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08 Dec 17 - 02:48 PM (#3892846) Subject: Benji is turning into a nor'easter From: keberoxu Well, the Weather Terrorists are at it again. A chart of names has been made for this winter season by the mass-media weatherpeoples who do this thing. I took no notice whatever of Aiden. But Benji took form on the US Mexico border, just where "Hang-the-DeeJay" wants to build a wall; and a swath of snow and ice has been laid down, from west to east, across the southern US. Now Benji is supposed to come up the Atlantic seaboard and drop snow on the megalopolis-es there. It occurred to me that there was no need to have a BS thread for every winter storm, named or otherwise, this winter -- we could just have one ongoing thread for all of the monsters, whether they get names or not. |
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08 Dec 17 - 05:21 PM (#3892875) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Aiden was a Greater Metro Denver (CO) event, which was why it escaped my notice in Massachusetts. The other funny thing about the mass-weather-media names is that they don't alternate genders, the way the hurricane names do. If we get stormed on enough this winter, the name Uma is on the winter storm name list. |
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08 Dec 17 - 06:03 PM (#3892881) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Sandra in Sydney the Australian meteorologist who started naming storms way back in the 1890s In the 1890s the English-born meteorologist Clement Wragge, who migrated to Australia in 1883, began naming storm events using letters of the Greek alphabet, characters from Greek mythology or girl?s names from the Pacific Islands. At times Wragge was employed as an government meteorologist but often argued with officials over what his functions should be. To get back at them he began using the names of politicians for storms. The article does not mention his nickname - Inclement Wragge. How Australia's first weather chart predicted a hunger for forecasts neither does this one tho it mentions he was known for his "mop of flaming red hair and explosive temper to match". but his entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography does! |
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08 Dec 17 - 06:13 PM (#3892883) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Tattie Bogle There has been a sort of Neil Diamond thread going on over on Facebook: not-so-sweet Caroline, but it might be a while till we get to Crackling Rosie! |
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08 Dec 17 - 06:40 PM (#3892887) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Oprah! Uma! Uma! Oprah! |
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09 Dec 17 - 12:01 PM (#3893014) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Benji is here, all right. At least, the wind is moderate, and the other b-word -- blizzard -- does NOT describe the storm here. |
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09 Dec 17 - 04:15 PM (#3893051) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Benji's blessing is the wet heavy kind of snow that the Weather Channel man (Jim Cantore?) calls "white mud." Just finished scraping some off the parked car. |
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09 Dec 17 - 09:28 PM (#3893091) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: gnu Our first now is now underway. The TV and radio weather terrorists are agog with warnings. They haven't named it but I have done so. I call it "PFFFF! You call that a storm? Where did you grow up?" |
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10 Dec 17 - 12:46 PM (#3893203) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Brilliant blue sky over head, and bright sunshine. The only thing in the sky is a trail of airplane, er, whatever airplanes leave in their wake. This heavy wet snow is a bugger to shovel. |
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12 Dec 17 - 12:12 PM (#3893554) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Next name on the list is Chloe. Remember that Spike Jones single called "Chloe"? |
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13 Dec 17 - 03:58 PM (#3893806) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu The Winter Terrorists at the Weather Channel are now promoting, erm, I mean, warning about Winter Storm Chloe. The snow belt which includes the Great Lakes is in Chloe's sights. Then Chloe moves to the Appalachian Mountains in their northern stretch, in New York and Pennsylvania. At this moment, on those enhanced maps with Doppler radar available to illiterate civilians like me, Chloe has swallowed Lower Michigan and is making herself known in Upper Michigan as well. And Chicago is getting it. |
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14 Dec 17 - 06:31 PM (#3894027) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu I hear that Chloe had an impact on Rhode Island, near the airport; but all that came to Massachusetts was that bitter wind, which has since slowed down, thank goodness. |
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14 Dec 17 - 08:38 PM (#3894042) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass Another problem in RI is that some school buses were on the road picking up students when the roads got bad, arriving at schools late and being even later to pick up children waiting for the next run. Most buses do at least three runs--high school, middle school, and elementary. Some even make two runs to a school: a long inbound run picking up children living farther away, then a short run picking up children living closer. (The process is reversed at dismissal.) A delay during any run results in a delay in the rest of the runs with children waiting in the cold, wind, and snow. There wasn't a lot of snowfall, but the wind blowing the snow made visibility difficult. |
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15 Dec 17 - 11:42 AM (#3894151) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu The next named winter storm -- pause for effect -- will be DYLAN. Is a hard rain gonna fall? |
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23 Dec 17 - 01:37 PM (#3895523) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Hah, I thought it was just a joke . . . so what has Dylan brought southern New England? Freezing rain! It's supposed to warm up to just above freezing, at least this far south, so that the ice melts. (me and my big mouth) |
