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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Weather Thread

We spent about 100 hours below freezing here which ended about an hour ago. No, not a big deal for those in the north, but the problem is now that the ground is starting to thaw out, it is moving causing some issues with pipes.
 
michaelskis said:
We spent about 100 hours below freezing here which ended about an hour ago. No, not a big deal for those in the north, but the problem is now that the ground is starting to thaw out, it is moving causing some issues with pipes.
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Yep. We've got a water line break on a main road that public utilities is dealing with directly because of extended freezing temps.
 
Did not have this on my bingo card for winter here in the Lowcountry. I'm from snow country but when you don't have plows or salt and the temps stay low it is not fun trying to get around. Just got off a call and we're going to be closed again tomorrow too.

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jumbach said:
Global warming exists. That can be proven empirically. What is conveniently forgotten is that the earth has been warming and cooling and warming and cooling for eons, long before humans were around. It's a natural cycle, not human-caused. Nothing we do or don't do affects it.

Jim
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estromberg said:
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Let's just disagree on this. The actions of 8 billion people collectively, yes: that can make a difference. But the actions of one individual? Won't change a thing. What I do or don't do will do nothing. (I do what I can, like recycle, etc. I just don't obsess over it.)

Anyway, let's move to talking about puppy dogs or rainbows or something else we can all agree on. :)


Jim'
 
We were off Tuesday and Wednesday and part of today. Schools are closed tomorrow still. Having lived a place that got a few inches a couple of times a year and had no real plows, its wild to see what people think they can drive in. Its also amazing that people expected every road to be open the next day. We got right at 3 inches. I can't imagine New Orleans and the Gulf where some places got almost 8 inches. At least most of that is flat.
 
Had the first snowfall of the season at our house Saturday night/Sunday morning. About three inches. Not much, but enough for me to have to trudge outside at 5 a.m. and dig out the wife's car (which I don't mind doing).

Jim
 
www.2news.com

Southwest cancels all flights due to high winds at Reno-Tahoe International Airport

You're advised to call your airline ahead of time for the latest info.
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It's ALWAYS windy at the airport . . . and takeoffs/landing always quite bumpy. But this storm is way out of control even by our standards.

"But, seriously, a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter. It blows flimsy houses down, lifts shingle roofs occasionally, rolls up tin ones like sheet music, now and then blows a stage-coach over and spills the passengers; and tradition says the reason there are so many bald people there is, that the wind blows the hair off their heads while they are looking skyward after their hats. Carson streets seldom look inactive on summer afternoons, because there are so many citizens skipping around their escaping hats, like chambermaids trying to head off a spider." - Mark Twain
 
Not too bad here in Reno, but up the mountain where our Planning Commission meeting is, it looks like this, and the heaviest part of the storm isn't here yet.

I may take my rarely used "remote option" tonight.

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Talk about snow depth

Crater Lake National Park is reporting 138 inches of snow - converted that is over 11 feet.

Is that deeper than your office ?
 
Our Class 3 Killstorm began about 20 minutes ago. Just about the same time the first few flakes started coming down we got an email saying tonight's 2nd and 3rd grade choir performance was going to be rescheduled for a date TBD. Over the last few years, the district really likes to cancel school for weather events long before that weather actually arrives. They've been burned a few times when they cancelled school 18 or 20 hours before the morning bells and then we only get a dusting of snow or the anticipated "polar vortex" and extreme windchill doesn't happen. I'm surprised we haven't gotten a call already today canceling school for Thursday and Friday.
 
It's snowing lightly at the moment. They're only calling for like 5" of snow over the next 12 hours on my side of the state, so there's little chance they're going to cancel school from this weather event.
 
Pretty anticlimactic here on the westside of Lake Michigan. Not much and I don't believe school should have been preemptively closed for today.

My boys have about a 0.25 mile walk to our HS.

They could have survived.

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mendelman said:
Pretty anticlimactic here on the westside of Lake Michigan. Not much and I don't believe school should have been preemptively closed for today.

