Waiting For The Snow

I am, and humming "Waiting For The Sun" by the Jayhawks. I'm awfully impressionable at this hour.

http://www.cl.uh.edu/itc/course/LITR/LITRFUTR/Snow-Crash.JPEG

But that's why the good lord saw fit to bestow unto us four-wheel drive.

It does sometimes get proper cold in the southern UK just before Crimbo. Then it gets damp and balmy for Xmas week itself. But I don't care, as long as we GET SOME SNOW!

I was just thinking about no matter how many times I see snow, I'm still endless fascinated by it.

it's not snowing is what I meant to say.

Coz I love snow.

Delaware just got 3 inches today, and I'm going sledding tomorrow!!

for christs sake, it's been cold, oh so cold here, and we've certainly had enough precipitation. why can't some of it be snow? and i don't mean those few miserable flakes i saw while walking through kings cross yesterday.

yesterday, suzy and i were talking about snow angels and getting all nostalgic for snowpants and stuff. i mean, who in their right mind gets nostalgic for snow pants unless they're in extreme snow withdrawl?

My bf called me up and was like, "Hey! It's snowing - you should head home."

3 minute later, another call from him:
"Never mind. Stopped already. (sigh)"

(and there's some barely visible here. God knows what Manchester will be like)

(I'm going back North today. Why else would I be up at 8am to post non-pictures of snow?)

http://www.avalanche-net.com/images/jpeg/chien.jpg

Weird how Acton, Shep Bush and Ladbroke Grove all got snowed on, and yet Hammersmith (which is where I work) is completely snow-free. Must be something to do with the one-way system or the Talgarth flyover.

It's like being in one of those Xmas snow globes!

Wahoo!!

I'm hoping that it will have had a couple of inches by the time I get back. Where I work (near Croydon) it's actually got to that crunchy stage.

Nice students.

Come on Nick, you know my penis could never make it to two inches.

but as this would be socially unacceptable, we're not doing it.

I did however receive two Christmas cards this morning, and another one the day before. Also, quite a few Xmas trees and lights are still up.

N is on fire, or its snowy opposite.

Lambeth Castle covered in snow roxx0r. I was sad I did not have my camera.

Or, 'a camera'.

http://pic1.picturetrail.com/VOL127/743982/1280302/18157038.ptp

There's more now! Still snowing - about another inch has fallen. Nearly enough for a snowball fight!

But, y'know, can we Noreasters have more than a 2-day break from this precipitation crap, please? The old snow's all nice and refrozen - more of that stuff's just gonna ruin the scenery.

SURF'S DOWN

At Hyde Park, these down and outs built a snowman and they tried to bring it down to the subway where they were sitting, but they dropped it and all that was left was one big lump of snow :(

YAY!!

http://www.zerointegrity.co.uk/IMG_0313.JPG

when i wz a kid on work experience i did the "research" (as directed by my boss) which allowed shropshire county council to cut back on the gritting and salting service: abt a year after my five month stint ended, britain had ther worst winter in 30 years and parts of shropshire were colder than the south pole for a coupla days (it's true!! SP during midsummer of course but even so!!)

The snow is here in NYC. They expect 18 to 24 inches! Right now it's coming down an inch an hour. 1010 WINS is saying it's bigger than the blizzard of 1996.

That reminds me...

*puts on the Walkmen's "The Blizzard of '96"*

I have yet to see its rivals.

Wooooooooohooooooooooooooooooo!

and i be spending 3 prime december weeks in summertime australia. bah!

does it snow in rome?

I'm waiting, too.

Here it comes!

No, alas, I'm wrong....

We haven't had snow here in years. Used to get one decent snowfall every winter.

Where are you? (I'm in Chicago)

45% chance of snow for Thanksgiving!!!

And "wintry mix" for tomorrow!

Yeah, I was going to drive to Milwaukee on Thxgvng but now I might go the night before. People drive crazy during that first snow.

I'm in NE Mississippi. North of the MS/TN state line they seem to get plenty (Knoxvillains correct me if I'm rong), and south of here along a Jackson-Meridian line they seem to get a little each year because there's more Gulf moisture in the air, but we're in an in-between zone that hasn't seen more than a few flakes in years.

In Ohio, it's snow snow snow.

Six inches of snow in Hertfordshire, according to my dad.

And there's snow in Dalston and Mile End, though not six inches of it.

No snow out in Fulham last night but High Wycombe was drenched in it from what I could see on the News so I'm glad I don't have to do the Oxford Tube run any more.

A bit of sleet in town counted as the first snow London had seen in October since 1934. Following an almost unyieldingly wet year.

