Torchageddon

Buried here. This is a top 5 snowiest winter I've seen, if the crazy GFS verified giving me 24" during this last stretch that would've been disastrous (or awesome). The sun came out a bit later Mon and I was in awe at the beauty, peak winter. Massive drifts hanging off roofs is a delight. Snow banks 6-8 feet high we don't have anywhere to put the snow. If we didn't have those melts in Dec, it would be like 2000-2001. Its all LES doing the work. Every season it seems these synoptic systems under-perform by greater margins. I can't recall the last time one verified to expectations. Mind blowingly, I still haven't experienced an actual synoptic winter storm in March although Overnight into Mar 1 2017 was super close, you could count it. Will this be the season or will decades of trend continue?

First sign of a bust was there was nothing falling for nearly 8 hr last night and I was suppose to have steady light sn. Then I wake up to find no flakes! Dry slotted to hell! A few cm fell overnight but nothing like 10cm with it ramping up to peak by 9am. Currently -SN almost pixie dust... WUN forecast has me at 5-10cm or 6.7 today . Was 23 few days ago. My 25cm til Tues call looking solid.

A run for the ages, I'd be buried under 24"! How much is LES curious but the contour doesn't make sense for it. Can this be a blizzard for SON - I want to experience one again

Its been consistently cold here for a long time, typically <-4C/15F. Getting fewer peeks of sun recently so grumbling about that one. We got surprise snows on and off all last weekend which bumped totals even further. With the 15cm I got from this mediocre snowfall, I'll receive more from les today all the way til Tues! WUN has me for 9cm sat sun mon while twn just 5cm each day with 10-15 on Sun's system. TWN 14-day for entertainment shows snow of some form every day til Feb 23!! Solid snowy winter.

I measured 6"/15cm which is about my late thought for total. Even with low wind there were modest drifts so hard to tell but avg is 6. The "storm" ended sooner than forecast at 3:30-4am instead of 6-7am. I also had a lull/dry slot at midnight rates really fell for a bit. After my 80cm onslaught in late Nov, this is pedestrian. The next phase of snow has already started in which radar is just starting to pick up on; mood flakes for now.

At 8:30 I was only at 2cm or 1", paltry snows til 10pm. Flake size increased after; moderate intensity. I guess I may be at 4cm now. Not impressed so far. Early on at 6pm the heavier returns were to my east and then later to my south! Looks like YYZ was thrown a bone. My bet is I get 16 cm by the end of it but the winds tomorrow will make verifying this near impossible.

Maybe I can get a bit of lake enhancement, WUN lowered me to 19cm but TWN increased to 25-30+. The highest winds start as the storm winds down 30km/h sustained.

The forecast here has been fairly steady showing 20+ cm or 9". The first snow is starting now. I had blue skies and sun for a few hours this morning, then by early aft the sky was a different hue as if it had just rained heavy like I see in warmer times. I've been waiting for the first synoptic winter storm - its been years here too.

Curious, what autocorrect adds an adverb like not? I would ditch a corrector that ever did that! My guess is based on frequency of "is" vs "is not" used with inspiring.

The dreaded Jan is here, will I see a synoptic storm? Its been boring for years. I had flurries on NYE, I've never experienced a winter storm on NY - one year there was a fair snowfall but nothing significant. So far 3" from LES.

I'm under the low, my ws is showing 991mb - not 983 that dumb receiver keeps showing 10mb too low. Temp went up just in the last few hours to 8C/48F. Very sharp rise in the last hour! Even got a lightning strike detected mins ago. Lots of rain today 14mm thus far snowpack taking a beating.

Got up to 10C, sun came out around 3pm and all was good once it was. So much melt. Green grass showing up in spots.

As expected Sat was blue skies and sunny! Just seeing how cold it was going to be was the tip off, whereas WUN had overcast and never caved, even in real time Not many winter solstices are like this. Very cold high of -10C/8F?

Speaking of, that very thing occurred this morning . First of winter. I don't exactly know if blue skies were forecast from various offices but I doubt it had any better than partly sunny or mostly cloudy. It got far colder as well closer to -20C - not the windchill! At least -3C colder. First in maybe a month since there were no clouds:

Taking the whether it would've been better to have a torch or not this Dec, I think its obvious what I prefer. Snow cover brightens things up from the dismal Nov darkness, but also creates a colder BG state and I really hate cold. Last few days its been frigid; when I'm out there its misery. Doesn't matter what you do but very cold overnights bring sunnier early daytimes (at times) with less wind which I can hack . On top of that I'm deteriorating steadily in general. Worse for wear as they say. It was already -10C/14F by 6pm this evening going to get my first -20C/-4F windchill overnight blah.