blksn8k2 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Accuweather has updated their snow accumulation total for this weekend's storm in my area to 1-2 feet!  Apparently they are tired of trying to be a little too precise...🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew L Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Makes me happy I moved to Florida in 2012 and never looked back lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordmantpw Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Bummed we only got about 5".  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blksn8k2 Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 13 minutes ago, fordmantpw said: Bummed we only got about 5".   Consider yourself lucky. I've plowed twice today and it's still coming down and will be until about 6 AM tomorrow. Current temp is 18°F.  We've already passed the 1 foot mark with 12 hours to go.  Punxsutawney Phil better not see his shadow on 2/2 if he knows what's good for him. I'm only about 15 miles from his den. LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackinaw Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Take it from a northerner, snow you can deal with, it's ice that's the killer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew L Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 43 minutes ago, mackinaw said: Take it from a northerner, snow you can deal with, it's ice that's the killer.  That wet slushy snow can be really frustrating plus the aholes who never take the 2 seconds to brush it off their roof then drive on the highway... But yeah ice really is a pain. I will never forget when I was in college in RI and taking night classes. We had a rain storm that turned into ice the parking lot was almost like an ice skating rink and my Mercury Sable was in the far corner of the lot. I had to walk out there without killing myself in the dark only to find a layer of ice on the car and not able to open my doors. I had to use my car keys to crack the ice along the door opening to get it open then the thing didn't want to start cause it was so cold. I kept trying and finally got it then set the defrost front and back to full blast. Had to do the key trick again to get the trunk open to get my ice scraper. Fun times!  😑 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twintornados Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 We are currently around 8-10 inches in Central NY region....nothing too outrageous for wintertime in CNY but it's still coming down and I will be back out in the AM to clear the driveway again....National Weather Service calls this Winter Storm Fern.....we call it Monday.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice-capades Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Hamden, CT (New Haven) got 14.5" of snow with the storm moving out hours ahead of the forecast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motorpsychology Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 No snow here but plenty cold. Lots of spinouts from black ice. We had -22ºF/-30ºC with -45ºF/-42.8C windchill Saturday morning. Temps ar staring to moderate, expecing highs in the low 20s by next week. 87 E10 shot up 20¢/gal Sunday morning to $2.89.9 BTW.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blksn8k2 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 22 hours ago, twintornados said: We are currently around 8-10 inches in Central NY region....nothing too outrageous for wintertime in CNY but it's still coming down and I will be back out in the AM to clear the driveway again....National Weather Service calls this Winter Storm Fern.....we call it Monday....  The Weather Channel is the only "organization" that names winter storms, not the NWS.  BTW, we topped out at about 13". The highest single storm total I have seen on my property was 21" on December 16-17 of 2020. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Andrew L Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 My friend in RI texted me this morning when he got up, -1 at the time it has now warmed up to a blistering hot 13 for him.   FL is pretty cold this morning too I think it was high 30s in my area and now mid 40s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 We're just North of Atlanta and it was 10 here. Â Wind chill yesterday near 0. Â Very cold for us. Â But we will be above freezing during the day for the next several days. Â Â We got almost 1/2" of freezing rain but not much stuck to the roads or trees so power outages were minimal. Â Then we got a couple of hours of 33 degree rain and the wind dried off the roads. Â Extremely lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blksn8k2 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 I just came back from a trip to the local post office. When I tried to stop at an intersection near the PO from about 5 mph all four tires locked up on the icy road surface. Rather than risk sliding into the path of an oncoming semi I just let it coast through the intersection and into the PO parking lot. Before leaving the PO I watched two other vehicles do similar things at that stop sign. Current outside temp is 9°F. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotRunrGuy Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 2 hours ago, akirby said: We're just North of Atlanta and it was 10 here.  Wind chill yesterday near 0.  Very cold for us.  But we will be above freezing during the day for the next several days.   We got almost 1/2" of freezing rain but not much stuck to the roads or trees so power outages were minimal.  Then we got a couple of hours of 33 degree rain and the wind dried off the roads.  Extremely lucky.  Any problems with utility water lines? My sister that lives outside of Ft Worth TX has had her water supply line freeze, after 2 nights of 10(F) temps, and daytime temps in the low 20's.  HRG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 1 hour ago, HotRunrGuy said: Any problems with utility water lines? My sister that lives outside of Ft Worth TX has had her water supply line freeze, after 2 nights of 10(F) temps, and daytime temps in the low 20's. Not that I've ever heard of and we've had a few days below freezing in the past.  Ours are pretty deep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordmantpw Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 We generally run things 36" or deeper here in central MO. I hadn't seen a map with those requirements before, but it's interesting to see. 100" up north...wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackinaw Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 6 minutes ago, fordmantpw said: We generally run things 36" or deeper here in central MO. I hadn't seen a map with those requirements before, but it's interesting to see. 100" up north...wow!  Take 100" with a grain of salt. Snow is an excellent insulator, and with a foot or more on the ground, the frost line isn't all that deep. One of our cats died in December many years back, and I had no problem digging a grave once I cleared away the 18" of snow.  1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew L Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 I did a quick in and out flight to Indy this weekend for my wife's grandfather's 90th birthday. When we landed it was 6 and a feels like in the negative. The wind was no joke and lots of snow on the ground. Thankfully didn't show while we were there but I think they are getting some today or tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morgan20 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 1 hour ago, Andrew L said: I did a quick in and out flight to Indy this weekend for my wife's grandfather's 90th birthday. When we landed it was 6 and a feels like in the negative. The wind was no joke and lots of snow on the ground. Thankfully didn't show while we were there but I think they are getting some today or tomorrow.  Welcome to the Hoosier State! ⛄ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherminator98 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 We got about 10-12 inches of snow with that last storm that came through and its been below freezing for most of the time after that.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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