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Reported snowfall amounts

10.5 in Official NWS Obs
8.5 in COCORAHS
8.3 in COCORAHS
8.0 in COCORAHS
 
Work from home today. I am brining the wife to work this morning because the roads are bad. We got mostly sleet and freezing rain. No fluffy snow here. Scary thing is the forecast this week has almost no time above freezing and it will be colder next weekend.

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I feel for those in Oxford MS. As of this morning, over 23,000 of their 30,000 electric customers do not have power this morning and it is well below freezing. Some counties in northern MS have nearly 90% of their grid down.
 
We hit the sweet spot. Tornados, or at least heavy wind damage to the south and west. Ice storms to the north. We just had cold steady rain. A couple districts closed preemptively but there doesn't even appear to be any patchy ice from the temperature drop.
 
bureaucrat#3 said:
We hit the sweet spot. Tornados, or at least heavy wind damage to the south and west. Ice storms to the north. We just had cold steady rain. A couple districts closed preemptively but there doesn't even appear to be any patchy ice from the temperature drop.
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We got maybe a tenth of an inch of ice, which the rain yesterday and overnight pretty much cleared up. Did not lose power at any point. I'm chalking this up as a win.
 
A few days ago our forecast for Sunday was clear and we were well north of the winter storm. By Friday, the forecast was for somewhere between 1" and 8" with it snowing most of the day Sunday. I think we ended up with a bit more than 6".

Our youngest had a birthday party to attend yesterday evening at an indoor trampoline/zip-line park place. It's usually about a 20 minute drive from our house and around 5:00 pm it was still snowing and it took us about 30 minutes to get there. Not too bad... The roads weren't great but there was close to no other traffic out there. Once we got there, the park was almost completely empty except for one other small party so the kids that made it had basically free reign of the place. The parents of the birthday girl seemed genuinely thankful to every other parent and child who made it out.

About 20 minutes before the end of the party we got the call that schools were closed for today (not really a surprise) so I told my daughter and her friend. I don't know what made them happier - climbing up a giant rockwall or me telling them they had today off.

Temps are in the teens today and I've been shoveling our driveway in phases. I have 4wd with plenty of ground clearance and my wife's small CUV has AWD and is pretty sure-footed in the snow, but I always worry that the mailman will get stuck in our driveway... though I am always surprised at some of the snow drifts and plowed in spots that I see those little USPS trucks get through.
 
Regarding the plane crash in Bangor last night: I did message Anne. She is fine. I knew the odds of her having been involved were just slightly and insignificantly above zero, but it's my SOP.

Jim
 
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^^That's not snow. Ice pellets/sleet cover my yard, patio, and plants (the plants were already dead).

Don't know yet if I work tomorrow. The city I work in has closed the ISD through tomorrow.
 
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Cold here in Chicagoland and also got about 8 inches from a brief lake effect snowstorm on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

The nice stuff - light and fluffy.

Purposely skidding/sliding on my side street in the RWD Lincoln was also fun yesterday.

 
I think we ended up with about 6" of fluffy snow. Just north of us saw 14" total, but we got in an inversion and ended up with hours of sleet, which held our snow total down. Brutally cold. Some kids came by and offered to shovel my drive. They did a good job but were a little lax around my car. No worries - I paid them well. (First time in 9 years at this house that kids came by looking to shovel. Told them to come back if we get more snow. I bet they do.)

Office was closed yesterday and 2-hr delay today. Had a little cabin fever if I'm honest.
 
We are day two from working from home. Problem is not all of our staff have 'tasks' to do and we are not really set up to accomplish this. If it was up to me, we would have a delayed opening today and tomorrow for work.

I would be surprised if the kids have school this week.

I brought the wife to work again and the roads were worse today than yesterday. This morning it was a lot more choppy and intersections were an absolute mess. The weather people way it might get close to 32 this afternoon, but it won't be much.
 
I'm at the office today and Facilities has made a massive hill of snow at one end of one of the parking lots. It's got to be >20' tall and is very steep. I also have some of the sleds in the back of my Jeep from our trip to the sledding hill yesterday. I'm very tempted...
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I'm at the office today and Facilities has made a massive hill of snow at one end of one of the parking lots. It's got to be >20' tall and is very steep. I also have some of the sleds in the back of my Jeep from our trip to the sledding hill yesterday. I'm very tempted...
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WSU MUP Student said:
It's about 1 ºF at my house right now with a windchill of -10 ºF. It doesn't feel that bad for the few minutes I was there. I went running outside this morning so that I could go right into the sauna afterwards. Around 5:00 AM it was a balmy 8 ºF and there was no wind. I wear many layers when I run outside this time of year and I go very slow but it still feels nice to be out there.

