BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 13 Apr 18 - 08:54 AM

Blizzard warnings in six states?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 18 Mar 18 - 07:24 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Mar 18 - 09:41 PM

He shared a post to a Facebook group early Thursday morning. I hope all has been well since then.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Mar 18 - 06:52 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 09:10 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Senoufou
Date: 14 Mar 18 - 04:46 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 09:04 PM

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 . . .

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 12:22 PM

Stay safe keberoxu!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Mar 18 - 09:34 AM

We are under Winter Storm Skylar. Nothing else to say.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Mar 18 - 10:10 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Mar 18 - 11:14 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Mar 18 - 11:15 PM

If the Winter Terrorists christen yet another storm,
its name will be Skylar, Heaven deliver us.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Senoufou
Date: 08 Mar 18 - 01:55 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Mar 18 - 08:21 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Mar 18 - 01:27 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 06 Mar 18 - 04:30 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Mar 18 - 01:11 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Mar 18 - 06:04 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 10:43 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 11:46 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 05:42 AM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 09:06 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: named Winter storms, 2017 - 2018
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 06:47 PM

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.