We'll see if this materializes...
(um,I think that worked)
Hang on Joe, it's coming....
Y'all keep that stuff to yourselves. No snow is my ideal situation.
It started snowing here Thursday evening and snowed fairly steadily for 24 hours. Total accumulation of about 12".
shoot that's barely a dusting in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
YIKES!!! :-O 1-2 FEET in Boston!!! You keep that cold white stuff over on YOUR side of the USA. 😉
Do take pics though!! I like the pics. 😛
> shoot that's barely a dusting in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Yea Dave, but no one really lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains so to speak. You take that amount of snow in the congested northeast corridor and it means people will die from the storm and the related difficulty of getting to hospitals etc.
Plus, It means a night of plowing and snowblowing which means a sore back for me.:-(
Yikes! I see a prediction of 10-14 inches with 25 MPH winds gusting to 40 MPH.
Nice to see the heavy snow to the east of me this time, as opposed to the "back to back" storms last winter:
few more people;-) here Dave...just a few
Looks like east of you got clobbered more even last year, but thanks for the wishes that we get more snow than you 😛
(yes, there is a car somewhere under the snow in front of the blue truck)
I didn't realize this yesterday in all my excitement about the snow. My neighbors kept saying it had been something like 100 years since it snowed here. I thought they were all full of it. It always snows here a few times a year.
However, turns out they were right. I heard it early this morning on Fox News that it hasn't snowed here ON Christmas Day in 128 years. I thought they were nuts. Turns out the joke was on me.:-O
I walked up to the store earlier. Man it's freakin cold out there on account of the wind. That base of the snowman we built last night in my drive will be there for months. It was all the 3 of us could barely do to get it in place. It easily weighs a half-ton. No doubt it's stuck to the concrete big time. I'd bet you could hit it with a car and just end up with a tore up car.
Now here in Southern Maine they are calling for 18 inches with wind gusts over 50 MPH. Also, on the immediate coast there is a flood-splash over warning in effect.
Freezing temperatures returning to Central Florida
"ORLANDO --
A strong cold front approached Central Florida Saturday night bringing rain, winds and eventually freezing temperatures.
Saturday's overnight showers brought wind gusts of 40 mph.
Those strong winds will begin to bring the colder air into the area.
Sunday highs only warm into the middle 50s as winds stay strong.
Sunday night we have freeze watches and warnings in effect for Central Florida as lows drop into the lower 30s. Wind chills will make it feel as though it’s in the lower 20s."
I'm moving closer to the equator! 😉
I'm just poking at you guys a little. There's plenty of people living up there. I remember one time living in Mammoth Lakes, the streets were all roofless tunnels through the snow made by the private driveway clearing contractors (the County plows hadn't caught up yet).
we get snow once every 10 or 15 years but it's very slushy and is gone by afternoon. Most cold storms aren't cold enough and typically only get down to 2000 feet or so.
Merlin..
They are calling for 50 MPH wind gusts around the coast of CT ...really going to push the water toward the north shore of Long Island...
We have some good friends that have lived in Mammoth for at least a decade. Chances are pretty good that you know who they are in that little town. We were lucky enough to be there for the 4th of July parade a couple of years ago. Great little town offseason.
My parents lived there from 1980 to 1990.
I lived them a couple of times in 1980, 1981 and 1982.
I worked for a guy named Stanford one summer digging ditches by hand which is not fun up there in rocks with a little dirt here and there.
the Snow Play Areas out west
I was amazed by the "Snow Play" areas in northern Arizona and other areas in the west. There were literally 1000 cars parked along the side of the road in a relatively flat, treed area just making snowmen and walking around in the stuff! Something you'd never see in the northeast as most people are to sick of shoveling the stuff to actually play in is.
the Snow Play Areas out west
We have Sno-Parks. A parking lot near a hill where you can play on your sled or go cross-country skiing or just play with the stuff.
