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Good bye winter

whippoorwill Jan 17 2019 01:45 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Mar 19 2019 08:18 AM

Looks like I might win the snow sweepstakes this weekend; calling for up to 17 inches. Already calling for a couple tonight in advance of the "Big One"

MFS62 Jan 17 2019 03:07 PM Re: Here comes winter

So, if someone gets more than 17 inches of snow, are they a winner or a loser? Later

whippoorwill Jan 17 2019 07:45 PM Re: Here comes winter

Good point.

Fman99 Jan 17 2019 08:15 PM Re: Here comes winter

Here comes winter? We had sub zero temps on Thanksgiving. It's winter as fuck in the Cuse.

whippoorwill Jan 18 2019 08:21 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

Another good point! Forgot that early blast

MFS62 Jan 20 2019 08:40 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

It was an ice storm here and I just slipped and fell a few times trying to scrape the ice off my driveway. One of these days I'll have to start acting my age. Later

Lefty Specialist Jan 20 2019 09:22 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

Justa buncha rain for me.

kcmets Jan 20 2019 09:26 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

What a wet, icy and heavy fucking nightmare. Had three heart attacks and a stroke,. Called 911 and they prescribed a red-solo-cup bloody Mary which seems to be working it's magic. Single digits tonight, that's gonna be fun.

Frayed Knot Jan 20 2019 09:49 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

=MFS62 post_id=1449 time=1547998846 user_id=60] ... I just slipped and fell a few times trying to scrape the ice off my driveway. One of these days I'll have to start acting my age. I'm smarter than you think you are

But perhaps not as smart as you think you are.

MFS62 Jan 20 2019 09:54 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

Frayed Knot wrote: =MFS62 post_id=1449 time=1547998846 user_id=60] ... I just slipped and fell a few times trying to scrape the ice off my driveway. One of these days I'll have to start acting my age. I'm smarter than you think you are But perhaps not as smart as you think you are.

Nobody is as smart as I think I am. And not many are as smart as I know I am.

Later

whippoorwill Jan 20 2019 10:35 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

We got about six inches, but it's the kind that's hard to get off the shovel.

Fman99 Jan 20 2019 03:48 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

A decent, if typical, winter storm for us, about 14" worth at my house. Two long shoveling sessions, about 45 minutes this morning and another 25 or so this afternoon. Heavy, wet snow. Drove to the Y today to work out and the roads were sucky.

nymr83 Jan 20 2019 08:30 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

less than an inch, but we werent home for me to shovel and the driveway is now covered in a fine layer of ice! :(

RealityChuck Jan 21 2019 11:02 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

15 inches and now it's -8 degrees. Someone helped by digging out the bottom of my driveway with a snowblower, but I'm going to have to go out and clean things up before going to work tomorrow.

Frayed Knot Jan 29 2019 02:29 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

High temperature today in Chicago = 6 Current temp = 1 Expected low for tonight = -20 Expected High for Wednesday = -13 (but at least it'll be windy -- W 22) Low Wednesday night = -23 High on Thursday = 1 And right about now the folks in Minnesota are saying; 'that doesn't sound too bad'

whippoorwill Jan 30 2019 11:09 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

30 degrees now in NYC? How the heck do you guys rate? It's -7 here

Frayed Knot Jan 30 2019 11:43 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

=whippoorwill post_id=2089 time=1548871799 user_id=79] How the heck do you guys rate?

By living near a really big ocean.

Frayed Knot Jan 30 2019 11:43 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

=whippoorwill post_id=2089 time=1548871799 user_id=79] How the heck do you guys rate?

By living near a really big ocean.

Fman99 Jan 30 2019 11:45 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

Predicted windchill -20 tonight. Kids may get tomorrow off from school if it's deemed too cold for the walkers. I don't know if they factor windchills into that decision or not.

seawolf17 Jan 30 2019 11:55 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

I'm sort of fascinated, because this is the first time I'm seeing how "lake effect" really makes things different. Rochester is sixty miles or so east of Buffalo, the same way we were sixty miles east of NYC this time last year. When weather hit NYC, we'd get the same weather (usually), an hour or so later. Rochester has a wind chill warning -- gonna be cold, maybe an inch or three of snow, but no big deal. Buffalo? "Blizzard conditions; travel could be very difficult to impossible." Possibly more than a foot of snow. Crikey.

Fman99 Jan 30 2019 01:01 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

Yeah, being generally East of a Great Lake is where the whomping comes from, Buffalo from Lake Erie, and us from Lake Ontario, based on the weather patterns. Rochester skirts a lot of that being south of the lake.

whippoorwill Jan 30 2019 01:35 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

I can remember one year in the 70's Buffalo got about 10 feet of Lake Effect snow...

Frayed Knot Jan 30 2019 02:02 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

=whippoorwill post_id=2105 time=1548880524 user_id=79] I can remember one year in the 70's Buffalo got about 10 feet of Lake Effect snow...

And then even more the following week!

whippoorwill Jan 30 2019 02:31 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

lol!

Frayed Knot Jan 30 2019 03:28 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

That was probably the year the Buffalo snow was such a big story that Johnny Carson was airing jokes about it on national TV. One of them had a lady going up to a cop with snow up to his waist and saying what a shame it was that he had to work under such conditions. "Don't worry about me" he says, "I just feel bad for my horse".

whippoorwill Jan 30 2019 03:59 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

hahah! Good one! I have a friend that grew up in Buffalo....I mentioned that year to her and she said Buffaloians (?) did not understand the big national deal that year...it was that way every year. I also have a friend from Minnesota that said that those little red balls that you put on your car radio antennas back where she grew up were sometimes the only thing you could tell a car was coming down the street over the snowpiles along the roads.

