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Snowmageddon 2022 (1 Viewer)

TheIronSheik said:
Overnight models show that the UKMET and Euro were wrong. Wah waaaah.</sad horn>. Storm will go north and almost completely miss C PA and SE PA. Another storm hyped by the models only to be completely wrong. Bad year for every model, really. Could be some ice up in NE PA and N NJ, but this looks like it's going to be fairly north. Just too much warm air.
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Score. I'm a snow lover too, but not when I have to drive in it. I'm in Pittsburgh now. Got in around 1:00 AM. I will say that it was COLD AS #### on the PA Turnpike when I stopped to get gas around 11:30 last night. My wife had taken the car through the car wash before we left, and her gas cap got wet and was frozen on. Took some serious effort to get it off.

 
Fat Nick said:
TheIronSheik said:
Overnight models show that the UKMET and Euro were wrong. Wah waaaah.</sad horn>. Storm will go north and almost completely miss C PA and SE PA. Another storm hyped by the models only to be completely wrong. Bad year for every model, really. Could be some ice up in NE PA and N NJ, but this looks like it's going to be fairly north. Just too much warm air.
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Score. I'm a snow lover too, but not when I have to drive in it. I'm in Pittsburgh now. Got in around 1:00 AM. I will say that it was COLD AS #### on the PA Turnpike when I stopped to get gas around 11:30 last night. My wife had taken the car through the car wash before we left, and her gas cap got wet and was frozen on. Took some serious effort to get it off.
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:lol: I can't believe car washes are even open in this weather.

It looks like you should have clear sailing. But I would pay attention to the weather before you leave. Any fluctuation in the forecast could bring freezing rain/ice into play. I don't think you'll have to deal with it, but you never know. Better safe than sorry.

 
Just watching the GFS model run and this is laughable. This is another storm where just over 48 hours out from the start, the models are all over the place. It's embarrassing.

 
TheIronSheik said:
PIK95 said:
I washed my car yesterday to get the salt off.
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Just in time for the snow Sunday. I don't bother washing the salt off until about April. I don't like to have to do things twice.
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The salt is corrosive as heck. I wash my car several times during the winter...not to keep it clean or even make it look nice, but to get the salt off. It's the one time where the underbody spray is really worth it if it's an upgrade at the wash. I hear you though, it's annoying to pay to wash it off just to get it coated again.

It's easy to see what winters do to cars if you have a car that you don't drive in the winter. Changing brakes or doing work under my SUV is a lesson in lots of penetrating spray, impact wrenches, corrosion, grossness, and stuck bolts because of the salt and water and the impact on the car. Changing brakes on the Cayman, which never sees salt or honestly even rain if I can help it is simple and easy. Nothing sticks, nothing is corroded.

 
Fat Nick said:
TheIronSheik said:
PIK95 said:
I washed my car yesterday to get the salt off.
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Just in time for the snow Sunday. I don't bother washing the salt off until about April. I don't like to have to do things twice.
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The salt is corrosive as heck. I wash my car several times during the winter...not to keep it clean or even make it look nice, but to get the salt off. It's the one time where the underbody spray is really worth it if it's an upgrade at the wash. I hear you though, it's annoying to pay to wash it off just to get it coated again.

It's easy to see what winters do to cars if you have a car that you don't drive in the winter. Changing brakes or doing work under my SUV is a lesson in lots of penetrating spray, impact wrenches, corrosion, grossness, and stuck bolts because of the salt and water and the impact on the car. Changing brakes on the Cayman, which never sees salt or honestly even rain if I can help it is simple and easy. Nothing sticks, nothing is corroded.
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I lease. :shrug:

 
Euro run will be interesting here. All of this movement north just came to a screeching halt as the past couple model runs all came south again.

