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Happy Thanksgiving All

Posted by The Snowman on November 25, 2010
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First and foremost a Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!!! I like the rest of you I’m sure are looking forward to spending time with family and friends this Thanksgiving. I’m also thankful for the great family and group of friends that I do have and most thankful for the 3 wonderful children that I have.

As far as snow goes, looking at the stats it looks like we are off to a snow season pretty much just like last season other than Albany kicked off the Golden Snowball contest instead of Binghamton. The last I looked at syracuse.com Syracuse has gone enough days in a row without at least an inch falling bringing it up to the 7th longest period without at least an inch of snow falling at one time since stats have been kept. We’ll have to do a little research and see what Bingo, Buffalo and the Rock are as far as that category goes. Enough said for now because we all know there is still a longggg snow season ahead of just waiting to start up.

Have a Super Happy Thanksgiving Everyone and a Special Thanks to Those in The Service Protecting Us.

Albany Strikes First Let the Snow Games Begin

Posted by The Snowman on November 9, 2010
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Albany officially kicks off the 2010 – 2011 Golden Snowball Contest. NOAA is showing that Albany picked up 1.3 inches of snowfall yesterday. Way to go Albany and enjoy the lead while you have it. Last year Binghamton started off the snow contest.

Just a trace of snow for the other 4 cities which include Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse for anyone new to the website. Is this the season that Syracuse finally goes down? Will there be an upset? I think Syracuse’s winning streak may be broken this season for the fact that it’s been too many consecutive wins for them. The question is will it be Buffalo, Rochester or Binghamton that takes over the throne as king of the snow mountain? Yeah right Albany, don’t even dream about it 🙂 Hey, ya never know.

Have a Safe Snowy Season All and Remember,

SEE SNOW DRIVE SLOW!!!
Unless your on a snowmobile of course. Be Careful All!

And The Golden Snowball Award Goes To – Syracuse

Posted by The Snowman on May 1, 2010
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It’s a Wrap!!! Congratulations to Syracuse on winning the 2009 – 2010 Golden Snowball Award. Yeah I know it’s getting old isn’t it? Once again Syracuse has been able to hold off the cities of Rochester, Buffalo and Binghamton to be king of the snow hill and capture the well sought after Golden Snowball Trophy.

This season was pretty much just a snow storm away thru a good part of the snow season to see what I thought may have been a new winner. It just never happened. What killed the hopes of a new winner in my opinion this season was similar to last years, a mild March and April. For the last two months, March and April Binghamton received the most snow and it was only 2.6 inch. Both Rochester and Albany received .2 inches for both months combined and Syracuse and Buffalo received just a trace of snow.

I think the biggest surprise was the fact that Buffalo ended up in 4th place. Binghamton, our southern city in the contest was able to hold on to 3rd place. I’ll have to take a look back and see if Buffalo has ever been below 3rd at the end of the snow race. Binghamton was also the only city to beat both their normal seasonal snowfall beat last years totals. The rest of us had what can only be described as an easy winter season. Wouldn’t it have been nice if Albany beat Buffalo??? I’m kidding, NOT. I’ll try to throw together a season summary in the near future but you all know how that normally turns out.

Enough said other than a BIG THANKS to everyone that visits here and has fun with the contest and thanks to all of you who post here which really makes the contest fun. That’s what it’s all about!!!

Have a Super Summer All!!!

Snowing Today with Just a Few Days Left

Posted by The Snowman on April 27, 2010
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Hey, is this contest still going on. It is although I’ve been missing for awhile. Only 3 days left and go figure there has been a couple of flurries here in the Syracuse area today. Other than some rainy days March and April have been pretty decent and lets hope May is too.

Blogger has decided that they are going to make some changes and the deadline for me to move the site as I understand it is on May 1st. That’s the day that we always announce the contest is over. I think most of us know it’s pretty much over right now but I still like to wait until that date. I think what I’m getting at is that if the blog looks a lot different or there isn’t much here come Saturday you can all assume that I screwed up the migration of the Golden Snowball site. Hopefully that won’t happen but hey, you all know how I am.

As for the national contest over at goldensnowglobe.com most likely trying to play it safe we will list an unofficial winner until I can hopefully talk with NOAA to make sure we didn’t miss any city over 100,000 that still may not be listed. I’m still not convinced or comfortable at this point that we have every city that matters covered.

Have a super day all even if it is snowing!

Robins, NCAA and Great Weather

Posted by The Snowman on March 19, 2010
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It looks like the Robins are starting to come back into town. This morning was the first one that I have seen. Normally I will see a few when I first see them but only one this time. It looks like he/she has the whole neighborhood to itself for the time being. Has anyone else been seeing them?

Nothing to talk about as far as snow goes. When I updated the National contest earlier in the week only a handful of cities had snow to add to their totals. This week has been awesome weather wise and I finally got the car cleaned out. Yup, took the camping stuff out from last year including tent, sleeping bags and cooler. I also took out the golf clubs, dusted them off but put them back into the car. My son called from the golf course today but I couldn’t get out. Too busy watching the NCAA Tourney.

CONGRATS to CORNELL BIG RED – Wooo Hooo

Syracuse plays tonight and after the tough start the Big East teams had yesterday so far so good today with Pitt and West Virginia winning big. Yesterday the BE went 1-3 and most likely killed one of my brackets. I’m still OK on 2 others I played. All for fun and just matchsticks as the prize of course 😉 The bracket that got killed I made it a big east final four with Georgetown and Notre Dame in there. Both teams lost of course. I think the worse thing about it is with all of the upsets so far up until tonight I only had 6 losses on that one and the only loss on the left side of the bracket was Georgetown 🙁 Oh well, hopefully the other 2 will pull through for me. How are all of you doing on your tourney picks. Just one sweet 16 loss so far on my end. Good Luck All and hopefully everyone has been enjoying the weather. I’m still thinking some more snow to go after these teaser days disappear.

Have a Super Weekend!!!