How does this equate with global warming?

early snow = global warming
late snow = global warming
no snow = global warming
wet summers = global warming
dry hot summers = global warming

is pretty much how it's been covered for the past ten years.

slowing of the gulf stream due to Arctic ice melt if it has anything to do with it at all this could be, and probably is, just a fluctuation.

I thought we were having the bizarre (and impossible?) combination of thunder storm and snowstorm last night but the 'thunder' was just fucking guy fawkes ponces.

There was lightning and thunder last night, but when it was raining although AFAIK there is nothing to say you can't have a thunderstorm that produces snow.

No ice when coming out this morning either; it was freezing but otherwise completely dry and perfectly normal. Weird how SW6/SW10 missed out on it but everyone else got it.

GET THE BREAD AND MILK

man, this is going to suck

5-8" in nyc on Saturday, allegedly, for you whiny icicle bitches

THUNDERSNOW, milk, bread etc

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/19/east_coast_blizzard_will_impact_washington_new_york_boston.html

Weird that our biggest snow so far this season was early November.

My poor K (4 yrs old) thinks from books that there's snow on the ground all the time in winter and it only melts in spring, so she's confused and thinks it isn't winter yet. The other night she tried to make snow angels in that little dusting we got, it was so sweet.

unpleasant storm surge possible: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/20/blizzard_jonas_storm_surge_could_cause_record_flooding.html

Bread, milk, and toilet paper! BREAD MILK AND TOILET PAPER!!!!!

...Sorry, I grew up in the DC area, and that's our knee-jerk reaction to the word "snow." It's positively a folkway.

that makes sense to me as weather.com (p much never right) appeared to be downgrading this to 3-6in for NYC early today.

hope sweetums get a proper angel made, m.a.

xp/xxp

had to run by the grocery store at lunch and people were already doing the bread&milk shuffle! the place was and it usually never is. wtf it's only wednesday

was packed*

i already have milk & bread; tomw night i have to stop by the health food store and measure the desperation of the organic Brooklyn set.

12+ inches for brooklyn, according to wunderground. but then again, other parts of their site suggest 6 inches is more likely. regardless, BREAD MILK AND TOILET PAPER

for those of you with cats, do NOT let them uncoil the toilet paper all over the floor, this is a code red emergency

also CHEMO PILLS as i am due for a delivery no later than Saturday and sorely expect it will be Monday if i'm lucky

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9287652/images/gifs/codeten.gif

*dramatically blows the Doom Tuba once, twice, and then after a dramatic pause, three times*

people always freaking out about the first snow of the winter!

The doom tuba was really dramatic, possibly too dramatic

You know who's expected to get eight inches tonight?

YER MOM

This is what happens when anything happens in the media capital of the world. OMG, snow! It's the end of the world because it is happening right outside the 24 hour news studios!

I don't understand weather prediction at all. I can see how they know snow might be heading to a certain place, but I can't figure out how they can just say 1-2 feet or whatever, let alone do so nearly a week in advance.

nobody here gives two shits about nyc tbf, especially when the whole east coast is about to be covered by SNOW OMG

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZNvJaJXEAAmJOT.png

dc, 2011

um *here as in my current general location on google maps not on this board ig uess

haha x-post

had to run by the grocery store at lunch and people were already doing the bread&milk shuffle! the place was and it usually never is.

And the stores look very different today.

nobody here gives two shits about America tbf

3-5" in NYC is the smart bet

snowfall doesn't really count unless it traps interpol

miss u nc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZQ_R5PW0AEZlmd.jpg

NYT:

Forecasts are centering on six to 12 inches of snow for the New York City area. Winds could be severe on Saturday evening, reaching up to 60 miles per hour.

Around Washington, residents are bracing for 24 to 30 inches, and the area will be under a blizzard warning beginning on Friday. Metro train and bus service will be suspended Saturday and Sunday.

The Philadelphia area will be under a blizzard watch on Friday and could see between 12 and 18 inches of snow.

*waits*

I kind of want to go into the office tomorrow out of spite

A snow emergency has been declared, effective from 5:00 PM on Friday, January 22 through 7:00 AM on Monday, January 25.

where

brooklyn forecast looks like it's back up over 12+ inches

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZWBXByWkAEJgUu.jpg

TheMoreYouKnow

Snowing now in Commie Virginia. Ordinarily I'd be ritually mocking the ritual panic, and repeating the ritual clichés about how everybody sees flakes and forgets how to drive, etc. etc.

But after almost a week of talking about this, I've moved on to a meta-whiny state where I'm whining about the whining about the whining.

