Anyone experience any bad weather yet?
We are in the line for major snow tonite/tomorrow here. Anywhere from 3" up to maybe 15".
Right now, it is 33* and a rain/frz rain mix that is supposed to change to snow only just any minute now.
Here in Kansas City, we got 2-3 inches of snow & its about as windy as riding Outlaw Run! :o
A few inches of snow and some ice in NW Arkansas. Still snowing. :-\
We have received 5" of new snow with the latest storm cell and it is still snowing.
The one that went through last week dumped around 3" and cancelled school on Thursday.
I'm wondering if we'll have school tomorrow. Most of the churches have cancelled for today in Jeff.
Started sleeting and snowing here about an hour ago. Believe it or not, in some parking lots in north central AR there are still mounds of snow and ice left from the storm of the first week of December.
Well I didnt measure with a tape, but I did shovel. It is not finished here, official reports say 7" here. After shovelling Id say thats about right. They are saying we should get another 4"-6" before its over here.
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That was before shovelling. Now here it is after cleaning the car and driveway.
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Guess I will head back out in a few hours and do it again. The worst part is coming tonite/tomorrow. They are saying our HIGH TEMP tomorrow (Monday Jan. 6, 2014) will be -3*F with wind chills -30*F.
Im sure I will be able to get out. Our road is not a bad road. The Jeep plows thru this stuff good. This is a dry powder, real easy to drive thru.
I still hope they call us off though. It will be very cold in that building. They set the thermostat for 60* in winter and 87* in summer. Leaving work at 2AM with temps about -15, better hope you have 0 car problems.
Mine, as well as my wife's schools were both called off for tomorrow around 1:00 this afternoon.
Well I dont know if has completely stopped accumulating now or not, but I decided to measure now. WELL--------
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a view from the front
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the neighbors back steps says it all--------
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Near blizzard conditions, and we haven't seen a snow plow yet. Local schools and business announcing closings.
Jeff City and area are all out of school tomorrow. We got hit pretty hard. I haven't measured how much yet but I have gone out and shoveled once already... though looking out the window it looks like I am going to have to do that again before I try to get out (whenever that may be).
Here in southeast missouri, prodicted 6-10 " , may have gotten quarter inch. Asked the wife where the blizzard was.
Quote from: oldsdcer on January 05, 2014, 06:27:02 PM
Here in southeast missouri, prodicted 6-10 " , may have gotten quarter inch. Asked the wife where the blizzard was.
Where you ask, is the blizzard?
Jump on I-55, drive north to about Sikeston/Perryville/ Cape . I think the newslady said that she recieved an email from someone in Sikeston who claimed to have snow. I know my brother in Farmington did.
Got about 7 inches in Springfield. It's hovering around -7° this morning. Forecasted high today is 2. Churches cancelled yesterday, schools today. Brrrrrrrr!!!!
-7°F in Jeff City right now, feels like -23°F when you add in the wind chill. It is just stupid cold right now.
MoDOT is having trouble keeping the roadways clear up here due to drifting snow.
The forecasted "high" today is 2°F. Not that we'll be able to tell the difference when it gets there somewhere in the 3-4 o'clock hour. Water pipes have been busting all over town and in CoMO as well. Luckily my subdivision has avoided that so far. I feel bad for the snow shovel crew that is outside right now. They should have came yesterday when it was warmer (like I did)
Schools called off here today about 1:00om yesterday. I am glad I cleared our driveway yesterday! Seeing that it is around -21* wind chill! I did the boiling water thing outside ( boilin water turns to snow immediately upon throwing it into he air... If it stays this cold...no school tomorrow either!
13 belo, wind chill is -30.... not much snow here, but ore north and east... had some drifts from the wind..
Topeka radio said that if yo could here his voice, your schools had been cancelled today...LOL
Only about 2 " total here close to Cape Girardeau. Kind of makes all the gloom and Doom weather nerds look silly. Run out and buy everything you can get your hands on cause the sky is falling. I always get a good laugh at all the news stories related to weather every time a flake falls. Then I get tired of it and turn on cable.
