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Post by justjohn on Dec 9, 2005 16:34:58 GMT -7
;D Well, We got our fill of it today. Measure 15 inches in my back yard. Light and fluffy but very white. had to drive my wife to work and it was an absolute white-out. Horizontal snow. Santa's sleigh will not have a problem this year.  |
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Post by suzanne on Dec 9, 2005 17:45:11 GMT -7
We got dumped on here, too, all day long and probably got around 10 inches. Strangely, the sun came out around 4 PM and there was a beautiful sunset.
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Post by nancy on Dec 9, 2005 19:10:43 GMT -7
I am to the east of Suzanne and south of John - along the coast we got slushy rain - it was dreadful (and I had to be out in it. yuck). Then it cleared, but around 2:30 PM a HUGE wind and snow storm came through -plus we had Took my husband twice as long to get home because of all the downed trees.  At least we have electric power, unlike all his colleagues on Cape Cod. |
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Post by Jaga on Dec 9, 2005 21:00:51 GMT -7
Guys,
be careful on the roads and now....
IT IS A TIME TO BUILD A BIG SNOWMAN!
we do not get any new snow here in Idaho because it is so cold still
I cannot build the snowman also because the snow is not really wet enough
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Post by suzanne on Dec 9, 2005 21:32:18 GMT -7
My son can't wait to go out and build a big snowman! They're predicting temperatures around 40 degrees tomorrow, and I hope the snow doesn't all melt away too soon. I'm one of those weird people who actually like cold weather and lots of snow.
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Post by kaima on Dec 9, 2005 23:13:29 GMT -7
... and I am up in Alaska crying in my beer over all the great snow that melted the last 3 days and ice and dirt over all.
I agree, this is truly lousy weather!
Kai
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Post by Jaga on Dec 10, 2005 12:43:15 GMT -7
Guys,
both of us were upset today. First I listened to CNN weather broadcast and they were saying... it is not really cold anywhere, maybe in Salt Lake, but generally it is warm - even the map was showing blue area around Idaho... still the broadcasters did not notice it
Later my husband was watching another guy talking about weather - he had COLD - where northeast is and COOL where idaho is on the weather map.
How funny, yes, it is not really COLD here we just have +1 F !!! It is not really cold, it is just COOL.
On the other hand in NORTHEAST have +25 is is really COLD there
Where is a justice?
I guess, people here in Idaho are just used to the cold weather and what is COOL for them is EXTREMELY COLD for Northeast.
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Post by bescheid on Dec 10, 2005 15:19:29 GMT -7
Nancy
What is thundersnow? We live in the pacific north west and have in one day, rain/snow/ black ice/ snow and rain/ and rain. and rain.
But, we do not have thunder snow?
Which ever witch doctor is in charge of the weather there, best to pay him/her a better wage or what ever they need!
Boy, I thought our weather was just, well, just awful, but, it would not hold a candle to yours....
Charles
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Post by bescheid on Dec 10, 2005 15:29:26 GMT -7
Jaga
+1 degree F. Boy, in any language, that is cold!! Here the past few days, it is 32 F. And that is cold enough...
Those weather people live in a fools Paradise. Their world is the make believe faction, it is all on computer, all in a guaranteed atmosphere of air conditioning and heating room. They have an excellent salary and worry only mainly what their investments are going to generate
Whilst working people watch and depend upon their word of the day.
Boy, that almost sounds like the post war communist line of thought!
And yes, we have a saying for some thing of this:
To Trust the he-goat to keep the garden (Den Bock sum gärtner machen)
Charles
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Post by kaima on Dec 10, 2005 15:35:20 GMT -7
Nancy What is thundersnow? Charles Hi Charles, Oh, on second look I see you are asking about "thunder snow," not "thunderstorm". Rats. I was ready to tell you that a thunderstorm is a rollicking 'gewitter' with 'donner' and blitzen', but then that brought us around to Santa's Reindeer (Donner and Blitzen, thunder and lightning), so it seems quite in season! Wow. Thundersnow. That sounds like an experience. Kia We are melting up here. If this keeps up I will resign my position with "Alaskans for Global Warming". My membership is only valid when it reaches -40 below and colder, so I have been very inactive. |
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Post by bescheid on Dec 10, 2005 16:32:25 GMT -7
Haaaa, Kai
Also I had to take the second look at thundersnow. Not that I would daught it, not for a second as this has so far been a very strange year this fall.
Out temperature has been fairly steady at 32F (0C) in the am, then rising to 40F (4C) during the day.
Is it true with your weather? It is warmer then usual?
Some how, I envision you guys with snow up to the elbows and cold air enough to knock the birds down out of the sky.
Charles
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Post by nancy on Dec 10, 2005 18:07:01 GMT -7
Thundersnow .... that is just a regular old thunderstorm that drips snow instead of rain. Been around for years, started in the midwest, I think. Some weather guy got really excited about it and coined the term. Instead of a calm, peaceful snowfall, think ...blizzard winds! driving snow! thunder! more thunder!  |
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Post by piwo on Dec 10, 2005 18:44:44 GMT -7
Thundersnow .... that is just a regular old thunderstorm that drips snow instead of rain. Been around for years, started in the midwest, I think. Some weather guy got really excited about it and coined the term. Instead of a calm, peaceful snowfall, think ...blizzard winds! driving snow! thunder! more thunder! Well, actually it doesn't drip snow. Thunder snow is relatively rare phenomenon whereby it actually lightning and thunders while snowing. Doesn't happen too often. You look at the sky with snow falling, and there is lightning! When it does, it doesn't drip snow, it's as you say, a blizzard. The only thundersnow I recall was the Feb.1, 1982 snow is STL: we got 18 inches of snow in a couple hours, with lightning and thunder to boot. Of course, there are other places up north that may get that amount of snow at the drop of a hat, but this far south it doesn't happen very often, and takes something extra-ordinary to make it so. |
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Post by kaima on Dec 10, 2005 18:59:28 GMT -7
Haaaa, Kai Is it true with your weather? It is warmer then usual? Some how, I envision you guys with snow up to the elbows and cold air enough to knock the birds down out of the sky. Charles We ahd a few weeks where it was 0F colder tahn normal, but then about Tuesday it skyrocketed and started melting and is continuing to melt. It is terrible. Last Sunday I was in snow up to my waste. We were in the mountains practicing avalanche resuce and I ended up helping carry the 'victim' up to the helecopter. That is a great job to avoid. I broke through the snow a few times, once up tomy crotch. That stopped all progress. We had four guys on each side and it was still tough. Now for tough old birds, chose the raven, my favoite. It is the reincarnation of dead Eskimo and it sticks around all winter in weather to 60 and 70 below. People talk about goose down being the warmest, but geese head south and my bets are on raven down! Kai |
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Post by suzanne on Dec 10, 2005 19:00:09 GMT -7
The only thundersnow I recall was the Feb.1, 1982 snow is STL: we got 18 inches of snow in a couple hours, with lightning and thunder to boot. Of course, there are other places up north that may get that amount of snow at the drop of a hat, but this far south it doesn't happen very often, and takes something extra-ordinary to make it so. Piwo, I grew up in St. Louis and I remember that snow. I was in junior high and school was closed for a solid week! I was in heaven! Up here, we do tend to get large amounts of snow at the drop of a hat - I would've loved that as a kid. |
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