SNOW and moreSNOW

Well... someone was bound to win the snow lottery this year... glad to hear you had the winning ticket!

The Left Coast (and Silicon Valley) need it -- no rain in January for our area!

Take all you want!!!

What is this "snow" of which you speak?

If I never see snow again, it will be too soon.

Trust me

I understand there is a third storm on it's way to the northeast. I don't envy you.

After a winter with almost no snow at all here in Massachusetts (2-4" total until the storm last week) we received 30+" (a few towns received 36") last Tuesday and another 10-17" yesterday. This exceeded the average normal total for the entire winter from just those two storms.

More on the way: another 6-10" predicted for later in the week.

In the Washington, DC area we missed another bullet, glad to say. We simply had a warm (for the season) & wet day. I remember living in Boston more years ago than I care to say, & you get used to snow by the foot there.

Remember, spring is just a few months away!
Fred

glad I moved from the Chicago area to southern Tennessee last year. Don't miss the snow or the taxes.

And another 4+ feet yesterday not able to get out the house,time is 12o"clock in eastern Canada, do you want to buy a sure winning ticket????, more snow forcast for Thur/fri. temp is 4F I am looking forward to moving the white stuff.

By the yard this year, I am 500+ miles north of Boston!!!!

You are welcome to all of it, 4 feet yesterday and more on the way Thurs/Fri Temp is -40F with the wind chill are you sure you want it ???????

We rarely see snow here and when we do we just look out the window and say how beautiful the snow is. No need for a snow blower or shovel. We just wait for the great Texas weather to change in a few minutes and melt it away. If we are lucky we get the lovely scene for one or two days.

I can not imagine a foot of snow, little lone what you are getting..... Everyone stay warm and safe.
Mary

It came yesterday, Feb 3, all 4 feet of it

Let's hope it doesn't encourage more northerners to move to Florida and then complain how HOT it is here.

Florida is now the third most populous state after California and Texas, we just don't need anymore transplants - YANKEE STAY HOME!!!

They were saying on the news yesterday that Tucson normally has about 1" of rain in January but we had 2 1/2" this year thanks to the 1 1/2" we got on the last two days of January.

This week we are back to mid 70's and sunshine and the top down on the converts.

I moved here from Minnesota back in the early 80's and have not been back there even once since the day I left.

Another Monday and another storm here in the NorthEast. It is truly crazy how this winter has turned. Started good and now it's one after another.

Looks like more examples of the pros and cons of "adjusted/biased" averaging.

I too prefer steady, constant and predictable weather.

Sounds like another un-monitored tax is needed here to correct or even eliminate this un-natural/un-predictable problem of weather, climate or even life itself.

No snow, but lots of mud from all the rain here in Ocala.

at Amarillo AFB, (back in 1960 when it still existed), going to Fighter Maintenance School, we had some young men from California, who had never seen snow before. When we got several inches of snow that year, they were like 6 year-olds out there playing in it. Then I went to Goose Bay Labrador, where they get about 120" of snow annually.

Spring can't soon enough for me

other. Roof ice damning generates problems of water leaking into living quarters, the colder it gets the greater the risks of water pipe freezing. Potholes and road hazards accumulate, vehicle materials become brittle. And of course people themselves become both emotionally & physically stressed. These are all common factors that involve life anywhere there is a meaningful winter. Then again when I was a much younger man I actually regretted the passing of winter.

There are consolations:
1. Despite the sensationalized media coverage, what has been anomalous thus far has not been any particular records around these parts, but how late this weather cycle has appeared. This is really mid January NE weather occurring mid to now late February.
2. There are real environmental benefits to seasonal cycles.
3. The season always ends, although sometimes w/some unwelcome consequences like flooding.

I don't know any region in the U.S. that is without seasonal, weather, or environmental challenges. Then again there are all those other factors like economic opportunities and services that influence, if not determine where one chooses to live.

Boston gets it this year...
Chicago got it last year.....

Sorry to hear you're winning.....
but seeing I live in Chicagoland...............

Snow, snow, go away.
Come again NO other day.

Got about 5 inches last night. Nothing like the New England area. Spent 5 hours shoveling it off driveways this morning. Warm bathing martini took care of sore muscles. More snow expected. Too bad there's no way to teleport it to California...

Boston

Only snow.. We got ice and it's so much fun to drive in.

It's back (Pittsburgh).

Snowing now, to be followed by another blast of record cold.

Snowed in in Chicagoland last year, Iced in in Southern Tennessee this year. Think I'll check out the weather for Argentina.

Should we start a POI on snow?

the U.S. & Canada east coasts are getting nailed with a lot of winter storms this year

The relentless, persistent cold is pretty bad.

The snow that fell weeks ago is still dry and powdery. Never thawed and iced up, still blows around. That's cold.

Icicles tinkle like crystal when they fall, no thud.

Shoveling is pretty easy, the snow is light and powdery.

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

My annual escape down south helps me enjoy the absence of the "cold of winter".

Just wouldn't be the same without the cold up north ........

More snow

From mentioning yellow snow.

I remember being stationed at KI Sawyer in upper Michigan back in the 70's - The base averaged over 400 inches (four hundred) every winter I was there. I recall one storm that lasted several days. Snow plows were dispatched to clean up the roads in the housing area where I lived. I looked out to see what the commotion was all about and realized that a bull dozer had been called to pull the snow plow off a drift. Somehow he had managed to get high centered and couldn't free himself. The drifts were as tall as the house we lived in.
Living in Texas now, don't miss the snow one bit. I feel for the folks in NE.

You can say that again and again, 7 inches last night and more for sunday, let it rain, let it rain. About a mountain of 10'+ at the end of my driveway, all for free to anybody who wants it.

was stationed there from '62-'64.
KI Sawyer was a county road commissioner.
saw 40 below before wind chill.
then went to Nam. 120 in the shade.
and they had the effrontery to ask if I wanted to re-up. My answer was not very civil, to say the least.
don't mean to steal the thread. apologies.

I finally fixed the snow blower, so the snow's probably done for the season. Parts were backordered for weeks.

No big deal, just another 8" in Connecticut.

My neighbor never shoveled his deck this season, and he has > 3 FT on his deck right now. The snow is up to the hand rail.

Many years ago, people would put a tennis ball on the end of the car antenna so the presence of the car might be seen above the snow piles. But cars don't have antennas that enable that any more. Now we are having plenty of accidents because cars are pulling out from snow canyons.

Temperatures are above freezing today, rare these past 4-6 weeks, plunging back to single digits tonight, and another relentlessly cold week coming up.

I am kind of done with the snow. I do enjoy it but would love to get out on the motorcycle soon.

Happy to say that I haven't seen snow in about 8 years and I don't miss it!
Away in Mexico from the end of October to about the 20th of April every year.

Patience is slowly wearing thin with snow!
Next time somebody tells me to go to hell, I will just say
"at least it's warm down there"

...I could give you the coordinates for the snow storm we had when I was stationed outside Boston 47 years ago.

Finally got a decent amount of snow in Westminster Md. Glad it came on the weekend

I live in Chicago and we've had quite enough. Winter started out promising in December, it was pretty mild then next thing the snow and cold weather blow down from Canada. I wanted to move to Tennessee because it's warmer, but it's been bad down there last few weeks. At least up north we are ready for it, down there they just don't have the equipment and planning ready for it, as evidenced by all the downed power lines and frozen roads.

Howdy neighbor.

I guess you didn't live here 5 years ago when we got back to back multiple feet of snow. That was enough to last me the rest of my days.

its actually been a relatively mild snow year, but the weatherman blew their forecast last week (10 inches versus a projected 4-6).