Because it is a political year we are already hearing lots about how Washington is not a real place, the people who live and work and raise families here are not real, because Politics. Kinda tired of hearing so much of the known universe talk about how much my home and my townspeople suck. Makes a contrary part of me wish to spring to their defense, and reflect instead on their humanity, diversity, and dignity (despite all the usual refrains about how our reactions to frozen water are insufficiently macho).

Great tips: http://www.theonion.com/graphic/blizzard-survival-tips-37853

brooklyn forecast looks like it's back up over 12+ inches

i've never believed any promises over 8"

take it to the gay thread morbs

anyone still waiting?

yes

lol morbius

there's a 20% chance of snow in southern NH, but people here are still freaking out about 'the blizzard' ('well, you never know, it might come farther north,' they say wistfully, not wanting to miss out on the hype)

all quiet in central vt :(

the "southern half" of NYC now assured 18-24"

transit still running

it's snowing i just went out for breakfast

definitely picked up in the last hr or so

The wind is occasionally gusting hard enough to make me hide my face

dear Jonas, thx for stopping by, you made your point, but I'll need to get to work on Monday

A travel ban in downstate New York, including New York City, will go into effect at 2:30 p.m., Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that any civilians found driving on the city’s streets after then would be “subject to arrest.”

you're under arrest, sir. come on, let's walk to jail

New York: Downstate travel ban, including city, starts at 2:30 p.m. Above-ground subways and regional railroads shut at 4 p.m. Buses shut. Up to 30 inches of snow expected, tapering tonight. Surfing ban in effect.
Washington: 24 to 30 inches, stopping tonight. Transit shut down.
Also: Coastal flooding in New Jersey. At least nine dead in car crashes. Transit shutdowns in New Jersey, Philadelphia and Baltimore. More than 150,000 without power in North Carolina. Over 34 inches near Tunnelton, W.V.

maybe a horse carriage

xp

wanna go surfing

de blasio will personally arrest anyone who is caught attempting to surf

people have been getting stuck and abandoning their cars here. it's getting in the way of snow plows lol. travel ban also in effect but i think surfing is still ok

be a rebel, drive down to Montauk in your F-150 and ride some waves

high temps in NYC on Mon-Wed are supposed to be around 40, just right for melting/ not too much flooding?

ha it's funny how differently normal people discuss severe weather. all my teacher friends are like, yeah, it'll get warm enough so that the snow starts to melt, but then the low temp will hit and everything will freeze! the roads will be impassable! no school till Wednesday!

Baltimore is pretty crazy today to be fair and has not traditionally handled snow well.

10" so far http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/22/us/east-coast-snow-storm.html?_r=0

in NYC, of course

30 inches of snow sounds like a lot! damn ⛄ 62 and sunny here in beautiful denver colorado 🌇

you'll get yours in may

lol, yah

email received from Ver1zon at 6:58 pm TONIGHT:

"Jonas is coming -- are you ready?"

Worst drive home in 20 years last night. It was more the timing than the amount of snow, which was bad but we've had worse. Two-and-a-half hours for a 35-minute drive. One kilometer-long stretch of highway took almost an hour, and not because of an accident in the immediate area.

GET DA BREAD & MILK, NYC

so excited!

^^^

it's snowing i just went out for breakfast

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, January 23, 2016 10:34 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

definitely picked up in the last hr or so

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, January 23, 2016 10:49 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can't believe how bored i am here. that was hands down the best day of 2016.

i remember i went to ft greene park the next day and all the young dads were losing their minds

so anywhere from 2" to 128" ?

1 league i think

somewhere between a quarter and half of a cubit

'bout so high

i love the 40-degree plunge

store owners that put down rock salt in front before the first flake falls, WTF?

btw I am NOT very excited bcz just before I left work, we all got a robo-call from Head Office saying "We are monitoring the storm, and we will be open tomorrow."

LOL at people who have to work. I cancelled my Pilates class

I fucking hate the rock salt though. All it does is discolor your shoes

They haven't called off yet at my job. Cmon guys ugh.

Haha wait they just called it right after I posted that.

I always find it funny to read the news how schools/workplaces/etc in the US are closed because of some snowfall... That never happens in here, and I'm sure even here in Southern Finland we get 50 times as much snow as NYC. Don't people there have snowplows?

There's a pretty big population difference

So? Presumably that results in more tax money/bigger budgets for the city or whoever would be responsible for the plowing?

LOL at yr ruined shoes Josefa

also at Tuomas' understanding of US municipal budgets

let me summarize my walk to the Q train:

cocksuck

• there are three million more people in nyc than in all of finland
• there are indeed snowplows, although perhaps not as many as there would be in places where such storms happen more frequently, and the subway still runs
• because such storms are relatively infrequent, having places close isn't a huge deal
• america is a v. litigious society, alas, and businesses etc. want to avoid liability for people falling down or getting snow in their shoes or whatever

I bought Girl Scout Cookies today so I'm all set for Tuesday.

