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bad weather thread
« on: December 08, 2009, 05:36:34 PM »
This is the "official" bad weather thread for the current storm embracing most of the middle west.  If one's in good weather, don't come here, leave us alone.

If your weather's bad, how bad is it?

Any unusual experiences?

In late afternoon here, I got into the motor vehicle and took off; the snow was already to the top of the hubcaps.  Roads not ploughed, because no point in ploughing while it's still snowing (at least that's the Nebraska logic, and we're used to it).

I live on a gravel road, for about two miles, after one reaches the paved highway.

I got through okay, but it was a pain; I have a low-sitting sedan (makes for easier driving in high winds) that I sometimes have to ram through snow drifts (and thus occasionally bending tie-rods).  But I wasn't in the drive for the ease and comfort of it; I was in it just to see what's going on.

It's pretty bad, but obviously I survive.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2009, 05:42:19 PM »
The rain moved out. We got clipped by the southern end of the storm. WCF is supposed to get into the single-digits (F) tonight and tomorrow wind gusts around 35 to 40 mph with a high temp. of 32 (F).
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2009, 05:43:34 PM »
19 degress in Stillwater. Snowing all day, but maybe an inch of accumulation.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2009, 05:56:03 PM »
As I mentioned in the other thread we are looking at anywhere between 8-12 inches of snow and tomorrow a Wind Chill of between -10 and -20 .
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2009, 06:00:17 PM »
Quote from: Airwolf on December 08, 2009, 05:56:03 PM
As I mentioned in the other thread we are looking at anywhere between 8-12 inches of snow and tomorrow a Wind Chill of between -10 and -20 .

We're supposed to have 6" by midnight, when the wind starts.

The "low" is predicted to be -4 degrees.

But with wind circa 40-60 mph after midnight, and through most of Wednesday, I have no idea what that translates into wind-chill.

After 20 degrees, it pretty much doesn't make any difference, 10 degrees or -10 degrees or whatever; it all seems the same, cold.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2009, 06:21:05 PM »
Well.....I need to make a long road trip up to Chicago either tomorrow or Thursday, during which I get to enjoy the entire length of Illinois, from south to north. Sounds like Thursday may be a better bet. But, as awful as Illinois is, they do remove snow an ice pretty well.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2009, 06:28:03 PM »
Depending on who one listens to around here, we're due to get anywhere from 2" to 5" of the white stuff before it changes to rain and sleet.  Carl will get more, as he lives at a higher elevation than I do.  The thing is, people forget how to drive in this stuff from one year to the next--or even one storm to the next.  Downtown Albany is going to be an expletive-deleted mess tomorrow.  If it gets to the point that The Heiress' day care is closed tomorrow, I'll stay home with her, as my wife has to go in and get her check.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2009, 06:30:18 PM »
Our weather is pretty bad.  I was out at 5:30 PM central and heard multiple sirens.  I blame Algore.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2009, 06:33:57 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on December 08, 2009, 06:21:05 PM
Well.....I need to make a long road trip up to Chicago either tomorrow or Thursday, during which I get to enjoy the entire length of Illinois, from south to north. Sounds like Thursday may be a better bet. But, as awful as Illinois is, they do remove snow an ice pretty well.

Here in the central part of Illinois, we're still getting rain. Temps are supposed to start dropping after 6a.m. tomorrow.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2009, 07:07:57 PM »
It was in the high 40's and sunny today, should fall to sh*t tonight though.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2009, 07:24:43 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on December 08, 2009, 06:28:03 PM
Depending on who one listens to around here, we're due to get anywhere from 2" to 5" of the white stuff before it changes to rain and sleet.  Carl will get more, as he lives at a higher elevation than I do.  The thing is, people forget how to drive in this stuff from one year to the next--or even one storm to the next.  Downtown Albany is going to be an expletive-deleted mess tomorrow.  If it gets to the point that The Heiress' day care is closed tomorrow, I'll stay home with her, as my wife has to go in and get her check.

