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Winter Storm Jonas - Big Snow - PREPARE!

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by bwilson4web, Jan 19, 2016.

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  1. Blizzard_Persona

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    Looks like ziltch-2" for Bastan...lucky you:p

    Down my ways it is looking pretty ominous, they are saying up to 18" near the I95 corridor and up to over 2 feet near and around the Nations Capital...and the populace are starting to act that way as per the norm... Bread and Milk!!! Lol.







    I'll admit that I just went out and got the essentials. Lol.

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    We shall see if this is a repeat of last years snowmageddon (3/4" fell and predicted 18")
     
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    We had a bad night last night everyone was worried about Friday, and we got nailed with an inch well preserved on frozen roads right at 5PM rush hour. Gridlock ensued. Thankfully we were just sitting at home.
     
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    brutal! did you qualify for the free snow shovel?:p
     
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    I watched your peeps attempting to navigate the D.C beltway on local Philly news early this morning, hundreds of accidents! craziness! Even Obama's procession was stuck in it supposedly!

    we shall see what 24+ Inches result in here shortly here folks...:whistle:
     
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    They're callin' this one "Snow Nino" ...

    Our neighborhood always keeps power but this is a scary situation talkin' 3-ft snow and 60 MPH winds. Yikes. We got 6-inch since 2:30 went to Walmart to test out the Conti True Contacts...not bad.
     
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    all the best my friends!(y)
     
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    They keep upgrading this damn thing...:mad:
     
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    Got 4 hours of 'base closing' this afternoon in Huntsville. Tomorrow afternoon will be awesome.

    Bob Wilson
     
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    talked to my b.i.l in nashville, 7" and slowing down. more on tuesday?
     
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    Watching CNN with dad (I don't have it at home), the vast majority of the pictures just don't do justice to the breathless hype. The live, on-the-scene reporters seem to be in locations where conditions are just not that bad. At least not yet. Certainly not enough to account for the vehicle problems.

    Some still photos to the west do show conditions that fit the hype, but that isn't where these reporters are.
     
    #30 fuzzy1, Jan 22, 2016
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    I was in DC and scheduled to fly out tonight at 2200. I was able to switch the flight to last night. So I watch the DC weather on a internet weather cam from FL this afternoon instead. WOW.
     
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    keep in mind, people south of new jersey have no idea how to drive in snow.
     
    #32 bisco, Jan 22, 2016
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    Now they're callin' it Snow Zilla ...guess Snow Nino lost out
     
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    love it. snownedo?
     
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    Source: The Future of Epic Blizzards in a Warming World - Scientific American

    On Thursday, MIT climate researcher Paul O’Gorman reviewed a 2014 study he conducted that is one of the few to look at extreme snowfalls and warming. Speaking before a group of scientists during a talk at Columbia University, he detailed his use of climate models to look at how extreme snowfalls might change as the planet heats up. Global temperatures have already risen by nearly 2°F (1°C) since the late 1800s.

    O’Gorman found that while both average annual snow amounts and extreme snowfalls would decline as temperatures rose, the extremes didn’t drop off as rapidly. Effectively, extreme snowfalls would become a bigger proportion of all snow events.

    The reason for this disparity, O’Gorman found, has to do with the very particular temperature conditions in which extreme snows occur, sort of like a frozen version of the Goldilocks tale: If it’s too warm, you get rain, not snow, but if it’s too cold, there won’t be enough moisture in the air to fuel a full-on blizzard.    ​

    Bob Wilson
     
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    The HORROR!!! :eek:

    Yeah, but in Mass. traffic signals are mere suggestions.
     
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    How do you measure snow? Each increment or the packed total on ground? I shoveled about 14-inch off my driveway, in about 4 shovelins, but if you get the packed amount on the lawn, it was 7-inch. That was last night we got a new heap over nite.
     
    #37 wjtracy, Jan 23, 2016
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    right now, stephanie abrams is sticking a yard stick in between the drifts. it's extremely scientific.;)
     
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    Take measurements away from decks, porches or fences and you should not measure snowfall more than four times in 24 hours. You should measure snow to the nearest tenth of an inch and use a snow board. A snow board is just a two foot by two foot piece of plywood.

    But, when you measure waves in the ocean, you measure the back of the wave not the front;)
     
    #39 Lucifer, Jan 23, 2016
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    So far no big elec problems but we got probably 3 more days of problems. Worse case scenario would have been if some motorist or squirrel took out a substation early in the storm. Did not happen thankfully.
     
    #40 wjtracy, Jan 23, 2016
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