Official Free Republic Snow Day Thread

weather.gov (as if we needed expert confirmation) ^ | 11-30-06 | sully777

[sully777]

Yesterday, Tulsa saw temperatures drop from 70 degrees F to 45 degrees F within one minute's time. Tornado watches were issued ahead of the front with spotty reports of hail. As the storm progressed through Tulsa, thunderstorms pummeled the region with heavy rain and dangerous lightning (one strike hit a Catoosa home and burned it to the ground).

The rain continued unabated throughout the evening giving some parts of drought-striken Oklahoma three to four inches of rain with the remaining counties receiving at least two inches of precipitation.

Temperatures continued to drop in the overnight. The rain became ice and sleet until the region was covered with at least an inch of ice by daybreak. Currently, we are experiencing thunder ice storms. The NWS predicts 2-4 inches of ice to accumulate, then the storms will convert to thunder snowstroms in the afternoon hours. Accumulations of snow are expected to total 7 to 10 inches by Friday morning with higher amounts in various isolated areas. Winds are gusting to 35 mph so the NWS is predicting near blizzard conditions with drifting expected.

Friday and Saturday's outlook calls for frogs, water turning to blood, and off and on periods of fire and brimstone.

[sully777]

It's A Snow Day!!!

[cripplecreek]

Still rain here in Southern Michigan but the temperature has dropped by nearly 15 degrees since 7 this morning.

[Grampa Dave]

I can remembers mornings going to classes at OSU with a light jacket or no jacket and walking through snow/ice and freezing in the afternoon after classes.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Still 60 degrees here in NY. May hit 65 today.

Our temperature readjustment comes sometime tomorrow.

[JamesP81]

It's currently 70 degrees where I'm at. It's going to 35 by the time I go to bed tonight.

[Gingersnap]

It's around 14 F here in Colorful Colorado. I got about 8 inches of powder yesterday but the sun is finally out. We'll be in the 30s over the next 5 days or so.

[Gay State Conservative]

It's nearly 60 here in the land of Kennedy,Kerry and Dukakis.

[angkor]

65 in DC, will be in the 30's by Saturday daytime.

Snow around here is a nightmare, it turns into a frozen slushgluck that hangs around for weeks.

[sully777]

Informal ping to the play in the snow.

[sully777]

[evets]

Triple dog dare!

[fredhead]

It's headed this way!!!! Highs in mid-70's today and tomorrow, then around 50 on Saturday, with high winds.

Shoot!! Can't go fishing again!

[beyond the sea]

I'd like to have my way with Emma Thompson in the snow...... or mostly anywhere else ......... that's that.

****

Love at first sight.

[darkwing104]

I am in Florida...Might be a little hard to play in the snow.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Tijeras, 11" and 7 degrees.

[sully777]

"...still it's a dry cold so it's comfortable."

Our friends in Denver always tell us that.

[PhiKapMom]

University of Oklahoma is closed today! They announced it last night and the city of Norman announced that they only have enough crews to keep open main arteries not neighborhoods. It is warming up tomorrow so roads will start to melt. Think we only had an inch of snow but it rained sleet last night so it is slick out.

Staying inside today except to let out the dogs! Made a pot of chili last night and going to relax! :)

[sully777]

Bite your tongue!!!

I miss the deeper south.

[sarasota]

We've gone from 50's to wind chills of 7 overnight. And the snow is heading our way tonight through tomorrow night.

[najida]

Sorry,
78 here.

[Blogger]

1 minutes time?????

[sully777]

People in Oklahoma are not known for superb driving skills when its sunny. There is no way I'm driving today even if I could get out. Not that I could get out.

[sarasota]

Cold and dry (as in Colorado) = sinus infections for me. Give me humidity!

[TexasCajun]

Just made it to Clear Lake, south of Houston.

About time, this 80 degree & 90% humidity for Nov suxs.

[JJR RNCH]

Global Warming????

[rzeznikj at stout]

25 and overcast here in southern Wisconsin...

Winter Storm Watch in effect for parts of the southeast corner, including Milwaukee.

Winter Storm warnings south of the IL border...

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Placerville - 43F and clear as a bell ... snow up in Tahoe a few days ago.

[Baynative]

Nice view from our place yesterday.

Clouding up today, though.

[Enosh]

70 degrees F to 45 degrees F within one minute's time.

