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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: K Frame on January 12, 2019, 08:02:11 AM
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ABANDON YOUR CARS NOW!!!
I had hoped that I'd get through the winter without seeing any snow, but it looks like we're going to have a nice little storm starting later today and going into early Monday morning.
Just joy. Freaking joy.
The back to back blizzards of 2009 - 2010, both of which dumped 20+ inches of snow, finally broke my brain. I finally understand why Mom hated winter so much.
The concept of snow is pleasing. The reality is... not.
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Preach it brother!
6-10 is the prediction out here in Warrenton.
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So far, here in Columbus, it has been snowing since around 7:00 a.m. Pretty light so far, maybe 1/2 inch at most. Supposed to do this all day, which will give us a few inches. Good day to binge watch something and make a pot of soup...
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ABANDON YOUR CARS NOW!!!
I had hoped that I'd get through the winter without seeing any snow, but it looks like we're going to have a nice little storm starting later today and going into early Monday morning.
Just joy. Freaking joy.
The back to back blizzards of 2009 - 2010, both of which dumped 20+ inches of snow, finally broke my brain. I finally understand why Mom hated winter so much.
The concept of snow is pleasing. The reality is... not.
Latest map I saw had us just above the north edge of Snowmageddon!!!(TM). <shrug>. This ain't Texas. We've been through this before.
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Just back from running errands. Roads are no big deal. I've driven in worse. Only thing is it reinforces my need to look at new tires for my car. Just about due, so time to look at prices.
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No snow in the forecast or on the ground in NH. =D
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1-3 due here in Chicagoland.
There is dusting to half an inch currently.
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Just back from running errands. Roads are no big deal. I've driven in worse. Only thing is it reinforces my need to look at new tires for my car. Just about due, so time to look at prices.
Take a look at Nokians. They're a Finnish company that has been making pretty much the best snow tires on the road for years. They've branched out into all season and summer only in the last couple of years. They're trying to make their name in non-snow tires so you can find some pretty killer deals. I put 4 of their high performance all seasons on my R32 in April, and so far they've been about identical to the Continentals that I replaced. Noise, and traction on dry, wet and a light dusting is about the same; but I found them on sale at Walmart.com for $65 each less than the Contis. They were also $50 a tire less then my shop could get them for wholesale... Free shipping to the shop was nice too.
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1-3 due here in Chicagoland.
There is dusting to half an inch currently.
Not even enough to cover the bullet casings.
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Took Robert to get his driver's license this morning. His was the last road test before they said the roads were too slick.
And yes, he passed.
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It started snowing about noon yesterday. The roads turned into absolute garbage, which surprised me. I expected they would have already been salted beforehand. It looks like at least 8" out there, if not more. More snow and ice on the way, until Sunday night.
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1-3 due here in Chicagoland.
There is dusting to half an inch currently.
Not even enough to cover the bullet casings.
That really made me laugh.
It snowed. Here. West of Denver. Again. 2-3 inches, just enough to show the rabbit tracks.
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There is no frozen stuff falling yet.
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1-3 due here in Chicagoland.
There is dusting to half an inch currently.
NW IL here. I estimate about a half inch right now. Snowing steadily, side streets are pretty crappy. My daughter reported cars in ditch, coming back from Rockford late morning.
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https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/la/shreveport/KLASHREV60?cm_ven=localwx_10day
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Nw Illinois looking at about 6” and still coming down hard, starting to blow and drift.
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Just shoveled 2+ off the drive.
Coming down pretty good now, probably going to get more than they initially forecasted. Yep, just looked, may get up to 5 inches.
I’ll do all the sidewalks tomorrow using the snowblower and clear the drive again.
Snow drives business at my work so this is good. Hiking will be nice also, not so grey and blah in the woods.
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Louisiana weather per HeroHog, Reply #14:
Interesting graphs.
But:
Pressure 29.99 in
Visibility 10 miles
Clouds Clear
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Etc.
Anyone know why they no longer state whether the barometer is rising, falling, or steady?
