Winter weather

[Captain Ned]

Kinda totally lost my cool and flipped out / had a spaz.

Don't worry one whit. The spaz is your brain's way of motivating you through the third "stuckage" when most normal people would have quit. We all need to let that inner rage out every once in awhile and no one here in the snow belt would ever take offense to someone raging at snow.

[SpotTheCat]

My parents got over 20". Wow.

[DancinJack]

While I do admit Spring is not here yet, it's been pretty nice in Kansas. >70 a couple times this past week and no snow in the forecast...for now.

[Captain Ned]

Hey, who put this 2 feet of snow in my driveway?

[Usacomp2k3]

It feels like it dropped 30 degrees overnight. Brr.

[SpotTheCat]

This has been quite the winter, and we're going to get hit again with snow.

[mmmmmdonuts21]

Hey, who put this 2 feet of snow in my driveway?

I moved the foot of snow from my driveway to yours

I don't know where the other foot came from though. I am sure its someone here playing a cruel trick on you.

[DancinJack]

Nothing below ~50 and some days as high as 65-70 for the next ten days for us here in Kansas. Lots of rain though.

[FireGryphon]

I'm getting temperatures ranging from 30* at night to nearly 60* during the day, with 50* during the day on average. I feel like the worst of the snow is past in DC, with just enough residual cold to stave off Spring for another month.

[JustAnEngineer]

Alt-248 = °

[Captain Ned]

The past 10 days, with their freeze/thaw/freeze cycles, have caused unbelievable damage to our roads. The potholes are immense & deep and by the car parts left on the road they are taking a heavy toll. The worst part is that Vermont simply doesn't have the money in the budget to properly fix this mess, so it's only going to get worse.

[DancinJack]

The past 10 days, with their freeze/thaw/freeze cycles, have caused unbelievable damage to our roads. The potholes are immense & deep and by the car parts left on the road they are taking a heavy toll. The worst part is that Vermont simply doesn't have the money in the budget to properly fix this mess, so it's only going to get worse.

Yeah, I know what you mean Ned. It was 74°(citation:JAE) here today. Really took a toll on the roads.

[mmmmmdonuts21]

The past 10 days, with their freeze/thaw/freeze cycles, have caused unbelievable damage to our roads. The potholes are immense & deep and by the car parts left on the road they are taking a heavy toll. The worst part is that Vermont simply doesn't have the money in the budget to properly fix this mess, so it's only going to get worse.

Its the same thing here in NY. Foot of snow one day, 45 degrees and sunny the next, Rain the next day turning into snow. Its been quite a winter.

[Captain Ned]

Spent some time on the back roads the last couple of days and it's clear that Vermont's dreaded fifth season is upon us.

Mud season. Even multi-generation natives (hello!!) dread mud season if there's any need to be on dirt roads.

Anyone who's ever needed to drive a dirt road where it freezes hard in winter and gets rained on in the winter/spring transition knows what I mean. It's the real reason so many of us here in VT drive Subarus. Today was so bad that I had to turn off the traction/stability control so I could keep the wheels spinning in the ruts. The promised rain for this weekend will only make things worse as there will still be frost in the roadbed. We might even see a rasputitsa.

[liquidsquid]

Spent some time on the back roads the last couple of days and it's clear that Vermont's dreaded fifth season is upon us.

Mud season. Even multi-generation natives (hello!!) dread mud season if there's any need to be on dirt roads.

Anyone who's ever needed to drive a dirt road where it freezes hard in winter and gets rained on in the winter/spring transition knows what I mean. It's the real reason so many of us here in VT drive Subarus. Today was so bad that I had to turn off the traction/stability control so I could keep the wheels spinning in the ruts. The promised rain for this weekend will only make things worse as there will still be frost in the roadbed. We might even see a rasputitsa.

Sums up the condition of my driveway. Spend the better portion of last Sunday using the snow plow to flatten the mud. Pretty tough winter for driveways.

[DancinJack]

Forecast is for mostly sunny skies tomorrow. High of 90. Thank goodness. Good riddance snow.

[AMD Damo]

Wow guys so much snow, last time I saw "snow" here was in 2007, before that around 1996.

Australia sucks, its just stupidly hot weather, droughts, then floods and bush fires.

[ludi]

A dusting of snow fell last Monday, but that was it. Here on the Colorado front range, we could have used more snow this past winter...a lot more. Already had a half-dozen fires in the past month or so, which is way too early. Even during a dry year this usually doesn't start until the middle of June.

[Ozenmacher]

It is going to be a supercell show the next two days over portions of the upper MS Valley and Northern Plains mainly IA, portions of WI, and S MN.

[DancinJack]

83 degrees currently with ~35 Mph winds. Not ideal.

[SpotTheCat]

I now pronounce this thread over for spring! 75 here with thunderstorms in the forecast. The odds of the midwest getting another winter blast are pretty low. Perhaps Hance might have a few more storms left in the mountains?

[Ozenmacher]

I now pronounce this thread over for spring! 75 here with thunderstorms in the forecast. The odds of the midwest getting another winter blast are pretty low. Perhaps Hance might have a few more storms left in the mountains?

Not yet. The atmosphere is about to eject a serious IPV anomaly over the plains. Big winter storm over portions of the northern and central plains with a major severe outbreak this afternoon over the southern plains with long track supercells and potential for long track tornadoes as well given the shear and helicity fields and the long looping hodographs.

[Captain Ned]

I now pronounce this thread over for spring! 75 here with thunderstorms in the forecast. The odds of the midwest getting another winter blast are pretty low. Perhaps Hance might have a few more storms left in the mountains?

Not if you'd seen the back roads I had to use this afternoon to avoid several accidents. Some of those mud holes would have swallowed a mil-spec HumVee without even a burp.

[mattsteg]

Potential for an inch of snow accumulation tomorrow night. Just got my summer tires on too.

[bhtooefr]

And freak April snowstorms are why, even in Ohio, I keep the snow tires on until May 1 or later.

[mattsteg]

And freak April snowstorms are why, even in Ohio, I keep the snow tires on until May 1 or later.

I'd just as soon not run the winter rubber when it's 70+ out.

[Hance]

I now pronounce this thread over for spring! 75 here with thunderstorms in the forecast. The odds of the midwest getting another winter blast are pretty low. Perhaps Hance might have a few more storms left in the mountains?

Haven't had any snow for awhile. Everything is brown and we have plenty of mud though.

[SuperSpy]

Just got an inch and a half this morning in Michigan. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!

[MaxTheLimit]

Woke up to an inch of snow on my car.
More snow to come this week too... *sigh* When will I be able to get out golfing?

[DancinJack]

Goodness. I will never live north of Kansas.