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24 Dec 17 - 01:08 PM (#3895689) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu The ice and freezing rain from Winter Storm Dylan made surfaces treacherous. Now comes winter storm Ethan. My area might be on the line between rain and snow/ice again, so slippery stuff again. But north of here it will certainly be a snowy white Christmas. |
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25 Dec 17 - 09:48 AM (#3895780) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Ethan has brought a white Christmas to the greater Boston metro area. The sky is low and dim. The snowplows are out in force. I don't know how many inches of snow have fallen. It's just awfully dim and dark. Merry? |
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28 Dec 17 - 07:48 PM (#3896211) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Frankie has now been made official. The Black Hills will be white with snow, but first it sounds like Frankie will be blowing by Rapparee's neck of the woods. |
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29 Dec 17 - 03:01 PM (#3896358) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu And the next named winter storm is listed as Grayson. Oddly enough there was a Winter Storm Grayson as recently as 2013. |
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30 Dec 17 - 12:25 PM (#3896488) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Frankie is in shreds now; but some of the shreds will bring snow to Long Island Sound and the shoreline thereabouts. The unusual cold is causing some cancellations, on the Atlantic coast, of the New Year's Day annual Polar Bear plunges by scantily dressed males into the ocean water. No one wants anybody to die of their dip into the water. |
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30 Dec 17 - 01:03 PM (#3896502) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Jim Carroll We're about to be hit by Dylan - as if he hadn't done enough damage to folk song Jim Carroll |
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30 Dec 17 - 03:14 PM (#3896522) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Tattie Bogle SW Scotland will be Blowin' in the Wind by early tomorrow. Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh cancelled twice in the past because of high winds: the organisers this year will be hoping they have God on their side! |
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31 Dec 17 - 04:14 AM (#3896563) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Rusty Dobro 'This is the story of Hurricane'..... Now that's something to look forward to! |
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31 Dec 17 - 05:44 AM (#3896577) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Mr Red I thought the Irish had the job of naming the most recent storm. Even the naming of storms causes a political storm! |
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31 Dec 17 - 07:03 AM (#3896581) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Jim Carroll Our part of the world is a case of "Lord' Didn't it Rain", I'm afraid My late friend, Tom Munnelly, was a Dub whose work as a folk song collector cause him to move to this town in West Clare He immortally summed up our local weather when he said "It's the first time I ever saw sixty-mile-an-hour fog" - a wonderful description of the common combination of heavy sea mists driven by regular high wings Jim Carroll |
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02 Jan 18 - 06:35 PM (#3897003) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Boston, Massachusetts has a big ol' target sign on it, in terms of Winter Storm Grayson. This storm is cranking up in the ocean off of Florida and the Carolinas, which are going to get, erm, stormed on. As Grayson rolls north up the Atlantic coast, it may miss the other megalopolis concentrations of cities, but it will definitely wallop Boston. They're trotting out the meteorological term BOMBOGENESIS -- something that bombastic merits caps, it seems to me. |
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03 Jan 18 - 06:48 PM (#3897252) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Steve Shaw We've been battered by an Atlantic storm called Eleanor in Cornwall today. Unfortunately, the big onshore blow coincided with high spring tides so we've had all sorts of mayhem on the coast today. No-one hurt as far as I know. I've had heavy clay plant pots blown all over my garden and a thick layer of salt all over my car and windows. I also had a cowl blown off my chimney. That'll cost me. No granddaughter of mine will ever be allowed to be called Eleanor! |
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03 Jan 18 - 07:03 PM (#3897255) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Sheesh, keeping all these names straight. Steve, I'm certain your report is accurate, not questioning it at all. It's just that "Ethan" not "Eleanor" was the name of the winter storm that visited North America's east coast around Christmas time, and we still have snow on the ground/curbs/parking lots from that one. Now dear little bombastic "Grayson" is supposed to show up in the morning and drop snow at the rate of one or two inches PER HOUR ... oh, the humanity ... and high winds to blow it all about as well. |
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03 Jan 18 - 08:27 PM (#3897266) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Steve Shaw In thirty years living here, we've had just the one severe snowfall. Mrs Steve was booked on a course that day, thirty miles away. I'd heard the apocalyptic forecast and told her not to go, but, as the snow had yet to start falling, she ignored me. She got stranded and had to get a bed and breakfast in a remote village (which had no phone signal - great), leaving our precious car stuck in a drift on a one-in-six hill. I was less than well pleased. As it happens, the local authority which had sent her on the course paid the B&B bill. After that, she doesn't go anywhere any more unless she takes a sachet of shower gel and spare bra and knickers. Life is such a learning curve. |
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03 Jan 18 - 08:29 PM (#3897269) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu One-in-six -- is that something called "camber"? |
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03 Jan 18 - 08:30 PM (#3897270) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Steve Shaw It's just a very steep hill! |
