Weather or not [again]

[altivo]

Well, they've been blatting at us for 24 hours about this horrible winter storm and how it's going to bury us in snow and ice and we'll all die of cold and starvation and not being able to rush about breaking the speed limit on the roads.

So far-- nothing. As so often happens when the weather service gets carried away with warnings and watches and hazardous outlooks-- nothing. Those guys need to stop staring at computer screens and look out the window.

I've been watching the radar screen all day. It's getting a little closer, but most of it looks to pass well to our south. I'll be very surprised if we get more than a couple of inches of snow, in spite of the lurid warnings that there will be up to fifteen inches. Of course, I wouldn't really mind the fifteen, but it irritates me that they make so much fuss about it and almost always are wrong.

[Edit, 05:30 am Friday Dec. 1: Dry powder, temperature 26F, accumulation between 2 and 3 inches. Still snowing, but this is not, repeat not, the horrendous thing they threatened, at least not in my area. I swear the weather service has gotten into the same kind of sensational exaggeration and breathless horror that has completely destroyed the credibility of other news media. I'll bet they actually track their "ratings".]

Comments

[baphnedia.livejournal.com]

No kidding. We were getting similar warnings up here, across the border. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow. :D

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'll bet you got what we did. Ski powder. ;p

[darkhorseman.livejournal.com]

we have gotten metric shittons of rain (not to be confused with the imperial shitton) but the snow has just swirled all around us... nothing.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Do you ever get much snow down there? I'd expect more ice storms than snow, with warming trends that melt the ice within a day or so.

[darkhorseman.livejournal.com]

We get one or two good snows a year but it dont ammount to much. Usually all the good stuff is north of I-44

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

Even not counting the snow slush, this has been the wettest November on record. Winter's finally returned here, rather early ... we got more snow the past week than the did the previous 3 years combined.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've been watching the various folks in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia reporting that stuff. Generally, though, your weather patterns are coastal. The mountain ranges scrape that stuff out of the air before it gets to us.

So far notso good

[goldenstallion.livejournal.com]

Dear Rider,

Well, as I get up this morning it is 31F and raining semi-frozen cold rain and the front steps are icy enough I almost took a tumble (forget that my sandals are smooth-bottomed). Windy and cold though, so it IS coming whether or weather we like it or not. Gonna take my time as usual driving in the dark to work this morning, there may be icy bridges. (Hey, this ol' flap pony does not fly in this s***!)

Imperator

Re: So far notso good

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You got it much worse than we did, sounds like. It was already well below freezing here when the storm reached us, so all we have is dry snow. Be careful, OK? I really need you in one piece. ;)

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

we're having a heat wave up here in AK :D

many times the weather will surprise you when your not ready for it

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You get more extremes than we do, of course. Yes, I agree, weather can do the unexpected. What really starts to bug me is the weather service, because they seem to just love exaggeration.

[dragon-punk.livejournal.com]

This whole week we've had lows of 65-70 and highs from 75-85. Things are finally going to start cooling down today though.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're in the same pattern we are, just adjusted upward in temperature because you're much farther south. Probably you'll get some rain now.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

They do that so people dont' whinge and whine that they starved to death in the storm and the weather bureau didn't tell them about it :)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, and instead those people make panic runs to the supermarkets and buy all the milk, bread, and toilet paper off the shelves. It's the stupidest thing you ever saw.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Oh well it's good for commerce and takes money from stupid people :)