'Blizzard of 05' Real-Time Discussion -

http://headlines.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&myadc=0&article=0 ^ | 12/7/2005 | Accuweather

[tmp02]

Expecting 1-3 in. in Maryland.

http://headlines.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&myadc=0&article=0

Check out this weather model: http://www.wunderground.com/modelmaps/maps.asp?model=NAM&domain=US (not the pink one)

[AppyPappy]

This is what makes it "blizzardy"

Thursday Night
Snow likely. Moderate snow accumulation possible. Cold. Lows in the mid 20s. Southeast winds around 10 mph...becoming south 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph after midnight. Chance of snow 70 percent.
[partlycloudy]
Friday
Partly cloudy in the morning...then clearing. Breezy with highs in the mid 30s. West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Wind chill values as low as 8 above in the morning.

[Salamander]

ROFL!

Ain't even gonna bother puttin' the blower on the Polaris for that pitiful little bit of dust....;D

[but you just watch...all the tranplanted McMansionites will be out buying bread/milk/toilet paper like it's the end of the world as we know it]

[blu]

Sure! I'll have Santa drop it off, he's doing practice flights over us now, (Sorta like the Blue Angels, but a lot quieter).

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[rockabyebaby]

LMAO at the idiot forecasters, NO ONE can get it right with all the modern technology they have, amazing......throw the crap computers out and just forecast by looking out the freakin' window....yesterday here in Boston they were predicting snow and NOTHING happened, NOTHING, typical, I can't stand winter because of these idiot forecasters predicting wrong, constant updates about an inch or two and reporters on the beach or on the highway showing us how wet or dry the snow is, I would think with all the freakin' crime in Boston the reporters would have better things to do.......

[aft_lizard]

by meteorological definition a blizzard is a snowstorm containing winds in excess of 35 mph for longer than 3 hours with reduced visibilty to less than 1/4 mile. I remember a couple of times where it would snow 6 inches or so and the winds would be at 60 mph in Kansas for days, we would get 10 foot snowdrifts and driving was impossible for a couple of days.

[Dallas59]

True. I want snow this time A half foot would be fine...Of course being Texas...it'll be gone the next day....with temps in the 60's.

[kerryusama04]

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

[opticks]

Man you are lucky to live there. 1-3" is still running weather for me. Nothing like laying down tracks in vigin powder!

[aft_lizard]

Yep that would be correct.

[Beckwith]

With two weeks to go before winter, it's a little early for the "Blizzard of '05" award.

[N. Theknow]

LMAO at the idiot forecasters, NO ONE can get it right with all the modern technology they have, amazing

Yeah, well, they got EVERYTHING right with regard to global warming though, huh?

< /sarcasm >

[tmp02]

[loreldan]

1 - 3 inches???? I do that before breakfast. I always laugh when I hear weatherman/newscasters call something a "blizzard" that's actually a dusting. Sure wuth winds topping 35mph you might get "blizzard" conditions temporarily. Just like here in Colorado the other day there were wind gusts up to 90 mph, but we didn't call it a hurricane!! It was a windstorm with hurricane force winds.

[Salamander]

LOL!

We went to the AmVets Saturday night and it was flurrying a bit.
Midway through the evening, somebody handed the singer a note saying "If you're leaving, be careful because 2 inches of snow are on the ground".

The sax player replied "Damn. If *that* is 2 inches, I'm a lot better off than I thought".

We went out about 20 minutes later and there was *maybe* an eighth of an inch of slush on the blacktop.

[Salamander]

"but we didn't call it a hurricane!!"


The local DC station reporting it did.


[consider the source]...:)

[Malacoda]

Isn't it early for the "Winter DeathStorm '05" hype to kick in??

[aft_lizard]

See that would mean you do not understand the definition of a blizzard then. See my above posts on it.

[tmp02]

I laugh too when they dramatize 'Blizzard of' or 'Storm of the Century" even though we just started the century.

[tmp02]

We will see! I just want work off.