Posted on 01/22/2026 5:14:26 PM PST by Jamestown1630
Nobody seems to have begun a thread for the snowstorm that is forecast for this weekend, so I thought I would.
Where I live (DC Metro area) a big snowstorm is relatively rare. We're the ones who don't really know how to drive in it because we don't get a lot of practice; and we also crowd the grocery store and wipe out the shelves - often for stuff we don't really need, and for a forecast that doesn't amount to much but flurries.
But once in a while, we really get whacked; and I think this may be one of those times. (My husband grew up in the wilds of Pennsylvania, and laughs at what we consider 'getting whacked' down here.)
I'm hoping we get lots of snow, and little or no ice; and hope everyone will be safe.
Let us know what you are doing to prepare, if you live where it might hit.
I’m more concerned about it than I’ve been about forecasts in the past - not necessarily as to what will happen here, but the way it seems to be shaping up for other parts of the country.
Of all places, not much happening in Alaska.
Thank you for the update.
No; we’re in an apartment.
I think it takes at least a gallon to flush a toilet; I can’t imagine trying to do that with snow...
Illinois -44 degrees windchill tomorrow morning.
Comparison of New Mexico ski resorts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_New_Mexico_ski_resorts
Yeah, you can tell big weather is impending when you see those convoys of linemen and tree removal trucks. I remember one year we were driving north to KY from ATL when a hurricane was headed for FL, and we passed like a dozen such convoys headed south.
We have awesome local guys with our EMC, but we’ll take all the help we can get in a big weather event.
You forgot the bacon!
Maine had such an ice storm in 1997. I still remember hearing the trees breaking apart weighted down by ice.
A good number of Mainers were without power for a couple of weeks.
Thanks to all the linemen and linewomen that came from all over the country to help our exhausted electric utility workers.
Florida, Atlantic side?
Worked eastern half of Massachusetts in 1998-99 fix’n vehicle air suspension outdoors.
Aside from my work, I was also studying the natives in their natural habitat.
During the winters, I would tell my customers before I came out that I have to have their vehicle hood and trunk open and the driver’s window down. I would come out to the location and find the vehicles covered with 6-12 inches of snow. The natives would not clean the snow off their cars before I came out, so I did the best I could to remove the snow, but some always got inside the driver’s side and trunk.
First day out I did buy a snow shovel from a convience store to shovel out where I needed to work on the vehicles. For what ever reason, the natives expected me to shovel out their cars completely, but I would not due to having other customers scheduled.
This Texan drinks iced tea and even when it was 10F I had a gallon of iced tea with me in a insulated jug so it would not freeze.
The MA natives would get extremely upset when they inquired of what I was drink’n from my jug when I told them it was iced tea. There were some that exclaimed how dare I bring iced tea on their property.
I have even asked Massachusetts FReepers here what the anger is about iced tea with no satisfactory answer.
Max Velocity is streaming, too. I hope between the two.
Not like this. 🙄 Those southern states do not usually get feet of snow. Ohio and Indiana can probably handle it fine. Others are not used to it
Yeah…..🥶🥶
Hop, not hope. 🙄
Did you notice all the chemtrails the past few days?
They intensify the weather fronts.
So, do you believe this weather event is the result of someone’s manipulation?
We can get big snow in NM, but it’s been drying out for the last 20 years or so. I can remember 12 foot drifts back in the day, but not these days.
And beer.😁
I think everything goes in cycles.
Yes.
I watched the whole process when traveling to S.D. a few years ago. Chemtrails in a blue sky turning into billowing clouds with a blimplike bottom, clouds moving together magnetically forming hotdog looking rows...
By the time we arrived, SD was flooded. The next morning the bridge was out between SD and IA. Torrential rain the next morning.
We left that morning on I94. Torrential rain all day and by the end of the weekend there were tornados and a NE IA town was swept away by a flood.
Well, I think weather just happens, and always has.
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