Posted on 01/27/2010 7:11:54 AM PST by Star Traveler
Posted: Jan 27, 2010 6:37 AM
Updated: Jan 27, 2010 8:52 AM
On Friday, snow will still be falling with significant
accumulations likely along and north of the I-44 corridor.
TULSA, OK -- Most of northern Oklahoma is under a Winter Storm Warning which will be in effect from 6 a.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. Friday.
News On 6 meteorologist Alan Crone says a major storm moving east out of California is expected to collide with cold air from Canada late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.
Read Alan Crone's weather discussion.
Crone says rain will begin Thursday morning and could quickly change over to freezing rain across portions of northern Oklahoma.
By midday or early afternoon, precipitation will be in the form of sleet with freezing rain near the I-40 corridor.
Thursday evening, the sleet will transition to snow across the northern third of the state, with freezing rain remaining along the I-40 corridor.
Snow will continue to fall into Friday, with significant accumulations likely along and north of the I-44 corridor.
Crone says because of the potential for freezing rain, he expects an Ice Storm Warning will be issued for portions of eastern and central Oklahoma on Thursday.
With that in mind, Crone says power outages are possible, especially across the I-40 corridor into east central Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas.
Some locations could lose electric service for several days.
Bracing for impact in Tulsa.
Ugh! We had an ice storm a few weeks ago...what a mess!
Everyone: be safe!
OOOOOOOOOklahoma where the wind comes ridin’ down the plains!........................
Good luck everyone, I remember being on a trip from Denver back home to Florida in late ‘97 and a sudden snowstorm blew up out of nowhere and the forecasts were for icy and impassable conditions and I had to get home, I zig-zagged down little state roads out of Kansas leading into Oklahoma in hopes of staying ahead of the storm and at one point stopping to throw a quick $20 in the tank and literally being chased out of that gas station by the oncoming snow squalls, I got to warmer weather but that was quite the experience.
Again, good luck folks.
Bracing for impact in Tulsa.
Oh yeah, that's where I'm at. It could be 9 inches, could be 12 inches or more of snow... just depends... (on what, I don't know... LOL...)
Note to self:
Time to join every resident in town at Wally World for a milk/bread run
I need to get some Ice Melt this morning, Hope there are still some bags in stock. Might pick up a new snow shovel while I’m out. And some beer. And some pretzels.
Wait, I should get some eggs while I’m at it. And stop off at the Tag Office for the little 2010-2011 tag sticker for one of our vehicles.
Wow, I’d better hurry up and get a shower, cause I’ve got a lot to do today, suddenly.
Thanks.
Just called my Mom to make sure she was prepared and she is.
As a kid growing up in T town, I remember some great snowstorms in the late thirties and early forties.
was just online to hometown newspapaer and Wichita Falls Tx area is gonna get hammered be safe all !
This would of been the winter for all of you East of the Great Deviders to vacation in the Pacific Northwest. Its been the warmest and mildest January on record. Feels like March.
And I predicted this would happen long ago when Vancouver was selected for the Winter Olympics. We would have year after year of record snow-pack until the winter of 2009/10 when it would be “what snow-pack?”.
Have you gotten the hatches battened down?
Wow, I’d better hurry up and get a shower, cause I’ve got a lot to do today, suddenly.
Heck yeah... we all got a lot to do about right now... :-)
Yesterday I had to dig out a sewer line in the yard and find out what was plugged up. Got someone coming out today to do the cleanout and then there's a pipe repair to be done, but that won't be done until after the storm. Ughh...
Oh well... and it's off to the store for supplies. I hear that Home Depot was a madhouse yesterday around here in Tulsa.
Just called my Mom to make sure she was prepared and she is.
Glad to hear that. This sort of thing is getting to be quite a regular event around here in Oklahoma, it seems... LOL...
We don't have a generator, but if this is the way winters are going to be from now on, better get one, I guess...
Time to join every resident in town at Wally World for a milk/bread run
Me too... I actually wanted to do it yesterday but had to dig up a sewer line in the yard and I can't wait any longer now... so I'm going to be joining the crowds there, too... :-)
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