Portland, Maine here. We'll be thinking about the RedSox and rooting for the Patriots -- we don't put much stock in weather forcasts, but we're all set with fuel for the snowblower, and food and whatnot.
“This is the big one! Quick... for Gods sakes... you better run out now for milk and bread! Quick! Ohhhhhh!!!”
Only two storms I remember ever lived up to that kind of panic. The blizzard/ice storm of '76 and the one in '78.
We had a pretty good one back in the winter of '68-'69... but being my first year in college... I was quite oblivious to what was going on. Heh.
HiYa Sam, Chicago north suburbs reporting in.
18 Deg F with 10 to 12 " on the deck at 0630h.
Wind is straight out of the north at 3mph and is expected to shift to the NNE-NE and provide another 10 inches of locally heavy LAKE EFFECT SNOW. Winds up to 25mph are expected later today.
Winter storm warning is in effect until 0300h SUNDAY 01/23/05
Light and fluffy snow is ALL over the joint, I can't wait to crank up the snoblower!!
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G
For later review.
Negative 3 degrees here near the Delaware Water Gap, PA, with a pretty pink sunrise. My grandmother used to say "Red at night, sailor's delight. Red in the morning, sailors take warning." Nothing going on here yet.
Sam,
View from Virginia's Northern Neck on the Rappahannock River.
20 degrees at 0700 this a.m. Expecting 1-2 inches today changing to sleet/freezing rain this afternoon. 2-4 inches expected tonight and clearing late Sunday. Ice is a bigger worry here than snow. Rural, above ground utilities; narrow country roads with no shoulders and nowhere to go but into a tree. At last report, VDOT budgeted about $4.79 for snow removal in our area this year.
Weather guessers are saying the storm may not get to you. They say it is only going as far up as Cape Cod.
As for the poster in #18, both games are in outdoor stadiums.
Stay warm......
Shoot, Sam,
I live 2 hours south of Chicago - we got a little snow - enough for the plows to run. Haven't heard what Chi-town got. We're supposed to have pretty good winds today, which will make for dangerous driving out in the country around here - everything is flat (this is corn and soybean country) so folks out there will have a hard time finding the road, what with the snow that was already underground.
You guys are scheduled to get more white stuff than us, so I suggest you stock up on that excellent beer you represent, rent some great movies, throw the logs on the fire and have a great football weekend. Best of luck to our freeper buds in the northeast (ps: my sailboat's tucked away up in coastal Maine, so I guess a part of me lives in the northeast as well. She's all snugged in to her boat shed and can therefore weather anything.)
Best of luck, Sam. -- E
Oh, and by the way, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
Its 16 degrees here in Northern VA. No snow yet but they are calling for 6-8 inches now after saying 3-6 yesterday. I hope we get a foot.
Southern Tier NY/Northern Tier PA is expecting 10 to 20 inches. The good news is that it'll likely be the powdery stuff, which is easier to shovel. The bad news is that due to the wind chills expected, below zero, we may turn into popsicles trying.
-2 here in Chappaqua..This is all Hillary's fault..She responded at the inaugural, when asked if she would run for the WH in 2008, "when hell freezes over"
Headline is incomplete..can we please add "Global Warming Alert"
I've noticed that Freepers from the Midwest rarely start urgent weather threads.
It's SNOW people. No school on Monday. Yippee!
Southwest Ohio (Greater Cincinnati area) reporting in. Snow and drizzle were expected to start here in the early AM hours ... overcast and drab, low ceiling, but nothing in the way of percipitation, at least, not yet.
I'm in central NJ (Trenton forecast). We're only expected to get about 6-10 inches, and winds are predicted to be about 10 mph.
Frankly, I'm annoyed! I -love- a good blizzard. Philly's supposed to get 18 inches, NY is getting 2 feet, and smack in the middle of 'em we're gonna get a freakin' lousy 6 inches of snow? Grrrrrr! I can't tell you how often that happens here.
Qwinn
Also...especialy if it's a heavy snow..you're gonna see a lot of roofs collapsing..
Blizzard of '78. I had the fun of driving around Brockton, MA about a week after it hit. Tons of snow still blocking line of site at intersections. Folks jumping out of the 2d and 3d floor windows of the barracks at Ft Devens to snow only a few feet below their windows.
And then I got to enjoy the full effect of the Blizzard of '79 i Washington.
Ah, yes. And global cooling was all the rage at the time.
Link to Mount Holly, NJ Long Range Base Refectivity -- http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p20-r/si.kdix.shtml
No plowing has been done yet, but you can still get down the road, albeit very carefully. I just returned from trying to go to the grocery store - I got about halfway there and concluded there was a pretty good chance I'd get stuck, so I turned around and came home. There was nothing we really needed, but the missus had a hankering for shredded wheat; well, she's just going to have to settle for oatmeal this morning ;)
I'll go shovel again in a couple of hours, then one more time this evening; that ought to about do it. Other than that, I'm going to enjoy a nice quiet day inside with my honey with plenty to read, good food, and very few worries.