 
TheIronSheik said:
Fat Nick said:
TheIronSheik said:
PIK95 said:
I washed my car yesterday to get the salt off.
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Just in time for the snow Sunday. I don't bother washing the salt off until about April. I don't like to have to do things twice.
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The salt is corrosive as heck. I wash my car several times during the winter...not to keep it clean or even make it look nice, but to get the salt off. It's the one time where the underbody spray is really worth it if it's an upgrade at the wash. I hear you though, it's annoying to pay to wash it off just to get it coated again.

It's easy to see what winters do to cars if you have a car that you don't drive in the winter. Changing brakes or doing work under my SUV is a lesson in lots of penetrating spray, impact wrenches, corrosion, grossness, and stuck bolts because of the salt and water and the impact on the car. Changing brakes on the Cayman, which never sees salt or honestly even rain if I can help it is simple and easy. Nothing sticks, nothing is corroded.
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I lease. :shrug:
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Then who cares. Go till May. :drive:

 
Fat Nick said:
TheIronSheik said:
Fat Nick said:
TheIronSheik said:
PIK95 said:
I washed my car yesterday to get the salt off.
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Just in time for the snow Sunday. I don't bother washing the salt off until about April. I don't like to have to do things twice.
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The salt is corrosive as heck. I wash my car several times during the winter...not to keep it clean or even make it look nice, but to get the salt off. It's the one time where the underbody spray is really worth it if it's an upgrade at the wash. I hear you though, it's annoying to pay to wash it off just to get it coated again.

It's easy to see what winters do to cars if you have a car that you don't drive in the winter. Changing brakes or doing work under my SUV is a lesson in lots of penetrating spray, impact wrenches, corrosion, grossness, and stuck bolts because of the salt and water and the impact on the car. Changing brakes on the Cayman, which never sees salt or honestly even rain if I can help it is simple and easy. Nothing sticks, nothing is corroded.
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I lease. :shrug:
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Then who cares. Go till May. :drive:
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:lmao: :lmao: Best use of that emoticon ever!

 
Models still not really agreeing. Looks like the track that seems to be the most believable is still north. But many models are still trying to say it's going to be south.

Sampling will start to take place tomorrow morning, so hopefully models should come together. Could be a good amount of ice with this system since a lot of areas will start as rain, then go to freezing rain, then to snow to end it.

 
Fat Nick said:
TheIronSheik said:
PIK95 said:
I washed my car yesterday to get the salt off.
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Just in time for the snow Sunday. I don't bother washing the salt off until about April. I don't like to have to do things twice.
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The salt is corrosive as heck. I wash my car several times during the winter...not to keep it clean or even make it look nice, but to get the salt off. It's the one time where the underbody spray is really worth it if it's an upgrade at the wash. I hear you though, it's annoying to pay to wash it off just to get it coated again.

It's easy to see what winters do to cars if you have a car that you don't drive in the winter. Changing brakes or doing work under my SUV is a lesson in lots of penetrating spray, impact wrenches, corrosion, grossness, and stuck bolts because of the salt and water and the impact on the car. Changing brakes on the Cayman, which never sees salt or honestly even rain if I can help it is simple and easy. Nothing sticks, nothing is corroded.
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I can't even comprehend that. Driving 2 toyotas, a truck with 206k miles and wife's SUV with 178k, rust will kill em first. Sheik, the models are all over the place but I'm going with the north trend. Going forward I'm not so bullish for our chances for snow because the trough axis from the +PNA will be over us. So it means northern stream is our continued only hope and we've seen how that's worked out.

One thing I've noticed about the last 5 winters or so is that once a pattern locks in it's game, set, match. In our area in particular. Good or bad.

 
JetMaxx said:
Fat Nick said:
TheIronSheik said:
PIK95 said:
I washed my car yesterday to get the salt off.
Click to expand...
Just in time for the snow Sunday. I don't bother washing the salt off until about April. I don't like to have to do things twice.
Click to expand...
The salt is corrosive as heck. I wash my car several times during the winter...not to keep it clean or even make it look nice, but to get the salt off. It's the one time where the underbody spray is really worth it if it's an upgrade at the wash. I hear you though, it's annoying to pay to wash it off just to get it coated again.

