How's your weather?

[GoDawgs]

Found this today. It's March, alright!

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https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/appalac ... h-weather/

[Wildcat82]

Epic shoveling, until it started to rain. So disappointed when I finally got to the end, to see that the road is a mess, my side is not plowed at all, snowmobiles of course have been tracking over that into the woods - no way I was going to try and shovel that hard packed trail. Plow left streals of snowballs all over the street up to 3 ft high, this stuff evidently falling out the sides of the overfull plow. And left it, snow piled high on every side of the road as well. So every place and everyone here is still dealing with mega snow.
As for the rain, it's been upped to 40-45 mm between and now and midday tomorrow.
I'm happy for the forest, but... you know I like it best 20 cm at a time.
Just hoping the rain can get into the ground most everywhere and not pool up too much.

Please tell me you don't have a lot of snow on your roof. That rain on top of snow combined with freezing temperatures means a pretty heavy load to support.

[bower]

@Wildcat82 Luckily the house is an A frame and shed the snow a lot better than the trees did.
It stayed above freezing today, the sun even came out, and the rain did no harm - well I have one pool at the end of the driveway, which I shoveled the slush out of today. The way out was really well beaten down and soft, thank goodness. A light work day compared to the past three! Snow is beaten down quite a bit and when the sun came out it suddenly became dimply - oddest looking thing - I guess it foundered unevenly. Pictured is the corner of my greenhouse on the unshoveled side SE corner, you can see the edge of the roof bottom left. The load on the greenhouse is massive. At least some of it has run off now. But only the upper glazing started to clear today.

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[pepperhead212]

It got to 68° here today, but it was still quite windy. Maybe that was a better thing, to help me dry off, since that pressure washing was getting me quite wet, at times! It helped dry the deck off, too, so it should be ready to put the stain on tomorrow, and the wind is forecast @ 5-10 mph, instead of 15-20, like today. And around 72°, for a high.

[TomatoNut95]

Somebody wake me when pollen season has ended.

[Tormato]

A nice day today. But, the blob over the Great Lakes is heading east.

[karstopography]

Standard middle of March weather here. Strong, gusts to 31mph, and moist flow coming out of the Southeast off the gulf. From the weather maps, it looks like that moist gulf air is racing north and east once it exits Texas. Bright out, a greenhouse like kind of bright diffuse light out there, sort of a thin layer of low clouds with even thinner patches, but virtually no direct sunlight. 79° currently that’s about the peak for today. The tomatoes, from my past experience, tend to like this weather.

Same basic pattern tomorrow, but adding in a decent shot at some active weather. A few notches cooler and wetter for the weekend. First half of next week looks about 10° cooler than this week.

[bower]

I'm really hoping that any "moist gulf air... racing north and east once it exits Texas" will be warm enough to rain instead of snowing if or when it gets here. A familiar pattern.

Today I got the car out and ran the gauntlet into St. John's and back out as far as the water. A lot of places with the shoulders cored right out by rain/flooding. Marked for work but no one at it today. Lots of snowbanks still of course lurking near the washouts and feeding a drip. I would say the condition of those washouts "brink of disaster", lucky not to lose actual road mostly, but wouldn't take a lot more to gut it right out. Forecast has little or no precip for the next six days, hopefully good enough to get the repairs done.

[Sue_CT]

At least 71 degrees and sunny today. I will have to check the news for the official “high” but an overall lovely day. The helliabores, crocuses and snow drops blooming, the tulips about 4-6 inches tall. I switched out the double pane glass storm door in front for the screen. It feels so nice to have a breeze coming in and my two cats are loving it.

[MissS]

The blob is here. Cold and raining hard all day. It's 37 degrees right now.

[TomatoNut95]

My blob will be here tomorrow morning. Greenhouse is battened down with extra plastic sheet, foam board in case it hails and rope to help hold everything down. However it's hot and humid here. What do you expect from Texas weather?

[Tormato]

It looks like the blob may miss me just to the north.

Up next is a fairly thin line of violent thunderstorms from Pittsburgh all the way back to Texas.

[JRinPA]

Bower I'll sell you an Ariens 724. Sitting under the carport since before the first snow here. Never used it. Most we got was an easy to shovel 6".

I'm shocked you don't have a snow blower. Was this dump much worse than usual?

[pepperhead212]

Got to 77° today while I was outside, and it's supposed to be in the 70s again, but raining again, too. I didn't do anymore deck staining today, since it is supposed to start early. The rain is already in N Jersey, and they are even giving tornado watches, in some areas up there.

[slugworth]

fired up the gas grill for lunch and supper yesterday.
1st time this year.
A passing rain shower 1 hour ago.
Grass is starting to get a green tinge to it, especially around stone walls.

[TomatoNut95]

It's raining, it's pouring; this day is gonna be boring...

[bower]

Bower I'll sell you an Ariens 724. Sitting under the carport since before the first snow here. Never used it. Most we got was an easy to shovel 6".

I'm shocked you don't have a snow blower. Was this dump much worse than usual?

Well you can't have a snow blower unless you have a shed or garage for it to live in. And then you have to get to it and get it out... My friends were using their tractor to clear snow the first time around (Valentines) and it kept getting stuck, and having to shovel it out, she said to the point where they might as well have just shoveled the road...
Yeah this was a bigger dump than "normal" if there is a normal. Past couple of winters we had more rain or snow-to-rain events with very little snow to shovel, I hardly got a workout. In an average winter our worst storm or couple of storms would be about 40 cm/ 16 inches but most would be closer to 20 cm/ 8 inches. I can do that twice a week and feel good about it. This year - basically two storm systems with 80 cm or thereabouts, back to back in terms of digging out since there were only a few days clear before the second one. In a month say. The first one started with 60 cm but kept adding to it 10 or 20 at a time for the week after, so it was about the same in total impact.
Would be fair to say that big storms like that are not unheard of, they just don't happen every year. This is the first time I've seen two in one winter, that I recall.

[rxkeith]

currently 47 and sunny, a very pleasant day by U.P. standards. st. paddys day snow storm is blowing in right
on schedule. winds could get to 45 mph as the storm comes through saturday night-sunday morning. too soon to predict
how much snow is expected. i don't think its going to be a lot, but ya never know until its done.


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[karstopography]

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Hail storm breezed through the area about hour or two ago. Wife’s coworker’s house. Just got new windows, at least two broken, roof is toast. Cars busted up. Damaging hail is somewhat rare this close to the gulf.

[JRinPA]

Calling for low of 29F overnight. Then lows of 34F 27F 23F 34F

Onions and cole crops, spinach, lettuce in the 9ft cloche tunnel. The leafy stuff will come in. Do onion starts have to come in? From what I've read, a plastic tunnel gets colder than the external air from evaporative cooling. I've never measured it myself. The tunnel is not "air tight".