-32 here last night and it's still-25 and windy out now. Don't want to know what the wind chill is. I'm staying in and doing baby back ribs in the crockpot.
Low temps around zero this morning. Made it to a whopping 14 degrees last time I saw the weather on TV. Benton County road crews did a bit of a better job this go around, I was able to slowly work my way out of my driveway and on into work mid-morning. Slow going, though. Be careful if passing through the area! :)
Another Snow Day tomorrow. I guess I'll catch up on photo trip reports or something.
Bransonand are out tomorro again... thats 7 "snow" days for them so far this year..
got plum up to 7 degress here today, with -10 wind chill....
several scholls up here cancelled for tomorrow already here... toooo cold.!!!
Our issue is the drifting snow. MoDOT is having issues keeping 50 clear
We are out again tomorrow, gonna try to finish up a painting I have had sitting around for 3 years!
Currently -7 and it "feels like" -23
Dang it is cold.
Warm here today.....8 degress above with win chill of -8....
wind swtched from the north to the south overnite..... wind "feels" cold/damp, probably from the snow south of us....... COME ON SPRING!!
Polar Vortex! -10 and 8 inches of snow yesterday. Warming up today - currently 2 degrees!
Sanddune....you better get out your shorts and flipflops.....we had -28 last night and it's still -14 out.....I'm ready for a January thaw.
LOL.. got em out already,,, 42 degrees today, and supposed to be the same for another week or so... bring it on...
by the ay, i am thinking abot the ribs you cooked the ohter day.. howere they>?
Well it is very early Wed AM. I did end up going to work Monday. I woke Monday to a broken outside thermometer. It will go down to -20*. The needle was pegged to -20. "and broke the spring.
The roads was literally ICE. It was simply dangerous, but I got called in and had to go.
(Talk about a wonderful place-the job we are doing is running 5 days ahead of schedule. I would have preffered to stay home Monday and worked Friday-but NO! They decided risking our lives to get the job done 5 days early was very important)
--I mean it is simply a advertising book from Marriott Hotels. There is nothing about that book that would keep my Jeep glued to the road, or save my life had I wrecked. I sure hope our company gets just a filthy ridiculous amount of money for it. I didnt even get a "thank you" for coming in, and I certainly wont get a bonus. If the company gets a fortune. At least it would pay off for somebody.
Now they are calling for 2"-4" of new snow later tonite. Guess what? Im working tonite also.
We finally get to have school today. We'll see what happens tomorrow, because like qwed, we're scheduled tp get 2-4" more inches of snow tonight as well.
We haven't been back from break yet. Today (Wednesday) is still another day off, and we'll see what the clouds drop tonight.
We had a PD day with teachers Friday last week 1/3 but that was it. I am fully expecting to be at school tomorrow
Sanddune....the ribs were great.... enough for leftovers.....maybe tacos or enchiladas.... I like pork ribs better, but we had the beef ones since we bought a half of angus beef from a farmer friend.....good thing we bought the beef at a good price.....my news feed said the price is going up. still cold here....-19 last night, but a balmy 0 now.
We are now TWO days into the 2nd semester. :)
Had a pretty good day with good rehearsals with my bands. Other than SIS going down, it was a great day.
All clear here, have had a couple of nice days... however branson received more snow and another day of school cancelled... thats 8 days so far for them... springfield, mo also received more sno and cancelled classes for today also.......
ICE! NW Arkansas was doing great yesterday morning with two days of warmer temps and sunshine. Then, about 11am, the misty rain started to come down. Very cloudy, coming home in evening commute was OK until about 6pm, when it started to snow. Cold temps over night. This morning...ICE BLACK ICE SLUSHY ICE ICE ICE....ICE, ICE, BABY! (Sorry, couldn't resist that one.) Stuck at home, at least for a few hours. Temps are to warm, cruddy weather moving east.
