NW_of_GYX Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 3 minutes ago, powderfreak said: To me, it’s actually been an incredible winter given the departures. I don’t think most folks understand what sustained +8 is for a departure. February currently sits at +11.2 at MVL. People die in July at +11.2 and here we are running snow cover daily at a “departure torch.” Not that different from last year except it was even warmer here and we had more snow to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Looks like another one of those ok winters in higher elevations, but shitty in the lower elevations. I mean even CT has a deeper pack than Mitch. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 To me, it’s actually been an incredible winter given the departures. I don’t think most folks understand what sustained +8 is for a departure. February currently sits at +11.2 at MVL. People die in July at +11.2 and here we are running snow cover daily at a “departure torch.”You would never know it’s +11.2 if you were out this weekend. Deep winter and biting cold. . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Looks like another one of those ok winters in higher elevations, but shitty in the lower elevations. I mean even CT has a deeper pack than Mitch. Ok is a good way to put it. Some excellent stretches, but less refreshes it seems than the past few years when it gets bad. It’s been non stop snow the past few days, but about a 10 day drought before. The Christmas torch was pretty epic this year too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qg_omega Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 7 minutes ago, bwt3650 said: You would never know it’s +11.2 if you were out this weekend. Deep winter and biting cold. . Zero below zero days, truly historic warmth. Almost no big lakes have any ice, Champlain, George, all the Great Lakes. According to the LGA records show that the Lake also didn’t freeze completely in 1919, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, kinda 2022 (it thawed in February and froze again), and this year. Which when you look at the trend... it’s obvious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 1 hour ago, DavisStraight said: That's pathetic, is anyone other than Alaska getting more than average? Yes, Allentown, PA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 17 minutes ago, bwt3650 said: You would never know it’s +11.2 if you were out this weekend. Deep winter and biting cold. . About the “biting cold”. I thought the same thing as I was unloading my sleds to go riding and then I realized it was like 25°. Most years I’d be so acclimated to cold that I’d basically be able to go out in shorts and a tee shirt and think what a nice day. It’s been so warm that 20°-25° feels like the Arctic. Lol 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Soon the ski trails will be replaced by water slides. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowcrazed71 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Just now, CoastalWx said: Soon the ski trails will be replaced by water slides. Lord... So dramatic... And soon pines will be replaced with Palm Trees 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Zero below zero days, truly historic warmth. Almost no big lakes have any ice, Champlain, George, all the Great Lakes. According to the LGA records show that the Lake also didn’t freeze completely in 1919, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, kinda 2022 (it thawed in February and froze again), and this year. Which when you look at the trend... it’s obviousLooks like winter to me. I know what your agenda is, but my comment wasn’t that it hasn’t been +11 this month, it was that it has felt like deep winter this weekend. it hasn’t stopped snowing more than a few hours in the last 3 days, we’ll be pushing two feet in that stretch by morning, temps have been in the teens during the day and barely above zero at night with a steady wind and chills below zero. To me, that is “obviously” a deep winter feel. I’ve enjoyed it.. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 42 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: Looks like another one of those ok winters in higher elevations, but shitty in the lower elevations. I mean even CT has a deeper pack than Mitch. It’s not great. Getting lucky this winter means closer to normal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 50 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: Looks like another one of those ok winters in higher elevations, but shitty in the lower elevations. I mean even CT has a deeper pack than Mitch. He's got like 14" OTG, but your point stands, it's been a rat in the Berks up towards extreme SVT. Mitch has the same total as me right now on the season, which is pretty crazy and I'm sure is a pretty low return rate of that happening in any given year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 48 minutes ago, mreaves said: About the “biting cold”. I thought the same thing as I was unloading my sleds to go riding and then I realized it was like 25°. Most years I’d be so acclimated to cold that I’d basically be able to go out in shorts and a tee shirt and think what a nice day. It’s been so warm that 20°-25° feels like the Arctic. Lol I’ll agree… the real cold days have been about normal. Normal is pretty damn cold in January and February. But a -20F summit windchill is like what one might expect in Jan/Feb at 3k+ feet, a couple counties within the Canadian border. We averaged low single digits for a long time, even now it needs to hit 6F every night to have a shot at below normal. Its only hit 6F once in 17 days. 14 of 17 days have had mins of 12F or more when the average has been 2-6F. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 38 minutes ago, bwt3650 said: Looks like winter to me. I know what your agenda is, but my comment wasn’t that it hasn’t been +11 this month, it was that it has felt like deep winter this weekend. it hasn’t stopped snowing more than a few hours in the last 3 days, we’ll be pushing two feet in that stretch by morning, temps have been in the teens during the day and barely above zero at night with a steady wind and chills below zero. To me, that is “obviously” a deep winter feel. I’ve enjoyed it. Snowfall and snow-on-the-ground will always trump temperature departures. If it’s snowy at +10, no one cares. The minute positive departures mean rain, the vibe changes drastically. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 This winter sucks. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Childude645 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 This winter sucks.Could always be worse . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8611Blizz Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 GFS 384 hour snow totals. The ninth level of Hell winter carries on in Boston... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyEnjoyer Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Squall just passed through - came down harder than anything on Saturday, go figure - left a nice coating. The camera pointed at my drive confuses snow with vehicles, so I get push notifications to my phone whenever it snows hard at night. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 16 minutes ago, 8611Blizz said: GFS 384 hour snow totals. The ninth level of Hell winter carries on in Boston... I really don't care to have 6-8" over 2 weeks...knock yourself out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8611Blizz Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Just now, 40/70 Benchmark said: I really don't care to have 6-8" over 2 weeks...knock yourself out. Some of us are paid to be ready for snow of all amounts and we stay that way until early April. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman19 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 10 hours ago, Heisy said: You think the SSW does anything for us in March? . No offense but don’t you live in Philadelphia? What exactly are you hoping to get down there in March? And all the SSW hype has been fail after fail all winter. Total voodoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 6 hours ago, backedgeapproaching said: He's got like 14" OTG, but your point stands, it's been a rat in the Berks up towards extreme SVT. Mitch has the same total as me right now on the season, which is pretty crazy and I'm sure is a pretty low return rate of that happening in any given year. I was just going by pics he posted and it looked like 6”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCWarrior Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Yeah pretty bad around here up into SVT for snow. Up around Magic there is probably around 8-10” of “pack.” My memory is a bit foggy but this does reminds me of 2009-10 here. That season was saved by the 3’ elevation bomb late February. We need one of those badly! The next winter was pretty sweet so I have some sort of hope for what’s coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBRI Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Picked up a nice 1.5-2" Last night in Rangeley. Have to see if there was more in elevation tomorrow. House we stay in is just about about lake level. Did a quick 65 mile loop with wife yesterday and trails were pretty good. Started at -7 at 5 am was in the 20's by 11AM. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 sitting at 2.5" for the month of Feb, with 10 days left and not much on the horizon. So yeah, I'd call this a Feb. Flop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I had more snow in November than in December and February combined. And that was only around 2.5” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 8 hours ago, dryslot said: This winter sucks. Agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 8 hours ago, Childude645 said: Could always be worse . The only way it could be worse is if we had no snow, 15-16 was the worse and this year is going to beat it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 25 minutes ago, dryslot said: The only way it could be worse is if we had no snow, 15-16 was the worse and this year is going to beat it. What did you have that year? never mind. Looks like you had 50” I had 30” that season and I’m a little ahead thanks to January Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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