I decided to trash the other thread and start a new one. Significant Winter Storm inbound for many. Ill post a map this evening and updates as appropriate.

T

Reading about -40 degree weather in International Falls, Minn (AKA Frostbite Falls) makes me damn glad that we settled on the Left Coast where today, it was a BEAUTIFUL 65 degrees with plenty of sunshine.

It's only February and already, much of the nut and fruit trees are in bloom.

Despite this, it will probably be hotter than hell when late July/early August comes around.

Its been a shitty weather day in the Northeast, snow and driving rain, local flooding and I'm sure some tree and power line damage.

One of those days where it would have been nice to just stay in bed eating toast and sipping tea with Old Nastie.

peace,
Dick

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Originally posted by asm3driscoll:
Its been a shitty weather day in the Northeast, snow and driving rain, local flooding and I'm sure some tree and power line damage.

One of those days where it would have been nice to just stay in bed eating toast and sipping tea with Old Nastie.

peace,
Dick

Yep, is sucks today in Portland, ME! I hate plows!!!

What I find funny now is around here, all the towns are crying they are running out of salt. Gee, think by taking money used 10 years ago to stockpile all the stuff and using for something else, now that we are getting the snow we NORMALLY get, you might want to stop waisting that money and buy what it was intended for? I think they put down too much of the stuff myself but we could be getting 2 more rounds of the white stuff this weekend. As long as it's cold, I like the snow. I hate it when it's sunny, and 5 degree's and NOTHING on the ground. Just isn't fair.

Wanted to take a few seconds to update the crew here on some possibilities. First is a clipper that will produce widespread 1-3"s for mst South of I-80 tomorrow. Shouldnt be that bad of an event.

Moving forward to this Fri-Sun. We no doubt have a winter storm coming during this time period. Potential is for this one to be the best DC, NYC, and Philly have seen all winter. Seems little doubt this will start as an all snow event for just about everyone North of central VA. Current thinking is for up to a solid 8" for many.

Now the next thing I am going to very briefly mention, and this is in no way set in stone, but there are some pretty decent indications that the mid atlantic and Northeast may see a very significant winter storm the first week of March. There is to much uncertainty at this time to get into specifics, but the models are consistant with this possibility, and its enough that I wouldnt make any travel plans that week.

Ill follow up with amounts on this weekend a little later.

T

A winter storm the first week of March in the mid atlantic? Sweet! I'm transferring from Miami and driving up next week to Maryland! I'll believe it when I see it. Kind of like the Hurricane predictions, it was all gloom and doom in Miami after the terrible 2004 & 2005 seasons, nothing ever happened after that though. I really hope I see some good snow fall the next couple of years though, I miss the seasons.

There is still quite a bit of talk in the meterological world about a storm or two the first week of March. This has no doubt been a year of ice for many including me. I think the biggest snowfall I have seen this year was 4.2in. Not complaining considering the snowfall Miami sees, but if its going to be cold, let it freakin snow.

Then you have folks like Dick who are probably over 60in for the year by now. This has been a great year for the snow lovers in Boston with more to come is seems.

T

In Northern Michigan about 50 miles south of the Mac bridge we just went over 134 inches Friday.

In JAX we went to 0 inches of snow...though there were flurries in Canaveral about a month ago.

I can't wait to get down to Jax. With this storm we have tonight, we'll have a total of 100 inches of snow for the season. I'm done with snow!

Up here in Belfast Maine i think we have had snow on the ground since the beginning of winter. Last year it was dang cold. The year before that we have a lot of snow. This year it is dang cold with a lot of snow. I love it. Im not looking forward to summer. With no AC it gets hot in our bedroom which is at the top of a 4 story building. ugg im getting upset just thinking about it.

Hurrray, more snow! Seriously, enough is enough, no matter how much I love driving my Jeep in it. Winter Storm Watch AGAIN for Northern Indiana and Southeast MI.



Winter Storm Watch
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
429 AM EST THU MAR 6 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM TAKING AIM AT SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN YET AGAIN...

.A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DROPPING SOUTHWARD OUT OF
CANADA WILL COMBINE WITH ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE
FOUR CORNERS...TO FORM A DEEP TROUGH EAST OF THE ROCKIES TONIGHT. AS
THESE TWO SYSTEMS MERGE...AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP
OVER THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO AND RAPIDLY INTENSIFY AS IT RACES
TO THE NORTHEAST FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ALTHOUGH THERE IS STILL SOME
UNCERTAINTY WITH THE TRACK THIS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL
TAKE...THE CURRENT FORECAST BRINGS IT UP THROUGH WEST VIRGINIA AND
INTO NEW YORK STATE BY SATURDAY EVENING. AS THE CENTER OF THE LOW TRACKS
TO OUR SOUTH AND EAST...SNOW WILL SPREAD INTO SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN
BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY EVENING BEFORE
TAPERING OFF. STORM TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS MAY EXCEED 8 INCHES.
THOSE RESIDING IN OR PLANNING TRAVEL TO SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN SHOULD
CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE FORECAST FOR FURTHER UPDATES FROM THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

MIZ049-054-055-061>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-061730-
/O.NEW.KDTX.WS.A.0006.080307T1800Z-080309T0600Z/
HURON-TUSCOLA-SANILAC-GENESEE-LAPEER-ST. CLAIR-LIVINGSTON-OAKLAND-
MACOMB-WASHTENAW-WAYNE-LENAWEE-MONROE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BAD AXE...CARO...SANDUSKY...FLINT...
LAPEER...PORT HURON...HOWELL...PONTIAC...WARREN...ANN ARBOR...
DETROIT...ADRIAN...MONROE
429 AM EST THU MAR 6 2008

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
LATE SATURDAY NIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DETROIT/PONTIAC HAS ISSUED A
WINTER STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT.

SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED TO SPREAD INTO SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN BY FRIDAY
AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING BEFORE TAPERING
OFF. SNOWFALL WILL BE MODERATE TO HEAVY AT TIMES...WITH STORM
TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS POTENTIALLY EXCEEDING 8 INCHES. IN
ADDITION TO THE HEAVY SNOWFALL...FREQUENT WIND GUSTS TO 25 MPH
WILL OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THE STORM...WITH WIND CHILLS
FRIDAY NIGHT DROPPING TO NEAR ZERO.

THE EXACT TRACK OF THIS POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM SYSTEM IS
STILL UNCERTAIN...AND ADJUSTMENTS TO SNOW ACCUMULATIONS AND TIMING
ARE STILL POSSIBLE.

A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT
SNOW...SLEET...OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL.
CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.

Where bracing for local flooding in the Boston area. The flood plain behind my house is pretty high as it is and we are expecting multiple inches of rain coming this weekend, oh boy!

quote:

Hurrray, more snow! Seriously, enough is enough, no matter how much

Yea so much for "global warming" in the Mid-South. Finally getting 2-4 inches of snow today. Wouldn't have thought it would snow here in the Memphis area. But, then again I never thought I would see snow in Galveston, TX either!

GUNS

I am up to about 15" in the last 24 hours or so. More is on the way.

Buffalo, NY resident sends

quote:

Originally posted by kodiak5bears:

quote:

Hurrray, more snow! Seriously, enough is enough, no matter how much

Yea so much for "global warming" in the Mid-South. Finally getting 2-4 inches of snow today. Wouldn't have thought it would snow here in the Memphis area. But, then again I never thought I would see snow in Galveston, TX either!

GUNS

Just pouring over some of the reports from that area because my sister lives in Byhalia. There are some pretty impressive reports coming from some areas down there. 7.2 from the NWS at the Ag Center??

Here are the official reports. I question some of these, I dont see over 7" in Tunica, but thats me. Snow Storm Survey Memphis

I have heavy rain and its 40 here, wish I lived in Baffalo about now.

T

quote:

Originally posted by bkreigh:
Up here in Belfast Maine i think we have had snow on the ground since the beginning of winter. Last year it was dang cold. The year before that we have a lot of snow. This year it is dang cold with a lot of snow. I love it. Im not looking forward to summer. With no AC it gets hot in our bedroom which is at the top of a 4 story building. ugg im getting upset just thinking about it.

ROFLMAO Its so good to be looking out a different window now after running around tour after tour in New England.

BTW, here in KY this past weekend, we got a foot of snow! ROFL All melted in two days though. Going to ride my scoot tomorrow even! Can't shake a stick at that now, can you?

Interesting discussion from the HPC today:

PRELIMINARY EXTENDED FORECAST DISCUSSION
NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER CAMP SPRINGS MD
556 AM EDT WED MAR 19 2008

VALID 12Z SUN MAR 23 2008 - 12Z WED MAR 26 2008

...POTENTIAL FOR LATE SEASON SNOWSTORM FROM THE MID ATLANTIC
STATES TO NEW ENGLAND...

MODELS ARE CONVERGING TOWARD EAST CYCLOGENESIS DAY 5...WITH THE
00Z GFS AND GEFS MEAN TRENDING STRONGLY TOWARD THE DEVELOPED
SOLUTION INDICATED BY THE LAST SEVERAL RUNS OF THE ECMWF AND ECMWF
ENSEMBLE MEAN. SEVERAL OF THE 00Z GFS ENSEMBLE MEMBERS ARE AS
INTENSE AS THE 00Z ECMWF WITH THIS LOW...WITH A SIMILAR TRACK FROM
SOUTH OF CAPE HATTERAS TO THE ATLANTIC BENCHMARK. TAKEN
LITERALLY...THIS GUIDANCE THREATENS A FOOT OF SNOW FROM NEAR
RICHMOND NORTHEASTWARD TO BOSTON...INCLUDING WASHINGTON
DC...PHILADELPHIA...AND NEW YORK CITY. THERE IS PLENTY OF
PRECEDENT FOR LATE SEASON HEAVY SNOWFALL...EVEN OVER THE CAROLINAS
AND SOUTHERN MID ATLANTIC REGION. IN MANY WAYS...MARCH IS AN
IDEAL MONTH FOR LARGE STORMS AND IF EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER
RIGHT...THEY CAN BE HISTORIC EVENTS. USED THE 00Z ECMWF FOR THE
PRELIMINARY FRONTS AND PRESSURES FOR DAYS 3 THROUGH 7 COAST TO
COAST...WITH NO DILUTION FROM ANY MEAN PRODUCTS TO PRESERVE THE
INTEGRITY OF THE HIGH IMPACT SYSTEM OVER THE EAST. THE ECMWF HAS
TRENDED SLIGHTLY EASTWARD FROM ITS PAST TWO RUNS...WHICH PLACES
THE MAJOR METROPOLITAN AREAS OF THE NORTHEAST MORE DIRECTLY UNDER
THE BRUNT OF THE FROZEN PRECIPITATION WITH THIS SYSTEM. THE
STRENGTH OF THE BLOCK MAY LIMIT THE ULTIMATE NORTHWARD PROGRESSION
OF THE CYCLONE...WHICH COULD PLAY A FACTOR IN STORM TOTALS OVER
NEW ENGLAND

Hey Tony,
Tell me this is going to be all snow in the mountains of Maine and New hampshire?

Peace and leave the door and light on for our buddy Mark,
Dick