2023 Severe Weather

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It’s pretty close to that now. I wrestled in HS and enjoy watching it. My wife, not so much.

It is tough watching it for 12 hours straight to see your kid wrestle for such a short time. Only the tournaments go forever though.

At least she’s much better than I was! She had 18 wins by pin this year and missed going to state by 3 people. I remember she lost 2 matches by letting her opponent escape a few times and it was enough to give them the win, lol.

She’s hitting weights now and joined a wrestling club for extra practice 2 times a week. I think she’ll be a little 114lb beast next year!
karate was the same way. 14 hour Saturday's, then back to practice Tuesday night.
 
The look on their face after they win a tough match makes it worth sitting through the boring stuff.
 
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I think she’ll be a little 114lb beast next year!
Coed? Or do they keep them separated by preferred pronoun? It was all boys, back when I wrestled, they didn't start coed (around here) until later.

karate was the same way. 14 hour Saturday's, then back to practice Tuesday night.
My son is in karate, and yeah... tournaments can be long. But they're only a few times per year, versus every friggin' weekend all winter long, for team wrestling.
 
This was the first year there was a girls only team for our area. They had to bring 2 high schools together in order to make a team, but our area was able to get 159 girls!
 
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Accu is calling for 6 to 10 inches of snow starting on 3/13 through 3/15, hopefully we get the 6 inches or less.
 
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Winds may become strong enough to cause power outages in portions of New England and the upper mid-Atlantic, according to DaSilva, who noted that the worst conditions may be where the weight of wet snow and strong winds causes tree branches to shift or break.

Near the coast, winds may frequently gust between 40 and 60 mph and could reach hurricane-force strength of 74 mph or greater in some instances from Monday night to Tuesday.

"Even though the astronomical cycle of the moon will not produce the highest tides, this storm will still have the potential to cause significant coastal flooding, especially across eastern New England, where strong winds will blow onshore the longest," DaSilva said.
 
We might have gotten an inch so far.
Accu is still calling for 6 to 10 of wet heavy snow, below is from NOAA.

Hazardous Weather Outlook​

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Burlington VT
444 AM EST Sat Mar 11 2023

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Northern St. Lawrence-Northern Franklin-Eastern Clinton-
Southeastern St. Lawrence-Southern Franklin-Western Clinton-
Western Essex-Eastern Essex-Southwestern St. Lawrence-Grand Isle-
Western Franklin-Orleans-Essex-Western Chittenden-Lamoille-Caledonia-
Washington-Western Addison-Orange-Western Rutland-Eastern Franklin-
Eastern Chittenden-Eastern Addison-Eastern Rutland-Western Windsor-
Eastern Windsor-
444 AM EST Sat Mar 11 2023

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northern New York, central
Vermont, northeast Vermont, northwest Vermont and southern Vermont.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday.

A potent winter storm will move into the region Monday and continue
at least through Tuesday night and possibly into Wednesday. Forecast
concerns are centered around the potential for heavy amounts of wet
snow accumulating in portions of the North Country creating
difficult
travel conditions and possibly some power outages.
 
Was told the next storm will be dropping 18-24 beginning of the week.

We’ll, it sounds like the snow blower will run again!
 
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Was told the next storm will be dropping 18-24 beginning of the week.

We’ll, it sounds like the snow blower will run again!
NOAA just put this map out, we're in the 4 to 6 area.

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I hope it starts mid day so the roads can get cleared. If it starts at 2am, we’re screwed!
 
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I hope it starts mid day so the roads can get cleared. If it starts at 2am, we’re screwed!
It's always nice if you don't have to travel. I guess that we should put more firewood in before the storm hits.
 
Was told the next storm will be dropping 18-24 beginning of the week.

We’ll, it sounds like the snow blower will run again!
Some sites have us getting between 1 to 3 inches from this storm, that "wood" be nice.
 
Accuweather says 8-12, national weather says 12-18.

It really shows how much guesswork is involved!

I’ll go with your numbers of 3”!

But I’d like Northville to get the 18 so I can keep skiing!
 
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Accuweather says 8-12, national weather says 12-18.

It really shows how much guesswork is involved!

I’ll go with your numbers of 3”!

But I’d like Northville to get the 18 so I can keep skiing!
I'm sure Whiteface will have plenty of snow. With the daytime temperatures warming up above freezing with a strong sun and the nights below freezing, our driveway will be like a skating rink.

I'll be sanding or putting down cold ashes until we lose it.
 
Whiteface has a base snowpack of 32 to 46”. Not a whole bunch, but it’ll keep them open into April. Especially if they make some on a few trails.
 
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Well cloudboy has a forecast I'm not looking forward to on voting/town meeting day. I'm just at the edge of that highest total band of 16-24". WMUR is still calling for 12-18" in my area. Either way, I filled up my gas can so my snow blower has enough to get thru what will probably be the biggest event of the season. I still have snow banks up to 4' tall. Although the main yard is only at 1-1.5' of snowpack.

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Well cloudboy has a forecast I'm not looking forward to on voting/town meeting day. I'm just at the edge of that highest total band of 16-24". WMUR is still calling for 12-18" in my area. Either way, I filled up my gas can so my snow blower has enough to get thru what will probably be the biggest event of the season. I still have snow banks up to 4' tall. Although the main yard is only at 1-1.5' of snowpack.

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Well, the picture does match the azaelasin your avatar. So, there is that...
 
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I wonder when they make the call to start packing the snow down vs removal? It seems like the walls could cave in pretty easily on that photo.
Nature seems to take care of this. We get snow walls of 10' and more on Hwy 20 through the North Cascades when it first opens. It's packed down by the weight of the snow .

The big concern for them right now is getting the 6+ ft. of snow off of roofs. With rains coming that can get really heavy quickly.
 
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