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04 Jan 18 - 09:07 AM (#3897295) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Well, if the reports so far are accurate, then it may be a while before Mudcatters in the southeastern US check in to tell us how they survived, because Winter Storm Grayson seems to have made an awful mess. It may be a while before things are cleaned up enough for our compadres to post. In the Greater Metro Boston area, the storm is just now settling in but not settling down. My parked car has no indoors to go to. So my windshield wipers are sticking straight out, and the car is in the parking space with the rear end in, and the front end pointing out. The plows, salt and sand, and whatever-else trucks and jeeps are in action. They will have a full day. And the tow-truck people will profit from the misfortunes of others. The rest of us have to hunker down for a while and stay warm, dry, fed, and so on. Please do wish us well. |
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04 Jan 18 - 02:45 PM (#3897354) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu This storm is being compared to Hurricane Sandy. Is there such a thing as a winter-cane? |
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04 Jan 18 - 02:51 PM (#3897355) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Jim Carroll Perhaps it's time we oiks were given the chance to name our own storms From the amount of damage they are doing, Mad Maggie seems apposite fro us Brits Wouldn't dream of choosing for our cousins across the pond, but Donald the Destroyer has a niche ring to it Jim Carroll |
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04 Jan 18 - 04:16 PM (#3897364) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Donuel Weather terrorists, does that term reflect a knowledge of weather modification? I am leaning toward an ongoing polar vortex that sweeps south as an extreme reaction to global warming. Follow the plunge of the winter Vortex this decade and you will see this deadly pattern descend south at all points of the northern latitudes. |
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04 Jan 18 - 04:46 PM (#3897371) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu As for "Winter Terrorists", better ask Gnu what it means, because I stole the term from one of his posts. |
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05 Jan 18 - 12:20 PM (#3897578) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Greetings from a spot almost exactly halfway in between Providence, Rhode Island, and Boston, Massachusetts, as the proverbial crow flies. The sun is shining, the sky is cloudless blinding blue, and a stiff icy wind is blowing flags and tree branches about. And what is really blinding is the I-don't-know-how-many-bleeping-inches of snow at ground level, reflecting all that sunshine. SNOW is a four-letter word in every sense of the word just now. Thankfully the snow where I am/was is mostly light powdery stuff. Even the fluffy powder is a challenge when the temperatures drop well below freezing, as they have done, because that over-a-foot-of fluffy powder condenses into solid snow blocks. The snowplowers have been up against this, before, during, and long long after the storm itself. Ugh, Grayson. |
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07 Jan 18 - 04:37 PM (#3897968) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu "Hunter" is the name reserved for the winter storm which follows, in due course, Winter Storm Grayson. I could wish that the name did not sound so predatory as to seem threatening, while many of us are still adjusting to the blows of that earlier storm. |
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10 Jan 18 - 11:52 AM (#3898579) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu And Winter Storm Hunter is now a story. Today it's in the midsection of the continent. What it does will depend on temperatures. Southern New England is above freezing for the first time since, when, Christmas? |
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13 Jan 18 - 11:00 AM (#3899330) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Hunter is headed for southeastern Canada, according to the Weather channel (which named the storm I believe). The Great Lakes areas have been in Hunter's path. The northeastern US will feel less from the storm itself than it will feel the very cold temperatures that arrive in the storm's wake. Time to pull out the layered clothes and cold-weather gear from the sub-freezing temps we had around New Year's Day. |
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14 Jan 18 - 12:16 PM (#3899597) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu In answer to the obvious question: Inga Jaxon Kalami Liam Mateo Noah Oliver Polly Quinn Riley Skylar Toby Uma Violet Wilbur Xanto Yvonne Zoey (not my idea) |
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16 Jan 18 - 11:24 AM (#3899995) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu It looks as though Winter Storm Inga paid a visit to Acme's part of the world last night. For a winter storm, Inga is a long ways south. |
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16 Jan 18 - 06:23 PM (#3900078) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Inga is sounding like a split personality. Part of her is wreaking havoc in the southern US. Her northern portion is crunching across the Berkshires in western Massachusetts, and should reach Boston around midnight; the snow she dumps on us is supposed to be sloppy heavy wet stuff. Oh, joy. |
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17 Jan 18 - 03:48 PM (#3900207) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Many auto drivers did not find Inga a laughing matter today, as their morning commutes were worse than usual. But compared to the blizzards of recent memory, Inga is a damp -- VERY damp -- squib. The snow is indeed the heavy wet stuff; the temperature is at or above freezing; and there is NO WIND! School remained in session, the postmen went on delivering mail, and the plows and salt trucks did yeoman's work. |
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19 Jan 18 - 01:11 PM (#3900523) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Jaxon is a thing, now. This looks like a lot of wind, cold wind. My Northeast corner of the lower 48 is thawing enough that when the storm gets here it won't have really cold air to work with. But between then and now, some places are going to be hard hit over the weekend. |
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20 Jan 18 - 04:25 PM (#3900760) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu That next storm will bring downpours of something after the weekend -- hopefully it stays above freezing here. |
