Are you sure it wasn’t just funny looking rain?
I think I’m at the same latitude as Central Spain. Weird that.
CraigM
5001
Fun fact, Chicago is slightly further south than Rome. But winter weather is closer to Siberia.
Yeah, Europe has that North Atlantic warm ocean current that makes it much milder further North than North America.
But that conveyer is screwed if Greenland melts, which is bad, bad, news for Europe.
Sharpe
5005
Major winds and power outages in Sacramento tonight. My powers out and cell cvg is one unreliable bar.
Thrag
5006
This is one huge pacific storm system. The first part of it dropped a couple of feet of snow on me here in the sierra foothills outside Reno. It was up to the very top of my snowblower when I went to clear it yesterday morning.
Another foot fell last night. Due to the southerly wind and the shape of my house a huge drift formed on my deck that’s at least four feet tall.
My deck box has a pompadour and my roof now has quite an ice shelf extending it.
Another half a foot at least is still on the way.
Thrag
5008
I do want to go play in the huge drift, and maybe try to carve out a path for the eventual meltwater so it doesn’t get trapped against the house, but the doors are blocked off since the screen doors on them are outswing. I was thinking about jumping out a window but the windows have screens that attach from the outside. I’d have to climb a ladder up from below.
I actually kind of enjoy clearing it with the snowblower. Which is good since I’ve got a quarter mile from garage to road making it a multi-hour job.
RichVR
5009
Ah, the white powder. Gave that stuff up years ago.
Yeah, I don’t miss it. At all.
We had an inch or two of snow yesterday in the St. Louis area (I’m on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River now). It made everything look pretty but it started melting today. We don’t get the snow we used to get when I was growing up.
Not weather related, but where I live now amid the river bluffs we have bald eagles who nest here every year. I spotted my first today flying about the river, doing some fishing. They are magnificient birds. For things with wings, they are top of the food chain here.
Keep in mind, too, that NOAA determines wave height as the “average height of the highest one-third waves in a wave spectrum”. What this means is that at least 15% of the waves you encounter will be greater than predicted, which NOAA terms “significant” waves. For instance, if the average wave height is predicted to be 10’, you may experience significant waves up to 20’. So if they’re calling for seas of 44’ to 60’, you can be sure there will be some absolute monsters out there.
Northeast about to get some of the white stuff. I live just under the bottom edge of the red box of 20"+
Ephraim
5015
According to Environment Canada, that’s headed my way, though the max predicted snowfall is 20cm and not 20”:
Special Weather Statement for Montreal, Canada
Effective Jan 31, 2021, 15:42
Expires at Feb 01, 2021, 07:42
Snow over Southern and Central Quebec on Tuesday.
A developing low pressure system will track up the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday and intensify into a major storm. Snow is expected to begin during the day on Tuesday and continue into the evening. This snow combined with moderate winds will generate local blowing snow. Snowfall amounts could reach 10 to 20 centimetres.
The track of this coastal low pressure system remains uncertain. Expected snowfall amounts over the province will vary depending on this track.
Prediction is for 6-10 in the Albany area. Not much, really.
Edge of the driveway this morning after the plow visited:
Middle of the driveway:
What awaits me still:
I shoveled that much between 5 and 6 am.
The rest is getting the snowblower later today after I am done working.
Storms like this make me wish for a carport or garage!
KevinC
5018
So that’s where all the snow went! I’ve barely seen an inch of it this entire year, been pretty crazy.
I wish you all the remaining snow for this year, @KevinC
:)
Seems this is the 2nd biggest storm for my area on record.