My boys have about a 0.25 mile walk to our HS.

They could have survived.

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I guess the snowless winter (only ten inches so far) has made people soft. Though It looks like we should get more later.
 
mendelman said:
Pretty anticlimactic here on the westside of Lake Michigan. Not much and I don't believe school should have been preemptively closed for today.

My boys have about a 0.25 mile walk to our HS.

They could have survived.

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We ended up with maybe 3-4 inches on the eastside of Metro Detroit. They started closing schools yesterday afternoon before the snow even started. The preemptive closing of schools is getting out of hand, not that it affects me anymore.
 
btrage said:
We ended up with maybe 3-4 inches on the eastside of Metro Detroit. They started closing schools yesterday afternoon before the snow even started. The preemptive closing of schools is getting out of hand, not that it affects me anymore.
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We ended up with a total of about 4 inches in my part of the metro overnight.

Not bad but the preemptive school closing was unnecessary.
 
We ended up with around 5". It's very light and fluffy and when I went to the gym this morning around 5:00 AM the roads were already cleared, even most of the side streets in the dense residential neighborhood I pass through were cleared.... until I got to the neighboring village where my gym is and the main road through their little business area hadn't been touched. Coincidentally, this is the same community where our county Road Commission is HQed... they've got just a few miles of roads to maintain yet they are always the last community in the area to touch them. I know the Road Commission doesn't actually have any trucks in this 'hood but you'd think they could throw the village a bone!

And I agree that the preemptive school closures are getting out of hand. Our school district is pretty large, geographically (and meanders over a very odd set of boundaries, so maybe there are some areas that were worse hit than others, but I'm pretty sure we could have got the kids to school pretty easily.

I'm also sort of p!ssed about the choir concert cancellation last night. After it was cancelled around 3:00 PM in snowed for about another hour in our area and then basically stopped until around 8:00 PM.
 
Sunny low humidity and 65F. A beautiful southern Great Lakes region Spring day.

:D
 
We had such a loud clap of thunder this morning my 80 pound reactive pitt/rottie mix literally jumped up into the air. Sad for him, but funny at the same time.
 
Talk about being in the bullseye for severe thunderstorms significant threat of tornadoes

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As posted on Facebook
Meteorologist Ryan Morse
Another view of the tornado scar from Bloomington, IN to west of Columbus, IN from a plane. A lot of damaged trees in Brown County State Park, but thankful this EF2 tornado on May 16 lifted prior to Columbus.
This was snapped a few days ago by Michael Korus. WISH-TV Storm Track 8


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I've been liking the strangely humid year in TX so far. If the global weather pattern changes can give us a proper monsoon season, then my lifelong dream of hunting tigers in the Balcones Escarpment Rainforest is that much closer.
 
joscoffee said:
I've been liking the strangely humid year in TX so far. If the global weather pattern changes can give us a proper monsoon season, then my lifelong dream of hunting tigers in the Balcones Escarpment Rainforest is that much closer.
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That's okay, global warming will allow me to chase my dream of farming the Sonoran farmlands here in Arizona.
 
I live in the south...

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This week the heat index has been above 105 for the past 4 days and will continue through Friday evening. A "Cold Front" will bring dryer air, but not lower temps.

BUT... that is normal for us.

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michaelskis said:
I live in the south...

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This week the heat index has been above 105 for the past 4 days and will continue through Friday evening. A "Cold Front" will bring dryer air, but not lower temps.

BUT... that is normal for us.

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Well I'm sure its lovely in March. That said I think its pretty hot most anywhere now, not a huge difference like in spring/winter.
 
No I live in the south (west).

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At a certain point humidity just says FU sun and goes away. Hence no heat index. It doesn't "feel like" 111. It is 111.
 
It was 98, 99, 100 midweek in NJ and it was humid so you can add about 5 degrees for a real feel. Today was cloudy and much cooler and it will rain off and on tomorrow. Sunday should be a nice 85 so I can finally mow the back yard.
 
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