Old Man Winter, die like a bastard

da bread and milk upgrade for NYC

http://gothamist.com/2017/03/13/blizzard_nyc_snow.php

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6z5FLhXAAE78ma.jpg:small

Bread, milk, and toilet paper! BREAD MILK AND TOILET PAPER!!!

...Sorry, I grew up in the DC area, and have been conditioned to respond this way to snow forecasts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VejZKCpNnrs

Huh, had no idea that snow => milk n bread was a thing until the thread revival

My work just called tmrw off

Local news predicting 15-25 inches with 30 inches possible in some areas. Great!

"Working from home" on what usta be a workfree snow day. Fuck our dumb century yet again.

maybe your internet will mysteriously go out

I hope I haven't lost all my shovelin' muscles now that I finally own property with front steps and shit

You'll know soon enough.

our foreign adversaries will no doubt have already begun engaging in extra-dastardly shenaniganeering now that all the NSA headquarters school systems have announced cloture

http://wtop.com/closings-and-delays/#closings-MD

GEEZ YALL EVER HEARDA OPSEC

I hope I haven't lost all my shovelin' muscles

time for babby to earn her keep

I have to call into a meeting (where i will -- wait for it -- learn and contribute absolute zero) at 9 a.m. I will be watching baseball on mute simultaneously.

blizzard cancelled in NYC as usual

http://gothamist.com/2017/03/14/march_blizzard_falls_short.php

All your blizzard are belong to us, apparently. Like an impenetrable wall of white this morning.

can confirm that it is not fucking around out there

frightful

ffs, I'm having to cancel a very important hospital appointment with the orthotics dept for the head protection Alex desperately needs. I have been badgering his paediatrician's office for the last 6 months to get this and it just happens to be a total whiteout today of all days. Time to tell Snow to fuck off.

pretty angry that we're open today tbh

I thought conditions would be much worse on the East Side tbh, all the schools are closed here.

it's not impossible but it's bitter, windy af and transport must be bad and it'll last for what, a couple of days? let us hibernate ffs

lets end up dying in a road accident just to keep some semblance of "carrying on" for the sake of it, eh?

two sides of the same coin - moaning that this country isn't set up for cold snowy weather or trying to macho thru it pointlessly just to prove that business must go on

Lead partner had the foresight to make us take our laptops home so I am currently "working", when in fact watching Aguirre, The Wrath of God wrapped up in bed.

that's the spirit

I just came to work because I love snow, tbh.

If I could work from home when the temperature was above zero and just come in when it’s like this, I’d be perfectly happy.

i like snow, i just don't like work

I was filming the kid using a beach float as a sledge on what is locally known as the mountains yesterday. He can barely get any speed going but keeps trudging back up the hill in blizzard conditions. It doesn't seem much fun at all, if he wasn't pissing himself laughing most of the time you'd think it was some grim cut from a Bela Tarr joint.

Fingers crossed we'll get sent home early today.

that's beautiful xp

time to tell snow to fuck off

Working from home, heating up full whack, all the food I need for maybe two or three days and some wine in. Fully prepared to not go out again until it works.

We've a good view over the park and I keep stopping to watch random dogs going mental in the snow, quite enjoying it tbh, but I'm really glad I have nothing urgent or pressing to be getting done that requires being out of the house.

Oh which park? I might come and wrote a rude message in the snow

My own response has been to put out a bird feeding station first gotten as a gift over a year ago and hitherto unused. Still awaiting a first customer. Might move it nearer the trees

When I was putting some bread and seed out earlier I could feel the waft a blackbird flying right past my ear. When birds are in a life and death struggle they are not half as shy of humans.

weather forecast here keeps suggesting impending snowmageddon but the bastard clouds are totally failing to deliver as yet

lots of birds around here though atm, got some redwing hopping around in the leaves outside my window

cool that in all the breathless news reporting on this i’ve seen so far that the phrase ‘climate change’ has not been uttered once

the smoking shelter just round the corner from my office blew away in the wind earlier

Red weather warning here in South Wales. Certainly looks interesting later this afternoon.

"Working" from home and kids are off school but it's so ridiculously cold out there with the wind (minus 13°C!) that they both came in after less than half an hour.

Imago - well heath rather than park really.

My office window overlooks the entrance to the Malaysian embassy and it was pretty clear that a group of people going there yesterday had never experienced proper snow before, the excitement and joy was quite touching even as I was desperately hoping for this shit to melt by the weekend.

Oh, there was a redwing in my garden an hour ago!

