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It’s been a god-awful wet winter. I had hoped to have prepped my veg patch for next season, but i have not been able too due to the huge amount of rain so far. Here’s hoping for a break in the weather (and they better not complain about it being the ‘wrong type of rain’ for the water table levels!):
‘January was England’s wettest winter month in almost 250 years’:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/01/january-uk-wettest-winter-month-250-years
3.5 days in and Dublin has received just under 1" of rain… :-/
On that map it’s in the red area east of SF. 3.0 to 4.0 inches.
Well, you know…microclimates.
On the NWS map, it shows Concord/Walnut Creek has gotten 1.7" in the last 24 hours. But the North Bay and Santa Cruz are just getting soaked, anywhere from 1-6". Berkeley and Oakland are well above 2" and the Central Valley is getting 3-4" in places.
Hopefully this isn’t the end. They’re saying next weekend another one like this is possible.
North Bay is getting well beyond soaked; wouldn’t be surprised if they got a foot of rain yesterday.
There’s another pretty good mass of rain coming over the city now. The importance is the effect further inland, in the valley, and how much snow gets dumped in the mountains (a few ski resorts were reporting two feet yesterday, which is not bad). While it’d suck for travel, we kind of needs this like every weekend for the next 2 months or so.
— Alan
Rain looks to be ending in the mid- to southern Bay Area, though North Bay and the northern end of the Valley will get rain for quite a bit still, not to mention the Sierra. Good news. Next system expected around Wednesday. In the mountains, the bigger resorts are reporting a doubling of the snow base in just the last 24 hours (Squaw Valley almost 3 feet overnight), and even the beginner family oriented resort at Badger Pass (just afront of Yosemite) got 8 inches.
— Alan
Volksy
1848
Looks like much of the Southeast is going to get slammed with winter weather Tuesday through Thursday. Looks like mainly snow here in Charlotte, but there could be some nasty ice further south. Some models are showing historic ice amounts that would be catastrophic.
Probably the storm that passed through here last few days.
— Alan
JonRowe
1850
-15 this mornin in wisco.
NE PA here, local weather station is forecasting 12 to 18+ inches for Thursday’s Blizzard.
Yep, and I have almost no where to put the snow anymore, piles in my yard are over 6ft high, lol.
SPRING , I NEED YOU.
Alstein
1852
Dreading this storm today, mostly because I have to work it.
At least this won’t be a repeat of the 2002 Ice Storm here that knocked out power for a week.
Hylo
1853
Those bands are narrow; I think they don’t have much of a clue how much snow we’re gonna get. I’m tired of this crap, although glad I decided to buy a snowblower before Christmas.
Stupid winter.
That band is essentially the eastern slopes of the Appalachians so… depending on how far you live from them will determine the accumulation.
— Alan
Another crazy weather storm dropping tons of snow in the southern US. News tonight was showing a bunch of stuck cars on an interstate again, in North Carolina this time. I have a new answer whenever people ask me why I put up with Michigan winters…because we know what to do with the snow when it falls! (Having no hurricanes and very few tornadoes/floods helps too.)
Yep. I left work right as snow was starting. I live about 7 mins from work on relatively minor, but wide, roads. Took me 20, and by that time, the road was entirely white from accumulation.
Most folks, though, live much further from home and take major roads in-town or the interstate. Several of my friends had 7-hour commutes yesterday as wreck after wreck piled up and dozens of cars got stuck on small hills on the interstate or even on downtown roads.
I recognize that southern cities have a hard time justifying the expense of a full snow-response system, but damn do I wish they’d do it anyway. I lived in Boston for four years and they’d have the roads driveable in a couple of hours in most places and then maintain it. It was a thing of beauty.
Of course, Raleigh’s often called Sprawleigh, so I suppose there’s a metric fuck-ton more clearable miles of road here, on top of the relatively lower number of snowplows and de-icers.
JonRowe
1857
I can’t believe people would come into work with a 7 hour commute. What is the point?
I don’t think they know it’s going to be 7 hours when they start.
CLWJ’s got it. Most of these people generally had 30-40 minute drives.
Here in Northern Virginia, we got one of our once-every-four-years ubersnows. The band of really heavy stuff was apparently pretty thin: We got fifteen inches, pretty close to the maximum forcast; my buddy who lives about six or eight miles away says that they got only eight inches.
