I have two more days on my Epic as well, but for a day trip I don’t need the box. The snow tires are still on the car.
Well then. Winter Storm Warning here -
- WHAT…Heavy snow and blowing snow expected. Total snow
accumulations between 9 and 18 inches. Winds gusting as high as 70
mph.
Guess that’s what’s left over from California.
Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) says 12 inches for me.
Springtime in the Rockies.
Had to plow this morning–8" new heavy snow. I didn’t rip up the driveway too much, but more than I like…
Where are you @Tride I forgot.
Bozeman, MT. Previously of Telluride CO…
Well, you lost a lot of elevation. Sort of fire fyingpan though I guess.
Yup–for all the -45F we get (not much, but it happens), it’s a milder climate. We can grow vegetables!!! And the soil is fertile, as opposed to the broken rock of high country CO. I remember the mean temperature in Telluride was 37F. That’s tough.
Almost undoubtedly done blowing snow for this winter, here in Chicago’s western suburbs. After not having to use my snowblower even once last winter, the only time I had to pull it out this winter was when we got a short, but intense burst of extremely wet and heavy snow on the morning of January 12th – it was so heavy that it broke my snowblower. (What likely broke was the “shear bolt,” which should be an easy repair.)
I’ve had to shovel on two or three other occasions, but each of those was only an inch or so of snow.
With highs predicted to be in the 50s and 60s for the next week, the odds of another significant snowfall yet this winter are looking increasingly slim, so I may not even need to get the shovel out again.
Was thinking the same today myself. Tho it was a tad nippy on today’s bike ride. I had been lulled by the recent warm days and was under-dressed for 40 and breezy.
Are you done shoveling/blowing snow for the winter?
I’m gonna say probably not:
I live on the California coast, so there is never snow here, but I have family in Truckee. There is an enormous blizzard moving in today, and they are expecting up to TEN FEET of snowfall over the next few days.
We got a few centimeters of snow overnight, but not enough to require much shoveling.
We moved to Hokkaido just over a year ago, and had a few snowstorms, but this year is warmer.
Yeah, it would be nice to be able to grow vegi’s. My Wife and I are getting too long in the tooth to manage this elevation much longer. There is also the very real problem of EMS not being able to get to our house in the winter. They could usually make it, but I doubt they’d get an ambulance up the driveway.
Now 15" predicted for Sunday. I was going to be in Denver on Sunday. Not anymore.
In New Hampshire it’s way too early to make that call.
It’s been a mild winter so far, but last winter was even milder until the last week of January (this year’s first storm was 3 weeks earlier) when all hell broke loose and we ended up with just 6 to 8 inches of snow less than a typical season. I ended up missing the first day of a team retreat the week of St. Patrick’s day because I couldn’t find any who was available to plow and had to spend 5 hours shoveling my 1/10 of a mile long driveway.
And even last winter aside, March is a terribly unpredictable month in general. Some years there’s very little snow in March. Other years there are 2 or 3 feet of snow; and I only have to go back as far as 2018 to find a March with 3 major snow storms striking in less than 2 weeks.
Anyway, it feels like winter is almost over. But I don’t trust that it is.
Some real Donner Party shit going on up in the Sierras this weekend. I guess I ain’t done with the snowblower.
We just uncovered our patio furniture and brought out the cushions!
Bastard!
I mean that in the kindest, gentlest way, of course.
Sorta.
22" overnight at Bridger Bowl (which is 4 miles up the road). No idea here–too windy to tell. I will need to plow, though.
Indeed. Currently 67 degrees here, with a high of 70 today, and 73 tomorrow. It’s going to cool off some after tomorrow, but it looks like we’ll be consistently above freezing for at least the next week.
Saskatchewan weather bulletin: