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Got home last night about 8 pm. Put 5500 miles on the car in 11 days (an oil change is planned for later today + a good scrubbing). Saw temps range from 70's to single digits, sun/wind/rain and snow. Overall a great trip, but boy do several states need to work on their roads!! (I'm looking at you IN and IL! Arizona gets a consolation prize for 3rd place.)

So got to spend the last 36+ hours with my son AND enjoy a good bit of snowfall. Only 10 inches has fallen where he lives, but up on the mountain they reported 18-20 inches. LOTS of drifting with the 30-50 mph winds. He has a weather station on a 5 foot pole in the side yard that you could see the top 8-10 inches of the pole, now gone lol.

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Got into Park City around 7 pm. This hopefully helps cure my 'snow drought' from last couple of years.

Neighbor has been keeping up with weather numbers while I am gone (and feeding kitty), texted this morning and updated today for end of month for CoCoRaHS, so here goes..... Averaged high temp for month was 52.9 degrees vs a normal of 46.0 degrees, a +6.9 degrees above average. The warmest day was the 27th with a 65.7 degree reading. Averaged low was 28.7 degrees vs a normal of 24.0 degrees, a +4.7 degrees above average. The coldest reading was 18.8 degrees on the 18th. Overall averaged temp was 40.8 degrees vs a normal of 35.0 degrees, a +5.8 degrees above average. Total precip for the month was 2.25 inches vs a normal of 2.67, a -0.42 below average. The wettest day was the 13th with 0.72 inches falling. There were 10 days with measurable, 4 days with a 'T' and 15 dry days. Total snowfall for the month was a terrible 'T' vs a normal of 5.9 inches, -5.9 inches below average with 4 days that occurring, 1st, 13th, 16th and 17th. Rest of month was snowless. This ties for 2nd least snowiest Feb with 1990/91/99 and 2017 and just behind 1988's completely snowless month. The highest wind recorded for month was 39 mph on the 14th. Two new records, both new 'warm minimum's, set on 11th and 12th. Overall, a very warm and semi-dry month, with hardly any snow. Still in CA (today is wife's last official 'working day', retirement together commences tomorrow), headed to Park City tomorrow (least I will get my snow fix in) to see son a couple of days, then driving back home starting Monday.

Posting for March, just in case I can't 'computer' in a couple days lol IF I can, may update before cutoff. Thanks DCA: +0.8 NYC: +1.4 BOS: +1.7 ORD: +0.9 ATL: -0.4 IAH: -0.5 DEN: -0.3 PHX: -0.8 SEA: +1.6

Some sprinkles and right at the freezing mark this morning.

Wait, even that has gone up? Two weeks ago it was 45.

Very, very NINOish.

Low was 22.3 here, currently 37.7/27.4 under sunny skies at 10:30 am. Last few days have been awesome for getting outside stuff done.

Another chilly start down around 20 degrees, already up to 36 at 10:30 am under full sun.

Well, the first thing I generally check made that a fail, the HOA block was checked. Granted, I didn't read to see if it was low and only to cover road maintenance/plowing (which I COULD live with, begrudgingly) but other than that, automatic out. Once an HOA gets started the only way they go is up, usually at 2x inflation as a minimum.

Another semi-chilly start to the day, currently 24.1/15.3 under clear skies.

Same here. I pulled the string back in September, she will retire end of this month. We both love snow and have considered several locations including Flagstaff AZ, eastern UT to western WY, northern MO to southern IA, and a bit closer at either Thomas/Davis or Alpine Lake/Terra Alta areas of WV. BUT, do we want to do a massive move for snow? She just moved east (CA girl) 3 years ago after all lol. Plus we both like to garden so a few of those locations set a limit on that. The bummer is most areas are losing snow across the USA.... So for now we are staying put for at least the next year.

To a point, yes. It isn't a MASSIVE increase, but in marginal situations it can snow 2,3 4 inches up there and rain or white rain down in the valleys. In a bigger event it can be a 10-20% increase in totals from lowland areas. The biggest difference I've seen (and I'm close to the airport at Hot Springs (3700-4200 elevation) is when we get ice storms, or close calls for one. Then I've seen the parkway and the airport be in 1/2 inch of ice and hardly anything low. As far as moisture, usually the peaks of the BR and Allegheny's wring out anything either east or west depending on storm track, 90% of the time they are wetter than lower areas that get down sloped.

Bottomed out at 18.8 degrees here for the low, currently 19.7/11.2 with a WSW wind at 6 mph, WC of 12 degrees.

I've had more snow fall SINCE 7a this morning than the rest of the storm lol.

Well, I had about 20-30 minutes of very wet mangled flakes before it ended around 5:30 am. Nada but another T in the book. Course it wasn't my storm, way north, needed about two more 'souther pushes' to put this area in the game, sorta shocked anything fell.

My property went from a solid 6B to straddling the 6B/7A line, zip went to 7A. A +3 on temp.

LOL, that is BRUTAL. 1" near Fredericksburg to close to 10" near Dulles......

Was in Lowe's yesterday looking around and picked up some starter mix. We already had all the seeds needed to get started. Probably get going as soon as we return from CA 1st weekend in March.

One more 50-75 mile jump south with the low and I'll be interested.

So for the second straight year I watched the SB with family (only 2 games I've watched in these years after no NFL previous 2 or 3). Didn't watch the pre/post or halftime, knew those would be a mess, just hung with family in another area of the house during those. I'll admit that LAST year's game with TS 'cuts' was interesting and a novelty in a way, this year it was just plain dumb and over the top. I'm 1000% sure other players had a wife/GF/mother there, did you see any cuts to them after a play? Anyway, it was a decent game, and a few of the commercials were pretty funny.

So for second day in a row set a new 'warm minimum', old mark was 40.5 from 2018, new is 44.7 degrees. Currently 45.6/44.6 and fog/drizzle here at 8 am.

I spent the last event on the Foothills Parkway Overlook just east of Maryville TN. Absolutely awesome experience, especially from that high an elevation and watching the darkness close in around you. I HIGHLY recommend getting in the centerline on totality if folks can.