First customer was a great tit, btw - only it and the starling have had the courage to feast as yet. A number of goldfinches have been watching on warily

It was supposed to snow this morning here but it hasn't, so the snow from Tuesday/Wednesday has started melting and it treacherously icy outside. All the trains were fucked this morning anyway though so I'm working from home today, although that's not particularly notable since I work from home 3 days a week anyway. I was supposed to go in to the office today though.

There's supposed to be like 12 hours of straight snow/showers tomorrow and I did have plans to go out on the piss in London on Saturday and looks like that's probably not happening.

The goldfinches moved in as one! What a charm

We've got a pair of magpies living round here somewhere and they were both in my back garden this morning.

We have a bird feeder attached to the fence but birds round here are picky bastards and they never touch it.

a standalone birdfeeder seems to be just the ticket! it's been a very busy lunchtime

keep listing 'em imago

does UK redwing ~= US redwing blackbird?

no they're different species. uk redwing is mostly a winter visitor from scandinavia and looks p much like swainson's thrush but with red armpits.

and a dashing supercilium

rw blackbird is a madeleine for me. I hear that weird trill and I am back in minnesota sitting on the dock of our crappy little summer cabin

just had a grey wagtail on the flat roof outside, also long-tailed tit and goldcrest in the last couple of days

all of those are joys

in my household, goldcrests are known as 'goldfats' because they are a bit piggy (despite being the UK's smallest bird) and it's always wonderful to see them when out and about (which is pretty much every time we're in a rural location - they get everywhere)

i love small birds that are fatties

imago if you ever make nyc i will introduce you to my friend steve (who is in my iphone contacts as Steve Likes Birds to distinguish him from the other steves) and also introduce you to my excellent pet starling Merlin (whose current favorite phrase is 'western kisses').

and now we've just had a treecreeper! srsly there are shitloads of birds here at the moment

Left work early yesterday, can't get to work today, doubt I'll get to work tomorrow, nils frahm show cancelled too. Lines of people in the local shop stocking up on booze, me included. This event has not been good for my abstinence

Lots of blackbirds

Been hearing woodpeckers more lately. More power to the lads.

western kisses! I would be most honoured

all time best merlin utterance was probably 'merry christmas my kenyans' (never repeated, oddly) or 'sorry about the snake universe' (still in heavy rotation)

poll

also, pix

will arrange

ha jon is this yr bud?

https://twitter.com/mybirdsaid

:D

yes

my wife was running that account

fell behind but there's good stuff on there

favourites so far are 'I'm hosting a talk show' and 'Goodnight Mr Asshole'

haha i forgot both of those

this is quite surreal.
got dark synthwave stuff on the soundsystem thats very john carpenter-esque (VHS Glitch).
its getting dark, but the snow and blizzard conditions/whiteout i am watching out of the back window amongst the trees etc is really quite something.
basically, this is becoming The Shining.

I just spent an hour looking out the window listening to Spaceman 3 and thinking the back garden's starting to look very Overlooky.

It's snowing here now and at the moment is not forecast to stop until around lunchtime on Sunday.

different soundtrack, same vibe by sounds of it.

i am very corny but on heavy snowfall days while walking I like to listen to Grieg's Op. 54 set of solo piano Lyric Pieces, esp the echt-wintery final piece Klokkeklang

I know when a major storm is coming people rush to supermarkets to stock up on food but if you don't want to get pregnant, make sure your night table is stocked with condoms.

— Dr. Ruth Westheimer (@AskDrRuth) March 1, 2018

My wife is unlikely to be wearing anything​ less than six layers of clothing until it thaws. I'm good.

After baffling about it for a day, our local woodpigeon has shown some ability to problem-solve: by standing athwart the water tray it can access the seed dispenser, and is going heartily to town. The goldfinches, previously a shimmer of revelry, have retreated nervously to the trees.

What our plump friend doesn't know is that the evil socialist government is going to curtail its free enterprise and move the water tray about three inches lower

keep remembering 'sorry about the snake universe' and lolling to myself

anybody see that "winter of '63" doc on BBC4 last night? that brought the realness

Is that the ‘winter 1963, felt like the world would freeze’ reference in Life In A Northern Town?

presumably, altho it looks like the southwest took the worst of it

I just came to work because I love snow, tbh.

If I could work from home when the temperature was above zero and just come in when it’s like this, I’d be perfectly happy.

I am now stranded in London with no way to get home as punishment for my over-enthusiasm.

hoist with your own blizzard

(｀∀´)

Been getting off lightly here. Didn't snow at all yesterday despite forecasts, and today was supposed to be non-stop snow for 12 hours 10am-10pm and it's barely snowed at all so far. Trains are still all fucked up of course.

yeah the snow's in disappointing retreat here but the wind is making up for it

only had a paltry one hour off work this week. so horrible outside though, run to work this morning was like crossing the tundra, old snow now frozen into fields of ice and the cows looking so absolutely pissed off with it all

The combination of wind and freezing rain looks like it's snapped the external water pipe of our neighbour, and it pours out over into my yard whenever they use their water.

