Another Winter Storm... The Biggest Yet!

CURRENT WEATHER: LIGHT RAIN 33*

Yay yay yay! Winter made one last unexpected show today. Went I went to bed last night, the forecast was for sleet/rain in the morning changing to all liquid rain by early afternoon. So when I got up at 8:30 AM, I looked outside and there was nothing going on. I go out in the living room and watch a western movie that was on with my grandfather ( I couldn't think of anything else to do, lol). That movie ended at 10AM. So I get up and walk out into the kitchen and BOOM! It's snowing outside! Yay! It started out lightly and then all of a sudden it poured snow. And I mean POURED! Soooo..... to make a VERY long story short... I went out in all the unexpected snow and played around on the roads sliding around and all that jazz. So all that rain they were calling for fell as snow... at the end of it all we got about 5 inches... the biggest snowfall of the season :-). Here are some of the pics... there are a lot so bear with me, but it's for your entertainment.

OK so the picture above is when the snow really got crankin'.

And the picture below is after all was said and done after about 5 hours.

OK so after some pics of the yard, I had the brilliant idea to drive around in this stuff, lol. Now because they were calling for rain and not snow, it caught everyone off guard so the snowplows never showed up! So I was a bit crazy. So anyway I drove down to my community beach...

..and had pictures taken of me. :-) It's pretty cool having heavy snow at a beach... kinda a contradiction. Cool.

This is the car I drove around the snow in, pictured here at the beach.

After the beach, I headed down about a mile of snow covered roads...

...to our very large pier where I bike to every summer day. That was a heck of a sight to see.

After running up and down the pier a few times I got back in the car and decided to head to K-Mart. LOL. I know the perfect time, lol. So I went down to K-Mart and saw 3-4 cars in the ditch. So cool.

After K-Mart I head home and play in the snow with my doggy Taz :-)

Now remember when I woke up today, they were calling for rain... what an awesome surprise the weather had for us. I loved it!

What To Do In All This Wintry Weather

CURRENT WEATHER: FLURRIES 31*

Snow, ice and cold! So much winter, so little time. So I must make the most of what I have... and I have. As clearly scene in the picture below. There is nothing better to do on a snowy, icy frigid day when schools are closed and the government is shut down because of bad road conditions then go to Baskin Robins and get a HUGE ice cream cone! =)

Anatomy Of An Ice Storm

Ok so this past week/week and a half has been very busy in the weather department. At first it looked like we'd get a little snow, then they said it would be a blizzard, then they said no, it would be all rain, then they said a little of everything... GAH! So in the end it turned out to be pretty much ice. This was such a cool storm that I tracked it's every move and decided to make it one post... sortof like the diary of a storm kinda thingy. So we will start at the beginning and follow through to the end of the storm.


Saturday February 10, 2007 9:00 PM
CURRENT WEATHER: CLEAR 26*

Ok so I wanted to begin posting about this storm a few days ago, but these things are too risky to predict that far out, and really this far out too, but I couldn't control myself anymore. So let me briefly explain what is happening. Earlier this week people were starting to say that we are gonna have a pretty good snowfall here next week, then as this week progressed and we approached this weekend, people were screaming the words BLIZZARD! Some weather guy even said 12"-18" for Philadelphia! So now I have decided to jump in the bandwagon, and put my two cents in... so every few hours (when possible) I will update what I think is gonna happen with this thing after new weather models come in. As of now 9:00 PM Saturday, the storm looks like a rain maker for us here, although everyone is saying snow/mix for us, I just don't see the cold weather making it here in time for the storm, and if it does, I don't think that it will be strong enough. There will be plenty of moisture, that's for sure, just of what type? That's to be seen. So as I see it now, the weather map below is my current prediction. It doesn't show where the mix/ice will fall, I will start predicting that tomorrow. BTW, I am the red dot. Stay tuned.



Sunday February 11, 2007 10:00 AM
CURRENT WEATHER: SUNNY 24*

I am so stinking awesome! I am so far nailing this think right on the head... which is really bad for me because I want snow :-(. Anyway, as I said last night, I would put in the "mix" precip in todays forecast. It looks like the storm is tracking further and further north, which means warmer air comes closer to us, and in effect ruins the whole blizzard concept for me... and makes it a heck of a blizzard for everyone that usually gets it, New York City, Boston, Portland, etc. This thing is gonna be a monster! Record breaker. I predict today, 2-3 days out from the storm that Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, Burlington and Portland will be shut down by this thing. No kidding. It is gonna be monstrous. You wait and see. This is gonna be a record breaker. Unfortunately, not for me, it looks like a 1"-3" snow/sleet/rain mixed bag which is so boring and pointless. I hate it. So this is my updated look at what is gonna fall where. Later today I will post an accumulation map.




Sunday February 11, 2007 11:35 PM
CURRENT WEATHER: CLEAR 28*

After two posts, I have decided that all computer models are pointing to nothing but a little snow, some ice and a lot of plain old fashioned rain. So I would be wasting my time if I continued posting my own maps. So I am gonna start using other weather maps with official weather forecasts.



