February 2025 Disco/Obs Thread

[Prismshine Productions]

Nickle and dime season ftw... need just .8" to hit seasonal (picked up 1.75" this morning)

[Ginx snewx]

44 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

The irony is it’s not like historic snowfall or anything, it’s just a solid above normal season following numerous shitty years up here.

The issue is it’s also been shitty down in SNE for years and the gradient has been super sharp this season.

A lot of multi-year perception in play… up here happy that it’s finally out of the rut, but down there it’s the mentality of still in the rut.

Hopefully SNE breaks out next winter.

Not historical yet in 2nd place for depth in late Feb. No where near done and almost 300 inches. Cmon

[weatherwiz]

Didn’t encounter any snow this morning. Was slightly worried it may be a bit icy but roads were fine. Had to rush to the emergency vet at 2:30 this morning 

[Lava Rock]

3.8". Pack refreshed

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[TheMainer]

By the time I got home it shrunk down to 3 inches (insert thats what she said here). 

[kdxken]

26 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Not historical yet in 2nd place for depth in late Feb. No where near done and almost 300 inches. Cmon

Yeah that guy's really starting to get on my nerves. Is there a way the moderators can only allow him to post in the Northern New England thread?

[kdxken]

2 minutes ago, TheMainer said:

By the time I got home it shrunk down to 3 inches (insert thats what she said here). 

Saved Kevin the keystrokes.

[kdxken]

3 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Yep. My road was temporarily “fixed” last year with reclaimed milling.  It was ok for a while. The last 2 days have made it look like Beruit in the 1980s 

Yeah it's getting bad. Thankfully I'm driving my old beater. My other car has wicked low profile tires. If I was driving that I would have no fillings and a substantial bill for a new rims.

 

[dryslot]

Next up,

[Chrisrotary12]

6 hours ago, powderfreak said:

This is the heaviest snow you can get.  It is vomiting snow.

Revenge of PF continues.

[klw]

We ended up with 4 inches here at the house.

 

[powderfreak]

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Not historical yet in 2nd place for depth in late Feb. No where near done and almost 300 inches. Cmon

269”… we’ll see if it makes a run at 2016-17’s 375” at that plot, or can get towards the more recent bigger year of 2018-19 max depth over 120”.

It’s not second place for late Feb.

I’m dammed if I do, dammed if don’t lol… rubbing it in or downplaying it depending on your viewpoint.  Just let the stats fall where they are… it’s a solidly above normal snow winter, but not the best in even the last 8 years.  A good winter.

 

[Modfan2]

30F to start this at, a little icy after yesterdays rain

[kdxken]

12 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

It was paved when they first built it in the late 1990s.  They didn’t do it right and it has been crumbling.  The town keeps pushing off the fix.  They did the millings last to try to keep it drivable for 2 years.  It is horrible now but it has been worse.  
 

supposed to be redone in 2026.   

 

[UnitedWx]

29 in Simsbury, LOTS of black ice coming in through Granby and Southwick. No trucks in site surprisingly

[tunafish]

11 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

3.8". Pack refreshed

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Only a Trace here but pack didn't budge, even with 0.45" rain. Average depth is 13", which is what it was this time Thursday.

[Lava Rock]

Only a Trace here but pack didn't budge, even with 0.45" rain. Average depth is 13", which is what it was this time Thursday.

I guess we can enjoy it till next weds then it's going to go pretty quick

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[jbenedet]

The pack loss has been substantial in terms of LE. I’m down to about 2” LE vs 4” at the start of the week. The ground also completely thawed in most places with decent sun exposure. Last night was third consecutive with temps >32.

Temp back up to 35 and with full March sun the pack will be on retreat through tomorrow evening, before we go back in the freezer for a few days.

Again, this week was a godsend to essentially eliminate fresh water flooding risks around here.

[dendrite]

Looks like deep winter out there. Pack is back up to 17”. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

1 hour ago, UnitedWx said:

29 in Simsbury, LOTS of black ice coming in through Granby and Southwick. No trucks in site surprisingly

Yep   Black ice galore in my hood.  Salt trucks doing their thing.  My work parking lot had a glaze in spots despite temps in the upper 30s

[jbenedet]

Birds chirpin’ 38F, calm wind bright sun at 8 a.m. 

 

Great morning dog walk vibes.

[jbenedet]

Tomorrow has a solid torch look ahead of the cold front. 
 

+15 is in view for good chunk of eastern SNE up to seacoast NH.

 

mid 50’s incoming.

[eekuasepinniW]

Epic squall. Sky got dark and ominous and the wind roaring was great.  Good stuff.

[mahk_webstah]

7 minutes ago, eekuasepinniW said:

Epic squall. Sky got dark and ominous and the wind roaring was great.  Good stuff.

Here too. Geez. Was on a call with a client and looked out the window. Snow but also some snow grains and sleet mixed in with it and it is blinding.

[CoastalWx]

Just now, mahk_webstah said:

Here too. Geez. Was on a call with a client and looked out the window. Snow but also some snow grains are sleep mixed in with it and it is blinding.

Graupel

[mahk_webstah]

Just now, CoastalWx said:

Graupel

Well, I won’t need a skin peel to keep my face pretty. Just stand outside into the wind.

[Prismshine Productions]

Epic squall. Sky got dark and ominous and the wind roaring was great.  Good stuff.

Here too. Geez. Was on a call with a client and looked out the window. Snow but also some snow grains and sleet mixed in with it and it is blinding.

I am getting the leading edge of it now, just started out of nowhere

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[jbenedet]

Every day this week was AN.

This week did a lot to balance out the solid negative departures observed the first 3 weeks of the month. 

I’m thinking imby, this will come in very close to normal; strikingly similar to January. 

[MRVexpat]

11 hours ago, powderfreak said:

269”… we’ll see if it makes a run at 2016-17’s 375” at that plot, or can get towards the more recent bigger year of 2018-19 max depth over 120”.

It’s not second place for late Feb.

I’m dammed if I do, dammed if don’t lol… rubbing it in or downplaying it depending on your viewpoint.  Just let the stats fall where they are… it’s a solidly above normal snow winter, but not the best in even the last 8 years.  A good winter.

 

What sets it apart is the lack of thaws and consistency in the snow surface. But yeah, no massive 30"+ synoptic + upslope type storms. 

[powderfreak]

9 minutes ago, MRVexpat said:

What sets it apart is the lack of thaws and consistency in the snow surface. But yeah, no massive 30"+ synoptic + upslope type storms. 

Yeah we had that in both of those other seasons too.  2016-17 had a similar stretch over 6-8 weeks, including a 26-day stretch with 100” in it at 3,000ft.  2018-19 had a run early season Nov, Dec, into January I believe of just pow.

Its nice to get back to what folks seem to call “an old fashioned” winter compared to past 5 seasons at least.

Crazy to think the last several winters up here have had +8 type departure months.  We knew once it flipped a bit it would feel ridiculously cold and snowy.