Weather Update

Through A.D. 2009 January 08:

Days with snow cover: 058
Days with complete snow cover: 33
Total snowfall: 090 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 25 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 20 centimeters
Lowest temperature: -15º Celsius (05º Fahrenheit)

Freezing rain event number six was a doozie - 2 centimeters of ice coating everything. Luckily, it warmed slightly in the afternoon and the ice on the trees melted.

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2009 January 04:

Days with snow cover: 054
Days with complete snow cover: 29
Total snowfall: 085 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 25 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 20 centimeters
Lowest temperature: -15º Celsius (05º Fahrenheit)

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2008 December 31:

Days with snow cover: 050
Days with complete snow cover: 25
Total snowfall: 084 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 25 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 20 centimeters
Lowest temperature: -15º Celsius (05º Fahrenheit)

Seventeen centimeters of snow accumulated on December 31 - another sizeable storm for us. If they keep on coming, I'll keep on enjoying them. Snowshoeing has been fantastic.

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2008 December 29:

Days with snow cover: 048
Days with complete snow cover: 24
Total snowfall: 066 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 25 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 20 centimeters
Lowest temperature: -15º Celsius (05º Fahrenheit)

Two-thousand eight marked our first white Christmas since 2003. Unfortunately, it was pretty anti-climatic after the overwhelming majority of snow melted on Christmas Eve. At daybreak on December 24, snow coverered the ground to a uniform depth of 10 inches. At daybreak on December 25, snow covered the ground (in most places) to a depth of no more than three inches. In fact, we had less than 90% snow cover and the average snow depth did not exceed 1 inch. Still, I guess it did count as our first "white Christmas" since I moved up here. By the end of the day December 27, only a handful of patches of snow were visible from my house.

Temperatures on December 27 and 28 were in the upper 50s Fahrenheit.

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2008 December 20:

Days with snow cover: 039
Days with complete snow cover: 16
Total snowfall: 062 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 22 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 20 centimeters
Lowest temperature: about -13º Celsius (08º Fahrenheit)

We had our greatest snowfall of the season yesterday: 20 centimeters. That beats last winter's greatest snowfall by a third, but that's not saying much. In the middle of the storm we had an hour of freezing rain. That makes five times this winter. More snow is expected over the next two days - we could have more than a foot of snow on the ground by Tuesday.

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2008 December 18:

Days with snow cover: 037
Days with complete snow cover: 14
Total snowfall: 042 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 15 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 15 centimeters
Lowest temperature: about -13º Celsius (08º Fahrenheit)

Haha! A white Christmas appears inevitable! We're in the middle of a pretty significant storm for our area. The weathermen forecast 6-10 inches, and we've already had about three. At the rate that it's falling, we may end up with a foot. It will be my second white Christmas out of 27, my first out of five in New York, and my second out of six north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Earlier in the week we had another significant icing - so much that it has been dangerous to walk around since Wednesday. We're up to four this year.

Weather Update

Through A.D. 2008 December 14:

Days with snow cover: 033
Days with complete snow cover: 12
Total snowfall: 039 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 15 centimeters
Greatest snow event: 15 centimeters
Lowest temperature: about -13º Celsius (08º Fahrenheit)

Finally back to that Christmas-like weather! Fifteen cm of snow last Thursday/Friday - tied for our largest snowfall from last year. I'm hoping that it'll lead to even bigger totals! The storm started as freezing rain - that makes three instances this season, and all have been "significant."