Topic: This even more just in - the weather thread (Read 236306 times)

Metope · « **Reply #650 on:** 17 Jan 2014, 12:55 »

But i din't want to see snow! I don't like snow unless I can ski on it, and I can't do that in Glasgow. So I'm perfectly happy with this.

94ssd · « **Reply #651 on:** 17 Jan 2014, 19:03 »

The weather forecast said flurries tonight. There is already 2 inches of snow on the ground after less than hour. My Friday night get drunk plans are officially ruined because of the road conditions. They were not salted and have not yet been plowed.

Detachable Felix · « **Reply #652 on:** 17 Jan 2014, 22:45 »

Soo, who wants to trade their weather? I'll happily trade a blizzard over the bushfire burning less than a kilometre from my house.

(For the record, I'm not in my house, I evacuated, but still.)

94ssd · « **Reply #653 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 05:05 »

Snowed in by a totally unexpected snowstorm. This hasn't happened since I lived in Cleveland with the lake-effect snow.

94ssd · « **Reply #654 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 09:21 »

The forecast lies again, it said "AM snow," it is no longer AM and it is only snowing harder.

cesium133 · « **Reply #655 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 09:34 »

It hasn't rained or snowed here in a few weeks, and we're not supposed to get any more in the near future. Instead there are warnings about wildfires, given the dry and windy conditions.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #656 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 09:44 »

No, 94, you is wrong. The weather am snow.

jwhouk · « **Reply #657 on:** 18 Jan 2014, 18:08 »

The snow has stopped up here. We have some snow banks that are several feet high. Unfortunately, due to the "creative" way they plow, the roads underneath the snow have a layer of ice on them.

Wife and I both drive through the same intersection on our way home, both of us having to stop to turn left. We both slid trying to stop before we turned.

Skewbrow · « **Reply #658 on:** 20 Jan 2014, 02:14 »

I would say that only massive quantities of salt would prevent snow from being packed into solid ice under the weight of cars and trucks. A regular plow truck is good for removing snow, but can't efficiently scrape off the ice. You need a fleet of these monsters, and more time. Sorry, I don't know what they are called in English.

The Northern Indiana solution: use that salt. Guess what the engine on my Chevette looked like after a couple of winters. And you need to do nearly all the roads.

The Finnish solution: studded wheels for everybody. Not without costly side effects either as the studs wear the paving a bit on those days, when the road is clear of ice.

So a communal solution or people relying on themselves? Pick your poison.

Grognard · « **Reply #659 on:** 20 Jan 2014, 07:08 »

we call these: http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tieh%C3%B6yl%C3%A4 "Road Graders" in the US.

cesium133 · « **Reply #660 on:** 20 Jan 2014, 07:19 »

One useful trick with Wikipedia is if you don't know what the word in another language is for something, you can look up the article for it, and there's often links in the left column for the article in other languages. In this case it leads to the article for "Grader".

Skewbrow · « **Reply #661 on:** 20 Jan 2014, 11:01 »

Thanks for the bits and pieces of advice, guys.

Loki · « **Reply #662 on:** 20 Jan 2014, 13:43 »

We have the best spring weather here.
In Central Europe.
In the middle of January. Yeah.

Except today. Bunch of rain and fog.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #663 on:** 20 Jan 2014, 14:28 »

I love fog.

I love snow even more.

But we still have fog. Yay!

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #664 on:** 21 Jan 2014, 04:26 »

Woo the polar vortex is back! The low tonight is 4°F. I'm in the 5-8 inches of snow area so I'm taking the day off.

jwhouk · « **Reply #665 on:** 21 Jan 2014, 05:45 »

Pfft. My car's temperature readout said -20°F on my way home.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #666 on:** 21 Jan 2014, 06:54 »

It is snowing hard. Driving home from work is going to be fun.

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #667 on:** 21 Jan 2014, 07:21 »

Yeah yeah, it was colder before. The snow is coming down pretty good now - I just took the dog for a walk in it.

Grognard · « **Reply #668 on:** 21 Jan 2014, 08:15 »

cold & overcast here, but bone dry.
THREAT of snow sometime in the next 24 hours.
so schools closed.
Happily,
So did Quantico MCB, so I don't hafta go to work.
good:
cause I needed a sick day.

