Conference rdvax::grateful

    so any snow falling around ? here in Shrewsbury its very cold and grey
    looks like the snow is just waiting to fall....
    
    Chris

    
    
    I just heard someone saying that it's snowing in Wooster...???
    
    MJ

    
    it's been snowing here in NYC since I woke up at 7:00.  
    
    

	There's a chilly wind blowing from Nawth here.

	Thats a good sign for snow lovers!!!!

How much of it are we gonna get?
I'm heading to Franconia notch this afternoon.
Might be skiing Cannon on Monday.


PRAY FOR 10000000000000000000000" of snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How many more days until Memorial Day?

- Duve

    well the skys a bursting with snow here in Shrewsbury....

>   well the skys a bursting with snow here in Shrewsbury....

	exshellent

From the late-sleeper quadrant (me): this morning's weather report in Boston 
called for a few inches of snow, turning to rain through tomorrow.

Ski country will probably just get a shitload of snow, though...

tim

No snow yet at LKG

    snowing like crazy here at HLO

    
    JC, look again... I just came inside and it's snowing like crazy!!
    Musthave just started as you posed that note!  :-)
    
    MJ

	I walked outside and it started snowing.....how nice!!!!
	
	very pretty too! 

    well it looks like it might be very slippery out there....small fast
    driving snow is still falling here @.5" so far

    It's snowing very dangerously and *I* drove from TWO to MKO just now.
    I left TWO at 1 and got to MKO at 2:30 .... a usual 35 minute ride.
    45 mph was it for me and many of us.  some guy in a ranchero was very
    upset with me going so slow so he blew by me to show how annoyed he
    was.  A couple miles up 495 he was off the side of the road with the
    front of his truck sticking straight up in an unnatural position.
    he and his buddy were walking around it and I gave him the thumbs up
    sign when i went by. 
    
    

re -.1   Oh wow ... I pray for stuff like that to happen ... it must've
	 felt great.

	 (Disclaimer: glad the guy wasn't hurt)

	 Ah, justice.

- DC

    
    really.. what a jerk.  I'm glad he didn't take you off the road with
    him, Carol!
    
    

I spent friday evening driving to Maine in that storm.  Took almost 6 hours 
for what is normally a 3 hour drive.  Then an hour after I got there it all 
turned to freezing rain and then Saturday morning to rain and washed away 
all the new stuff, then went back to snow that night for a grand total of 
about 2" of new snow.

On the bright side we're (NH) supposed to get 6-8 more inches tomorrow 
afternoon and evening:-):-):-)

Geoff

Well, I blew out of work early on Friday to head to Franconia NH.  We left
Littleton MA at 15:00 and go to our destination by 18:30 or so... usually
takes 2.5 hrs.  I love to drive in the snow.... I love to haul in it 'cus
you can, if you know the limitations of your car... snowed all the way up
to Franconia.  The notch was WILD!!!  snow was going every which way....

by morning, it was rainin a bit.  i skied cannon on sat.  ZERO lift lines!
mostly overcast w/ some drizzle, then eventually it turned back to snow.
I must have skied nearly 30 runs.... mostly down avalanche where the bumps
were (some big suckers near one edge and the cream-cheese snow helped make
'em big and soft!)....

about 5 below last night up there.

    Today should have something special for all us skiers!!!  And the
    report says the new snow which is expected today will not be rained
    on or melted off before the weekend.  That's the only time I get
    to ski so I'm psyched!
    
    carol
    

How much snow is ski country supposed to net out of this one?

> i skied cannon on sat. 

Hey JC!  I was at Cannon on Saturday, too!  Damn.  Too bad I missed ya'!

Pretty crusty in spots, but the trail edges were nice!

Grate day except for the 360 I did on the franconia parkway on the way
home.  Luckily traffic was stopped in both directions (which was what
caused the spin in the  first place) so even though I crossed lanes, I
didn't hit anything (the passengers were rather impressed :-) ).

Dave

      <<< Note 184.22 by ZENDIA::FERGUSON "I had one of those flashes" >>>

>>How much snow is ski country supposed to net out of this one?

What I heard:

	6 to 12 in southern NH and 8 to 12 in northern NH.

bob

    
    anything new on the storm ?  still expecting mega or mammoth snow?
    I have mixed reactions cause I want the snow but I also am worried
    about john driving over temple mt tonite to get home and then my
    daughter who is supposed to drive to the Cape for a funeral in the
    morning ...
    
    c

    was home at lunch and the Cape will get rain with the rain line doing
    the 128 loop....4-8 central Mass. more north 8-12 more south 1-4
    
    
      ---------------------------------------------------
      |				8-12		|	|
      |				snow		|	|
      |						|	|
      |						|	\		 -
      |				4-8		\ rain	 \		 \\
      |				snow		 \	  \		  ||
      |						  \ 	   \		 //
      |						   \	    \		//
      |				1-4		    \	     -----------/
      |				snow/rain	     \		       /
      -----------------------------------------------------------------
    
    
    Chris_who_will_be_playing_a_weatherman_on_TV

This morning's weather said 6"-10" North and West of 495, 12"+ in Northern N.H.
< 6" within 495, turning to rain tonight...but only in the south shore and Boston
area - we' may not get any rain around LKG and north...

Goin's Skiin' this weekend !!!

tim

    
    ok ok ok ... thanks guys.
    
    Carol_wishing_there_was_a_weather_notesfile
    

    Chris, what an artist!
    
    :), danielle

    Harumph! Typical Eastern Mass mentality. No weather given
    for Western Mass. :-)

    gee GerG I could have sworn I saw you drive by me in the Fogmobile
    unless Fog grew a beard and started to look like you....
    
    thats why I didn't included the other part of the state....the Islands
    :') which will get rain too ! but I will now include the weather for
    your part of the state (so when you get home you can just tell the
    other person that lives out there the weather...like he would know by
    the time you get there...) lot more snow then you had yesterday !
    
    Chris_who_already_doesn't_like_the_idea_of_playing_a_weatherman_on_TV

I grew a beard....


NO, that was Ger, He's here in SHR, but not fer long...

    the beard was ok I thought it might be Fog but the suit was a dead 
    give-away that it was not Fog behind the wheel of the Fogmobile.....

    
    Chris ... you are doing a GRATE job of not being a weatherman_on_TV !
    except you didn't mention NH either :-) 
    
    184.31 is a funny reply, BTW!
    
    carol

Chris, I'm anxiously awaiting the weather quiz ;-)

    NH is north of Central Ma (which if ya didn't know by now is the center
    of the universe !) but anyway I got a 4 mile ride home and as far as I 
    can see its covered with snow ! beyond that, hell it could be sunny for 
    all I know ;'p
    
    but yes I will be playing a weatherman on the 27 of Feb. on our local
    access station.....it will be a live show, making fun of morning tv of
    the likes of Goodmorning America & The Today Show.....we hope to have
    some live guests, but we don't plan on letting them know its a joke...
    one hopeful guest is a local Cop :') I will also be doing an expose' on
    breakfast places in town, from the Micky D's & Burger King's Drive-thru
    to rill places to eat....
    
    and now for the quiz !
    
    Chris

Raining cats and dogs and then some in Littleton as of about 6pm... still
coming down hahd right now.  Lots and lots of "local" flooding...

Temp is 33F ...  why oh why are we always just over that fine line?
Judging from the heavy rain we are getting, i'd have to say that up
nawth is getting decked w/ snow, that is, if it ain't raining...


:-(

I want more snow!

Hey folks, how's the driving on 495 in MA?

Unfortunately I gotta travel down to Maynard for a meeting at 2:00.

- DC who realizes the weather could change in a few hours.

    just before I left the house this morning I heard that there was a
    multi car pile-up on 495S at Rt 9/Mass Pike (nowhere near Rt117 exit) 
    but I would guess the roads are very slick, right now we are in a FOG
    that is dumping a icy mist all over the earth's surface......
    
    
    Chris

    welp, its now snowing in SHR area....so I'd call off the trip DC...

Thanks Chris ...

Just got back from the dentist; interesting weather out there.  Alternating
between snow and rain, nice grey sky.

o o
 ^
\_/

- DC

    Gee, I didn't have any trouble on 495 today.  The accident was, 
    I believe, actually on rte 9 by 495 (though maybe we're talking about
    different accidents).  Snow was falling, but lightly, and I wouldn't
    expect any accumulation.  Rte 3 southbound looked bad, but I don't have
    to worry about that till tonight when one can hope the roads have
    cleared a little.
    
    PeterT
    

Yep, I went to my meeting ... driving wasn't bad at all, except for
rte 27 which was a little slippery.

- DC who can't believe he sees sunlight!

    Yes as of right now the sun is out now.....
    
    what we have learned today is that by the time you climb a flight of
    stairs it can stop snow and the sun will be shinning....now we need to
    see if it will work the other way ! so if you can go down a flight of
    stairs do so and see if it started to snow again ! :')
    
    Chris

	I am so glad winter is making a surprise appearance
	this year!!!

	I look at the snowbanks on the side of the road and
	the kids sledding and having fun...it brings back
	fabulous memories of my childhood when the snow fell
	hard and bountiful and my winters were never boring.

	I'll be tobogganing at the infamous Nashadic hill 
	in Concord Center tonight...can't wait.

	It's time to be a kid again!

thought I heard a racket in the stairwell.  It must be Chris running up
and down.  :-)

    
    
    What a bootiful day out today!  :-)  :-)  :-)
    
    (except for the road spray and no windsheild washer!)
    

>(except for the road spray and no windsheild washer!)
 
And the closer to the road you are, the worse it gets...

:-)

tim

    
        who sez it doesn't snow in new england anymore?? this is the most
     snow i've seen since '78!!!
    
                                                    ^dave
    
    
    

    	I can't tell you how good the skiing's been, especially XC!
    
    Of course some people I don't have to tell. 
    
    I happy about it. I gotta go wax my skis.
    Geoff

Lemme see, more playing outside this weekend for me:


sat. i went for a good long walk in the sarah-doublet forest in littleton.  
i broke the trail through the fresh snow.   it was afternoon so the snow was
a bit wet... i had fun making enormous snowballs (4' in diameter) by rollin'
'em downhill... must have walked about 5 miles or so.

sun. i climbed mt watatic.  lots and lots of snow out there.  easily 2-3' of
snow on the ground.  i climbed to the top, had a brew and some oats, and walked
around for a bit... the ski trails looked very delicious - i even saw 2
skiers (a boarder and a alpine) getting ready to crank.  Lots and lots of
snow.  drifts were very deep - some as deep as 6' !!  the snow in the woods
was beautiful!!!  quite, peaceful, and just plain nice!!  


so, if this week's weather remains on the cool side w/ NO rain, I think i'm
gonna climb watatic from the northside (ski trail side) and take a run or 3.
Anyone game?

I was thinking either Sat or Sun.   There is _A_LOT_ of untouched snow on
those trails, at least what i could see.   and, it is an easy climb!!!

Who is Game???????????????????????????

>    	I can't tell you how good the skiing's been, especially XC!

i finally tried out the trails behind our house (Callahan State Park) this
weekend; i rented a pair of telemark skis to see what they were like; i felt
like a had a bit more control going downhill than with XC skis, but i still
felt pretty insecure at times; i think next time i need some pointers from
someone who knows what they're doing

but i did have a blast skiing; i went on both saturday and sunday; absolutely
amazing weather; it's really cool being able to ski simply by walking out
your door, and not even having to drive anywhere

/r

    
    It's snowing outside!  It felt just like spring the other day.  What a
    month!
    
    

    
         what a morning. looks like it would have been an excellent
    
      to blow off work!
    
                                                    ^dave

	EXCELLENT WEATHER....!!!


	MORE SNOW!!!


	I LOVE IT.... can't get enough.  it could snow until JULY as far
	as I'm concerned.



	C'MON WINTER .... give us MORE snow!!!   


(sorry all you springheads :-) :-)

don't be sorry JC, the warm sun melting the snow and the sweet smell it let
off this morning made me smile with thoughts of Spring.  Not to mention the
gazillion birds in my backyard feeding and singing....  :-)

tis a beautiful morning indeed!

    So what's the deal on this weekend's storm?
    
    If there's more snow, I can x-c ski.  If spring comes, I can bike. 
    It's the period between that I hate.
    
    Jamie

NEW ENGLAND FORECAST AND WEATHER STORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
545 PM EST WED MAR 10 1993
    
blah, blah, blah...
    
FLURRIES WILL LINGER IN THE NORTH EARLY THURSDAY NIGHT...OTHERWISE
SKIES WILL CLEAR AND IT WILL TURN MUCH COLDER.  LOWS WILL RANGE FROM
NEAR ZERO IN THE FAR NORTH TO THE LOWER TO MID 20S FAR SOUTH.

FRIDAY WILL BE PARTLY SUNNY AND COLD.  TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE FROM)
THE TEENS NORTH TO THE 30S SOUTH.

LOW PRESSURE OVER DEVELOPING NEAR THE VIRGINIA COAST LATE THIS
AFTERNOON WILL CROSS CAPE COD THURSDAY MORNING...THEN RACE ON TO NOVA
SCOTIA ON LATE THURSDAY.  HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE REGION
THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY.

IF THIS WASN'T ENOUGH...A BIG STORM IS POSSIBLE FOR THE WEEKEND...BUT
ITS TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ON HOW MUCH SNOW.  A STRONG EAST WIND IS
LIKELY ALONG COASTAL SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND LATE SATURDAY INTO EARLY
SUNDAY.  

045 
CSUS2 KBOS 110507

CLIMATIC SUMMARY FOR BOSTON              
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WSFO BOSTON MA                
   MAR 11  1993   

 ...TEMPERATURE...

HIGH YESTERDAY... 42 
 LOW YESTERDAY... 33 
MEAN TEMP........ 38   DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL...    1

NORMAL HIGH FOR TODAY... 44
NORMAL  LOW FOR TODAY... 30
RECORD HIGH FOR TODAY...  67 SET IN 1990
RECORD  LOW FOR TODAY...   9 SET IN 1939

...DEGREE DAY DATA...

HEATING
YESTERDAY...    27 DEPARTURE...   -2
MONTH.......   281 DEPARTURE...  -19
SEASON......  4455 DEPARTURE...  119

COOLING
YESTERDAY...     0 DEPARTURE...    0
MONTH.......     0 DEPARTURE...    0
SEASON......     0 DEPARTURE...    0

...PRECIPITATION...

YESTERDAY.............   0.19
TOTAL FOR THE MONTH...   1.19
NORMAL MONTH TO DATE..   1.22
TOTAL FOR THE YEAR....   8.30
NORMAL YEAR TO DATE...   8.43

SNOWFALL YESTERDAY...   1.4
SNOWFALL THIS MONTH..  10.6
SNOW FOR THE SEASON..  53.4

...WIND DATA IN MPH...

AVERAGE WIND SPEED YESTERDAY... 12.3
FASTEST 1-MIN WIND YESTERDAY... 18  FROM 190 DEGREES
PEAK WIND GUST YESTERDAY.......  23 FROM THE NW 

...ASTRONOMICAL DATA...

SUNRISE TODAY...604 AM    EST
SUNSET  TODAY...546 PM    EST
SUNRISE TOMORROW...602 AM    EST
SUNSET  TOMORROW...547 PM    EST

MOONSET   TODAY   IS IN THE WSW AT   730 AM EST                   
MOONRISE  TODAY   IS IN THE ESE AT  1018 PM EST                   
MOONSET  TOMORROW IS IN THE WSW AT   811 AM EST                   
MOONRISE TOMORROW IS IN THE ESE AT  1127 PM EST                   


END...

    
        march 9-11  sunny, mild
    
        march 12-14 snow, heavy north
    
        march 15-18 cloudy and cold, snow
    
        march 19-22 cold, snowy
    
        march 23-25 clear milder
    
        march 26-28 storm
    
        march 29-31 sunny, normal

re: Note 184.59 by BUSY::IRZA 
    
>march 9-11  sunny, mild
    
    Seems like they missed the mark a bit here. :-)

>                       <<< Note 184.60 by RAISE::GLADU >>>
>
>re: Note 184.59 by BUSY::IRZA 
>    
>>march 9-11  sunny, mild
>    
>    Seems like they missed the mark a bit here. :-)


They were right on for yesterday and the day before, at least where I was 
it was sunny and mild.  Skiing was Great:-)

Geoff

    Snowed yesterday and today at my house.

    SPring in COlo, robins are back, crocus are coakin in our yard..nad
    it's snowing...typical spring in COlo.
    rfb

re            <<< Note 184.56 by MRNGDU::YETTO "the future is here" >>>


>don't be sorry JC, the warm sun melting the snow and the sweet smell it let
>off this morning made me smile with thoughts of Spring.  Not to mention the
>gazillion birds in my backyard feeding and singing....  :-)

oh, i'm not sorry right now!!!!     :-)

>tis a beautiful morning indeed!

this morning _is_ a beaut. morning if i don't say so m'self!!!!!   cold, windy.
i love it....  :-)

my walk last night was cold and windy .... i love it.
c'mon snowstorm - sock it to us HAHD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

	I just gotta'n update that on tomorrow afternoon 
	the barometric pressure will be the lowest it has 
	been in New England in years..
	
	prepare for aches, pains, and hormones!  :-) 

Heard on 'BCN this morning that the upcoming blizzard may be the worst
in 50 years ... possibly in this century ....

At least it's happening on the weekend.

- dc

I'\m ready for the BIG ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


c;mon snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Down here in the D.C. area, they are predicting 6-16", near blizzard
    conditions, and hurricane force winds. Hard to believe Spring Tour
    hits D.C. on Tuesday night.

    
    we're supposed to have 6-8" of snow and 75 mph winds tomorrow day, and
    then turning to rain at night.
    
    

re                      <<< Note 184.68 by GRANPA::TDAVIS >>>

>Hard to believe Spring Tour
>    hits D.C. on Tuesday night.

All RIGHT!!!

    re: storm
    
    NPR weather this morning sez >1' outside I-495
    
    - jeff
    

    
    You can stop whining for snow now!!! 
    
    c

    Yeah, those of you who love snow are welcome to stop by my place Sunday
    morning and take as much as they want :-)
    
    gary

According to NWS Severe weather logs, some parts of Texas are getting pelted
by over and inch of hail and its snowing as far south as Corpus Christi. I'm
not a storm tracking expert, but if you ask me, it looks like the storm will
blow out way south of us.  Anyone have the _latest_ forecast from NWS? 

I've got the latest satellite photo now (taken at 12:15, est), in GIF format,
check out cscma::d_sna:[m_peckar]cvis.gif

Fog,

That's impressive.  Where/how do you get those things?

tim

    hey neat dood....how you do that ?

    Whatsa GIF?
    
    Jamie

...Anonymous ftp to vmd.cso.uiuc.edu...

Also available are infrared images, Surface wind maps, Those funny-symboled 
maps with the isobars, windflags, and cryptic symbols, and other NWS maps.

Jamie, a gif file is a standardized graphical format that can be displayed 
on a workstation or almost any computer with a graphical display, like a PC 
or MAC.

    welcome back, Fog_man and your bag o' trix!
    
    c

    So was this storm affected by the moon?
    
    8^), danielle

	Fog, is that the one that resides on meddle?

	I have a program called WX that updates the 
	gif files on a bi-hourly basis so you don't
	need to copy each one at a time.

	Not bad for a pee-on....aye?

	I am looking at this mornings and this afternoons
	in comparison, and it is clear that the storm is 
	headed to the North East but slightly more to the 
	west than this mornings predictions...I think because
	the storm is to the west we will have greater 
	accumulations in the 128 area....because storms are
	always more powerful to the west of the eye....
	and to think...this was only a little thunderstorm
	yesterday....

	Obviously a product of the moons gravitational pull!

    The storm may look like it's tracking south of us, but the weather
    reports of the last few days show the jet stream bending pretty far
    south and then rushing north along the eastern seaboard.  That will
    cause the storm to come up our way.  If we really get clobbered, I may
    have to eat all that cheese cake I'm making tonight, instead of
    bringing it over my friend's tomorrow.  Sigh...such problems ;-)
    
    PeterT
    

    
    
    tried poking vmd.cso.uiuc.edu but it claims to need a password 
    for anonymous logins. mighty unfriendly that. ;-)
    
    :-Chuck

 According to the lates from the Weather Channel...blizzard warning for NH..
1 to 3 ft :-O




Jim

    > tried poking vmd.cso.uiuc.edu but it claims to need a password  
    > for anonymous logins. mighty unfriendly that. ;-)
    
    Use ftp and username anonymous.  It should prompt for a password,
    and the acceptable password is your mail id.  Actually it will 
    accept anything, but mail id is a pretty standard convention.
    You have to do it through ftp though, as this lets you into a 
    very small subset of the system.
    
    PeterT
    

>  According to the lates from the Weather Channel...blizzard warning for
>  NH..  1 to 3 ft :-O


    HAR!!!!  Looks like another fine skiing weekend!!! 8-)
    
    I wonder if my truck can handle the driving through more than 2' of
    snow... ;-)
    
    - jeff
    

pay attention to the noitices....

331 Send your local userid instead of password for identification, please

     SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
     NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
     NOON EST FRI MAR 12 1993
    
        
     ...A BLIZZARD OR NEAR BLIZZARD THREATENS TO SHUT DOWN MANY
     TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS FOR SEVERAL HOURS SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO
     SUNDAY MORNING...
    
     PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES INDICATE 12 TO 36 INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED IN
     MOST OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY SATURDAY
     NIGHT.  THIS STORM WILL BE WORSE THAN ANY WE HAVE HAD THIS WINTER
     BECAUSE OF THE WIND.  FOR SOME PLACES IT MAY BE THE MOST SNOW IN A
     DECADE.  DRIFTS TO 10 FEET ARE POSSIBLE BY SUNDAY NIGHT IN THE HEAVY
     SNOW AREAS...ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND THE NORTHWEST
     HILLS OF CONNECTICUT.
    
     WHILE GUSTY EAST WINDS TO 50 MPH WILL OCCUR BEFORE THE STORM THERE IS
     A CHANCE OF HURRICANE FORCE (70 - 100 MPH) WESTERLY WIND GUSTS BEHIND 
     THE STORM SUNDAY.
    
     THE FOLLOWING PREPARATIONS SHOULD BE MADE NOW!
    
     ALL TRAVEL PLANS IN AND OUT OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND SHOULD BE
     COMPLETED BY NOON SATURDAY.
    
     WIND AND SNOW SHOULD AT LEAST TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN AIRPORTS
     THROUGHOUT THE REGION SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  IT APPEARS THE
     FERRY SERVICE FROM SOUTH COASTAL NEW ENGLAND TO LONG ISLAND AND THE
     ISLANDS SOUTH OF RHODE ISLAND AND CAPE COD WILL ALSO WILL HAVE TO SHUT
     DOWN SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
    
     1. ALL HOUSEHOLDS SHOULD HAVE A WORKING FLASHLIGHT AND A WORKING RADIO
        POWERED BY BATTERIES.  THE KEY IS TO HAVE BATTERIES THAT WORK WELL!
        CHECK NOW.
    
        DO NOT USE CANDLES IF POWER IS KNOCKED OUT!   CANDLES CAN CAUSE
        FIRES.
    
