BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)

Subject: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 01:54 PM

She's on her way!

Cue Marlon Brando in A Streetcar named Desire....

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 07:29 PM

I will not be happy to meet Stella, but I doubt I can avoid her.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 07:35 PM

Consider the plight of Mr. and Mrs. Rapparee for a moment --
they are headed for a Norwegian cruise, but they have to fly from New York to Stockholm first; and Stella might be in the way.
At the moment, looking at doppler radar maps online, Stella appears to be a two-headed monster. One head is roaring its way to Chicago, where I think the Rappareeses have to change planes...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Mar 17 - 07:37 PM

Maybe I'll go out before it hits & get a bit more bird food.... we seem to run the only deli for out avian friends in the neighborhood...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 09:26 AM

Yesterday, Stella had two heads. Overnight she became a different beast.

Now one large head is casting its snowy shadow over both Chicago and Detroit.
A long nasty tail points to the south. It's below the freezing line, but there's a lot of moisture in that tail.

Stella continues to move east, and she will only get more moisture before she arrives in nor'easter territory.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 09:32 AM

Our next one will be called Ewan. But he hasn't showed up yet. Maybe in the autumn...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 04:16 PM

I just learned today that the naming of winter storms is something cooked up by The Weather Channel. The names are not officially recognized by NOAA or any other US government agency.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 05:00 PM

The Four Corners area was my home for some years.
I picture those of us who live in Stella's path,
as though we were prairie dogs underground,
and our heads poking up out of the snowdrifts...
not this instant, but soon enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 08:51 PM

The good news is the Greater Providence Y has already announced all of its branches will close at 8 AM tomorrow after opening at 5. That means I won't miss my 11 AM yoga class, because there'll be no class, but I'd already decided I wouldn't go. I remembered to bring my yoga mat in from my car so I can practice on my own without going to the car in the snow for it and being unable to unroll and flatten the frozen mat.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 10:40 PM

Icy stuff here, not snow as such... but it should all turn to rain by midnight which is pretty much now...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: EBarnacle
Date: 13 Mar 17 - 11:47 PM

It has not yet reached us in Somerset County, NJ, yet but Lady Hillary and I have the fire place ready to go. If we are not lucky, our Community Emergency Response Team [Bastard descendant of Civil Defense]will be activated and we will find ourselves helping out in an emergency shelter. Stellahhh!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 08:00 AM

We got a scant inch of mostly ice. Other reports?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: MMario
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 09:47 AM

a couple of inches; very fine snow coming down still. (They predicted 12-18 inches; then last night downgraded to 4 to 8 inches - we have maybe two at the moment.)

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 10:03 AM

Senoufou.... UK storm Ewan has been and gone
thread.cfm?threadid=161569#3841755 
and not even Jim or GSS commented.

Next is Fleur afaik.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 10:20 AM

It's almost noon, and Stella has arrived with a BOOM.
The picturesque part is over, where the snow is first falling and being decorative.
Now it's an all-out blizzard with hardly any visibility, and the trucks with their salt, sand, and plows are just about the only things on the highways.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 10:54 AM

"The Weather Channel". The Weather Terrorists got me mum all shook up. Bastards!

Cloudy. Snow beginning late this afternoon. Wind becoming east 20 km/h this afternoon. High zero. Tonight... Snow at times heavy changing to ice pellets or freezing rain after midnight then to periods of rain before morning. Blowing snow this evening and after midnight. Snow and ice pellet amount 20 cm. Rainfall amount 2 mm. Wind east 30 km/h gusting to 50 increasing to 50 gusting to 80 this evening then becoming southeast 30 gusting to 50 overnight. Low minus 3 with temperature rising to 6 by morning.

PFFFT! A little more turnip in the pot and an extra log on the fire should take care of it. Alas, Mum won't "take a pill" so I may have to stay with her overnight. It's soooo much easier for me to keep her back door clear of snow if I stay home as my back door is up a few feet off the ground and the prevailing winds usually keep it fairly clear.

BTW, did you know that spellcheck flags sooo but not soooo? Glad I got out of bed today on accounta any day you learn something new is a good day... except that BS about naming winter storms. B*******!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 12:10 PM

FreddyHeady you're quite right. I should have said Fleur. Ewan must have blown away what little bit of brain I have left. I'm getting more forgetful by the day now; shouldn't be long before I'm in the Old Folks' Home wondering who the attractive African chap is who keeps coming to visit me!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: EBarnacle
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 01:16 PM

Well, the first round came through, leaving about 10 cm. About to go out and clear the car to make it easier to clear the next round. Mf frinds up on the Rockbound coast are still waiting.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: gnu
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 02:44 PM

"This major nor'easter is taking shape as a strong area of low pressure off the East Coast is undergoing bombogenesis as it moves northeast along the coast, meaning there is a rapid drop in atmospheric pressure, indicating strengthening." "bombogenesis"? Bombobastards!

I just delivered a delicious left over roast beef and veggie hash to Mum. She looks and sounds physically and mentally worn out and scared. I removed ("stored") items from the spare bed I sleep in and placed my "overnight bag" by the bed despite the fact that the storm has been downgraded to 15cm of snow and ice pellets.

Weather Terrorists? If....

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Janie
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 02:50 PM

And here I am, grousing because the very cold temps the next couple of nights are likely gonna ruin any possibility of blooms on my mophead hydrangeas later in spring.

Y'all in the path of big snow and ice, tuck in, stay warm and safe.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 05:02 PM

In my part of Massachusetts, the precipitation has pretty much been and gone. Stella has a beast of a wind roaring away, and that wind is still going strong. Hereabouts the snow was extremely wet heavy stuff that I scraped off my car in the parking lot. There is this, the snow is not the kind that blows and drifts about. Not here anyway. This storm is a real monster, it is moving all kinds of weather all over the place at once. So that some areas have blowing and drifting snow in this wind, I do not doubt.

