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Post: # 84624Unread post Cornelius_Gotchberg
Sat Dec 10, 2022 7:52 am

Got our 1st "substantial" (which @rxkeith would call dusting) snow yesterday; ~6"/15.24cms of the wet, heavy Heart Attack (https://www.nationaljewish.org/conditio ... 0treadmill.) stuff.

Took over two (2) hours to get everything (concrete, decks, pathway to compost bins cleared, roof raked, & trees/shrubs-n-bird feeders knocked off) done, during which time the power went out for ~four (4) hours. Internet (except for a brief HotSpot experiment/endeavor) was out until this a.m., involving four (4) phone calls to Spectrum, one nearly an hour in duration.

Temps stayed ~freezing overnight, giving way to mid 30sF/~2°C and that most enviable (IMO) winter condition in these here parts: Bone dry pavement!

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Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:25 am

We are also in that 'warmer than normal' band from the ENSO forecast. Likely to be stormy but more snow to rain events, similar the previous two winters. Fewer Nordeasters they say, but those we get may pack a big punch.
Meanwhile, it doesn't take many days of drizzle and fog to seem like it's been FOREVER. It's been at least a week, if not a month. Lows above freezing, highs a meager 3 to 4 C, but at least nothing is presently frozen. If it would just stop with the heavy drizzle I would do some garden things today before we drop into the freezing zone.
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Post: # 84645Unread post rxkeith
Sat Dec 10, 2022 3:53 pm

kinda quiet here for the time being. we are getting a bit of snow today, but it won't amount to much.
we got through a couple arctic days in the teens, and are entering a warming trend. 30 degrees yesterday
and today, and expecting to go into the upper 30s by next week. snow in the forecast for wednesday, but
don't know how much yet. today has been one gloomy day. cloudy, NO sun at all.

that heavy wet stuff is a heart attack waiting to happen for some people who try to over do it. thing to do is
break the job up, and do a small amount at a time and take breaks or pay the neighbor kid to do it.
if you got yourself a snow scoop, that will eliminate the repetitive lifting you are doing with a shovel. takes a lot
less effort to push the snow than lift it. you will see old folks here, OLD,, getting their yooper work out scooping snow.


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Sun Dec 11, 2022 7:28 am

I hear ya on the wet snow Keith. I'm into the scoop shovel myself, and have a system for heavy snows. No matter how high the drifts and snowbanks are, I will cut down some openings along the driveway for the snow to go. I push the snow shovel toward them for the heaviest stuff or pivot to it for lighter loads, either way the lift is only a foot or two into the opening, then I slide the shovel into the 'chute' to shake the snow off as far away as I can.

Snow shoveling causes heart attacks because the muscles in your upper body are basically clenched and are not adequately released when you repeat that scoop and toss motion over and over. Eventually this deprives the heart of oxygen rich blood flow and heart attack can follow. So in my method, the "slide and shake off" motion is paced to take long enough that upper body tension is completely released. You can literally feel that rich oxygen filled blood rushing through your heart and lungs, and a fantastic surge of energy. Plenty for the next shovel! For some reason I could never duplicate this effect just by stopping to rest while conventional shoveling. The tension is not released just by stopping, there needs to be time and a motion that opens up the lungs I guess.
Anyway I feel that my method is great cardio, it leaves me feeling fantastic.
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Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:39 pm

we are getting some weather.
winds have really been gusting. i had my dog out for a walk today when i heard a crack, and thud. a large standing dead tree had fallen across the road just a minute up ahead. if the dog hadn't made some pee stops, and hunkered, we could have been right there. i managed to drag the tree in
sections off the road. we may get 1 to 4 inches which is a down grade from 6 to 12 inches yesterday. looks like parts of wisconsin is in the pink zone.
john dee uses pink in his grapic for really big snow. western U.P., and parts of minnesota look to get 8 to 12 inches..
our temp is still in the upper 30s thanks to a south southeast wind for part of the day otherwise we could be getting hammered too.
it will be an early day for me tomorrow in the event i have to move snow before work. chance of snow for next several days. temps will dip
into the teens by next week.


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Wed Dec 14, 2022 7:04 pm

Expecting a Noreaster Thurs night until Sat morning. Not sure how much will be rain and how much snow. Last I heard they were expecting mostly rain but depends on the course it takes. Hoping for the rain. :)

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Wed Dec 14, 2022 8:50 pm

Turning colder Saturday they are saying, seasonable at the moment. Super cold air from Siberia on its way to North America. 78° below zero air. Records likely to fall, where, they aren’t sure yet.
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Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:28 pm

Doesn't look like it will be as bad around us but I really feel for those in the North Central part of the country, as well as Texas where a lot people are not prepared for temps in the 20s.

