Weather thread

Whew just got in from cleaning up the driveway.  What a time for a wire to break rendering my plow useless.  Finally got it fixed and everything is cleaned up.
 
No clue why it dropped. like said above it says 900 till Monday.   With the ground still being pretty warm a little of this snow is melting.   I would not be surprised if the actual flow of the river minus run off is around 500 or so.   I would think we will see it bump back up .
  My friend in Redfield said  they got well over a foot and farther up on the tug got 20 plus.   Here we got between 6 and 10 with much larger drifts. 

Aha.....answer is....they dropped flow to 335. Pville gauge just under 700.

Definitely odd, but definitely for a reason... the rain snow line was undefined with this storm and it ended up changing to snow faster than predicted in the upper reaches, while pulaski had pouring rain for a longer time... now take in to consideration the extended forecast. There is no threat of liquid precipitation or warm temps at all. Winter is here and the res is full which is a good thing. Maybe brookfield is keeping a closer local eye on the water system. With the faster rain toto snow change over they maybe decided to close the gates and save that liquid gold of theres for a more slow steady income producer??? And in turn its going to give us a great winter flow and winter water temps for some time to come!!!

Kudos to anyone who didnt cancel their trip and getting out tomorrow...wish i could be out there with ya

Hopefully they are keeping a closer eye on it clint. As they are basically playing with fire. They have recieved much negative feed back in the past few years so i imagine they are/should be keeping a closer eye on it. This makes me wonder now what impact it would have on the river??? If they really started monitoring and managing this system better it would be a win win situation...what do you think??? They would benefit from maximizing their profit margins and the fishery would benefit as well... just a thought here, but i would think that the better they mamage the water, the more natural the river would flow maybe???? Would the river maybe come up and down similar to a natural flowing river??? I dont know, just using my imagination here. But i would love to see a more varying flow than a steady redundant norm...just look at the recent pineville chart, its up and down like a natural flowing stream... its actually mostly identical to all surrounding streams with natural flows... could be wishful thinking on my part, but hey... ya gotta exercise dreedom of speech sometimes

clint, im out of town for the holiday, but i imagine there is quite a bit more than a foot in altmar, unless the saturated ground has melted from the sub surface...  you should be hitting the water when your errands are done!!!!

You aint kidding lucky... pulaski is calling for a foot plus... we all know that could end up being 2+ in altmar and more on the tug. Its about time... im happy for the local establishments that rely on the snow moblie traffic as it should be a banner year for them

It started snowing down here late this afternoon.  Calling for 3-6" in my area with a wintery mix included.  Sounded like rain /freezing rain a shortime ago which I think is far worse.  I would prefer all snow as opposed to the ice that comes along with a mix.  Heavy winds are expected as the storm moves by so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we don't lose power. 

12inches of fresh snow in altmar
and the river is fishing just fine :)

I got six inches of that heavy crusted heart attack snow.  Snow, heavy rain, freezing rain, back to snow, the kind of stuff that makes you hate winters in the coastal northeast.  I'll take two feet of powder over this stuff anytime.  Something headed our way this Saturday but not supposed to be too bad.  

Snowing a little this  AM, but the roads are REAL slick.  Did not go anywhere  but town as I want to be able to get my stuff done to watch SU play in the Pinstripe bowl.

I used my snoblower on mine and 3 neighbors driveways Thurs.
Definately a foot of general coverage with drifts 2 1/2 foot of wet heartattack snow.
We have a Bday party to attend tonite so I did mine at about noon and there is a solid inch on it already.
Tiny flakes that don't look like much but add up quick.
 
PS I hate the sidewalk plow that will come thru around 1 a m and push a 5-6 foot berm on either side to go along with the bigger one the road plow makes (if they decide to plow side streets).

A few inches last night ,  nothing big.   Went from 18 degrees to 10 degrees in the last 45 minutes.   Will be below 0 tonight for sure.   Here is the kicker going to be 44 next Wednesday.
Am hoping for some safe ice in close up north this saturday.
 
Now I see the river is up to 750 until Sunday.   I wonder if they are  looking forward to the warm weather next week melting some snow.

-12 in Sandycreek  and - 8 here.   Freaking cold.   Keep warm today.

Supposed to get a small blast tonight.  Will spend tomorrow or Sunday pushing back the banks with the tractor.  Warmed up to around freezing today.
 
Well even with the colder weather I am getting VERY conflicting reports on ice conditions and even though I hear Sandy pond has people on it.  I am l leery about going out.  Might be time for a little run up to the river.....
 
WHOA they shut the water off early.  down to 285 tonight!!    Decision may have gotten easier.