03-19-04 Clipper...

[BRL]

... with March moisture enhancement! ;)

:zzzz
Nice to wake up on the day that snowfall predictions are finally made for an impending forecasted storm & find one's self in the Bull's Eye! :zoinks

Nice to see the following quotes in various weather discussions when you live in Central NJ lol:

"The heaviest snow with this storm will be in east-central Pennsylvania and in central New Jersey, where the storm will total 6-10 inches. "

"WILL BE ISSUING AN UPDATE THIS MORNING TO REFRESH WORDING...AND MORE IMPORTANTLY...TO UPGRADE OUR WATCHES TO WARNINGS. WE ARE CONCERNED WITH THE UPCOMING PRECIPITATION EVENT. VERTICAL VELOCITIES
LOOK VERY IMPRESSIVE WITH A BULLSYE RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE CWA."


"THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR
TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING

THIS AFTERNOON
MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS
LATE IN THE DAY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S WITH LIGHT WINDS. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.

TONIGHT
CLOUDY. RAIN AND SNOW DEVELOPING THIS EVENING...
THEN CHANGING TO ALL SNOW. AN ACCUMULATION OF 6 INCHES IS POSSIBLE
BY MORNING. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S. LIGHT WINDS BECOMING NORTHEAST
10 TO 15 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. "

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/headlines.asp?iws=1

[JustUsDe]

They are calling for 3 to 6 in my area. I hope they are right. Atleast give me 2 to hit my triggers. Just got the trucks ready. Heres a pic of them waiting for snow. Cant believe its 50 degrees right now. But gotta be ready.

[JustUsDe]

one more pic for good luck.

[campi]

BRL I hope your right with this snow they say we are going to get ? I live in pocono, PA. but plow in warren county tues was good! I hope we get 6 in or more sure can use the $$$ plus i plow in pa, picked up a new parking lot to day and could do it tommorow if we get enough snow!! lets hope we get it I am not ready to give up yet!! LET IT SNOW !!!! plowing! plowing! :cash :cash Campi !!!

[cat320]

That is the way it should be 50 deg to put plow gear on and let old snow melt then get cold for new snow that can be plowed get colder so we can sand/salt then start it all over again :D

[BRL]

Got to around 50 on this beautiful sunny day. Now its 36.7, full deck of heavy looking clouds, smells & feels like snow, radar is here already, just can't see any flakes or rain yet. We are now forecasted at 5-8" with 6" of them down by sun up! Sure gonna be hard to see for a while this evening ;)

Campi,
Warren wasn't included with my short term forecast this time, so I'm guessing you will be in the next lower tier of casted accums. But that is still a 4-6" prediction if you are not in the 5-8 range. :grinz

Good luck to everyone who gets to play in this one!

[JustUsDe]

Well,
I didnt get to play. It rained until about 5 am. Turned to snow and covered the grass and cars but no roads. I think my year is over. I can't complain it wasnt too bad of a winter for me.

Ray

[Mustang]

We were supposed to get around 6 inches. Got NOTHING!!! A little slush in some spots, that's it. :mad:

[John DiMartino]

called for 2-4 inches we got about an inch:rolleyes:

[cat320]

John that's enough to sand or salt unless it was just on the grass.

[John DiMartino]

Cat ,I was out all morning, I did the commercials,plowed one,and salted the rest. It was a slushy mess,you were pushing water/slop around,and salt wasnt all that effective since most of it ran off.Id rather deal with 3" of snow than 1"of slop.

[cat320]

all we ended up with was by 6 am a light dusting not even enough to spead sand and by 8:30-9 it was just about melted. I think that will be it for snow this season it's gonna be like a rolercoster this coming week up and down with the temps .

[jt5019]

Got just enough to plow all my commercial accounts here.Thats three days in a row now, ive been out plowing.... :cash

[JCurtis]

Forecast said 1"- 3" ending by 8 am

Here are unofficial #'s from the NOAA public statment board for my area of CT.000
NOUS41 KOKX 191812
PNSOKX
NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-CTZ005>012-171200-

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
SNOWFALL REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
110 PM EST FRI MAR 19 2004

THE FOLLOWING ARE UNOFFICIAL SNOWFALL REPORTS FROM THE MORNING OF
MARCH 19, 2004, FOR SOUTHEAST NEW YORK...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND
SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT.


STORM TIME/DATE COMMENTS
LOCATION SNOWFALL OF
(INCHES) MEASUREMENT

CONNECTICUT

...FAIRFIELD...
NEW CANAAN 7.0 645 AM 3/19
WESTPORT 5.9 840 AM 3/19
DARIEN 5.3 800 AM 3/19
BRIDGEPORT 5.0 1020 AM 3/19
NORWALK 4.5 715 AM 3/19
SHELTON 4.0 945 AM 3/19
BETHEL 3.5 1000 AM 3/19
DANBURY 3.1 900 AM 3/19

...NEW HAVEN...
MADISON 5.5 1030 AM 3/19
BRANFORD 5.0 800 AM 3/19

Official numbers for total accumulation havent been posted yet.

Storm lasted until almost 10:30, I pushed a solid 8" at most of my residentials in the northern part of Stamford.

Commercial also had a lot more than 1"- 3", but with a 1" trigger they get plowed first automatically.

:grinz

2 storms in a week, total accumulation of approximately 1 foot to a foot and a half of new snow that lasted long enough to plow and then melts away...:cash :cash :cash :cash My kind of storm pattern for sure !!!:D

[digger242j]

Three nights in a row of going out and salting--a little bit. Had to go around and check almost everything, but didn't do an *entire* salting all week, particularly last night. If I'd stayed in bed though several locations would've been a problem early in the mornings. It still seems like sort of a bonus after hitting 80 degrees here in February.

...and salt wasnt all that effective.... Id rather deal with 3" of snow than 1"of slop.

Ya know, as I sit here and think about it, 1" of slop would be a whole lot closer to 100% water, whereas snow has some kind of ratio to it, be it 5:1, 10:1, etc. Apply that ratio to your inch of slop and it's like trying to burn five inches of snow with just salt. No wonder it doesn't work. I've been reconsidering the whole "2 inch trigger" thing. Particularly this winter it just so often seemed like those first two inches had sooo much water in them...

[urethane dino]

PLowed all tues night into wed. It snowed wed night into thursday. Back out thurs morn at 3 am and plowed until noon. Repaired a truck and lowered the edge on my v plow in the afternoon, and then got some sleep. Back out Fri am at 3 am and plowed till noon.
It basically never stopped snowing from tuesday afternnon until mid am on friday. Anyway a very lucrative week. Once we got back into snow mode, it went smooth. Gearing up for it sucked, but once it arrived it was easy to deal with.
Dino