So taking out the garbage is sorta russian roulette for me right now.

It is rain-snowing in nyc

The company is paying for a hotel so i'm back to being charmed by the winter wonderland again.

a taxi to Kent would only set them back, what, eighty quid?

I guess I don't know taxi fares tbh

My car got stuck twice and the second time I had to get a tow truck.

I think a police officer telling you to turn around and go home is a good excuse not to go to work.

Uber was quoting me £165 and I couldn’t ask anyone to drive in this weather in good conscience but I appreciate the strangeness of being stranded a 40 minute train ride from home.

don't forget folks, if your boiler has stopped working, make sure the condenser pipe isn't frozen (which can be sorted by pouring some tepid to warm water on it), before you end up paying a grand to that Pimlico Plumbing scrote.

Another foot of snow Wednesday

did you hear the thundersnow in NYC?

It has returned! (Powys) - we got off very lightly last week

according to bbc weather this is supposed to be sleet, It's looking 10cm + of sleet atm.

so conveniently on the very Saturday I'm supposed to be getting a settee delivered to replace the broken one and a home relegation 6 pointer against Palace is supposed to be happening, the bastard white stuff is back with a vengeance.

NYC forecast for tom'w now 15"

fuck this shit

^_^

yay another snow day, there is no way the NJ crew is gonna be able to make it to the office tomorrow.

family coming in from CT tomorrow to see... Frozen

about that plan, they may have to... letitgo

11-year-old princess will not let that happen

morning commutes look doable, return not so much

Eh, unless they get in before 5am that's going to be difficult...

If MetroNorth shuts down by dawn, we must be looking at different forecasts. (but in the long run idgaf)

School will make us come in and then fight our way home, they don't gaf either.

The Disney people are allowing exchanges, so the Broadway outing is off. And we were going to eat at Sardi's.

NYC public schools are closed on Wednesday https://t.co/ZGk6yf2Grx

— NY1 Weather (@NY1weather) March 20, 2018

My work announced that their decision would be pegged to public schools’ decision, so that’s that. Second Wednesday snow day in the last three weeks

still waiting on OPM to call it, but DCPS have already said tomorrow's off

I'm going to be so far behind

First snow storm of the fall in Toronto. It's really not that bad, but I'm here at school for interview night until 8:30--one no-show after another--it's a parking lot in both directions in front of the school, there are road closures close by, and I fully expect to get home around 11:00 tonight.

