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Looks like a monster storm for New England and Upstate NY for Thursday and Friday. All the doom and gloomer's predicting that this one will make the DC blizzard(s) look like a snow flurry.

Mike 2ZE

Its the new ice age


klc

So when is this global warming coming?????

Came and went already, Rick.
Where'd it go you ask?? FOLLOW DA MONEY!

wow the sky is going to fall again?

It's already here.  In Vancouver (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100212-vancouver-2010-warmest-winter-olympics/).

We got our first storm of the season here (of any consequence).

Woke up to 13" of new snow, snowed all day, still is... another foot I'd guess.

The "big" storm that was forecast for Thurs into Friday petered out...

Now supposed to just get another 6" or so from now 'til friday.

Rain thursday night...

But windy for the next 3 days... gusts of up to 55mph...  yippee..

Power has been off more than on since last night....  flickering all the time it is on..


Yesterday we were looking at nearly 50% bare ground.....

I guess it's winter in central verminmont now!

 ;D

Initial Snow has turned to rain. The 4inches or so has become a heavy slush or melted away.  West of here is getting nearly a foot though.

we had 3/4 inch of slush....only because the snow blower is running great

I'm getting hammered by 50~60 mph winds here. I went out and loosened up on my ropes a bit this afternoon, I just hope I loosened them enough. I should have just slacked em down all the way. Guess I'll know when the sun comes up if it's still in the trees.  :P

We had 6" in 3 hours last evening. I got the stuff plowed by 10PM.
Got up at 3AM and plowed another 12".

With all the snow piled up on the sides of the driveway from previous plowing and these 40MPH winds the driveway fills up with drifting snow. The last 100 ft of the drive gave the truck's bottom a good scrubbing!!!

Wicked winds have wrecked most of New Hampshire. 

300000 folks with no power.  I got power at home, but not at work. Looks like I'll be spending the day picking up the tree limbs.

It was warm overnight so no snow or ice, just brutal wind.  Supposed to get snow tonight though which should make the repair/recovery a joy.

I feel bad the line crews, lot's of mandatory OT in the next few days.

The Vancouver/Seattle area is in a more temperate zone than the rest of North America. Nothing to do with manbearpig. Much of what we're seeing this year has to do with El Nino according to the meteorological community, though overall temps have been declining since 1995 or so. Sometime down the the road that natural cycle will reverse again, and manbearpig will return. 

Even down here in NC we're getting hammered with the wrap around winds and cold air from the present low pressure and storm system. 20-40 mph gusts, makes the whole house creak at times. Sure does make the aerials swing! Coldest winter they've had since the 70s apparently, but not a surprise.

I love the South park reference!

again we got nothing. There was a dusting this morning but it melted.

snowing here.  picked up about 4 or so inches. The good thing is most is not sticking on the roadways.  Shaded areas seem to be collecting most of it. 

Found a new way to clear the driveway with semi-slushy snow.  I forgot I had a floor squee-gee for the garage.  Used it on the driveway.  Works pretty good for clearing that wet or semi-slushy snow. It even scrapes hard pack pretty good too.

We got roughly about 12 to 14 inches but there was lots of wind-blown snow throughout last night. Still off and on snow shower bursts this afternoon and into tomorrow.

We got about 25 inches Tuesday night, and through Wednesday...

Wednesday night it turned to rain, and rain all day thursday and part of the night, then it got windy.

Guess we got about 3" of rain on top of the snow...

What a mess.

Were without comm power Thursday from early AM to 4 pm.

Then from this morning at 1am to 4pm...


The only real storm of the season,....

