rclab Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, Maureen said: Statement or prayer? As per our sainted Grandmothers prayer is the answer. As always .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannabehippie Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I am looking at the 22z HRRR and at the 6Z mark it is showing sleet for the NYC area, but below freezing at all levels. What is going on with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byrdhousebv Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I've been a snow lover since childhood in the 1950's. Regardless of my IMBY outcome, my wife of 45 years and I are hunkered down tonight in eastern Monmouth Co, and enjoying every bit of this event thus far; wood fire, good music, good drinks, all is well! Just wanted to thank a couple posters for the ride this week before the blush of the event has passed..... First, MJO812, Met Fan, I've never met or come in contact with another individual feeling the same way I do about snow. I got your back no matter what you post! And then wdrag.... I'm a professional engineer of of over 40 years and about to retire and admire you carrying your knowledge beyond your professional requirements to all of us...thank you! Happy Holidays to all!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 On 12/16/2020 at 12:12 AM, Will - Rutgers said: i can't wait for the drama in 36 hours looking at the bounty of razor-thin forecasts and models, it's entirely possible every single person in the entire forum ends up unhappy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 I can only think of one time where NYC got a 10" storm in December and did not get another snowstorm almost equal or bigger...one of 20 times?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardinalland Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 I said I would get a trace of snow this winter a few weeks ago... I already have 9” snow... eating crow now lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 18 minutes ago, uncle W said: I can only think of one time where NYC got a 10" storm in December and did not get another snowstorm almost equal or bigger...one of 20 times?... do you have snowfall totals for our official reporting stations? My favorite part of this event was between 3:30 am and 7 am when the temps plummeted and we had near white out conditions with heavy snow and high winds here....didn't expect that at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North and West Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Just my thought after getting a really nice night's sleep after not checking the boards since last night and waking up to a nice snow (Granted, not the outrageous amounts forecasted, but I think from reading here, we kinda knew that would occur in the back of our minds): This is the kind of storm we would have really enjoyed and hoped for as kids, but we’ve been spoiled so much in the the last 25 years and have been conditioned to frown upon and be disappointed with 8 to 12 of fast-accumulating snow with sleet and howling winds, ending with snow swirling in bitter cold. And a week before Christmas to boot! P.S. I'm guessing we got somewhere in the 8-12 range here in MMU; the winds are making it difficult to gauge. Many rooves are clean this morning. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 is it too much to ask for a storm to tuck in south of montauk and east of acy 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormlover74 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 46 minutes ago, forkyfork said: is it too much to ask for a storm to tuck in south of montauk and east of acy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North and West Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 46 minutes ago, forkyfork said: is it too much to ask for a storm to tuck in south of montauk and east of acy Joking aside, when is the next anticipated time we can spot something to track? It looks like it'll be quiet for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said: i have no idea which one that is 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormlover74 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, forkyfork said: i have no idea which one that is 12/30/2000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said: 12/30/2000 boxing day too. that's the benchmark for nyc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North and West Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 12/30/2000 One of my all time favorites.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormlover74 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 16 minutes ago, North and West said: One of my all time favorites. . Me too. 17" in 8 hours What was so amazing was at midnight the storm was just forming...nothing was even on radar yet and then it just exploded 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 1 minute ago, Stormlover74 said: Me too. 17" in 8 hours What was so amazing was at midnight the storm was just forming...nothing was even on radar yet and then it just exploded i was a freshman in HS and jumped out of bed at 6 am when i heard thunder 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1220 Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 11 hours ago, Stormlover74 said: Me too. 17" in 8 hours What was so amazing was at midnight the storm was just forming...nothing was even on radar yet and then it just exploded First time for sure I heard thundersnow. Absolutely incredible rates. I was in Long Beach then-2 towns over reported 16”. Believable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherpruf Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 On 12/16/2020 at 4:48 PM, rclab said: If mine, May she rest, saw me at my present 140 lbs, i would be force fed while chained to the kitchen table. As always .... I haven't been 140 pounds since 1979..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 2 hours ago, jm1220 said: First time for sure I heard thundersnow. Absolutely incredible rates. I was in Long Beach then-2 towns over reported 16”. Believable. I always point to that storm when people say that a storm cutting across Long Island cant be all snow here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 16 hours ago, forkyfork said: boxing day too. that's the benchmark for nyc it was really good but not historic across long island.....J01232016 was historic across a wide swath of the region ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rclab Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 1 hour ago, weatherpruf said: I haven't been 140 pounds since 1979..... 2003 I weighed 205 pounds by mid 2004 I was 140. Typical man, I thought nothing of it and just kept tightening the belt. My lost love said your going to the Doctor. I said no and that’s final. I, like Ralph Kramer, am the king of my Italian castle. So I went immediately. My primary care physician thought the bucket and my foot were about to meet. ( he told me this tidbit later ) set me up for every test/scan there was and told my love to make sure the personal affairs were in order, I am still here at 140lbs sixteen years later, still missing what was best in my life, my lost love. Today is her birthday. She would have been 68. My comfort today is to gaze at my postage stamp, dressed in white and imagine the briefest touch of soft lips on my cheek. As always .... 