We had some winds this morning but nothing bad, the snow was coming down pretty good but all of a sudden just slowed up .
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We’ve had sleet on and off today. It’s coming down now too.I can hear ice pellets hitting the windows. Depending which forecast you pick we're getting somewhere between 0 and 11 inches tonight.
Edit: hit post too early
Not much up here from the storm so far, maybe 4 inches with NOAA calling for 3 - 8.I’m not going to shovel. I didn’t shovel last storm either. It was gone in 3 days.
Yeah. I did feel it here in Boston too but I am so far away it was just a very gentle rocking sensation. Thought I was imagining it until one of my co-workers asked if I felt it too.Not weather, but ...
I just thought I heard a helicopter coming in; that low whomp sound when they're still far. Then I shook up and down by an inch or so.
Earthquake. Quite stronger than the 2.x ones I felt in TN (there's a zone there West of the Smokies).
Indeed, usgs says a 4.7 shallow (5 km deep) one in NJ.
That was the biggest one I've felt so far.
Heavy snows like that are rough on plants. I have lost some due to the weight of the snow and still have some staked up to restore straightness. We have a huge bay tree that had it's limbs so weighted down by one wet snowstorm that the ends touched the ground. It looked like some giant had stepped on it. Fortunately, the limbs are supple and a few days after the snow was gone they returned to their natural height. This reminds me that I need to trim that tree this year.12" here of heavily compacted sleet/snow/wintry mix/more snow/more sleet etc. Couldn't clear any paths and hired someone to blow out the berm from the road plow (I have hired someone to do that twice in the past two weeks - never hired anyone before in my life). Took 1 hour 45 minutes to snow blow my single-car, short driveway, clear around the mailbox, shovel around fence gates and do the ramp to the shed.
I think this illustrates well how heavy the snow was. It was not only heavy, but so sticky it wouldn't come off even in wind. First picture is from yesterday evening after the shrubs had shed a fair amount of snow. Never had it do this in the 10 years I've been here
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This is a storm from 2022 from the same vantage point (my living room window)
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