It's easy to see what winters do to cars if you have a car that you don't drive in the winter. Changing brakes or doing work under my SUV is a lesson in lots of penetrating spray, impact wrenches, corrosion, grossness, and stuck bolts because of the salt and water and the impact on the car. Changing brakes on the Cayman, which never sees salt or honestly even rain if I can help it is simple and easy. Nothing sticks, nothing is corroded.
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I can't even comprehend that. Driving 2 toyotas, a truck with 206k miles and wife's SUV with 178k, rust will kill em first.Sheik, the models are all over the place but I'm going with the north trend. Going forward I'm not so bullish for our chances for snow because the trough axis from the +PNA will be over us. So it means northern stream is our continued only hope and we've seen how that's worked out.

One thing I've noticed about the last 5 winters or so is that once a pattern locks in it's game, set, match. In our area in particular. Good or bad.
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Yeah, I tend to agree about the rest of the winter. Not getting my hopes up. The pattern does show some signs of putting up some nice ridging with potential blocking. The MJO is going to be in 8 and 1 for almost the rest of February, which is a nice sign. But it's hard to believe that the overall pattern of near misses will change with just 3 weeks left.

I'm not waving the white flag yet, but at this point, every time I see a model throw up something that looks promising, I kind of roll my eyes. If there's no snow by end of the month, we damn sure better get an early spring. I'm done with this cold, depressing weather.

 
Looks like the ice is going to be a bigger issue than the snow. Could be a dangerous day, as it looks like the freezing rain will change from rain to ice right around the AM rush hour.

 
One of the beauties of having a town on the coast is you have a nice big area not used in the winter to dump large amounts of snow. The Beach!!!

Hingham, my town growing up, near Boston.

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40% chance of snow Sat.

70% chance of snow Sat. night

70% chance of snow Sun.

80% chance of snow Sun. night

90% chance of snow Mon.

70% chance of snow Mon. night

70% chance of snow Tues.

The good news is that it's supposed to stop Tuesday night!

 
So over this. Just bring on baseball season already.

Winter-weary New England saw more snow flurries on Saturday and braced for several days of heavy snowfall, possibly totaling a foot or more.

A winter storm warning posted by the National Weather Service was to begin at 10 p.m. and remain in effect for a large swath of southern New England, including in Boston, in Providence, Rhode Island, and in Hartford, Connecticut, until the early morning hours of Tuesday. Light snow began falling in the Boston area earlier in the day, but what forecasters are calling a "long duration" storm is expected to become more intense on Sunday.

By Monday night, 12 to 18 inches of fresh snow could be on the ground in parts of the region, which is still coping with the aftereffects of storms that hit over the last couple of weeks and dumped record-high snowfall totals in some places.

Michelle Currie, a mother of five whose kids have already missed several days of school, posted on her Facebook page a photo of a weather map showing up to 18 inches of snow could fall on her home in Dracut, less than an hour's drive north of Boston.

"I have to laugh because otherwise I may cry," she said.

The snow is likely to cause problems for commuters on Monday, though it's not expected to accumulate as rapidly as in some of the earlier storms, including a record-busting late January blizzard. There also is little risk seen of significant coastal flooding, a problem during last month's winter blasts.

Boston's transit system, the nation's oldest, has been particularly hard hit. The buildup of snow and ice on trolley tracks combined with aging equipment has stalled trains in recent days, delaying and angering commuters. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority general manager Beverly Scott said Saturday that crews were doing everything they could, including deploying massive jet-powered snow blowers, to clear tracks before the next storm.

Gov. Charlie Baker acknowledged on Friday that the MBTA was handed an extraordinary situation with old equipment but said the system's overall performance was unacceptable.

In many New England communities, the obvious problem is where to put the next batch of snow.

In Revere, just outside Boston, schoolteacher Ingrid Samuel said there were "mountains of snow" and the streets "can't take another hit of snow on top of what's here."