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STORMANLI Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 1 hour ago, rclab said: 2003 I weighed 205 pounds by mid 2004 I was 140. Typical man, I thought nothing of it and just kept tightening the belt. My lost love said your going to the Doctor. I said no and that’s final. I, like Ralph Kramer, am the king of my Italian castle. So I went immediately. My primary care physician thought the bucket and my foot were about to meet. ( he told me this tidbit later ) set me up for every test/scan there was and told my love to make sure the personal affairs were in order, I am still here at 140lbs sixteen years later, still missing what was best in my life, my lost love. Today is her birthday. She would have been 68. My comfort today is to gaze at my postage stamp, dressed in white and imagine the briefest touch of soft lips on my cheek. As always .... Sorry. I know your pain as my deceased bride would have also turned 68 back in August. Sad it's over, but glad it happened. Didn't have your level of weight loss but did lose 20 lbs in one week at 19. Comfortable being in mid to upper 140s. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooralph Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 I loved that storm. I’ll take 10” a week before Christmas any year over stressing whether we have an inch on the ground on 12/25. The city is magical right now. We haven’t had a snowfall with staying power like this in a long time. And in December? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 1 hour ago, hooralph said: I loved that storm. I’ll take 10” a week before Christmas any year over stressing whether we have an inch on the ground on 12/25. The city is magical right now. We haven’t had a snowfall with staying power like this in a long time. And in December? winters where we get a sizable amount of snow in December are also usually long snowcover winters- 1947-48, 1995-96 and 2010-11 being cases in point. 1995-96 had a big thaw but then it got right back to snowing lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 2 hours ago, LibertyBell said: this is much better than the low IQ BS that passes for "songs" these days. 2 hours ago, HeadInTheClouds said: Because todays music sucks. 1 hour ago, Kborne said: I have three sons. They know the words to all my fav 80's songs...Their friends come over...they like those songs too.. it surprised me to hear them say today's music sucks. First off, don't act like there wasn't a lot of trash ass music during your supposed "golden" days. There's always been bad music. Popular music is the byproduct of culture. Culture changes as you get older. The culture that affects you the most comes from your youth. The older you are the less you're likely going to identify with what is new. That doesn't mean it's bad, it means you're old. You don't identify with the music. That's fine, but don't confuse the two. "Music today sucks" is a brain dead comment. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 7 minutes ago, Nibor said: First off, don't act like there wasn't a lot of trash ass music during your supposed "golden" days. There's always been bad music. Popular music is the byproduct of culture. Culture changes as you get older. The culture that affects you the most comes from your youth. The older you are the less you're likely going to identify with what is new. That doesn't mean it's bad, it means you're old. You don't identify with the music. That's fine, but don't confuse the two. "Music today sucks" is a brain dead comment. okay then let's find a logical reason for why music has gotten worse with time....commercialism. It isn't just music that's been degraded it's many other facets of life. Let's face it, we live in a time when instant gratification results in a poor diet, where half of Americans have become obese (this started around 2000) and thats when the diabetes epidemic started, chiefly because of the consumption of convenient processed food. This era of "convenience" has bled into other facets of life generally degrading quality of life while increasing costs. Music is just a reflection of that new reality. And a lot of youth are rebelling against this new commercial reality. You completely forgot about the comment where a poster mentioned that his own children and their friends prefer music from the 80s. That's right in line with what I've seen too. It has nothing to do with one's age but with a measurable lowering of the quality of life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadInTheClouds Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Nibor said: First off, don't act like there wasn't a lot of trash ass music during your supposed "golden" days. There's always been bad music. Popular music is the byproduct of culture. Culture changes as you get older. The culture that affects you the most comes from your youth. The older you are the less you're likely going to identify with what is new. That doesn't mean it's bad, it means you're old. You don't identify with the music. That's fine, but don't confuse the two. "Music today sucks" is a brain dead comment. Dude you are entitled to your opinion but I stand by my comment. The amazing talent of the bands and artists that I and others mentioned is far superior than the auto-tune garbage of many "artists" of today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 6 minutes ago, HeadInTheClouds said: Dude you are entitled to your opinion but I stand by my comment. The amazing talent of the bands and artists that I and others mentioned is far superior than the auto-tune garbage of many "artists" of today. He also completely ignored the fact that so many of our youth gravitate towards older music. The Beatles are still considered the greatest rock band of all time. Find me a young group today that is anywhere near how great they were or Led Zeppelin or Queen for that matter. This isn't just an "opinion" it's a measurable matter of fact. What separates great music from rank commercialism is that the former tells a story and if you take the music away, the words still matter, they read like poetry written by some of our greatest writers. To not notice the general degradation of society, and how that's reflected in music, is to bury one's head in the sand. Facts are facts.....the new generation is angry because they know that their prospects for a better life are not as good as the previous generation's were and they have every right to be angry. You get less quality for the same amount of money, or even worse, lower quality that also costs more. There are multiple reasons for this, but corporatism, commercialism, etc., are all part of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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