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21 Jan 18 - 01:10 PM (#3900895) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Jaxon, whether you use the name or not, is putting the airport in Denver to the test -- and they know from snow in Denver . . . east of the Rocky Mountains, parts of the Great Plains have blizzard warnings in anticipation as the storm moves from west to east. |
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23 Jan 18 - 11:24 AM (#3901256) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Don't know why the next Winter Storm in the wings has a name that rhymes with Salami. |
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25 Jan 18 - 06:45 PM (#3901803) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Apologies, sorry, my bad, one and all: KALANI, not "kalami," is the next name up for a Winter Storm according to the Weather Channel. So it doesn't rhyme with Salami after all. |
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27 Jan 18 - 11:29 AM (#3902191) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu And after Kalani, which name has yet to be assigned to a weather system, the next winter storm is LIAM. |
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29 Jan 18 - 07:22 PM (#3902710) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Kalani is here: is it snowing where you are? or just raining? |
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30 Jan 18 - 07:50 PM (#3902926) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass 8.3 inches of snow in my town, significantly more than was predicted, but, hey, it could have been worse! |
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01 Feb 18 - 07:44 PM (#3903321) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Gallus Moll The best name ever was Hurricane Bawbag a year or so ago; it did have an 'official' name appropriate to the scariness/windpower - but the Scottish way is to be derogatory! |
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06 Feb 18 - 11:54 AM (#3904115) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Here comes Winter Storm Liam. They are talking of ice and freezing rain, so this is one for the Weather Terrorists, and make no mistake. |
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07 Feb 18 - 01:14 PM (#3904239) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Liam has arrived. The snow is falling thick and fast. |
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07 Feb 18 - 07:50 PM (#3904293) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu . . . changed over to rain, thankfully. Further north it might be a different story. Did you get mostly rain, Chantey Lass? |
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08 Feb 18 - 12:05 PM (#3904389) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu These storm systems are forming too fast for me to stay current. Liam is old news now. Winter Storm Mateo is on the way, and Noah will not be far behind . . . |
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08 Feb 18 - 06:09 PM (#3904462) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Mateo is headed for the Great Lakes region, and the big metropolis-es there, looks heavy. |
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08 Feb 18 - 07:31 PM (#3904477) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass Keberoxu, Liam gave us a little snow between 11 and 1 on Wednesday. Then it switched over to rain. The amazing thing is that the timing of the storm was almost exactly what local tv forecasters had announced. I was supposed to drive to the Worcester area on Wednesday to see my daughter-in-law while my son is on a business trip for a few days, but when I heard the forecast we rescheduled for today. This morning she sent a message telling me that roads and walkways are glazed over so we should put it off until tomorrow (Friday)! |
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16 Feb 18 - 04:47 PM (#3906221) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Another snowmaker is forecast, don't yet know if this will be named Winter Storm Noah. |
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17 Feb 18 - 06:41 PM (#3906372) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu This has the makings of a one-two punch. Winter Storm Noah has rolled across the northern tier of states and will be crunching down upon the Boston area in a matter of minutes. Winter Storm Oliver will be a day or two behind Noah, it may already be taking shape in the Pacific Northwest. Noah is going to hit us with the kind of heavy wet snow that is dangerous to tackle with a shovel. Then the temperature shoots 'way up above thawing. Then comes Oliver . . . the winter terrorists must be having fun at our expense. (BUT: is there snow in Pocatello?) |
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17 Feb 18 - 07:50 PM (#3906380) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass I held off buying a ticket to hear music in northern RI on Sunday evening, hoping the venue wouldn't sell out before I made my reservation. It didn't, so a few nights ago I checked the forecast which said rain. I ordered my ticket and agreed to meet friends for dinner near the venue. Now I'm mildly anxious. The snow should end and streets should be safe well before the time I'll leave home, but it's the shoveling I'm worried about if my car is plowed in. When snow is heavy, I work in small spurts, usually 15 minutes of work followed by 45 minutes of rest. I hope I get my car out in time. |
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17 Feb 18 - 11:46 PM (#3906391) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass 2 inches already in my town. We are in the 3-7 inch zone. |
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18 Feb 18 - 08:11 AM (#3906454) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass It's done. 4.5 inches here. As soon as I hear the plow I'll move my car. |
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18 Feb 18 - 12:28 PM (#3906508) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Must have been six inches at least on my outdoor-parked car this morning. Tonight the hazard is re-freezing as the temperatures drop; it's warm enough in today's direct sun to start a lot of melting and thawing. And then this week is forecast to be unseasonably warm for February -- so the roller-coaster continues to roll. Oh, and then comes Oliver . . . |
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19 Feb 18 - 06:12 PM (#3906776) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu and Oliver is bringing heavy precip, by the reports I'm watching. Just depends on temperature: could be heavy snow, heavy rain, a big partially freezing trend where the temperature changes. What a mess . . . |