It's snowing today, but beginning to warm up and should be in the low 30-40's starting tomorrow. That's a virtual heatwave!
Today we're having a heat wave....it's 13 above zero.....almost can't stand it!
We got snow today in Central MO. Everything south of 50 and north of the river in the Kingdom of Callaway were closed. The schools right on 50 (Jeff, California, Tipton, Sedalia) were all open -- everything East of Jeff was closed as well. Osage County schools must have been hit harder than us, they've been out all week.
well we only ended up with another inch of snow on Wednesday night. But it was a slick snow. I took a tumble in the parking lot after work (trying to get to my car). Im not really hurt, but sore as (W)ell. I fell face first and slid about 10 foot on my belly. Only real casualty was 3 missing buttons on my coat. Still cant find them on the parking lot.
On a worse note. I got a call from a coworker on the way home Wednesday. "Did you make it home safe?" I was about 4 miles from home at that time. Anyway he said "Hope you have better luck than me-I turned on my exit ramp from the highway, and slid all the way downhill, over a snowbank, into a curb, slid around hit the stoplight post" THANK GOD he is fine-no injury at all-but his car is toast. And that was on an inch of wet slick snow.
---to make it worse, my wonderful bosses laughed hystarically at him Thurs. about the wreck. Not once did they say anything about being sorry he wrecked, or glad he is OK, NO! They just laughed at him.
Now today (Friday 1/10/14) it is about 40* and lots of rain. Calling for nice weather all next week.
Snow, ice...GONE! Warmer weather, some rain. Temperatures in the 40s and 50s for the next week. Yeah, I'll take that! ;)
Yesterday in order - snow, ice, rain, ice, heavy rain, thunderstorm!
Quote from: Gilligan on January 11, 2014, 12:15:11 PM
Yesterday in order - snow, ice, rain, ice, heavy rain, thunderstorm!
Gilligan, you lucky devil. you get all the nice weather. ;D ;D ;D
well maybe not as good as the Cheeseheads, but still good. ::)
Quote from: qwed94 on January 11, 2014, 05:11:53 PM
Quote from: Gilligan on January 11, 2014, 12:15:11 PM
Yesterday in order - snow, ice, rain, ice, heavy rain, thunderstorm!
Gilligan, you lucky devil. you get all the nice weather. ;D ;D ;D
well maybe not as good as the Cheeseheads, but still good. ::)
Yup! I saw everything but a rainbow yesterday.
Well i am glad to report, I Woke up this morning to A temp. that was "70 degrees" warmer than it as this time last week..... YEA!!!,
very little wind,
NO SNOW!..(no snow to push)
70 degrees warmer.....
Its going to be a great sunday!!!
Most of the snow has melted in Central MO after the last two days. It sure has made everything a big mess.
We'll see if we have any more winter weather this "winter"
Hey....it's 39 degrees out today (heat wave). Hubs and brother in law ice fishing now.....maybe fresh fish for supper.
Yeah, most of the snow has melted here in SW - STL. It was 60° today. It would have been a beautiful day to wash up the cars. Instead I went to AM Church service. Came back home and slept (trying to get rid of that awful headache I had). Went to PM service (OK I admit-mainly because we had an evening supper at church). Now back home typing this.
OH YEAH---still have a headache, but not as bad.
calling for nice weather all week. Flurries one night, and a bit cold one night, but nice for the most part.
All but the biggest piles have melted here over the weekend. Forecast looks clear for the next week (guess I need to get a carwash).
ROUND TWO! Got 3-4 inches of snow yesterday. Today, all the schools are out and the roads are a mess. The TV weather folks say two more waves will attack us by Saturday. Looks like a looooooong week of being stuck at home. Be careful on the roads out there, ya hear? :'(
Looks like we're gonna take three hits from the weather this week. NO bueno
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That's how I feel about having a snow day tomorrow (and probably Wednesday too).
