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Originally posted by vthoky:
Groceries in the pantry, gas in the cars, shovel at the ready.

So long as we don't lose power, I'll be content to build a fire in the patio fire pit, stuff a couple of beverages into the snow next to it, and get to shoveling and snowman building.

I like your thinking!

Snow started earlier than expected here, due to a faster than anticipated temperature drop. Have about an inch already from the initial smaller band, and a second larger band incoming in a few hours. Now calling for 3-5 inches total, up from 1-3.

This is the second storm where the Northeast seems to be spared but it goes way more south than normal.

Here in PA forecast had been 3 to 6 inches all week but I’m hearing it may be looking more like 1 to 3 inches now.

WXSouth


Several items to go over include the front end heavy snow starting tonight around midnight for northeast Georgia counties, and quickly flipping to snow down to northside of Atlanta. Heavy snow fills into the Upstate of SC and lower NC piedmont, to the mountains by dawn. Meanwhile rain will be changing to snow in central and northern Mississippi, and then into middle Tennessee, with very heavy totals coming.
Winds will be a big problem in northern half of Georgia, spreading across the Carolinas through Sunday, as northeast winds increase to gusts of 30 mph. With snow changing to sleet, then freezing rain in central and western Piedmont, there will be power outages in the Carolinas and northeast Georgia.
The upper low will swing across eastern Tennessee, northern Alabama, and northern Georgia later Sunday, with a secondary band of snow developing after going through several precip types. Central Virginia starts as snow, but temps warm to above freezing late afternoon, up to DC, where snow flips to rain thanks to warm winds off the Atlantic --by then, the strong Arctic High has slid out to sea. Heavy snow totals in middle Tennessee and again throughout the Appalachian chain, and adjacent foothills just east of the mountains.
Much more breakdown at the blog for the subscribers. Please stay safe and use what time is left to prepare if you're in one of the areas that could lose power or where roads become impassable.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Here in PA forecast had been 3 to 6 inches all week but I’m hearing it may be looking more like 1 to 3 inches now.

Western PA forecast is 6-12"

After living in So. Dakota & Nebraska, I love the snow falls here in WV. Very little wind, no blizzard type snows. Great Plains folks know how wind adds to the misery.

I guess it evens out, as there are next to zero straight roads in WV, seems I’m always entering curves in WV. If God would have tamped down our hills, we’d be bigger than Texas.

Here’s hoping Mr Potato Head has another terribly humiliating week.

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Here’s hoping Mr Potato Head has another terribly humiliating week.

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Gotcha. Politcal comments in a nonpolitical thread.

I have a full drum of diesel and the tractor/generator ready.

I have 2 sets of cable chains for my car.

I'm in south Louisiana . No chance of snow here . It's misty and 48 deg right now .Light freeze tonight .

Gonna ice here.

I expect the power goes.

I’m supposed to go to training in the mountains on Tuesday, waiting to see what happens to that.

Otherwise, my goal is to not have to leave the house. But I’m on-call, sooooo we will see.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Snow started earlier than expected here, due to a faster than anticipated temperature drop. Have about an inch already from the initial smaller band, and a second larger band incoming in a few hours. Now calling for 3-5 inches total, up from 1-3.

Hopefully it clears up next month, I'm going to try and drive to mount magazine state park and stay for a few days. I guess we will see.

I grew up with snow and ice. The storm will not be this bad. Remember these are Canadians supposedly used to this stuff. Below is a link to a short video::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...b_channel=GlobalNews

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Originally posted by mrvmax:... I'm going to try and drive to mount magazine state park and stay for a few days. I guess we will see.

Let me know when you head this way. I can throw a rock and almost hit Magazine Mountain from my back porch...

North of Pittsburgh here.
Pulled my snowblower out of the sub basement this afternoon. Has not run since 2019-2020. No frills 4 stroke B&S motor. Always use Seafoam. Added fresh gas and on the second pull she fired right up. My version of prepping
BRING IT BABY!!!

Too bad there are enough dumb shits on the road without the ice.

Damn poles come out of nowhere.

The house is howling.

Hovering right at freezing here, light coat of ice on trees and the wind is howling



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FROM WXSOUTH



What I'm working on next, after a small break. A spectacular Winter pattern across North America, particularly for the Southeast region is coming up. If you haven't had a brush with Winter yet, you have chances coming up. A tall ridge pops off the West Coast , and sends a cascade of Cold High Pressure systems south and east, with several waves that want to dig far to the South. The current storm goes on to Greenland and helps develop a ridge there. And with time book end big ridges block up the flow and eventually try to throw the Polar Vortex into the United States at some point. All the while, an active stream of moisture makers ride across the Southern parts of the country. It wouldn't surprise me to see the Gulf Coast get something in the pattern coming up for the latter part of January. The upper level charts the next 2 weeks have a rare look to them on all models and their ensembles.

Was reading that there are two more systems behind this one, all pushing winter weather through this week.

Gonna be entertaining for sure.

Breezy with a dusting of snow followed by continuous sleet on the SW side of Charlotte. Thankfully it’s not landing as freezing rain on the trees. I’m fine with half an inch of ice on the ground.

After selling the bucket that came with my tractor in November I ordered a new 6' one, but (like most everything it seems) it's backordered until March or April. If we get much accumulation it's going to take a while to clear this place with the 4' one.

I'm feeling a little ripped-off over on the side of the hill.

Predictions two days ago brought us 8-11" worth of snow, and the town across the hill was looking at 16". Snow was supposed to start at about 5am.

Well, Mother Nature is a cruel tease. Snow didn't start until about 8am, so far it barely covers the grass, and this morning NOAA weather offers a total of 3-6". Pfft. I can't build a mob of Calvin-style snowmen with this piddly mess!