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20 Feb 18 - 10:14 PM (#3906838) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Stilly River Sage Four to six inches of rain here today. Flash flood watch for a couple of days. In Texas it's rain, but as this moves north and east, I imagine it will translate into snow and ice. No name to this one that I know of. |
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21 Feb 18 - 12:39 PM (#3906984) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Just viewed the Weather Channel update, where the storms are named and who Gnu calls the "weather terrorists" live. The name Oliver, at the Weather Channel, has been attached to the storm that is bringing ice through the midsection of the lower 48. Deliver us, Lord. Snow I can tolerate, but ice storms ... expletive deleted. |
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21 Feb 18 - 05:22 PM (#3907043) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Donuel my car says it is 87 in the shade today. (DC) It snowed last Sat. |
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24 Feb 18 - 02:27 PM (#3907662) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu The latest from the Weather Terrorists is that Winter Storm Polly is official. She is bringing snow and ice, where it is cold enough; where it is well above freezing, rain. it's about that all-important temperature line. |
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26 Feb 18 - 01:48 PM (#3908125) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Well, we've had a winter storm named Dylan, which was a hazardous mess of freezing rain -- ha! I joked about A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall! And next is Winter Storm Quinn, heaven help us. Come all without, Come all within, You've not seen nothing like The Mighty Quinn . . . |
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27 Feb 18 - 07:59 PM (#3908447) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Tattie Bogle While we have " The beast from the East" bringing snow from Siberia to Scotland and England! Today it was just a pussycat, by tomorrow maybe a snow leopard. Then there's that Emma down near Portugal. |
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28 Feb 18 - 12:06 PM (#3908577) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler It might be a pussy cat for you but I am snowed in now and expecting more! That is despite the 4x4. I walked down the lane and turned back at the first 2'6" one that stretched for at least 80'. Robin |
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28 Feb 18 - 12:30 PM (#3908579) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Senoufou Scotland is now on Red Alert. Very dangerous conditions. We're snowed in here in Norfolk. All schools closed, main routes blocked (A11, A47 and the Norwich ring road) People elsewhere who are used to a bit of snow are laughing at us calling this the 'Beast from the East'. They're saying it's merely 'Hysteria from Siberia'! |
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28 Feb 18 - 07:36 PM (#3908649) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Tattie Bogle Oh yes, BBCW, the snow leopard has definitely arrived here now! Snowed pretty well all day, and still ongoing tonight and more tomorrow. Drifting against doors and windows. Trains stopped at 6pm, buses at 7pm, and many were re-routed throughout the day. A friend got stuck for 6 hours on a trunk road: took him that long to do 9 miles! We are 600ft above sea level so always get more snow than down in the city. |
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28 Feb 18 - 07:45 PM (#3908653) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Check out the Snowplough thread and its link to the map. Here in the northeastern US we are bracing for a "nor'easter" with high winds, but we have a day or two to get ready for it. |
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01 Mar 18 - 11:14 AM (#3908798) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Senoufou Now Wales and the South West are on Red Alert too. Emma is blasting her way through the UK causing blizzards and pile-ups of very deep snow. I keep thinking of my mother-in-law sitting in the hot sun in W Africa. Think I'll pay her a visit. Trouble is, most of our airports are closed. Sigh... |
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02 Mar 18 - 04:04 PM (#3909100) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu The West Coast has Winter Storm Quinn. The East Coast has Bomb-cyclone Riley. Like bookends -- NOT. |
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02 Mar 18 - 06:47 PM (#3909129) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Can't speak for those who lived where there was snow. Here it was too warm for snow or ice, thankfully. The power outages and the downed trees blocking the roads were all due to the high winds. |
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02 Mar 18 - 09:06 PM (#3909143) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass Here in Rhode Island the forecast says the rain may become wet, heavy snow later tonight. I've raised the windshield wipers into the snow salute, just in case. My condo community rarely loses power and lights haven't flickered, but my flashlight is wound and in my pocket just in case. The sump pump in my cellar has turned on a few times, which it rarely does. This morning I got an email from my penpal-since-childhood in Lincolnshire. Her area was hit with the snowstorm and many activities have been canceled, including a luncheon she helped organize for her Trefoil Guild. Also, some good friends returned from a trip to visit relatives in the South Pacific. Their flight landed, but they ran into difficulties driving to Lincolnshire from Heathrow and couldn't get into their driveway until it'd been shoveled. |
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03 Mar 18 - 05:42 AM (#3909175) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Tattie Bogle Airports and bus routes gradually coming back on stream here. Daughter + 2 small kids on one of the very few flights out from Edinburgh yesterday, to Belfast. Worst part was getting TO the airport: normally she would drive out to us, leave car here, and we would drive them to airport: none of that possible with both of our roads being snowed in. Buses barely started running, taxis allocated to "priority cases", whatever that means. They finally did manage to get a taxi and got their flight, but would almost rather have had it cancelled! |