94ssd · « **Reply #669 on:** 21 Jan 2014, 09:43 »

It didn't start snowing until 11, I was expecting overnight snow and no morning classes. Now it looks like all-day snow and no afternoon classes. This makes me the sads because Soledad O'Brien was supposed to come give a Martin Luther King Day speech and it will probably be cancelled now.

EDIT: Yep, it's been postponed to an undetermined date. It's not awful here, but her twitter page said she was in New York, doubtful any flights are leaving there.

jwhouk · « **Reply #670 on:** 21 Jan 2014, 19:10 »

-7°F, going to get down to -9, with wind chills down to -20.

And when it warms up Friday - SNOW!

94ssd · « **Reply #671 on:** 21 Jan 2014, 19:14 »

Hahahaha I can see these poor bastards outside my window trying to smoke a cigarette in this weather. It's an allyway too so the wind is just destroying them. I've never been a tobacco smoker so I can't really empathize, but you couldn't PAY me to be out there right now. It is 3 above, snowing, and there's 20 MPH winds.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #672 on:** 21 Jan 2014, 19:41 »

Still snowing. Still apparently have to go to work tomorrow. I had to dig IN to a parking space for the love of the goddess!

Fuck this. They want me at work my boss can give me a lift in his truck.

Thrillho · « **Reply #673 on:** 22 Jan 2014, 01:16 »

Quote from: 94ssd on 21 Jan 2014, 19:14

Hahahaha I can see these poor bastards outside my window trying to smoke a cigarette in this weather. It's an allyway too so the wind is just destroying them. I've never been a tobacco smoker so I can't really empathize, but you couldn't PAY me to be out there right now. It is 3 above, snowing, and there's 20 MPH winds.

Man, smoking with gloves on is hard enough on its own.

94ssd · « **Reply #674 on:** 22 Jan 2014, 04:46 »

All classes before 11 AM are cancelled, leaving me with one class in the afternoon.

I get an e-mail from that professor saying he's snowed in (things are a lot worse in the western half of the county, up to a foot as opposed to just a few inches here) and that class is also cancelled.

Despite the cancellations, I do still have to head to work in a bit, which is what I get for signing up to be on "snow crew."

jwhouk · « **Reply #675 on:** 22 Jan 2014, 06:45 »

6 degrees - but light snow. That's on top of what's already on the ground. I think we've got a good two feet of snow cover at the moment.

An aside: on my way home from work this morning, I had to turn two blocks early because they were removing snow at one of the three intersections with stoplights in our fair city.

They use a dump truck, a grader, and a huge grinder-like snow blower to do the clearing of city streets. And that's not even to the pavement.

94ssd · « **Reply #676 on:** 22 Jan 2014, 07:24 »

Funny post from a facebook friend

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Are you cold? Dreading that walk to class in 6 degree (-11 with wind chill) temperatures? Then you should take a look into my new self-help program: "Don't Go To Fucking Class You Dumbass; You'll Die Of Frostbite!" The program is aimed at dissuading young, eager minds from diving into the blistering cold because university officials who lack nerve-endings told you to.

On a related note, I can't tell if it's still snowing or if it's just that windy.

Carl-E · « **Reply #677 on:** 22 Jan 2014, 09:50 »

Couple of inches of snow fell yesterday as the temps dropped. Evening walk for the dogs? It was -5 F.

I have poor circulation. Two pair of socks, one of them fleece, thinsulite boots, two pair of gloves (fleece lined leather over knit), and after a short (10 block or so) walk, I couldn't feel any fingers or toes.

F-F-F-FUUUUUU.....

nekowafer · « **Reply #678 on:** 22 Jan 2014, 11:23 »

I am truly lucky to have off work while this weather continues.

jwhouk · « **Reply #679 on:** 22 Jan 2014, 17:31 »

Wind Chill Advisory and Blowing/Drifting snow with "bitter cold winds" are going to make things ~~hell~~ FUN around here for a while.

ev4n · « **Reply #680 on:** 23 Jan 2014, 07:01 »

4th straight morning below -20C.

94ssd · « **Reply #681 on:** 23 Jan 2014, 10:11 »

The last time I had to walk in winds this strong was when Hurricane Sandy came through.