"There's a bunch of snow everywhere, and there's no more place to put it," said Samuel, who lost a week of work after the last snowstorm canceled classes. "There are no sidewalks left in Revere. My whole yard is covered with snow. Where will it end?"

David Lombari, public works director for West Warwick, Rhode Island, told the Providence Journal his town was already clogged with snow piles several feet high and school buses were parked in the usual snow storage lot.

"I don't know what we're going to do yet," Lombari said. "It's tough trying to find a place that meets all the proper (environmental) criteria."

State snow disposal guidelines require that communities use locations that won't harm environmental resources and have barriers that prevent contaminants from seeping into groundwater when the snow melts.

Adding injury to insult perhaps, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency warned that potentially record cold temperatures and wind chills are expected to move into the region later in the week after the storm.
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Looks like we are lucking out in Southern CT and only getting 6 inches. I have a good 3 feet of snow where i live and we cant take much more.

 
I thought we weren't getting much in Hartford. Just saw hartford schools closed, parking ban, and I believe city offices closed as well? is it supposed to bad?

 
Balco said:
I thought we weren't getting much in Hartford. Just saw hartford schools closed, parking ban, and I believe city offices closed as well? is it supposed to bad?
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I hope not. I work in Hartford and plan to be there at 8:00 am. I heard 6 inches.

 
General Tso said:
Balco said:
I thought we weren't getting much in Hartford. Just saw hartford schools closed, parking ban, and I believe city offices closed as well? is it supposed to bad?
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I hope not. I work in Hartford and plan to be there at 8:00 am. I heard 6 inches.
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Simsbury had 6.5" as of about six this morning with another 3-6" to come throughout the day and tonight. It's not looking too good out there. We'll probably have a foot.

 
Thursday/Friday chance of a storm, next Tuesday/Wednesday chance of a storm.

Blah, blah, blah. Whatever. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say we get nothing from either storm while Boston gets 1 to 2 feet. That's based on zero science and 100% bitterness. :angry:

 
TheIronSheik said:
Thursday/Friday chance of a storm, next Tuesday/Wednesday chance of a storm.

Blah, blah, blah. Whatever. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say we get nothing from either storm while Boston gets 1 to 2 feet. That's based on zero science and 100% bitterness. :angry:
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I can't even see the railings on my front stairs anymore. Based on recent local empirical evidence, I would confidently estimate your snow-related bitterness at less than 100%.
 
rockaction said:
General Tso said:
Balco said:
I thought we weren't getting much in Hartford. Just saw hartford schools closed, parking ban, and I believe city offices closed as well? is it supposed to bad?
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I hope not. I work in Hartford and plan to be there at 8:00 am. I heard 6 inches.
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Simsbury had 6.5" as of about six this morning with another 3-6" to come throughout the day and tonight. It's not looking too good out there. We'll probably have a foot.
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It's still snowing like crazy in Middletown. Unbelievable. I have a 4-5 foot gas grill on my deck and all that's visible is a bump in the snow pile. I just bought this house and I'm getting nervous. I have a couple of glass skylights in my living room. Wondering if I should try to clear them off? Do they make extender roof shovels for that?
 
General Tso said:
rockaction said:
General Tso said:
Balco said:
I thought we weren't getting much in Hartford. Just saw hartford schools closed, parking ban, and I believe city offices closed as well? is it supposed to bad?
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I hope not. I work in Hartford and plan to be there at 8:00 am. I heard 6 inches.
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Simsbury had 6.5" as of about six this morning with another 3-6" to come throughout the day and tonight. It's not looking too good out there. We'll probably have a foot.
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It's still snowing like crazy in Middletown. Unbelievable. I have a 4-5 foot gas grill on my deck and all that's visible is a bump in the snow pile. I just bought this house and I'm getting nervous. I have a couple of glass skylights in my living room. Wondering if I should try to clear them off? Do they make extender roof shovels for that?
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Yeah, I went out to use the snowblower and shovel and it started up again. I don't know too much about glass skylights other than that ours always have held. I must have four feet of snow on my deck, which worries me. I've seen snow extenders all over the news, but I'm not sure if you can use them on glass. Least it's not heavy snow, which they were noting on the news. Very light, fluffy stuff.