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03 Mar 18 - 11:46 AM (#3909254) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu The wind remains something fierce, and the sky is all clouded over. But here, inland, well away from the coast, the rain at least has stopped falling AND there is no snow or ice. The coast and the islands had a very bad time of it. |
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03 Mar 18 - 10:43 PM (#3909329) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass My son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter traveled to India. They departed Friday night, or maybe it was Saturday morning after a delay of at least 2 hours at Boston's Logan Airport. At some point they were switched from Lufthansa to Qatar Airlines, which I guess meant a stopover in Qatar instead of Munich. Before they got off the plane in Qatar, there was an announcement that their flight to India was boarding. I know they spent some time in the airport in Qatar, so I guess they caught a later flight. I know they arrived safely in India but must have been exhausted. I don't know if the airport in India is close to their destination or if they will have to travel much farther from there. |
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05 Mar 18 - 06:04 PM (#3909657) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu The vagaries of weather systems, some of which move from west to east and some of which follow the warm Gulf Stream from south to north, have resulted in an odd sequence on the East Coast: we are still recovering from R-for-Riley, and now we are due for Q-for-Quinn, with, heaven help us, more snow. |
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06 Mar 18 - 01:11 PM (#3909822) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Well, the people that Mudcatter Gnu calls the Weather Terrorists are having a field day with this one. For the northeastern US, the storm that has been named Quinn is so threatening that the severe weather alerts have been altered from Winter Storm Watches into Winter Storm Warnings. As I post, Quinn is moving east of the Dakota states where it has been a blizzard. The storm is going to grace the Snow Belt that covers the Great Lakes area, west to east, in familiar style. Detroit is going to get it. Then the state of Pennsylvania. The big uncertainty is what Quinn will do when it arrives at the Atlantic Ocean, and where Quinn will do it. It's a classic "nor'easter" set-up, the forecasters agree, but where will it be snow and where will it be freezing rain (EEWWWW)? None of Riley's monster high tides (there was a full moon), but Quinn's combination of snow and wind threatens more downed trees and power lines . . . so, HERE WE GO AGAIN. |
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06 Mar 18 - 04:30 PM (#3909840) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler The snow is melting fast now, about 1/2 of the depth of the drifts gone. I did a lot of digging (all good exercise) and managed to get the 2 wheel drive car up the hill yesterday evening. Tarmac all the way to our track today. Very pleased that when I revised the heating and water systems that I managed to eliminate all four water tanks from the loft. Still managed to have the outflow pipe from the mascerator in our en suite freeze but no damage to it as it is plastic, and this is with insulation on the inside of the roof space as well as on the loft floor. Had to abandon going to a practice with the trio and missed the East Lancashire Railway Spring Steam Gala! Robin |
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07 Mar 18 - 01:27 PM (#3909969) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu And it is on top of us now, although most of the snow has yet to fall, it will fall for the next twelve hours or so. So the car is strategically parked with the windscreen wiper "salute" as ChanteyLass calls it, and the GoreText gloves, snow boots, and ice scraper are near the front door. |
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07 Mar 18 - 08:21 PM (#3910011) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass Rain here changed to snow at about 6 PM, and it's accumulating quickly. I hope the previous storm took down all the branches and uprooted all the trees that could knock down power lines and that power stays on. One of my friends and her whole neighborhood, tucked between a country club, Narragansett Bay, and an old Navy base, were without power for about 72 hours. Her town didn't open any emergency shelters! She used her gas oven to keep her house at a warm 90 degrees. (Wait until she gets that gas bill!) She showered and charged her phone at the home of a neighbor who has a generator. I know of someone else who was without power for about 96 hours! I was lucky: my power stayed on. |
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08 Mar 18 - 01:55 PM (#3910078) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Senoufou Just watched the weather forecast for Eastern England, and we're due 14 degrees on Saturday! Hooray! (That's 57 Fahrenheit) I'm getting my bikini out of the drawer ready. |
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09 Mar 18 - 11:15 PM (#3910297) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu If the Winter Terrorists christen yet another storm, its name will be Skylar, Heaven deliver us. |
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11 Mar 18 - 11:14 AM (#3910495) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Skylar, Skylar, stay away, Move out West and dump some snow on the US Western mountain ranges where there are drought monitors ... we have enough snow in the Atlantic maritimes. |
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12 Mar 18 - 10:10 AM (#3910647) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Yes, the Weather Terrorists have spoken, and Skylar is official. It's going to be another bomb-cyclone of a storm, and a blizzard is anticipated, with high winds and concentrated snowfall leading to "white-out [visual] conditions." It is time to HUNKER DOWN. |
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13 Mar 18 - 09:34 AM (#3910860) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu We are under Winter Storm Skylar. Nothing else to say. |
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13 Mar 18 - 12:22 PM (#3910889) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Senoufou Stay safe keberoxu! |
