BS: Weather news

Subject: BS: Weather news
From: RangerSteve
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 03:47 PM

This morning the news anchors on a Philadelphia station informed us the the Jersey Shore was getting pounded by the latest storm. They went to the reporter in Atlantic City who informed us that it wasn't raining, the wind was calm and the waves were not very big at all.
Later on in the day I learned that there was a severe storm in Indianapolis, Illinois.

Maybe it's something in the drinking water.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 03:49 PM

It's an easy mistake to make
G

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 04:06 PM

WEll there was no mistake with this friggin' storm coming across the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes! We have had everything from pounding rain to sleet to heavy snow to 40 mph winds.........This one has something for everybody and if you're in the band we are, you're getting all of it in varying waves. Currently we're back to snow and strong winds............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 04:11 PM

When we lived in WY, my daughter in New England called to see how we were doing in the 12 inches of snow and blizzard the Weather Channel had reported we were experiencing. I laughed. Looking out our window, all I could see for hundreds of miles was dry, bare, brown dirt with humps of sagebrushes dotting it here and there. Not a flake of snow to be seen, nor had there been, nor any in the near future.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: curmudgeon
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 04:30 PM

Here in NH, it's 18F with a wind chill feeel of 2. It's been snowing since sometime last ight, with occassional interludes of freezing rain. And the wind is most insidious, coming through the walls of this north facing room. Late January weather has no business arriving mid December.

I spent most of yesterday bringing in firewood so as not to have to go out in this and dig beneath snow mounded tarps. Ans since there wasn't really all that much rom to stack it within, I've had to scimp on burning, resulting in a rather cold abode. The good news is that the heat goes upstairs so at least the bedroom and bathroom are warm.

Loudly sing goddamn!

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: topical tom
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 05:47 PM

Nothing is in the water, believe me!Here in this part of Quebec it's -11 Celsius with a driving wind and snow. So far we have had about a foot and a half and it's not over yet.We are fortunate to have good samaritans who blow out our driveway, walk, and a path to the car.
   Nothing that a little wine and a tour of Mudcat and Youtube can't   
help!
   You who live in warmer climes should try this sometime. It's great fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: bobad
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 06:12 PM

Snow

I was tuning in the six o'clock newscast
And the weather man mentioned snow
As soon as I heard that four-letter word
I was making my plans to go
If I was a bird I would fly back South
A bear I would go to sleep
Anything rather than hang around here
When the snow starts getting deep

Now you know what they say about snow flakes
How there ain't no two the same
Well, all them flakes look alike to me
Every one is a dirty shame
My ears are cold
My feet are cold
Bermuda stays on my mind
And I'm here to say that if winter comes
Then spring is a ways behind

I don't have no heavy hip boots
I don't have no furry hat
I don't have no long-john underwear
No layer of protective fat
I'd take a plane right to sunny Spain
Oh, but I don't have the dough
But I'd build a bridge and I'd walk there
To get away from all that snow
Oh, I'd build a bridge and walk there
To get away from all that snow

©1970 Jesse Winchester
From the LP "Jesse Winchester"

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Peace
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 07:57 PM

Here in Alberta we don't have weather. WE have climate.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Dec 07 - 10:40 PM

Ah, Indianapolis is in Indiana, not in Illinois.

Trust me on this.

Metropolis is in Illinois. The Springfield, IL area is supposed to get 8 or so inches on top of the five they already have. My brother is very glad to be retired.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 04:52 AM

From the sound of it, the Springfield MA area should getting about the same stuff that Springfield IL got about a day+ earlier.(?)

We've had daytime highs ranging from 28F (-2C) to 55F (13C) and overnight lows from about 12F (-11C) to 45F (7C) within the past week and a half. High yesterday (Sunday) on my thermometer just outside the window was about 31F (-.6C).

We got some icing for a couple of days, but nothing like what hit Oklahoma a week or so ago, and I didn't hear of any nearby power outages. We have a light coat of snow now, and traffic is a bit slow; but I haven't heard of any major disruptions nearby.

We should hear some colorful language that may warm our hearts in a few days, since our favorite family trucker left Wichita for Toronto a few days ago, and likely will have enroute stop-n-drops at several places that are in the thick of the miseries. He's usually on the road for about a week at a time, so we should hear the reports in a few more days, if he isn't delayed by the weather more than he's usually delayed by the dispatchers.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: GUEST,Arnie at work
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 07:39 AM

I blame global warming.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Bee
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 08:36 AM

I'd blame global climate change, except that the last ten years have been the anomaly, here. This weather in December used to be normal. We have a foot of slushy snow down, about to turn to solid ice as temps drop this afternoon. And the wind is blowing like nobody's business.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 09:13 AM

We were lucky here in Eastern Maryland...the worst of the storm missed us. We got rain, high winds and a drop in temp., but no snow or 'serious' power outages...yet. I suppose we'll have our turn.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 09:16 AM

This morning outside my place
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 09:28 AM

Lovely photographs,John.

