Houngan
5924
The old saw is that 1" of rain is 12" of snow, not sure how it translates to slush, but probably on the water side 90%.
I usually drive to work around 5:30 AM here in Southern Mid-Michigan. Wednesday morning the roads were covered in a few inches of slush which was a bit nasty but not too bad. Driving home from work at 2:30 was a bit worse since that slush also had a good 6 inches or so of snow on top of it. I saw a Jeep in a six foot drainage ditch on the side of the road—abandoned, so I kept going.
This morning the wet snow on the road had frozen and 3 or 4 inches of powder lay on top, which actually helped with the traction so it really wasn’t too bad. Today the wind picked up and started blowing snow drifts on the road. I didn’t run into any problems but a coworker just posted that she got sucked into a drift and wound up stuck in a cornfield though, so some roads are worse than others.
Some trees down, but not too many, and nobody that I know has lost power thankfully. All told it’s hard to gauge due to the compaction of the heavy snow early on, but I’d say maybe 12-14 inches total? So a fair amount, but honestly not as bad as February 15th 2021 when that much dropped in one day on top of some pretty heavy winds which created some monster drifts overnight, along with much colder temps.
Favorite snow toy.
It is pretty though. Kind of a rare sight with our winters these days it seems.
Sorry - but you must refer to that storm by name.
A thousand apologies. I believe that was Winter Storm Uri.
Houngan
5928
We seem to have quickly passed between slush that didn’t accumulate to hard sleet that bounces off, so I’m calling a tentative win for the mid-mid-west.
RichVR
5929
TW: weather.
85 here today. Same tomorrow, but maybe we will break the record of 87. Then it gets cold. 60s.
Djscman
5931
England had a bit of wind.
The spire on the church in Wells, Somerset toppled from it.
This has already been incorporated into the steeple’s previous cinematic exposure. (Content warning: movie gore, architectural maiming, the greater good)
The roof of the Millennium Dome came off.
Djscman
5934
I read that the Fugees are going to have to reschedule their concert there. That was a huge surprise – no one told me they were back together again!
Bit late in the season for snow here, but we’re getting a bit. Nice to watch because it’s for the most part not going to stick. Best kind to have.
Its mid March and I am too old for this shit. I put almost all my snow cleaning gear away the other day when it was 70f outside.
KevinC
5937
Youch! Looks like fun.
In my neck of the woods, we had early spring throughout January and February but the first half of March has been all winter. It’s been weird. I think we’ve had more snow in two weeks of March then we did in December, January, and February combined. Which is more a statement to how unusual the winter months were.
Every time someone explains the weather where they live, without telling us where they live, …
Kevin lives in Utah (right in Salt Lake City?)
Kevin has been posting forever, and we know Kevin.
I’ve been posting forever too, and you might not be aware of my inside joke with Kevin.
KevinC
5941
Yep!
Dave Perkins in his natural habitat.
Yeah, I was going to drive from my home in south central PA to Philly to visit my parents today. It was over 60F yesterday, no way the snow would stick! It’s supposed to be out of here by noon! Welp, it’s about 2:30 and its still blowing here. Roads are wet but, based on just shoveling the driveway, its going to rapidly freeze. Oh well, no trip this weekend.
Houngan
5943
Fourth or third, I’m not sure, siren spin-up for tornadoes coming through. Generally speaking here in Kentucky/Louisville we’re not that commonly endangered by them, especially in March, but shit happens. Seems to be south of Louisville so I hope our folks down there are okay and it’s just cautionary