94ssd · « **Reply #682 on:** 24 Jan 2014, 04:42 »

A weather haiku:

It is six below
Feels like negative thirty
Fuck me I have class

ev4n · « **Reply #683 on:** 24 Jan 2014, 09:07 »

I just heated up my lunch, and I wanted to hug it, because it was WARM.

lepetitfromage · « **Reply #684 on:** 24 Jan 2014, 10:09 »

Oh god, I have absolutely felt that before.

The best is sticking half your face into a steaming mug of tea or hot chocolate. Best done when wearing contacts instead of glasses.

Carl-E · « **Reply #685 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 11:44 »

Ha! Wrapped a scarf about my face when it was below zero. The glasses fogged.

The fog froze on and never cleared... I had to takethem off an put them in my coat pocket to fiinish the dog's walk. II am legally blind without them.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #686 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 12:46 »

I'm out on a long bike ride tomorrow and the forecast isn't looking good.

I would be immensely grateful if all British gays, lesbians, trangendered, perverts, degenerates, the kinky, atheists and in fact anyone who isn't a morally obsessive, uptight, sexually repressed Christians could hold off from any acts of sex, love, affection, intimacy or enjoyable social interaction until 19.00 tomorrow that would should ensure me a nice dry run.

Awesome

Thrillho · « **Reply #687 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 12:58 »

Too late.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #688 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 13:00 »

Cheers mate, I'm reporting you to UKIP.

Thrillho · « **Reply #689 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 13:07 »

I think if I had one honest conversation with a UKIP member their life would be ruined.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #690 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 17:28 »

We're finally having our first day of snow here in Munich.

ankhtahr · « **Reply #691 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 17:35 »

Damn, I'm so jealous.

I like Winter. It's my favourite season. I like frost, I like snow, and I love th ye clean dry air.

Sadly where I live now is one of the warmest cities of Germany. It still feels like Fall here. I really had hoped to have at least a small bit of winter. Maybe two or three weeks with frost during the day? Would have made me happier.

Instead it's just a bit more rainy than usual. At 5°C. I want -15°C!

I'm so incredibly afraid of the summer.

~~GarandMarine~~ · « **Reply #692 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 17:37 »

It snowed again today. Not bad though.

bhtooefr · « **Reply #693 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 17:43 »

Quote from: ankhtahr on 25 Jan 2014, 17:35

Damn, I'm so jealous.

I like Winter. It's my favourite season. I like frost, I like snow, and I love th ye clean dry air.

Sadly where I live now is one of the warmest cities of Germany. It still feels like Fall here. I really had hoped to have at least a small bit of winter. Maybe two or three weeks with frost during the day? Would have made me happier.

Instead it's just a bit more rainy than usual. At 5°C. I want -15°C!

I'm so incredibly afraid of the summer.

I'll trade you. (Switched to Celsius just for this screenshot.)

(That's Ohio, for what it's worth, not New Jersey.)

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #694 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 17:48 »

Just a little bit of snow today and everyone was driving way too slow. I basically drove the regular speed limit with no ill effects

Though later in the day we got hit with a sudden blizzard, almost a white out. It came out of nowhere, one minute it was a clear day and the next it was snowing side ways and covering everything.

Grognard · « **Reply #695 on:** 25 Jan 2014, 19:19 »

I've got 3" of snow just sitting around here.
too cold for it to melt.
I think it got up to 29F today.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #696 on:** 26 Jan 2014, 17:32 »

Snow is getting worse and worse

Carl-E · « **Reply #697 on:** 26 Jan 2014, 17:49 »

In the bleak midwinter
frosty wnd made moan;
ground was hard as iron,
water like a stone;
snow was falling, snow on snow,
snow on snow;
in the bleak midwinter,
not so long ago...

It started to warm a bit, just enough to snow - occasionally heavily - for the last two days, a total of about 6 inches.

And now it's getting colder again. Monday night's gonna be negative again, high Tuesday will be "around 10". That's Fahrenheit, the low will be about -20 and it will warm up to just below -10 C.

My furnace hurts.

BrusselSprouts · « **Reply #698 on:** 27 Jan 2014, 07:51 »

It was pretty foggy and purple this morning

ev4n · « **Reply #699 on:** 27 Jan 2014, 11:35 »

2 hours and 5 minutes to get to work this morning. Oh yeah, it snowed.

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