JANUARY BLIZZARD (REALLY) 2018

AS I TYPE THIS- we are having, in layman's speak, a winter snow hurricane... or in the language of meteorologists, a Bombogensis... from Ryan's twitter account:

Ryan Maue | weather.us(@RyanMaue)

All day Thursday meteorologists are going to be glued to the new GOES-East satellite watching a truly amazing extratopical "bomb" cyclone off New England coast. It will be massive -- fill up entire Western Atlantic off U.S. East Coast. Pressure as low as Sandy & hurricane winds pic.twitter.com/6M4S3y7… 2 days ago · Twitter

Bombogenesis: What's a 'Bomb Cyclone'? - Live Science  https://www.livescience.com › Planet Earth "Bomb cyclones" or "weather bombs" are wicked winter storms that can rival the strength of hurricanes and are so called because of the process that creates them: bombogenesis. It's a mouthful of a meteorology term that refers to a storm (generally a non-tropical one) that intensifies very rapidly.

One of my favorite weather sites is: https://www.ventusky.com/?p=18.9;-57.0;4&l=temperature. If you pull it up, you will see a wonderful menu that includes wind speeds, precipitation, cloud cover, even the height of waves any place in the world! it is awesome! When I pulled this storm up, I was able to measure the wind speeds out in the Atlantic at 118 mph! That is a Cat 3 hurricane. Good thing is, it was 350 miles off shore, but it still brought us 50 mph winds here on the East Coast - and, for many of us, a foot of snow or more. Can't even guess at the size of the drifts near the open fields. 

Anyway, here are some pics from the safety of my carport which I have shoveled out 4 or 5 times so far to get some seed out to the little birds. 

 

The van is covered, path shoveled to get seed out for little birds. 10 AM Thurs, Jan 4th, 2018

 Facing south

Snow on the carport - higher than the concrete blocks. The Stand-up garden in the middle of the frame is up on 3 blocks. The path shoveled in ON the carport- 10 AM.

See the snow piled on the Adirondacks - brownish covers.

The bushes here are normally over the roof, but the snow has them on the ground next to the house. In the left side, that rounded bush is Ice Angel, normally more than 15 feet tall, now down to about 5 feet. And this is with the snow blowing OFF most of the trees and bushes!

That weird snow shape, middle frame is the snow piled on my generator, 1 foot on one side going up to 2 feet closer to the building. The camellia taking up most of the frame is supposed to be upright and as tall as the peak of the roof. The snow has the top on the ground. See next pic.

The starving birds - mostly juncos, a female cardinal...

 I was able to stand only a few feet away as they kept eating. I stayed out there as long as I could in the howling wind - my presence kept the black birds- grackles away so the little ones could eat. The next to last shot shows some of the drifts out front, middle and to the right, behind Yule Tide, and another big drift back on the left toward the road. Interesting, the snow blew off Yule Tide but not the camellias in the side or back yards. The last shot the greenhouse wrapped in insulation foam, standing in a foot of snow.

OK, blogger reversed them and won't let me put them back the way I had them. Go figure!

 

Blogger also keeps making the font smaller - and in the beginning decided to make it all BOLD type. Guess the storm is affecting more than just the weather around here!!!!!


 
Not sure if this pic will come out - its of Bobbie's 2 dogs playing in the snow this morning. Thanks, Bobbie! (Cody in the back, Gabe front)
Let me know how you made out!
PS, it is still snowing!