I've noticed that for the past couple of years.
It used to be that rising, falling, or steady was a primary predictor of short-term conditions.
A given value of pressure is not a predictive number and basically useless unless I'm setting an altimeter. It's a descriptive number, but not a predictive one unless you know what the pressure was, say, an hour ago.
What gives?
Terry
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Take a look at Nokians. They're a Finnish company that has been making pretty much the best snow tires on the road for years. They've branched out into all season and summer only in the last couple of years. They're trying to make their name in non-snow tires so you can find some pretty killer deals. I put 4 of their high performance all seasons on my R32 in April, and so far they've been about identical to the Continentals that I replaced. Noise, and traction on dry, wet and a light dusting is about the same; but I found them on sale at Walmart.com for $65 each less than the Contis. They were also $50 a tire less then my shop could get them for wholesale... Free shipping to the shop was nice too.
I put Nokian "Entyre" tires on my Focus last year. They were cheap (at walmart.com) and they might be the best tires I've ever owned, especially on slick icy-snowy roads. (they suck on just dry bare ice, but I think all tires do unless they're studded) I offered to buy a set for my daughter a few months ago.
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Louisiana weather per HeroHog, Reply #14:
Interesting graphs.
How do ya like the Temp spread/Yo-yo?
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BULLET casings?
Numbnuts...
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How do ya like the Temp spread/Yo-yo?
I guess that's unusual for you near sea level, with lots of water around. But we get diurnal variations of 35° and more quite routinely. Thin dry air (less thermal mass), and a mile less atmosphere for the sunlight to penetrate to warm things up in daytime makes for a yo-yo ride. See:
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.7836&lon=-105.1675&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical
Tomorrow it will go from 18° to about 40° which isn't too extreme, but the air is pretty wet right now, so it's got some thermal mass to it. We've only got about 80% of the air up here than you have. Normal barometer hereabouts is only about 630 mmHg or so. Sea level nominal is 760 mmHg (29.92").
But I guess nobody is willing to educate me on how come they don't say where the barometer is going any more. I wrote to NWS about that, no answer.
Must be the fracken alien masters don't want us to know where the barometer is heading. Might cause worldwide panic or something.
Terry, 230RN
REF:
https://www.sensorsone.com/altitude-pressure-units-conversion/
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Hourly barometric history is right there in your 3 day history for your local forecast at weather.gov.
https://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KBKF.html
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The weather here in North Louisiana varies a bit.
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One can dig up history of barometric pressure variations, but what I'm asking is why they don't simply put "rising, steady, or falling," after the number. Doesn't seem to be a big software problem
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Ben, one can dig up history of barometric pressure variations, but what I'm asking is why they don't simply put "rising, steady, or falling," after the number, the way they used to.
You don't have to dig them up, they are right on the main local forecast page, which makes rising/falling redundant, since the chart is higher resolution data. "Rising" can be 30.00-30.01 or 30.00-30.20 over an hour, which vary from nothing to significant. The chart lets you see that.
The NOAA all hazards radio station still gives rising/steady/falling since you can't get the hourly list off the radio, obviously.
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Yeah, OK, I found it, so thanks.
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Forecasted for freezing rain, sleet and snow overnight. We got some ice in the trees but the roads are bare and wet. I think we were just a degree or two too warm for anything really nasty.
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We've got a bunch of snow here. Sucks ass.
The predictions have risen steadily over the past several days until now they're calling for up to 8 inches in my area.
Today's a big pot of chili kind of day.
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We ended up with what looks like 8” to me. I spent about an hour on the tractor last night. Township plowed to us and turned around at my drive so I also plowed 1/4 mile of our road since the neighbor uses that part.
I love the led work lights I mounted last year. 24” spot/flood bar on top and mini cubes for the rear.
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Unless it picks up today, we're right around 6" it looks like.
But at least I'm expected to dig out and go to work tonight without a paycheck coming this week.
