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Farmington’s February 2013 Blizzard in Backyard Time-Lapse

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A backyard in Farmington, Connecticut, changes almost beyond recognition as snow steadily fills the view. The camera stays in place; the storm supplies the movement. Recorded with a GoPro Hero across February 8–9, 2013, this time-lapse turns roughly twenty-two hours of a blizzard into a short sequence in which familiar objects become markers of the accumulation.

Snow accumulating beside a house during a backyard time-lapse
Snow accumulating beside a house during a backyard time-lapse Credit: miges3111 / Winter Storm Time Lapse.

Farmington during the February 8–9, 2013 blizzard

The uploader describes about thirty inches of snow, approximately 76 centimetres, and identifies the filming interval from Friday into Saturday morning. Those details belong to the recording's account, rather than an official station observation established by the video. A fixed backyard view documents one place especially well, but it cannot measure a whole town's snowfall on its own.

Follow one object as the snow accumulates

Choose one object in the frame and follow it through the sequence. Its outline may soften, shrink or disappear as the snow rises around it, making change easier to understand than trying to track every flake. The ordinary setting is an advantage: because the objects are familiar, the viewer can recognise how much the scene has changed without a camera moving through it.

Explore more: New York’s storm from a fixed urban viewpoint; deep snow in a separate photo collection.

Video: Winter Storm Time lapse - 30" of snow in 38 seconds! (published by miges3111).

Twenty-two hours become thirty-eight seconds

Time-lapse compresses gradual accumulation into a short sequence. The upload’s title describes thirty inches of snow in thirty-eight seconds of playback; the snow did not fall in less than a minute. Repeated frames make changes visible that would be harder to notice while watching continuously. The finished running time describes the film, while the storm itself unfolded across a much longer period.

A dated backyard record of the storm

The original introduction called the event Winter Storm Nemo and the Blizzard of 2013. Those names and the February dates keep the clip attached to its historical setting. Filmed by miges3111, the sequence records a home landscape transformed by that particular storm. The familiar backyard makes the accumulating snow easy to follow as ordinary features disappear beneath it.

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