     2. THE STORM WILL RIP INTO SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND DURING MIDDAY SATURDAY
        AND BE WINDING DOWN SUNDAY EVENING.  THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL FALL
        DURING A 12 HOUR PERIOD BETWEEN NOON SATURDAY AND MIDNIGHT EARLY
        SUNDAY.
    
        SOME ROADS MAY BECOME IMPASSABLE FOR A TIME IN MASSACHUSETTS...
        THE NORTHWEST HILLS OF RHODE ISLAND AND NORTHERN CONNECTICUT FOR
        LEAST A 12 HOUR PERIOD SATURDAY NIGHT.
    
     3. THE WORST OF THIS STORM SHOULD COINCIDE WITH THE "LOW" TIDE CYCLE
        SATURDAY EVENING.  EVEN SO...IT APPEARS COASTAL FLOODING WILL OCCUR
        AT THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE BOTH SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY SUNDAY
        ...ESPECIALLY AT CHATHAM...NANTUCKET ISLAND...MARTHAS VINEYARD...
        AND WEST COASTAL CONNECTICUT NEAR BRIDGEPORT AND STAMFORD.
    
     4. THIS IS A LIFE THREATENING STORM FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO TRAVEL
        SATURDAY EVENING.  OUR BEST ADVICE...GET TOGETHER WITH FAMILY AND
        FRIENDS.  STAY HOME.  ALSO...ASSIST THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED IN
        DEALING WITH THIS STORM BY ADVANCE PREPARATION.
    
     THE NEXT STATEMENT ON THIS DANGEROUS STORM SHOULD BE ISSUED AROUND
    3:30 PM.
    
    
    

	The moons workin real hard! ;-)

This is gonna be awesome!!!!!



looks like it is time for me to bail outta here sat morning and head north
in preparation for an awesome day of skiing on sunday....


is sunday supposed to be very unsettled?
maybe i should wait 'til monday.

    
    I think you should wait until Monday.
    
    

re       <<< Note 184.91 by TERAPN::PHYLLIS "in the shadow of the moon" >>>

    
>    I think you should wait until Monday.
 
safety reasons or skiing quality reasons?



i've lived in N.E. all my life - we'll see how this one shapes up for real.
i've seen many weatherpeople say "2 feet of snow, drifting, etc" and we
end up with a dusting of snow... this seems to happen more often!


i predicted the "BIG ONE" for this year.

i want to see blizzard of '78 matched, and, if possible, exceeded (in the
snow fall dept).
   
    

just called pinkham notch -  6" - 12" predicted in the whites.

    
    safety reasons.
    
    have a good weekend everybody!
    
    

re: *.gif

ok, here's a question i've been arguing with others for a while...

how is a GIF file pronounced?

is it a hard "g" (like grateful)?

or a soft "g" (like giraffe)?

inquiring minds want to know (if you agree with me, that is)

/r

    I would think it's a hard g. Seeing as how it stands for graphics.
    
    Does this go along with you Rich?
    
    Inquiring_Andy

Well, the snow is tumbling down at a good clip right now.  Lots and lots
of wind, some heavy gusts...

Lots of drifting.  the plows are having a hard time keeping up with the
constant drifting.  i expect to lose power eventually ... my MSR stove is
standing by.

probably go skiing this monday... not sure though.

i'll probably go for a walk later tonight....  i'd say we've got about
10" so far....

	So what'd everyone do during the blizzard....

	I had a group of people over my house and we boozed 
	it up all day....seems like everyone I talked to 
	during the storm was tie'in one on   :-P

	Went sledding...and involuntarily ate snow....

    
    I voluntarily ate everything in sight all weekend....  AUGH!
    
    MJ

	We made sure we had all the right supplies: food, beer,
	movies, etc.   Then we waited for the storm to start.
	The awesome power of mother nature sure showed up in
	Charlton...  it was as intense a storm as I ever remember.
	Like a hurricane during a blazing snow storm ;-)  Everything
	going sideways.

	Took a walk to the other end of my land with Timmy in the
	sled, out to the shelter I built a few years ago.  We watched
	the storm from the hill and it was quite the show!

	Didn't lose power or cable (thank God ;-).

	I started the process of using the snowblower to clear the
	driveway at about 8 am sunday.  There was about 15 to 24''
	of snow depending on where you looked.  About 10 mins after
	I started what would have been a 4-6 hour job, an old friend
	shows up with his plow and does the whole driveway in like
	3 minutes ;-)  I sure was psyched!!   Spent the time after
	that building an igloo for the kids.  Took about 1.5 hours.
	They went in it for about 15 seconds ;-)  

	Ken

I spent a lot of time watching the snow blow up the valley
toward my livingroom windows, and then over the hill behind
me.  It was fascinating to watch it all blow around.
Never lost power, and the wood stove kept things warm.  
Didn't feel like drinking much, but I slept a lot.

I had two feet of snow at my front door yesterday, and
six foot drifts in front of the house.  Had to dig out of
the house just to get out the door.

On saturday morning, at the very beginning of the flurries,
I went to Market Basket in Westford to pick up a few odds
and ends.  The 'now serving' sign at the deli said '20',
as I picked my number: 71.  I found it odd that I couldn't
get milk, since they were sold out, even though I live
next door to a large working dairy farm. ;-)  As I was
leaving, there were a couple kids & moms with a table
selling Girl Scout Cookies.  I have no doubt that they 
got cleaned out immediately....(I bought two).

I think I've gained five pounds since Friday.  Moo!

tim

    About 8:00pm on Sat. my wife and I put on our X-ctry skis and headed to
    my mother's house about 3/4 mile away.  My sister also live in the same
    building.  Boy were they surprised to see us show up!  Kinda funny as
    they thought we were crazy for being out.  The weather had slowed down
    by then so it was no big deal.
    
    On Friday evening we went to the local book store and each bought a
    fresh book to amuse ourselves.  My wife is a conpulsive reader and once
    she gets into a book she will not put it down.  She consumed a 570 page
    novel on Saturday.  My book was only 400 pages and I still have about
    20 to go.
    
    Drank some burgundy and ate heavily garlic'd hummus using pita bread as
    a scoop.  Made beef stew on Sat and had a nice fire going.  We really
    enjoyed ourselves.
    
    I'm bumm'n for the folks who were killed/injured by this thing but I'm
    also glad to hear that no one died in NH as a result of the storm.
    
    Oh yeah, our son (15yrs) had the T.V. to himself all weekend and he
    watched about 20 college basketball games.  He was in heaven!
    
    Marv
     

    I spent much of Saturday preparing to lose power.  And then never lost
    it!  Cool.  I got some propane for our barbecue, just in case.  And
    then split wood for an hour or two.  And took a walk with Hannah
    down the road and made a few snow angels on a big rock.  Snow angels
    don't seem to work too well on almost vertical surfaces though.  Maybe
    if the snow was wetter ;-)  I only had to carry her the last few 
    steps.  And then we took the sled around the house for ride or two.
    We cancelled out on getting together with our friends.  We probably
    could have made it there, but I wasn't too sure we'd ever make it 
    back.  Had an early dinner, got the kids to bed, and then watched
    "The Commitments".  Then spent about 3 hours digging out on Sunday
    morning.  And got a call to come over the friends we'd cancelled on 
    Saturday.  I think my friend just wanted a taste of the cheesecake
    I baked up Friday night!  
    All in all, a much friendlier storm (to us at least) then the one
    that hit in December.
    
    PeterT
    
    ps  One of these days I've got to have a nice fire with the fire wood
    I chopped the other day!
    
    

    Spent saturday recovering from multiple courses/bottles of
    wine at Harrington Farms in Princeton (best restaurant I've
    come across in central MA!). Spent sunday shoveling out. Boy
    am I sore today!

    I went skiing Saturday evening after spending the day waiting for
    accumulation. 
    
    I think I got dumped on Sunday so it doesn't leave me thrilled or very
    talkative about the weekend. 
    
    At least I can go skiing this afternoon

i drove home from amherst; basically that took most of my weekend; didn't feel
like leaving friday "night", because by the time friday night was over for us
it was already about 4 AM; woke up and headed out on the road in the blizzard;
driving actually wasn't that bad, and except for the one time that i pulled
into the passing lane without sufficiently slowing down to make it over the
hump of snow in between lanes, i was getting along basically ok; then all of
the sudden it felt like my car lost about 50% of its power; i was able to pick
up decent speed on the downhills, but going uphill was limited to about 20 mph;
we managed to make it to the next rest area, at which point the car sputtered
to a halt; the guy at the service station thought it might be moisture frozen
in the fuel lines, so he suggested we put in some dry gas (what the hell is
that, anyway?); well, getting that to circulate into the fuel lines would
require the car running, which unfortunately wasn't happening; so, we asked if
we could at least push the car inside the garage to let it warm up and thaw a
bit; no-can-do; there's a garage there, but nobody's allowed to use it;
wonderful turnpike regulations; so, i call AAA; lo and behold, that wonderful
24 hour Emergency Roadside Service that's supposed to help you anywhere,
anytime, isn't applicable on the Mass Pike; more stupid turnpike regulations -
they only deal with a private contractor, AAA isn't allowed; apparently this
also holds true on the NY Thruway, Maine Turnpike, PA Turnpike, NJ Turnpike, GS
Parkway, etc.; so, i call some (long distance) state police number, and they
give me another number to call; get towed, ironically by some guy who has AAA
signs all over his place; yet he won't honor my AAA card, because I was on the
Pike; anyway, the problem actually wasn't too major - cracked distributor cap,
allowing snow and random moisture to accumulate inside; but try finding a parts
store open in a blizzard; so we left the car there and called a friend to pick
us up (who got stranded at our place because his car was able to make it into
our neighborhood but couldn't handle the hills on the backroads); i picked up
the part on sunday and got driven out there to get my car

so that was the highlight of my weekend; i always make fun of the people who
run out to the store just because of bad weather, but i was kind of bummed
on saturday night that we only had 3 beers left, and no milk; we managed
ok, though - went through a couple bottles of wine and then dipped into the
liquor cabinet :^)

- rich

re:              <<< Note 184.106 by ROCK::CAMPR::FROMM "GUMBO!!!" >>>

> the sudden it felt like my car lost about 50% of its power; i was able to pick
> up decent speed on the downhills, but going uphill was limited to about 20 mph;
> we managed to make it to the next rest area, at which point the car sputtered
> to a halt; the guy at the service station thought it might be moisture frozen
> in the fuel lines, so he suggested we put in some dry gas (what the hell is
> that, anyway?); well, getting that to circulate into the fuel lines would

My guess would have been #1: water in the electrical system (wires, distr
cap), or #2: water in fuel line. Looks like it was #1.  While you needed to
replace the distr cap, a cheap fix to get you off the pike might have been 
WD40, not another reggae band ;-) but the silicon spray.  It's helped me 
out countless times, and I'd *never* travel in one of my vehicles without it.  
All you do is spray the distr cap, spark-plug wires, and everything that the 
wires go to (rotor about the size of a soda can), and it removes water/allows 
the electrical current to flow so you can run your vehicle.  My bro in law
broke down on the pike once and was all bummed out after getting it towed.
A quick spray of WD40 and he was off an running, and quite happy ;-)

AAA won't help you on the pike ???  Wow, that's BS.  And good to know, I have
considered AAA before but not now.

Ken

>While you needed to
>replace the distr cap, a cheap fix to get you off the pike might have been 
>WD40, not another reggae band ;-) but the silicon spray.

we thought about trying a quick fix; but given the fact that there was a
blizzard going on around us, we weren't too keen on having the car break down
and leaving us stranded on the pike; had it been sunnier weather, i think
we would have risked heading out if we could have done something to get the
car going again, but i don't think it was worth the risk given the
circumstances

- rich

Lemme see:

- went to Boston to meet some college friends
- at 4pm, decided to head back home so Deb wouldn't freak
- got home by 5:15 or so, fun driving I tell ya!!!!
- went for a walk or so..... awesome weather!
- died down after about 11pm or so.


IMO ...

This storm didn't come close to the intensity of the '78 storm. no way.
it was done and over with in under 24hrs....  great storm, but, absolutely
nothing like the media/weather people said it was gonna be!  no one I knew
even lost power!!!

btw, under the "old" blizzard rules, this one would not have counted as
a blizzard in this region (MA)... the old rules used to say the temp had
to be below 20F the entire time of the storm... they changed that./. i guess
the weather people got bored 'cuz they couldn't call anything a blizzard
anymore!!!!

went skiing today.... the top of loon mt. was closed yesturday due to high
wqinds... hence, today was the first day the top part was skied.  26" new
up there.   AWESOME CONDITIONS!!!!!!!!!!  EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sore_jc

At least at the beginning they were saying blizzard-like conditions.  A 
true blizzard is Temp's of lt 10 deg F and winds greater than 65 MPH with 
snow.  It sould basically be a flurry and still be a blizzard.  This was a 
nice (read real) snow strom, however it was not a blizzard.  We got about 
3' as close as I could figure.  We had 6-8' in some places and 8" in
others.  Saturday night I made pizza for the family.  We put the kids to 
bed early and then watched Far and Away.  Great movie.  Sunday Morning I 
was up at 6 with the kids.  By 8:30 I was shovelled out enough so that I 
could move the cars when our landlord got there with the plow.  Sunday 
afternoon my Mom-in-law and bro-in-law came up and I made home-made pasta 
with a killer sauce.  The left and I immediately curled up on the couch.  
By 10 I had a fever of 102 and was up most of the night.  Spent all 
yesterday in bed and though I'm at work now I still feel lousy and haven't 
had anything to eat since sunday afternoon.

All in all a fun storm though.  There hhas almost been enough snow this 
winter, even for me...

Geoff

re: Note 184.110 by ZENDIA::FERGUSON 
    
>IMO ...

>This storm didn't come close to the intensity of the '78 storm. no way.
>it was done and over with in under 24hrs....  great storm, but, absolutely
>nothing like the media/weather people said it was gonna be!  no one I knew
>even lost power!!!

    This was a big storm - it nailed 25 out of 50 states, over 3 million
    people without power, shut down nearly every east coast airport, 110+ 
    deaths and they haven't reached many locations along the AT yet, record 
    cold temps, record low pressure, over 50 tornados, thunder and lightning
    while it's snowing, hail, sleet, etc. The list goes on and on. The
    storm did lots of damage to locations that just are not prepared to
    deal with that much snow (eg Birmingham, Ala. - 18"). This may not seem 
    like a bigger storm than in '78 to us, but that's a rather provincial 
    viewpoint. IMHO, the storm did indeed live up to the name "the Storm of 
    the Century".
    
    Gerry

Well, yes, if you consider the force of the storm on the country, perhaps it
was quite bad.  Didn't hurricane Bob top this one though as far as damage
and deaths go though?


The effect this storm had on MA still doesn't compare to that of the '78
storm, imo.

I've never seen a storm that was blowing rooftops off in Florida and
causing a freighter to sink off the Atlantic Maritimes in Canada and
raising havoc all points between.  

That sucker was BIG (78 was big for N'east; this was HUGE in comparison).

YOW!
bob

    ... the age of the superstorms...

    Let's see, the storm of '78.  Hmmm, I was in Albany then and I doubt
    we even had foot of snow out of that.  What blizzard?  C'mon, that was
    a wash!
    
    ;-)
    
    Really, though, the storm of '78 was pretty localized.  I went home
    to Lon Gisland the following weekend, and they were still digging
    out.  And to Boston the weekend AFTER that and they were STILL
    digging out.  But in Albany?  Pfffft, just a normal old snow 
    storm.
    
    But this storm hit Albany, and Syracuse, and Rochester, and New York,
    and Boston, and Washington, and Alabama, and....
    So while we survived fine here, others were not so fortunate or 
    prepared.  I really don't know how much snow fell by us, because it's
    drifted all over the place, and there was already a good 4 to 6 inches
    of hard packed stuff in our yard.  But the swing set in the back looks
    a bit strange with only about 2 inches of clearance under its seats,
    and as I got out of the car yesterday and climbed over the pack of 
    snow by the side of the driveway and walked on the crust towards
    the front door, I found it amusing that I was clearly above the 
    level of the front steps and travelling down toward the front
    door.  Luckily the wind had blown enough clear so I could open the
    door without shovelling.
    As far as I'm concerned, this storm was MUCH worse than the lizzard of 
    '78, but, I never really saw a blizzard back then.
    
    PeterT
    

    
    The Blizzard of '78 just stopped over New England and hung there for a
    few days.  This one moved all the way up the east coast and didn't
    stop.
    
    I took my dogs for a long walk Saturday afternoon....it was quite
    intense.  The snow was blowing sideways, and at one point seemed to be
    blowing pure ice in my face.  Outside of getting ice ripped into my
    face, I had a great time :^)  At one point I just lied down in the
    snow, and my 5 month old puppy just curled up beside me and tucked her
    head in her paws to keep the snow away.
    
    Personally, I'm ready to move on to the next season, and am ready for
    winter to end.  I can take the cold, and the skiing was grate at
    Wachusett last night, but I won't be disappointed at all if all this
    snow melts in a week.
    
    Hogan mostly tired of having itchy dry skin

    
    JC - maybe it matters how old/tall you were in '78 ?  :-)
    
    

    Weather paranoia Part II
    
    The Spring Thaw
    
    On side effect of all this snow is the potential for some
    *serious* flooding once the spring thaw sets in.  A lot depends on how
    fast the thaw comes but in years past with a lot less snow there have
    been areas completely inundated with water.  In the So. NH area,
    Milford, Amherst, Wilton are prone due to the runoff from the Souhegan
    River.  Nashua is prone from the Nashua River and many, many other
    communities can probably look forward to some water damage.
    
    If it gets warm fast and for more than a few days, LOOK OUT.
    
    I've seen 3/4 of the Amherst Country Club underwater.  Rt. 122 closed. 
    The Millyard area of Nashua completely covered.  Other low laying areas
    are in for some serious moisture.  Some people might consider taking
    some steps now to check this possibility.
    
    
    Yours in wetness,
    
    Marv
     
    

   ... And so the overflow parking lot at HLO2 is going to turn into a
    swamp...
    
    :), danielle

>    110+ 
>    deaths and they haven't reached many locations along the AT yet

i hope my aunt's ok; i guess if they're heading out this early they must have
been prepared to handle a bit of cold and snow (there was about half a foot of
snow on clingman's dome in the Smoky's about this time of year 2 years ago when
i was there, so it can't be that rare), but i do think about a foot of it all
the way down in georgia has to be a bit unusual

- rich

    Mt. Mitchell in NC got 50". I don't think your aunt is that far
    north yet though. Helena, GA (~2500') the first town on the AT
    got 18". Mountains certainly got more. I hope your aunt has enought
    food to lay low until the snow melts.

>I hope your aunt has enought
>    food to lay low until the snow melts.

i certainly hope that this isn't the case, but, just out of curiousity, if
one's food supply ran out, how long can one reasonably exist on just water?
(assuming that one either has fuel or can get a fire going to melt snow)

- rich

re: Note 184.123 by ROCK::CAMPR::FROMM 

if one's food supply ran out, how long can one reasonably exist on just water?
    
    approximately 3 weeks, more or less. However, you could probably get a 
    good 3-4 days of food out of yer boot leather and maybe another 2-3
    days out of a sweater. :-) In all reality the snow shold be gone soon
    if it isn't already. They shouldn't be laid up more than a day or two. 
    I expect that a lot of folks will bail after this storm.
    
>(assuming that one either has fuel or can get a fire going to melt snow)

    that's assuming that the snow won't melt. It will.
    

    ... much longer than 3 weeks...

    that's true, I was thinking "without water".

    almost forgot to answer the question. You can probably live on water 
    alone up to a month or so without causing any permanent damage to your
    system. After that, you'll certainly undergo irreversable damage. Your
    actual milage will vary. 

    I'd die if i didn't have a beer at least every other day....
    
    rfb

    ...depends on your weight to begin with...

    I said your actual milage may vary. I'm trying to generalize here
    so let's not bicker over an *individual's* initial weight, shall we?
    It's merely a ballpark figure.

You can find the answer in the following book: Night by Elie Weisel.

The nazis perfected minimum subsistance feeding to concentration camp 
inmates. Weisel, if I remember correctly, was fed something like the water 
used to wash rice or soak rick and was on this diet for several years.

Besides the fact that even in deep snow cover there is plenty of food up 
in the mountains just for the taking.  As long as you have a few basic 
necessities (that no one should hike without).

Geoff

Besides, the snow up there is acid snow, and as Gibbon Euele, the famous
anti-veggie sez: "Some parts of chlorinated, hydro-carbonated dioxo-sulfuric
nitrous oxide emmisons from nuclear coal refinery power plants are edible."

:-)

    Geez, if I've got 3-4 weeks on my hands, I just might as well
    *walk* into a town and buy more food. :-)

Well, two nice wintery mornings for me makes me happy!  yesturday morning
was a bit colder with a wind - this morning, nice, clear, crisp, and cold
enough for me to enjoy.

I love winter, as if you didn't know!  :-)

    
    I think someone switched Minnesota and New York when I wasn't looking.  
    
    

    
    Man, the weather sure is beautiful out here in Colorado!  
    Temps around 70, light breeze, sun shining.  I sat out at 
    lunch next to my van, listening to Kansas City 1982, soaking 
    up the rays, thinking an outdoor show would be grate right about
    now!  
    
    Yowzaa!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Peace
    Mark

>    Man, the weather sure is beautiful out here in Colorado!  

I'll second that!  I went out into the woods in the park across from the CXO's

Grateful Day!

Glennnn

    and I third that COlo nice weather note!! 
    
    rfb back from a late lunch

	Just say NO to work on the first rilly nice day of spring!!!

	Gee this one to two inches of snow predicted last
	night is really easy to shovel!!!

			
				NOT!!!!!!

	I have 14 inches of fresh snow on my deck since 
	last night, I think the weather forecasters of 
	the Boston area inhaled!

	cept for Mark Rosenthol (sp) who said this storm
	*could* be big.

    
       could someone please post the weather forcast for the weekend for
     so. NE? i heard on a providence radio station this morning that it's
     supposed to be in the sixties tomorrow?! think i'll climb up on the
     roof tomorrow for lunch and catch a tan 8^) .....hope we have *grate*
     weather for albany!!!
                                                           ^dave

    I've only heard the extended forecast from yesterday and from that I
    expect light rain or drizzle to start the weekend out. So I'm packing
    my foul weather gear, well the top half, for the weekend and if I don't
    need it Great!. I missed the forecast this AM, I'll try to catch it
    tonight and post what I can derive from it. The forecasts come from 
    Logan area and are mostly specific to eastern Ma, beut the extended 
    was for all of southern NE. I think I can get a Worm town broadcast 
    on another channel, I'll try that tonight.
    
    Geoff 
    
    Gee this file is quiet these days, is everybody at shows?

    I heard we're in for a gorgeous weekend!!  In the upper 50's Friday and
    Saturday. I may blow off half of friday and do somethng outside.  Still
    too wet with the melting snow to go bike riding.
    
    I'll pobably end up working on the damn cars.  They need it and I like
    to get really dirty once in a while fixing the car.  I got such a
    "clean" job that getting really greasy and grimy is a pleasure!
    
    dave

    yeah ha ! I've had enough snow (it will still be around Im sure for a
    while) I wanna go golfing ! DAMN IT ! but I can't find the fairways
    with all this freaking snow on the ground ! I played in Feb. last year!
    