Fman99 Jan 31 2019 06:35 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

I can remember one year in the 70's Buffalo got about 10 feet of Lake Effect snow... That's every year in Syracuse (average snowfall per season of 123.8").

41Forever Jan 31 2019 06:47 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

We've closed campus for four days in a row, probably the first time that's happened. It's -7 degrees as I type this. And yet, it's supposed to be 50 degrees on Monday.

kcmets Jan 31 2019 10:10 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

It's so cold... On the news before they showed Cuomo with his hand in his own pocket!

whippoorwill Jan 31 2019 03:05 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

I can remember one year in the 70's Buffalo got about 10 feet of Lake Effect snow... That's every year in Syracuse (average snowfall per season of 123.8"). You're #1 !!! I think that Erie picture might be Presque Isle...beautiful pictures

MFS62 Jan 31 2019 03:37 PM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

I can remember one year in the 70's Buffalo got about 10 feet of Lake Effect snow... That's every year in Syracuse (average snowfall per season of 123.8"). My mom (may she rest in Peace) was from Buffalo. She would call us and ask about the weather. I once told her were about to get 8 to 10 inches of snow and she said, "Oh, flurries". Later

whippoorwill Mar 19 2019 08:14 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

According to this map: https://www.weather.gov/images/ctp/snowmaps/season_snow2018-2019_Mar14.png> we got about 24 inches of snow, while the county above us got 77 inches in one spot!

whippoorwill Mar 19 2019 08:15 AM Re: Here comes winter for us non Syracusers :)

And my oh my, out by Pittsburgh 131 inches? That's gotta be wrong Edit: Nope that's Cambria county, it's prolly right

Centerfield Mar 19 2019 08:26 AM Re: Good bye winter

I'd like to get one more snowstorm before we say goodbye to winter.

MFS62 Mar 19 2019 08:36 AM Re: Good bye winter

=Centerfield post_id=4543 time=1553005572 user_id=65] I'd like to get one more snowstorm before we say goodbye to winter.

And when its over, you can ski your arse over here and shovel my driveway.

No thanks, I hope its done snowing for this winter.

Later

whippoorwill Mar 19 2019 08:39 AM Re: Good bye winter

Well, onion snow....

MFS62 Mar 19 2019 08:53 AM Re: Good bye winter

=whippoorwill post_id=4551 time=1553006396 user_id=79] Well, onion snow....

Onion snow?

Later

whippoorwill Mar 19 2019 08:55 AM Re: Good bye winter

The last snow...after you plant the onions.

MFS62 Mar 19 2019 08:58 AM Re: Good bye winter

Ah, I'd never heard that expression before. Of course, I've never planted onions, either. Maybe that's why. :) Later

whippoorwill Mar 19 2019 09:02 AM Re: Good bye winter

I think it's in the same category as Lebanon Baloney

kcmets Mar 19 2019 09:08 AM Re: Good bye winter

That's funny, I thought of Lebanon baloney when I googled onion snow.

Fman99 Mar 19 2019 09:22 AM Re: Good bye winter

=Centerfield post_id=4543 time=1553005572 user_id=65] I'd like to get one more snowstorm before we say goodbye to winter.

I'm all good with spring arriving.

whippoorwill Mar 19 2019 12:12 PM Re: Good bye winter

=kcmets post_id=4558 time=1553008136 user_id=53] That's funny, I thought of Lebanon baloney when I googled onion snow.

PA Dutch :)

nymr83 Mar 19 2019 07:34 PM Re: Good bye winter

I finally ordered a snowblower on sale after the last storm. This pretty much guarantees we are done getting snow - possibly for the next few winters.

MFS62 Mar 21 2019 06:47 AM Re: Good bye winter

=nymr83 post_id=4602 time=1553045668 user_id=54] I finally ordered a snowblower on sale after the last storm. This pretty much guarantees we are done getting snow - possibly for the next few winters.

Thank you.



Later

MFS62 Mar 22 2019 08:57 AM Re: Good bye winter

Return that thing. It didn't do any good. Its SNOWING here in Connecticut. Later

whippoorwill Mar 22 2019 09:18 AM Re: Good bye winter

Maybe he could loan it to you!

Frayed Knot Mar 22 2019 01:41 PM Re: Good bye winter

I think it was the winter of '10-'11 when the DC area got hit by three separate blizzards (including two about a week apart) and totaled something like 75 inches for the season as compared to their regular 15" or so. So my cousin, who lives in the VA suburbs to the west of the city, went out and bought a top of the line snow blower on the heels of that year ... I'm not sure if he's used it yet.

whippoorwill Mar 22 2019 02:38 PM Re: Good bye winter

lol. Snowblowers are so finicky too. If you don't use them, they don't last long. I love to shovel personally, but when we get a big snow I don't mind a neighbor with a snowblower doing out by the road. BTW, it snowed a little here today too MFS but it's mostly sunny and cold and windy

nymr83 Mar 23 2019 07:54 PM Re: Good bye winter

Shoveling was great when I was 17 and not going to school that day. When I'm working from home with a kid whose school is cancelled, it's just a waste of time I dont have.

Fman99 Mar 23 2019 08:29 PM Re: Good bye winter

I still shovel. I'd say 80% of my neighbors have snowblowers. I like throwing it around, it's good exercise, plus it's quieter and cheaper than a blower. As for spring, well, I ran 5 miles today in 20 degree temps (windchill about 10) and a fresh layer of snow and ice on the roads. Tomorrow I'm going to run 18 more miles in comparable temps (maybe up to mid 30's). So, I say, spring, get that sweet ass in here.