I'm In Your Macaroni and Cheese
Warming My Feet.
Got A Problem With That?
Posted on 11/30/2006 8:40:03 AM PST by 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.
Blizzard Warning in Milwaukee--everything shut down except the bus system (massive delays), the post office/railroad station, and the U of WI-Milwaukee (still open as usual)
Even MPS (Milw. Pub Schools) is closed. Strange, considering all the times I can remember (since I was five or six), I can count the times MPS has closed for snow on one hand.
We've got roughly three already, and the local guys are fcasting 6-13 by the time it's all said and done later on this afternoon.
LOL
They finally closed the U of WI-Milwaukee--now everything's down (LOL)
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