Be careful what you wish for when it involves weather. You could get so much snow you can't leave the house.

Oh darn.. lol Since I have to work all weekend that'd be nice! lol

We got about 8 inches of snow so far and now it is a rain/snow mix coming down. Temps are in the mid 30's with humidity about 92%. Wind is blowing at about 15 mph with gusts reaching 30 to 35. More snow on the way for tomorrow. Wow for a brief moment there I felt like a meterologist...LOL.

we have about 4 inches so far and it's still coming down.

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My forecast for 10 miles north of Boston calls for 6-10 inches, beginning late tonight (eleven or midnight) and going through 'til tomorrow early afternoon. Winds up to 35 mph.

It hasn't started here yet. The winter storm warning is in effect from 7 tonight until early tomorrow afternoon. We have lots of milk (for hot chocolate) lots of sugar, flour, eggs and 'stuff' (for making Christmas cookies) cat food (one of life's great necessities) library books, gasoline (for the snowblower) and perhaps most importantly, walking distance neighbors so my DD can leave the house and go bother somebody else. I think we are set.

The forecast is for only about 6" here. We are about where the pink ends and the white starts on the Weather Channel maps. Which means we could get anything from a light dusting to about 10" or so, depending on the exact track of the storm. At least it's a weekend, so the schools aren't trying to figure it out.

"Lucky" isn't the word for it after spending the day driving to Philly (8" and counting when I left) and back only 3", but more to come). "ICK" is more like it, and I haven't even started shoveling yet.

looks like were going to end up with 6+ inches here.
snow is starting to taper off now.

We had 12" of heavy snow Friday evening and night with a few more sifting down since. Tons of pine trees down-- massive power outages-- 70,000 people in my county alone have been without power for 36 hours in freezing temps-- some streets have not been plowed. I got power back but no phone, no TV, no driving on my hill, and walking is very precarious. Kentstar, come on down and get some snow from lucky us.

I think we ended up with about 10 in. here in Yardley---

We are fortunate--my son has a snow plow on his truck so he keeps our driveway cleaned out----

Good days for baking cookies----listening to beautiful music---finish trimming the trees---we are only doing two this year----

Hope everyone is safe and warm

Florence

18", and WABC NY was in my town broadcasting this AM, they usually only come to these parts when a Nor'Easter hits Sea Bright...

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Looks to be about 10" here, although it's tricky to figure because of the heavy drifting. It's also still snowing, but not so intensely as it was at 7:00 am. It's definitely winding down.

our 6+ inch snow was a light and fluffy snow, so, no damage to anything here in central pa.
some places really got hammered with high amounts of snow and it caused many accidents and damage.
god bless those of you in those areas!

diane nj, do you live in Sea Bright? I grew up in Little Silver, you might know where that is then.
I miss the ocean there and boardwalk!

No, but close... I drive through Little Silver every day!

My Mom and Dad live in Red Bank, and my sister lives in Shrewsbury! It's a small world alright! lol My grown up kids live in NJ, one in Jackson, one in Matawan, one in Long Branch.

Kentstar, send me an e-mail.

Kenstar- We've been very lucky NOT to get a lot of snow so far this year. Last year at this time, we had 20" of snow fall in one day...almost 100" for the season and twenty roofs collapsed on stores and businesses. We were very fortunate that most of the roof collapses happened at night and no one was seriously injured or killed.

A little snow is pretty, makes everything look like a Christmas card and can help insulate your roses. Too much snow can cause power outages, roof collapses and worse. I hope all of you who are dealing with the extreme weather stay safe and hopefully get the power back on and stay warm!

Some of my dad's family comes from upstate New York (Buffalo & Syracuse areas), and I can recall seeing winter pictures of snow being shoveled off roofs.

We have at least 2 feet of snow here - another snowfront just passed - the 3 in 4 days and closed the roads for some hours. This is real winter and white Christmas as in postcards. Last week night temps were down to -3F and hoarfrost and powdersnow glistened like diamonds in the sun and lights.

But it does present challenges to traffic and delievery of mail. No electric problems here - since all the major powerlines are underground - unlike the power lines that clutter up the American landscape and makes power outtages common during storms and icestorms.

There is nothing in the world as quiet and tranquil as snow.

But as usual the beauty of real winter do not last long here and we go back to grey and cold and the snow will probably melt soon and we will see the constant freeze-thaw cycles and with no snowcover - this is what really cause winter damage here to roses. It really has been 5 years since we last saw any real winter here ... besides a fierce snowstorm in 2007 - better take some pics to remember what snow looks like. Most of Europe has gotten snow - more and earlier than usual. In some of the more poor European countries like Poland - they find 20-30 homeless people every day frozen to death - while we are sitting safe and warm in the comfort of our homes.

More snow today! We got about 4 inches last night with another 4 inches due tonight. We are under a lake effect snow advisory right now.
My roses and plants are loving it, however, I'm not. lol Oh well, such is life in NE Ohio near lake erie! lol

We had 6+ inches on the ground, but, 40 degree weather for a few days melted over 90% of it. LOL

We are under yet another Winter Storm Warning today and tonight! Another foot of snow expected! I guess I can safely say now that we have had a very reliable snow cover over our roses this winter!

It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing and it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat in the cedar-limbs.