Excellent article explaining the cause of today's 'hurricane force' storm.
Flights out of Denver now set for Saturday or Sunday. Interstates closed through Colorado, Nebraska, the Dakotas.
Excel energy is reporting a series of power outages. Most likely due to icy power lines combined with high winds. DIA is averaging 45 mph with wind gusts in the 60+ range. Weather man says possible 80+
Watch it in Real Time, here:
https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
Or, here:
https://www.windy.com/-Rain-thunder-rain?rain,41.030,-92.966,5
Did the “cli-fi” channel name it yet? You know “Arctic Blast Melvin” or something? Without a name, meh.
Well, at least it’s not a SHARKNADO!......................
And, yes. I’m not going to complain today about the small amount of rain and flooding we’re getting in SE Wisconsin! :)
Most of the Denver stations have gone to all-day coverage. Only one that hasn’t is the CBS station, because God forbid people miss ‘Let’s Make A Deal’.
Fifty one years ago today, the weather men in Tulsa Oklahoma predicted a “DRY FRONT” would move through our area that night, and drop — nothing.
The next day, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas had around 14 inches of blowing “dry front” piling up in high drifts. It shut down these four states for a week or more. Power was off in parts of Tulsa for a week.
March 14, 1968. Lucky for me, I was in Northern California at that time.
It was a good snowstorm, but in the Denver area at least, it is not overly damaging. About 6-8 inches with strong winds.
Imagine the effects of a bomb cyclone if we were wholly or largely dependent on windmills and solar farms for electricity and fossil fuels like natural gas and heating oil were banned. The windmills would be shut down or destroyed and solar panels would either be snow covered or the sun would be obscured by blizzards. The loss of life would be in the thousands as people would be freezing to death in their homes and there would be no electricity to power hospitals and medical clinics.