Weather Thread

[American Patriot]

On the second part, I think that's the exact issue. The snow does sublimate here quickly, USUALLY, so they are unprepared for wet, heavy falls. And generally it warms fast after a snow storm like that so we get melts occurring within a few hours.

I think that they just don't have a good grasp of how things work. Worse, half the people working for the city are from "somewhere else" (warm climates like CA, and TX)

[MinutemanCO]

I concur. For some reason, public works operations in Colorado are fairly clueless when it comes to the efficient and equitable removal of snow following a major event. They need to take some lessons from those in the NE.

[American Patriot]

I've never been anywhere that snow is efficiently removed.

Efficiently DEALT with perhaps (Michigan comes to mind) and total panic (Oklahoma, Texas, Kentucky and anywhere south where snow never falls normally).

[MinutemanCO]

Syracuse, NY. They receive about 200 inches a year and have historically been very good at snow removal. They only problem they face is the overutilization of salt for ice mitigation. It works like a champ, but rusts cars into dust and damages infrastructure.

[American Patriot]

Michigan uses salt as well (in fact a HELL of a lot of salt in the US comes from the mines up there).

And rust is a serious issue.

[Ryan Ruck]

Surprise winter storm out of nowhere for tomorrow.

It was supposed to be heavy rain today and some freezing rain tomorrow. Now we're looking at getting slammed with snow. Not that I'm complaining or anything! Some of the best snow storms are the surprise ones.

I'm in the triangle between where they're saying 7.5", 8", and 9".

[Ryan Ruck]

Well, not just Channel 9 using the GFS model. ILN has given the same numbers:

Winter Storm Watch
Winter Storm Watch in effect from Wednesday, 12:00 PM EST until Thursday, 1:00 PM EST. Source: U.S. National Weather Service

...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON...

* HAZARD TYPES...POTENTIAL HEAVY SNOW WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 6 TO 9 INCHES...ALONG
WITH A COUPLE HUNDREDTHS OF ICE ACCUMULATION.

* TIMING...SNOW WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND REMAIN
ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THURSDAY.

* IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE DUE TO
REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND SNOW ACCUMULATIONS. LIGHT AMOUNTS OF
ICING WILL CAUSE SOME ROADS AND SIDEWALKS TO BECOME SLIPPERY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR
SIGNIFICANT SNOW...SLEET...OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT
TRAVEL. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS. STAY TUNED TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES. ADDITIONAL DETAILS CAN ALSO BE FOUND AT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/ILN AS WELL AS ON OUR FACEBOOK AND TWITTER PAGES.

[American Patriot]

We have freezing rain starting NOW... through 1400 L, and then heavy snow from then on through tomorrow.

Shit.

[American Patriot]

here's the two alerts that JUST went out:

Command Post has issued Weather Warning 03-004, calling for freezing precipitation from 0900 -1400 local 3 Mar 2015.

and

Command Post has issued Weather Warning 03-002. Potential for snow forecast, value 3 inches within 12 hours valid from 1500 3 Mar 2015 until 1100 4 Mar 2015.

[Malsua]

We have rain today, and snow tomorrow night into Thursday and AGAIN, I'm the storm is going to just miss me and give me another annoying 3. Gawd this pisses me off.

Either leave me alone or give me a fricking storm! 3 inches is just enough that i have to plow, use the power snow shovel, shovel and snow blower.

Give me inches and feed me well! Oh, wait that's a double entendre from an AC/DC song.

[American Patriot]

Give me inches and feed me well!

THAT's what SHE said.

lol

[Ryan Ruck]

Holy crap!

Just got updated to Winter Storm Warning and totals updated to 7"-12"!

Winter Storm Warning
Winter Storm Warning in effect from Wednesday, 12:00 PM EST until Thursday, 1:00 PM EST. Source: U.S. National Weather Service

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON WEDNESDAY TO 1 PM EST
THURSDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WARNING FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON WEDNESDAY TO 1
PM EST THURSDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* HAZARD TYPES...POTENTIAL HEAVY SNOW WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 7 TO 12 INCHES...ALONG WITH
LIGHT ICE ACCUMULATIONS.

* TIMING...RAIN WILL TRANSITION TO SNOW LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING
INTO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND THEN INCREASE IN INTENSITY
WEDNESDAY EVENING. THE SNOW WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE AREA
WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING BEFORE DIMINISHING
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

* IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE DUE TO
REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND SNOW ACCUMULATIONS. LIGHT AMOUNTS OF
ICING WILL CAUSE SOME ROADS AND SIDEWALKS TO BECOME SLIPPERY.

* IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED DUE TO
REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND SNOW ACCUMULATIONS.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMEMBER...A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES. ADDITIONAL DETAILS CAN ALSO BE FOUND AT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/ILN AS WELL AS ON OUR FACEBOOK AND TWITTER PAGES.

[American Patriot]

Thats the crap that moved through 3-4 days ago here lol

[Ryan Ruck]

Was going to look at the SREF plumes for CVG but I think NOAA's site is down.

[American Patriot]

The weather here in Colorado has beat all expectations, and of course ruined anything like a status quo we might have had.

We had ice and snow that started last night. It snowed for about 4 hours, a very fine, light, frozen fog snow that left two-three inches in various places. It was mostly easy to knock off the vehicle this morning, but it caused the roads to be packed snow, with ice over top, with glare ice in many spots on the roadways. Max speed was 45 today with no one around, on a very deserted highway (delays to bases, schools and some work places).

I came in at the regular time and ended up "being late" (later than normal) because the roads were screwed up.

the normal sublimation of snow has not happened.

This MUST be that diabolical Global Warming that has been talked about for so long. I know it can't be "Climate Change" because if that were true, we'd be seeing warmer, spring-like weather (if there were climate change). It's been so cold for so long that I'm not convinced the planetary shift of the poles has occurred, and the north pole is 3 miles north of Denver Colorado now. The Magnetic poles haven't moved.

Today, more snow - warming later, and probably tomorrow into the 50s.

[Malsua]

Had about 3 inches of something last night.

It took me 2.5 hours to get home.

There was roughly 2 inches of heavy wet snow on the ground when I got there and sleet was coming down.

This morning there was a crusty sleet pile on everything. I plowed at 5am before I left for work just because another 2-6 is coming later today.

[American Patriot]

I am so OVER this cold and snow crap. YUK

[Ryan Ruck]

We got a small break from the rain this morning (long enough for me to not have to work in it thankfully!) and a very light mix is currently falling. Snow is supposed to get going after 3pm.

The rain has melted a lot of the snow out in the open we had but there's still at least an inch or two in a lot of spots (inside tree lines, etc.) and of course the big plow piles are still around.

[American Patriot]

The whole global warming thing has been total bullshit and yet they were still trying to say all the snow a couple years back was caused by global warming.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

[Ryan Ruck]

LOL!

We've changed over to all snow now. Medium sized, wet flakes. Getting heavier as I head south from north of Cincy to Northern KY.

Drivers are already driving stupidly.