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Right now we have about 5 and change, but it just picked up, and Fox News is saying we'll probably have between 6-8 before it ends today.
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At least we're just wet, sloppy and not quite cold enough to freeze.
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Yeah it's big flakes now accumulating again. Headed to work shortly.
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Missed this snow storm, I have my XC skis and snowshoes just waiting to be used.
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We ended up with what looks like 8” to me. I spent about an hour on the tractor last night. Township plowed to us and turned around at my drive so I also plowed 1/4 mile of our road since the neighbor uses that part.
I love the led work lights I mounted last year. 24” spot/flood bar on top and mini cubes for the rear.
I'd say about 2 inches here.
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maybe 3 to 4. It was fluffy stuff last night, but it turned crusty this morning, which beat down the fluffy.
Pretty normal "heavy" snow for this time of year around here. The drive to work in the morning should be interesting, what with re freeze and all that.
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Neighbor pounded on my door a bit ago. He was doing some work in the back yard and some how his wedding ring flew off his finger and into my back yard.
We looked for a bit, but with all the snow it apparently burrowed in. We'll have to find it once the snow melts...
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Neighbor pounded on my door a bit ago. He was doing some work in the back yard and some how his wedding ring flew off his finger and into my back yard.
We looked for a bit, but with all the snow it apparently burrowed in. We'll have to find it once the snow melts...
Did you have a bonfire going or something?
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I lost my wedding ring one day at my dads when I was clearing snow off my truck windshield with my ungloved hands. Dad found it in the spring in the grass next to his driveway.
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Had plenty. Got out and built an igloo with my girls from what we shoveled off the driveway yesterday, and a snowman today.
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Fed Gov is actually closed today. I'm going to head into the office, but after the sun comes up and hopefully starts the roads to melting.
For a 4 to 7 inch snow storm, what we got looks suspiciously close to a freaking foot.
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I'm waiting for the sun to come out before seeing what's what with the road. Yesterday it was wet and slushy. We had a light dusting last night, not quiet an inch, but close. So that on top of frozen muck is what I'm anticipating. They don't generally treat my road so my boss may have to suck it up and accept that late today is going to be really late. I'll drive in any snow I can get clearance through in my little car. I won't drive on ice even if I had a 4 wheel drive.
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The good parts about yesterday's storm is that I made absolutely the best chili I have ever had. Very different kind of recipe. I'll post about it in Mess Hall later because it was truly monumental.
The other good part is that Seren really enjoyed the snow. I wish I had somewhere where she could have really run around in it and got a little crazy, but the back yard isn't big enough.
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I feel lucky. We are approaching mid-January with no snow on the ground and temperatures hovering between 20-30s most of the time. We had one snowfall 2 weeks ago that amounted to about 3" of snow. Mildest winter that I can remember...
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Fed Gov is actually closed today. I'm going to head into the office, but after the sun comes up and hopefully starts the roads to melting.
For a 4 to 7 inch snow storm, what we got looks suspiciously close to a freaking foot.
I worked to 9 last night and back at 0630 this morning. Roads were *expletive deleted*it out here last night.
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I feel lucky. We are approaching mid-January with no snow on the ground and temperatures hovering between 20-30s most of the time. We had one snowfall 2 weeks ago that amounted to about 3" of snow. Mildest winter that I can remember...
We're having a fairly mild winter so far but we are way up on rainfall.
Of course our weather pattern gives us sun and temps in the 50s and 60s during the week and cold and wet on the weekends.
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Currently 48 degrees and clear at my house, 45 miles north of Seattle. This has been a remarkably mild winter so far. Only one day last week in which we got a dusting of snow on the grass. It is down in the high 20's at night.
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Snow is melting nicely. Monday afternoon and most of today was warm and sunny. By the end of the week we should be having some rain, so that should take the rest of the snow out.
Sunday it's going to get into the mid 40s...
Which ushers in a kick ass arctic blast for a couple of days. The low on Sunday is 9... With wind chills approaching, or dropping below, 0.
Joy.