in case it snows sometime before April ( it started! But the prime pump is dry rotting ). Guess I should have waited. Gotta fill up the tanks again I guess.
  7. Seems like the places that used to be the bullseye for snow in the recent past are the same ones....glad to be out of it for a change! Did a a few trips in the Sound this year.Wonder what the wave heights are running there.
  8. I was teaching 7th grade. Just turned 30. The lights went out around 9 am and we sat in the dark til 3. An old building, it got dark. Tuna sandwiches were provided. Many chose to starve.....
  9. We were really close on that last one; less than an hour from good accumulations.
  10. Well, I might suggest painting your windows black and cranking up the AC, or taking a trip to someplace like Bariloche in Argentina where it's winter....
  11. I got out and enjoyed the inch I had while it was falling. Figured that might be it, you never know. Thought I saw some optimism in here yesterday but now it seems like people are dialing that back?
  12. As a retired therapist I can tell you I never once had a client complain about lack of snow, but I had plenty get depressed over winter, snow or not. Most people just hate it. Way it is.
  13. Oh there used to be some really nasty people here. I remember one famous poster who was an oil futures trader who told another poster he could be his foot stool for 250k....he didn't realize how that would be a huge salary to a lot of us and I immediately offered to interview for that job LOL. TBH it was a lot more fun for a guy like me who isn't quite so into the science, but I don't miss it either. Who wants to wander onto a weather site and be attacked? Can get that in real life every day....and as a social worker I pretty much did. Happily retired.
  14. We still got our 3-5 quick shots in those days, and it would stick around.
  15. Bring it. I've got 3 machines that haven't seen a flake in 2 years. And a road grew stationed at the local mall dying for some overtime....
  16. Here's an observation; cloudy in Woodbridge NJ with an army of plows lined up at the local mall. Lots of salt everywhere. No precip yet. Steel gray out. Throw a log on the fireplace; even if it's all rain, it's gonna be cold. Good day for homemade chicken soup.
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