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

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The discussion centers around varying winter weather experiences across different regions. An Arctic cold front is expected to bring severe conditions, including strong winds and potential blizzard-like conditions, leading to dangerously low wind chills in some areas. Participants share personal weather updates, with some experiencing significant snowfall while others report mild conditions. Notably, areas in the Midwest and parts of the UK are facing heavy snow, while regions like Western Washington and parts of Florida are seeing typical winter temperatures without snow. Concerns about the impact of cold weather on crops, infrastructure challenges in handling snow, and personal anecdotes about coping with the cold are prevalent. The conversation also touches on the contrasting experiences of those in warmer climates, highlighting the diverse impacts of winter weather across the globe.
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Borek said:
Another night with temp in single digits F forecast for here. Worst winter in the last several years. Perhaps not the coldest one, and not the snowiest one, but we since October we had never more Sun than a day or two - and that happened twice. Other than that just a few several hours long spells.

Go away, I am fed up with you!
Yeah, this is getting depressing and there is no end in sight yet.
 
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  • #1,102
Borek said:
Another night with temp in single digits F forecast for here. Worst winter in the last several years. Perhaps not the coldest one, and not the snowiest one, but we since October we had never more Sun than a day or two - and that happened twice. Other than that just a few several hours long spells.

Go away, I am fed up with you!

The UK has been about the same for (lack of) sun. No very low temperatures, but long spells with little difference between day and night temperatures. Seems like the thermometer has got stuck on 0C. March is heading towards the coldest since 1967 (and colder than Decenber and January).

Right now, we are coming to the end of 48 hours of light snow (a few inches accumulation) and temps between -2C and 0C. Last year the corresponding temperatures were nearer 20C (which to be fair was exceptionally warm).
 
  • #1,103
We had a nice afternoon yesterday. My wife and Duke and I spent some time in the sun on the back deck in the afternoon. ( got a heavy sweatshirt and insulated pants, and you can sit outside comfortably) It's a bit above freezing tonight, so perhaps Easter will be a nice day, too. I hope so. My wife will be visiting with relatives and Duke and I will be home. We spend a lot of time indoors in the winter, but prefer to get outdoors when we can. I sprained (and gashed) my right hand very badly a couple of weeks back, so I can't walk the monster on a leash right now. Vocal communications have to suffice.

The monster got up a little while ago, and plunked himself down right next to the wood stove. He knows that when I get up in the night, I will fire up the stove. I want to steal Boom, so Duke can have a buddy.
 
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  • #1,104
April Fool! This morning, my wife hadn't walked Duke when I first woke because it was raining so hard. Now, there is snow covering everything. I want to go out and sit in the sunshine. Maybe we'll get that too.

The snow turned back to rain. Don't like Maine weather? Just wait a minute and it will change.
 
  • #1,105
Still gets down to -20 here overnight, warms up to 0ish during the day. I really can't wait until we start seeing double digits on the other side of the scale. At least its light at 6:30am when I wake up now...
 
  • #1,106
KrisOhn said:
Still gets down to -20 here overnight, warms up to 0ish during the day. I really can't wait until we start seeing double digits on the other side of the scale. At least its light at 6:30am when I wake up now...
I assume that celcius?
 
  • #1,107
Hey, it is April! In Polish April is "kwiecień", it means something like "flowered" or "devoted to flowers", or something - but definitely with flowers in it.

FLOWERS, not snow
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And I just looked through the window and it is snowing again. Not to mention the fact we have about 4 inches of snow on the ground.
 
  • #1,108
Evo said:
I assume that celcius?

Yes haha, if it was fahrenheit I would probably move.
 
  • #1,109
Duke and I love the wood-stove. Toasty in here and freezing outside. The wind doesn't help.
 
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  • #1,110
Still nice and cold here in PA. I love the cold.
 
  • #1,111
Supposed to have serious storms all night, then later in the week, temps will fall into the upper 20's! This is turning into the coldest spring we've ever had. What's bad is that some of the flowering trees have started to bloom. This happened last year, or the year before too, the new growth and blooms turned black. Very sad.

