We got down to -2F last night, total snow accumulations in town range from 5.5 inches to over 8 inches depending on the side of town you live in. We probably got about 6 to 7 inches here. DH has already used the snow blower but had to make two passes to reach the sidewalk the snow was so deep(it is a small blower and can only handle a few inches at a time) Our temp has crawled up to 18F and they are promising high winds tomorrow. Can we say drifts... but we are all very grateful for the moisture.

The first real snowstorm, 1" doesn't count, is expected tomorrow. It might be about 5", or so.

The road prep is something new. A tanker truck went up and down each lane, spraying a solution in 1" strips, 8 of them, about a foot apart, for a 7 foot wide treatment. It smelled like teriyaki sauce that is heavy on molasses. Guess what I've decided to have for dinner on Friday.

Tormato wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:53 pm The first real snowstorm, 1" doesn't count, is expected tomorrow. It might be about 5", or so.

The road prep is something new. A tanker truck went up and down each lane, spraying a solution in 1" strips, 8 of them, about a foot apart, for a 7 foot wide treatment. It smelled like teriyaki sauce that is heavy on molasses. Guess what I've decided to have for dinner on Friday.

Making me hungry.

worth1 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:17 pm

Tormato wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:53 pm The first real snowstorm, 1" doesn't count, is expected tomorrow. It might be about 5", or so.

The road prep is something new. A tanker truck went up and down each lane, spraying a solution in 1" strips, 8 of them, about a foot apart, for a 7 foot wide treatment. It smelled like teriyaki sauce that is heavy on molasses. Guess what I've decided to have for dinner on Friday.

Making me hungry.

I can make you lose your hunger, by fibbing that one pass of the spraying went over a road kill.

Tormato wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 10:10 pm

worth1 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:17 pm

Tormato wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:53 pm The first real snowstorm, 1" doesn't count, is expected tomorrow. It might be about 5", or so.

The road prep is something new. A tanker truck went up and down each lane, spraying a solution in 1" strips, 8 of them, about a foot apart, for a 7 foot wide treatment. It smelled like teriyaki sauce that is heavy on molasses. Guess what I've decided to have for dinner on Friday.

Making me hungry.

I can make you lose your hunger, by fibbing that one pass of the spraying went over a road kill.

Pre seasoned.

Wow that big east coast storm is making a mess! All over the news with traffic jams and people trapped in their cars on the highway. It is the same system plus or minus some northerly interactions that will get here tonight and tomorrow. Good times to stay at home.

Colder than a witch's...um...welp, you's get the picture. Won't get out of the single digits.

The Gotch

A little more snow than last time - between 3 and 4 inches. But this time it's fluffy, and easy to clean from the car, and I think a lot melted this time from the walks due to the previous salting. And the sun is out, now that the snow is out of here. And above freezing already - 34° at 10 am. The bad thing is the wind - up to 35 mph gusts, while I was out there.

Bower wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:06 am Wow that big east coast storm is making a mess! All over the news with traffic jams and people trapped in their cars on the highway. It is the same system plus or minus some northerly interactions that will get here tonight and tomorrow. Good times to stay at home.

NL is up next. I saw one estimate of up to 114 km/hr winds and 50 cm of snow. Southern NL temps look like they will be just above or just below freezing, during the day, through Monday.

I don't know if the storm is done, here. Radar shows it snowing, looking out window shows it not.

Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:56 am Colder than a witch's...um...welp, you's get the picture. Won't get out of the single digits.

The Gotch

Yes, this phrase is used quite often this time of the year. It could also be said that it's colder than the "......" of a frozen penguin. Either way a brisk -6 this morning. Gotta keep the flock fed.

Tormato wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:43 pm

Bower wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:06 am Wow that big east coast storm is making a mess! All over the news with traffic jams and people trapped in their cars on the highway. It is the same system plus or minus some northerly interactions that will get here tonight and tomorrow. Good times to stay at home.