    Chris

    yah! some friend of mine said there would be some nice parking lot
    jamming in Albany. And I was rather sceptical, to put it mildly. 
    I hope I'm wrong!
    
    - Dave

>  Still
>    too wet with the melting snow to go bike riding.

nah, it's never too wet to go bike riding

/r

    
    	The Worcester station really doesn't say much 'cause they're not
    broadcasting to mariners. They did deliver the little tidbit that this 
    season's snow fall in wonderful Wormtown was a wicked 117.* inches!!
    I think that's a little better (from my point of view) than last year.
    Just a little.
    
    	They did say, and Boston agrees that Tomorrow (Friday) starts
    cloudy and then clears, going up to the 50s. Saturday is the first time 
    I've heard 60s in the forcast this year!! But they are both talking
    a good chance of light rain for Sunday and Monday so don't leave the
    fould weather gear behind. Saturday sounds like a great day, But Sun
    and Mon could be wet. 
    
    Geoff with_a_better_weather_forecast_than_you'll_get_from_Chuck_(BCN
    AM).
                                                               

    
     hope this weather holds up for the week-end..it is one beautiful
    day out there..gotta be close to 60 deg.
    
    
    Don
    

	Just went for a walk, tis quite beautis out there!

I can't believe I missed a snow storm while on tour!!!

Oh well...


Someone hadda see the dead!

:-)

    so where's the review JC??? %^)
    
    rfb

re                     <<< Note 184.154 by CXDOCS::BARNES >>>

>    so where's the review JC??? %^)
 

	it is comin' ... it is comin' ...!!!


hold on mon!



jc_in_slow_mode!

    	This should be some spectacular Maple sugaring weather in central
    Massachusetts over the next few days. 
    
    	Maybe if I own some maple trees next year I'll do this again.
    
    	Happy Spring time!
                Geoff

	This weather is fabulous....my aunt & uncle have 
	a sugarhouse in the Berk's, I should call em 
	and see if theres some extra maple candy lying
	around!!!  They still have 4' of snow around
	the house.....

I went walking in the little-know Sarah-Doublet forest in littleton this past
weekend.  Lots and lots of run-off.  Many areas still are covered with >1' of
snow.

I'd reckon that snow in the mtns will stay well into May - those conifers do
a very good job of keeping the snow from melting.

	Where's the Sarah Doublet forest?

The water is running about 16 inches over the Quinnopoxett Dam near my
house; normally, the water only flows over about one quarter of the breadth
of the dam. There is an old mill race on the north side, you should see
what it looks like now; there is a five foot high standing wave at the
outlet. As of yesterday, there was still a snow/ice bridge across the four
foot wide race. 

I haven't checked it out yet, but is water running over the Wachusett Dam 
spillway? I would guess so, since I've never seen the water level higher.

Jamie and other bikers: The loop around Quinnopoxett would make a great
ride: probably around six or eight miles, it loops through the red pine
plantation, following the river up and then cuts under the I190 bridge.
Then a side road cuts right across the river and you wind through open
woods up until you come to Quinnopoxett village, then its a nice 3 or four
mile stretch of good open road back over 190 and down Laurel street back to
Oakdale center. 

There is some really neat local history on this road that follows the
Quinnopoxett up from the resevior, I forgot the road's name, though. The
area where the dam is used to be Harrisville, a mill town built in the
early 1800s and destroyed by the construction of the resevior around 1900.
You can still see foundations, roadbeds, and other ghost-town denizens if
you look around enough. A bit further up the river, the chasm where I190
crosses marks the spot where, in the 1700's an earthquake which killed
hundreds and was estimated to be 7.5-er was epicentered. Today, all that
stands is the hydro plant at the dam, which generates electricity from the
quabbin Aquaduct, and is that big pipe's terminus. 

    re the maple syrup...
    
    not too long ago the evening news ran a piece on how the producers of
    maple syrup/sugar products were having a tough time of it this year...
    evidently the longer winter and colder weather has kept the sap from
    running and the later the spring starts, the shorter the tapping
    season...
    
    					da ve

re: s-d forest


located near camp nashoba - like, the 2nd dirt driveway on the right just
before the sharp-left curve in the road.  there is a sign, but it is small.

>located near camp nashoba - like, the 2nd dirt driveway on the right just
>before the sharp-left curve in the road.  there is a sign, but it is small.

	Oooooohhh, geez, I used to go there during High School
	to deviate!  The sign must be new....

    
           On March 12-15, a storm now called "The Storm of the Century"
       struck the eastern seaboard.  Following are some highlights of
       the information gathered about the storm thus far:
   
       1)  At least 243 deaths have been attributed to the storm to date,
       plus 48 missing at sea.  This is over 3 times the combined death toll
       of 79 attributed to hurricanes Hugo and Andrew.
   
       2)  Thousands of people were isolated by record snowfalls, especially
       in the Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia mountains.  Over 100
       hikers were rescued from the North Carolina and Tennessee mountains.
       Curfews were enforced in many counties and cities as 'states of
       emergency' were declared.  The National Guard was employed in many
       areas, especially in the North Carolina mountains.
   
       3)  For the first time, every major airport on the east coast was
       closed at one time or another by the storm.
   
       4)  Hundreds of roof collapses were reported due to the weight of the
       heavy wet snow.  Over 3 million customers were without electrical
       power at one time due to fallen trees and high winds.
   
       5)  At least 18 homes fell into the sea on Long Island due to the
       pounding surf.  About 200 homes along North Carolina's Outer
       Banks were damaged and may be uninhabitable.
   
       6)  Florida was struck by at least 27 tornadoes (at least 15
       counties were struck), although the exact number is not known as
       of yet.  26 deaths in Florida were attributed either to the
       tornadoes or other severe weather.  A 9-foot storm surge was
       reported in the Apalachicola area.  Preliminary damage estimates
       are as high as $1 billion.  Also, up to 6 inches of snow fell in
       the Florida panhandle.
   
       7)  3 storm-related deaths were reported in Quebec and 1 in
       Ontario.  3 deaths occurred in Cuba (Havana was blacked out), and
       a tornado left 5000 people homeless in Reynosa, Mexico (near
       Texas border).
   
       8)  Highest recorded wind gusts included:
   
           110 MPH in Franklin County, FL
           110 MPH on Mount Washington, NH
           101 MPH on Flattop Mountain, NC (by NCDC employee Grant
       Goodge--due to ice accumulation on anemometer, he estimated 105-
       107 MPH)
           98 MPH in South Timbalier, LA
           92 MPH on South Marsh Island, LA
           90 MPH in Myrtle Beach, SC
           89 MPH in Fire Island, NY
   
           83 MPH in Vero Beach, FL
           81 MPH in Boston, MA
           71 MPH at La Guardia Arpt, NY
   
       9)  Snowfall totals included:
   
           50 inches on Mount Mitchell, NC (14-foot drifts)
           44 inches in Snowshoe, WV
           43 inches in Syracuse, NY
           35 inches in Portland, ME
           35 inches in Lincoln, NH
           30 inches in Beckley, WV
           29 inches in Page County, VA
           27 inches in Albany, NY
           25 inches in Pittsburgh, PA
           24 inches in Mountain City, GA
           20 inches in Chattanooga, TN
           19 inches in Asheville, NC
           17 inches near Birmingham, AL (6-foot drifts)
           16 inches in Roanoke, VA
           13 inches in Washington, DC
            9 inches in Boston, MA
            4 inches in Atlanta, GA
   
       10)  Record low temperatures included (some records for March):
   
            -5 degrees in Elkins, WV
            -4 degrees in Waynesville, NC
             1 degree in Pittsburgh, PA
             2 degrees in Asheville, NC and Birmingham, AL
             6 degrees in Knoxville, TN
             8 degrees in Greensboro, NC
             9 degrees in Beckley, WV
            11 degrees in Chattanooga, TN and Philadelphia, PA
            15 degrees in New York-JFK and Washington, DC
            17 degrees in Montgomery, AL
            18 degrees in Columbia, SC and Atlanta, GA
            19 degrees in Augusta, GA
            21 degrees in Mobile, AL
            25 degrees in Savannah, GA and Pensacola, FL
            31 degrees in Daytona Beach, FL
   
       11)  Record low sea-level pressures included:
   
            28.38 inches in White Plains, NY
            28.43 inches in Philadelphia, PA
            28.43 inches at JFK Arpt, NY
            28.45 inches in Dover, DE
            28.51 inches in Boston, MA
   
            28.53 inches in Augusta, ME
            28.54 inches in Norfolk, VA
            28.54 inches in Washington, DC
            28.61 inches in Raleigh-Durham, NC
            28.64 inches in Columbia, SC
            28.73 inches in Augusta, GA
            28.74 inches in Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
            28.89 inches in Asheville, NC
   
       12)  A spokesman for the National Weather Service's special
       studies branch said that the volume of water that fell as snow
       may be unprecedented.  For example, the NWS office at the
       Asheville, NC airport reported a snow/water ratio of 4.2 to 1
       from core samples of new snow.  Numerous other core samples taken
       in a nearby area by an NCDC employee verified this 'very wet
       snow' with similar results.  This equated to 4-5 inches of liquid
       equivalent precipitation (or even higher in some areas) from the
       storm.  Areas north of Asheville which reported up to 4 feet of
       snow probably received 'dryer' snow with similar liquid
       equivalent amounts.  Due to the weight of the heavy snow, damage
       to trees and some buildings was extensive.  Polk County, NC
       reported 99% of its electrical customers without power at one
       point during the storm.
   
       13)  Overall damage figures are not yet available, but it appears
       that the total will exceed $1 billion.
   
       14)  Comparisons to the Blizzard of 1888 are now being made.  A
       few facts from the '88 storm:
   
            400 people killed
            50 inches of snow in Saratoga Springs, NY
            48 inches of snow in Albany, NY
            22 inches of snow in New York City
            Snow drifts over the tops of houses from New York to New
       England
            80 MPH wind gusts common
   
            Although the '88 storm was probably more severe in the
       Northeast and New England, it did not affect the entire eastern
       seaboard to the extent that the 1993 storm affected the area.
   
       OBSERVATIONAL DATA
   
           The attached data lists were taken from decoded surface
       observations for the period March 12-15, 1993.  The two most
       damaging characteristics of the storm were the heavy, wet snow
       and the high winds (including tornadoes).  The first list focuses
       on some of the stations which reported the water equivalent of
       snow on the ground.  The second list shows all reports of wind
       speed or wind gust of at least 70 MPH.
   
           A complete file (in the same format as the attached) of all
       observations (56090 observations--4.4 megabytes) during this
       period from latitude 20 N to 50 N and longitude 65 W to 95 W is
       available as shown below.  Also, additional data (other elements
       such as wave heights) from these observations are available from
       NCDC upon request.
   
       1)  4 diskettes (3.5 inch high density).
   
       2)  Magnetic or cartridge tape.
   
       3)  INTERNET via FTP:
   
           a) open 192.67.134.72  or
              open hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov
   
           b) Login is:  anonymous
   
           c) Password is:  guest
   
           d) You are now logged onto a UNIX workstation.  Enter 'help'
       if you'd like a list of available commands.
   
           e) To move to the correct subdirectory, enter:
              cd /pub/upload/blizzard
   
           f) To get a copy of the data, enter:
              get storm.txt destination  (destination is your output
              location and name)...e.g.--
              get storm.txt c:storm.txt - copies to hard drive c:
   
           g) If you need a copy of a call letter-station name cross
       reference file, enter:  get stnlist.txt destination
   
           h) Once you've completed your copy, please send an INTERNET
       message to either:
              nlott@ncdc.noaa.gov  or
              tross@ncdc.noaa.gov
              This will help us to evaluate the usefulness of the data.
   
       CONCLUSION
   
           A copy of this report, including the attached data lists, is
       available from NCDC's Spectrafax system by dialing 704-259-0570
       and following instructions.  Also, a copy was placed on the OMNET
       system under the SCIENCENET bulletin board.  If you have any
       questions about this report or the data, please contact either
       Neal Lott or Tom Ross:
   
           704-259-0995 (Neal Lott)
           704-259-0994 (Tom Ross)
   
           704-259-0876 (FAX)
   
           NCDC.SERVICE (OMNET)
   
           This report was prepared by the National Climatic Data Center's
       Research Customer Service Group.  The decoded surface weather
       observations were obtained from Operating Location 'A' of the USAF
       Environmental Technical Applications Center in Asheville, NC.
    

    15) I couldn't make it to a party and forget to rent a video!  Luckily,   
    I was well stocked (stoked?) with homebrew.
    
    Does STORM OF THE CENTURY mean the biggest in the 1900s or since 1893?
    
    It's cruel to make fun of tragedy, but, hey, it's a shrink approved
    bona fide coping mechanism.  A twister set down on a Southern high
    school and killed the homecoming queen.  Too bad they don't name
    tornadoes, "Carrie" would have been appropriate.
    
    Jamie

    
    RE:-2
    
    Not to mention the Dead cancelled a show due to weather related
    factors. Only happened one other time - 19 years ago.

re       <<< Note 184.164 by TERAPN::PHYLLIS "in the shadow of the moon" >>>
                             -< 1993 Storm Report >-

>           110 MPH on Mount Washington, NH

this isn't, by any means at all, a record-breaker on Mt Wash, home of the
237mph (give or take 10mph) wind speed record.  they regularly experience
100+ gusts.

>           35 inches in Lincoln, NH

hmm, i skied the day after this and the locals said about 26" fell.  either
way, the skiing was KILLER!

    RE: Maple syrup...
    
    I once had a farm in the upper peninsula pf Michigan.  We had lots of 
    maple trees and made syrup each spring.  The sap run when the temp
    is above freezing during the day, and below freezing at night. 
    Sunshine and wind increase the volume of the flow.  It take approx.
    40 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup.  Gathering and boiling sap 
    is absolutely the most fantastic outdoor thing in the world.
    
    I lost my farm and joined DEC 13 years ago, "I'd trade all my tomorrows
    for just one yesterday...."  I can almost smell the sap boiling now...
    
    Judy
    

	Re -1

	Very nice!

	My Grandfather was a sugarist ;-) ( or should I say sugaree)
	and we gave up the business whan he passed away.  We still
	have the farm in Washington Ma. though and it's ready to roll
	when someone has the time.

	I am looking at the U.S. precipitation map right now
	and there is quite a thunder boomer headed to NYC!!!!

	I wouldn't even be surprised if we heard a crack or
	2 here in Littleton!!!

	This weekends gonna be nice!

    
    Well of course there is.. it's Friday isn't it? ;-}
    
    I've started carrying an umbrella on Friday no matter what it looks
    like in the morning. ;-)
    
    

What the heck?  Why is it so bright outside?

Oh my god ... THE SUN IS OUT!

- dc

I just went for a walk;  windy, somewhat overcast w/ some breaks in the sun,
and a gross (read: humid) 68F degrees!!!

	The updated weather map now shows thunderstorms all along
	the East Coast with one particularly strong one in the 
	Albany area.

	we should get some here in Boston in the next few hours
	as well. 

    
       when i pulled up the shade this morning i had to do a double-take.
    just couldn't believe it was snowing...to think on sunday i was
    crashing out in the sun with just shorts on...gotta luv new engalnd!
    
                                                            ^dave
    

    JC !!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    COME HERE !
    
    slapslap......
    
    ok now get back to work and stop thinking snow !
    
    Chris

	WINTER IS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




You can imagine how excited i was at 2:30am when I took a biological excursion
from my sleep to find snow falling outside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



C'mon winter...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



nice walk in this morning... 33F, snow here and there, etc....  the mountains
must have picked up quite a bit last night....

JC, it's supposed to be in the fifties tomorrow ...soon this snow will be
gone and forgotten ... ;^)

I looked out the window ... it's already gone.  :-)  Winter is 8 months away!!

Unless you equate "winter" with "snow," like me, in which case winter could
be six months away.  ;^)

Well, it is friday afternoon and overcast skies are movin' in .....
figures... beaut. weather all week, crap on the w-end...

hopefully it won't rain...

    I read this, haven't heard the forecast and thought, "WHo wrote this?
    JC?". Ha ha, I was amused when I was right. 
    
    	But in the moment I'm writing that, I thought, "Looks like rain, 
    oh shit it really does (See my mind do a minor freek out here)". See I 
    found out today that the woman I was seeing is sailing on somebody
    else's boat. I'm like totaly blown away! How many other people do you
    know who sail?! They're not out there! How the hell could you cut a
    deeper dig? Ahhhhhhh!
    
    	So you see there, Looks Like Rain is pretty darm appropriate at the
    moment. Hey Jc, You were right!
    
    Feels like rain 

>       <<< Note 184.181 by ZENDIA::FERGUSON "Your recipe is so tasty" >>>
>
>Well, it is friday afternoon and overcast skies are movin' in .....
>figures... beaut. weather all week, crap on the w-end...
>
>hopefully it won't rain...


What the hell planet are you on.  It looked like a beautiful weekend to ma. 
 Sorry it was raining where you were:-)

Geoff

    
    It was a gorgeous weekend in NY.
    
    

	gorgeous here too ... nice and sunny, right MJ.  ;^)

well, it did turn out to be a good weekend...., and i am grateful for that.
i was just starting to get worried when i left on friday to find very overcasted
skies, that is all..............

A nice weekend, then an overcast Monday?  What gives?

- dc

    
    ah yes, nice sunny weekend....
    
    Ouch!
    
    MJ

Ouch, too.  Never thought I'd get a sunburn wearing sunblock 8 in the 
beginning of May.  Must be my Swedish blood ... or Earth's lack of ozone ...

- ultraVioletDC

    I got a bit of a sunburn too yesterday.  I ended up going to horseneck
    beach with some friends, and now I'm paying for too low of an SPF.  I
    can also tell you that it takes quite a bit of determination to go
    swimming there this time of year.  If you take too long to get in the
    water your feet go numb. I did manage to get all the way in the water
    though after the 2nd attempt.
    
    	Mike

I've been hearing lately that anything less than SPF 15 isn't good enough.
Don't know if this is rooted in the ozone-hole information or the skin-cancer
stuff, or both.  Any exposure that causes a change in skin color has, by
definition, caused damage.  This, along with meeting a few people who spent 
way too much time getting tanned, and now look like a well-tanned cowhide,
has led me to loose my attraction for the suntanned look altogether.  Give me
a nice, pale complexion anytime...

Being basically 100% Irish, the sun and I just don't get along anyway.  Luckily,
most of my favorite activities are indoors.  

Or at least, under cover...;-)

tim

Hi Tim;

Yep, I agree with you.  I wasn't going for a George Hamilton look ... just
was surprised that I got burned this time of year with SPF 8 on.  This weekend
I'll break out the SPF 45 8^O was wearing last year - better than lead!

- DC

I everyone noticing that the sun appears to be stronger this year then years
past?  deb, who rarely burns, it starting to burn these days when in the past,
under the same conditions, she would not burn....

Well, my solar water heater seems to have noticed.  160 degrees in the tank
by the end of the day yesterday.

tim

	Yes, the sun is doing it's damage this year...people in 
	certain parts of Austrialia are feeling the immediate 
	direct effects of no-ozone living...they've had to change
	their lifestyles significantly.  We are now going to face
	what they've been dealing with for years.   

	I am eager to find out what last weeks shuttle mission
	discovered!

My doctor told me that anything over SPF 15 was just as effective as SPF 
15, and that stuff labeled as over SPF 15 was just a marketing gimmick.

She said labeling it SPF 45 is another way of saying its "300% effective."


Fog_at_high_risk_for_malignant_melanona_which_is_why_he_likes_winter_so_much_
even_if_it_doesn't_snow_a_whole_hell_of_a_lot.

    I saw a program on TV a while back on Autralia and the skin cancer 
    problem.  They said their skin cancer rate has gone up 1500% in the
    last 20 years!  That is 1500% - 4 digits - not a typo.
    
    The priliminary stuff from the shuttle was that the ozone is very
    depleted over the nothern hemisphire, especially the east coast.  I
    have not seen this in print yet, so no hard data.
    
    Yup.... I think we are really going to miss the old ozone layer.
    
    Judy (ofter wrong but never in dought)
    

    Yeah, we used to spend nearly the entire summer vacation on the beach,
    like most of the rest of Australia. A dab of zinc cream on your nose
    and off you go. Sun cream was for sissies.
    
    I used to return to school each with the classic sun-bronzed Anzac
    look, hair completely bleached out by sun and salt water.
    
    No wonder we lead the world in skin cancer (two of my relatives have
    had malignant skin cancers treated).
    
    We also lead the world in repetitive strain injuries, but that's not
    important right now.
    
    gary

    
    it's 91 degrees in NYC.  new record.
    

re       <<< Note 184.199 by TERAPN::PHYLLIS "in the shadow of the moon" >>>

    
>    it's 91 degrees in NYC.  new record.
 
likewise in Boston yesturday. 
gotta love summer!
   

    
>    it's 91 degrees in NYC.  new record.
 

Hmmmm. Time to start planning a ski trip to Vermont. I suppose the bozo's 
should be all cleared out by now....


:-)

    
    Well I figure if it's gonna be hot, I might as well go for HOT.  Figure
    Vegas must be about 106 right now. ;-}
    
    

    
    Anyone know what the forecast is this week-end for Giant Stadium 
    pahkin' lot.. Phyllis, have you been watching.?? 
    
    
    Don

    
    the last time I saw a forecast was Wednesday morning, but it looked
    grate.  Temps in the mid-70s, partly sunny skies on Saturday and clear
    skies on Sunday!  Sounds perfect.  I hope it holds up.  See you in E5?
    

ok, i should know this by now, but i don't   the tickets say gates open at
4pm.  do they stick to this time?  or open 'em earlier???  i've been there
enough times that i should know this, but i don't!!!!!!!

>ok, i should know this by now, but i don't   the tickets say gates open at
>4pm.  do they stick to this time?  or open 'em earlier???  i've been there
>enough times that i should know this, but i don't!!!!!!!
    
    the stadium gates open at 4:00, the parking lot opens at 1:00.  I
    assume you misunderstood this point, since I can't see anyone wanting
    to get in the stadium more than 2 hours before a show is supposed to
    start.
    
    	Mike

re                    <<< Note 184.206 by VXTST6::BOURDESS >>>
                    -< maybe you like to get in early tho' >-

>    the stadium gates open at 4:00, the parking lot opens at 1:00.  I
>    assume you misunderstood this point, since I can't see anyone wanting
>    to get in the stadium more than 2 hours before a show is supposed to
>    start.
 
yup... misunderstood....  1pm the parking lot fun begins.  alright!

    well it's 3pm here in Colo and we are gettin our usual afternoon
    thunderboomer. three of the baby magpies out the cx03 cafe window 
    are huggin the tree trunk, the other 3 are in the nest...not enough
    room for all 6 now. The ones on the tree have their heads tilted way
    back so water stays out of their beak holes and they don't drown...funny.  
    
    rfb

Supposed to hit 90 big ones today here, w/ humidity!

    Well the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers here in Minneapolis/St. Paul
    have brought the southern half of the Metro area to a stand still. 
    Only 2 of the 5 Minnesota river crossings are open and one might close
    today if we get the 1-2 inches more of rain predicted!!!  I35 is the 
    crossing that might close and is a major artery into the cities.  The 
    rivers have not even crested yet so it will get worse before it gets 
    better.  Alot of people living near the river are having some major 
    problems.  They are saying when the rivers crest they will be close 
    to 15 feet above flood stage!!!!!  
    