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13 Mar 18 - 09:04 PM (#3910952) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Just was reminded of how hard-up some households are. Nothing to complain about, myself, but: I overheard a conversation between a married couple. A grumpy one. "...this only happens to US." "I'll take care of it." "We have a home." "Yes. We have a home. With a big-ass tree on it." Marches off without her. ooooh. The snow at this point ... ought to be measured in hours. Not inches. Hours. I know that it's been snowing for over twelve hours, is it closer to eighteen hours? And most of the time, with the high winds and the intensity of the snowfall, visibility could be measured by the merest fraction of a mile. Cue Little Orphan Annie: The sun 'll come out, to-morrow . . . |
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14 Mar 18 - 04:46 AM (#3910980) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Senoufou Oh keberoxu, all that blooming snow! How depressing! We only had a week of it ('The Beast From The East') and we were climbing the walls. And you have blizzards too, Lord, I'd be terrified. I feel quite ashamed at our feebleness here in UK, but everything grinds to a halt when it snows a few measly inches. How you all cope 'over there' I can't imagine. Stay safe won't you, and keep your spirits up. It can't be all that long until Spring arrives. |
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14 Mar 18 - 09:10 AM (#3911012) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu State by State, Eliza/Senoufou, each region includes in their budget provisions for a veritable army of staff -- Department of Public Works, or DPW -- to clear the roads and highways, not to speak of sidewalks in public places. It is quite wonderful to watch all those trucks with salt and sand, and the snowplows, sweeping down on of the big roads like the Providence Highway that follows the seacoast through Boston down to Rhode Island. I always want to cheer for those workers. They do a yeoman's job. |
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16 Mar 18 - 06:52 PM (#3911486) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu I wonder how Gnu and his mother are holding up: they are in Canada's Atlantic maritimes, and that region was very hard hit by the recent storms. |
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17 Mar 18 - 09:41 PM (#3911561) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass He shared a post to a Facebook group early Thursday morning. I hope all has been well since then. |
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18 Mar 18 - 07:24 AM (#3911623) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Well, I'm snowed in again. Still drifting with strong winds so not worth the bother of trying to dig out yet. I walked across the field and by the time I got back my footprints had been obliterated. Drifts are up to 4 foot high across our track and stretch along it for tens of yards. I don't need to get out until Tuesday so I'm not worried yet. Robin |
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19 Mar 18 - 06:19 PM (#3911933) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm TOBY is now on the Weather Terrorist's watchlist, and forecast to be yet another nor'easter and a dumper of snow. Just in time for the first day of spring ... right. |
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20 Mar 18 - 01:36 PM (#3912084) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu A one-two punch is the latest sales pitch from the Weather Terrorists at the Weather Channel: Winter Storm Toby tomorrow, and for the weekend, Winter Storm Uma. Both snowmakers, by forecast. |
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20 Mar 18 - 10:16 PM (#3912168) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu And the latest sales pitch from the Weather Terrorists is that Winter Storm Toby is going to break records. Not amusing. Not even. In fact it is silliness. This late in the winter/spring, of course records are going to be broken. |
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21 Mar 18 - 07:50 PM (#3912378) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass That prediction about Toby breaking records must be for the entire storm area. Here it started about 3 hours later than expected and the tv evening news forecast said the predicted 4-8 inches will probably be on the lower end of those numbers. I hope that's correct. |
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22 Mar 18 - 12:53 PM (#3912493) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Boston was let off far more lightly by Toby than in previous recent winter storms. No blizzard, no fierce winds, no reduced visibility. Last time I looked out the window, the snow was still coming down lightly. Temperatures are above freezing, the snow is very damp slushy stuff, and we have more problems from the existing re-frozen pre-existing snowfall than from this most recent storm. Of course they are talking about another winter storm before Easter . . . |
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22 Mar 18 - 08:14 PM (#3912580) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass Toby was a big fizzle here, too. I could use more fizzles like that! |
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23 Mar 18 - 09:56 AM (#3912680) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Mrrzy Slice Toby thinly. I only just found out that was a hoax, that is to say I thought it was a real internet hoax. |
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23 Mar 18 - 06:35 PM (#3912788) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Near the beginning of this thread, checking out the names, I echoed David Letterman the one time he hosted the Academy Awards: Oprah! Uma! Uma! Oprah! And here is Winter Storm Uma. Except, by most reports, the North Atlantic Coast and southern New England will not be much troubled by Uma. But I read that she is bringing heavy snows to the heartland. |
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26 Mar 18 - 01:32 PM (#3913299) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu ...but will we have a Winter Storm Violet ? |
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28 Mar 18 - 11:33 AM (#3913660) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu That's ironic. Violet is a name better suited to spring, or summer, than winter. We are at least one week into spring, past the vernal equinox, and if we DO get a storm it is likely not to be a winter storm but a spring one. |
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30 Mar 18 - 06:30 PM (#3914128) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Leeneia, is Winter Storm Violet coming to call? The forecast says this storm will hit the north and midwest. |