So some people have weather worthy of Weather Terrorists, and some don't.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Greg F.
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 05:10 PM

Once upon a time, in the not so diatant past, these sorts of winter "weather events" in the Northeast U.S. were considered normal & mundane - 2 to 3 feet of snow nothing out of the ordinary for a norman winter & taken in stride.

When - and why - did these normal snowstorms morph into "SNOWMAGGEDON!!!" ???

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 05:31 PM

Here's what I wrote on the Jane's Rainbow thread after Janie asked us to check in there.

"In RI, we had snow which changed to rain. I got the snow off my car while it was still snow, before it became wetter, heavy, and slushy. It is still raining. Temps are expected to drop to below freezing in a few hours, and there may be a few snow showers followed by wind. My home hasn't lost power, though others have.

'A wind turbine has toppled. It powers the bathhouse at a small state beach and was erected about two years ago. The winds were too strong. I hope others in the state and those yet to be built are/will be sturdier."

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 06:32 PM

Well...we north of Wash DC got a few inches...maybe 6" if it hadn't been heavy & settled a lot... It was VERY dense & heavy, and my trick of putting a bunch of trash cans & buckets in the sheltered path from house to driveway helped a lot. I just picked up each one, dumped the 4-5 lbs. of heavy snow to one side, and had a bunch of 'stepping stone' clear spots to work from with the shovel..... then a little scooping and some ice melter, and I can to to the car... which was covered with a plastic tarp held down with bungee cords.

It was worrying, but above freezing in daytime, and melting proceeds. I think we lucked out...

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 08:07 PM

Lots of snow - I don't know how much because it's blowing like a mother. Speaking of which, lots of wind. My cable went out, which is weird. Normally, it's my power. I'm not complaining, mind you.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Mar 17 - 08:38 PM

They showed us a photo tonight on the telly weather forecast of cherry blossom buds in Washington totally encased in ice. Poor thangs! Do you pronounce the b in bombogenesis? Over here we call it explosive cyclogenesis when we're showing off or weather bombs when we want to be vulgar.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Mar 17 - 09:55 AM

Jeri's right about the wind. Hereabouts there was as much wind as snow. The wind is still with us. The sky, however, is blue and clear, the sun is shining, and it's just bitter cold.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Mar 17 - 10:24 AM

I ranted yesterday at Facebook about the stupidity of naming normal winter snowstorms. If we get 50-60" of snow like The Great Blizzard of 1888 or even the snow and coastal tidal damage of the Blizzard of '78 (but the January 1978 storm when the Lord's Point Inn at Kennebunk Beach washed out to sea is practically forgotten in the wake of the February storm), or the April Fool's Storm of 1990-something, then the naming takes care of itself and actually makes sense. (Tom and I were snowed in for three days in April 1982 -- Town of Nottingham was shut down because the town clerk lived next door and town plows couldn't get through Priest Road. They finally got a huge front end loader through after three days -- and even it got stuck between Mary's and our house.)

This has NOT been a horrible winter. And this is NOT a storm of the century or even close. Geez, people, it was a snowstorm, a normal part of a New England winter. Sure, high annoyance factor because it's March, Daylight Savings Time, and we've had some 60 degree F. days (interspersed with 8 degree days).

So stay off the roads and take a snow day, fer-pete's-sake. Save the names for the hurricanes. What are ya? A bunch of weather wimps?

Here in Nottingham, NH we officially got 13 inches. I'm not plowed out yet and my neighbor will come down and shovel because my shoulder is still giving me grief and I'm not sure I can get the door open (though I tried yesterday to push the snow down in front of it). I don't have to go out today until 6 p.m. -- my Voicearound in Dover.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 17 - 11:32 AM

Our power and cable were out from 2 - 8:30 AM. A drunk hit a mainline pole with his truck. So the storm was only really bad for him. A mere inconvenience for most of the rest of us. Mum was freaked out, of course but she's getting back to normal now.

I waited for light, did my usual "storm stuff" at Mum's, cleared the snow from the garage door, had a bite, and headed back to Mum's to get the generator hooked up (big job). It's nineteen steps door-to-door. When I opened the door, the power was back on. >:-D

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Mar 17 - 02:23 PM

Heaven's blessings on grown sons who do big jobs hooking up generators.

More snow this weekend?

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 17 - 05:18 PM

Flurries according to ECan. Maybe 4" according to The Weather Network. Too early to tell. But he weather terrorists are saying we are in for another "winter blast". %^**%$%#$$&&**&^!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: EBarnacle
Date: 15 Mar 17 - 10:48 PM

We expected another round from Stella so I covered the van again. when I came out today to clear the van, there were the remains of a flurry and the tarp had mostly blown off. No disaster.

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Mar 17 - 08:19 AM

We had about a foot of dry fluffy snow when the blizzard was over. It certainly was howling away Tuesday night but by morning it was all bright and sunny. The snowplowman, one of my 80-year old neighbors, had the parking lot cleared by 7:30am.

We certainly don't have room to store any more snow.

"Stella's gone,
One more round!
Stella's gone!"

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: BS: Winter Storm Stella (blizzard)
From: Senoufou
Date: 17 Mar 17 - 08:09 AM

Well she's arrived here in UK today, albeit rather modified. The wind is very cold, 50mph gusts, temperature is down to 9 degrees. Supposed to last over the weekend. But it must have been horrid for those in North America with blizzards and bitter cold. Hope things ease very soon.