Do you know the species of spider responsible for the webs?

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: ranger1
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 09:40 AM

Well, I spent two hours this AM shovelling out my neighbor and de-icing her car so that she could get to work. Our street is two-way, but they only plow in one direction, thoroughly packing her driveway. The snowbank was almost four feet high and at least five feet thick at the base and fozen solid. I'm ready to go back to bed now.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 09:57 AM

I spent 45 minutes freeing my car and de-icing it. Then I got stuck halfway out in the street in the crap left by the city plow. I was ready to cry when two neighbors showed up and dug me out. An hour to get out of my driveway.
This has been one hell of a December.
And there is another storm coming in on Friday.
SINS, frostier than usual.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:07 AM

Nope, don't know much about spiders, just an orb web of some description.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:14 AM

I take back part of what I said earlier...it seems we had about 100,000 in the DC area lose power, at least for awhile...and I just noticed that a VERY large dead limb has fallen in my front yard, narrowly missing our power, phone and cable lines! (The lines run through a Maple tree, and the limb fell from one side of the tree.)

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:25 AM

Sins... we're toasty warm here!

Giok and Janie - it's a garden orb spider, only the females make the webs.

Mind you, the wind is a bit lazy, doesn't bother going round.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:52 AM

I dug out yesterday. My car's cleaned off but there's more snow and ice. Tami spent two hours. Mary spent one, and I spent a couple of minutes looking outside at the bright clear sky and the wind blowing like madness out there before I determined I was glad I didn't have to go anywhere.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Peace
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 10:54 AM

It is three degrees above zero here. Of course, the thermometer might be out by a degree or two. Never know whether or not to wear a jacket. Geeze, that really ticks me off . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 11:04 AM

Only -5.6C here, jacket time soon

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: bobad
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 11:06 AM

I'm digging out this morning, got hit with about 50cm.(20 in.) of the white stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Greg B
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 11:06 AM

We were right on the rain/ice line here in Doylestown, PA.

Five miles south, it was all rain, and lots of it. Five
mile north, freezing rain which stayed stuck all day yesterday,
brought down limbs, etc. It didn't melt off and as of this
morning, the world looks as if it's made of glass.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Bee
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 11:12 AM

Oh lordy, there goes the plow up our road at last. In about five minutes, it'll be back down, cutting the curve at my driveway such that I will have to shovel eight feet's width of plow droppings in order to reach the actual road, or for the mail ladies to reach the mailbox - and 'usband is away working.

whimper!

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 11:24 AM

Sunday was certainly blizzard conditions around this part of midcoast Maine. We had about 8 inches of snow, subzero temperatures, a driving wind, and then enough sleet to form the icing on the cake, so to speak. There are four apartments in my buildings, so it's always a bear coordinating getting everyone out in the morning. This morning wasn't too bad. Everyone warmed up their cars, scrapped the ice off essential surfaces, and waited for the snowplow. But, my usual snowplow man couldn't get his truck started this morning, something about ice in the fuel line. By the time he actually called back to explain, I'd called another friend to plow us out. So everyone did manage to get out on schedule but it was a little more stressful, when we didn't know what was happening.

The sliding back doors of my van are still iced in and I don't dare try to open them; the handles of the Honda vans tend to break off when those doors are frozen, or they half open and then won't close. I figured they'd thaw out after the van had warmed up for a half hour but they're still looking frozen. Maybe I'll give them a try come spring.

Walks are shoveled. Everything else seems fine.

Cats are not happy.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: skarpi
Date: 17 Dec 07 - 03:00 PM

Giok , I would love to have a weather like this , instead we have
10+ down to -1 to -5 and back to 10+ with HEAVY winds and rain
the winds are going up 64 mtr per sec witch is okei I mean
we can drive but its dark and the day light is only about 4 hours.

All the bst Skarpi

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 10:22 PM

A visit a few minutes ago to the MSNBC site for "Today's News" reported EXTREMELY NASTY WEATHER on the US west coast, with "a million people without power," mandatory evacuations due to mudslide threats, hurricane force winds, massive tree damage, roads closed and BARRICADED due to unsafe travel concerns.

