Snow in the N.E.
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Author: Marshall
Date: 23 Dec 2006 8:34 am
When are you guys in the North East going to get some white stuff to play in? Any white Christmas possibilities?
Author: MissSnowshoveler
Date: 23 Dec 2006 9:05 am
Cloudy and rain here. I hate a green/muddy Christmas.
Sherri
Author: newjerseybt
Subject: Snow
Date: 23 Dec 2006 10:29 am
In NE PA there is a possibility of snow Christmas day. If it snows at all, it
will be the heavy wet stuff. (this will test my impeller kit)
The rest of the week will get colder with a chance of snow here and there. No significant accumulations though. (per NOAA)
Author: Garandman
Date: 23 Dec 2006 5:22 pm
The forecast for this season was a late start but about 10% more snow than average. That would be about 50" compared to 40-42 (little under average) last winter and 89 the winter prior. Boston usually has its first snowfall of over 1" between December 13-16.
The greater Boston suburbs get substantially more because they don't have the ocean effect. The observatory at Blue Hills a few miles south and inland averages over 60".
November 2006 was one of the warmest and wettest on record. Currently 39% of New England has snow cover - basically the Appalachian chain - but it's rained or raining throughout most of the region.
Long term average seasonal snowfall by state, city at:
http://www.nrcc.cornell.edu/ccd/avgsnf98.html
National Snow Analysis site: http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/
Some folks on this forum seem to live in especially snowy neighborhoods.
Author: OldToroOwner
Date: 23 Dec 2006 6:20 pm
Nope...not this year..too warm.
It rained today..supposed to be dry tomorrow with another front coming in on Christmas day..you guessed it, rain!
Author: Majorxlr8n
Date: 23 Dec 2006 7:43 pm
Almost 60 degrees here in NJ today. Rain & low 50's are forecasted for Christmas - at least I don't have to worry about driving (snow)...
Marty
Author: Boston_Rob
Date: 23 Dec 2006 8:09 pm
Sad not to see snow....but Christmas Steak on the Grill will be fun in the middle of winter.
Author: ramit
Date: 23 Dec 2006 8:20 pm
yea 50's today, sun came out during the afternoon.
Unseasonably warm...
Calm before the storm?
Author: robmints
Date: 23 Dec 2006 8:24 pm
60 here today. 55 tommorrow. Went out this morning after the rain stopped and it smelled like worms having some quality time in the early spring after a rain. Felt like getting the fishing rods out. If this keeps up when HD has the 60% off sale on snowblowers, I'm getting at least one. I thought about it last year and still regret not getting one.
Author: Chris S
Date: 23 Dec 2006 8:31 pm
Same here, this will be our first green Christmas both in NH and where we are now in St. Andrews. Kinda weird....
C
Author: ramit
Date: 23 Dec 2006 8:32 pm
HD has like 8 snow blowers or so.
a few ariens, one each of a 11hp & 9hp , two 5's or 6's small chassis ariens, then a murry style 5hp and two single stage toros.
One of the little 5hp ariens it real dusty dirty.
That's it, never got the sidewalk full of them in like they did in the past years.
Both of the bigger ariens, the chutes worked nearly perfect. None were sticking and or travel messed up like last year.
Seems they got their ducks in order, for the couple they have.
Author: Spectrum
Date: 23 Dec 2006 11:02 pm
Brown Christmas for us here in Southern Maine. We had 1 small working storm 3-4 weeks ago and that has be it. Meanwhile temperatures have been warm.
Our ocean temp is running about 8 degrees F above normal. Makes for nice diving when the seas sit still long enough to have some visibility.
Just as well I'm running way late on all sorts of extra winter prep. Planning to hang the blower on the tractor tomorrow and get the rest of the odds and ends into the basement. The lawn is still 1/2 green.
Meanwhile we have passed the solstice so the days will soon start lengthening and that eases things a lot.
I hear this week that they had declared an El Ninio Pattern to be established. Look for a nice early spring but we have the potential to get hammered bad over the next 8 weeks. For the moment we have nothing but unseasonably mild temperatures forecasted through 1/1/07
Pete
Author: Majorxlr8n
Date: 24 Dec 2006 12:11 am
robmints wrote:
If this keeps up when HD has the 60% off sale on snowblowers, I'm getting at least one.
Rob - thats ironic, as I was thinking the very same thing earlier this afternoon. Might be time to snag a bigger, NEW toy! :D
Marty
Author: Kenhomeowner
Date: 24 Dec 2006 12:22 am
I should have gone boating today...beautyfull weather.
