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New England Winter 2024-25 Bantering, Whining, and Sobbing Thread


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On 2/6/2025 at 5:50 AM, BrianW said:

 

I'm not off grid as I'm still connected but my house has been all electric/solar since 2017. My panels took only 5 years to reach their return on investment here in CT with the 3rd most expensive electricity in the US. My Eversource bill has been pretty much the $9.62 minimum service charge every month. 

Here is a shot yesterday of my solar powering my 2 mini splits directly from the sun from 10-4. It's also sending all the extra back to the grid and I'm on 1 to 1 net metering so any excess powers them at night for free.

  Also notice my mini splits run nonstop all day at low power where they are crazy efficient. Entire house stays nice and warm at 70 all day. 

 

 

 

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Just got solar and heat pumps in December - albeit the latter is mostly for cooling due to the direct southern exposure we have.  I'm impressed with their production.  Even with the solar min, and "cold" season we're having, I'm covering 80% of my electric to date.  By the time the equinox rolls around I'm sure I'll be at 100%, and then will net-meter all warm season and get my ROI in 5 years as well.

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What an awesome winter. Snowing again, I can’t get over how good the conditions are. 
 

On that note, we still have a lot of vacation homes available for Mass and NH school vacation weeks. We have a special offer to email subscribers going out on Sunday for a “name your own price” deal. Happy to roll it out to anyone on this forum too; just email [email protected] the desired home and/or any requirements (n of bedrooms, n of people, pet or no pets), your offer, and we will try to match with owners that are willing to give that price. 

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1 hour ago, alex said:

What an awesome winter. Snowing again, I can’t get over how good the conditions are. 
 

On that note, we still have a lot of vacation homes available for Mass and NH school vacation weeks. We have a special offer to email subscribers going out on Sunday for a “name your own price” deal. Happy to roll it out to anyone on this forum too; just email [email protected] the desired home and/or any requirements (n of bedrooms, n of people, pet or no pets), your offer, and we will try to match with owners that are willing to give that price. 

I was checking out some of the offerings the other day.  Some beautiful properties. 

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Fitbit tells me I burned 6300 calories today by shoveling my house, running through the snow to gf’s house, and shoveling her house. Ah, to be young! (Which I am) 

Although I seem to lack that sort of energy whenever it isn’t snowing. Thats the mark of a true weenie

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On 2/8/2025 at 11:59 PM, Torch Tiger said:

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28”.  #4 For my Area in Recorded History, #2 of my lifetime.  2005 & 1997 is still my favorite of the 7 Major Full Area Blizzards though I must say (1992, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2013, 2015).  

And I missed the Semi-major ones of 2011, February 2017, & March 2018.  

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3 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

28”.  #4 For my Area in Recorded History, #2 of my lifetime.  2005 & 1997 is still my favorite of the 7 Major Full Area Blizzards though I must say (1992, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2013, 2015).  

And I missed the Semi-major ones of 2011, February 2017, & March 2018.  

only 40"

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19 minutes ago, codfishsnowman said:

That was a cool event. It took awhile to get the better snow growth here but once it did we got 18 plus in 6 hours! We ended up with just a shade under two feet. The only bummer about 2/13 was that it happened at night

Yeah, 6"/hr and frequent CG lightning during the day would be something to behold. Closest thing i've seen during the day would be Feb 2001. 

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28 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Yeah, 6"/hr and frequent CG lightning during the day would be something to behold. Closest thing i've seen during the day would be Feb 2001. 

I remember well the morning of the Feb 01 storm. The radar just exploding off the NJ Coast. That was the last time I saw Thunder snow in an event.

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11 hours ago, codfishsnowman said:

I remember well the morning of the Feb 01 storm. The radar just exploding off the NJ Coast. That was the last time I saw Thunder snow in an event.

Do you remember how big the flake size was at the start? It's one of the things i remember the most about that storm and read a lot of similar accounts. They were like baseball sized flakes for like the first hour (aggies sticking together). And then the CG thunder snow/sleet at sunset was unreal. A bolt struck my neighbors backyard and was incredibly loud, haven't seen anything that good. But have seen thundersnow a lot since then. Feb 03, Feb 13, Feb 17, Mar 18 also had thundersnow here. 

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2 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Do you remember how big the flake size was at the start? It's one of the things i remember the most about that storm and read a lot of similar accounts. They were like baseball sized flakes for like the first hour (aggies sticking together). And then the CG thunder snow/sleet at sunset was unreal. A bolt struck my neighbors backyard and was incredibly loud, haven't seen anything that good. But have seen thundersnow a lot since then. Feb 03, Feb 13, Feb 17, Mar 18 also had thundersnow here. 

I lived in Bristol CT during that event. We had a lot of thunder and lightning later in the evening

I don't remember much about flakes size but it snowed at least two/hr for several hours with peak rates in the thunder snow reaching three/hr briefly. We picked up 18-19 inches from that and temps were right below 30F . That was man snow. We likely had around 2 inches melted equiv. With the six inch glacier beneath it we averaged just over 2 feet otg. Awesome storm!

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38 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

gotta be the best CT storm overall since 1888. i dont think anything really comes close 

I think you have to put in 1978 as well. The snow totals weren’t as epic across the state, but the societal impact was unprecedented in the 20th century among CT winter storms. 

If we have a top 4 Mount Rushmore, I think October 2011 is fourth because of its rarity and societal impact. 

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1 minute ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I think you have to put in 1978 as well. The snow totals weren’t as epic across the state, but the societal impact was unprecedented in the 20th century among CT winter storms. 

If we have a top 4 Mount Rushmore, I think October 2011 is fourth because of its rarity and societal impact. 

i wouldnt disagree for impacts, but in terms of snow 78 doesnt even touch 2013.

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