    Besides the extensive damage to many residense. They have canceled the 
    Lalapaluza (sp?) Concert and moved the Barney FunFest concert.  Both of
    these shows were supose to be on an island on the Mississippi that is
    underwater right now.  Valleyfair Amusment park has one of the water
    rides under water and one of the rollercosters is half underwater.  
    Holman field airport in St. Paul is also under water.
    
    This is the worst flooding in 30 years.
    
    Crazy stuff.  
    :-(
    Scott    

    YIKES! 
    
    we had some of the worst flasflooding I've ever seen here in Colo Spgs
    last week. You could rafted or kayaked down our streets.
    
    rfb

	WOW!

    NO BARNYFEST !!!!!!!!!!! Im pissed.....

    re: last few
    
    Yea add the barneyfest problems and we could have 3-10 year olds
    rioting.  It'll be anarchy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
    
    One other amazing story was about two Mountain bikers who were riding
    down by the river and allofasudden the river sweep over the bike trail
    and forces the bikers into the very turbulent waters.  One was able to
    get to dry land easily but the other was caught down streem.  During
    the rescue effort an officer was caught under the asphalt trail (he had
    a rope tied around him)  The river current was so strong that is washed
    away the asphalt!!!!!
    
    :-)
    Scott

Just got back from a hike down the street to Kimballs, and I'd like to
point out that it's really, Really, REALLY HOT out there.

Sweated off all 1650 calories just walking back...

tim

This is one hot JUNE so far...  if this is any indication of what is in store
for the rest of the summer, July and August will push 100+

back to the roasting hot summers.  we need another volcano to go off I
guess......

    I just went outside and PHEW! It's *HOT* out there!  I'm still
    recovering...
    
    :), danielle

    
    Colorado Springs will be pushing mid 90's today.  The humidity was
    up to 21% yesterday.  Pretty hot for around here.  Luckily a cold 
    front is supposed to be moving in later this. 
    
    	Mark
    

    
    I *like* it!!!! (the heat, that is)
    
    Hogan

    the only thing a too hot day is good for is drinkin beer...then the
    heat REALLY takes it's toll!!!
    
    rfb

    
         there's a severe thunderstorm watch for massachusetts until
       8:00pm tonite. possibility of torrential downpours.
    
                                                       ^dave

    I just went out o roll up my windows and I could heard the thunder but
    nothing but blue skies around this one must be a big freaking storm !
    quarter size hail in Brookfield (my fav town :') NOT)
    
    heading toward Worcester and parts near ! 
    
    twister season here to ! (not that we get many but we do get them
    little as they are)
    
    Chris

Neat!

Thunderstorms are fun (one of the things I miss about
Tampa)...  Tampa gets 90 days per year with at least one
storm.

They're better after dark, though...;-) ;-)

tim

Hey, I heard A-basin is still open. I'm sure K-mart still has enough snow 
to make hauling your skiis to the summit worth it...


:-)

    well that one blew right thru ! little hail too ! not many boomers :'(
    
    now its sunny ! Im off to look for a pot'o'gold !
    
    
    Chris

    
    A-Basin either closed this weekend or will close next.  I wish I had a
    chance to check out their spring/summer skiing.  It was supposed to be
    the best in years.
    
    	Mark
    
    Ps.  Colorado gets nailed by thunderstorms all late spring/early
    summers.   I love it.  Nothing like sitting back and watch ol' mother
    nature going at it.
    

Great article on Lightening in the last National Geographic.  It shows the 
highest concetration of stikes per square mile is in Central Florida.

Also shows a neat picture of lightening traveling up.  :-)

    
    >It shows the highest concetration of stikes per square mile is in
    >Central Florida.
    
    except during the Vegas run :-)
    
    

    wish I had my skis with me this past weekend on top of Mousquito Pass!
    some grate mini-glaciers/snow fields to do!
    
    rfb

    I actually like being in work on hot humid days like these.  It's quite
    brisk here in MRO1.  
    
    The parking lots here are quite empty; guess everyone is on vacation. 
    I feel sorry for them!  Too hot to do much; even too hot to go to the
    beach.  
    
    dave

    I was blown away with a blast of heat when I walked out of this same 
    building yesterday and I hear it's hotter today! 
    
    My mind is still on Monday though, the first day it was warm enough to 
    sail all day without a shirt. My chest and stomach are the most amusing
    color of red, but oh it's uncomfotable when my shirt touches it. 
    
    
    Hahaha Owww

Thank God for neighbors with pools (and good homebrew)!!!

:-)

    it'll be interesting mtn. biking today.  At least we'll be at concord
    where we can swim immediately afterwards. :-0 AHHHHH!
    
    	Mike

Just went out for a walk!  It is rippin' hot out there and very humid!!!!!
I sweated quite a bit on a mellow walk;  doing anything more strenuous would
be even more sticky......................


so, where are all those summer weather lovers out there??????????????????????

:-)

this weather is yucko-city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

bring on winter (i keep having dreams of snow and snow banks, etc... i guess
i long for the cold snowy daze to return)....

rochester NY broke their record high yesturday: 97F !!

    They had snow in Colorado on Monday:-)

    
    They actually had to close some mountain passses this weekend ,
    trailridge road, etc..., due to snow.  Still mighty warm down here is
    the Springs,
    
    	Mark
    
    P.S Mike, Glenn Gardner from Hanover was asking about you.  Give me a
    call when you get a chance.
    
    	592-5385

I'm here JC!  I'm a summer weather lover.  The thought of walking out in
the morning without needing a jacket.  

Of course I like the fall for the colors, spring for the same and winter 
because ski too....

So in short, don't shortchange yourself and like a single season so much:)
Like em all and take em for what they are worth. 

bob

    
    Hey J.C.
    
     I'm one of thoes who loves summer, but them we ain't got that much
    humidity here in Colorado Springs, And on top of that livin at 9,000
    feet make it alot cooler, got to sleep with blankets even in the
    summer..
    
     Had to wear a jacket on the 4th of July and watch it snow!!!!
    
    should have seen the "high" country sunday morning with all that new
    powder above tree line...
    
    Summer is just GRATE by me.....
    
    
       . .
        ,
     \_____/
    
    Divide Dave
    

sounds like i gotsta move up in elevation!
i couldn't believe it when rfb was saying
it was snowing on the 4th!  that is my kinda
summer!

We're getting nailed here in Littleton with lots of wind, lightning, and
thunder.

no rain yet.................


lots of folks checkin' the weather out...........

    whoa! it'll probably hit here soon; better go roll up my windows.
    
    	Mike_who's_glad_he_didn't_bike_to_work 

    
    
    Acton: major downpour/dark/thunder and lazy lightning..
    
    Don

Pretty wild weather here in Nashua.  Powere in ZK went down just long
enough to crash my workstation :^(

    What classifies lightning as lazy? :-)

Just some wind here in Maynard.  Woah, the lights just flickered!

- dc

Rain is really tumblin' down here at TAY2 now.  Thunder is wild.  Lighting
is ravaging the land.  I love intense weather...

Just got to my sunroof in time...

I take it back ... God's bowling over the skies of Maynard, too ....

Wow, these piddly little t-storms ain't nothin' compared to the storm 
hanging off Acupulco right now. Also some pretty hallucinogenic cloud 
formations behind and to the north of it...

    yep... hurricain CALVIN!!!

Hmmm, That must be hobbes right behind it: Does kinda look like a tiger, 
too.

:-)

    
        well it's raining lightly now here in mro...still thunderbooming...
    
       uh oh..the lights just flickered...don't know how much longer i
    
       can keep transmitting...ksssshhhhh....crackle...kssshhhhh....
    

Dave!  Can you hear us?  DAVE!

My god ... he's been cut off ....

    	I got home to Boylston and the thunder started at about 4:30. Non 
    stop claps of thunder with no space greater than 15 seconds for a good
    hour and a half. The lightening that struck over at the corner nearly 
    blew me out of my chair. We last power three times until it stayed out 
    from 6:30 to about 7:40.
    
    	And the whole time Worcester NOAA was saying no warnings or watches
    had been issued, truly clueless weather station. 
    
    Intense weather 
    
    Geoff

    
    send some of that rain down here, please!  you could cut this air with
    a knife.  blech!
    

I heard that Boston broke a 110-year record yesterday for its peak 99 degrees
temp ....

It's supposed to be like this for the next couple of days.

Take a tip from my man, James Brown - break out in a cold sweat.

Mazio?

- dc

Phyllis,

The rain didn't help much.  It just hit the ground, evaporated, and 
turned into 99% humidity on a 99 degree day.  Yuck.  I keep sticking 
to everything I touch.  Makes ya wanna just walk around nekkid all 
day (for some of us, more than usual)...;-)

tim

    
    the news here is saying not to go outside between 11 and 5.
    :-/
    
    

For the Boston Area, 13 days over 90F in one year is the average.  So far, we
have had 8 days over 90 and it is only 8-Jul.  Today will make 9...

last year, I think there were only 3 over 90.

1991 had 27 days over 90.

the rain actually cooled the littleton area off, but, as tim noted, the
humidity got a bit worse.  

air quality forcast for today:  UNHEALTHFUL, statewide!

I thought that on average, its been cool this summer.

re       <<< Note 184.260 by CSCMA::M_PECKAR "Two pints make one cavort" >>>


>I thought that on average, its been cool this summer.

quite the contrary mon.  I think June was about 100 or so degrees above 
normal, perhaps not quite that high, but definitely above normal.

LAST summer was a nice one!

"It could be worse.  It could be raining."

	- (the late) Marty Feldman, in "Young Frankenstein"

    re .249
Wow, these piddly little t-storms ain't nothin' compared to the storm 
hanging off Acupulco right now. Also some pretty hallucinogenic cloud 
formations behind and to the north of it...
    
    Yeah, there is something about looking at cloud formations from space,
    especially time lapse images.
    
    gary

    Yea...with 'color enhancements' too....*%'}
    

    
    Until last week, I don't think the weather has been all that hot.  I
    know that Memorial Day weekend, we built several fires in the
    fireplace!
    
    I *love* the hot weather!!!  C'mon Sun!!!  Bring us more heat!!!! ;^)
    
    Hogan

    I had to run out and close the windows in the car about 16:30
    yesterday.  When I got to the car, I hopped in and just kept heading
    south to home.  Hey, couldn't resist!
    
    I beat the storm home.  We went shopping last night.  When we got out
    we got nailed with a killer storm!!  The lights went out for a minute
    at Shaws when this massive bolt of lighting hit something about a mile
    in back of Shaws.  Musta been a power station or something.
    
    I haven't seen lightning like we had last night for quite a while. 
    Lightning like you see on the Weather Channel when they show stuff
    happening in the mid west!!  That's something for little RI!  Lotsa
    rain too.  Then massive humidity and high temps for night.
    
    We got central air installed in out townhouse this past April.
    
    NAH NAH!!!  :^)

    
    > We got central air installed in out townhouse this past April.
    
    So when's the party?? ;-)
    
    I think this might be the weekend to visit mom and dad and take
    advantage of some free central ac. :-)
    
    

    the storm last night was wild, when we got to Julie's comp. the storm
    hit, blew out the lights twice during warm ups to Julie's event...place
    went pitch-dark (what does that mean anyway) luck-a-lee the kids were
    off the floor at the times this happened,then the rains were rilly
    heavy, so much the roof started to leak !...this was in Tauton Ma.
    
    
    saw some nice lighting too
    
    Chris

    There is a severe thunderstorm and dangerous lightning watch until 10 p.m. 
    for Mass. and Southern New Hampshire...
                                                                 
    :), danielle

    
Z    Yeah, there is something about looking at cloud formations from space,
Z    especially time lapse images.
    
On yer werkstation? Do tell. :-)

re: 'pitch-dark'

...'pitch' refers to black burnt stuff (like Carbon Black)... ...but mostly
just the black part...

;-)

We got hit pretty hard last night.  Knocked out power until early this
morning.  My wife was talking to her Dad who had called other than his
usual Friday time to tell her they were going away for a vacation.
Amy told him, "Fine but it's thundering and lightning like crazy so I 
better get off before I get electrocuted..."
The next thing she knew the phone was on the floor, her teeth, jaw, cheek
all hurt and she got a wicked headache.  But otherwise she was ok.

Sigh...  Anybody know if they still sell lightning rods?? And how 
effective they are?

PeterT

    re: major T-storms!!
    
    We have been getting these heavy intense storms in the Upper
    Mississippi Valley just about everyday for about a month Literally.  
    We had tornado warnings yesterday heavy rains this AM and it is looking
    like some HEAVY storms are moving in.  DeMoines Iowa was getting like 
    another 3 inches of rain today.  Really to bad for the farmers - many
    have lost their first crop and then replanted and have now lost their
    crops for the second time in one summer.
    
    :-(
    Scott

Lightening rods are very effective and available from a variety of sources. 
Check the homework notesfile for more info (KP7). I think Radio shack may 
sell them, too.

	Fog

	Try the CI_LATEST.GIF on the workstation weather
	package...it ain't 3d but it's a satelite image
	of the US...

    
    NYC hit 100 yesterday, breaking a 56 year record.
    
    It wasn't as bad out there this morning.  Still very hot, but there was
    a breeze.. first one in days!!
    
    

re;       <<< Note 184.276 by TERAPN::PHYLLIS "in the shadow of the moon" >>>

>    NYC hit 100 yesterday, breaking a 56 year record.
>    
>    It wasn't as bad out there this morning.  Still very hot, but there was
>    a breeze.. first one in days!!


	So you mean it's more like a convection oven out there now, 
	right ?  ;-)

	Ken

    re .270
    
    No, not on my workstation (I'd probably never get anything done :-) ).
    
    I mostly watch them via satellite TV. A lot more images get distributed
    each day than those you see on the news.
    
    AM Weather is pretty good for that sort of stuff although it is
    broadcast at some horrible hour (i.e. sometime before 9am). When NASA
    announced some new findings on ozone depletion last year they beamed
    down some very interesting, and scary, animated sequences from one of
    NCAR's global circulation models (ok, so I'm a weather weenie).
    
    gary

    
    it's more like a microwave.  2 minutes and you are HOT!  ;-)
    

I thought so, Gary. I was starting to get excited about the prospect of
sucking up some of the idle Alpha mips floating around our LAN. :-)  I know 
there's likely somebody out there tconverting the satellite gifs into the
format for some of the animation applications floating about. Probably too 
much work, though.

Deane-o, thanks for the pointer, but I usually fish around for my satellite 
images and weather maps via anonymous ftp to vmd.cso.uiuc.edu, which has IR 
and Visual satellite maps and the full suite of aviation weather maps. 

    "don't needa weather .gif to know which way the wind blows...."
    
    
    
    %^)
    
    
    rfb

    Speaking of wind....oh exalted Universe, even though this isn't the
    right note to call upon your miraculous wisdom....
    
    Will the SW'erly thermals blow hard on the south shore tomorrow???  i
    heard something about a low pressure system wrapping up into Canada the
    other night making for big time heat, big time humus and big time
    winds...
    
    Any truth to this oh omnipotent one???

    
    RE: .282
    
    >other night making for big time heat, big time humus and big time
    humus? low pressure systems can make humus?  wow.  I thought you need
    chick peas at least.
    
    

    Hey now, hey now....it's all creamy ain't it...*;')

    
    
    OK enough is enough, I had to scrap frost of the windshield this
    morning, I'm still in summer mode and not ready for this frozen sh&t.
    
    COME ON INDIAN SUMMER, Fish'n is not over yet!
    
    Divide Dave

	In Mass. this AM it is sticky, hot, and overcast......

	If this keeps up, Killington won't be able to start pumping 
	snow for quite some time  ;-(

	Send some o' that frost this way mon!

	NO NO NO NO NO!!!!
	
	as the mon sed: "fish'n ain't over yet!!!"
	
	so bog off!!!

    Hey Divide,
      they reported that it snowed in Divide either yesterday or the day
    before for a hour hour or so.  That's what ya get for living up so far
    high in the hills.  Pikes Peak looked beautiful after the snow yesterday 
    afternoon up there.  
    
       My garden is still cranking it out.  I would mind if the snow and 
    frost holds out a little longer,
    
    	Mark 

	High altitude crops must be bummin out there in CO.

	I remember 4 years ago or so Killington had 6" of snow
	fall in mid august....

re      <<< Note 184.289 by AKOCOA::SMITH_D "So many roads tease my soul" >>>

>	I remember 4 years ago or so Killington had 6" of snow
>	fall in mid august....



this sounds like another Killington Lie (tm) to me!   i dunno, Killington
always seems to get 10 feet more snow then everyone else around them...

it is wicked sticky here in MA today;  supposed to cool off a bit as the 
weekend comes on...

ready_for_snow_JC_but_psyched_for _the_fall_colors!

The year I lived up at Killington(1982?) we were up looking for jobs and places
to live the last weekend of august and Killington peak got 12" of snow.  
Lots of people, including us hiking up to the top to get a run in before it 
melted at 2:00pm...

Geoff

    I love winter and all, I can't wait for the first snow (it makes me so
    happy), but in all honesty I am far from ready for the first snow. I've
    still got a good 5 or so weeks of sailing left and then I need time to 
    put the boat away. Speaking of which (wrong note) Did you know that the 
    Whitbread starts 3 weeks from tomorrow! Exciting news!
    
    Well, I hope I get a new shroud today. And speaking of the weather,
    it's supposed to blow some serious heavy winds tonight, I'm hoping
    for milder air over the later days of the weekend. 
    
    Holding on to summer for another few weeks
    Geoff

	It is actually true, at the time I was living in Randolf and it
	snowed 2" at 2000'.  I could see Killington from my window and 
	it was whitecapped.

	I skiied The Glades triple chair and Snowdon Mtn on my birthday
	(Oct 5) in 1987.

re          <<< Note 184.292 by MILKWY::SAMPSON "Driven by the wind" >>>
                        -< 'cause I like every season >-

>    Whitbread starts 3 weeks from tomorrow! Exciting news!
 
now that's a slow-starting strain of yeast if i've ever seen one!  3 weeks
lag time!  yow! 

:-) :-)

(Whitbread is a maker of homebrew yeast)

    
    Beautiful sunny day yesterday, highs in the 80's
    
    Frozen rain and snow this morning.  Lows tonight around freezing 
    and I'm going to my first Colorado Rockies game.  Got to love this
    Colorado weather.
    
    
    	Burrrr
    	Mark

    
    I guess I should add, 1st snow showers for me at my house this year.
    I've had snow and gropple on a couple mountain treks in July and August 
    already 

    
    Had Big snow flaks this morning at the house, was out riding the
    scooter on saturday, had highs in the 80's both saturday and sunday.
    
    Come on Indian summer!!!!
    
    Divide Dave
    

    cut wood all day Sat in those 70 degree temps in the high country
    ...those aspens had this strange pink hue to the
    bark...(I think they caught something from back east! %^)) added to the
    just starting to turn yellow leaves and the orangeish tundra..what a
    NICE weekend! I climbed up on the roof of Tumbledown with a couple of
    beers and watched the nountains change (sorta like watchin the flowerss
    grow).
    
    LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW!!!!!!!!!!
    rfb

    Heard on the radio this morning that Hurrican "LYDIA" is heading
    towards the west coast of Mexico.  Potential for some serious mud
    slides and 'dramatic' footage of surf crashing.
    
      Hey dc, since you, most likely, are the only one with direct
    experience with Hurricane Lydia, howz about telling us what to expect.
    
      Many :-)'s
    
    
    Marv
    
    

re                    <<< Note 184.299 by POWDML::MACINTYRE >>>
                   -< I know what Hurricane "JOYCE" is like >-

>    Heard on the radio this morning that Hurrican "LYDIA" is heading
>    towards the west coast of Mexico.  Potential for some serious mud
>    slides and 'dramatic' footage of surf crashing.
>    
>      Hey dc, since you, most likely, are the only one with direct
>    experience with Hurricane Lydia, howz about telling us what to expect.
    
Well, I like the idea of mud slides.  ;^)

    snowin like a big dog here in Colo Springs DEC plants...think I'll walk
    down to the other building just so I can say I "went walking in a
    winter wonderland.." I can show off my sunburn from the weekend.
    
    rfb

    
    Went up to Denver for the 1st snowed out game off the year for the
    Rockies.  Didn't bother us too much though.  We had a great snowball 
    fight outside the sports bar.  It was great to be sloshing around in 
    the snow again.  
    
    Only downside of this snow is I have a few inches in my garden.  I
    still have loads of green tomatoes on the vines, my cabbage wasn't
    quite ready yet.  Lucky this quick a cool down won't hurt the carrots
    or beets.
    
    	Mark 

    heard that on the news today....hope the rockies never make it to the
    world series....once the team gets the snow weather in their blood they
    will never lose a home game in the snow !
    
    wonder if the leauge thought about this happen !
    
    Chris

>              <<< Note 184.303 by SPICE::FIELDS "Strange Brew" >>>
>
>    heard that on the news today....hope the rockies never make it to the
>    world series....once the team gets the snow weather in their blood they
>    will never lose a home game in the snow !
>    
>    wonder if the leauge thought about this happen !
>    
>    Chris


Actually, there will be a lot of teams in snow weather mindset starting 
next year when they go to three divisions in each league.  This will bring 
in wildcard teams and a third set of playoffs extending the season into 
November.

Geoff

    yikes thats right !
    
    I do remember a few very cold games in Boston all thos years ago :')
    
    Nov. huh....Reggie Jackson musta had something to do with adding more
    teams to the playoffs, so he can always be Mr October !
    
    
    Chris

    
    it's cold in NY.  and damp.  Bring a coat.
    
    

We can assure you it's no better in beantown....

Nice bright day today in NH....  we were camping in mid-NH ... got up
to a high of maybe 58 or so.. windy, crisp...

fall is coming near!

i'm psyched..!

    Serious wind yesterday! Super crisp, clear air. Full foul weather gear
    too. A wet day, blowing about 20 knots put the lee rail far enough
    under water to submerge my ankle under green water. Nearly overpowered
    with the spinnaker up, it all depende on how I trimmed it. 
    
    Fun weather for racing!!
    
    Break out the hiking boots soon.
    

30 F this morning.  Time to put away the shorts.

PeterT

    It's absolutely pouring out...(in Littleton, anywayz)...
    
    tim
    

	RAIN!

	I think I know now why the boys laid that on us last
	night.

    
    well I wish someone woulda let me in on their plans.  My "9:00" am
    flight from Logan to Kennedy this morning got me into LaGuardia at
    12:15.  :-/
    
    

    I've heard a lot of talk about snow in the last twelve hours or so. 
    I'm certainly hoping we get it since I'd really like to take out my 
    touring board and get a real kick out of that wax I got for Christmas!
    
    I'll use the Alipne boards too, if I can, but I've got new woods in my
    back yard and I really want to ski them!
    
    Klick your heals three time and say, "There's No thing like snow,
    there's no thing like snow".

OK.... how much?  is up North supposed to get a good helping?  I may
hit the road northbound tomorrow...