Somebody on Reddit last night posted a picture of their little digital weather station at their house in Michigamme, MI (in the northern part of the UP about 140 miles dead north of Green Bay, WI) and the temp showed -22 ºF. I looked it up afterwards on my weather app and the windchill was -57 ºF. :omg:

I've got a nice pot of onion soup in the slow cooker and the house smells pretty nice right now.
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-2 this morning when I went out to run. I had long johns under tights and a wool-blend tee under a top that was fleecy on the inside and slick out. I had a buff and a winter hat on and clear glasses until they fogged too much to see. No wind. Only my belly (the foremost part of me) was cold when I got back.
 
2nd sunny day - temp is 20 w/wind chill 6
Where they treated the street or plowed down to pavemrnt there is melting or standing water.
 
Faust_Motel said:
-2 this morning when I went out to run. I had long johns under tights and a wool-blend tee under a top that was fleecy on the inside and slick out. I had a buff and a winter hat on and clear glasses until they fogged too much to see. No wind. Only my belly (the foremost part of me) was cold when I got back.
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No matter how many layers I wear when I run, my hands are always my coldest body part. When it was -10º the other day with the wind I wore a pair of really thin Nike "tech" gloves, then put a pair of tube socks on my hands over them, and finally finished up with a big pair of wool mittens on top over everything. It didn't really feel all that windy so it wasn't too bad. A couple weeks ago I went running one morning with temps around 15º, so not terribly cold, but the wind was really kicking. I don't recall what the windchill was but it just whipped right through all my hand layers and I was feeling it that day!

For my lower half, I have a few pair of pricey fleece-lined merino wool tights from Tracksmith. All their stuff is pricey and I don't think their day-to-day stuff is worth even a quarter of the cost but their winter running gear has turned out to be very good, especially the merino wool stuff - the shirts and tights are lightweight but very warm, and most importantly, dry out very nicely and do not get funky. As warm as they are, in fact as warm as any winter running tights are that I've tried, I learned a long time ago that I need a pair of running shorts over the top of them to act as a windbreak or else I definitely start to feel it on my manly bits... until I don't feel it anymore! :omg: :rofl:

The clear glasses are a great winter running hack too. I didn't learn that until just a few years ago but they make a big difference. And they're an absolute must when there's even the tiniest bit of snow falling. I have had a few days where it's a snow and freezing rain mixture and I've had to repeatedly stop/slow to clear ice off of my glasses but it's definitely better than the alternative where the ice would be stinging my eyes as I'm running through it.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
The clear glasses are a great winter running hack too. I didn't learn that until just a few years ago but they make a big difference. And they're an absolute must when there's even the tiniest bit of snow falling. I have had a few days where it's a snow and freezing rain mixture and I've had to repeatedly stop/slow to clear ice off of my glasses but it's definitely better than the alternative where the ice would be stinging my eyes as I'm running through it.
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I wonder if anyone has ever invented windshield wipers for eyeglasses?
 
At/above freezing for a couple hours yesterday, so lots of slush on the roads.

Refroze overnight - slow drive in this morning. But will be upper 30's later today, so hopefully the drive home won't be so bad.

Overnight freeze warnings through the weekend. Drip, drip, drip go the faucets.
 
Looks like we'r3e getting 2"-4" of powdery snow on Saturday.

bubba might see some flakes & mdplanner might see more than that.
 
We are in day 4 of WTF and WFH. I am in the office because I can, but the weather and storm from last weekend continues to cripple the region. I-55 in Mississippi have been closed for over a day and miles of vehicles have been stranded for over 24 hours. Carports, gas station canopies, and other coverings are still collapsing, cars are being crushed by falling ice/snow coming off mental roofs, and while yesterday and today are above freezing, tonight when it gets cold, it won't get back above the mid 20's until Monday.

People are starting to get upset that we are not doing more, but they don't understand that while it looks like fluffy snow, it is actually a combination of 4 to 5 inches of sleet and freezing rain causing sheet ice. More so, when it melts during the day and refreezes overnight, it just because block ice where it wasn't cleared and black ice where it was cleared. A snow plow is not going to have a lot of success with that. We are using bobcats and excavators to clear out as much as we can, and while we are doing a lot better than other communities in the area, 60% of our staff lives outside the community.

We have staff who don't live in the Town who lost power and are being told that it might be the first of March before the power is back on because it was a total grid collapse, others who can't get their vehicles out of their garages, and if they could, they can't get to the main roads. And then there is the worry of the water system once everything starts to thaw.

*Edit, I live and work in TN, but we are a border community to MS.
 
Wednesday evening I got a text from a local business owner. He was upset his sidewalk hadn't been cleared.

I wanted to tell him to be glad the streets were clear so people could even get to his business...but I didn't. I let him know there was a 3-man crew in downtown that started at the Square & moved out from there. He is 3 blocks away from Square.
 
Planit said:
Wednesday evening I got a text from a local business owner. He was upset his sidewalk hadn't been cleared.

I wanted to tell him to be glad the streets were clear so people could even get to his business...but I didn't. I let him know there was a 3-man crew in downtown that started at the Square & moved out from there. He is 3 blocks away from Square.
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People here have to shovel their own sidewalks.

Of course, we get more snow than you do.
 
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