snowed over here too. we are pleased

It sipple out deh

Generic post about how a little bit of snow and this country goes to shit

Generic riposte about how it's not that surprising given that our temperate climate means it snows (comparatively) rarely and irregularly.

~~~snow squall~~~

Yuck

Yeah that was something. And then it was gone

Second time in a week my whole school board has been shut down. (Today for freezing rain.) And there was a preemptive no-bus day mixed in, in anticipation of expected afternoon snow--which did come, so that was a good call. I think that's some kind of a record in the 20 years I've been doing this.

This winter is a bit ridiculous. It's seems like it's always either 20 below zero or freezing rain.

Another school-board closure today--third in two weeks. Before that, we probably had four or five complete closures in the previous 20 years. (I might be the only teacher in the whole board who prefers a no-bus day to a closure. No buses means no students, so I go in and get a ton of stuff done. Closure means I get nothing done.)

this is insane. the entire weekend my driveway was solid ice, this morning about 12 inches dumped on it in a matter of like two hours. spend 90 minutes shoveling my way out only to almost immediately drive into someone's lawn because I couldn't see where the road was. can't remember another winter like this

this winter is bullshit

i'm not asking to grow flowers in the desert go skating on the hudson, but show some respect

I know
Total fucking ripoff

I kind of hate Winter, but this shit gives me the creeps.

uh we are having a thunderstorm right now

like, a summertime-type rain storm

closest we're going to get is the monday coming, forecast shows hail all day. but probably won't even get that.

xp: I saw one notice that said there is "the potential for tornadic activity".

Wish snow was on the way, but apparently it's all wind and rain w/ Ciara on the way (the storm, not the singer)

and we have thunderstorms forecast for sunday too

it has been very dry and windless for the last two days up here, but all weather forecasts are saying it is the calm before days of wind, storms and torrential rain.

Yeah Sunday here looks extremely grim (torrential rain & 60mph gusts) just when I'm taking my son to his football match

Here we go.

Awesome, sooo jealous! I'm losing faith I'll ever see snow again where I live, it's just eternally 3-9 degrees w/ damp and a drizzle ffs

yeah jealous af here, been watching nyc webcams all night with people having snowball fights. bastards.

Haven't been outside yet to really gauge depth, but looking like 8-10 inches instead of 12+ like forecasted.

Any ilxors missing snow are welcome to help shovel the driveway (4-50 feet, 10 degree grade, will be plowed in at bottom, no snowblower).

40-50

40-50 feet! That's a lot of snow. (har har)

The last big snow we got here I want to say was back in 2015. At least, that was the only time I can remember them having to clear so much snow they had to put it in a big pile, just to get it out of the way. I took this photo of my daughter on the top of the makeshift mountain:

https://i.imgur.com/VEV5y5g.jpg

Awesome, sooo jealous! I'm losing faith I'll ever see snow again where I live, it's just eternally 3-9 degrees w/ damp and a drizzle ffs

We just missed yesterday's storm. On Tuesday night, I had a bedroom window cracked and could smell the snow. But all we ended up getting was rain with a little bit of ice mixed in. Then last night I was out shopping and saw a few cars that had obviously made their way south from snowier climes, which was like "go fuck yourselves".

Good ol' American craftsmanship.
https://ibb.co/FVD7sDk

Toronto got his bad today: ~40 cm, close to a one-day record.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-snowstorm-january-17-2022-1.6317236

Not as bad where I am, two hours away, although I think all schools went online (they were supposed to reopen today).

"hit"

Half an hour of shovelling only let me clear a path to the road this afternoon, the car and the driveway are still mostly covered. I could hear the traffic horns on the 401 as clear as music, because no other cars were driving past; apparently drivers were stranded for eight hours there today.

bury me in snow pls

Anybody need a couch?

https://i.imgur.com/i31IWia.jpg

Only a dusting here in the DC region. Envious of you New Englanders

Looks like a Bob Ross winter landscape outside my winder.

Not enough snow!

otm

It's going below freezing tonight here in North Central Florida--we might get some snow here, too.

People’s faces wrapped up in scarves and sunglasses looking like the invisible man and shit

when your lake is v. effective

The newest HRRR model run has 70 inches of snow falling in less than 24 hours just south of Buffalo, NY.

This is shaping up to be potentially one of the most extreme snowstorms in US history. pic.twitter.com/PDP0bA4pzc

— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) November 17, 2022

wah!?

holy shit, lotta structural integrity about to be tested. i know they design for high snow loads there, but i'm not sure they account for 70 inches worth.

jeez

salt lake city gets a lake effect from time to time. less so now that the lake is disappearing...

70 inches in a day seems impossible!

12-18 inches tonight; 9-13 inches more tomorrow; 9-13 inches more friday night

https://i.imgur.com/fM0rOtY.png

thundersnow

Wow, that’s a lot of snow - I don’t expect any snow this winter

how is it going?

thunder only haaappens when it's snowing

love this thread title. a little ominous tbh.

Buffalo girl wont yo ucome out tonite ... come out tonight

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/buffalo-braces-historic-snowfall-set-paralyze-hardest-hit-communities-rcna57824

go easy with the shoveling for chirsts sake

san bernardino has received more snow than NYC this winter

It’s fucking snowing…. In San Bernardino pic.twitter.com/j1cqOCx6xt

— auexlyrr (@acidflowerbomb) February 25, 2023

Really not saying much. It's been November in NYC since the first week of October, this is the longest November ever.

Just drove through a bunch of snow covered joshua tree landscapes

fucking finally

