Weather or not [again]
Nov. 30th, 2006 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoWell, 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".]
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".]
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Date: 2006-12-01 05:19 am (UTC)So far notso good
Date: 2006-12-01 10:12 am (UTC)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***!)
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Date: 2006-12-01 11:20 am (UTC)many times the weather will surprise you when your not ready for it
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Date: 2006-12-01 11:35 am (UTC)Re: So far notso good
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