Freezing rain, sleet, snow now falling. All the schools are off for the day, road conditions a mess. Hurry spring!
Almost an inch out now, slip sliding all over the place...we are still in school, at least for now...
Wife works 35 min away (West) and was called off last night.
Eastern Kansas is shut down for the day..... just saw a notice on FB Missouri DOT has announce a Almost statewide "no travel day"..
YEP!! still February.......
guess I will go warm up the snow plow........
Branson and area schools closed today..... that is snow day number 10.. ..
probably will be closed tomorrow also... .....
Those kids are going to be in school until july!!!
You teachers out there.... how do you make up that many days???
Once again Bolivar mo is in the dry slot. Eventually we will get up to 5 inches of snow. Cant wait to sled in it with my daughters!
Quote from: sanddunerider on February 04, 2014, 08:48:39 AM
You teachers out there.... how do you make up that many days???
You are required to make up the first 6 and then after that every other snow day is forgiven.
So 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7) 8 (9) 10 (11) etc -- which is why if you miss 12 days, might as well miss one more which is a "freebie"
"freebie" act of God, same thing! We are in today, and must be here until 12:20 to call it a "day" Not sure we'll make it looking out there right now!
Oklahoma City got lied to by the weather people. again.
In Wichita, we've got our first snow day this year. My teenage son had to work 7 am-9 am so I drove him, waited at Starbucks, then drove him home. I'm a teacher and was sort of looking forward to being lazy, but he had an accident last year on snow on the way to work, so he didn't want to drive especially. It took us twice as long as normal to get home, but we made it safely. Idiots out there, though. Someone passed us with only their front windshield cleared -- and then only where the wipers hit. Side windows, rear window were all covered. Happy to be home and safe with lots of food in the house. ;D I'm betting we'll be cancelled again tomorrow. The news is reporting the city only has enough salt/sand to treat the roads once and that's only the emergency routes. I don't know how buses would get around in this and we have thousands of kids on buses.
I'm a little annoyed. Other than the initial 1" of snow we got early this morning we haven't got a thing. We could have got in a day of school today. I would much rather be in session now as opposed to Mid-May :(
Quote from: Swoosh on February 04, 2014, 11:33:29 AM
I'm a little annoyed. Other than the initial 1" of snow we got early this morning we haven't got a thing. We could have got in a day of school today. I would much rather be in session now as opposed to Mid-May :(
My thoughts exactly. When I got home from work they already had school called off for today. Whats worse, it is 12:30 right now, It just now started to snow here. Well we have a light dusting, but the kids could have easily had school today. I guess its good to error on the side of safety though. But it was kinda silly to have school called off at 2AM .
Quote from: misskim on February 04, 2014, 09:49:06 AM
In Wichita, we've got our first snow day this year. My teenage son had to work 7 am-9 am so I drove him, waited at Starbucks, then drove him home. I'm a teacher and was sort of looking forward to being lazy, but he had an accident last year on snow on the way to work, so he didn't want to drive especially. It took us twice as long as normal to get home, but we made it safely. Idiots out there, though. Someone passed us with only their front windshield cleared -- and then only where the wipers hit. Side windows, rear window were all covered. Happy to be home and safe with lots of food in the house. ;D I'm betting we'll be cancelled again tomorrow. The news is reporting the city only has enough salt/sand to treat the roads once and that's only the emergency routes. I don't know how buses would get around in this and we have thousands of kids on buses.
I'm in Wichita too and just got the call from school they are cancelling again tomorrow. My teenage boys are really happy. We'll see how happy they are in a few minutes when I make them go out and shovel the driveway : )
The snow kicked into overdrive around 2:30pm -- up until then it hadn't done a thing since 8:30am.
We are out again tomorrow (Wednesday) and that will make #5 for us. Have cleaned off the car 3 times now.