I went back to the main page to get a link and - - - It's GONE.

(Maybe they're in California?)

Anyone want to offer the real story on what's going on?

John

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 10:40 PM

Meanwhile, it's a balmy 50+ F in SE Wyoming.....snow is melting fast. This is just too weird.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Jim Krause
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 10:52 PM

'bout the same here in NE Kansas, Sorcha. We had highs up in the mid 40s today, and the snow is melting pretty fast.

JimK

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 10:54 PM

Well MSNBC is back, with no comment on why they disappeared.

The news report showed a "weather pattern," either a satellite view or simulated artists concept, that looked like a typical hurricane circulation just encroaching on the coast.

It appears to have moved into mountain passes (based on road closings named) and likely will spill over the peaks in a few hours if it moves in "normal" directions. It could - maybe - change the weather in Wyoming within a day or so?

My local TV news, off the coathanger-on-the-tree antenna, hasn't interrupted normal broadcasting to report anything.

According to MSNBC this storm is BIG NEWS, second only to Britney's hospitalization after the standoff with the cops over her kids' custody (which she lost again). It's obvioulsy VERY IMPORTANT but doesn't seem to be stirring up much except at that one site.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 11:02 PM

Well, John...we do know that if we don't like the weather wait five minutes. I'm HOPING that tomorrow will be nice enough to get some of the dog 'mess' cleaned up in the back yard. It's getting scary out there!

The fact that the Bay Bridge is closed due to wind is pretty 'important' to the folks that use it.

90 MPH winds in Montana, I-90 closed. Mudcatter Alice lost a piece of her car to the wind and of course it's the weekend...nobody open to fix it.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 11:21 PM

Gusts to 70 mph here right now, and higher only a few miles away. Temp is 45F, but we're supposed to get slushy snow overnight. Wind reached gusts of 90 mph earlier.

I've lost some shingles, I think.

Tahoe area is expecting seven to ten FEET of snow over the weekend up the Sierra Nevadas, over 8,000 feet.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 11:23 PM

FEET????? Oh jaysus save us. That will close even the ski resorts.


Yea, but Sorch...we need the spring run off....badly.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 11:26 PM

The CA coast is REALLY getting soaked, and there is a very real danger of earthslides in the areas that burned this past summer around LA and SoCal.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 12:59 AM

Colorado is already over 100% of its annual snowfall, but they still aren't declaring the drought over.

John, there was this in the NYTs online. Sounds very nasty:

SAN FRANCISCO — A fierce Pacific storm howled into Northern California on Friday, bringing a treacherous mix of flooding, hurricane-force winds, and blizzard conditions for millions of residents.

The storm, one of two predicted for the weekend, hit the Bay Area before dawn and knocked out power for more than a million people from Central California to the Oregon border. As of noon Friday, about 850,000 people were still without power, according to Pacific Gas and Electric, which was warning that many customers could be powerless through the weekend, as repair crews in some areas had to retreat in the face of flying debris and tree limbs

Transit was also snarled and ugly.

Several major Bay Area roads and freeways, including Highway 101 and Interstate 580, were closed by airborne construction materials and overturned vehicles, including four trucks that were flipped on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, a major east-west thoroughfare that runs over a north finger of the San Francisco Bay.

A downed tree on the tracks stopped subway service in San Francisco's Mission District, sending evacuated passengers into the rain, while most ferry services across the bay were also canceled as docked boats rocked like rubber duckies in a bath.

In San Francisco, collapsing scaffoldings took down power lines and broke windows and brought electrically powered buses to a screeching halt along at least one major boulevard, while those attempting to make it to work dodged flying trash cans, orphaned umbrellas and dislocated news-boxes.

Dozens of flights were canceled at the San Francisco airport, where winds topped 65 miles per hour at midmorning, making for impressive and harrowing white caps lapping at the foot of the runways. Delays were two hours.

The highest winds were in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, about 150 miles to the east, where the National Weather Service was warning of white-out conditions and 100-mile-an-hour winds.

Power was sporadic in the mountain towns along Interstate 80, which was briefly closed and where only the most hardy of trucks and chained cars were crawling along.

All told, the weather service said some higher elevations could receive eight feet of snow by the time the second storm blows through at weekend's end.

The National Weather Service advised that heavy rain carried with it the danger of mudslides, particularly in Southern California areas where brush fires last year stripped the hillsides of the vegetation that helps hold the soil in place.