    There is being included the normal diclaimer of storm speed governing
    how much we get. Comercial radio has been saying 3-6 inches in the
    Boston area. NOAA weather radio says there is potential for 6 inches or
    more. Two weather systems are merging, one moving up the east cost and
    another moving in from the cold mid west. The current conditions
    included snow in Washington DC at the time. I think the northward track 
    of the coastal storm indicates potential for this to move up north and
    add some skiing terrain. 
    	The word is, clouding up today, snow starting to fall in the
    afternoon (50% chance), continueing through the night (I think that
    was a 70% chance) and then tapering off Thursday morning. I think it
    will at least be enough to shovel. 
    
    
    	My biggest problem with the idea of skiing this week is that it is 
    vacation week. Full price, full capacity and no discounts all week
    long.  

    603-225-3161 will get you the NH forecasts.  Here's Boston's, no
    amounts predicted yet.  My bet: 3-4".
    
    Jamie
    
147
FQUS1 KBOS 290931
MAZ007-013>016--291800-

GREATER BOSTON METROPOLITAN AREA FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
408 AM EST WED DEC 29 1993

...WINTER STORM WATCH FOR TONIGHT...
.TODAY...A SUNNY START THEN INCREASING CLOUDS.  A CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW
LATE IN THE DAY.  HIGH IN THE MID 20S.  WIND BECOMING NORTHEAST 10 TO
15 MPH.  CHANCE OF SNOW 30 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT...SNOW...MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES.  WINDY.  LOW 15 TO 20.  WIND
BECOMING NORTH 20 TO 30 MPH.
.THURSDAY...A CHANCE OF SNOW EARLY...BECOMING MOSTLY SUNNY.  WINDY
WITH A HIGH IN THE MID 20S.  CHANCE OF SNOW 30 PERCENT.
.OUTLOOK FOR NEW YEARS DAY...CHANCE OF RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS.  HIGH IN
THE 30S.  LOW IN THE TEENS.


.

    
    they keep talking about snow here too, but right now it doesn't look
    like it.  Nice blue, sunny skies.  I know DC got dumped on already and
    it's supposed to be on it's way up.  
    
    

Yeah, it's supposed to start out nice and still be fairly reasonable
for the commute home, then turn real after midnight.  We'll see.
Maybe I'll read Hannah "Geraldine's Big Snow" tonight, as it is the
story of a little girl (alright, in the book she is really a little pig,
but cute animals are used a lot in these things) waiting on a 
big snow storm.  
Anybody have any recommendations for good boots and bindings for cross-country
skies?  My old ones are starting to fall apart, and they always hurt
my feet (right at the toe/foot interface) but the skies themselves are 
fine.  The bindings are step into kind, but not Solomon (which I'm thinking
of getting).

PeterT

I meant skis not skies, sigh....

PeterT

    	The word on Solomon bindings is, bad choice of equi[ment. 
    
    	The bindings you desribe, I think are NNN, (New Nordic Norm).
    There is a new development in the NNN style called NNN BC (Back
    Country). This has a metal bar under the ball of your foot to help
    flex the boot where your feet would normaly flex. I really have no
    experience with these step in style of bindings, so I can't give you
    first hand info, but anyone I've talked to who has experience with 
    SNN (That's the Solomon ones) has nothing good to say about them. 
    
    	Myself, I ski with your basic 75mm 3-pin. I have a Merell "XCD
    lace" boot which is a backcountry boot. It's a good boot, but if I want
    to ski and not get blisters on my toes I have to pad them to avoid
    that. If I don't pad two particular toes, blisters will form and break
    in nothing flat. I use my boots for both telemark skiing and touring. 
    My touring binding is a basic three pin with pins, but my tele binding 
    is a Riva cable. The cable binding has no pins but instead holds the
    toe of the boot in a slot with forward pressure from the cable. This
    slot style binding has a lot of binding body on either side of the toe
    to offer better lateral support (I've heard that lots of turning force
    on the pins can rip the pin holes out of your boot). But, I understand
    that three pin boots are becoming harder and harder to find because of 
    production of NNN taking over. 
    	So, NNN is the emerging style which most equipment will be based
    around. I stillski a three pin and have no reason to change until I
    can't get the equipment any more. 
    
    I guess that makes me a pin head and discussung skiing in the weather
    note supports that theory.
     
             pin         
    	pin              
                   pin   
                         

    
    no more blue skies.. now it's grey and snowing.
    

	Looks as though some heavy snow is on the agenda after midnight
	in the Boston area....

re: last week's storm

Loon Mountain got 5"-7" out of it;  I know 'cuz I was there skiing.  Full
price, no discounts offered...  plus, i had gads of equip. problems.  but,
other then that, the skiing was excellent for December!


re: the new storm


is ski country due for a dumping?
how much in the 495/route 2 area?

	I don't think they really know what's going to happen after 
	daybreak tomorrow, we could easily have a foot by dawn.

	I didn't do any downhill over vaca. due to ski area overcrowding,	
	but I did rent a pair of cross country skis and buzzed around
	the local area.  Yesterday the snow was melting right out from 
	under the skis.

    The forecast at lunch spoke of a foot or more in the western and
    interior sections. The coast will be getting rain tomorrow morning
    so Boston will not get as much as the interior this time. There
    is potential for major icing in central regions of the stat tomorrow
    morning after much of the snow has fallen. It sounds like this storm
    will be better for the mountains than the last one.
    
    XC last Thursday, pretty good, rock were obscured from view, but not 
    enough to protect skis.
    
    	Alpine yesterday at Cannon, Full price, neglegable loft lines,
    almost all trails open. pretty good cover (but not good enough for new
    skis, Very, very nice snow on zoomer in the afternoon with mild ripples
    starting to look like bumps. 

re          <<< Note 184.326 by MILKWY::SAMPSON "Driven by the wind" >>>
                              -< More Skiing!!! >-

It is coming down here in Littleton.   nothing heavy yet.

>    	Alpine yesterday at Cannon, Full price, neglegable loft lines,

cannon still have 2for1 on Tues?

    gettin a little snow out on the east coast? saw Marlbourgh Mass on Good
    Morning AmeriKa this AM with what looked like a foot or so on the
    ground. 
    
    on a realted issue, we have a ritzy club out here called the AdaMan Club
    (they "add a man" or new member each year)
    that walks up Pikes Peak every NYE to set off fireworks. Started off
    nice and balmy at the base in Manitou Springs, but by the time they
    reached near summit, they were on the ground crawling in 60-100 MPH
    windgusts and 60 below wind chill...the wind let up enough for them to
    shoot the fireworks at midnight. (I didn't see them, too busy kissing
    my wife and dancin to Shakedown Street!)
    
    rfb

    
    Yeah, a little bit of a storm happening out here!  We got about
    8 or so inches in Lancaster where I live (about 15 miles No or
    Marlboro).  Now it's sleeting like crazy making for a pretty 
    slick drive/walk.  Actually I think the walking is much more
    trecherous than the driving.  Supposed to keep up all day and
    into tonight...
    
    This place is almost as deserted as it was last week!
    
    MJ

    	I agree with MJ about the ocupancey thing, but this time there's
    less activity in the Grateful too. 
    	We got about 6"-8" in Boylston (~10 mi due west of M-boro). It's
    been steady sleet since about 4:am there. It's still coming down which
    makes me really happy, but there is a chance of a change to rain. It
    will continue all day and if it goes rain today it will turn back to
    snow tonight. I'm not sure how long I'll stay in here, I might have to
    go out and go skiing again. 
    
    	I was thinking of you this AM rfb. I was wondering if you've gotten 
    to get out and ski yet. Last week wasn't great but it was skiing (this
    is the XC type I'm talking about), but this afternoon I'll bet my woods
    are going to be great!!!!
    
    Yeah!!!

    
    well we got about nothing here in NYC.  Maybe an inch or so of sleety
    slushy stuff on the ground but that's about it.  
    
    

    no Geoff..never made it out over the holidaze. Tom Lawlor and I talked
    about it, but that's about all. Local skiing behind Pikes Peak isn't
    very good, we've had a spring-type winter so far here in Colo Spgs. 
    (saw a male robin in our neighborhood right before Xmas!!!)
    Patty worked a couple of days over my vacation so that screwed up 
    any trip to Tumbledown for good snow...but I'm gettin ready!(other than
    I've enlarged my beer-belly quite abit over the holidaze/vacation)
    
    rfb

    
    	Yeah, this place is Dead! Literally!  Noone here so I can crank
    	the BG tapes.....
    
    	It looks like whats on the ground is primarily sleet, but
    	it will provide a very kind base at the local areas but I heard
    	Southern/Central Vermont already has a foot!  Yes! Yes! Yes!
    
    

>    	It looks like whats on the ground is primarily sleet, but
>    	it will provide a very kind base at the local areas

how much is a night lift ticket at Wachusett?

- rich

    
    Heh! Heh! Heh! :-)
    
    I was just thinking the same thing!
    
    Last year I think it was around $19 so it's probably 20-$22 this year.

    Our snow in D.C. was a flop, right now it is snowing hard, but not
    sticking, the sky is dark grey, and we can expect an additional
    inch maybe, so we got a total of 1.5 inches.   No big deal down here,
    we keep hearing that the trains going north to Philadelphia, Newark,
    New York are all screwed up, due to power lines falling.
    
    We lucked out, I guess...
    
                                              
    

    	Lucking out depends on your point of view! I can't wait to go ski
    this stuff and I'm trying to think of a deserted slope somewhere where 
    I can go cut some telemark turns. 
    
    	I just went home for lunch and it is gorgeous out! The driving
    isn't too bad, but in N-boro they've used a lot of salt and the plows
    have sprayed an unattractive brown trim along the edge of the road, But 
    there is the better part of a foot of very dense snow cover all over
    the ground. I couldn't stand driving back here, but it was too easy and
    I really didn't have a good excuse. I can't wait for after work, I'm
    either going to find a hill and play on my telemark boards or grab the
    touring cut and go ski some trails in the woods. There could still be
    some rocks in the woods so the turning skis I want to find something
    lawn like to ski on, but at a very steep angle {:*).
    
    	But if DC is still getting snow, then I'm really hopeful that
    thewr's more to come!!!
    
    
    	WHere is there a good hill to ski near Boylston?????

    
    Re- Geoff
    
    There are a couple trails on the backside of Wachusett that, with 
    over a foot of snow, would be awesome.  One of em is the Old Indian
    foot trail facing to the west, very steep, a little ledgy, I skied 
    it on downhill skis last year.  The other is the one that drops
    off to the Northeast and ends up at the state Park Headquarters, 
    forgot the name.  Ultimately, you could ski up on the access road 
    right to where it crosses.
    
    
    

    	I kind of want to stay away from Wachusett. It's not really that
    close and by the time I got there today it would be dark. If I'm going
    to ski in the dark I'd rather know the terrain, but the back of
    wachusett could be worth checking out.  
    
    	I would really like to carve through some of this stuff while it's 
    fresh so if I go tonight, I'd like something where there is nothing to
    hit. But if I can't come up with any thing by the time I head out, I
    can tour through some of the Pisgah trails in the dark. There are some
    pretty challenging turns in there and it could be fun. But I think to
    carve this blanket with a treal turning ski would be a delicious
    opportunity, rarely availible in these parts. 
    
    
    It was snowing again last ime I looked.

I called pinkham notch.... over 18" expected and still snowing when i called
'em.  might go to loon tomorrow.

call me if ya wanna tag along!

So, i hear that MORE SNOW is on the way.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


can someone tell me:

	when?
	how much?
	etc?

tnx

    
    there's some very light flurrying going on in nyc right now.  I think
    the real snow is supposed to start this afternoon.
    
    

    what I heard this morning ...
    
    3-7 or 6-9 inches depending on the source. 
    Starting in central MA mid-to-late afternoon
    
    may stop by tomorrow AM but then re-start and continue intermittently
    till sunday

Weather Report from WRKO as of 8:15 am Thursday...

Light snow starting late this afternoon, getting steadier after midnight.  
2 - 4 inches by drivetime tomorrow am, snow continuing all day, possibly 
mixing with sleet/freezing rain/rain - especially south of Boston, all 
precipitation changing backl to snow before ending sometime Saturday.

geoff

    :^) :^) :^) Yeeha!!!! right, Phyllis ;^)
    
    Andy

    
    I actually like snow - as long as I'm warm enough.  I don't like
    non-stop freezing weather, though.
    
    

Hey, JC, whaddaya care about any snow in th' forecast?  You ain't gonna be
around here to enjoy it, anyway!  ;-))))))))0

Sure glad I got my 4 new Nokia NR-10 snow tires!  They work very, very well.

Josh

    Well, I don't know if it's snowing outside yet, but it's snowing on my
    workstation, courtesy of xsnow.  Cute program.  It doesn't get
    all that high, but it will accumulate on top of a window if you
    have one with the top exposed.  I didn't notice it for a while at
    first, since my windows usually take up all available space and
    overlap.  
    
    PeterT
    

    
    is the program somewhere copyable?  I'd like to check it out.  Did you
    get it from decwindow examples?
    
    

    	Well, it's snowing and and accumulating more, again. This is the
    most amazing January weather I can recall. Eve in the Blizzard of '78
    it waited till February. 
    	I cleared another 3"-4" off my deck and Driveway again this morning
    and by the time I was done, the deck was covered again. The driving is
    a little bit slick and the snow that was left from the storm earlier in 
    the week is really slippery with this light stuff on top. THis is the
    lightest, fluffiest snow weve had so far, but tonight and tomorrow
    should be a lot denser. 
    	Yup, I turned on the weather radio last night to get an idea of how 
    I wanted to wax my skis (Alpine) for the weekend and heard nothing but 
    snow advisories through the entire forecast. I did gleen enough
    information to determine that I wanted a mix of red and purple wax
    for the Alpines and a dose of white mixer for the fast skis. On my
    Nordic it looks like the green from the other night is still good. 
    But the weather people said that we would get 4-8 inches last night,
    another couple durring the day today and then another storm would move
    in this afternoon. Last night's forecast called for the potential of a
    foot or more within the Friday night to Saturday night time span. 
    The storm would come in with snow this afternoon, dump big time over
    night, dissipate some tomorrow, maybe warm up turning to sleet and
    freezing rain (More likely toward the south-east) Then turn back into
    snow for Saturday night. 
    	Approximately 18" of snow was discussed over the 48 hours between 
    THursday night and Saturday night. This, on top of the better part of a
    foot from earlier this week, is unheard of in this area, in January, in
    my recollection. I don't care what I recall as a kid who couldn't see
    the tops of the snow banks in '66 or '67, this is some of the biggest 
    chain of snow storms I remember seeing in January. March has delivered 
    some big snow recently. 
    
    	A truely amazing chain of storms!!!
    Geoff 

    
    Nothing nearly as pretty down here.  Just lots of freezing rain - makes
    for treacherous driving and walking.
    
    

	
	We're now in the exact same weather pattern as we were in last 
	Feb/March....

    Here in D.C. all rain, I hope it gets it out of its system in Boston,
    I have a full week in MRO3 next week, strange pattern.

    I really hope it turns to snow before it gets here, 'cause rain is
    going to make a serious mess of the beauty around here. Rain would also
    make fore some HUGE problems due to poor drainage and and icing. I
    really hope it stays snow!!!!
     

>    is the program somewhere copyable?  I'd like to check it out.  Did you
>    get it from decwindow examples?

Phyllis, I got this from one of the OSF systems here in ZK3.  There might
be a decwindows example, but I'm not sure.  I did find what appears to be
the source it's built from, and I'm putting that in 

quarry::/usr/staff/quarry2/petert/public/xsnow-1.18.tar.Z

which you need to uncompress and tar xvf xsnow.....

I'm assuming you're on a VMS system, though I could be wrong.  I see up
here that there are compress and tar available on the VMS system I go
through for notes, so I'm hoping you'd have access to these too.  Of 
course, if you have an Ultrix or OSF/1 system, then you'd be all set.

By the way, you wouldn't happen to have a left over copy of Tuesday's
New York Times would you?  I missed my weekly fix of the Science Times
due to the snow.

Hope this helps.

PeterT

    
    >which you need to uncompress and tar xvf xsnow
    
    the only words I understand here are which you need to - but thanks
    anyway. ;-)
    
    Sorry - Tuesday's paper hit the recycle bin already.
    If I see one laying around, I'll grab it for you.
    

    
    *Editted and reprinted w/o permission*
    
    >They've just had another update.  The 2nd storm center is staying south
    >of Boston, and will be hitting here by 3 pm.  They are expecting ALL
    >snow because of the location of the storm center.  The storm will last
    >thru noon tomorrow with total accumulations around 16"!!!
    
    
    BIIYNI

    I think this is really cool.......8^)

    
    i knew there had to be something good about this awful weather and
    here it is - we're closing at 3:00 today!  :-)
    
    still nothing but freezing rain down this a way - sounds like you guys
    are hogging all the white stuff. :-)
    
    

    woke to -12 this AM - I think it is still below 0 now.  At least we
    have some snow on the ground to play with now ('bout 8 inches two
    nights ago).  There was 20+ inches up on the North shore of Lake 
    Supperior (out on Highway 61) that fell that same day.
    
    :-)
    
    Scott

Colorado forecast is mostly sunny with highs in the mid 40's all weekend --
looks like I'll be painting instead of skiing with rfb and TL -- have
a nice trip boyz, I'll be thinking of you :^)
 

Glennnn

re   <<< Note 184.360 by ANGLIN::GEBHART "Met her accidentally in St.Paul, MN" >>>

                       vvvvvvvvvv
>    Supperior (out on Highway 61) that fell that same day.
                       ^^^^^^^^^^

BOING!!!  why is it this just sorta jumped off the screen at me, kinda like
highlighted in big black letters edged in gold.... ;-)

Josh

    
    Just got the official notice that Hudson facilities will be closed for
    2nd and 3rd shift 2day. Looks like I'm outta here soon - if it's bad
    enuff for them to not come in, its bad enuff for me to leave a little
    early 2nite.
    
    								-jeff

re          <<< Note 184.354 by MILKWY::SAMPSON "Driven by the wind" >>>
                       -< Hoping it stays cold enough!! >-

>    I really hope it turns to snow before it gets here, 'cause rain is
>    going to make a serious mess of the beauty around here. 


no kidding, eh?  i hate it when it rains on top of all that beautiful snow.
last night, i went for a walk after the slashmon left around 10:50 or so.
nice, light, fluffy snow falling everywhere.  ah winter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

give me more snow!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'll let ya'll know when i've had enough, but by then, hell might
freeze over!! :-) :-)  snow snow snow!!!!!!!!!!!!


ps: i love snow and cold weather

Phyllis, if you think we're hogging all the snow, you're more than welcome to 
come visit and take some away ... ;^)

- dc

    
     I came in to work today (Saturday).....I can't believe they didn't
    call it off, at 7:00 am there was only three of us out of about fifty
    here in manufacturing, even now there are only about ten people.
    
    Sean

    
    well I don't know what you ended up with up there, but what we got down
    here was the longest, worst ice storm in memory.  Cars frozen solid
    with INCHES of ice all over them.  People smacking windshields with
    metal objects and hammers trying to break through the ice.  Car locks
    so frozen that even if you could make your way to the door, you
    couldn't get in to get anything heated up from the inside.  
    
    I know I was pretty psyched I was the one who made the dinner Saturday
    night and only had to sit around in my nice warm apartment and hear the
    horror stories of the travelers. :-)
    
    

    	I'm happy to report that we got snow and no ice and I like it that
    way. Central Ma. got about 12-13 inches over night Friday night and 
    Southern NH got about 3-4 more than that. Shoveling my driveway it
    seemed like there was a phase of denser, maybe sleety, snow in the
    middle, but no ice. 
    	The skiing was amazing and the tips of my XC skis were getting
    completely consumed in the snow as I skied along. 
    	Sunday was cold and windy. We skied at Bromley (which I won't go
    out of my way to do again) and it was between 6 and 10 degrees F
    durring the day, windspeed stayed around high teens to 20mph most of
    the day. Lifts were closed, lines were long, temperature was low,
    skiing was fun. There were some small spaces of glade skiing which  was
    a lot of fun on telemark skis but it was the un official glade skiing
    that got this place to the weather note. When we skied in to the High 
    section of the glades, the unpaced snow drifts completely stopped my
    skis so I would nose dive into snow where I couldn't reach te bottom.
    In trying to get up, with my ski poles at 120cm and stopping on a
    surface, the hand grip was covered by snow! The snow was as deep there 
    as the temperature was cold. 
    
    I have to ski some more
    Geoff

with all of this snow around, i think i've decided that i must own a pair of
cross country skis

i doubt that i'll ever get really serioualy into it, but it would be nice to do
as an alternative when there's too much snow to go mountain biking, and just as
a great way to get out in the woods and stay in shape

any general advice as to how much i should expect to spend (for something
decent, but not incredible), what length skis would be appropriate (my downhill
skis are 195 cm), or even what different kind of skis are available and what
i should consider?  (i'd probably mostly do terrain that's relatively flat, but
i must admit that true backcountry stuff sounds like a lot of fun)

- rich

The big decision is whether to get metal edged skis or not.  
If you view xc skiing as a way to go hiking in the mountains in the winter
(like I do), you probably want metal edged skis (if not snowshoes!)
as they are more versatile for handling back-cuntry conditions.
They are (usually) wider and have more "side-cut" (hour glass shape) so they
give more flotation in deep snow and can "carve" turns better.
The metal edges allow the edges to "bite" into even crusty snow, greatly
facilitating turning.  Look at Fischer Europa 99s or Karhu XCD GTs or similar.
Get "NNN-BC" bindings and leather boots that look like (fairly heavy) leather
hiking boots to match.

But the price (other than $$) that you pay is that metal edge skis are quite
a lot heavier.  Not only that, but you would tend to use heavier boots 
(typically ones that resemble leather hiking boots) with them.

If you plan to do most of your touring on groomed trails or even ungroomed
but heavily skiied trails, then you probably don't want metal-edged skis.
This is more for the person who sees skiing as a way to get an aerobic
work-out in the winter.  Get light, skinny skis and boots that look more like
(insulated) running shoes.  Go to Windblown, Waterville Valley, Bretton Woods,
etc. and have a great time with everyone else.

There is a "new breed" of xc skis out this year.  Much shorter than traditional
and "one size fits all".  Around 150 cm, I think, and supposedly easier for
beginners to get used to.  These, of course are *not* for back-country use.
I haven't tried them.  Traditional xc skis range
in length from around 190 cm up to 215 or even 220 cm.  Choice is tradionally
determined by your height, but weight is actually more relevent.  I am 6-1"
and use 215 cm skis (big).  The traditional "quick and dirty" method of 
determining length is that they should reach from the floor to your wrist
when you are standing and your arm is raised vertically.  A better test
(based on weight) is to put a slip of paper under the middle of each ski
on a *flat* hard surface.  Then stand on the skis (in the normal way).
With your weight distributed evenly between the two skis, you should be able
to pull the papers out (i.e. the middle of the ski should *not* be flattened
to the floor by 1/2 your weight).  But standing on just *one* ski, you should
*not* be able to pull the paper out (i.e. the middle of the ski *should*
be flattened to the floor by 100% of your weight).

Another decision is whether to get waxable or waxless skis.  I *strongly*
recommend waxless (let the attacks begin !!).  They sacrfice a bit of
performance (under ideal conditions *and* if you have used the right wax)
but are a *lot* less trouble.  Buy waxable skis if you enjoy waxing your
skis, but waxless if you prefer spending your time skiing on them (;-))!