Even up here in the country they get stupid. :thatsright:
Channel 6 has us at 2-4 but we`ll see.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2009, 07:52:31 PM »
Mid 80's here all week with some cooling to the mid 60's at night. :uhsure:
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2009, 08:10:50 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on December 08, 2009, 07:52:31 PM
Mid 80's here all week with some cooling to the mid 60's at night. :uhsure:

Well then I don't feel so bad for posting that we are headed to a hard freeze 20 or less.  With lots of wind, but precip should be minimal.  (I wasn't sure if that qualified for bad weather, but I may have to wrap some plants, and pipes and stuff.)
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2009, 08:22:07 PM »
6-12 inches and then rain/sleet on top of it, winds in the 30 mph range.  I'll be leaving work early tomorrow morning to try and beat the storm home.

I love winter.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2009, 08:23:53 PM »
Its windy and slightly wet here.  That is all.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2009, 11:09:47 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on December 08, 2009, 06:00:17 PM
We're supposed to have 6" by midnight, when the wind starts.

The "low" is predicted to be -4 degrees.

But with wind circa 40-60 mph after midnight, and through most of Wednesday, I have no idea what that translates into windchill.

After 20 degrees, it pretty much doesn't make any difference, 10 degrees or -10 degrees or whatever; it all seems the same, cold.

What it means Frank is that after 20 degrees is how quickly your flesh will become frozen. The more wind you have the quicker you can become a human popcycle.

http://www.weather.gov/os/windchill/index.shtml

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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2009, 12:04:42 AM »
It's been 4 degrees here for the last two to three days.  No wind by our standards. 

I'm watching this storm.  Supposed to go 8 hours north on Thursday.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2009, 12:33:28 AM »
Quote from: Airwolf on December 08, 2009, 11:09:47 PM
What it means Frank is that after 20 degrees is how quickly your flesh will become frozen. The more wind you have the quicker you can become a human popcycle.

http://www.weather.gov/os/windchill/index.shtml



Yeah, I knew that; just not a specific number.

Wind-chill indici were invented and used in Nebraska long before any blue states and blue cities had them; back in the 1920s at least around here, when one glances at old copies of ancient crumbling newspapers.

But my point was more that, if it's -10 degrees (either real temperature or wind chill) or -30 degrees, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference; it's just too cold to worry about, or even notice, distinctions in gradation.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2009, 01:00:25 AM »
The news said it may get to the lower 20's and teens tonight.  That may not be much compared to the great frozen midwest, but it is really cold for around here. 
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2009, 01:01:10 AM »
Well, here it is, circa 1:00 a.m. out in the desolate Sandhills of Nebraska, midnight mountain time, and I went to the door, hoping to find the cats Abbie and Gustav waiting for me, anxious to come inside.

(In case I don't see them, there's a cat house on the porch, insulated from the wind and carpeted, even.)

Utter devastation, clear to the horizon, in all four directions.

The whole world, including the motor vehicle and the William Rivers Pitt, covered and indiscernible.

The nocturnally foul one here, who beeleeves in man-made climate change, has no idea.

I imagine that's how perceptions are formed, when one lives in a crowded congested blue state, and so can't see the weather among all the crowds, buildings, noise, light, and dirt.

But we out here in the middle of weather, know that mankind ain't nothing, compared with nature.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2009, 01:02:53 AM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on December 09, 2009, 01:00:25 AM
The news said it may get to the lower 20's and teens tonight.  That may not be much compared to the great frozen midwest, but it is really cold for around here. 

Well, come on over--I'll keep ya warm... :naughty:
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2009, 05:21:58 AM »
Blizzard and white out conditions from last night till 6PM tonight. 8-15 foot snow drifts. 14 inches of snow dumped on the city of Des Moines. Every road is ice/snow packed. Accidents galore.
--My phone keeps dying...it will work and then cut out (winds affecting satellite dishes). Same with my cable.
Likely I will get a snow day today.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2009, 06:04:29 AM »
We have rain and high winds.  Somehow somewhere in my house the rain is being blown in.  I found it coming through my basement ceiling this morning but can't find it upstairs yet.  Not the best day in the world to have to patch a roof.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2009, 06:19:39 AM »
In less then 12 hours we are now predicted to get 3-6 inches (already have the 3).
Anyone that thinks we can guess the weather or climate 50 years down the line is just simply insane and easy to understand why data is fudged and the original destroyed.
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Re: bad weather thread
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2009, 07:59:16 AM »
Update: the rain is gone and the sun is shining, but its still a bit windy out there.  It is a balmy 50°.
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