Will the Arctic Cold Front Cause Severe Weather and Damage to Crops?

[Ivan Seeking]

I can remember when my father would send me out with a bucket to fetch DTV signals.

Yes, I remember those days. When I was a kid, I had to walk 25 miles through the snow in bare feet to fetch the signal. And it was uphill both ways.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Lol.

 

[dlgoff]

In Oregon, the DTV signal is still carried by men on fast horses.

The antenna is out in the pasture on the other side of the creek.

I thought you were done with satellite TV. DirecTV for cold days outside!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I thought you were done with satellite TV. DirecTV for cold days outside!

? I would like to cancel the directTV but the online options aren't quite up to speed yet.

 

[dlgoff]

? I would like to cancel the directTV but ...

Just remembering your long cable signal attenuation problem.

 

[Evo]

Back on topic. It was near 70F today! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.

 

[Astronuc]

US drought worsens after weeks of improvement
http://news.yahoo.com/us-drought-worsens-weeks-improvement-164724509--finance.html

Is it still warm in the central US?

 

[turbo]

It's not really cold here, but it's snowing like crazy. It's coming down like the typical Nor'Easter - really heavy with big flakes.

 

[turbo]

Typical Maine winter weather today, swinging between snow and rain with temps in the high 30s. Once all this stuff comes down, it's a good bet that an arctic blast will come in and cement the saturated snow to everything.

 

[PeteyCoco]

I planned on doing some skiing here in Nova Scotia over the break, but all we've been getting recently is snow followed by rain. I should have stayed in Montreal

 

[turbo]

We have some very nice neighbors. Our closest neighbor just dropped in with his plow-truck and cleared the wet snow from our driveway. My wife takes him fresh-baked French bread about every weekend, so the plowing is not a surprise. He loves to pay it back.

 

[George Jones]

I planned on doing some skiing here in Nova Scotia over the break, but all we've been getting recently is snow followed by rain. I should have stayed in Montreal

Lots of snow here in north-central BC. Sunday night, I went cross-country skiing with my six-year-old daughter. It was the first time either of us had been on skis of any kind.

 

[turbo]

Lots of snow here in north-central BC. Sunday night, I went cross-country skiing with my six-year-old daughter. It was the first time either of us had been on skis of any kind.

In HS, all our school had to offer was WWII military-surplus skis. They were quite heavy and the bindings were pretty rigid and crappy. By the time our district could afford some light-weight alpine skis, a couple of us were so strong that we excelled and were top contenders.

Our school was very small, as were most of our competition, so when we had ski-meets, there was slalom, giant slalom, downhilll, cross-country skiing, showshoe races, etc, and almost every team member had to participate in all of the competitions. My graduating class was the largest ever, with 42 seniors.

 

[dlgoff]

Typical Maine winter weather today, swinging between snow and rain with temps in the high 30s. Once all this stuff comes down, it's a good bet that an arctic blast will come in and cement the saturated snow to everything.

I've been watching the Weather Channel and seeing your snow. I'll never forget the photograph of your home with snow up to the eves.

 

[turbo]

I've been watching the Weather Channel and seeing your snow. I'll never forget the photograph of your home with snow up to the eves.

We get what we get, When I was a kid, I remember shoveling well over a foot of "partially cloudy" out of our driveway. When I went away to school, my father somehow managed to buy a plow-truck. Fancy that!

 

[George Jones]

Our temperature this morning, -13 C = 9 F, was about normal for this time of year. My six-year-old daughter and I walked for 30 minutes to a coffee shop, stopped and had stuff, and then walked another 10 minutes to her school.

 

[turbo]

38 today with a wintery mix. I would love to get right into dry and frigid.

 

[Alfi]

WINTER POEM

It's winter in Canada !
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At thirty-five below.
Oh, how I love Canada
When the snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave Canada
I'm frozen to the friggin' ground!