 
School cancelled again tomorrow, making this is the third straight week where the kids were home Monday and Tuesday. And the kicker is that they're off all of next week for February vacation.

 
Nigel said:
School cancelled again tomorrow, making this is the third straight week where the kids were home Monday and Tuesday. And the kicker is that they're off all of next week for February vacation.
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ive had the last 3 mondays off from work...but getting paid soooo.......

 
General Tso said:
rockaction said:
General Tso said:
Balco said:
I thought we weren't getting much in Hartford. Just saw hartford schools closed, parking ban, and I believe city offices closed as well? is it supposed to bad?
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I hope not. I work in Hartford and plan to be there at 8:00 am. I heard 6 inches.
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Simsbury had 6.5" as of about six this morning with another 3-6" to come throughout the day and tonight. It's not looking too good out there. We'll probably have a foot.
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It's still snowing like crazy in Middletown. Unbelievable. I have a 4-5 foot gas grill on my deck and all that's visible is a bump in the snow pile. I just bought this house and I'm getting nervous. I have a couple of glass skylights in my living room. Wondering if I should try to clear them off? Do they make extender roof shovels for that?
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I work in Hartford too, man does that city not know how to plow roads? Good news is that there weren't many cars on the highway for the commute home.

 
Balco said:
General Tso said:
rockaction said:
General Tso said:
Balco said:
I thought we weren't getting much in Hartford. Just saw hartford schools closed, parking ban, and I believe city offices closed as well? is it supposed to bad?
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I hope not. I work in Hartford and plan to be there at 8:00 am. I heard 6 inches.
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Simsbury had 6.5" as of about six this morning with another 3-6" to come throughout the day and tonight. It's not looking too good out there. We'll probably have a foot.
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It's still snowing like crazy in Middletown. Unbelievable. I have a 4-5 foot gas grill on my deck and all that's visible is a bump in the snow pile. I just bought this house and I'm getting nervous. I have a couple of glass skylights in my living room. Wondering if I should try to clear them off? Do they make extender roof shovels for that?
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I work in Hartford too, man does that city not know how to plow roads? Good news is that there weren't many cars on the highway for the commute home.
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LOL - Hartford is the worst when it comes to snow plowing. I had a gf a few years ago who lived off Park Street and it would be days if not weeks before some of the side streets would be plowed.I just heard on the news we might get blasted again on Thursday. All I heard was "This one has a chance to be the worst one yet" before I turned the channel. And then a HIGH of 3 degrees on Sunday. Lovely.

 
((Morpheus)) said:
This is incredible. Snow totals of 35, 20, 20 in the last couple of weeks with 0 melting in between. Wow, just wow.
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I almost feel bad for the MBTA General Manager who start her job the day after the first storm (Juno). The MTBA is grounded tomorrow for snow related repairs. As she said in a radio interview, there’s “no magic sauce” for trains that are not “spring chickens.”

 
The good news for Boston is, if you don't have flood insurance, buy it now. It takes 30 days for flood insurance to kick in. That should be right around the time you'll need it for when all of this starts melting.

 
TheIronSheik said:
Koya said:
REALLY messy AM up on the North Shore of LI, snow then a ton of sleet and freezing rain made for treacherous walking to the car and driving. Thank god landlord is responsible for shovelling cause this was a #####.

Things got progressively better (more wet, less Ice) even 2-3 miles south. Looking good for my flight to LA though as it's just rain here at JFK
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Could very well be freezing rain.
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Ya don't say.

 
PIK95 said:
Are these ice dams a problem? I have a huge one on my roof.
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Ice dams can cause lots of problems. Water backs up behind it and your roof will start to leak. On Saturday I spent 3 hours on a ladder raking my roof and breaking (I like to use a masonry hammer) up ice dams. fun fun fun!

 
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