Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

40 degrees and slowly dropping all day to 20 tonight. Got a good downpour last night, but rain is about to end and the wind is crazy strong.

Caulked a section where the tin roof of my shed meets the tin roof of the attached shelter yesterday. Looking forward to going out in a few minutes to see if my leak has ended. This is my third go at this, each fix lasting a short time. I think I did a better job and the caulk is better...so time will tell.

RNG, such a long spillway! I just hope if the same outfit built the dam, they did a better job. Glad you don't live below the dam. And tell your mechanic that TBN is getting impatient waiting on his work to complete .

First daffodil started popping open yesterday.

 

[riptides]

37 out this AM. I think I saw 72 yesterday when I was putzing around. Major winds right now, storm system pushing through.

Second the daffodils, they are up all over the garden, and the maples have buds on them. I fear these next two days are going to destroy most of the flowering plants and shrubs. Did not check on the peach trees, they had a hard time last year.

Be safe all, have a great day.

 

[Looking4new]

I always find standing at the foot of any dam a bit scary, ever since when I was young, I was shown a mark high up on a stone building in Hillsborough that showed the water level when a dam burst higher up the valley. This gives as a bit of history The Forgotten Flood: Sheffield's tragic past remembered - BBC News
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Thanks for the link.
My daughter-in-law is a transplant from Sheffield. I sent her the link.

 

[daugen]

rain ended here, now headed North to dump a lot of snow, I watch it because of my elderly MIL, and I always call her ahead of a snow storm.
It's really snowing now in Eastern PA, one to two inches per hour, and very gusty winds, could be whiteout conditions in places.
Sounds like several of you ought to come home early today. Or never leave... huge numbers of schools are closed.
Randy/TopP take it slow with the shoveling; this seems to be a coastal event.
But the arrow of direction once it gets to NYC seems to point straight up.
Kinda like where Roy is...hopefully it will blow out to sea first.

Do Nor'Easters ever make it all the way up to Canada? Where does the moisture come from that makes all
the snow/precip in Canada? All of ours seems to get sucked out of the Gulf of Mexico like a funnel and brought North and East.

 

[daugen]

Late or no openings of offices everywhere. A very wet heavy snow; heart attack city.*

from my BIL in Princeton NJ.

he agreed with the Hunger Moon, hawks just attacked his wife's chickens and she had to fend them off. Not for the first time.
I helped install their "ceiling" of plastic mesh for just this issue. I can just see her coming out to feed her chickens and finding a hawk
squawking away close to her "babies". That hawk didn't stand a chance.

a balmy 58 degrees here, going down

 

[Looking4new]

Do Nor'Easters ever make it all the way up to Canada? Where does the moisture come from that makes all
the snow/precip in Canada? All of ours seems to get sucked out of the Gulf of Mexico like a funnel and brought North and East.

Yup, they do. Ask anyone from the Maritimes, they will tell you.
In our worst snow storms the wind comes from the North East here in northern Ontario. Take a look at a google earth map of northern Quebec. See all the lakes? They are where the moisture comes from.

 

[mpham]

Snowing pretty hard here now with wind and drifts forecast. We are in the 12-14 inch zone.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking second cup of coffee. 58° with some clouds. Headed to 84° with lots of sun. First 80° day this year. Going to spend more time on patio after picking oranges at sisters place.
Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

Drinking second cup of coffee. 58° with some clouds. Headed to 84° with lots of sun. First 80° day this year. Going to spend more time on patio after picking oranges at sisters place.
Good Morning All.

84 degrees and picking oranges, well, you aren't going to be shoveling any snow today Ron...
very windy here and dropping temps but otherwise only a small amount of rain.

 

[toppop52]

Well, yesterday's 72 is long gone, it's 32 and snowing lightly with 45 mph gusts. Had big thunderstorms about 11 PM and again around daybreak. We've had our high for the day, should hover around freezing, but back in the 60's on the weekend, March has come early! Thankfully we missed the big snow.