Doesn't look like it is doing anything right now, but the wind is starting to blow... yay?
Nearly everything local is closed tonight, and most schools have called off tomorrow. Many dismissed at 2:00 today. We have about 4-5" and are expecting up to 4 more tonight. Then...arctic cold followed by more snow this weekend! :o
Swoosh, thanks for the answer... I thought that is how you expolained it last year.. just verifying.... Branson and area out tomorrow AGAIN...
that's 11 snow days for Branson
Be thankful you weren't in Branson Sunday -- lots of wrecks and slide-offs. Still looked bad when we drove through on Monday morning.
Looks like Capital City will be out of service again tomorrow. Most businesses were locked up tight today - appears to be more of the same tomorrow.
Yeah our schools are off Wednesday also. We did work tonite though. Roads at 2 PM was about as bad as the roads were at 2 AM. The Boss gave us the option of leaving when Art was done with a certain job. Yeah, Art finished up at 12:30. Whooop-i-deee-dooo. A whole 90 minutes early. Screw that, we all just stayed and worked the whole shift. By that time, the refreezing was already done, and an extra 90 minutes would give the road crews a chance to plow again.
We are supposed to get more snow Sat & Sun (I think). Here at "The Lou".
Ring up another Snow Day. That makes #3 this week and #6 for the school year. The main roads keep blowing shut and the back roads, yeah... not even touched.
Things did loosen up a bit, we were able to get to work. Sunny this afternoon. Bitter cold predicted for overnight and below zero with wind chill in morning. SPRING, WHERE ARE YA? :) Roads in OK shape, so long as you keep down the speed.
Yeah, this winter has been "WELL" you choose the adjective.
The weather lady today said that they have 3 weather models they use often.
-1 of them says that ST Louis will be 200+ miles north of a snowstorm Monday.
-1 of them says we will get dumped on Monday.
-the last says St louis will get a major snowfall (possibly what we got in 82) on Monday
I will say this. I usually like winter a lot. Mainly because I had serious heat exhaustion working at SFSL. I simply can not take HOT weather anymore.
I am getting tired of this winter. (although generally a harsh winter will kill off a lot of rodents and insects, even garden weeds) Lets just hope that will be the case this year.
here's what we got, this is our driveway at 5 in the morning on Wed.
Looks like we will be able to get a day of school in tomorrow. *happy dance*
Then we get another storm coming through on Saturday and another on Monday....
We got about 11-12" of fresh fluff yesterday, on top of the 4-5" still on the ground from Saturday.
No cancellations, just another regular February day in New Hampshire. ;D
Yeah, but considering that New Hampshire is the size of some of the larger counties in Missouri, they better be able to get all of the roads cleared off in a decent amount of time
Quote from: Swoosh on February 06, 2014, 01:30:32 PM
Yeah, but considering that New Hampshire is the size of some of the larger counties in Missouri, they better be able to get all of the roads cleared off in a decent amount of time
I live in a town of 3,500, and my job is 35 miles away in a city of 9,000. The county is three times the size of Taney County in area, but only 33,000 population. Except for the city (which does its own plowing), it was an easy drive at 55-60 on clear roads.
I did have to drive the truck, though... my plow guy hadn't come yet, and I couldn't get the mini-van out of the driveway. ;D
My wife is on her 4th snow day this week (Tues-Thurs) where as we only were out on Wed, with a shortened schedule Tuesday that counted as a full. Back roads, were bad in rural areas(her school) whereas my school is fairly urban, and we don't have as many gravel and back roads.
had 13 inches here tues/wed... no school here t-w-th....... roads all cleared up and back to normal "mostly" on Thursday......... back roads all plowed by Thursday evening......
ready for the nxt one now...!
Quote from: rubedugans on February 07, 2014, 02:51:09 PM
My wife is on her 4th snow day this week (Tues-Thurs) where as we only were out on Wed, with a shortened schedule Tuesday that counted as a full. Back roads, were bad in rural areas(her school) whereas my school is fairly urban, and we don't have as many gravel and back roads.