Wow!

When the front hit here, it dropped twenty degrees in thirty minutes.

I've never heard of such a rapid decline as you have reported. Amazing.

[girlscout]

Temps have dropped to 46 degrees here in the Houston area and expected to go into the 30's by this afternoon. I started my day with a warm 73 degrees. Glad I brought my coat!

[Auntbee]

They predicting between 2 - 12 inches of snow here in KC.

[Young Werther]

UT Arlington in DFW area closed and my daughter, a sophomore is ecstatic! DFW was 31 this AM afeter 71 yesterday, (my thermometer on back stoop). My Huskies don't want to come in!!!

[Deaf Smith]

"with heavy rain and dangerous lightning"

Oh sure, Dangerous Lightning. Sounds like one of the new phrases the local weather forecasters have to state for the Yankees that moved in.

Well, we'll just have to see if we can legislate safer lightning for them.

[Enosh]

[Ramius]

Nice shot! Gorgeous view.

I'm feeling really left out. Here in Bellevue I got bupkis. No snow, no icy roads... nuthin. It was cold in the 20s yesterday. It rained this morning.

Nuts. :-)

[sully777]

1 minutes time?????

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1 minutes time????? One minute's time/A New York minute/In a moment's notice/In a twinkling of an eye/ bat of an eye/ etc..

I was watching the front edge toward me. The wind was blowing up from the south. And in a minute's time, the wind changed to the north. The temperature dropped.

[HairOfTheDog]

Thanks Baynative, always neat to see the snow against the water. We didn't get a lot of accumulation but it sure was cold!

Pictures of around our place at dawn yesterday...

And I think this one was the day before...

[Sally'sConcerns]

Lawton/Duncan/Marlow/Rush Springs area checking in! Brrrrrr! Wind is howling. There's at least a quarter inch of ice on the branches of the bushes next to the house. Patchy snow in the backyard. The dish satellite has icicles about three inches long hanging off of it. I just noticed the old cable wiring leading into the house has ice accumulation of close to half an inch hanging off of it.

Looking at current radar we'll probably get more freezing precip even though nothings happening at the moment.

I'm a little concerned about the ice accumulation on the tree branches and power lines.

Poor fiance is out in this since he's a self employed heat and a/c guy. We've had such nice weather people haven't run their heat and they're finding they have none. Since it's supposed to get down into the teen's tonight he's running calls. I don't know whether some of the other hvac companies are shut down or not since some of them are storefronts.

Our old dog has a hard time with the ice on the steps so she's decided to hold on as long as she can. The lab bounds down the steps so doesn't really make enough contact to do any skidding on the ice. The terrier mix loves the snow and wants to play in it. The cat is curled up on 'her' nest of pillows in the living room.

Me <--- two pairs of socks with lambswool leather shoes on and feet are still cold. Sweats and my heavy fleece robe as well as the silk longjohns so I'm all layered up. When I take the dogs out I add my coat.

[sully777]

Cloud to cloud lightning is okay by me. When it hits the house it becomes slightly dangerous.

BTW, I believe "yankees" have lightning seeing that ole Ben Franklin was inventing the lightning rod in the north.

[Txsleuth]

We have had rain...and sleet..the snow is supposed to start this afternoon...in north Texas.

[Txsleuth]

I have a feeling that soap opera fans in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area are NOT HAPPY.

The local ABC station has been all weather, all of the time today...and we really haven't gotten the snow YET...LOL

[Doomonyou]

Here's a snowy day in Wyoming a month ago!

[Sax]

80 degrees here in FL. I was actually in the pool a few days ago.

Of course, I enjoy nothing better than a cold snap for a change of pace.

[sully777]

You were helping a stranded deer. Did Bambi return to her family?

[sarasota]

I'm on to a new layer this year: leg warmers. They work wonders in keeping the ankles and calves toasty.

[Sax]

Nice - 10pt mule deer?

[sully777]

2-12 inches??? Bee, I think your meteorologist is ascared to make a prediction.

[Izzy Dunne]

spotty reports of hail

I think this "Spotty" guy needs to be replaced as a reporter.

[cripplecreek]

When I got up around 7 this morning it was nearly 60 degrees, now it's down to 36.

[Doomonyou]

Did Bambi return to her family?

Actually it's a boy deer. I did give him a ride to my house.