What I have said pertains primarily to "traditional" xc technique.  There
is another style called "skating".  This is similar to ice skating but on
skis.  You use shorter skis and longer poles than in the tradtional technique.
This technique is harder to learn and probably requires a higher level of
aerobic fitness but it is faster.  It also requires trails that
are specially groomed for skating (not just two ruts like for traditional
technique).  But these are available at most (all?) xc ski places.
For this technique, you need (or at least it is preferable) to use waxable
type skis but that have no "kick" (gripping) wax applied to the middle 
section.
         Craig

i mostly plan on skiing on trails at the kind of places that i go mountain
biking; not groomed for cross-counrty, but probably somewhat heavily used by
other skiers; back-country stuff in the mountains sounds like fun, and maybe
i'll get into that sometime, but i think for now i'll be sticking to flatter
terrain; so i'll probably get waxless skis w/out edges

thanks for the advice!

- rich

p.s. i doubt i'd go to any "official" x-c place (i.e. someplace that wants my
$)

    Rich,
    	I agree with Craig right down the line, but I feel the price of a
    steel edge (weight price) is negledgible. My self I have a double
    camber, little side cut, waxable ski and a single camber, blow my mind
    right out of my head, turnable telemark ski. Looking at where I bike
    and how badly I want to hit those trails on my touring cut skis made me
    think of this note yesterday. I think you would have a great time and
    be hooked on a sport that doesn't require lift tickets on a pair of
    double camber, steel edged, waxless ski. I'm a pin head and like my 3
    pin boot, but three pins are going to be less prominent as the industry
    shifts and you probably do want to get into something NNN-BC. 
    	I suggest waxless for ease of use. It took me years of frustrating
    skiing to figure out HOW to properly apply wax to my touring skis. It
    took me one trip without any kick (grip) to speak of to realize the
    pain of waxing, again, to match the new temperature, paid off big time 
    when you wanted to go vs. slide in one place. I have yet to figure out
    how to properly wax my single camber ski for touring, but Oh you should
    see what these things do on the down side of the hill!!!
    	I've said single camber and double camber and you might be
    wondering what I'm talking about. A single camber ski is like your
    alpine (downhill) equipment. Single camber has one steady arc of flex
    to the ski. A double camber has a moderate flex pattern at the tip and
    tail and the a much stiffer flex pattern under the boot, this second 
    camber is the wax pocket or kick zone. This is the type of camber that
    Craig described the proper (paper) test for. FOur good touring you want
    a double camber ski. Waxless skis have fish scale type patterns in this
    kick zone to give you "kick". If the ski were waxable, the kick zone is
    where you apply your XC wax. 
    	I bought my touring cut skis for learning telemark skiing. It was
    okay. No It was hell, these things are toooo long for me and toooo
    stiff. I was frustrated, but dammit I was going to learn this. Five
    years into it I wanted a ski that could go, I was going to get a
    waxless and instead got talked into a single camber ski with sidecut. 
    I can't tour well on these things, but they have a notch for my
    climbing skins built in at the factory. I am still blown away at the
    easy with which these skis turn. The single camber ski is for someone
    who wants to attempt radical steep descents. 
    	I would strongly recommend a touring cut ski with a heavy boot for
    skiing where you bike. I'm not bent on metal edges, but all my skis
    have them (maybe I am). Backcountry and metal edges equal abuse of the
    steel. I saw a pair of skis last night with a partial steel edge. I'm 
    not sure what that buys you. 
    
    	Robyn and I are talking about some XC this weekend. Maybe a long,
    moderate terrain, 10 mi. one way trip. Or maybe something local one day
    which I'm thinking about a place I like to bike which I've always
    wanted to telemark. I know where you could rent skis, maybe join us and
    give this all a try.
    
    	And the weather forecast calls for some light snow before the
    weekend!! Fresh dust over an amazing base (how sweet the sound).
    
    Geoff Maybe this shohuld have been in the ski note. 

	Another winter storm here in New England tonight.....  :-)

	I really think that this will be the first year we have 
	a snowpack right through til April.

    
    it's been snowing really hard here for a couple of hours but it's not
    sticking at all.
    
    

thanks for the x-c skis advice

i think that someday i probably will own a pair of back-country skis; but, for
the time being, i think the terrain that i'll ski and the amount of money that
i wanted to spend was more geared to a touring ski without an edge

apparently i wasn't the only person who took a look at all of this snow and
decided to get skis; there's not much of a selection left, and i was pretty
limited by what was available in my size

i got a whole package for $150 at the ski shop in framingham; selected them
on monday, picked them up last night after work, and tried 'em out last night
in callahan state park (behind our house in framingham); it was a lot of fun,
and i'll probably go back tonite; anyone care to join me?

- rich

It be snowing up here now.  I need to get one more thing done and then I'm
heading south toward home.  Sigh.... Only 65 miles to slip and slide
through....

PeterT

    
    It's snowing pretty good here in Boxborough as well...
    What's the forecast?  4-6"?  
    
    MJ

funny how my cubicle is next to a window, yet i usually find out that it's
snowing from this conference

- rich

    snowing bigtime here at MKO - also sounds like mixed with sleet
    
    ack
    

looks like all snow here in littleton.
i'm TOTALLY psyched.

like i tell the people here:  "if it snowed a foot a day, i wouldn't complain!"

now, i heard there is another storm for thursday night.
what's the deal?

	Last nights strorm was wimpy....a measly 2-3 inches, hell, 5 years
	ago that would've been considered a dump here in the Northeast!

    Yes, and the snow removal people would have gotten SO psyched, they'd
    blow the budget on it.
    
    	But, there was a lot more snow in NH as we were driving home from 
    skiing. And you should also know that the lift line were short, the
    fall lines were long, the skis turn very rapidly and the snow covered 
    the surface very nicely.
    

	Major cold spell moving into New England with temps (without 
	windchill) in the negative digits.

	I estimate a lot of ski areas will be stutting down any exposed
	lifts....this is gonna be some serious shit!

    50 degrees in Colo Spgs for the next 4 days, 20's at nite. We watered
    out lawn and trees yesterday. Hopeing for some spring-type skiing this
    Sunday.
    rfb

    
    we're supposed to get more snow today.  well hell it's been a good 10
    or 12 hours, so why not? ;-}
    
    

    I know, it's been a long time since we've seen any snow here. It's been 
    almost two days and they're only talking about 1-3 inches here. 
    
    	But, I think it's still good for XC skiing and plan on some fun
    this weekend. I think being down in the trees will do a lot to avoid
    the wind chill. There's certaily now crowds or long lift lines to deal 
    with in the woods. 
    
    	Hey Deane, Come on and do so backcounrty adventure this weekend!
    It's skiing and it's cheap, even if you have to rent. You did say you
    wanted to get good at tigh tree skiing. Do it, You'll dig it!!
    
    	Keep active, don't expose skin and carry extra layers for when you
    stop.  
    
    Geoff

>    50 degrees in Colo Spgs for the next 4 days

there better be some snow in colorado by the time we get there, or i'm gonna
be pretty pissed!

- rich

    don't worry rich, Summit County is a fer piece from COlo Spgs and a lot
    HIGHER...worlds of difference
    
    rfb

Looks like it's snowing already outside in Nashua.  Only 1 to 3 or 4 to 6
inches predicted depending on the weather person, and where you are.


PeterT

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 The weather observed at BOSTON (BOS) at 12:50 PM EST was:
   The skies were overcast with light snow falling.
   Temperature: 34F ( 1C)   Dewpoint: 32F ( 0C)   Relative Humidity: 92%
   Winds from the NW (310 degs) at  9 mph.
   Pressure: 995.4 millibars.  Altimeter:29.40 inches of mercury.
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NEW ENGLAND FORECAST AND WEATHER STORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
1115 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS  
AND RHODE ISLAND THIS AFTERNOON...

SNOW WILL FALL ACROSS MOST OF NEW ENGLAND THIS AFTERNOON WITH 1 TO 3
INCHES ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE OVER MOST AREAS...EXCEPT 3 TO 6 INCHES
OVER CAPE COD AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS.  HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE
MAINLY IN THE 20S NORTH AND IN THE 30S SOUTH...BUT TEMPERATURES WILL 
FALL DURING THE AFTERNOON.

SNOW WILL TAPER OFF TO FLURRIES OVER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND
TONIGHT...FOLLOWED BY PARTIAL CLEARING.  WITH LOWS RANGING FROM 15
ABOVE TO 15 BELOW ZERO AND 15 TO 25 MPH WINDS...THE WIND CHILL WILL
DROP TO 20 TO 35 BELOW ZERO.
    
    

SATURDAY WILL BE PARTLY CLOUDY WITH DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS IN
THE RANGE OF 20 TO 40 BELOW ZERO.  LIGHT SNOW OR FLURRIES ARE POSSIBLE
OVER NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND.  HIGHS WILL RANGE FROM 10 BELOW ZERO OVER
NORTHERN VERMONT TO 20 ABOVE ALONG THE SOUTH COAST.

THE COMBINATION OF AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE REGION THIS
AFTERNOON EARLY TONIGHT TOGETHER WITH A COASTAL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
SKIRTING CAPE COD WILL PRODUCE SNOW ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.  STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE
AREA TONIGHT AND SATURDAY...USHERING IN EXTREMELY COLD AIR ACROSS THE
REGION.

JJG


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MASSACHUSETTS ZONE FORECASTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON/TAUNTON MA
1109 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

MAZ007-014>016-019-150100-
EASTERN ESSEX-EASTERN NORFOLK-EASTERN PLYMOUTH-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX-
SUFFOLK-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GLOUCESTER...LYNN...SALEM...CAMBRIDGE...
WALTHAM...WOBURN...BOSTON...QUINCY...COHASSET...PLYMOUTH
1109 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY...
.THIS AFTERNOON...SNOW WITH 2 TO 4 INCHES ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE.  HIGH
AROUND 35.  NORTHWEST WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TONIGHT...FLURRIES EARLY THEN CLEARING...BRISK AND TURNING
COLD.  LOW NEAR 10 TO 15.  NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SATURDAY...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL WITH FLURRIES POSSIBLE. SUNNY
AND BRISK WITH A HIGH IN THE MID TEENS.

$$

MAZ005-006-013-150100-
WESTERN ESSEX-WESTERN MIDDLESEX-WESTERN NORFOLK-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CONCORD...LOWELL...FRAMINGHAM...HAVERHILL...
LAWRENCE...FOXBORO...NORWOOD
1109 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY...
.THIS AFTERNOON...SNOW WITH 2 TO 4 INCHES ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE.  HIGH
IN THE LOWER 30S.  WIND BECOMING NORTHWEST 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TONIGHT...FLURRIES EARLY THEN CLEARING...BRISK AND TURNING COLDER
LOW 5 TO 10 ABOVE ZERO.  NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SATURDAY...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL WITH FLURRIES POSSIBLE. SUNNY
AND BRISK WITH A HIGH 10 TO 15 ABOVE ZERO.

$$

MAZ004-012-150100-
NORTHERN WORCESTER-SOUTHERN WORCESTER-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FITCHBURG...GARDNER...WORCESTER
1109 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY...
.THIS AFTERNOON...SNOW WITH 2 TO 4 INCHES ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE.  HIGH
IN THE UPPER 20S.  WIND BECOMING NORTHWEST 10 TO 20 MPH.
.TONIGHT...CLEARING...BRISK AND TURNING COLD.  LOW 5 TO 10 ABOVE ZERO.
NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SATURDAY...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL.  SUNNY AND BRISK WITH A HIGH
AROUND 10 ABOVE.

$$

MAZ002-003-008>011-150100-
EASTERN FRANKLIN-EASTERN)HQMPDEN-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE-WESTERN FRANKLIN-
WESTERN HAMPDEN-WESTERN HAMPSHIRE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHELBURNE...GREENFIELD...CHESTERFIELD...
BLANDFORD...AMHERST...NORTHAMPTON...HOLYOKE...SPRINGFIELD
1109 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

.THIS AFTERNOON...SNOW WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE.
TEMPERATURES FALLING INTO THE LOWER 20S.  WIND BECOMING NORTHWEST 10
TO 15 MPH.
.TONIGHT...FLURRIES EARLY THEN BECOMING CLEAR...BRISK AND TURNING
COLD.  LOW ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SATURDAY...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL WITH FLURRIES POSSIBLE. SUNNY
AND BRISK WITH A HIGH 5 TO 10 ABOVE.

$$

MAZ017-018-150100-
NORTHERN BRISTOL-WESTERN PLYMOUTH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATTLEBORO...TAUNTON...BROCKTON
1109 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY...
.THIS AFTERNOON...SNOW WITH 2 TO 4 INCHES ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE.  HIGH
IN THE LOWER 30S.  WIND BECOMING NORTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT...FLURRIES EARLY THEN CLEARING...BRISK AND TURNING
COLD.  LOW 10 TO 15 ABOVE.  NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SATURDAY...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL WITH FLURRIES POSSIBLE.
SUNNY AND BRISK WITH A HIGH NEAR 15.

$$

MAZ020-021-150100-
SOUTHERN BRISTOL-SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD...WAREHAM
1109 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY...
.THIS AFTERNOON...SNOW WITH 2 TO 4 INCHES ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE.  HIGH
IN THE LOWER 30S.  LIGHT NORTHEAST WIND BECOMING NORTHWEST 10 TO 15
MPH.
.TONIGHT...CLEARING...BRISK AND TURNING COLD.  LOW 10 TO 15 ABOVE
ZERO.  NORTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SATURDAY...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL WITH FLURRIES POSSIBLE.  SUNNY
AND BRISK WITH A HIGH NEAR 15.

$$

MAZ022>024-150100-
BARNSTABLE...CAPE COD-DUKES...MARTHAS VINEYARD-NANTUCKET-
1109 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY...
.THIS AFTERNOON...SNOW WITH 3 TO 6 INCHES ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE.  HIGH
IN THE MID 30S.  NORTHEAST WIND 10 TO 20 MPH BECOMING NORTHWEST LATE
IN THE DAY.
.TONIGHT...FLURRIES EARLY THEN CLEARING...TURNING WINDY AND COLD.  LOW
NEAR 15.  NORTHWEST WIND 20 TO 30 MPH.
.SATURDAY...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILL.  SUNNY AND BRISK WITH A HIGH
15 TO 20.

$$

JJG



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CSUS2 KBOS 140501
CLIMATOLOGICAL REPORT (DAILY)
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
1201 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

 ...TEMPERATURE...

HIGH YESTERDAY... 37 
LOW YESTERDAY.... 28
MEAN TEMP........ 33   DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL....PLUS 4

NORMAL HIGH FOR TODAY....36
NORMAL LOW FOR TODAY.....22
RECORD HIGH FOR TODAY....69 SET IN 1932
RECORD LOW FOR TODAY.....-8 SET IN 1914

...DEGREE DAY DATA...

HEATING
YESTERDAY...     32
MONTH.......    517
SEASON......   2522  DEPARTURE....PLUS 94

...SNOWFALL...
YESTERDAY...     TRACE
MONTH.......     26.4
SEASON......     38.0

...PRECIPITATION...

YESTERDAY.............   TRACE
TOTAL FOR THE MONTH...   2.80
NORMAL MONTH TO DATE..   1.49
TOTAL FOR THE YEAR....   2.80
NORMAL YEAR TO DATE...   1.49

...WIND DATA...

FASTEST 1-MIN WIND YESTERDAY......13 MPH
PEAK WIND GUST YESTERDAY..........17 MPH FROM THE N

...ASTRONOMICAL DATA...

SUNRISE TODAY......711 AM EST
SUNSET TODAY.......436 PM EST
SUNRISE TOMORROW...711 AM EST
SUNSET TOMORROW....437 PM EST

...END...


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FPUS1 KBOS 141019 AMD
MAZALL-CTZALL-RIZALL-152100-

STATE FORECAST FOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
520 AM EST FRI JAN 14 1994

.FRIDAY...SNOW WITH 2 TO 4 INCH ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE. HIGHS
FROM THE UPPER 30S TO THE MID 30S...TEMPERATURES GENERALLY FALLING
THIS AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...CLEARING WITH SOME FLURRIES. LOWS FROM NEAR ZERO TO 
15 ABOVE. 
.SATURDAY...DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS WITH SOME FLURRIES. SUNNY AND
BRISK WITH HIGHS FROM 5 ABOVE TO NEAR 20. 

.EXTENDED FORECAST...
.SUNDAY...CLEAR AND DANGEROUSLY COLD.  LOWS ZERO TO 20 BELOW.  HIGHS 
5 TO 15 ABOVE.
.MONDAY...INCREASING CLOUDS LEADING TO A CHANCE OF SNOW.  LOWS 15
BELOW TO 5 ABOVE ZERO.  HIGHS IN THE TEENS AND LOWER 20S.
.TUESDAY...CLEARING AND EXTREMELY COLD.  LOWS 15 BELOW TO 5 ABOVE
ZERO.  HIGHS IN THE TEENS AND LOWER 20S.

EP  


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SIGNIFICANT WEATHER DISCUSSION
PREPARED : 10:50AM Friday, 14 January 1994
by Michael Morgan 
  
	       	  LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW FRIDAY AFTN

                FOLLOWED BY BRUTALLY COLD WEATHER this weekend         

Cyclone to developing off of East Coast and heading northeast.  Cyclone may be
close enough for several inches of snow on the Cape and parts of eastern MA.
Models continue to move cyclone out to sea.  No evidence of it slowing down
or tracking more to the west.  Will go with 2 to 4 inches in Boston area
and up to 6 or so on the Cape.  This situation is still being watched closely.
Look here for updates.


The weekend will feature VERY cold temperatures and strong northwest winds.

DO NOT USE AFTER 4PM




 

yes, i heard about the cold weather coming.  i still wanna maybe kinda do
watatic on sunday, but i may not tote the alpine gear if it is too bitter.
btw, last sunday when i did this, it was clear as a bell!  i could see all
the tall buildings in boston!

my x-c stuff is marginal at best;  i have the 3-pin boots and some 215 or 220cm
skis...  maybe i'll do that, dunno.

who's gonna go skiing (downhill) in da cold weather?

hey carol, how'd ya get that report?  just send a msg to that address?

>hey carol, how'd ya get that report?  just send a msg to that address?

here's what works for me (from ultrix)

finger weather@cirrus.mit.edu@keymaster.crl.dec.com

>who's gonna go skiing (downhill) in da cold weather?

i don't mind skiing in somewhat cold conditions; in fact, i kind of like it,
because it keeps away the crowds

but there is a limit to how extreme i'll go; i was at jay peak 2 days after
christmas and the temperature, at the base, without the wind, was 24 below; i
won't even bother to guess what the windchill at the peak was

- rich

    
    allyou do is send an empty message to RISCEE::WEATHER
    
    waycool modern science!
    
    carol

    
    phew.  the thought of carol ftp'ing or fingering or whatever the hell
    was too much for me - I know she's my non-technical sister at heart!!
    :-)
    
    

Are you kidding ... she was going on and on about Mosiac and World Wide Web and
automatic mail response delta time periods, yesterday ...

Yeah, I got into Mosaic a coupla days ago.  Like someone said, "Sex is still
#1 but sliced bread is in serious danger!" ;-0

Man, you think Notes and Vnews are addicting timesinks, try Mosaic.
I'd call it pure network heroin!

josh

	It looks as though cross country skiing is what it's gonna be
	this weekend.   No way in hell I'm gonna let some cold weather
	keep me from being active for a weekend!  :-)

	Who can the weather command!
	

Yo!

    Me too, it says "SKI! and don't think about anything else till I'm warm
    and move around over the water".
    
    

WOW! cold weekend;  i got out for a few walks, really hadda bundle up though.
remained near 0F all day yesturday.  snow depth in the woods receeded a bit
over the last week - probably a result of that 1 or 2 warm days we had.  snow
depth is around 16" or so in littleton/harvard.


so, more snow on the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

psyched!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is ski country gonna get dosed?

let me see, Cannon as 2-for-1 tomorrow, right?  
anyone into blowing a day for skiing - send me mail.

    damn right it was cold....great day to brew a batch of beer inside !!!!
    
    more snow for sure, I guess the report says something like 6 to 10" by
    tuesday AM in eastern Mass...might change to rain in the Boston and
    coastal areas....
    
    had a slight dusting this AM....the temp at my house was 4F when I woke
    at 645....its so cold in the basement I wish I had a larger to brew !
    but thats another note....
    
    Chris

Yeah, I brewed too!  a weissen beer, totally inappropriate for this cold
season, but, i love the taste.

we have a new LL Bean clock in our pad that has a temp and humidity gauge
in it - it is hanging in the kitchen.  with all this cold weather, it has
been wicked dry in our pad, the meter is as low as it'll go!   but, when i
brew, i can get that thing to go up tons!  kinda fun to watch...

lemme see:

1 keg in the fridge right now, brewed about 2 wks ago;  still very young and
  quite fresh.  brown ale.  3 gals only.

1 keg aging... this one is gonna be real nice, i think, if i have the patience
  to wait.  dry-hopped in the keg w/ 1.25 oz kent goldings.  brewed 8 days
  ago.  dark, porter-like brew.  5gals.

1 5 gal batch in the primary, brewed last night...  using barvarian weast
  liquid yeast for the first time;  as of this am, no staht yet!  assuming   
  it'll take a few days as i did not make a stahter...  wheat brew.


i'll hold off for a 2 weeks or so, then go at it again...  one day 2-3 weeks
ago, i realised i had NO homebrew in the pipe, so now i just finished a 
brewing frenzy to correct this major problem!!!!!!!  i hate it when supplies
run dangerously low!

	HEY! This ain't the homebrew Note. Cut it out. You're making my
	THIRSTY!!!
							     ;-)
	
>  it'll take a few days as i did not make a stahter...  

	That's stahtah.

    
    we're closing at 1pm! 
    maybe this weather isn't so bad after all! :-)
    
    

We NEVER get early closings here!


have fun!

    I just came back from a quick trip home (10 minutes each way)....on the
    ride there it was snowing really pretty, then 10 minutes later, I get
    into my car to come back and freezing rain has replaced the snow.  It
    was just icing up the windshields pretty bad regardless of the
    defroster on full blast and my windshield wipers flying in a frenzy.
    I saw a few cars pull over to scrape it off.....hope it tapers off soon
    or it'll be a crazy ride home!
    
    :), d

    Cold ...It has been dangerously cold here in Minn.  Sat. Morning
    I went out and it was -26 at 8:00 AM.  It hasn't been above 0 for the
    past 2 or 3 days and the forecast is for no change except colder.
    One man living in Roseau, Minn on the Canadian/Minn Boarder showed 
    an "unofficial" reading of -46!!! 
    
    -30 tonight I heard.  Windchills (as irrelevent as they are IMO) 
    could get down to -70.  
    
    :-)
    
    Scott 

>    I saw a few cars pull over to scrape it off

then perhaps you saw me ;^)

it's pretty icy out there; i hate freezing rain - when's it gonna start
snowing again?

- rich

	Last night was the worse commute I've had in my 6 years of 
	commuting.....It was 25 degrees in Littleton and freeze 
	raining at 6:00, real hard.....but at 6:30 when I finally
	arrived in Acton (7 miles away) it was 40 degrees and just
	raining.....odd!