All of the plant places are empty outside, not wanting to lose the young plants. :frown:
 
  • #1,112
My tulips (which haven't flowered yet) got buried today under 14" of snow! What happened? Sunday and Monday it was in the 60s. Today it was 20F at noon, heading towards 10 tonight. :cry:
 
  • #1,113
We hit 5 degrees this morning! It was 70 degrees on Monday, we had a blizzard warning yesterday, and 5 degrees this morning.

Except the blizzard didn't leave much snow. The winds were so strong that I think the snow was in Kansas by time it reached the ground!

But that was interesting in itself. After such a dry winter, the wind was blowing sand. So instead of having snow drifts, we have sand dunes all over the place. That seems a little ominous - especially considering we're already on water restrictions. Not going to be a good summer for the lawns!

How strong was the wind? In the building I work in, there was sand on anything below an air vent. I've never seen the sand blow into the building through the air vents before.
 
  • #1,114
I saw Colorado was getting hit hard. They've gone so far as to predict snow tonight, I don't think so.
 
  • #1,115
They're predicting snow again tomorrow. Snow. It's almost May. This isn't New England :bugeye: I moved here in 1993 and we've never had such a cold spring. I'm still running the heater, and I keep it ~60-65F inside.
 
  • #1,116
Unreal, it's supposed to get up to 80F tomorrow, but back to 39F as a high Thursday!
 
  • #1,117
Evo said:
Unreal, it's supposed to get up to 80F tomorrow, but back to 39F as a high Thursday!
We've had similar weather last week, and we're not New England, but we're close.
 
  • #1,118
Evo said:
Unreal, it's supposed to get up to 80F tomorrow, but back to 39F as a high Thursday!
Your weather is my weather but one day later (and one degree warmer)!
 
  • #1,119
0 C = 32 F right now. We just got back from Tim Hortons (coffee shop), where we drank tea (me), coffee (wife), and lemonade (daughter) while we watched the snowflakes fly and swirl.
 
  • #1,120
George Jones said:
0 C = 32 F right now. We just got back from Tim Hortons (coffee shop), where we drank tea (me), coffee (wife), and lemonade (daughter) while we watched the snowflakes fly and swirl.
Snow? I saw plants at the store the other day, they looked so bad, they're warm weather plants and the cold has made them look so sick that it's doubtful the poor things will sell.

(I love Tim Horton's coffee).
 
  • #1,121
Yes, snow. Predicted high for Saturday is 19 C = 66 F. At the last place I worked, Tim Hortons was a 90-second indoor walk from my office. Life is tough now; Tim Hortons is a 3-minute indoor walk from my office.
 
  • #1,122
George Jones said:
Yes, snow. Predicted high for Saturday is 19 C = 66 F. At the last place I worked, Tim Hortons was a 90-second indoor walk from my office. Life is tough now; Tim Hortons is a 3-minute indoor walk from my office.
:smile:

I was introduced to Tim Horton coffee a few years ago. My older daughter asked me to stay at her place and kitten sit while she was out of town. She had Tim Horton ground coffee. I couldn't believe how good it was.
 
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  • #1,123
/sigh. The snow was almost all gone yesterday. Woke up to this. 8" overnight.

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  • #1,124
Nice picture though. :smile:
 
  • #1,125
Wow Kris. It is a beautiful picture.
 
  • #1,126
Hahah, the beauty must only be seen from an outsiders perspective... After you're about to enter your 8th month with snow on the ground, it becomes less beautiful. Thanks though :)
 
  • #1,127
You could have made similar pics in Spain this week.

I'm covering my plants for frostbite tonite.

Somehow I get associations with the Nenana ice classic. But the bets are closed to when the tripod starts to drift, stopping the clock. My bet is May 10th 5:15 pm. It looks like the http://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/ice.htm# this year is not exactly the least of the records
 
  • #1,128
KrisOhn said:
/sigh. The snow was almost all gone yesterday. Woke up to this. 8" overnight.

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would be nice to see auckland covered like this... for a day
 
  • #1,129
It stopped snowing overnight, ended up getting about 16" in total. 2 years ago the same thing happened to us (early spring dump of almost 2' of snow) and our area had extreme flooding, we're well on our way to having the same thing happen this year.
 
