2024: Less snow than normal

[DayTrip]

Bracebridge Road in Newton was paved a few years before the Mason Rice school was built. The equipment used to build the school destroyed the pavement (or so I was told when I was a child living there). The road is private and the owners did not repave it. My parents lived on that road from 1966 to 2018, and it was unpaved during that entire time. It is still unpaved. Yes the bottom 30 or so feet at the intersection of Pleasant St still has pavement, and probably the top 20 feet with Hancock Avenue.

Yes it is a question designed to trick the AI that is not smart enough to interrogate Open Street Maps (which has its own errors on St Croix, an issue I am not sure I am willing to address). I developed that question about a year ago after asking the Microsquash Bing AI if a Westminster Road and West Princeton Road just west of Mt Wachusett was paved. I then rode that on my bicycle as part of a loop, and it was not paved. So I was looking for ways to determine whether an AI was smart enough to tell me, and I did that by asking it questions to which I knew the answer.

I figured. I would just point out that AI only aggregates what is on the web (the free stuff anyway) and there were many references to comments made by actual humans which were incorrect. It attempted to "score" the paved vs unpaved entries against website traffic and project a "winner". And it was stated that was how the conclusion was made. So you can gather and summarize a phenomenal amount of information in seconds but it is only as useful as the sources.

 

[DayTrip]

Human 1, AI 0.

Based on the articles I clicked through to the humans didn't do any better....

 

[Dr. Dasypodidae]

Based on the articles I clicked through to the humans didn't do any better....

Ok, Humans 0, AI O.

 

[helmethiker]

Based on the articles I clicked through to the humans didn't do any better....

The sidewalk on the west side is paved. There is only a bit of sidewalk on the east side. Most of the east side is used for parking by parents picking up their children after school. Lots of humans know the status.

 

[B the Hiker]

To pull us back to the theme of the thread, January 2025 was the warmest on record

"Last month was 1.75 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level and 0.79°C above the 1991-2020 average, despite expectations that the La Nina weather phenomenon might bring cooler temperatures.

In 2015, the international community agreed to try to limit average global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

The January data was “surprising” even to climate change experts at Copernicus, the European climate change service, which noted that it was the 18th month in the last 19 where the global-average surface air temperature was more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level.

“January 2025 is another surprising month, continuing the record temperatures observed throughout the last two years, despite the development of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific and their temporary cooling effect on global temperatures,” said Samantha Burgess, Copernicus Strategic Lead for Climate."

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159846

 

[DavidG]

FYI
More snow than normal on the western side of Camel's Hump this year.
We've been getting 2 or 3 inches of snow every couple days since Christmas.
No consolidation.