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Record for no snow in Upstate NY
28 November 2009, 22:53
CollinsRecord for no snow in Upstate NY
If anyone is wondering WHY it has not snowed (1 inch or more) in Syracuse NY for 276 Days... the reason is below...
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According to experts at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, as Thanksgiving turned into Black Friday, the region had gone 275 days without an inch or more of snow, tying a record set in 1946.
It didn’t snow an inch or more from Feb. 28, 1946, to Nov. 30, 1946. This year, it hasn’t snowed an inch or more since Feb. 23.
What had been a very snowy winter came to an abrupt halt in late February. The next month proved the least snowy March on record, and the only measurable snowfall in April was 0.7 inches April 7.
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800cc, Liquid cooled, 2-stroke, 150 HP, and it's my first sled... when it doesn't snow here they get pretty cheap. It's the first time in 10 years I have NOT dreaded winter
28 November 2009, 23:29
jeffeossoWICKED looking bike ...
the first ones ware the ones that bang you up, BADLY
29 November 2009, 17:12
dinsdaleJeez;
If all it took to stop it from snowing was you buying a new sled,we would have pitched in long ago....
Have fun in Tug-Hill it's coming...
A fellow NY'er
Dinsdale
29 November 2009, 19:14
CollinsStill no snow... (We're deep into the record now)
A friend of mine lives in Lowville on the snowmobile trail. What's amazing to me is that I can get from Syracuse to the Arctic circle on published trails. I've read there are 200K miles of registered trails in the US alone. Anyway, this was purchased at the suggestion of my "Counsel of Experts" (AKA: the guys at the bar) after listening to me complain about winters in NY for 10 years. I bought the Sled, and look at me, I'm STILL complaining
Collins
10 December 2009, 03:23
dinsdaleHope your tuned up,snow,cold,and lake effects are here!
10 December 2009, 03:38
Collins4 inches today...
FEET this weekend... everything is ready...
11 December 2009, 07:07
jeffeossoyay for you... i have a new bigger carb on the way for one of my hopped up atv!
14 December 2009, 04:40
CollinsWhoops, 45 degrees and raining... 4 feet in the Tug Hill Plateau over the last several days, but it's dissolving quickly...

16 December 2009, 04:20
jeffeossodid you get to ride?
I did on saturday... in the rain.. 44deg...
it was friggin cold, but the ONLY way to get to my stand that day was on a 4wheeler
16 December 2009, 07:14
CollinsI did!... I have 1.3 miles logged in a circle in the backyard (3 acres)
I actually hit some Ice, got sideways and got pitched off, so I have my first accident too.
16 December 2009, 07:59
jeffeossoLOL.. there's that .. break anything? parts, bike, or human bits?
16 December 2009, 16:50
Collinsquote:
Originally posted by jeffeosso:
LOL.. there's that .. break anything? parts, bike, or human bits?
Nuthing broke... I was going pretty slow and sacrificed myself for the sled... I'm one of those guys who wears a helmet when he moves his bike in the garage

16 December 2009, 22:28
jeffeossomy helmut and goggles have saved me from an annoying to deadly accident more than once
20 December 2009, 17:07
jeffeossohow about NOW?
I am in detroit this week, and the so far missed here .. going home in 4 hours!
20 December 2009, 17:19
Collins NOTHING!I rode anyway, on 2". For the first time ever NYC has more snow than we do. I'm sure this won't last too long. But for now it's a little weird.
26 December 2009, 19:46
jeffeossoSnow? White Christmas?
26 December 2009, 20:53
Collins40 degrees and RAIN... The grass is poking through what little snow we had. Dallas gets snow sheeze.
27 December 2009, 07:45
jeffeossowell. .. does that ride have reverse? I could make a KILLER kart out of it!!
27 December 2009, 09:53
CollinsYes it does... in an ingenious stroke of engineering the wise canuks have provided a button that actually reverses the motor (!!!) so you can go as fast in forward as in reverse.
Anyway, I plan in putting wheels on the front and a slick track on it in the summer and taking it to the local 1/4 mile track. This is pretty common and all the parts are commercially available. Average times are high 11's low 12's. Race sleds pull 8's