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January 2012 - Obs/Disco/Banter


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Goodmorning SNE!

a beautiful 9 degrees out this morning, cool and crisp felt great getting the wood for the day out there this am.

Happy MLK

Single digitis--congrats. ;)

-17F here.

Just in case anybody is feeling cold. My buddy Ken in the Talkeetnas sent me this pic. He told me to bring an extra pair of socks.lol

And maybe a light jacket.....

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I've seen all of those things even here except Bear or a wolf, but wolves don't live in NE anyway unless it was a total stray...my relatives in Princeton MA though have seen black bear. Its amazing that as long as you live close to a large tract of unmolested forest, you get ridiculous wildlife.

-3F/-4. Another day below zero but was hoping for -5. Torch by Al Keetna standards

Will, they shot a grey wolf mile from MPM a few years ago. DNA tests confirmed it and it was not a stray "pet" one.

Have had bear 15 feet from my front door on a Sunday afternoon in June before. Lol

Yeah, they wonder down from Canada and some folks think there are small populations in New England. I thought I had seen an extremely large coyote but two of my neighbors saw the same animal over a few week period and they were pretty sure it was a wolf. This was after the one was shot in MPM's area.

Mountain lions are what fascinate me. Sightings too numerous to all be false have been reported in W. MA and VT. A friend of mine who teaches at Umass conservation and wildlife said the state and feds will vehemently deny cougars are here even with physical evidence because if it was ever determined that Eastern Catamounts were still established it would cost them millions.

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Bottomed out at -8.3° F here, PSF -7° F. Guess my forecast low from last night worked out perfectly. We went calm just before midnight, setting the stage for a good radiational cooling night. ALB was only 2° F. I guess the lack of snow in the Hudson Valley prevented them from really free falling.

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1° for the low here. I mentioned last night that temps weren't droppinglike I thought they would have given conditions and based on the numbers here, I guess everyone else didn't drop very low too.

Looks like a nice wintry looking week ahead....definate change for past.

3.4 for my low this morning. Ran a quick 5 miles this morning, but it wasn't bad with no wind

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22 here... nippy, but a rise of 34 degrees today.

Meanwhile torchland in western NY..BUF is 40 already. I predict by Wednesday morning they lose a large % of their LES snowcover and I'm still sitting here with my 5 or 6 inches of concrete and maybe even add some durability to it with tomorrow's event.

Pretty dam chilly still. Some evaporational cooling too along the south coast, as they are warmer than BOS and other locals further inland.

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M.L.King Day: Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 17. Light east southeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 7 to 11 inches possible.

Tonight: Snow showers. Steady temperature around 14. West southwest wind between 7 and 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible.

Tuesday: Snow showers. High near 16. West wind between 9 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.

Tuesday Night: Snow. Low around 10. West southwest wind around 9 mph becoming east. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible.

Wednesday: Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 29. East southeast wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 11 to 17 inches possible.

Wednesday Night: Snow. Low around 23. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 23 to 29 inches possible.

I was just checking the active watches across the country and saw all the WSW's up in the Pac. NW and clicked an area called Hurricane Ridge in the area surrounding Seattle and came back with this p/c. Looks to even rival accumulations that have been known to occur in West Chesterfield,MA.

J/K Pete

Currently 23 here after getting down to just below zero last night/this AM. Looks like decent shot to add a half inch to an inch tonight, perhaps an inch to two Thursday night, and a shot at something perhaps a little bigger Saturday. Feeling like winter with snow otg and at least a couple shots at snowfall.

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M.L.King Day: Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 17. Light east southeast wind. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 7 to 11 inches possible.

Tonight: Snow showers. Steady temperature around 14. West southwest wind between 7 and 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible.

Tuesday: Snow showers. High near 16. West wind between 9 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.

Tuesday Night: Snow. Low around 10. West southwest wind around 9 mph becoming east. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible.

Wednesday: Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 29. East southeast wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 11 to 17 inches possible.

Wednesday Night: Snow. Low around 23. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 23 to 29 inches possible.

I was just checking the active watches across the country and saw all the WSW's up in the Pac. NW and clicked an area called Hurricane Ridge in the area surrounding Seattle and came back with this p/c. Looks to even rival accumulations that have been known to occur in West Chesterfield,MA.

J/K Pete

Currently 23 here after getting down to just below zero last night/this AM. Looks like decent shot to add a half inch to an inch tonight, perhaps an inch to two Thursday night, and a shot at something perhaps a little bigger Saturday. Feeling like winter with snow otg and at least a couple shots at snowfall.

GC gets more than that! You must've been off by a town or two...

M.L.King Day: Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 9. West southwest wind around 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 9 to 13 inches possible.

Tonight: Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 6. Windy, with a west southwest wind between 26 and 32 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 11 to 17 inches possible.

Tuesday: Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 10. Windy, with a west wind 31 to 34 mph decreasing to between 17 and 20 mph. Winds could gust as high as 48 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 10 to 14 inches possible.

Tuesday Night: Snow. Low around 1. Breezy, with a west wind between 17 and 24 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 9 to 13 inches possible.

Wednesday: Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 27. Breezy, with a west southwest wind between 20 and 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 18 to 24 inches possible.

Wednesday Night: Snow. Low around 24. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 28 to 34 inches possible.

Thursday: Snow. High near 24. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 12 to 18 inches possible.

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-3F/-4. Another day below zero but was hoping for -5. Torch by Al Keetna standards

Will, they shot a grey wolf mile from MPM a few years ago. DNA tests confirmed it and it was not a stray "pet" one.

Have had bear 15 feet from my front door on a Sunday afternoon in June before. Lol

I wasn't implying that sitings of wolves were pet wolves...they are real and wild, but there are no populations of them in NE.

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A real wild gray wolf was shot in the central Adirondacks several years ago. They tested it and it seemed to be related to the wolves in Ontario and so the DEC theory was that it wandered in via the Thousand Islands. Nobody ever implied there was a breeding population in the Dacks.

But you have to ask yourself....could the few that got shot be the only ones to have strayed south into the Northeast US......

We know that our northeastern coyotes have a certain % of wolf genes in them, but I read that the theory was that during the extermination (via hunting) of the wolf, some interbreeding took place with the remaining wolves and they disappeared as a species on the US side of the St. Lawrence River. But their genes live on in our coyotes.

I wasn't implying that sitings of wolves were pet wolves...they are real and wild, but there are no populations of them in NE.

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-3F/-4. Another day below zero but was hoping for -5. Torch by Al Keetna standards

Will, they shot a grey wolf mile from MPM a few years ago. DNA tests confirmed it and it was not a stray "pet" one.

Have had bear 15 feet from my front door on a Sunday afternoon in June before. Lol

I didn't realize you know Al. He's a helluva guy.

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No neon lights but it sure is purty.

Hey Pete...My wife and I were in Westfield this afternoon and had some extra time so we took a ride up Rte 20/112 to see the snow since at best we have patches around here. It was nice to see the snow covered roads again. Honestly, this part of CT usually looks like your area so it was nice a nice drive.

Looks like we'll have some snow cover here though for the second half of the week after tonight.

23/14

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Hey Pete...My wife and I were in Westfield this afternoon and had some extra time so we took a ride up Rte 20/112 to see the snow since at best we have patches around here. It was nice to see the snow covered roads again. Honestly, this part of CT usually looks like your area so it was nice a nice drive.

Looks like we'll have some snow cover here though for the second half of the week after tonight.

23/14

Nice Dave, how far up 20/112 did you go?

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