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Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: RWG on December 19, 2008, 05:57:00 pm

Anyone else her getting owned by Snowmageddon right now?  It's still pouring snow on us and not expected to stop for a few more hours, then to be continued on Sunday.  It's also fairly cold (-11c with 37km/h winds, -22c with wind chill [12F and -8F respectively]) making it tough to get out there and try to start shoveling snow.  About a foot on the unplowed roads already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowmageddon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowmageddon)

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Matis on December 19, 2008, 08:37:00 pm

its kinda weird not having snow... i hear my mom and greg talking about it and stuff and im all in a t shirt sweating...

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Jack on December 20, 2008, 01:55:00 am

Just started to snow here (again). It's expected to pick up overnight... luckily, I can afford being snowed in tomorrow.

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Ngamer on December 20, 2008, 03:25:00 am

It snowed pretty hard late last night, but didn't keep up for too long. Believe we finished with around 7 inches here, maybe further north 6 by Jim... was worse farther south in Wisconsin, where they got 10 inches and up.

Looks like we might get a little more late Sat and Sun, but should only be a couple inches either day.

What's much worse is the wind... it's expected to be 1 out on Sunday, which would be bad enough, but the windchill will make it feel like -26. After the sun sets it's going to fall below 0 and feel like it's below -30 out. Yikes!

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Jimbo on December 20, 2008, 04:12:00 am

God my Sunday plans just aren't meant to be, god damn storms!

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Post by: Scrambler Fanny on December 20, 2008, 05:14:00 am

in one single 24 hour period, where my family lives in eastern washington, they got 27 inches! IN-TENTS!

btw-0 accumulation on oahu

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: alexaxxem on December 20, 2008, 06:27:00 am

i have seen snow... if you want to count the days, less than 30. every 2-3 years here it will snow and the snow will stay on the ground for 3 days... so that would be me seeing snow for 3 days out of the 30 days i predicted me seeing. Also i have never seen a snowy mountain

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: RWG on December 20, 2008, 06:37:00 am

You definitely do not have your facts straight. No way would a random snow squall give accumulating snow for 3 days. The ground where you live is much too warm to keep snow on the ground for that long. You need several weeks of freezing temperatures before snow even accumulates.

Hmm, after writing that I kind of realized that if you randomly got a foot of snow it would probably stick. Though random flurries wouldn't. My bad.

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Infil on December 20, 2008, 07:48:00 am

Tonight it was -37 C windchill, and is supposed to exceed -40 C windchill in some parts of southern Alberta tomorrow.

Roads aren't great. We got a dump of snow a few days ago and a smattering of it yesterday. Unfortunately, I'm planning on going out each day this weekend, and I still have most of my Christmas shopping to do.

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: rshepherd1000 on December 20, 2008, 08:17:00 am

and neo has never even seen snow before

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Lark on December 20, 2008, 09:01:00 am

We got about a foot of snow, and I'm freezing right now.

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Lovins on December 20, 2008, 10:56:00 am

Got 10 inches...got to stay home from work and play some more pointless Runway.

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Djie on December 20, 2008, 11:05:00 am

It's coming tomorrow for us, expecting about 6-8 inches.

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Post by: PDplum on December 20, 2008, 12:02:00 pm

i hate brittish weather, we think it's a blizzard to get 1 day of snow with an inch covering

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Matis on December 20, 2008, 08:00:00 pm

I walked outside to throw away the trash and realized it was perfect weather for shorts and throwing away trash...

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: wheatrich on December 21, 2008, 02:12:00 am

I looked outside and said it was a foot so we're going with that.

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Djie on December 21, 2008, 05:16:00 pm

we're getting owned... 8 ish inches already and its not stopping.

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: Neo on December 22, 2008, 03:55:00 am

Quote from: rshepherd1000

and neo has never even seen snow before

 

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Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: rshepherd1000 on December 22, 2008, 05:12:00 am

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if only youd been looking the other way!

Title: Snowmageddon
Post by: youseinthehouse on December 23, 2008, 06:04:00 pm

Yeah, until you post pics of you actually looking at the snow and not a camera, I don't buy it.