My wife missed the whole week. West Fork has numerous roads that are not paved but gravel and mountainous. Our kids here in Fayetteville made Thurs and Fri but we have seen some models saying that Mon night into Tues for 6 to 10 inches of more snow.
The weather people really missed up on this one. What was supposed to be "just a dusting" turned into 3" of snow in California today, Needless to say, 50 is mess and we're out tomorrow. This is #7 for us. I wonder if I'll like going to school in June. *grumble*
Huntsville, AR has missed 18 days. The superintendent asked the state for permission to NOT make up all of the days. He says this means not letting out until mid June. I say, send them on Saturdays and keep them until they have made the days up. It's about the kids education, not worrying about politics. Watch your budget, and comply with rules or pay a penalty, administrators. It has been an unusual weather year, I know it is hard to plan for everything, but it seems to me asking for a waiver is a bit extreme, too.
Junior, I tend to agree with you on that.. I have other feelings about the days off and such, but with all the teachers and school rep we have on this site, with the I have respect for what they do, I am not going to voice them.....
On the other hand..... Branson- today.. another 2 - 4....... that's right-- SCHOOLS OUT!!!! day number 13 for them.....
Missouri schools only have to make up 10 total days of school due to weather (other than extreme heat). Once you hit 7, each days is counted as a "half make up day" until you hit 14. Once you hit 14, any additional days are forgiven. Arkansas would do well to draw up a plan much like what Missouri adopted a couple years ago.
This is Day #7 for me. This is the most Snow Days I have EVER had as an educator. I don't even remember ever having this many days off when I was in school myself. It just seems to me that Central Missouri is not equipped to handle major winter weather like Northeast Missouri was. I would imagine that this is even more so the case in Southwestern Missouri.
To be honest, I am ready to be in school for an extended period of time. It has been darn near impossible to get back into a routine. My sleeping habits are crap right now and it can be quite annoying at school trying to get the kids back into the habit of doing things as they are basically allowed to run wild at home. Even when get to go back to school this week, we have Friday off for Professional Development and Monday off for President's Day. See, there is no hope in getting in a routine this week -- oh and next week is Courtwarming, so you have that added distraction. *groan*
We had several days off during the 2010/1 school year, and students only had to make up 10 of the days (as determined by Missouri law). Administration wanted staff to make up all the days - after school was to let out for summer. We were going to sit in professional development during part of June, thinking about when we might be able to prepare our classrooms for summer cleaning and summer school.
Then, the May 22 tornado of '11 came through, effectively cancelling the rest of the school year for us all. I contend that God does not like 21st Century professional development. The school board politely paid us for the remaining part of the year (I wouldn't have thought that would be in question.). At any rate, we would rather have snow days than tornado days.
Everybody worries about it, but this year, even after making up 10 days, we will be out before June. It's not a popular thought, but I'd rather have school when my kids can go outside for recess than these pent-up winter days.
In Kansas, I think it's pretty standard to just build snow days into your year from the start. I think my district does 4 or 5 built in snow days. So, for example, if the state says we had to have 180 days of instruction, our district calendar has 185 days. That's not strictly how they do it but it's close. I know a few years ago, we had 6 snow days. Everyone was worried we were going to have to make it up, but the only thing we did was not have any early dismissal for conferences, etc. Not sure what we'd do if it got to be 13 days, but I also think we're probably better prepared for snow here than the area around Branson would be. We had 4" this morning (unexpected) and we still had school. Probably shouldn't have, but we did.
I remember one year when I was in elementary school we used all our built in days plus some. We ended up going to school an extra ten minutes each day until the end of the year rather than having extra days added to the schedule.
Unfortunately, if we don't have any snow days in a year, we still do the full calendar.
Missouri requires 6 snow days to be built in. School districts are required to go at minimum 170 days -- most will got 174.