		

	Totally bummed over the lame rain!!!!!!!!!!

	geez, i was hoping for an all-snow january, but alas, that record
	has been broken.


i was gonna split north to ski today, but, when i saw the temp top 40F, i
decided not to for fear of ski country getting the dreaded rain too.  anyone
know for sure if they got all snow or a mix?

	gotta admit, it does look pretty nice outside right now w/ the
	snow in the trees and the sun shining bright.

	Snow country got royally dumped!!!!! :-)  :-)  :-)

    ride home yesterday sucked. shoveling this sh!t this morning rilly
    sucked. the ride in was wonderful ! I brought the camara and took a few
    pix....can't wait for the temps to drop tonite (-5 give or take a few
    degrees) (yeah right)
    
    Chris

    
    
    Yeah, the ride into Hudson from Westboro (the back way) was incredible
    this morning. Little spots of bright sunshine coming through the dark
    clouds and bouncing off the ice and snow that had clung to the trees
    overnight. Awesome, to say the least. Too bad I can't plan my
    flashbacks - this morning woulda been perfect ;^)

>	Snow country got royally dumped!!!!! :-)  :-)  :-)

good to hear that; probably should've bagged work and headed up north today

i hope that this rain hasn't totally ruined x-c skiing around here; i'll
probably give it a try tonite

- rich

p.s. the forecast at weather@cirrus.mit.edu says:

Next chance of snow Thursday afternoon.

    
    and now for something completely new and different:
    
    it's snowing in nyc.
    
    better call the location manager and see if we can scare him into
    closing the office again.  (I don't know, Kev,.. we're hearing 6
    FEET by tonight!)  :-)
    

Like I told you, what I said - I'm heading south.

    I'm going to a trade show in Orlando, FLA next month.  YES!!
    
    dave  :^)

It's Too Damn Cold!!

Reports are that the cold spell has now accounted for 88 deaths.  Greater
than the current toll of the LA earthquake, though not as much 
structural damage.

PeterT

    
    It's Too Damn Cold!! :-)
    
    Today was the 4th day since Sunday that NYC had record low temps. 
    Today's was 0 although it had climbed to a fairly balmy 5 by the time I
    left my apartment.  Normal average temp for January 20th is 37.
    
    

I like to think that, at my house this morning, it was 448 degrees K warmer
than outer space.

- DC

    its been 0 or below all week at my house when I got up, my car has
    started with a bit of trouble but today I swear it shuddered when it
    saw me coming toward it !
    
    but I have noticed that my warmup minute per gallon has improved, it was 
    a 1/4 of a tank per hour...now its about 1/8 of a tank per hour :')

i didn't realize how bad the situation was in pennsylvania until i spoke with
my mom last night; apparently they had a lot more ice on the roads then we did
up in new england, and a lot of highways were closed; on top of that, i guess
they're not quite as well equipped to deal with severe cold weather, because
they're running short on electricity; they've been having revolving blackouts
where the utility company shuts off electricity to one area for a while, then
moves the shut off portion around, to force energy conservation so that people
will have heat; the bad roads and energy situation means a lot of businesses
are shut down; my mom hasn't been to work since monday morning

- rich

    
    it's not just pennsylvania.  those revolving brown-outs are involving
    new jersey and I think delaware also.
    
    

    Ma Nature is doing some crazy stuff going on throughout the entire USA.  
    Today will be the first day in over 5 days that air temp will go above 
    0 in Minn.  This is the 4th longest cold spell in Minn. history.
    The govorner order the schools closed on Tuesday for the first time ever
    due to the -70 windchills being able to freeze exposed flesh in 30 seconds.
    Yikes!!
    
    :-)
    Scott
    
    

    
    
    Heard on the news yetahday that the breweries in Milwaukee (sp?) have
    stopped beer production because of the cold temps!
                                                             

    Holy F*^#!!!!!!!!1 I'd move south for a few days!!!!!!   %^)

>   Heard on the news yetahday that the breweries in Milwaukee (sp?) have
>   stopped beer production because of the cold temps!
 

No!  Not THAT!!!

...and just when ICE beers were becoming so popular!

;-)

tim

	Well, for me, I like this cold weather.  Yeah, it is damn cold, and
it hurts if you are not prepared, but if prepared, it is easy to deal with.
One thing we noticed while in England: people keep their homes a lot colder
then people in the US.  Lots of homes we went to were downright cold, in the
high 50s to low 60s, where as, many homes in the US that I've been too crank
it up to 68-74F !!  so maybe the energy drain is caused by folks trying to
maintain that 70F climate in their homes!  another case of the US pigging out
on the natural resources.  people should just wear more clothes and get 
themselves in shape.

	as a kid, i remember much colder weather then this.  i remember the
temps nearing -20F some winters, which is something i haven't seen here
since the late 70s.  

	so, as far as i'm concerned, bring on the cold!  it won't be long
until we get to the point of not being able to take off anymore clothes to
say cool and the season of heavily polluted air (that is: summer). 

>Lots of homes we went to were downright cold, in the
>high 50s to low 60s, where as, many homes in the US that I've been too crank
>it up to 68-74F !!

right now we've got our upstairs at 63 in the evening when we're home, and down
to 55 overnight and during the day if nobody's there; our frigid downstairs - i
try not to spend too much time there currently, but i think you could probably
leave milk out for a long time there and it wouldn't go bad

- rich

    JC, how come you can remember so much from when you were a kid when I can't
    rememebr what happened last week??????
    
    
    In the 50's here in COlo Spgs all weekend..we need some snow!!!
    
    rfb

>JC, how come you can remember so much from when you were a kid when I can't
>rememebr what happened last week??????

C'mon, rfb, you know as well as I do that it's just our old age.  Memory is
always the second thing to go...

;-)

    
    well I don't know about growing up in New England, but in NY we had
    plenty of snow as kids but the temps were no where near 20 below.
    

>      <<< Note 184.423 by TPSYS::CLARK "Can you picture what will be?" >>>
>                                  -< toasty! >-

>I like to think that, at my house this morning, it was 448 degrees K warmer
>than outer space.
    
    That is pretty toasty, isn't it?  I thought absolute zero was
    -273.15 degrees Kelvin?
    
    It's been too long since I've taken Chemistry...
    

>I thought absolute zero was
>    -273.15 degrees Kelvin?
    
>    It's been too long since I've taken Chemistry...
 
i guess so; absolute zero is 0 degrees kelvin

- rich

    
    >i guess so; absolute zero is 0 degrees kelvin
    yeah = what he said ... kelvin and hobbs say "that's bloody cold!"
    
    

    
    JC, you remember it being much colder than this as a kid?
    
    When I was a kid, I lived in Maynard, and I remember it being a much
    bigger town than it seems today.
    
    The '80s were full of wimpy winters, but I don't remember that it was
    that much colder when I was a kid ('70s) than it is now.
    
    For me, nothing compares with Indiana in January 1985.  That wind + cold
    was the most bone-chilling I've ever felt.
    
    Hogan (never too cold or hot for me ;^)

Whoops, I thought it was -473 degrees C.  So I got two digits right ... geez,
gimme a break, it's been 14 years since my last chemistry class!  ;^)

>   <<< Note 184.437 by ROCK::FROMM "It's hard to care about a don't care." >>>
>                      -< yeah, i know, ya meant celcius >-

>>I thought absolute zero was
>>    -273.15 degrees Kelvin?
    
>>    It's been too long since I've taken Chemistry...
 
>i guess so; absolute zero is 0 degrees kelvin

    Maybe it's been too many years without trying to connect my brain with
    my typing fingers...
    
    Hey Dave, my last chemistry class was in 1978. My mind just retains
    useless junk.  But I don't remember how cold it was that year.

    so .440 and .441  - you guys must be rilly rilly old, huh?

perhaps i don't remember right, perhaps i do.

i remember getting those cold snaps that would last a week or so and the
temp, as i remember, went to nearly -20F... one particular time i recall was
around christmas, but i don't remember the year... maybe '78? '79?  pipes
froze, the whole works.

i also recall going to school during many storms;  they'd only call it off
if it was really, really bad.  it seems too that these days, every storm
is "winter storm watch" - i seem to remember that when a storm was given
this designation, it was gonna be a biggie, not some lame 1" storm.  then
again, maybe those storms never happened and i just dreamed 'em up...

re: phyllis

where in NY did you grow up????  being further north and away from the ocean
has a big effect on temp.

from Littleton MA to Franconia NH, it is about 110 miles due north.  the
temps they have there run 10-20 less then here!  that's only 110 miles...

    I grew up in Watertown, N.Y., which is approximately 80 miles north of
    Syracuse.  School was closed a lot (at least 8 days/winter) due to
    lake-effect snow and because we were on the edge of a snow belt.  When
    I went home for Christmas this year I couldn't believe how COLD it was!
    All negative temps.  We also got ~3 feet of snow during the 5 days that
    I was home......makes me glad I live in Mass.!  
    
    :), danielle                     
                                     

Well, deb brought home yesturday's boston globe.  front page, above the
fold, states:  "this is the coldest january since 1981" ... so, perhaps i
am remembering correctly.  '81 would make me a sophomore in H.S...

    re .-1
    
    Fish for dinner last night??
    
    Funny, I saw that and drew the opposite conclusion, I thought you were
    rilly fried.  :-)  This month has been way below the average, and the
    ave. they showed was for '61-'9?.
    
    One of my snowfall theories is that modern plow blades throw the snow
    back further than they used to.  Therefore, the snowbanks aren't as
    high which gives the impression of less snow.  All I know (from trips
    to the compost heap) is that it's knee deep in our backyard.  Of course
    when I was a kid, all we had were snow rollers and draft horses.  They
    just packed it down, perfect for sleighs.
    
    Jamie

    I would also like to dispute the -20 temp. I was in high school then
    and do not have any recollection of -20 in Ma. However, my mother did
    call me the other day to say, amongst other things, "That's the same
    weather pattern that was happening in '78". Yes, she knows I like snow
    and was predicting a blizzard in February. Also the weather radio said
    something about all time record cold in the state, I don't think it was
    in 78 and in was only something like -24. We've been setting records
    here too. 
    	I've been setting records for me. Like this is the longest amount
    of time where the front hubs of my truck have been locked more often 
    than not. Between snow, ice, and wanting to park in the snowbank when 
    I got xc skiing, I've been in and out of 4wd for about a month. I've
    done more xc skiing this January than any January previous. I think
    I've seen more below zero days than I recall, but it certainly has been
    enpugh to change my perspective. I hear temp.s in the high teens and 
    consider it warm. 
    
    It's chilly!!
    Geoff

    whatever happened to Global Warming....I could use a little
    Massachusetts Warming  right about now
    
    Wes

>                     <<< Note 184.449 by MAGEE::OSTIGUY >>>
>                                -< c'mon Heat >-
>
>    whatever happened to Global Warming....I could use a little
>    Massachusetts Warming  right about now
>    
>    Wes


Mother Nature is counteracting it with the advent of the next ice age.

Geoff

    
    I grew up in Ossining, NY, which is in Westchester County, about 45
    minutes north of the city.  In the western part of Westchester County,
    not near the water.  It's about 2 minutes off the Taconic (in case you
    feel like stopping by and saying hi to my folks. ;-))
    
    We're actually supposed to hit the 20's today!  That's damn near
    tropical at this point! ;-)
    

    RE: .447 --- Jamie.  You and DC may possibly tie for having funniest
    weirdest minds in this file/on this coast.  Wonder if a vortex would 
    occur if you stood near each other ...
    
    

    re -.1
    
    set/voice="ross_perot"
    
    	"you'd hear this great sucking sound as your mind gets pulled out
    through your ears..."   :^)
    
    					da ve

    Gee, thanks, but I was mostly serious.  I have seen a snow roller in
    action and we did go for frequent sleigh rides on town roads.  My
    Grandfather used to keep horses, and he had a beautiful sleigh.  He
    even had the wide leather straps with bells on them.
    
    I guess taking that as a compliment qualifies me for something.  :-)
    
    Jamie

    60 degrees in Colo Spgs today!!!!!! supposed to be 65 tomorrow.
    
    rfb

I was going to enter a note musing as to whether or not the ice age that
Geoff mentioned is a result of the explosion in Siberia in the earlier part
of this century, but Carol's sufficiently intimidated me, so I won't.  ;^)

- DC

    
    >of this century, but Carol's sufficiently intimidated me, so I won't.
    aw com'n - do i remind you of a scary librarian or something?
    
    :-)
    

    Re: .455
    
    60!! in the Springs eh?  hold on to that nice weather until the second
    week in Feb. when I am down there in training.  Sure will beat the 
    cold up here - although this weekend it is suppose to get up into
    the mid to upper 30's ABOVE 0!!!!
    
    Anyone up for a brew or 6 on Feb. 8th or 9th in Colorado.
    
    How far is CXO to any of the micro breweries.
    
    :-)
    Scott

    
    CXO is about a 10 minute drive to Judge Baldwins, Becketts and
    The Phantom Canyon Brewery.   The PCB isn't getting grate reviews due
    to the greenness of the brews they are serving.  Baldwins and Becketts
    both serve some delicious brew.  
    
    I'll be glad to take you to both if you twist my arm.  Ahhh, alright 
    enough already!  I'll do it. What are the dates of your training?
     
    
    	Mark                                                   

    see ya when ya get here, Scot!
    
    rfb

    8th and 9th ofFeb for training.
    
    :-)
    Scott

    It's starting to get warm outside!  The snow is starting to melt and
    there is water (not ice) on the roads!
    
    

Just for the record, absolute zero is -273.15 deg C or -459.67 deg F or 0 deg K
And no, I didn't have this memorized but I did have an idea about -459 F.  At
first I thought I was confusing it with Farenheit 451, the book. :-)

So, it's about 270 K right now.  Pretty hot in the universal sense.

either way, it's f*ckin cold

adam

> Well, deb brought home yesturday's boston globe.  front page, above the
> fold, states:  "this is the coldest january since 1981" ... so, perhaps i
> am remembering correctly.  '81 would make me a sophomore in H.S...

Yeah, that fits in well with what I remember.  I was working as a night
shift operator in Cambridge at the time, living up in Marblehead.  So
I'd take the bus into Boston and then T over to Kendall Sq. and walk a 
few blocks.  Don't know about -20, but that Christmas season it was
definitely below 0 for about a week or more.  One weekend I came in
and the air conditioning had broken down in the computer room.  It was
over 100 in there.  Solved the problem by opening a window in the
office next to the computer room and putting up a couple of fans.  That
cooled things off quick ;-)  And I vividly remember thinking how much
warmer it felt when I saw one temperature/time clock that read 10 degrees
above 0.  And today it is positively balmy.

PeterT

	So, snow is here now; they're saying 2-4 in the boston area.
	More snow tomorrow, but they don't know how much or what
	kind (light fluffy?  heavy & wet?). 

	what's the prognosis for ski country for the next storm?  dumping?
	dusting?  i'm thinking of blowing friday off to ski;  i have my
	dunkin donuts proof-of-purchase ready to go for $10 off the Loon
	ticket!

    The only word I've heard is that this storm today will do the most
    snowing on the cape. Tomorrow nights storm is a maybe on rain so I 
    would expect it to be snow in the hills of NH. 
    
    	Robyn and I have talked about skiing, up and down, Cardigan on 
    Saturday. ANybody want to join us? the ticket is free!
    
    

    From todays Weather channel desk calendar:
    
    Getting high can be dangerous. Hypoxia is a physical illness
    resulting from lack of oxygen.  There is 30% less oxygen in 
    a plane or on a mountain highway at 10,000 feet than there is at
    sea level. Hypoxia's first signs can be drowsiness and slowed reflexes.
    
    :-)
    Scott
    

    
    Out in the high country SOME low altitude folks suffer from cardio-pulminary
    edemia (sp).  It is basically severe altitude sickness, resulting in
    severe shortness of breath, headaches, dizziness, nausea, and swelling
    of the heart.  Folks affected need to be evacuated to < 5000 feet for
    relief.  
    
    On the bright side, almost all low altitude folks catch a tremendous 
    buzz while partying at high altitude. Come to think of it, I do too. 8^).
    
    
    	Mark
    

    So that was that my problem Sunday???!!
    
    rfb

    hey rfb,
      I had the same sickness Sunday.  i just figgered it was a hangover.
    That drive home sunday was pretty quiet for sure
    
    	Mark

Geoff,

I might be game for Cardigain on Sunday; sat might not be possible though.


I heard another storm is gonna strike on sunday.  is this true??

	-9F according to my thermometer in littleton at 0715 this morning.
	it was -4F at 1:30am when i got home from ronnie...

    it was -8 at my house this AM @745....my father said it was -15 at 530
    when he gets up, he live down the street from me....
    
    yikes ! (Jum TM)
    
    the weather I heard for this area was like this....Snow tonite changing
    to sleet tomorrow AM then to RAIN ! temp tomorrow around 35ish...
    
    my car had a tough time today starting...the starter was froZen !
    
    Chris

-19 @ 6:30 am... Fitchburg

    -20 @ 5:30 a.m. in Wilton NH
    
    which brings up a question.  it seems to me that the house is making
    snapping, cracking sounds which *I* think can be attributed to the
    severe cold and the wood doingwhatever it does in the cold.
    
    anyone else hear things that go bump/snap and pop in the nite?
    
    

    re .-1
    
    mine has; pretty scary. Also, the freezing ground under one corner
    of my new room has expanded upward, dislocating one sliding door
    and putting a crack in the drywall. 

-15 at 5:30 this morning when I went out to warm up the cars and found a 
flat tire (transparent cross post to bummer note)

jeff

	House creeking is okay, but can cause damage, especially during
	thaw time.  The most damage is caused by foundation shifts. 


	Clutch fluid and transmission fluid was slush this morning, almost 
	couldn't shift.....shucks! and I would have had to stay home  ;-(

	I hadda give someone a jump staht this am...  
	i heard it was -26F in concord NH this am!

	wonder what MT Wash was at?

Yeah, my house makes those cracking/booming sounds too.  It's sort of a
'housequake', as the cold contracts the various materials in your
house and you get the "crack" when the the stress is released.
When it starts to get down to 10F and lower, we hear these quite often.
Haven't noticed any problems yet.  Hard to pin down exactly where it's
coming from too.

PeterT

Vehicles make a lot of interesting noises in this kinda cold, too ...

    
     it's probably just your pipes freezing up....
    
    just kidding :-)
    
    Sean

I was gonna head north today, but, slashmon convinced me to hold out for
a bigger, better storm that is supposed to strike on sunday/monday... 

what's the story w/ this storm?????????????????

    If it is the system that just moved over Minnesota you should get some
    decent fluffy snow.  We got about 5+ inches from this.
    
    :-)
    
    Scott

    
    Looks Like Rain for this area (Wistah area) for today NEway. 
    Temps are supposed to push 50deg. today. Possibility of T-storms for
    the drive home. Nor-easter supposed to be heading up from FL/GA area by
    Monday - looks like we mite get dumped on early next week to make up
    for the thaw 2day/2morrow.

    Well, it kind of makes up. I can't ski as well in my office as I can in
    my back yard (maybe after this rain I can). But it will help to get
    more snow.
    
    	Remember, my mother, from a far off distant view (Seattle) has
    predicted a blizzard of '94, noting the similarity to the weather
    pattern of '78. 
    
    Geoff

	I hope we get the "BIG ONE" soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  it has been
	too long.....

	i'm hoping for 5 FEET!

>I can't ski as well in my office as I can in
>    my back yard

so, have you tried skiing in your office?  i can't seem to find anything in
the safety manuals that prevents skiing within cubicles

/rich

    
    
    storm: from a co-worker- the weather people say late sunday into monday 
    possible acumulation of 18" to 24" ...
    
    after all, this is new england, hafta wait and see..
    
    Don_wanting_snow

    Well, my skiing trip didn't work out too well.  I drove up Thursday
    night to avoid the storm that was going to hit on Friday.  Friday I
    awoke to one of the worst ice storms I've seen.  I waited a little,
    then set out to drive from Littleton to Burke Mtn.  The driving was
    treacherous, and worsened as I made my way north.  I followed a
    tractor-trailer down I-91 and watched his trailer play catch-up with
    his cab down every hill.  I made it to Lyndonville, but just outside of
    town the roads were polished mirror smooth and impassable, and I turned
    around.
    
    I later found out that Burke was closed, as was Cannon Mtn., I-91, and
    the Franconia Notch Parkway.  The local school (St. Johnsbury Academy)
    clsoed for only its third snow day in 13 years!  Any of you who decided
    to stay home made the right choice.
    
    Jamie

re    <<< Note 184.491 by STUDIO::IDE "My mind's lost in a household fog." >>>

>    I later found out that Burke was closed, as was Cannon Mtn., I-91, and
>    the Franconia Notch Parkway.  The local school (St. Johnsbury Academy)
>    clsoed for only its third snow day in 13 years!  Any of you who decided
>    to stay home made the right choice.
 

wow!  i almost went last friday, glad i didn't!  

sorry to see that this supposed massive nor'easter blew out to sea or whatever.
so when's the next storm coming?

    Yah bummer. I listened to the forecasts last night to figure out where 
    the snow went. From the sounds of the offshore forecast for the waters
    south of Nantucket shoal, to the Haig line and out to 1000 fathoms, it
    sounds like you'd be shoveling a couple feet off the deck if you were 
    an offshore mariner. 

    
    Pretty cold but beautiful morning here in Colorado.  Crystal clear blue
    sky, Fresh snow on the front range.  I was looking out at sunrise and it 
    couldn't have been any more beautiful.  Stppoed my car on the way in and 
    just soaked it up for a while. WOW!!
               
    
    	Mark

    yep beutiful here in COLO. took me 2 cars to get to work, though. My
    nissan overheated at 0 degrees! 
    
    
    rfb

>    yep beutiful here in COLO. took me 2 cars to get to work, though. My
>    nissan overheated at 0 degrees! 

Frozen radiater!  Check your antifreeze - I bet its frozen into green slush.

josh

    more brown slush than green, Josh...that's the car I maintain the least of
    the five...the damn thang just won't die!!!
    rfb

      yup, beauty sunrise this am...  bright red across the whole horizon..
      minus 5 degrees on the thermometer at 6am this morning -- 
      the bus wouldn't start either - acted like the battery was too low/dead...
      went back to bed and tried again after another hour of sleep - no go...
      time for a new battery, tune-up, brake job, new rear window. etc....
      but need to get emissions and registration first and today was the end 
      of my grace period :^0       but can't do anything about it since I 
      took Danielle's car to work...  Oh well, be crossing my fingers drivin
      around tomorrow... 

      Beautiful ride in though and the snow was real crunchy too :^)

      Glennnn
      

    right now we (in the Shrewsbury area) are having a sunflury !

    
    it's been snowing here, from very light to fairly heavy, since about
    9am.  good thing the weather reports last night warned us all about
    snow on thursday so we would be good and prepared. ;-/
    
    

    
    snow's gone.. and blue skies have rolled in over the manhattan skyline.
    :-)
    
    

    snowing like crazy out side...what a long flurry we's have today !

    now its sunny with sorta blue skys....
    

    
    clear blue sunny skies down here - hope they hold out!
    