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31 Mar 18 - 07:14 PM (#3914390) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu The Weather Terrorists report that Minnesota bore the brunt of Winter Storm Violet's wrath, with heavy snowfall. And after Easter, another storm -- will they name it Wilbur? -- could bring snow to the East Coast AGAIN. |
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02 Apr 18 - 11:47 AM (#3914716) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Yes, Winter Storm Wilbur is now a Thing. And Minnesota can't catch a break, it is one snowstorm after another. I wonder what that means for New Brunswick, the home of our irreplaceable mudcatter Gnu. In eastern Massachusetts it mostly means above-freezing precip. This very morning, however, the air was alive with white flakes of slush, as the storm tried to make snow but it was just THAT much above freezing that serious snow didn't have a chance. For a while, though, visibility was an issue, as there was all this white stuff falling down and it was difficult to see very far as you drove your car. There is still stuff visibly falling but it's easier to see through it now. |
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03 Apr 18 - 11:20 AM (#3914937) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu ... leaving Xanto, Yvonne, and Zoey. Sigh. |
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05 Apr 18 - 12:43 PM (#3915400) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Snow on Saturday? The Saturday after Easter? Say it ain't so . . . |
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05 Apr 18 - 02:55 PM (#3915428) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: Tattie Bogle Snowed all day yesterday where I live, just outside Edinburgh, but 200m above sea level. Everything ground to a halt as usual, events cancelled etc. Lovely sunny day today, max temp 10c: rivers and puddles everywhere as the snow melts. What a difference a day can make! |
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06 Apr 18 - 08:07 PM (#3915733) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: ChanteyLass Snowed here in Rhode Island today. To be accurate, rain, snow, rain, sunshine briefly before sunset. |
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06 Apr 18 - 09:37 PM (#3915743) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Massachusetts had snow as well, actually slush, fat flakes of slush very thick in the air, and then -- as ChanteyLass says -- it got too warm for snow. So now it's wet and we have some chilly clear days coming. I guess I can understand the Weather Terrorist protocol here. Official Spring is several weeks in, so, no official naming of storms, even if the storms are more wintry than anything else. So, we end the named storms with ol' Wilbur, and there is no Xanto, Yvonne, or Zoey. Just more, erm, storms. As a Swiss-German of my acquaintance says: Im April thut das Wetter, was es will. |
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11 Apr 18 - 10:08 PM (#3916700) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu NOOOO! I was mistaken ... there is now a Winter Storm Xanto, for reals. It's forming over the mountains in the western US and is going to move slowly, so that its snowfall (rain in places) will be heavy precipitation. In fact it's going to be on top of Boston the day before the Boston Marathon.... and Minnesota, which can't catch a break, is going to get snowed on. The forecast map for this storm shows this hideous red blob which is where there could be TORNADOES. |
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12 Apr 18 - 12:24 PM (#3916862) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Xanto, where it does not bring heavy snow, may instead bring FREEZING rain with accumulating ice, as far as the Easternmost states. In April. That would be hideous. We've had enough power outages. |
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13 Apr 18 - 08:54 AM (#3917031) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Blizzard warnings in six states? |
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13 Apr 18 - 09:55 PM (#3917158) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu The Xanto blizzard is on top of the Dakotas now. And it is a blizzard. Beware the freezing rain. |
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14 Apr 18 - 06:08 PM (#3917281) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Xanto is a killer storm now, with two deaths reported, and it may not be finished in that regard. Maybe Rapparee's part of Idaho is still, erm, doing what his outrageous post say the weather there is doing; but Bozeman, Montana, got some twenty-five inches of snow from this storm. |
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15 Apr 18 - 08:03 AM (#3917378) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Death toll is now three, if you count the downed tree in Louisiana yesterday. The tree landed on a mobile home. They don't say, in the news soundbite, about the rest of the family, if there were injuries; only that the fatality was a small child inside the caravan. |
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16 Apr 18 - 11:03 AM (#3917650) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Xanto left over thirty inches of new snow in some places. Please heaven, no Winter Storm Yvonne or Zoey ... please ... |
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17 Apr 18 - 11:20 AM (#3917921) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Winter Storm Xanto claimed another life: a fatal heart attack for a man shoveling snow. And Xanto is STILL going, by now it ought to have reached New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Gaspe, the Newfoundland island ... |
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18 Apr 18 - 02:21 PM (#3918292) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu What is Winter Storm Evelyn ?? |
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19 Apr 18 - 07:18 PM (#3918575) Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018 From: keberoxu Okay, I wanted to know what this Winter Storm Evelyn was when Winter Storm Xanto was going on at the same time. Xanto is from the naming system at the Atlanta, Georgia-based Weather Channel cable network. Evelyn is from a Fox network, also part of Sinclair Broadcast Group, television station. This one is Fox 11, WLUK (must be both radio and television). A feature story at this Fox station's website discloses that "the winter of 1987 - 1988" was when storm-naming began at that particular station, with its meteorologist. This station is in the state of Wisconsin, can't tell you which city. perhaps the city is Green Bay, Wisconsin? For 2018, the Fox/WLUK winter storm names are: Abigail Brooks Clare Dan Evelyn Forrest Gabby Hudson Ivy Juli |