Posted on 12/13/2022 3:44:44 PM PST by Libloather
A cross-country winter storm is expected to bring severe weather, including heavy snow and flooding, to multiple states as it makes its way across the central U.S.
Heavy snow and blizzard conditions are expected to smash into the Great Plains and the Midwest beginning late Monday and stretching into Thursday, the National Weather Service forecasted. The major storm will "produce numerous, widespread, and impactful weather hazards in the heart of the country this week," NWS said.
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The Weather Channel's Mike Bettes on Monday told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell that heavy snow and strong wind gusts will make travel will be "impossible" in some parts of the country.
National Weather Service warned that up to about half an inch (2.5 centimeters) of ice could form and winds could gust up to 45 miles per hour (72 kilometers per hour) in parts of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. Power outages, tree damage, falling branches and hazardous travel conditions all threatened the region.
"This is a 'we are not kidding' kind of storm," the South Dakota Department of Public Safety said in a tweet urging people to stock up on essentials, then stay home once the storm hits.
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Thousands of students from Native American communities across Wyoming, Nebraska and the Dakotas were traveling to Rapid City, South Dakota, for this week's Lakota Nation Invitational, a high school athletic event. Brian Brewer, one of the organizers, said he had urged schools and participants to travel early.
"We told them with this storm coming - if you leave tomorrow, there's a good chance you might not make it," he said Monday.
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People in danger of freezing to death from GoreBull warming. The horror.
This could be as devastating as last summer when I got soaked by pop-up thunderstorm “Bruce”.
Looking at Zoom .earth satellite live and it looks like a Hurricane in Nebraska the way it circles
Excellent book.
On the bright side we need precipitation after this last summer’s drought.
I read that book a few years ago. Hell of a storm, especially for the time.
So you’re saying there’s a bit of an early dose of Winter in the Upper Midwest?
AMAZING!
I’ve read it too. Mind blowing!
I’ve been out in those prairie ice storms. The worst weather the planet has to offer.
If you want to read a heartbreaking true story, read, “To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire.”
It is about the December, 1958 fire at Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago.
I wasn’t in Chicago, but I was in school in California that day, and it must have come on the news because our nuns herded us all over to the church to say the Rosary, and told us what had just happened. When we left the church to return to class we all ran to the windows to see how far we were from the ground, in case WE had a fire and had to get out.
It was because of that fire that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles installed crash-bars on all the exterior doors of the schools in the Dioceses.
“I’ve been out in those prairie ice storms. The worst weather the planet has to offer.”
I know what you mean. There is NOTHING to break up that storm.
I read that book. Hard book to read, and to think it was likely arson by some kid who wanted out of school early that day is sickening. After the fire, a lot of new safety measures were put in place in schools all over the country, like regular fire drills, fireproof stair cases, and I think sprinkler systems too. Very tragic, but by the time I started school in the 1960s, most of these new safety measures were in place.
**So you’re saying there’s a bit of an early dose of Winter in the Upper Midwest? AMAZING!**
Yeah, it is not so amazing, is it. I lived over 20 miles south of Rock Island, IL, and remember some storms that came right after Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving day 1977 was partly cloudy, with temps in the mid 60s I think. After a mid-day feast with my side, I went to Moline (next to Rock Island) for a get together with this chick (that became my wife) and her family. Late that night the wind had swung out of the NW, and by 11 pm I stepped out into the stiff cold breeze, and into the car and thought: “this is what we’ve been waiting for”.
The fall of 77 had been one of the wettest ever, and getting the corn and soybeans out had been a real stuggle. Getting stuck the mud was an ever present likelyhood with the combine. After that front came through that night, in a matter of a few days we could go almost anywhere with the combine, except the flood plain fields, where areas totalling about 30 acres were under water. However, the cold had come to stay, and by mid-Dec we could go there too.
In those spots I remember letting the corn head skate across ice as thick as 6 inches in places on that ground. It was a smooth ride.
“...and to think it was likely arson by some kid who wanted out of school early that day is sickening.”
Yeah, there was suspicion about that kid, but it never went beyond suspicion. But the suspicion alone pretty much ruined his life.
Such a terrible, tragic fire.
In one of the classrooms, when the nun saw there was no way out, she brought the little children into a group around her, to pray. Later, some of their bodies were all found together, the nun and her students.
But Global Warming doctrine says the planet is on an irreversible course to spontaneous combustion on a planetary scale...
It’s not “early”. ‘Meteorological’ winters start on December 1st, when temperatures can be expected to significantly drop.
The Halloween snowstorm in the Midwest in 1991 would be an example of an early dose of winter.
Very different from astronomical winter on December 21st.
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