Monday February 12, 2007 7:45PM
CURRENT WEATHER: SCATTERED FLURRIES/SLEET 34*

Alrighty! So I am ticked (angry face). I will mostly be on the wet side, NOT the white side of this stinkin' little conniving blizzard. This thing is gonna start as some light snow at my house, and then in the late morning change to sleet/freezing rain (no fun) and then in the late afternoon go to all liquid, non freezing rain. And rain hard all night... at around 33*... that's one stinkin degree shy of a blizzard/ice storm. So SO SO SO unfair. But what am I gonna do? So then early to mid morning Wednesday it should all end as a brief change over to a mix and then end with a really cold blast of arctic air... again. Here's what the forecast is for our area. I am right in the 1"-3" crap. So when I wake up tomorrow to head to work, hopefully it will be snowing... hopefully.

If you look at Accuweather they say that they believe the main start of the precip will get in here at around 6AM, but beings that flurries and sleet pellets are already here at 7:45 PM and as you can see the radar below, the main beginning isn't that far from here. So I think it it will start at around 1AM - 3AM.




Tuesday February 13, 2007 8:00PM
CURRENT WEATHER: SLEET/FREEZING RAIN 27*

Ice Ice Baby! Lol. So I was kinda wrong in the weather department. We had some pretty heavy snow this morning, then it went to sleet, then freezing rain. I left work at 2:30PM and had to "skate" across the parking lot to my car, take 10 mins to scrape the ice of the windshield, then go back inside and get my manager Nick to help me do the rest of the car so that I could see out. It was too thick for me to do. That took about 30 mins. So cool, and icy, lol. Then I come home very carefully and I just went outside and BOOM the ice is so thick you can't open the car doors! Now they are saying it may take a few more hours before we get above freezing here. So tomorrow it is supposed to be all liquid rain, then turn to heavy snow for a brief time. We'll see. Now as far as the future, there are already some weather computer models coming out with a Blizzard hitting the east coast on Monday... but we'll hold off on that one.



Thursday February 15, 2007 6:30PM
CURRENT WEATHER: CLEAR/WINDY 24*

OK so the storm is over, it was pretty much an all out ice storm here. Overnight Tuesday into Wednesday the rain became heavy, but at my house and points west we never got above freezing, so we had all ice, the delayed the opening of my work and we got out early too. The airports and schools and government were all shut down. Pretty cool stuff. I would have still rathered the snowstorm though. Getting into the car after freezing rain is a pain in the butt! And walking around.... i mean skating in your shoes around the parking lot and on side walks is pretty dangerous, but a whole lotta fun! Here are some pics.



Above are pictures I took as I was driving to work after the storm. Look at all that ice on the trees! Pretty darn cool eh?



Below is what my car looked like the morning I had to go to work. It was completely incased in ice, the entire car! I had to get up, scrape the ice from the whole car. Basically the whole car so that when I was driving chunks of ice didn't fly off and kill people, lol.






And this is what it looked like inside the car. Definantly not going anwhere anytime soon, lol.




Isn't that FREAKIN AWESOME! SO COOOL!

Anna Nicole Smith Is Dead

CURRENT WEATHER: SUNNY 23*


Wow, I can't believe it. I heard the news yesterday at around 4PM at work on the radio and my jaw dropped. I mean I always thought that she was disgusting and unreasonable. However in 2002-2004 when I watched her show on E!, I saw that she had true, strong love for her son and close family. After her son died, I doubted her future, I just didn't think it would come to this. Even though she was "out-there", it is so unfortunate that she is dead, leaving behind her newborn girl.

SNOW!

CURRENT WEATHER: SNOW 19*

So this year has sucked in the snow department. I have not yet seen any snow sticking to the ground AT ALL! By now we are supposed to have 15"!! Not this year... we have had a total of about 3"! THAT'S ALL! And that happened while I was in NYC so i didn't even get to see it. Well now we have a little clipper moving through, and we are supposed to get 1"-2"... we'll see. So I have to work tomorrow, at 8AM-530PM, and it is now 1AM and I am about to run outside and play in the pitifully small amount of snow, lol. Hey it's something. :-)

The Super Bowl;More Bitter Cold

CURRENT WEATHER: CLEAR/WINDY 25* WINDCHILL OF 12*

Soooo, of course I am a Raven's fan and of course they didn't make it to the Super Bowl. So I had to choose a team to root for, either the Indianapolis Colts, or The Chicago Bears... I decided to root for the Bears, and of course they lost. I didn;t really care, I just watched the commercials, lol.

OK so now onto the cold. It is cold. And is gonna get colder. We are gonna be in the SINGLE DIGITS FOR ACTUAL TEMPERATURES AND -10*, YES 10 BELOW FOR WINDCHILL. Brrrr! I will keep you updated on that.