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Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:58 pm

Sue_CT wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:28 pm Doesn't look like it will be as bad around us but I really feel for those in the North Central part of the country, as well as Texas where a lot people are not prepared for temps in the 20s.
Right now, the bottom here is forecast for Christmas Eve morning at 34°. But, that number will likely change between now and then. The worst of the coming cold looks to be centered over Illinois or thereabouts, for now.
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Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:40 pm

I read onine they are forecasting temps in the 20s in the Dallas area. Hope it is better than that for all of you.

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Post: # 84919Unread post karstopography
Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:36 am

This blast of polar air on the way is concerning. Our devastating freeze of February 2021 didn’t get forecast until just a few days out. I see one site now has us bottoming out at 30° Christmas Eve. 30° for a few hours really isn’t such a problem here, but drop it down into the low 20° and keep it there for days and the issues start to pile up, around here anyway.

My BIL in Southlake (just above Ft Worth) is looking at 20° one morning and may struggle to rise above freezing for 2 or 3 days. There’s supposedly been improvements made to the electrical grid/power generation/power distribution here in Texas since 2021. Maybe this arctic air will be a live test of how well the fixes went.

Getting just a little to the north of Dallas in places such as Tulsa or Nashville and they are looking at single digits being likely. My uncle in Carmel, IN the high on the 23rd is supposed to be 10° and 11° on Christmas Eve. This looks like a good sized chunk of very cold polar air that’s going to cover a lot of places, where exactly and how far south it gets is still being determined.
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Thu Dec 15, 2022 5:00 am

That forecast cold does not sound good to this Aussie folks. Stay safe and warm over Christmas.

Down here early Christmas day forecast is for something around 22C/71 F with broken cloud. Near perfect to me.

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Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:05 am

We've had rain move through during the night with the most of it having just passed by. Just a little more before we're in the clear. There's 1" in the rain gauge. Yesterday the temp just got up to 47F/8C and stayed around that all day and then it started getting warmer through the night as the front came through. 63F/17C this morning but we're headed to a low of 26F/-3C by Monday morning. It will be time to cover some stuff again.

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Thu Dec 15, 2022 7:54 am

We've been having rain and high winds added to the endless drizzle and fog this week - enough to leave standing water in the catchments. It's been ten days since there's been any actual sunshine and weather dry enough to hang clothes on the line. No sunshine appearing anywhere in the forecast, looks like the endless rain will get mixed with some flurries as the temperature goes down a little notch. Low temperatures are still running above or just freezing, highs not much above that. It's the windchills that make all the difference.
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Post: # 84929Unread post karstopography
Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:06 am

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/ ... year-ever/
Anchorage has its wettest year in recorded history. Eighteen inches of snow so far in December with a lot more in the forecast that makes it likely they’ll have the snowiest December on record.
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Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:22 am

Extremely cold air from Siberian invading...

https://news.yahoo.com/extremely-cold-a ... 44013.html

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Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:39 am

Sue_CT wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 7:04 pm Expecting a Noreaster Thurs night until Sat morning. Not sure how much will be rain and how much snow. Last I heard they were expecting mostly rain but depends on the course it takes. Hoping for the rain. :)
Same, here.

In the valley, right now the weathermen are saying snow changing over to rain. 10 or more miles west, it could be all snow.

The storm the other day had me shoveling three driveways. My back, and the rest of me, is still sore. I wasn't at all prepared for the first storm. It took me an hour to find the other glove. Meanwhile, once I got out there, the snow was beginning to melt, and I had to ditch the clogging up snowblower. A few days earlier, it was warm enough to use the garden hose to wash a few things off. I forgot to completely put it away, and thanks to the snowblower, it is now 49 feet long instead of 50.

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Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:56 pm

Rain all day today, and getting hard now - I could hear the rain really hard on the windows, while I was getting dinner cooking. Not supposed to stop until sometime tomorrow. It's been in the high 30s, but the temp is already 44°, and going up even more at night, maybe to 50°. Then, back down, once the rain is gone. Crazy weather.
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Post: # 84976Unread post Tormato
Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:53 pm

The storm, expected to last about 24 hours, is a wait and see.

The latest forecast, here, is for a dusting to 2 inches followed by much rain, making slush, which may or may not wash away in the rain.

5 miles west 2-6 inches, 15 miles west 6-12 inches.

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Post: # 85104Unread post karstopography
Sat Dec 17, 2022 7:24 am

https://abc13.com/arctic-blast-white-ch ... /12576536/
20% chance of a white Christmas here. Still a long way off, but usually our chance for snow at Christmas is zero.
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