HIPPYVALLEY

Freight train winds up high tonight! Even being tucked down and in our power has flickered a few time.

On a humorous note, the weed shop in Greenfield opened its doors for recreational purchases yesterday and the detail officer told me there was basically light traffic at best. I asked him if anybody was surprised by that since weed is basically free in Franklin County?

Dusting of snow this morning

Hopefully, we don't miss key oceanic buoy data, giving critical indications of the impending thermohaline circulation collapse as we flip to a new ice age.

Hair gets cut when a third party wins the presidency. That's a promise I made friends and family many years ago.

I'll guess doggie poop and shirtless?

The last patch of snow on the roof should be gone by tomorrow, that's when I know it's Spring.

Franklin county is blessed with an abundance of local produce and local humanely raised cows and pigs. I have no issue spending the extra money on local meats and eggs.

GFS isn't exactly dry next week.

Is that an easy connect back to lift service?

My snow hating neighbor has not only spent hours snow blowing snow into the sunnier parts of his yard this week, he is now out hacking away at a plow pile and walking shovels full of snow out to the sunnier part of his driveway. To each their own and enjoy!

GFS wants to keep adding to the w.e. in NNE. At some point this spring you have to figure at least minor flooding on the rivers.

Uhg, that sucks! I refuse to ski on ice now that I'm 50, too old for a serious injury hampering my life.

UMass has a mail in soil testing program.

Always. Lawn is a luxury item.

I'm close to 48" and need about 10-12" to get to seasonal average.

Fake snow? Those coastal totals sublimate fast. ; ) He rocketed out of nowhere. I saw I am now in a dead heat with Ray.

Fuk, there can be 1-2" differences between my house on the far N side of Greenfield (almost in Colrain) and far S side (almost in Deerfield). In fact, for quite a while, when I was submitting my NWS reports I would state exactly where I was because downtown could often have 1" less snow (or sometimes 1" more) even though I am only about 200' higher.

We all know there should be a weather station and snow board in a little fenced area on Boston Common, just need to find somebody on Beacon Hill to walk down and take the measurements.

It can be infuriating. NWS almost always uses my reports for Greenfield because they know I'm pretty conservative with my measurements. I had to complain a few years ago when they used a "media" source for a few storms and they were way off from my totals both on the negative and positive side but almost every Greenfield report over the past 8 years is mine.

Dude, you're nuts! You need a front load tractor or p/u with a plow for a driveway like that.

How the hell did the guy in Sterling only get 8 - 9"???

My friend in Colrain says about 7.5" there, I had about 6.5" here. W MA totals: Franklin County... Greenfield 6.0 604 AM 3/04 General Public Sunderland 5.9 700 AM 3/04 Co-Op Observer 2 ENE Ashfield 5.8 700 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Ashfield 5.5 656 AM 3/04 NONE 1 SE Sunderland 5.3 730 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Heath 5.1 654 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Shelburne 4.5 630 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter ...Hampden County... East Longmeadow 8.0 741 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter Wales 8.0 551 AM 3/04 Media Southwick 6.0 800 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Ludlow 6.0 526 AM 3/04 Media Springfield 6.0 721 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter 2 WSW Ludlow 5.8 700 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Holyoke 5.3 714 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter Chicopee 5.0 555 AM 3/04 Media North Chester 4.8 745 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter Longmeadow 4.5 355 AM 3/04 NONE West Springfield 4.5 735 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Westfield 2.0 1153 PM 3/03 Ham Radio ...Hampshire County... 1 WSW Williamsburg 6.5 645 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Huntington 6.0 554 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Ware 5.5 719 AM 3/04 Ham Radio North Amherst 5.5 832 AM 3/04 Trained Spotter Easthampton 5.5 700 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Amherst 5.4 715 AM 3/04 Co-Op Observer 2 SSE South Hadley 5.1 755 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Northampton 4.8 605 AM 3/04 CoCoRaHS Cummington 4.5 728 AM 3/04 Ham Radio South Amherst 3.7 637 AM 3/04 Fire Dept/Rescue South Hadley 3.2 300 AM 3/04 Ham Radio Westhampton 3.0 1

I would have never guessed you and I would get the same amount based on you being about 25-30mi E of me. Pretty morning.