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Re: Winter weather

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:02 am
by Usacomp2k3
It feels like it dropped 30 degrees overnight. Brr.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:17 am
by SpotTheCat
This has been quite the winter, and we're going to get hit again with snow.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:17 am
by mmmmmdonuts21
Captain Ned wrote:
Hey, who put this 2 feet of snow in my driveway?


I moved the foot of snow from my driveway to yours :wink:

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

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:23 pm
by 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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:09 pm
by 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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:27 pm
by JustAnEngineer
Alt-248 = °

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:33 pm
by 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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:45 pm
by DancinJack
Captain Ned wrote:
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. ;)

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:24 pm
by mmmmmdonuts21
Captain Ned wrote:
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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:12 pm
by 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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:47 am
by liquidsquid
Captain Ned wrote:
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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 2:33 pm
by DancinJack
Forecast is for mostly sunny skies tomorrow. High of 90. Thank goodness. Good riddance snow.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:49 am
by 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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:21 am
by 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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:34 am
by 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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 12:01 pm
by DancinJack
83 degrees currently with ~35 Mph winds. Not ideal.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:20 pm
by 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?

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:28 pm
by Ozenmacher
SpotTheCat wrote:
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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:11 pm
by Captain Ned
SpotTheCat wrote:
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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:42 pm
by mattsteg
Potential for an inch of snow accumulation tomorrow night. Just got my summer tires on too.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 6:35 am
by bhtooefr
And freak April snowstorms are why, even in Ohio, I keep the snow tires on until May 1 or later.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:30 am
by mattsteg
bhtooefr wrote:
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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:27 am
by Hance
SpotTheCat wrote:
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.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:34 pm
by SuperSpy
Just got an inch and a half this morning in Michigan. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY?! :cry:

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:36 pm
by 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?

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:36 pm
by DancinJack
Goodness. I will never live north of Kansas.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:59 pm
by SpotTheCat
We got several inches. But, winter being unofficially over all melted as it hit the ground.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:19 pm
by JustAnEngineer
Wasn't winter officially over on March 20th?

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:39 pm
by Captain Ned
JustAnEngineer wrote:
Wasn't winter officially over on March 20th?

Not until mud season is officially on the calendar.

Re: Winter weather

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:42 pm
by JustAnEngineer
Once we've passed the equinox, Winter is over. Folks in this part of the country are running the air conditioning.