 

[Evo]

WINTER POEM

It's winter in Canada !
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At thirty-five below.
Oh, how I love Canada
When the snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave Canada
I'm frozen to the friggin' ground!

That's cute. It's was 10F when I got up, an hour later it was 9F.

 

[Astronuc]

'Tis the season to be shoveling,

Tra-la-la, tra-la-la, la-la-la

Don we now our work apparel

Tra-la-la, tra-la-la, la-la-la


Update: Snow, then sleet, then freezing rain makes for a heavy ground cover.

 

[turbo]

Currently, lower than 15 deg, and the temps are headed for single digits later tonight. The NW wind makes it feel much colder. Duke had to go out a bit earlier, and he didn't dawdle.

 

[turbo]

We are about 0 F tonight, already, and will likely head into the negative numbers soon. On the upside, Duke (who wants to go out often due to diarrhea) is reluctant to dawdle and returns promptly. I love him, but walking him in this weather is painful. With the wind, 0 deg F can be really tough.

 

[Astronuc]

It was a more normal temperature between 5 and 10°F this morning. It should be the same tonight, although the low could be around 0°F.

Update: According to our back yard thermometer, it was -1°F.

 

[fourier jr]

in the prairies they harvest grain like this, in montreal they harvest snow with giant snowblowers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmctKriiGKk

 

[dlgoff]

in the prairies they harvest grain like this, in montreal they harvest snow with giant snowblowers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmctKriiGKk

Not just for harvesting.

 

[Pythagorean]

-40 is coming soon

Never again, now in a location that doesn't go very far below freezing

 

[turbo]

11 am, and the temperature is almost up to 5 deg F. The woodstove is getting a workout.

Edit: I'll have to move the sensor for the electronic thermometer. The alcohol thermometer at the back of the house is still reading below zero.

 

[KrisOhn]

Went for my coldest run yet, we're getting to the coldest part of the winter here now.

Weather report (Celsius):

How I looked afterwards:

This was a fairly short run though, only 1.5km warmup with 25 minutes of intervals afterwards.

 

[turbo]

It's not that cold out today, but wild. Heavy rain with strong, gusty winds and 52 degrees. We have already lost power twice in the past 10 minutes, though the auto-resets restored it both times. I have a laptop. We'll see how long the UPS can power my wireless router...

 

[Drakkith]

I ran outside today. I wore shorts and a T-Shirt and worked up a sweat. I was tempted to turn the AC on in my truck afterwards on the drive home. Yay winter!

 

[Ouabache]

It's not that cold out today, but wild.

As cooler temps abate slightly, I note southern sections of NH & ME are expecting
1-2ft of snow as two low pressure systems collide, bringing in a good old
fashion Nor'easter. There's still time to check the oil and tire pressure on the snow plow.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

We're expecting a lot of snow Friday night and into Saturday morning. Snow will reach from the sky all the way down to ground level.

 

[turbo]

We're expecting a lot of snow Friday night and into Saturday morning. Snow will reach from the sky all the way down to ground level.

That's a lot. I hope you know how to tunnel.

 

[turbo]

It has just reached ~20 deg here, though walking Duke was no fun, with the wind. I am hating winter.

Actually, I looked at a bi-metallic-strip thermometer while checking the mail, and it looks like we just made it to 10 deg F in the shade.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

That's a lot. I hope you know how to tunnel.

Tunneling's not the issue. It's trying to run between the falling snowflakes.

 

[jtbell]

This is supposedly from Michigan's U.P.:

I read once that when the snow gets piled up high enough on both sides of the sidewalks up there, they lay boards across the top and let more snow fall on top to create snow tunnels. I haven't found any pictures, though, so this may be just a U.P. tall tale.

 

[Borg]

This is supposedly from Michigan's U.P.:

I read once that when the snow gets piled up high enough on both sides of the sidewalks up there, they lay boards across the top and let more snow fall on top to create snow tunnels. I haven't found any pictures, though, so this may be just a U.P. tall tale.