The authorities advised people living in those areas to have plenty of sandbags available and to watch for signs of flooding.

Wind gusts forced some Lake Tahoe ski areas to shut down ski lifts on Thursday and even higher winds were expected on Friday and Saturday.

After the Friday storm blows through, another is expected to arrive on Saturday afternoon bringing showers and the possibility of thunderstorms and hail.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 02:08 AM

This MUST be a serious weather discussion, when Rapaire can say "I've lost some shingles, I think" and no one comes up with a quick retort.

hehehe

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 04:09 AM

Snow was forecast for the south/south-east of the UK for midweek. Here it is Saturday and I'm still waiting. Bet the blasted stuff comes next week so we can't get out to the party that's been planned for my uncle's 65th birthday.

Hope everyone is coping well though... take care.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: gnu
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 06:02 AM

Gosh. I was complaining about our snow and cold. I even sent Amos a couple of pics of my place so he could have a good laugh. He even sent me a bunch of pics of his place so I could have a good cry.

Hope all is okay out there, Amos, Bald Eagle... et al.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: GUEST,strad
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 06:02 AM

Weather in Shetland a might severe at the moment. Average wind speed where I live for the last 24 hours just over 50mph with highest gust 69mph. The real down side is that the ferries aren't running so there's NO BANANAS in the shops. I'm going out of my tree!!

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 10:34 AM

There's about an inch or two of new snow that fell overnight, but lots of branches and things are down. 855 people lost power here in town when a tree fell. Lots of slide-off accidents and at least one fatal. I'm staying home today if at all possible.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Bee
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 12:00 PM

We are finally getting a break from snowstorms and deep cold in the Maritimes. It's sunny and only -2C, and supposed to be moderate for a few days. Mind you, everything is covered with snow over about four inches of solid ice. I had to hack ice off the garbage box lid because it was so heavy i couldn't lift it - knowing my lifting capacity, I'd say there was at least 35kg. of ice on top of a 10kg. lid.

Stay safe in those flood prone places, people - and out of avalanche territory. I expect this could be a bad year for avalanches.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: Alice
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 02:08 PM

Dangerous high winds are common on Interstate 90 from the Bozeman pass and beyond the town of Livingston.
I drive it twice a week this time of year.
Yesterday, the worst wind gusts I've experienced there tore off the covering of the pillar on my car by the windshield. ... just ripped it off, like
bigfoot grabbing it. Scary, as there were 6 semi trucks blown over, some of them onto cars.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 12:17 PM

Glad to hear you are safe, Alice.

In an area of Southern Colorado , the mountains have been getting a foot of snow per hour in an incredible storm. Six people were missing since Friday in the same area. There is relief all round, today, as they were found, safe and well: Clcik for story.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: maeve
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 07:10 PM

National Weather Service- Maine- Tornado Warning- Severe thunderstorm capable of producing tornados is in the towns of Falmouth and Westbrook in Cumberland County, effective until 7:15 tonight.

Be careful, friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: maeve
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 07:18 PM

Now approaching Portland. If you're in the warning area, take shelter immediately.

At least 2500 people without power in that part of Maine.

Tornado warnings for Cumberland and York Counties until 8pm. Storm appears to be moving into Falmouth, Hollis, Scarborough, South Portland.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: maeve
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 07:32 PM

A total of 11,000 lightning strikes in northern New Hampshire and southern Maine from this storm so far. Two houses have been struck.

We're about 1 1/2 hours east and north and are experiencing thunderstorms only.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: maeve
Date: 21 Jul 10 - 09:23 PM

Current Maine conditions, updates, and damage reports here:

http://wgme.com/

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: maeve
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 06:07 AM

The ironic thing about such storms for us is that the only appropriate emergency shelter for us is our own burned out cellar.

Everyone down Portland way ok? New Hampshire friends ok?

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: maeve
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 08:16 AM

Sinsull reports that she is fine, so most likely the worst of the storm slipped out to sea in time. Good.

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 09:13 AM

We just had a brief thunder-bumper-lightning-flasher around 10 PM, just enough rain to give the garden a drink. But I understand other parts of the state got
slammed!

Subject: RE: BS: Weather news
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 10:14 AM

We had some brutal thunderstorms last night. Fortunately I was watching a DVD and didn't know about the tornadoes. The rain was coming down so hard that I couldn't hear the movie and turned it off. LOL
Lots of lightening. A home about a mile away was struck. No one hurt and minimal damage. My lawn is grateful - we haven't had any rain in weeks and it has hit mid 80s or higher most days.