I really dont know how many days this school district goes. I just know that they started the 2nd week of August this year, and the last day "was" scheduled to be June 6. I just wonder what the last day will be now.
I went to that district growing up, and my cousins went to the neighboring district (at that time-the largest district in Mo so we was told). And I also started 2 weeks before them, and got out 2 weeks after them "every single year".
I can remember 2 different years in school going on Saturdays. I think we went 5 Saturdays the first year, and 2 the last year. So Yeah, Saturdays are doable, and probably referred over going till mid/late June.
Feb. 1979 weatherman said 2 inches, got 22. Schools out for almost the whole month. Went into Saturdays until mid June here in Southeast Mo.
WOW, what about the weather this past week or so? (I think it was Thurs Feb 20) it was in the 70s here in STL Saturday was in the low 60s. Friday was nice too. Sunday was in the 30s and mid week will be high in 20s again. What a way to end Feb. Weather lady says March temps will be "below average" save a day here and there. I havent heard either way what the projected "precipitation" forecast for March is.
Geez crazy weather days continue.
Guess it beats a foot of snow though. Certainly better than ice.
Yep everything you said Qwed..... chance of snow here today, Friday, sunday, next Tuesday...... and cold!......
C'mon Spring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D
It bypassed my area! -20 windchill tonight. Snow possible tomorrow and more significantly this weekend. Poor hubs is working in -10 (actual) tonight working on CWD studies on the deer population, so I guess I won't complain about the cold.
We're supposed to have well below zero temps at night thru next week Thursday. Many of the days are close to 0 or a little below. We have at least 30-35" of snow on the ground and have been getting flurries even though it is below zero. I am wishing for Spring to come when it's supposed to and not wait until Memorial Day.
We have tracking snow in Jeff. Started around 7pm.
Calling for maybe 1/4" of ice under 3-6" snow starting Saturday nite
8-9" of snow predicted here. I sure hope it doesn't materialize as I need to have school the next two weeks to prepare (more) for District music contests
They changed our forecast overnight. Now they are saying we might get 4"-7" mix of sleet and snow. Freezing rain is supposed to hit south of me. I hope they are right (as far as the ice missing us). I do hope the ice does "no" damage to anyone. Ice is bad news anywhere.
It was supposed to start around nightfall. Now they are saying closer to midnight.
last nite we were in 8-10 inch snow prediction..... overnite they chanhed it AGAIN.. now 1-2 sleet, then 4-6 inches snow......
Who really knows?? LOL....
Supposed to get ice and freezing rain Sunday...should all be gone by Monday afternoon or Tuesday at the latest. Hope that's the end of winter weather for us...it has been a rough winter.
OK, I didn't want to do this, but you guys keep talking about winter weather, so here goes. From my blog at http://hoggatt.weebly.com/ (http://hoggatt.weebly.com/):
10 LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT SNOW
1. Snow was first discovered by French explorer Ponce de Leon, while skirting the coast of Australia in the 1772. Just a few years later, the weather phenomenon had made its way up and around the earth to plague Washington's troops during the Revolutionary War.
2. It has never actually snowed in Antarctica. Snow is actually shipped in on special ice breaker vessels. The operation requires a staff of approximately 3000 full time workers.
3. In the United States, snow is dropped from high-altitude aircraft, including refunctioned helicopters from the war in Viet Nam.
4. In 1912, after battling Congress for three years on the subject, President William Howard Taft, through executive order, outlawed snow in the United States. Later in the same year, Woodrow Wilson was elected president, after successfully debating that "Snow is a fundamental right of the American people."
5. The largest snowperson ever built was put together with the assistance of that giant, fire-breathing, dragon robot that frequents many monster truck rallies.
6. Snow is white because, at its inception, all other colors were being used in the wallpaper industry. The monopoly on colors was disbanded, but the white had clearly been established as the standard and trademark in snow-producing corporations.
