The Weather Thread

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Back into the freezer: -13°F, WC of -49° and supposed to be getting colder during the rest of the week.
 
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The temperature dropped back down. And now we have 2 inches of snow in two hours. I can barely see across the street. It's pretty crazy out there. And really windy.
 
Weather here is wicked suck. Whipping 35mph+ winds (with incentive to increase) and freezing rain means we're all going to die. If they think I'm showing up at tech today they're mad.
 
It's 2 outside right now with 40mph winds and it's snowing...I hate this state.
 
Well this has been an odd two days.

It was 55+ degrees F yesterday. Then a storm moved through with 70+mph winds last night. It was 18 degrees F this morning.

This of course meant ice. But my car performed wonderfully when I was using cruise and hit a patch of ice. Cruise disengaged, TCS kicked in, the car restabilized, and cruise reengaged. I had just enough time to go, "holy cr---oh, never mind."

Don't even know why I have my hands on the wheel. I'm one scrolling red light away from driving KITT.
 
Wow. 40 degree difference in about 18 hours. And apparently I experienced this phenomenon called a "blizzard" last night. That was an experience.

And Hope canceled classes until noon today for the first time in probably ever. This from a school that is used to so much ice they might as well have built it on top of Lake Michigan.
 
FoolKiller
Well this has been an odd two days.

It was 55+ degrees F yesterday. Then a storm moved through with 70+mph winds last night. It was 18 degrees F this morning.

This of course meant ice. But my car performed wonderfully when I was using cruise and hit a patch of ice. Cruise disengaged, TCS kicked in, the car restabilized, and cruise reengaged. I had just enough time to go, "holy cr---oh, never mind."

Don't even know why I have my hands on the wheel. I'm one scrolling red light away from driving KITT.
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You wouldn't believe how many of the Air Force guys around here drive like that. (Most of which are from the east coast and southern states) Except if you do that here, you'll end up in the ditch. The drive from my town to the base is 15 miles. The record number of cars in the ditch in a single day was around sixty some. They'll drive 70 mph down the highway with their cruise on in the middle of a blizzard and then wonder why they lost control. I please ask anyone who uses cruise in winter weather to not do so. It's endangering your lives as well as everyone elses. This wasn't entirely directed at you FK, I'm sure you're a perfectly fine driver, I just wanted to put this out there.



Current weather: -18 w/ -37 WC
 
People actually use cruise control? I only do that when it's after two and on a highway in the middle of nowhere.
 
philly cheese
And Hope canceled classes until noon today for the first time in probably ever. This from a school that is used to so much ice they might as well have built it on top of Lake Michigan.
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Aquinas canceled classes today as well, which NEVER happens. In my three years at AQ, we've had classes canceled twice. Before that it had been YEARS since the last it had happened...

My Mom's car is frozen shut, and I'm sure mine is as well. Work wants me to come in, and I really don't want to go. At least tomorrow it will be a "warm" 26F!
 
Slick6
This wasn't entirely directed at you FK, I'm sure you're a perfectly fine driver, I just wanted to put this out there.
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The roads were dry but a low spot in a construction zone (my cruise was at 55) had some standing water that froze over.

If there appeared to actually be snow and ice anywhere other than on my doors I wouldn't have been using cruise.

philly cheese
People actually use cruise control? I only do that when it's after two and on a highway in the middle of nowhere.
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When you drive 40 miles on the interstate twice a day it is a necessity to avoid a ticket. Before I had cruise I had enough ticlets to put me in danger of losing my license. Since I have had cruise my only tickets have been when I wasn't using it and they are far enough apart that none have counted toward points on my license.

What can I say? I have a lead foot and I use cruise because I recognize the fact.

I'm also curious how I am always getting the tickets for 10ish over when others are passing me regularly. I am always amazed how I have never set foot in a courtroom when I often see others doing speeds that should result in a loss of license.
 
It's 6 this morning, quite cold. However we have a storm moving though tonight that is expect to drop 12"+ of snow on us...I can hardly wait to drive to work tomorrow morning.
 
Well, it turns out the storm we had the other night actually spawned a tornado in Louisville. A tornado in January...
 
Today was good enough for me to wear shorts.

35 degrees F :lol:

Next week is supposed to be in the 50's? What??
 
Yesterday, the weather people said not to worry about the snow storm since it will start in the evening. What do you know, everyone must have had a nice surprise when it started snowing in the morning.
 
I practically drove through a blizzard this morning. Crazy stuff today. We saw snow, heavy rain, thunder/lightning, and sun. That's good Washington weather :D.
 
It's snowing at a rate of an inch an hour right now. It sucked driving to work this morning. They say we are supposed to have 10" when this is all said and done by 1 or 2.
 
6"-8" of snow, and my school closes for the third time in 50 years.

I know what you northerners/great laker's are thinking, but give us a break! we don't have the snow-fighting equipment you guys do!!!
 
Jim Prower
I know what you northerners/great laker's are thinking, but give us a break! we don't have the snow-fighting equipment you guys do!!!
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How many days will it be closed? I'm used to three inches shutting a whole city down until it melts a week later.

It's snowing pretty solidly right now. We probably have three to five inches more than last night.
 
Been quite stormy around our seas. One ferry has beached itself on Blackpool beach, everyone was rescued.

Blackpool ferry

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This is vaguely related to weather (because of tides...)

A ship ran aground off of the Dorset coast and the tide has dumped all it's load of timber on Worthing beach (approx, 8 miles along the coast).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7199667.stm

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2,000 tonnes of wood.

The local football fans were chanting "We've got wood, we've got wood" at the local match on Saturday.

It's been a big thing for the town, boosted our tourism trade in what is normally a poor season for it.

Weather always brings nutters though

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The average temperature around the UK is about 4C, that's north-west Ireland so it's probably about 1C if he's lucky.
 
I'm going up North to Manchester tomorrow to watch Man City v Arsenal. I checked the weather report and it said to expect snow showers. I'm expecting it to be nippy, although it can't be as cold as Blackpool when I went just after Christmas.
 
To expand on what Philly and Joey are saying (I live in between those two), its snowing rather hard and doesn't look like it will stop any time soon. We're supposed to be good for 12" or so by the end of the evening, which is unfortunate, since I have to go and do an inventory tonight (hooray for vicodin and free pizza!).

I told school last night I wouldn't be coming in, and it looks like most of the schools around here canceled their classes anyway. No surprise, the roads rarely get plowed properly anymore...
 
Jim Prower
6"-8" of snow, and my school closes for the third time in 50 years.

I know what you northerners/great laker's are thinking, but give us a break! we don't have the snow-fighting equipment you guys do!!!
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Aren't you living in the CAT-Town?

15-30cm of snow here in another freak storm. It was terrible to drive today, let alone for 15-20 miles to a hockey game. Thankfully, the roads were relatively clear, but jaywalkers have everybody on edge.
 
No luck for me, school was open. The plow driver plowed my car in when I was brushing off the snow. It took me about 30 minutes to get the car out.

The school didn't even plow some of the parking lots. My friend got stuck and just left his car parked across two spots.
 
If I understand correctly, though, more should come, about 10cm here on Monday. High of zero degrees Celsius; that black ice is going to drive everybody nuts.
 
Hopefully the weather is going to be fine in Belgium, Germany and Austria (highways) tomorrow because I'm going on holiday to Austria (Alps).
 

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