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.
Video is 10:19 minutes long
And Texas still needs rain as we are sitting enjoying our 87 degree weather.
We turned on the AC.
Y’all hunker down!!
Rain at those temperatures is beyond bone chilling.
It's BRUTAL. The humidity makes it very penetrating.
It’s a forecast.
They predict what is likely to happen. It could happen. It could be better. It could be worse.
If they didn’t warn people of storms like this, they’d be castigated for that.
Damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.
I actually don’t have a list per se. I just pinged some NY FReepers who I knew lived in the area, and I can think now of several I missed.
How’d you make out yesterday?
Ryan Hall had a livestream of the weather as it was happening across NY. Those are much more interesting when you know the area and lived there. I still have friends and family in CNY and WNY.
Yeah, the timing is important.
We’re in NH now and the conditions look to be very favorable for ice. The only thing that might save mr. mm and me is that there are some hills nearby that deflect a lot of the weather away from us to either the north or south, so our ice accumulations might not be as bad as nearby communities.
And Ryan Hall is correct. It is pretty sparsely populated. But almost everyone around here is prepped for it. Most have generators. When we were house hunting, we were surprised at the number of people who showed pictures on their listings of their auxiliary electrical panel for use with their generator during power outages.
I have lived in upstate NY, California, Georgia, Arizona and Texas. The coldest I have ever been has been in the panhandle of Texas during a cold front. 60 mph winds and 20 degrees.
There is an old saying out there: There is nothing between the panhandle of Texas and the north pole but a bunch of barbed wire.
Winter storms need attention as we age.
I am in my 60’s now and remember a brutal time in January 1985. This storm was an old Alberta Clipper and I am in E.TN.
The temps plummeted from a basic 55F to 30F. The snow gave us an unexpected white-out late evening. The temps never rose.
The next night managed to -24F. Recording station was TYS.
Our underground oil tank lines cracked. Furnace is out.
Myself and my brother had firewood duty as we had people over that could not get home.
Chopping wood at -24F doesn’t last long, even for a young man in his 20’s. That event caught the entire region by surprise. Our electricity did not fail.
Jan 21, 1985.
We’re as ready as possible.
The rain isn’t supposed to start until about 9-10 PM Sunday night. The problem is the temperatures are not supposed to go above freezing until around sunrise Monday.
So there’s a double whammy. The rain is freezing rain, the super cooled kind that freezes on contact no matter what the temperature of the surface, but also it’s been very cold so all the surfaces of everything are below freezing, so even a normal rain would freeze on contact because of the surface temperature. Usually, it’s one or the other.
Time will tell, but I’ve had a feeling all fall that we’re going to see some icing this year.
If power does not go out for us, I’ll be genuinely surprised.
PSALM 91 OVER ALL IN WEATHER EVENT AREA.
There are supposed to be those kinds of temperature drops with this storm.
The weather map shows the most clear and distinct and tight cold front I have ever seen. Anyone caught outside when it comes through who is not prepared is going to be sorry.
Mr. mm and I moved a bunch of wood from the wood shed up to the garage today. No knowing what’s going to be happening.
And it will continue to season in the garage as opposed to outside. We’re going through wood faster than I’d like to see this year. We really need to replenish our firewood supply next summer.
Thank you!
I prayed for this event. Someone always dies when weather like this happens. I’m praying they don’t and that God will protect all those (first responders, police, etc) who MUST go out in this kind of weather.
I’ll drive through almost anything if it’s snow. I know better than to mess with ice. I won’t even try.
Lots of thin cotton gloves to work hand tools.
Last watch I ever wore, froze back then.
i just saw that tomorrow in Newport, Kentucky, the high temp tomorrow is going to be 71..and the low tomorrow night, 17. Thats gotta be close to some kind of temp difference record. Sure glad i dont live in Marquette, Michigan. They have 5 different warnings, including a “severe freeze spray” warning, capable of collapsing buildings near the shore of Lake Superior...yeesh.
Not bad. Got about 4-5" of accumulation but it was heavy crystalline snow, so it weighed as much as a foot of more "normal" snow, or 15" of lake effect which is typically more fluffy. And the longer it sat before I cleared it off the deck and the cars, the more icy it became.
But it was manageable. Six years ago when my wife was diagnosed with multiple myeloma we moved from the remote hills of rural Richford to a more residential area east of Ithaca. I bought a top-end electric snowblower and danged if it doesn't do a great job. It would have been a bad joke in Richford, but it's just right for where we are now.
> It is pretty sparsely populated. But almost everyone around here is prepped for it. Most have generators. When we were house hunting, we were surprised at the number of people who showed pictures on their listings of their auxiliary electrical panel for use with their generator during power outages.
The Richford place was off-grid. Solar and wind feeding batteries and an inverter, with gas/propane generator backup. Up a steep winding gravel driveway through the woods a half-mile from the road, so I had a pickup and snowplow in addition to the big gas snowblower.
I enjoyed the challenge, but Lord it certainly was a challenge!
I'm now 74, with a bad back, bad feet, and a big kidney stone that threatens to come loose and hospitalize me. That place was home since my first wife and I built it when I was half this age. It's a younger man's adventure, and indeed I sold it to a younger couple who are doing well with it.
But I'm still subject to Upstate NY / Fingerlakes weather, so your posts are of great interest. Thanks, and keep 'em coming!
We are tabbed for for showers and t-storms Sunday evening, then the bottom falls out on these warm temperatures we’ve been having. NWS thinks we might get a little ice on the back end, but likely not much. Severe risk is modest, but, it was modest a few days ago and we got a tornado warning. What hit here definitely had rotation @ the ground, but it was “only” about 60 mph. So, stuff blew around and I got doused running to my shop (the basement / shelter is under my shop) — we got about 1/3” of rain in 10-12 minutes.
Ryan Hall is a terrific broadcaster (his many-hours-long live broadcasts during severe weather are riveting, with live video from the nation’s top storm-chasers at the ready and leavened by a great down-home Kentucky sense of humor and his “Weather Wife” bringing him lunch or dinner :) ), an extraordinary genius computer programmer (the amazing Y’Allbot, and assimilating a network of traffic cams across the US to key in on to show the storms hyper-local). I can’t say enough about what Ryan has done to bring weather reporting into a completely new age. I’d encourage all FReepers to follow him.
What exactly is Y’Allbot and does it cost anything?
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