BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Mar 18 - 06:19 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Mar 18 - 01:36 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Mar 18 - 10:16 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Mar 18 - 07:50 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Mar 18 - 12:53 PM

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 . . .

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Mar 18 - 08:14 PM

Toby was a big fizzle here, too. I could use more fizzles like that!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Mrrzy
Date: 23 Mar 18 - 09:56 AM

Slice Toby thinly. I only just found out that was a hoax, that is to say I thought it was a real internet hoax.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Mar 18 - 06:35 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 26 Mar 18 - 01:32 PM

...but will we have a Winter Storm Violet ?

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Mar 18 - 11:33 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Mar 18 - 06:30 PM

Leeneia, is Winter Storm Violet coming to call?
The forecast says this storm will hit the north and midwest.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 31 Mar 18 - 07:14 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 18 - 11:47 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Apr 18 - 11:20 AM

... leaving Xanto, Yvonne, and Zoey. Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Apr 18 - 12:43 PM

Snow on Saturday?
The Saturday after Easter?
Say it ain't so . . .

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 05 Apr 18 - 02:55 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Apr 18 - 08:07 PM

Snowed here in Rhode Island today. To be accurate, rain, snow, rain, sunshine briefly before sunset.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 18 - 09:37 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Apr 18 - 10:08 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Apr 18 - 12:24 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 18 - 08:54 AM

Blizzard warnings in six states?

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 18 - 09:55 PM

The Xanto blizzard is on top of the Dakotas now. And it is a blizzard.

Beware the freezing rain.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Apr 18 - 06:08 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Apr 18 - 08:03 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Apr 18 - 11:03 AM

Xanto left over thirty inches of new snow in some places.
Please heaven,
no Winter Storm Yvonne or Zoey ... please ...

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Apr 18 - 11:20 AM

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 ...

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 18 - 02:21 PM

What is Winter Storm Evelyn ??

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Apr 18 - 07:18 PM

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