NL is up next. I saw one estimate of up to 114 km/hr winds and 50 cm of snow. Southern NL temps look like they will be just above or just below freezing, during the day, through Monday.

I don't know if the storm is done, here. Radar shows it snowing, looking out window shows it not.

Here on the Avalon we're expecting snow to start in a couple of hours, snow for a bit, then change to ice pellets, then to rain, and drizzle by morning and 4C above. It'll be gusty tonight up to 80 kph but the really howling winds are supposed to strike the following day in the wake of the storm. We're supposed to see gusts to 110 kph here but up to 130 kph in exposed areas. NW gale so in Conception Bay it'll be rough.

Been in a cold windy building during this event.
No place to warm up and my fingers throb all day even with gloves on.
Very frustrating.
All the big wigs are nice and warm in the job trailers and you rarely see them out and about.

Very strange here. A bubble of super high dew point air has invaded from the gulf this morning. Dew point is at 72. That’s full on summer like. But just down the Coast right on the water at Corpus Christi and then on to Brownsville the dew points are in the mid-low 50s. Inland at Austin, in the 40s. Unfortunately, we are on the tiny portion of the State that the warm front has crossed.

The concrete out in the garage is covered in condensation. So are the windows. Cool ground or house meeting saturated warm air. The very least favorite weather of my wife. Wet, damp, gloomy, yuck. I’m in for a long weekend, not so happy wife, not a happy life.

I hate it too and can't wait for it to dry up.
The darn cat wants out but she will be right back in.
Then she will want out again thinking the weather has changed.
Drives me nuts.
I finally got the chill of by taking an extremely hot shower.

very windy, with blowing snow is causing poor visibility. we turned around on our way to church today when we drove through a drift on
the "good" part of our road. it would have been completely blown in four hours later. the stretch of road with the hay field on both sides
is more than likely impassable by now. with our only two ways off the road questionable, we will hunker down at home.
pretty cold too.

i took the dog for a quick walk awhile ago, and was surprised to see the road open. the county plow must have come by, and plowed.
we still are not going anywhere. visibility is less than a 1/4 mile. with the wind gusts blowing snow six different directions, i would say
that visibility is less than that.


keith

Freezing rain this morning, later changing to all rain, hopefully.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-w ... ic/1120200

Texas had the most lightning strikes at almost 42 million in 2021, but if you factor in strikes per square kilometer, about 86/sqkilometer, Florida gets the win. 2021, like 2020 was still below the long term average for the US. 194 million bolts hit the US in 2021, 170 million in 2020, the lt average is 220 million.

The Willis Tower in Chicago took the most hits for any one building at 216.

If you don’t like lightning, consider moving to a state bordering or surrounding the Pacific Ocean. Those states all have the least lightning with Alaska at the lowest per sq kilometer, 0.52/sqkm.

The Arctic is getting more lightning these days with increased thunderstorms at the higher latitudes.

Otherwise, in local weather, no lightning today. Yesterday, some rumblings of thunder and a tiny bit of rain, today, heading for 58 degrees and sun. Pretty typical mid January weather along the upper Texas coast.

12.2 °F Now
Feels Like -1.4 °F

We might (and I use that term loosely) see some kind of frozen precip this weekend but I'll believe it when I see it. From our local tv weather dude:

"The weekend looks interesting with the potential for winter weather late Saturday into Sunday. We look mostly dry during the day Saturday with highs in the mid 50s. Rain chances start to increase Saturday night into Sunday as an area of low pressure tracks across the region. Temperatures will be trying to drop to freezing late Saturday into Sunday, which means we could have some power and travel impacts if precipitation is falling with freezing temperatures. It’s still too soon to know exacts and this can change. We have issued a FIRST ALERT to give everyone a heads up for the potential this weekend of winter weather."

I imagine if he keeps forecasting that, there will be the usual run on the stores around Friday for bread, milk, eggs, bottled water and beer. We stay ready so it doesn't matter to me.

The welcome sun came out today.
I hate gloomy weather.