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Posted on 12/27/2025 5:23:26 PM PST by metmom
A potent winter storm brings blizzard conditions to the Great Lakes and dangerous icing to the Northeast Sunday through Monday. Simultaneously, an arctic front plunges southward to clash with record warmth across the South.
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For those who don't care and only want to mock and roll eyes because it doesn't affect them personally, you don't have to post.
Ping to some folks who live in the target area.
NH is looking at 1/4 - 1/2 an inch of ice and then COLD. Ice won’t be going anywhere any time soon from the looks of it.
It looks like NY will be seeing more lake effect in the usual area with the rest of the state getting freezing rain.
Argh.
I just FINISHED shoveling out my car.
Grrrrr.
One of the potential problems is that there was just a weather event yesterday across NY with snow and sleet and power outages. So the utility companies are already busy.
With this widespread weather, they will be stretched thin.
Mr mm and I brought in a bunch of wood today for the wood stove. We already have gas for the generator.
We’re set for food.
We’re so far out in the middle of nowhere that we lose power on nice, calm days. A storm like this, if the ice is what they forecast, would do us in for a while. We have lots of trees on out property and there are several we’re concerned about coming down, but nothing that will hit the house.
The power lines are the bigger issue.
We’re in the general area of what Ryan Hall calls the bullseye.
It's supposed to warn up tomorrow and the next day...into the 40s...and it's supposed to rain.....
Soooooo....I'll wait till God cleans off my car.
.10” ice is hardly ever a problem. Get to .25 and you begin to have problems with tree limbs into power lines, especially if there’s any wind. At half an inch you get lots of tree damage and power lines begin to get stressed mechanically. Put some wind in the mix and you can get galloping conductors on lines with long spans. Bad, bad situation.
Spent 35 years in the electric utility industry in the Midwest. Ice storms were the worst. I sympathize with those guys that have to deal with hurricanes.
Honestly, if there’s ice coming, it’s often better to leave the snow on and let the ice fall on that. That way the ice doesn’t bond to the surface of anything but can be scraped off easily cause of the snow.
As far as infrastructure, power grid, and trees, 1/10 of an inch isn’t too bad, but you cannot drive on it any more than that 1/2 inch.
Thanks for doing a thankless job. So many jobs like that are taken for granted. There are those of us who appreciate those poor guys who have to go out on weekends, and holidays at night, in the worst kinds of weather. They don’t get paid enough, IMO.
Here's the view today from Canfield Mountain looking NW at Mt. Rathdrum. It was a good day for a hike. There were quite a few people out and lots of dog walkers.
What beautiful scenery!!!
I would love to travel across the country and see more of it. I always wanted to see the northern parts of the US west of the Great Lakes.
Mt. Spokane finally has a snowcap, a bit late in the season which has so far been milder than normal. Looks like a big freeze coming up though.
Plenty of food.......it’s the lack of coffee....thinking about sterno...
Prayers up for all impacted by this… 🙏🏼
That level of ice accretion is nothing to sneeze at,,,
I got a snowshoes that isn’t
Getting any Use.
I Pray you’re Safe and Prepared for the Upcoming Storm.
God Bless
Wonderful advice.
But for this Texan, the coldest time working outside there was when it was 34-37 degrees and mist’n/drizzl’n…cold to the bone.
I think it was 71-72 here in Atlanta today. Wonderful but fleeting.
Got up to 86 here in the Corpus Christi area. I DO NOT miss the weather up in Pennsylvania.
After an apocalyptic forecast of heavy snow and ice on Friday for NY and Northeast Pa which was a big nothing, I am skeptical.
> Ping to some folks who live in the target area.
Add me to your list please — I’m in Ithaca.
Weather Underground is just calling for warm rain then freezing, but not freezing rain as such. But it’s all in the timing.
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