I lived there for four years and never saw it that deep. I did see piles like that but not entire roadways. I also heard the stories about snow tunnels on the sidewalks but never saw that either. When I was there, I heard that there was a freak snowstorm the year before where snowflakes were the size of dinner plates. I wish I had seen that!

Average for the season was about 200 inches but the last year that I was there, we got that by Christmas. I think that we got 300 inches (25 feet) that season which was pretty close to a record. Also, I was in the Keweenaw peninsula which gets significantly more snow from lake effect than the rest of the UP.

BTW, here's a web cam from the Michigan Tech campus if you want to see it live.

 

[Borek]

We got around 6 inches in the last 12 hours. There was no snow at all in the morning.

 

[Drakkith]

We got around 6 inches in the last 12 hours. There was no snow at all in the morning.

Dang, all it did was rain here last night and I almost had to turn the AC on in my apartment when I got home today.

I've never been in snow more than about 1 inch thick. If that.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

It's overrated.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Things are going to deteriorate tonight. There will be melting snow starting at 3:00 am and turning to freezing rain at 6:00 am. For the next three hours there will be a mixture of rain/snow and snow/rain, turning later to snow/rain and rain/snow. At 9:00 am, expect rain dear, with scattered toys. From 9:07 to 9:13 there will be a chance of hail with hailstones roughly the size of Texas. From 9:37 until 9:45 there will be freezing temperatures and a windchill of 74F. Rain will continue all day turning to snow at 9:00 pm and continuing until 9:00 am Saturday.

 

[Evo]

Things are going to deteriorate tonight. There will be melting snow starting at 3:00 am and turning to freezing rain at 6:00 am. For the next three hours there will be a mixture of rain/snow and snow/rain, turning later to snow/rain and rain/snow. At 9:00 am, expect rain dear, with scattered toys. From 9:07 to 9:13 there will be a chance of hail with hailstones roughly the size of Texas. From 9:37 until 9:45 there will be freezing temperatures and a windchill of 74F. Rain will continue all day turning to snow at 9:00 pm and continuing until 9:00 am Saturday.

It's nice here. <sips her tea>

 

[lisab]

No weather here.

 

[G01]

We in New England are preparing for snowmageddon to start tomorrow morning.

I can't wait to sleep in late, get nothing done, and make a nice breakfast (with lots of bacon). You know, a regular grad student day, but with bacon.

 

[turbo]

Please don't eat Chris P. Bacon. He is a cute pig, and so small that he wouldn't be worth the trouble, anyway.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

The weather forecast has changed and we are having trouble finding Nemo. Now they are predicting light rain until 9:00 tonight, then snow. We're south of the purple area, the blue area, and even the white area, safely gray.

 

[turbo]

Snowing lightly, though with really big flakes. The wind is mostly out of the East, which is not a good sign in this area. Only 8 degrees out, so these big flakes make me think that the cold surface air is being overlain by warm, wet air from over the ocean. We'll see what we get. A foot or so would cripple Boston, Providence, NYC... Not such a big deal up here, though.

 

[Borek]

Around morning we moved from the snowing zone into the melting zone, but they predict we will move into the freezing zone later today.

 

[G01]

Flurries in New England. Nothing crazy yet.

A foot or so would cripple Boston, Providence, NYC... Not such a big deal up here, though.

I'll keep you guys posted on Boston. Though, I've been here when there was a foot of snow before. Things were shut down for a day or so, but it was nothing we couldn't handle.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

While driving east on the PA turnpike toward NJ tonight, we passed a caravan of about 50 utility trucks probably headed north to New England to help in case of downed power lines. In addition, there was a caravan of military trucks, I think they were electricity generators. Here in South Jersey we're only expecting 4 inches of snow, so we can spare the equipment as well if it is being relocated. Good luck to you during this storm and in the aftermath. I see that Maine's 19 cars all crashed into each other.