Not with this one today, but it’s probably the same storm that messed up my drive through upstate NY yesterday evening. Had to drive at 35 on I-90 and 81.
On Long Island, north shore, western Nassau county, we got off easy. I measured only 2.5 inches accumulated, less than the storm a couple of weeks ago. But reports are of much more elsewhere in the area. Still, my son drove down from Boston today with no problems.
It’s about four-five inches deep on the porch railing (comparing – by eyeball, not by measuring – the thickness of the snowcap with that of said railing). Haven’t gone out to actually measure the snow on the porch itself.
Here in Lake county Ohio it is predicted to make it up to 60 tomorrow, with rain.
Then Monday it drops way down with snow.
My cousins in Poughkeepsie sent me pictures of the 10 inches of snow they have to deal with.
Nothing but rain in Western PA thankfully.
We’ve been hit head-on by the latest system and it is coming down in buckets here in MSP as I write this. They predicted 4-6" for this one, which will be enough to snarl up traffic for tomorrow’s commute, and which I will be watching from my window, coffee mug in hand.
Here in the snow belt we got hit, after several snow storms, with a wicked freezing rain. On Boxing Day. Everything covered with 1/2” of ice, trees are bent over or broken branches. Lost power, came back, lost again. After the third round I just went to bed!
Today? Temps have been just above zero, raining all day. Now the sun is going down, that’s likely to change.
(Also, being all alone in the house, when the power fails, is a new experience. Way less fun, thumbs down!)
This storm is just giving us, in the Chicago area, some heavy rain, which started last night, as it’s currently 55F here. It’s predicted to get extremely windy later today, and the temperature is going to plummet, leading to a dusting of snow tomorrow. At least we’re not getting a dumping of snow.
Here in SE MN we had drizzle and rain earlier and it has turned to snow, but right now there is more wind than snow.
Brian
It was slightly but firmly more than that in my brother’s place in Vermont by the same method. I joked that he could place pre-measured lines on the arms of his lawn chairs so he can tell approximately how much snow has accumulated outside.
This latest snowfall has singlehandedly caused me to rethink my relocation options vis a vis where I currently am in Florida. I was driving to my brother’s place in the Vermont piedmont, and I had to drive uphill against a snow-melting-into-icy road in a severe uphill angle with all weather tires. Thankfully it was uphill instead of downhill and my Prius’s anti-skid technology let me continue uphill at a controlled angle instead of skidding down into the gully. Still, I could feel the angle of the hill continue to increase and my purchase on the street continue to decline until I finally made it past the kink in the topology. I was going 15 mph uphill at full throttle at one point.
But after this, I am in no way prepared to re-experience this near crash experience every year, let alone several times a year.
Previous to this, I had vaguely wanted to relocate to Ithaca, NY, a place that aligns with my geological, air temperature, and political alignments. But I no longer think that it aligns with my snowfall outlook. On the first snow of the season, specifically, due to the still-warm earth, even with snow tires I would be afraid of re-experiencing ice.
Do you plan to relocate after you are retired? If so you can simply stay home on the bad snow and ice days. And for something like Christmas visits you can leave and return earlier or later to avoid the bad roads.
It would be either retired or semi-retired: I wouldn’t take a position where I would have to be present at my work but not close enough that I would not be able to walk.
Speaking of leaving or returning earlier: I saw that the snow was about to fall in Vermont, so I started off from my mom’s place in lowland Vermont to uphill Vermont early, in order to beat the coming snow, but everyone else had that same plan, so I was delayed for half an hour on clogged roads, ensuring that I would have to endure the ice.
Thankfully, even though for most of the year, Vermont drivers are only slightly better than the average, during the winter they are experienced winter drivers who give people a lot of stopping space. During my close call on the hill in the ice, everyone stayed reasonably away from me instead of right on my tail despite me going only 15 mph at one point. During the summer, that would be another story. They’d be slightly less likely to tailgate me than in other states, but likely enough that it would be a rounding error.
And now, we have damaging winds, 45mph, and several more hours of steady snowfall.
(I feel really sorry for everyone who had to travel through these parts over Christmas! Yikes!)
Not to mention all the folks who seem to manage to have completely forgotten during the summer how to drive in snow.
I went out to shovel the porch and steps, and to start shoveling a path to the driveway. Took the yardstick out with me; the depth of the snow on the porch pretty much matched my estimate of the snow on the porch railing. All the rain last night and the 52F high today should combine with tonight’s low of 23F to make some nice slippery streets.
It isn’t snowing in my area, but it is snowglobing.
Ended up with about 2.5 inches, with significant drifting.
Brian