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I remember reading these when I was in 5th grade. It kinda sucks they wont be around but I have to applaud them in being bold enough to realize that there is little business for paper print anymore.

We had a pretty brisk cold front move through a few days ago. It stirred up alot of lake effect snow all over the country. I noticed that even lake Champlain is showing some light lake effect snow.

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I took this this afternoon. There is about 4 inches now and it is still coming down hard.

It changed over from rain to snow at about 3:30 this afternoon, the temperature here is showing 35 degrees. The snowfall has increased in intensity, and is just starting to stick to the wet grass.

A relatively clear area of precipitation has moved over Potsdam. It seems like there will be a brief interval before it starts raining again. The temperature has steadily dropped. I am not showing 37.0 degrees, and a strong Northwest wind has picked up. This is contradictory to the upper level air mass which seems to be moving towards the northwest. Right now there is a very fine mist coming down, which is either too low or too fine to be seen on radar. I did see some snow mixing in during strong wind gusts around 12:15 today, but I imagine the main transition to snow will occur around 4-6 tonight.
I am also taking a timelapse of the transition.

The latest radar image at about 11:50 AM showing snow from about 700 feet elevation. The freezing level nicely outlines tug hill and the Adirondacks.

It seems that the NWS office in Burlington has upgraded the winter weather advisory to a winter storm warning and it is not hard to see why. They are forecasting 6-12 inches of snow and 45 mph wind gusts. The national weather service defines a blizzard as 35 mph winds and blowing snow casuing less than 1/4 mile visability. This snow will most likely be wet and heavy so to get a blizzard snowfall will have to be heavy enough to limit visability. It is just before noon here and we still have rain. Lets go blizzard!

Winter starts in Potsdam tomorrow night I guess!:

Tuesday Rain or snow. Snow accumulation a dusting to 2 inches. Breezy with highs in the lower 40s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Tuesday Night Snow or rain until midnight...then snow after midnight. Snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible. Breezy with lows in the upper 20s. West winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

I will be sure to post pictures of this before Halloween storm. I love SNOW!

For about 3 months now I have been working on a time lapse film called Order Over Time. The film is shot with a still camera. You can check it out here