I use to not mind Winter, but now...

[blackwolfe]

I don't have time for it.  I have over an hour commute for work, but I'm lucky I have the next two days off with this forecast:
Thank goodness my Midway catalog finnally came today.


Issued by The National Weather Service
North Webster, IN
4:26 am EST, Tue., Feb. 9, 2010

... WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY...

A WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ WEDNESDAY.

* TIMING... SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT... BUT THEN DIMINISH TO SNOW SHOWERS WEDNESDAY. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. TOTAL SNOWFALL BY LATE WEDNESDAY SHOULD RANGE FROM 10 TO 15 INCHES... WITH THE GREATEST AMOUNTS DOWNSTREAM OF LAKE MICHIGAN WHERE HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY WILL BOOST SNOW AMOUNTS.

* MAIN IMPACT... HEAVY SNOW WILL CAUSE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. INCREASING NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY... RESULTING IN NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AT TIMES AND SOME IMPASSABLE ROADS IN RURAL AREAS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL... KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT... FOOD... AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

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... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING...

.A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER MISSISSIPPI AND AN UPPER LOW ACROSS IOWA WILL MERGE TODAY OVER THE OHIO VALLEY REGION. SNOW ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA EARLY TODAY AND THEN CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY. LAKE ENHANCED SNOW SHOWERS WILL BOOST SNOW AMOUNTS DOWNSTREAM OF LAKE MICHIGAN LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL BY LATE WEDNESDAY IS EXPECTED TO BE GENERALLY 8 TO 12 INCHES... WITH 10 TO 15 INCHES LIKELY OVER FAR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN INTO NORTHWEST INDIANA. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 15 TO 25 MPH WITH 30 TO 40 MPH GUSTS LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY RESULTING IN BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WITH NEAR BLIZZARD CONDITIONS POSSIBLE.

[philw]

man  that sux 


they say it will be around 37 to 38  and humid tomorrow 

sigh.. 

[tombogan03884]

What Phil is leaving out to make us feel better is that  it's 37- 38   C not F 

[Pathfinder]

Pfffftt - that ain't nothing but snow flurries in ND. Up the winds to 55+ and drop the temps to minus whatever, throw in the snow and now you have a ND blizzard aka winter storm.

A year ago, as I dug out from some of the latest "global warming", for the first time in my life, I found myself muttering the words - I need to move someplace warmer! Like NM!!!!

[Solus]

A year ago, as I dug out from some of the latest "global warming", for the first time in my life, I found myself muttering the words - I need to move someplace warmer! Like NM!!!!

DC has been hit with two record snow falls this past week.   Now is the time to say to Congress....All if favor of limiting Global Warming say Aye.

Thank goodness for Global Warming.  Think how bad it would be without it. -=)

[Sponsor]

[tt11758]

DC has been hit with two record snow falls this past week.   Now is the time to say to Congress....All if favor of limiting Global Warming say Aye.

Thank goodness for Global Warming.  Think how bad it would be without it. -=)

Anything that can "shut down the government" is a gift from God!!

[JSC3ATLCSO]

I don't know anything about this global warming thing, but on one of the local newspapers' website some tree hugger that acted like they knew something about it said that the cold weather we are getting is due to the gobal warming melting the ice caps and forcing the colder arctic and antarctic waters to the warmer central waters.  It seems a bit unlikely that it is real due to the weather.  I also think that the Earths Climate has Cycles that it goes through. 

I do think we need to try and get away from fossil fuels and conserve energy but my reasons for doing so isn't due to "Global Warming" I just think it is wasteful to leave lights on when not needed and it is stupid for people that live in cities and work in cities and insist on driving a 12 mpg full size pickup to work like it is a 30mpg Cadi.  Then to turn around and have some "Tree Hugger" tell me that I don't need my pickup to farm with or try and say that our farm machinery is what is causing all of the global warming.  B-S I say.   BAHHH.. I could go on and on.  Probably wrong but I don't think that my point of view is much different than most around here and I don't need to continue to beat the dead horse.

Anyway Screw the tree huggers.  People just need to be environmentally responsible just like being a responsible gun owner or law abiding citizen and I don't think that this should be a congressional issue.  Why is it not just apart of everyday common sense.

[Texas_Bryan]

I don't know anything about this global warming thing, but on one of the local newspapers' website some tree hugger that acted like they knew something about it said that the cold weather we are getting is due to the gobal warming melting the ice caps and forcing the colder arctic and antarctic waters to the warmer central waters.  It seems a bit unlikely that it is real due to the weather.  I also think that the Earths Climate has Cycles that it goes through. 

I do think we need to try and get away from fossil fuels and conserve energy but my reasons for doing so isn't due to "Global Warming" I just think it is wasteful to leave lights on when not needed and it is stupid for people that live in cities and work in cities and insist on driving a 12 mpg full size pickup to work like it is a 30mpg Cadi.  Then to turn around and have some "Tree Hugger" tell me that I don't need my pickup to farm with or try and say that our farm machinery is what is causing all of the global warming.  B-S I say.   BAHHH.. I could go on and on.  Probably wrong but I don't think that my point of view is much different than most around here and I don't need to continue to beat the dead horse.

Anyway Screw the tree huggers.  People just need to be environmentally responsible just like being a responsible gun owner or law abiding citizen and I don't think that this should be a congressional issue.  Why is it not just apart of everyday common sense.

Pseudo-science is so convenient.

[Rastus]

I don't know anything about this global warming thing, but on one of the local newspapers' website some tree hugger that acted like they knew something about it said that the cold weather we are getting is due to the gobal warming melting the ice caps and forcing the colder arctic and antarctic waters to the warmer central waters.  ..............

Anyway Screw the tree huggers.  People just need to be environmentally responsible just like being a responsible gun owner or law abiding citizen and I don't think that this should be a congressional issue.  Why is it not just apart of everyday common sense.

Oh yeah, they just reported that the ice cap shrinking....NOT...they made that one up to.  The hugger is leaning on old lies.  So much of that is made up...and cycles, yup...solar cycles.  Solar luminosity correlates really well with global temperatures.   We may be entering a solar minima much like the mini-ice age a few centuries ago....we have not had very much solar activity for a year now.  Check some of the reputable scientists who forecasted cooling this winter based on solar observations.  Within the last month there has been some pickup in sunspots/solar activity so we may have just had an 11 year cycle that bottomed out longer than usual...but who knows?  Might be getting cooler, might be getting hotter and if Al Gore could find a way to tax sunlight I'm sure he would have gone that route first.

Everyday common sense is the way to go.

[Big Frank]

Global warming or not it's been a mild winter here. There's no lake effect snow where I'm at. When I shovel snow tomorrow it will only be about the 4th or 5th time this winter. A few times we had an inch of snow that I didn't shovel but still it hasn't snowed much. Most years I plow up a snowpile the size of my shed. This year it's tiny.