My drive home yesterday had to have been one of the two or three worst in my life. I was out on country roads that were pure white, some hellish mixture of ongoing snow and freezing rain earlier in the day, visibility poor, feeling the car pulling out from under me every now and again. Took two hours for a drive that's normally just under an hour (and not because of traffic).

Bracing for a blizzard over the next 4-5 hours where I am (I think through a lot of Ontario). Happily, in for the night and the weekend if need be. I might venture out on foot for a coffee tonight, though.

Good luck! never having been snowed in before, it sounds kind of fun

Or a horror movie

Thanks. I literally don't even know what a blizzard means. Is it just a whole bunch of snow, or are there other things involved? If I step out, I don't want to end up like Warren Beatty in McCabe & Mrs. Miller. (Of course, the bullet he took didn't help there.)

Got all the way to the end of the driveway and turned back. I now know that a blizzard involves a very tangible wind component.

And thunder. And lightning.

Got to have strong winds and poor visibility, but especially strong wind.

https://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Blizzard

We definitely met all those conditions, and it was sustained for 4-5 hours. Amazingly, power/cable never went it out--it generally does for much less.

The guy plowing my side-street (10 houses, 45 degree incline) got stuck halfway and had to go back for a different vehicle. I could hear Robert Shaw chiding him: "You're going to need a bigger plow."

Lowest winter snowfall totals in NYC since record keeping began: 2.3 inches, breaking the previous record of 2.8 inches in 1972-73 (Central Park totals).

Today marks one full year since NYC got as much as 1.5 inches of snow in one day. This appears to be rare.

Get used to it. We had zero snow in DC this year, which is very rare (but will be increasingly common until snow is a distant memory). The first five months of 2023 have been the warmest ever in DC history, akin to Memphis, TN.

https://i.ibb.co/P1QG7JK/IMG-20240116-131824094-HDR.jpg

good ol' American craftsmanship

sad snowman at pilgrim hill an hour ago
https://i.ibb.co/DfB4wHw/IMG-20240116-133039519.jpg

two little girls came and made it a friend
https://i.ibb.co/4mGMc5R/IMG-20240116-141201286.jpg

We got nearly 10 inches yesterday, biggest single snowfall in Knoxville in 28 years. It has basically just shut down everything for the week, which is fine by me. It's very pretty.

random stuff i saw teenagers sledding in or on today:

-the drawer of a filing cabinet (didn't work)

-a kitty litter box (not bad, but looked impossible to steer)

-a flattened cardboard box (fell apart the instant it hit the snow)

Back in my day, they made cardboard boxes sturdy enough to sled on!

Lol

I cannot resist singing this thread title in a Jim Morrison Doors vpice

Frosty, I’ve come to melt you
Santa, I’ve come to ….

St. Marys, Ontario: worst snow week I can remember in ages, certainly the worst since I moved here five years ago. Basically killed the Stratford Film Festival over the weekend, where I was volunteering--drove in Friday and Saturday, stayed home the next two days. Fifteen minutes shovelling every morning to get out of the driveway and get morning coffee. (No, not mad at the plows--you can't have driveable roads otherwise, people who complain.) Had booked off work in advance, but I'm supposed to do a day at a country school tomorrow. The entire board is shut down today; hoping the job gets cancelled.

https://i.postimg.cc/15gRN3wP/snow.jpg

Entire board shut down on consecutive days. I may have forgotten, but I don't remember that happening in ~35 years of doing this, first with the Peel Board and now here.

did the board tell you 'turn back you poxy fule'

St. Marys, Ontario: worst snow week I can remember in ages, certainly the worst since I moved here five years ago. Basically killed the Stratford Film Festival over the weekend, where I was volunteering--drove in Friday and Saturday, stayed home the next two days. Fifteen minutes shovelling every morning to get out of the driveway and get morning coffee. (No, not mad at the plows--you can't have driveable roads otherwise, people who complain.) Had booked off work in advance, but I'm supposed to do a day at a country school tomorrow. The entire board is shut down today; hoping the job gets cancelled.

― clemenza, Tuesday, February 18, 2025 12:38 PM (yesterday) 

Here in similarly-named Sault Ste. Marie, we've so far received 183% of our usual average winter's worth of snow

(Sorry about the canceled film fest, Clem)

You've undoubtedly got even more than us. (A friend who runs the badminton club here--cancelled tonight--is representative of those who think the closings are overreaction: "See you on March 5th unless there is a snowflake in the air and things get cancelled." But I was hugely relieved I didn't have to set out for a 40-minute drive north this morning.)

I think the film festival took a real hit--their email yesterday left it up in the air for next year. Honestly, they needed to round up better films anyway; that was their biggest problem, I'd say.

Feel like it's been a while since we had a legit snow storm here. But we have one now!

5x shoveling today, I think? Aside from that it was a lovely snow day.

let's go nyc

well we've got snow on parked cars at least

I was rooting for NYC to get no measurable snowfall for ten calendar months, which if my cursory look at the data is correct has only happened once before, in Feb-Nov 2020. We were at nine months and 12 days, but now we have measurable snowfall.

I was rooting for NYC to get no measurable snowfall for ten calendar months, which if my cursory look at the data is correct has only happened once before, in Feb-Nov 2020. We were at nine months and 12 days, but now we have measurable snowfall.

come to DC we had no measurable snow for nearly 2 years recently

Plenty of the white stuff here in Minnesota of course. Unfair of me I suppose but I can't stand seeing patches of snow that are tinted yellow, where someone's dog has pissed on it and the urine's frozen. It's fucking gross, sorry.

Dog owners in my neighborhood seem to think that if there's snow on the sidewalk, pooper scooper laws are suspended

^this custom is also applied in my part of Brooklyn. Once everything melts it’s quite a reckoning.