Baby it's cold outside

Jimmy Snyder

Oh yeah, about the thundersnow.

wiki, and therefore unreliable

Evo

Oooh, now I'm getting snow devils!! Little mini snow tornadoes! At one point, there were 4 going at once, just sucking the snow off the ground and leaving funnels in the snow. I'm getting a bit of everything.

turbo

Very light snow today, with huge fluffy flakes. They look like feathers in the wind.

Astronuc

We get thundersnow when there is a heavy fall of wet snow. It's much like a thundershower. It's interesting to be in one with the lightning flashing through the snow.

Astronuc

That's when I got stranded in Charlotte for 3 days because LaGuardia airport and others were closed. The closest airport to my home was actually open, and the pilot could have landed the 737 there. But no, he had to fly back to Charlotte.

turbo

The airport in Bangor is a former SAC base with an impressive array of plows, de-icers, etc. Still, I got "stranded" at airports all over the East coast that were unprepared for snow, so they wouldn't let flights depart. Newark was probably the worst. I spent many, many hours in that bland hell-hole. At least at O'Hare, you could get an OK sandwich and some hot coffee.

dlgoff

I don't know but evidently it does. I was still in bed and awakened when I heard the rumble. I got up and looked out to see just a dusting, but two hours later there was 12 inches.

YEA Some H₂O at last. Let it thunder.

Evo

Poor Evo Child, on the news they said where she lives they were getting over 4 inches an hour with the thunder snow. It's snowing again right now.

AnTiFreeze3

We were supposed to get 7+ inches of snow, and looking outside, I see hardly 2 inches of snow. It also hasn't snowed in several hours.

They cancelled most after school activities, and ended our basketball practice at 5, and it didn't even end up snowing until 8:30, and it ended around 9:30.....

turbo

My wife and I have a couple of neighbors who bought a nice place up here in Maine so they could ride their snowmobiles. (trail-side access, since the trail that runs along 1/2 mile of our property cuts right through theirs) Unfortunately, their home-town in Mass is getting a lot of snow, and we are getting very little. They are going to get whacked again this weekend, for the 3rd weekend in a row. The problem is that they live in South Boston (think Quincy, Weymouth, Brockton, etc) and that area is far too congested. There are no snowmobile trails there and no opportunity to establish any, which is why they bought a second home up here. There is enough snow here for them to ride their machines, but they will likely stay at home this weekend and dig out.

Evo

So, now we have another snow storm coming, 6-10 inches or more. Great, I haven't even dug my car out yet from the wall of snow and ice the plow mounded up behind it.

The stupid weather channel has started naming snow storms. The last snow storm was "Q", this one they're naming "Rocky". I hear meteorologists are rather upset, snowstorms aren't named. It's just something else the weather channel has dreamt up to further sensationalize weather reporting. What's next, names for rainstorms?

jtbell

I thought the last one was "Nemo?" (as in Jules Verne's captain, not Disney's fish)

Anyway, I hope you all get a breather soon. In South Carolina we've been getting mostly rain, which we really need because of the drought conditions. Today and yesterday were pretty gloomy, tomorrow is supposed to be sunny, then more rain beginning on Monday. Lows just above freezing.

We did get a bit of snow last weekend. Where I live, it didn't build up on the ground at all. Proceeding northwards towards the mountains there was some accumulation. I drove up to Charlotte last Sunday, and found about 1" to 2" on the ground in towns along the way, except on the roads which were clear. The tree branches were all coated with snow. Very pretty in the bright morning sunshine. It made me wish I had a dash cam in my car, like all the Russians seem to have. Most of the snow melted before I drove home late in the afternoon.

Mute

I spent about 1+2.5 hours sitting on planes on tarmacs yesterday courtesy of a snowstorm - indirectly, at least. First plane sat on the ground for an hour because O'Hare was grounded, second plane sat on the ground for about 2.5 hours because our captain was still in the air on another plane, and we couldn't get a replacement. When he finally arrived it took forever to get a truck over to de-ice the plane because it ran out of gas and they couldn't get a replacement (despite the fact that every plane on either side of us was being de-iced).

Not the worst bout of winter-flying delays I've had, but I really wish I'd bought another book for my kindle before my trip.

Borg

Washington DC is finally going to get its first significant snow of the season. And, in honor of last week, they're calling this the Snowquester. I'm west of I-95 where they are calling for the most snow. Predicted totals vary at this point - I've seen everything from 5 to 12 inches forecast for where I live.

Jimmy Snyder

Men are from Mars, snow is from Saturn. We're going to get several inches in Northern South Jersey even though we are east of I-95. Most of our troubles concern the NJ turnpike.

jtbell

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: the icicle capital, eh!

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2013/03...10_5&hpt=hp_t3

KrisOhn

Never thought my city would get recognition on PF for something like that... Synchrotron maybe, but icicles?