Got 30 ° with falling snow. Should get 1 to 2".
The main event is saturday.
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Got 30 ° with falling snow. Should get 1 to 2".
The main event is saturday.
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This is my HotScoot 20mph electric stand-up scooter (a real nerdmobile) -- fun to play with in snow, if it's not too deep. Unfortunately, right now it is.
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It's warmer this morning -- 37F (about 2 or 3 C) or so. I'm staying in -- I expect driving to be worse today than it's been through the week. Privation is beginning to set in. Why, I had to eat my morning bagel with peanut butter instead of the usual cream cheese!
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
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You have to mention peanut butter when I'm currently very hungry??Originally Posted by Trebuchet
Our weather: Clear. Sunny. Calm. High expected to be 67 F. Wind gusts in forecast for this afternoon, possibly to 25 mph (I hope not).
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Hi, I got 4" of snow, more to come tomorrow. 29° with a light breeze. Clear. Good viewing if you bundle up.
Dan
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Temps finally got above freezing very early this morning. Thaw commencing. Gonna be a rough couple of days, still 100,000's without power. I was able to get into work today. Most main roads are bare and wet, though side streets are very slushy and icy. Once I was able to get through the slush berm the snowplow put up while plowing the main road, it was a pretty smooth drive.
Flood warnings out now...with all the melting going on, storm drains are getting clogged with slush and major rain/wind on the way. Temps in the mid 30's right now, supposed to get into the 40's later today as a front moves through.
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Rain. Lots and lots of rain.
So many bugs, so little time.
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Snowed in the last two days, now freezing rain on top of the 6" on the ground. Should be pretty dicey getting around for awhile. Praying for a Chinook to blow in some warm air and dry us out.
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Ah yes, the chinook! I remember those warm winds when growing up in Richland (Usher I see you're in Kennewick). They thaw things out pretty quickly. IIRC, a true "chinook" is a warm east wind blowing off the Rockies, not sure how that term got attached to warm winds in E. Wa. I think that term could possibly be used for any warm, sinking wind. Of course, a chinook is a also a pretty tasty salmon, or a helicopter (I personally cannot comment on the taste of a CH47 chinook....)
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Ice, ice, baby. Freezing sleet for the last few hours, giving everything a nice glazed coating, and now fine hail.
STARGAZING: All I see are the lights of a billion places I'll never go. --Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary
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Got 10 ° F now with a merciful calm wind . Snow to follow tomorrow. Yukon to the rescue.
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It's snowing, the sky(clouds) is orangey-yellow with a touch of red. Now at 07:32 the temperature is a -10celsius and it's just a gentle breeze in Oslo
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Ah....Oslo. Best food in Epcot at Disney World. Here's wishing you sunshine soon.
I have 20°F and grey skies with a very fine snow falling, probably get 6" today.
Best regards,
Dan
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Sunny. Clear. Temp (mid-morning) probably a cool 58 F. High today probably 68 F. Might get breezy/gusty in mid-afternoon.
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I used to dream about 68°. T'wd be like a paradise to us. I've got 16° , but calm. Snow's done. Got 5". Light stuff.
Dan
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Mild, Sticky and Drippy. Probably fog later this evening.
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Man, we keep getting hammered out here. 45 mph gusts this am, which brought down even more branches already weakened by the ice storm. Another storm blows in tomorrow late AM though the evening. And another one set to blow in Tuesday. At least our precip isn't frozen any more...
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In the mid-40's F today, with 100% chance of slush. At least in God's Little Shady Spot (TM). Our street, a cul-de-sac, is surrounded by tall trees, with the ones to the south on a hill. The sun never reaches the ground at this time of year. The snow which began falling last Saturday will still be with us next Saturday. I guess I should count my blessings -- we missed out on the ice storm and power failures.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.
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We had a brief respite from the rain yesterday (well, there was a nice hail storm in the afternoon), but the rain came back today. Since we're supposed to get 1-2 inches of rain over night but it has been snowing for the past hour, tomorrow may be interesting.
So many bugs, so little time.
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Thunderstorms, possible tornadoes and hail....all in January in Alabama...not unusual. Had to run the A/C in the car...
Dale
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Same here in western Kentucky, except for running the A/C. The line of thunderstorms is passing over me right now, so I might as well wait until it passes before I go to bed.
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The sun is coming out! At least I think that's what that bright thing in the sky is called. I forget, it's been a while since we've seen it.
Meanwhile, the county snowplow just came and plowed and sanded our cul-de-sac for the first time since the snow started nine or ten days ago. And has totally blocked our driveway in the process.
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Calm with grey skies. It has made 45°F , and stuff is melting. Good.
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Growing up in the cloudy/rainy/snowy upper Midwest, my sister and I would call "Sun Alert!" when the weather finally cleared after a long stretch of gloomy skies.
Yesterday was *beautiful* and like early summer.
Today is very different: Started out overcast and sprinkling. Around noon the clouds mostly parted (except for W - NW). Two hours ago the clouds regrouped; it's again sprinkling or raining. Temp is a cool 52 F probably.
By sundown we might be clear skies or still stormy. Days like these very unpredictable.
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Made 57°F todayNot bad at all.
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Sigh...another storm blows in tonight. Wind advisory in effect till midnight. 50 mph gusts forecast. Ugh. At least it's above freezing...
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I always feel guilty posting my weather situation here during the winter. While not nearly as warm as L.A. during the winter we are a solid Mediterranian climate with a wet and a dry season. I put down about ten pounds of grass seed this weekend to take advantage of the rain storms blowing through. Kentucky bluegrass.
(That's why I was crying about the lack of rain. It stops raining in May altogether and stays dry until November, with the occasional Eastern Pacific hurricaine remnant pushing a day of showers through in the middle of summer. And that is by no means a yearly occurance.)
So we have moi putting down lawn, Dan waiting for the first CO2 frost of the year and poor Henrik...
He's eagerly awaiting the Danish holiday "Atmosphere Collapse Day" a no school, no work national holiday*.
Makes it hard to complain about a 45F/25mph wind night to a sympathic audience.
*I meant to use a translator to make the holiday a pseudo Dutch name, with just enough moonspeak in it to make Henrik do a spit take, but after checking two translation sites it seems the Danes don't have a word for atmosphere. Kinda proves my point.
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Wild weather last night - 50mph gusts as predicted! No damage in my area, but lots of debris laying around and my deck furniture blew over the railing and into the yard.
Some folks 're-lost' their power after having it restored after the ice storm. Others have downed trees to deal with.
Is it spring yet....
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I was formerly, for years, assigned to an account in Seattle. Weather days like that, the multispeciality clinic would close and the company would have to assign my work from elsewhere. Or I'd just plain be out of work for a day or two.
Today is sunny, clear, calm, and perfectly cool at around 58 F.
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Today..... 40°F , partly cloudy with a light breeze. Maybe some rain tomorrow.
Hang in there, Seattle.
Dan
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