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39 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

Do I blame myself for Watertown’s snow bust because I mused about wishing I was there?

 

yes, yes I do. It’s my superpower and it is just the worst. 

That band just south of Watertown is epic - but its been frozen in place. Had it not been for the holiday, I'd be sitting in a Watertown Airbnb stewing until steam lifted the cranium off my bald head. The band will move north at some point, but not 70" worth. 

Very light snow here with about an inch in the last 24 hours. Was very festive decorating the tree yesterday. Cold at 16.5. 

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13 minutes ago, katabatic said:

That band just south of Watertown is epic - but its been frozen in place. Had it not been for the holiday, I'd be sitting in a Watertown Airbnb stewing until steam lifted the cranium off my bald head. The band will move north at some point, but not 70" worth. 

Very light snow here with about an inch in the last 24 hours. Was very festive decorating the tree yesterday. Cold at 16.5. 

I follow a page on Facebook called Tughill Snow Chasers. It's just video of two old guys driving a huge plow and listening to classic rock music. They were skeptical about their location south of Watertown. This morning they are plowing with joy lol.

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1 hour ago, CAPE said:

Yeah the band has been persistent to the south of there. The forecast was dramatically adjusted yesterday afternoon. I read some of the AFD and apparently with these LES events the hi-res short range models have a south bias so they tend to lean towards the globals when forecasting the exact location of the bands. I guess that didn't quite work out in this case.

Watertown is typically just a bit north for the epic long duration lake events which are usually focused somewhere from ~Adams Center in Jefferson County to Central Square in Oswego County 

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I follow a page on Facebook called Tughill Snow Chasers. It's just video of two old guys driving a huge plow and listening to classic rock music. They were skeptical about their location south of Watertown. This morning they are plowing with joy lol.

Don’t we all plow with joy
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Watertown is typically just a bit north for the epic long duration lake events which are usually focused somewhere from ~Adams Center in Jefferson County to Central Square in Oswego County 

Truth. Same with buffalo versus its immediate southtowns. It’s rare that steering winds are perfectly SW to NE, which is what buffalo and Watertown need for a prolonged event. Now.. when it does happen, it’s epic due to the crazy long fetch over Ontario and Erie.

Don’t count Watertown out though. Winds will steer today and tonight and they’ll likely still see upwards of 3 feet by Sunday night.


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9 hours ago, jayyy said:

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Taken just outside Erie PA today while visiting a college buddy of mine. 3-4” per hour at the peak. I forgot how insane LES is from my college days in buffalo. Magical. Snowpack is certainly going to be building to our north over the next 1-2 weeks

Beautiful!

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3 hours ago, katabatic said:

That band just south of Watertown is epic - but its been frozen in place. Had it not been for the holiday, I'd be sitting in a Watertown Airbnb stewing until steam lifted the cranium off my bald head. The band will move north at some point, but not 70" worth. 

Very light snow here with about an inch in the last 24 hours. Was very festive decorating the tree yesterday. Cold at 16.5. 

Wasn’t it you who asked us about our epic Pulaski Tug Hill trip? 

One of the  guys was like 6’5” and he walked into a maximum accumulated snow area . It was a foot over his head and not a drift.  5-6’ undrifted not unusual and 3-5’ everywhere 

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First solid freeze at my station near BWI. The 13th briefly touched freezing and froze only some garden annuals here. Too bad the airport fixed their Mr Freeze sensor, think of all the snow/ip/zr they would have otherwise had!
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2 hours ago, WEATHER53 said:

Wasn’t it you who asked us about our epic Pulaski Tug Hill trip? 

One of the  guys was like 6’5” and he walked into a maximum accumulated snow area . It was a foot over his head and not a drift.  5-6’ undrifted not unusual and 3-5’ everywhere 

Yes, it was me. I have done 4 LES chases since 2022 and love it when I get the location right - but as this latest round shows, its not for the faint of heart. The experience for a snow lover like me being in the middle of a band is truly second to none. I went looking around the Tug for possible cabin locations this summer (ain't much up there) to get a more permanent fix. Your chase sounds absolutely epic. If another LES chase comes up in the future, I'd be there in a New York minute lol. 

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1 hour ago, katabatic said:

Yes, it was me. I have done 4 LES chases since 2022 and love it when I get the location right - but as this latest round shows, its not for the faint of heart. The experience for a snow lover like me being in the middle of a band is truly second to none. I went looking around the Tug for possible cabin locations this summer (ain't much up there) to get a more permanent fix. Your chase sounds absolutely epic. If another LES chase comes up in the future, I'd be there in a New York minute lol. 

2007 and it overwhelmed even them. I don’t think they have reached the 6’+ level since then 

snowing so hard, almost dark at 2pm, 5’+ everywhere and some more.  Just a not on earth  experience for me.  If not for Ra**dy I may have perished in the white outs!

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44 minutes ago, WEATHER53 said:

36 for high  and I’m going to be under 32 soon for earliest of season 

We left Myrtle Beach this AM...when it was 33 and they were under a Freeze Warning...and crawled (literally, an 8-hour trip which usually takes 6!) back up I-95 for most of today, to return to a balmy 37 in MBY.

Wowzers. It's going to be nearly as cold here in Myrtle Beach this coming week as it is going to be here in NoVA. That's mind-blowing. Folks down there aren't quite sure how to deal with that kind of cold...we saw numerous folks down there last evening "layering up," but even then they didn't seem to be ready for THAT level of cold.

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