Wonder if anyone has a Snowblower to Go-cart conversion kit.
Author: EGreen
Date: 24 Dec 2006 1:09 am
guess the early season snow was used up in October:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v348/BigEd2006/Winter%20Storm%20October%202006/
Author: Vangellis
Date: 24 Dec 2006 8:32 am
robmints wrote:
If this keeps up when HD has the 60% off sale on snowblowers, I'm getting at least one. I thought about it last year and still regret not getting one.
Darn, I knew I shouldn't have jumped the gun on that 50 % off sale early this year. :( Guess I'll just have to live with that $450 Toro 826 LE. :wink:
I still tell my wife it was the deal of the century, at which she just rolls her eyes. :roll: :P
Kevin
Author: dave___in___ct
Date: 24 Dec 2006 9:58 am
Sunday Dec. 25... 42 degrees at 8:00 am... raked windblown leaves off the patio... ! :?
The new Ariens snowblower sits... and waits... :wink:
Dave...
Author: newjerseybt
Date: 24 Dec 2006 12:51 pm
Twas' the day before Christmas with no sign of snow
the 'blowers sat patient with gas overflow
The sparkplugs were cleaned and torqued-in with care
maybe a snowstorm will soon be here...
Author: launboy
Date: 24 Dec 2006 1:55 pm
I know What you mean,
It's 12:47 here, 40 and it's sunny with hardly any clouds in the sky :shock:
The snowblower waits, all gassed up and ready to go!! :D
Off to my aunts for my dads family side of christmas!!
YAY!!!! PRESENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adam
Author: Vangellis
Date: 24 Dec 2006 4:13 pm
newjerseybt wrote:
Twas' the day before Christmas with no sign of snow
the 'blowers sat patient with gas overflow
The sparkplugs were cleaned and torqued-in with care
maybe a snowstorm will soon be here...
LOL :lol:
Kevin
Author: mrmom
Date: 25 Dec 2006 8:00 pm
Just about 8pm here and 44 degrees. And it's raining! *Sigh* Coulda been a white Christmas.
Author: AJace
Date: 26 Dec 2006 4:20 pm
newjerseybt wrote:
Twas' the day before Christmas with no sign of snow
the 'blowers sat patient with gas overflow
The sparkplugs were cleaned and torqued-in with care
maybe a snowstorm will soon be here...
Nice rhyme.
Author: AJace
Date: 26 Dec 2006 5:35 pm
Egreen, wonderful slideshow you put together of that October 2006 storm.
Author: newjerseybt
Date: 26 Dec 2006 7:04 pm
"Nice rhyme"
My Dad said I was a poet but didn't know it.
Author: Spectrum
Date: 31 Dec 2006 7:24 am
The snow still isn't happening for us.
I did get 2 inches yesterday, it was enough to take the tractor out for a test run.
Looking at the 10 forecast other than a little freezing crud early New Years day it's looking unseasonably warm right through January 9th.
Today it's going back up to 40F,
Author: Vangellis
Date: 31 Dec 2006 5:16 pm
Same story here Spectrum.
Some rain and freezing rain tonight. Seven day forecast shows all highs in the 40's. Better start checking at HD for another blower sale.
My lawn looks nice and green though. :P
Kevin
Author: Majorxlr8n
Date: 31 Dec 2006 9:57 pm
Nothing but rain, rain, rain here in NJ. Heck, I had to run my auxiliary pump for 2 days to drain the pool so it doesn't overflow...
Marty
Author: Garandman
Date: 31 Dec 2006 10:32 pm
Officially, Boston has received 0.8" of snow this season in two events. That's down about a foot from average, already.
Author: ramit
Date: 1 Jan 2007 12:30 am
Absolutely Zip here, hasn't even really been cold enough except for one or two nights.
Little rain now and then.
They say our temps should be dropping in January, back to normal levels.
Author: sonofjabba
Date: 1 Jan 2007 3:21 am
Nothing here yet either... That's why I was working on that snapper. I had to get a new tarp to cover my Tractor... Someone (My Brother) Ran over the edge with one of my mowers and chewed it all up. Now it has vis-queen over the engine, a blue tarp cover the entire machine, and a Motorcycle cover over that.
I was bored.... I should have taken the carb back off while I was there, oh well. Maybe I'll take it off the next nice day, and stop up Marty's with it and let him work his voodoo on it. Normally I don't do too bad with the tecumseh carbs, but this one is being real stubborn.