  • #1,130
Andre said:
...Somehow I get associations with the Nenana ice classic. But the bets are closed to when the tripod starts to drift, stopping the clock. My bet is May 10th 5:15 pm...

Doesn't look like I'm going to hit the jackpot

http://www.adn.com/2013/04/29/2883299/interior-alaska-sees-record-breaking.html
 
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  • #1,131
The Weather Channel here has just gone beyond absurd. Now they are calling the cold front pushing through
Winter Storm Achilles

Ok, first, it's not winter, it's Spring.

Second, we don't name isolated storms. Ok, well, the Weather Channel has started to in order to drum up needless fear about weather storms that may or may not develop.

This is absurd. It's not winter. This is not a winter storm.

I can't wait to see what they're planning to name summer thunderstorms.

IDIOTS.
 
  • #1,132
Evo said:
IDIOTS.
That would be the name of the ninth storm. :-p
 
  • #1,134
How hot place I am living in you can't imagine
 
  • #1,135
We got about 5 inches of snow and it's still coming down here in Upper Michigan also lots of flooding, the woods are now lakes, and little streams are raging rivers.

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Those were from yesterday and it looks like this today.

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  • #1,136
It's snowing here now. 34F

Wow SAS, that looks bad.
 
  • #1,137
Yah, I am thinking about getting a boat and going fishing "in the woods".
 
  • #1,138
sas3 said:
Yah, I am thinking about getting a boat and going fishing "in the woods".
:eek:
 
  • #1,139
Wow, you people have snow?

Today it's 90 degrees. Oh, sorry, wrong thread.
 
  • #1,140
I didn't think the snow would stick since it had been raining last night, but I was wrong. They're also predicting an accumulation of 5-8 inches before the snow ends Saturday. With a high predicted of 51F, it should all melt quickly. I'm glad that I went to the pharmacy yesterday.
 
  • #1,141
Really i am getting fried here in my place and you are freezing?
 
  • #1,142
adjacent said:
Really i am getting fried here in my place and you are freezing?
Half the country is having snow and freezing weather.
 
  • #1,143
I would really be happy to have snow.I have never experienced it here.
 
  • #1,144
Cold can be a headache for home owners

 
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  • #1,145
^ I've never seen or heard of anything like this! A "galloping" ground glacier in a flat region? Does this qualify as a true glacier? Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? It seems to be either a very fast glacier or a very slow avalanche if the ground has some slope to it.
 
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  • #1,146
I saw something similar back in the winter of 1963 (though no houses involved) when the river Humber in the UK froze. When the ice broke up, a combination of wind and tide pushed a layer of broken ice across a road running along the river bank.

That was a bit more exciting to watch, because there were "mini ice floes" 10 feet across being forced up on end and then collapsing and breaking up. You could hear the noise from several miles away.

In that case there was no property to damage - though ironically the ice took out all the marker posts showing the road position and water depth when the road flooded at high tides, which happened a few times every year.
 
  • #1,147
Talking of ice, I think we just had summer in the UK. There were couple of days of temperatures into the low 20s (C) and now the forecast is heading back below 10.

Still, think positive - It's too cold for the grass to grow, so it doesn't need cutting!
 
  • #1,148
AlephZero said:
I saw something similar back in the winter of 1963 (though no houses involved) when the river Humber in the UK froze. When the ice broke up, a combination of wind and tide pushed a layer of broken ice across a road running along the river bank.

That was a bit more exciting to watch, because there were "mini ice floes" 10 feet across being forced up on end and then collapsing and breaking up. You could hear the noise from several miles away.

In that case there was no property to damage - though ironically the ice took out all the marker posts showing the road position and water depth when the road flooded at high tides, which happened a few times every year.

Yeah. This could be wind driven ice and snow off a nearby lake, especially if the lake level is elevated. I got hung up on the word "glacier". There haven't been any glaciers in Minnesota (US) for over 12-14,000 years. They don't form in a single season or move at that speed.
 
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  • #1,149
Temperatures last night dropped into the 30sF. I sure hope that we have a spring and it doesn't just go into searing heat.
 
  • #1,150
In the NE US, we've had days up to the mid 80s F (~30 C), and I been mowing the grass since mid April. The blueberries have flowered. However, this coming week, we have frost warnings.
 

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