The 1st major snowstorm of the season to usher in 2025, but ice is going to be mixed in with it which spells DISASTER for Monday Morning commute, that's if anyone actually goes to work or school isn't cancelled
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You might want to add where you're located, because a few 100 miles further north or south make a huge difference.
This is the time of the year where I'm always so glad I moved from Germany to Italy 25 years ago.
Weather forecast for Germany also has temperatures around freezing these days, with a mix of rain, snow and ice, depending on altitude, here in Italy it's +10°C and doesn't even go below freezing during the night (yet).
Sorry folks, I live in St.Louis MO and my gut instinct tells me we're going to be smashed. Ice is more of a worry for me but I'm not going anywhere and hibernating for the next 2 days. This storm falls on my day off
shareBoy, what a bust this is so far. More hype than substance. We got some mixed freezing rain and a little snow, but where's the 8 to 13 inches they've been hyping up for the last 2 days?? I got out this morning to check the roads and went to Mass and Mass was cancelled and the campus was closed today and tomorrow. I guess I'll get credit for trying, but I was hoping to see a good weather event to start the New Year off
shareWeather forecasts are almost always hype over reality. The same naturally extends to global warming hysteria.
shareNothing will ever beat the Winter of 1982 when St.Louis MO got 22 inches of Snow.. Now THAT was one hell of a weather event. I was off school for a week and made some $$$$ shoveling driveways back before they made the snow blower
shareHere on the shores of Lake Erie, we got 40" the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and then another 2 feet just 10 days later. But kids don't prowl the neighborhoods looking to make money shovelling like we used to forty years ago.
shareAnd that shoveling heavy snow like that made you earn your $$$$$ back then
shareI looked at Doppler this morning and it's hard to tell what is going to happen here later today - so far, nothing but grey skies.
shareI'm guessing this may be one of the cases going by "better warn too often than miss an event that one should have warned about".
It's like Albert Einstein said, "predictions are hard, especially when they are about the future".
Other sayings on the same line are "better safe than sorry" and more, pretty much all expressing that always being too careful is still better than being careless just once too often.
From a science point of view this is an evolved habit of humans.
If the cavemen heard a noise in a bush they had two options, believe it's a predator and run or believe it's just the wind and stay.
The ones who always ran, even if it was just the wind, survived natural selection and the ones who believed it's the wind sooner or later became lunch.
A few 10,000 years later only the ones who always run are still alive.
There's a nugget of truth to that, but the ubiquity of the "stay safe!" mindset is a sign of the thorough femininity of Western culture today. Western men for centuries would be risk aware but never risk averse.
sharePersonally, I think this storm was a total bust and at noon, I'm going to go Blu Ray shopping if they're open. Disappointment and goes to show better to overhype then not pay attention at all and get blind sided and have to hear about it afterwards and FOX Meteorologists I'm sure will have to answer to this
shareWell the snow finally hit and I think we got around 5 to 6 inches which is a far cry from the 11 to 13 inches they said we were going to get. Still, it feels nice not to have to go into work tonight overnight. And we got ice which didn't help. I purchased a shower liner and placed it across my windshield on My Honda and when this is all done, you just peel it off and no having to scrape your window 👍
shareWow!! What a clusterfuck the morning has been the day after this storm. I ended up walking out of my Condo at 4:30am to go to the Gym, I had my Honda Passport all warmed up, ice off and proceeded to leave my spot when my vehicle got stuck in an ice drift at the entrance of my parking lot no more than a 100 feet from my parking spot. For an hour, I dug out snow, ice, kept rocking the vehicle back and forth and no go. I was exhausted because it's 15 degrees out and finally, I found some windshield washer ice melt and I poured it under the tires and chipped away more ice and finally after an hour, my vehicle was able to go in reverse all the way back into my parking spot where I will not move for the next 36 hours probably. Tonight, I'm scheduled to go back to work, but this is going to have to be a Personal Day
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