Rumor has it that there are major accidents on 495 around rte 2, rte 3, and 
rte 93...

Geoff

Just heard on the news; it was an overturned tractor-trailer truck on rte
495 ... massive traffic backups ....

    apparently the truck that was supposed to deliver oil to my house
    yesterday was in one of those accidents...  we got a call real
    early today...  "sorry we couldn't deliver yesterday...  truck was in
    an accident...  you'll have to find someone else to come deliver..."
    
    kinda chilly at chez da ve this morning...  :^(
    
    					da ve

bummer da ve, especially if you're out of oil now.  It was a long slow
ride home last night.  Did see a bunch of 18 wheelers off the side of
the road, but it looks like the worst of it was cleared up by the
time I went past.

PeterT

    
      could someone post the latest MA weather forecast?!?
    
                                       thanx_much....^dave

	I don't have the forecast, but I do have a funny feeling 
	this storm  could be a, if not the, big one.

    LOOK OUTSIDE....!!!
    
    its snowing in the Shrewsbury area right now !
    
    and from what I heard this AM it will be doing this until it stops :')
    
    no no...silly me, until tomorrow AM

    
    Heard on the news this morning, look for 6 - 12+ inches by tomorrow.
    It's snowing pretty heavily in Hudson already.

From:	RISCEE::daemon "Mr Background"  8-FEB-1994 09:01:36.23
To:	zendia::ferguson
CC:	
Subj:	Today's weather 

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 The weather observed at BOSTON (BOS) at 07:50 AM EST was:
   The skies were overcast.
   Temperature: 12F (-11C)   Dewpoint: -6F (-21C)   Relative Humidity: 43%
   Winds from the N (360 degs) at 11 mph.
   Pressure: 1031.2 millibars.  Altimeter:30.45 inches of mercury.
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ABUS31 KBOS 081059 

NEW ENGLAND FORECAST AND WEATHER STORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
530 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

...WINTER STORM WARNINGS FOR TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ARE IN EFFECT FOR
SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND...
...WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY FOR
SOUTHERN VERMONT...

TODAY...SNOW WILL OVERSPREAD SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND WITH HEAVY SNOW
POSSIBLE IN THE SOUTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON.  NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND WILL
GENERALLY BE CLOUDY.  HOWEVER MAINE WILL STILL HAVE SUN MUCH OF THE
DAY.  HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL RANGE FROM 10 BELOW TO 10 ABOVE
NORTH...15 TO 25 SOUTH.

SNOW WILL OVERSPREAD THE REST OF THE SIX STATE REGION TONIGHT AND
WEDNESDAY...WITH HEAVY SNOW AT TIMES OVER SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.  THE
SNOW WILL CHANGE TO SLEET...THEN POSSIBLY EVEN RAIN...OVER SOME
COASTAL SECTIONS OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND.  LOWS WILL BE FROM 10 TO 30
BELOW FAR NORTH...10 BELOW TO 10 ABOVE OVER THE REST OF THE
NORTH...AND 5 TO 25 SOUTH.  HIGHS WEDNESDAY WILL REACH INTO THE SINGLE
NUMBERS AND TEENS NORTH...20S TO LOWER 30S SOUTH.

AN ARCTIC FRONT IS NEARLY STATIONARY TO THE SOUTH OF NEW ENGLAND.  LOW
PRESSURE IN THE TENNESSEE VALLEY THIS MORNING WILL MOVE ALONG THE
FRONT AND SHOULD BE SOUTHEAST OF NANTUCKET AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. 
ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE AREA IN THE OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT WILL MOVE ALONG
THE FRONT AND MOVE OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ACROSS NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND THROUGH THE
PERIOD.

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FPUS5 KBOS 080928

MASSACHUSETTS ZONE FORECASTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON/TAUNTON MA
428 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

MAZ007-014>016-019-081800-
EASTERN ESSEX-EASTERN NORFOLK-EASTERN PLYMOUTH-SOUTHEAST MIDDLESEX-
SUFFOLK-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GLOUCESTER...LYNN...SALEM...CAMBRIDGE...
WALTHAM...WOBURN...BOSTON...QUINCY...COHASSET...PLYMOUTH
428 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

...WINTER STORM WARNING THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

.TODAY...SNOW DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON WITH ACCUMULATIONS LESS THAN 2
INCHES.  HIGH 15 TO 20.  NORTH WIND 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TONIGHT...SNOW...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES.  TEMPERATURES REMAINING 15
TO 25.  NORTHEAST WIND 15 TO 20 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY...SNOW...MIXING WITH OR CHANGING TO SLEET.  TOTAL SNOW
ACCUMULATION THROUGH WEDNESDAY 6 TO 12 INCHES.  HIGH 20 TO 25.

$$

MAZ004>006-012-013-081800-
NORTHERN WORCESTER-SOUTHERN WORCESTER-WESTERN ESSEX-WESTERN MIDDLESEX-
WESTERN NORFOLK-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FITCHBURG...GARDNER...CONCORD...LOWELL...
FRAMINGHAM...HAVERHILL...LAWRENCE...WORCESTER...FOXBORO...NORWOOD
428 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

...WINTER STORM WARNING THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

.TODAY...SNOW DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4
INCHES.  HIGH AROUND 10.  LIGHT NORTH WIND.
.TONIGHT...SNOW...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES.  LOW AROUND 10.  LIGHT
NORTHEAST WIND.
.WEDNESDAY...SNOW...POSSIBLY MIXING WITH OR CHANGING TO SLEET.  TOTAL
SNOW ACCUMULATION THROUGH WEDNESDAY 6 TO 12 INCHES.  HIGH AROUND 20.

$$

MAZ011-081800-
EASTERN HAMPDEN-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HOLYOKE...SPRINGFIELD
428 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

...WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

.TODAY...SNOW DEVELOPING WITH ACCUMULATION OF 2 TO 4 INCHES.  HIGH 15
TO 20.  LIGHT NORTH WIND.
.TONIGHT...SNOW...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES.  LOW AROUND 15.  NORTH WIND
AROUND 10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY...SNOW...POSSIBLY MIXING WITH OR CHANGING TO SLEET.  TOTAL
ACCUMULATION THROUGH WEDNESDAY OF 6 TO 12 INCHES.  HIGH 20 TO 25.

$$

MAZ002-003-008>010-081800-
EASTERN FRANKLIN-EASTERN HAMPSHIRE-WESTERN FRANKLIN-WESTERN HAMPDEN-
WESTERN HAMPSHIRE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHELBURNE...GREENFIELD...CHESTERFIELD...
BLANDFORD...AMHERST...NORTHAMPTON
428 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

...WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

.TODAY...SNOW DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON WITH ACCUMULATION OF 2 TO 4
INCHES.  HIGH AROUND 10.  LIGHT NORTH WIND.
.TONIGHT...SNOW...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES.  LOW 5 TO 10 ABOVE.  NORTH
WIND AROUND 10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY...SNOW...POSSIBLY MIXING WITH SLEET.  TOTAL ACCUMULATION
THROUGH WEDNESDAY OF 6 TO 12 INCHES.  HIGH 15 TO 20.

$$

MAZ017-018-081800-
NORTHERN BRISTOL-WESTERN PLYMOUTH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ATTLEBORO...TAUNTON...BROCKTON
428 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

...WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

.TODAY...SNOW DEVELOPING WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES.  HIGH
AROUND 20.  WIND BECOMING NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT...SNOW...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES.  LOW 15 TO 20.  NORTHEAST
WIND 15 TO 20 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY...SNOW...CHANGING TO SLEET WITH A TOTAL ACCUMULATION
THROUGH WEDNESDAY OF 6 TO 12 INCHES.  HIGH AROUND 25.

$$

MAZ020>024-081800-
BARNSTABLE...CAPE COD-DUKES...MARTHAS VINEYARD-NANTUCKET-
SOUTHERN BRISTOL-SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD...WAREHAM
428 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

...WINTER STORM WARNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

.TODAY...SNOW DEVELOPING WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 INCHES OR LESS.  HIGH
20 TO 25.  NORTHEAST WIND AROUND 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT...SNOW...POSSIBLY CHANGING TO SLEET AFTER MIDNIGHT.  LOW 20
TO 25.  NORTHEAST WIND INCREASING TO 15 TO 25 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN...POSSIBLY CHANGING TO RAIN.
TOTAL ACCUMULATION THROUGH WEDNESDAY 4 TO 6 INCHES.  HIGH 30 TO 35.

$$

JRS



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CSUS2 KBOS 080541
CLIMATOLOGICAL REPORT (DAILY)...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOSTON MA
1241 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

 ...TEMPERATURE...

HIGH YESTERDAY... 38
LOW YESTERDAY.... 18
MEAN TEMP........ 28
                            DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL........MINUS 1
NORMAL HIGH FOR TODAY....36
NORMAL LOW FOR TODAY.....22
RECORD HIGH FOR TODAY....66 SET IN 1933
RECORD LOW FOR TODAY....-12 SET IN 1934

...DEGREE DAY DATA...

HEATING
YESTERDAY...     37
MONTH.......    272
SEASON......   3597  DEPARTURE....PLUS 251

...SNOWFALL...
YESTERDAY...     0.0
MONTH.......     1.0
SEASON......     46.3

...PRECIPITATION...

YESTERDAY.............   0.00
TOTAL FOR THE MONTH...   0.05
NORMAL MONTH TO DATE..   0.89
TOTAL FOR THE YEAR....   5.27
NORMAL YEAR TO DATE...   4.48

...WIND DATA...

FASTEST 1-MIN WIND YESTERDAY......23 MPH
PEAK WIND GUST YESTERDAY..........36 MPH FROM THE W

...ASTRONOMICAL DATA...

SUNRISE TODAY......650 AM EST
SUNSET TODAY.......507 PM EST
SUNRISE TOMORROW...649 AM EST
SUNSET TOMORROW....508 PM EST

...END...


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FPUS1 KBOS 080951
MAZALL-CTZALL-RIZALL-082100-

STATE FORECAST FOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
400 AM EST TUE FEB 8 1994

...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR ALL OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN
MASSACHUSETTS TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...
...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR ALL OF RHODE ISLAND AND THE REMAINDER OF
MASSACHUSETTS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY...

.TODAY...SNOW DEVELOPING THIS MORNING IN SOUTHWEST AREAS...AND THIS
AFTERNOON IN EASTERN AREAS.  ACCUMULATION BY EVENING WILL RANGE FROM
AROUND 6 INCHES IN THE SOUTHWEST TO LESS THAN 2 INCHES IN THE EAST
COASTAL AREA.  HIGH IN THE TEENS.
.TONIGHT...SNOW...POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES.  TEMPERATURES REMAINING IN
THE TEENS OR CLIMBING INTO THE LOWER 20S.
.WEDNESDAY...SNOW...MIXING WITH OR CHANGING TO SLEET.  TOTAL SNOW
ACCUMULATION THROUGH WEDNESDAY 6 TO 12 INCHES.  HIGH IN THE 20S EXCEPT
LOWER 30S ALONG THE SOUTH COAST.$$

.EXTENDED FORECAST...
.THURSDAY...RAIN AND SNOW ENDING. LOWS IN THE TEENS AND LOWER
20S.  HIGHS IN THE 30S.
.FRIDAY...FAIR AND COLD.  LOWS ZERO TO 10 ABOVE INLAND...10 TO 20
ALONG THE COAST.  HIGHS IN THE 20S.
.SATURDAY...FAIR.  LOWS ZERO TO 15 ABOVE.  HIGHS IN THE 20S.$$



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SIGNIFICANT WEATHER DISCUSSION
 

    
    it's been snowing here in nyc since about 8:00am.  the office
    officially closed at 3:30.  last weather report said to expect 18 more
    hours of precipitation.  
    
    yo mr. henderson - how many days til memorial day???????  
    
    ;-}
    

Memorial Day - Mr. Henderson would know for sure, nut my guess is 118 too 
many!

>the office
>    officially closed at 3:30.

how come we generally get more snow up here than in nyc, but we never close
early?  no fair.

/rich

    
    'cause it's not the snow that's the problem - it's the ice.  We may
    only get say, 8 inches of snow, but then we'll get inches of sleet and
    ice on top and the roads around the city all become impassable -
    sidewalks are like pure ice - I have two friends who are now on
    crutches with broken ankles after the last storm.
    
    This one isn't so bad, at least in Manhattan.  The precipitation has
    stopped, and while the roads have a lot of snow on them, the sidewalks
    are pretty clear and nothing is that icy - at least not yet.  The other
    boroughs are worse, though.  It's still sleeting in Queens - I know La
    Guardia's been closed for hours and nothing much is getting out of
    Kennedy.  Early morning flights were cancelled in Newark, too, but I
    don't know what's happening now.  
    
    It's probably pretty bad everywhere cause the office is practically
    empty.
    
    

> sidewalks are like pure ice - I have two friends who are now on crutches
> with broken ankles after the last storm.

Get some golf cleets.  Works wonders on the ice.

...and they look great too! ;-)


- jeff

    golf spikes ? hummmm thats an idea !
    

The roads didn't seem too bad this morning, but I did see a pretty 
spectacular spin-out on 495 through my rearveiw mirror.  I think this
guy tried to change lanes a bit too quick.  He was in the left hand
lane, and all the lanes were for the most part, two clear tracks for 
your tires with snow everywhere else.  By the time I caugt a glimpse
of it, this car was heading at about a 45 degree angle across the whole
road.  In the right hand lane it looked like he almost gained control 
again, but must have overcompensated, and ended up doing a 360 before 
burying himself in a snow bank.  Snow spraying everywhere... Whoa.
They were lucky, as there was no one else close enough to crash into
them, and the car was stuck well enough into the snow bank as to be
totally out of the way of oncoming traffic.  Having nearly lost control
twice so far this winter, I sympathisized with the driver, but it looked
like they would get away unscathed, if a bit adrenaline charged, and
perhaps in need of a tow to get back onto the road.

PeterT

Saw a 'bendah yesterday on rt. 9 in F-ham about 150' in front of me.
Car 1 was minding it's own business, puttering along at a happy 30mph in the left
lane.  Car 2 pulls out onto rt. 9 from Ken's Steak House and drives (not
slides, DRIVES) right over into the left lane that already occupied by Car 1.
...and the plastic/paint/hubcaps flew.

Observations of Car 2 showed uncleaned, snowy, fogged-up windows and a driver
not looking where he was going!  

Stupidity at its finest!  :-|

- jeff_who_felt_obligated_to_stop_
  and_act_as_witness_but_was_already_
  late_getting_back_to_work;_but_
  wondering_if_it's_worth_a_call_to_
  the_police_station_to_see_if_it'll_
  help_the_poor_woman_in_Car_1_with_
  her_insurance_claim.

    Call the police station, Jeff!  It's frustrating trying to prove your
    point when there were no witnesses around.  If no one stopped, it could
    just be Car 1's word against Car 2's word....:):)
    
    :),
    danielle_who_went_through_a_horrible_ordeal_kind_of
    	_like_this_before_where_it_was_the_other_persons_
        _fault_but_NO_WITNESSES_therefore_a_very_messy_and
    	_frustrating_insurance_battle  :(

I called the F-ham police dept. but there's nothing I can do since the drivers
just exchanged #'s and didn't file a police report... 

The PD doesn't even have their names, all they know is where, and when... Oh
well, it was worth a try.

- jeff

    
    hlo is closing for the day...  groups are being sent home in rotation
    so that everyone doesnt' end up at the traffic lights at the same time
    (big pile up potential)...  my group can start filing out in about 20
    minutes!  :^)

Our site just closed:

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From:	NAC::DELEO "Diane DeLeo SW Licensing Group 227-3705"  11-Feb-1994 1410"
To:	@DSM
CC:	DELEO
Subj:	building closing



Folks

Due to the weather the building will be closing at 3:30.  I just spoke with 
Ron Higgins and was advised to let you know that you can leave between know 
and than.  Please be advised that the building is closing and everyone 
needs to be out.

Please drive carefully

Thanks
Diane

>    hlo is closing for the day...

how come i work here and only find out these kind of things thru grateful?

- rich

     >>how come i work here and only find out these kind of things thru
    grateful?
    
    rich - that's exactly what i was just thinking 

    yipppeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
    
    
    outta here!
    
    ~danielle

	last friday had to be the first TAY closing i've ever experienced!
	actually, i left at 2pm to head north.

Finally got a chance to get in here today...

The colorado pre-sunrise-cloud-show this morning was un-f'in'believable...

I wake up around 5:45 and you could look out over the horizon and just see some
light showing under the clouds-- by the time it was 6:30 on my way to work
there were reds/oranges/pinks/purples all through the clouds stretching 
from the horizon to the clouds directly overhead....  Quite a sight...

My daughter (who I accompany while she waits at the bus stop) stepped out the
door this morning and simply said "WoW! That's cool" 

any other CO heads check out the sky early this am???

Glennnn

	Glennnnnn,
	
	The sunrise was particularly red/orange in the NE this am also. I
	thought it was because of the snow squalls passing through. Quite
	impressive here too.
	
	Jay (NE head who checks out the sky early every morning)

    Hey Glennn,
      I couldn't believe it either.  The clouds also had this layered 
    sandstone like effect. I was pissed it didn't have a camera. 
    
    	Mark
    

    
    Forecasts for Boston & vicinity say possibility of 60+degrees this
    weekend. Yaaahhhoooooo!!! No offense to the snow-types among us. ;^)
    
    
    			jeff_who_can't_wait_for_good_weather_so's_I
    			can_get_my_Harley_outta_my_living_room_and_back
    			on_da_streets

	No offense taken!!!

	I got a touch of spring fever t'day meself....

	Pretty soon the Maple sap will start running, the ski slopes
	will be empty with people yet full of delicious corn snow, the 
	days will be getting longer, spring tour, mating season.... 

	gotta love it!!!! :-)
	

    yup springs just around the corner, got to pay my membership dues to
    the golf course by the 1st of March :') not much longer !!!!
    
    Chris

as much as a like winter, i must say that today is a beautiful day today!

- rich

p.s. ne1 up for x-c skiing on saturday in framingham?

Hate to say this guys but...

Since we're getting our January thaw in February that means winter is going 
to last until May:-)

Geoff_who_is_also_looking_forward_to_a_nice_warm_weekend:_my_truck_needs_a
_week_or_so_of_sunny_70_degree_weather_:-)

re<<< Note 184.537 by SALES::GKELLER "An armed society is a polite society - RH" >>>
                              -< Winter till ??? >-

>Since we're getting our January thaw in February that means winter is going 
>to last until May:-)

I hope you're right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


jc_bummed_at_wahmah_weathah

    bring on mating season!!!!! (but NO MORE KIDS!!!!)
    
    saw 5 whooping cranes or Great Blue herons flying over the Springs
    yesterday...large birds with long necks
    rfb

I could deal with Spring now and more snow/winter later - say in about
4-6 weeks :^)

Robyn

>                       -< I vote for postponing winter >-

i vote for bringing on the mating season

/rich

    mating ? what are you gonna mat ? 
    
    
    oh, mate , never mind....

    
    It's definitely beautiful outside.  I just went out to get lunch in
    regular shoes - no boots!  Of course I could only cross the street
    right on the corners where the snow is gone but it still felt good. :-)
    
    

	Viva le mating season! ;-)

I thought winter was the mating season?  ;^)

    60+ in DC, 65+ tomorrow, it's real nice except for the mud, sand, etc..
    from the recent ice.  Tomato, and Peppers seeds get planted inside on
    Sunday for the summer crops. Hurry SPring....

    mmmmmmmmmmmmm... garden fresh tomatoes and peppers! THATS what i 
    miss the most now, the fresh stuff!

re: deano and rich and mating season.

wait a week guys!

    re .548
    
    fraid not! Breckinridge is famous for 5 guys to 1 gal...keep an eye on
    Deb, JC! The locals are a hungry bunch! course that didn't seem to hurt
    the chances of a chosen few at the last Shakedown gig in Breck! 
    
    rfb

    ...NOW he tells you, eh guys? ;-) ;-)
    
    tim
    

    I like the stats.....;')
    
    

    Hey rfb,
    
    Now that you've let the air out of their balloon, the law of averages
    tells me there's probably another place with the same numbers in the
    opposite direction...I mean, after all, there are slightly more women
    in the general population then men, so presumably since they're not in
    Breckinridge....they're someplace else...?   Trolling for millionaires
    in Aspen and Vail?
    
    No plans - just thinking about the future...keeping abreast of trends,
    so to speak...;-)
    
    tim
    

    
     Re: -1
    
     I think there's more woman in Australia.....:-) 
    
    Sean

    
    
    trolling for millionaires.....?????
    
    tim tim tim tim tim !!!!!!
    
    
    

fascist supporter of the patriarchy!!!  ;^)

    
    
    :-)

    tim -- there's a lot of sheep in Southern COlo, lots of lonely antelope
    in South Park...

>    tim -- there's a lot of sheep in Southern COlo, lots of lonely antelope
>    in South Park...


Sheep?  Not Ba-a-a-a-a-ad..;-)

tim

    
    To you folks heading out to Breck this week - They are getting dumped
    on in a preety nice way.  I'd expect the skiing to be pretty excellent.
    :^)
    
    Go forth and shred them slopes
    
    

    what MNELSON said....2 big dumps forcasted for this week for the
    mountains./..
    
    rfb

>    what MNELSON said....2 big dumps forcasted for this week for the
>    mountains./..

yippie!

i was getting a bit nervous when you guys were talking about temps in the 50s
and 60s last month

and then jc sent me a note about 9 feet in 9 days in british columbia, which
is probably too far for a day trip from breck ;^)

- rich

>>  2 big dumps forcasted for this week for the mountains...
  

8^)


rfb - know what you're doin yet??


glennnn_looking forward to this weekend....

    Just for a little comfort back east as the snow melts into my well, 
    The extended forecast has precipitaion on Wednesday, mostly snow in 
    the interior and snow again on Friday.
    
    	Hope your plane get's out of Logan.

    do i EVER know what I'm doin, glennn???
    
    looks like goin up sat for a ski, Shamus Sat nite, home sun...all
    subject to change of course - yer welcome, as always
    
    rfb

    
    re       <<< Note 184.563 by SANDZ::SAMPSON "Driven by the wind" >>>
                                -< Relief is in sight >-
    
    Thanks for the grate news.  Lisa and Lindsey fly into Logan on
    Wednesday and I fly in Friday Night. :^0
    
    We're supposed to be covering some serious ground in a week 
    (MA->NY->RI->MA).  Oh well, A little snow never hurts anyone.
    
    	Hope the planes get into Logan, Too
    
    	Mark
    
                             

Are you guys and gals ready to pahty out in colorado???  ya mon!!


the weather here is dreadful!!!!!
can't hack the loss of all this snow!

	Saw Colorado on the tube last night, looks awesome!

	We'll be skiing at Winter Park/"Maryjane"  on Saturday....
	sounds like a grate place!

re      <<< Note 184.567 by AKOCOA::SMITH_D "24 and there's so much more" >>>


>	We'll be skiing at Winter Park/"Maryjane"  on Saturday....
>	sounds like a grate place!


with a name like that, it is bound to be good!
:-)

    MaryJane got a bunch of snow according to the weather/ski reports
    Should we try and make a plan? or play meeting by ear?
    
    rfb