The snow caught up with us north of Syracuse this time.  Got up to find 18 in. of pure snow in the driveway.
Not the nice fluffy lake effect stuff but that heavy, wet, gloppy Atlantic crap.  Gave the snowblower and the
OM a good work out.  At least the sun was out by mid day and the temps were 40+...didn't lose power and
the antennas stayed up.  Gotta be thankful about something.... :D

Ken/K2UPI

Those of you who are East and Northeast of the South of Oklahoma, get ready for another.  We had about 1/2 inch this morning and the storm is headed your direction.  Another is due here Sunday night.  Boy where is Al Gore when you want him to testify?

my antenna did stay up this time.  :D

you guys are getting all the snow, it just aint fair.. The phones in our Lexington MA office were out for a while.

We got zero zip nada. Yard is a mud pit

Big Tree just missed house - on generator for 36 hours - basement flood etc.. Welcome to New Hampshire.

Mike WU2D

Where you at in NH, Mike? I've got friends in Nashua that were on genset too. Glad the tree missed the house.

73,
ldb
K5WLF

Less than three weeks til spring, and this is what we get in Marietta, GA....

Still coming down this afternoon!  Our third snow of the season, hopefully the last.

an el nino caused all this???

Fred

Idb,

I am about a half hour north of Nashua. We got power back but let me tell you we had over 300,000 without power here in NH. That was a violent storm and it again shows how stupid we are with our above ground utilities and big trees (that we make into poles that we put right next to the big trees) here in the states. We had some visitors over from Germany and they could not believe what they were seeing. "Why do you have all of those wires?" was the general comment.

Mike WU2D

Global worming...............I mean warming? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Very smug for Marshall Plan receipients.
They could've been a suburb of Moscow.

I understand most all of Europe has had a nasty winter storm lately. Almost of hurricane strength. People died.

Oh, and the standard trick for Germans visiting is to take a slice of our white pappy bread, roll it up into a 1/2 inch ball and comment on the food value compared to German black bread, some of which comes in cans.  Very dense and I suppose nutritious.

  But then again such good bread was fed to only the uberrace in a certain, not so long ago part of dark German history...  ... and that was cut with sawdust unless you were in the army on the Russian front.   It all depends on your point of view.

One more thought.  I had a German exchange student when in highschool.  He ate apples from the bottom up.  -nothing left but the stem.  He'd look proud when finished.  I asked him, " did you know the seeds contained arsnic?"  ...might explain some things.  ;D

My friends work at Sky-Skan in Nashua. I manage a planetarium here in TX and our automation system came from them.

73,
LDB
K5WLF

Great job you have Mike.

If you haven't seen it already, there's a great documentary on PBS  "NOVA" series on Pluto.

The director of the NYC plantetarium tours the country explaining the demotion of Pluto.  Very informative, funny and thought provoking.

Suffice to say the topic's still somewhat unsettled.

There's still quite a flap amongst astronomers and planetarians about the Pluto thing. There was an interview with Clyde Tombaugh's widow -- Clyde discovered Pluto in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff AZ -- wherein she said she thought Clyde would agree with the demotion of Pluto since it showed that science always progresses. Neil deG Tyson is highly opinionated about the subject and, I've heard, is quite eloquent on the PBS show. I haven't seen it yet, since I had my DirecTV yanked out by the wires about five years ago. (Too much of a time sink) I'll probably order the DVD and watch it. Neil's always good when he's in full voice.

Some folks think that Pluto should never have been classified as a planet, others stand firm that it is and always will be (damn the IAU and their silly vote) and some say science progresses and we need to re-classify things from time to time as we learn more about the universe. I just tell the folks that come to my planetarium all the positions and let them make their own decision. My customers (about 18,000/year) are mostly grade school kids and love hearing that scientists actually argue about things. It helps humanize science and makes it, I believe, seem more accessible as a profession for the kids.

73,
ldb
K5WLF

There are some federal job openings down in New Mexico, working on the SETI radio telescope array. Out in the middle of nowhere.

The XYL wants me to apply..

Yes I know Sky Skan and I had one of their cool posters in my office back in the 90's. A woman that I worked with's husband was an engineer there. The design work that they do making planetarium systems is very advanced. http://www.skyskan.com/

Mike WU2D