...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Travel will be very difficult to impossible, including during the morning commute on Thursday. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 12 inches are possible. * WHERE...All of New Hampshire and western Maine. * WHEN...From Wednesday afternoon through Thursday evening. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow covered and slippery roads, and significant reductions in visibility are possible.
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The daytime highs hop right back up to the forties immediately after this bounty of slop. And it falls in many cases on bare, thawed ground. Spring skiing is not done on spring snow.Astronomical spring, marked by the equinox, is not meteorological spring, measured from the beginning of March. While by one measure we are still in winter's province, the sun grows stronger even before the day lengthens to 12 hours and beyond. Winter-type precipitation is likely from any storm, but it falls into a more hostile setting than it would find under the long nights and brief days of January and early February.
A quick inch last night was just a foretaste, and something to mess up the roads for anyone rashly contemplating a morning wobble on the fixed-gear. I should grab one now, though, as the sun has warmed the roadway sufficiently to clear it. Six to 12 inches will not go as quietly.
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I won't bore you with speculation on whether North Texas temperatures will hit 80 or not in the next week or two...
:-D
Less than a week later, looking at maybe another 18 inches.
March in New Hampshire.
It would be easier to take if it was the end of a big winter. The fact that it's dashing in here under the wire makes it worse. This is the second year in a row.
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