7. During prohibition, rogues brewmasters formerly employed by the Anheuser Busch brewery in St. Louis, Missouri, took it upon themselves to develop beer-flavored snow. As a result roads were cleared of the stuff nightly, and school was never cancelled. Three men and one woman were quickly arrested by FBI agents. One man remains alive to this day, after being pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last day in office.
8. The original Empire State Building was to be located a block south of the current structure. It was removed, and the current building was built after the weight of snow collapsed the unfinished framework in 1929.
9. Six polar bears negotiated themselves out of an endorsement contract with Coca-Cola. After a number of successful seasons with the soft drink superpower, the polar bears were released from their contract when they unsuccessfully demanded chicken of the sea be added to craft services on the set of their commercials.
10. Snowflakes have always been proud of two things: first, all flakes have six sides, and second, no two flakes are alike. These facts are based on the continuing debate among republicans and democrats. A compromise was adopted when democrats insisted that all flakes be have uniformity, and republicans demanded individuality. The controversy was reignited, in 2012, when President Barack Obama signed into law the Snowflake Reduction Accord, which states that by 2015, all snowflakes will be reduced to four equal sides. The IRS will monitor each flake through the use of drones. Citizens may report overachieving or maverick snowflakes on a new three billion dollar website yet to be developed.
Think the US0fA Govt can charge taxes on those snowflakes that dont stay in conformity rules?
Sorry Buff I just couldnt resist. BTW that was an interesting? read! Thanks for posting that. I got a giggle or 2
Presented so well that the uneducated would believe all of them. Ha! A good laugh, thanks! :D
Back to the weather... the first round of Titan has crippled Jeff City. All church services have been cancelled and MoDOT has put out a "do not travel" advisory. We haven't really got the snow yet, but there is a lot of ice so far. The snow is just down 50, so it should be here soon. Don't think we'll be having school tomorrow. :(
Continued bouts of thundersleet with lightning here in NWA as of 3:30, it is nasty, nasty, nasty. Over 3 inches of sleet that will pack into sheet ice.
At one point this morning up around Branson, there was a severe thunderstorm warning with heavy sleet and 1 inch hail.
So far we have about 1" of sleet. They are still calling for 3"-5" of dry puffy snow tonite. As of right now, roads are good (here). We went to the grocery store this afternoon. Roads were in decent shape (about 50 MPH) was a safe speed. Local schools already called off. I bet they wont call my work off though. (A 2nd day off next week would be nice)
So... we haven't had anything since early this morning (little ice pellets). However, EVERYONE has called off for tomorrow. Mmkay. Whatever. I get to watch all of the Oscars now instead of going to bed halfway through
Here in Central Arkansas, we have a lot of ice on the grounds/streets/tree's etc. It began Sunday night around 7:00 and lasted well past midnight. State offices, along with most schools are closed today (Monday 3/3).
Weather in Central Oklahoma is yucky. Icy and stupidly cold. Very dangerous.
Just down the road a bit in El Reno, OK, we had a 16 year old killed and his 5 pasengers in critical condition after a wreck on Saturday night :'(
So much for the cold weather. It has warmed up into the 30s today and most of the "ice-snow" is melted. Honestly there is no reason that we are out of school today. I sure would have rather been in school today with district music contests coming up next week.
We had 4 inches of sleet during Sunday with an inch of snow overnight here in North Central AR. Although it was sunny today, temps were in the 20s and not much melting happened. Going to get into single digits again tonight so everything wil refreeze.
Branson, reports are 4-6 inches snow on top of 1-2 sleet on top of 1/4 -1/2 ice.!
Webcams show streets are clear,
School cancelled again today..... that's 15 days for them.
Schools closed in Central Arkansas again today; State offices opening at Noon. Not much melting yesterday at all, sand truck came through our neighborhood yesterday, sand just sitting on top of the ice. I've been sick with a cold since Sunday, so I'm staying in no matter what the roads are doing.