Polar Vortex 2014

. . . I guess we do, actually. "No working from home."

Ha, my firm's policy as well. Which is mostly fine, being an architect does rely on a great deal of collaboration, but its tough since my wife's job has a very flexible work from home policy.

unless some of you are posting from the dakotas or alberta or something i don't want to hear too much bitching

we're already well over our yearly average for days below zero, and we've had these great 'warm' blasts where it'll get up to 30-some degrees for a day, just to snow.

http://blogs.mprnews.org/updraft/2014/01/friday-clipper-and-warming-trend-wintery-numbers-piling-up/?from=weather

unless some of you are posting from the dakotas or alberta or something i don't want to hear too much bitching

Um, pretty sure it's been much colder here than much of Canada or Dakotas. Alberta hit 50 today.

i'm sorry josh but that post qualifies as bitching

Can I bitch that I'd rather be in Alberta than here?

Just read that this coming Tuesday's low (excluding wind chill) is on track be lower than anything from the previous wave of this bullshit.

lol goole

Don't live in Canada or Dakotas so didn't come to bitch...but to gloat. It's 65 and sunny for 40th day in a row, bitches.

Please forgive me for that. Chicago guy spending 1st winter in new locale.

hahaha, you're right! looks like snow is in the forecast again next tuesday. awesome!

i am timing my walks to the grocery store based on whether the temperature for the day is positive, i feel like laura ingalls wilder if she had grocery stores

goddamn snow

the weather continues to be schizophrenic down in Austin: freezing rain and sleet on Friday, sunny in the 70s on Sunday and then back to freezing rain today. Annoyingly, my son's school is delayed by 2 hours this morning, so I have to skip out in the middle of work to get him there.

I take that back, school is now cancelled

I don't have gloves so I put a sock on my hand to use the gas pump.

"gas pump"

yeah, UT blew it too. didn't send notification that opening was delayed until noon until 8:15. we decided to compromise by working until noon and then going home.

-11 here, -30 or something windchill, nbd. schools closed but not work, of course.

i work at a school, but haven't heard any news of closing.

so is NYC and New England going to get 12+ inches next Sun/Mon, Y or N?

Cuomo: DIRE NY SALT SHORTAGE

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/stories/Winter-Weather-Snow-Ice-Forecast-Wednesday-New-York--243634611.html

I received a package yesterday, and the usual small-talk with the delivery guy about the weather took a strange turn when he told me that the weather we've been having lately is caused by something called "HAARP". "H. A. A. R. P. Look it up.", he said and gave me a meaningful look. So I did, expecting some kind of meteorological acronym. Not the case.

i work at a school, but haven't heard any news of closing.

― clouds, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:28 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

my school sent out a crabby pass-agg email about how we were never going to close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program

This part is great:

Former Governor of Minnesota and noted conspiracy theorist Jesse Ventura questioned whether the government is using the site to manipulate the weather or to bombard people with mind-controlling radio waves. An Air Force spokeswoman said Ventura made an official request to visit the research station but was rejected-"he and his crew showed up at HAARP anyway and were denied access".[25]

oh shit my macos dashboard thermometer says the temperature for -today only- is

NaNº

what does that even mean what is going to happen am i safe inside

oh sweet the temperature is not a number

now truly a polar vortex

feel like they're just gonna start calling winter polar vortex now, guess im down w/ that

people will stop asking "how's the weather?" and start asking "which vortex is it?"

solar vortex is my least favorite season

♫ walking in a polar vortex wonderland ♫

the polar vortex olympics

"ricky just did a SICK indy nosebone off of the vortex! 10s across the board! do the DEW! check out this single from NANNYFINGER!"

lmao

here in austin we are getting an unprecedented third day of weather-related university shutdown. only a two-hour delay today, but there's freezing rain in the forecast tonight and early tomorrow morning. I am still enjoying the ride but a lot of people are starting to get really annoyed.

I'm definitely tending more towards annoyed. My son's school gets cancelled for negligible weather and then I get to listen to him complain all day because he's bored. Meanwhile, work never gets cancelled for me because of the magic of telecommuting.

yeah, most of our faculty have kids and/or ongoing research and have to come in regardless, it probably grates when staff is sitting around rejoicing about the chance for more snow days, but hey, we wanna not go to work and still get paid.

all things considered, I'd guess that faculty have it better than staff

though it definitely depends on the staff position. some staff positions in engineering are pretty awesome!

true, they do, but shutdowns fuck up their schedules way more than ours. xp

and yeah, my position in engineering would pay 50% more, but then I couldn't wear pajamas to work anymore.

nice. you at UT austin? everybody seems to use Ben Streetman's semiconductor textbook.

anyway, don't know why I'm asking people about work details and posting their possibly former boss' name. nvm, sorry about that.

meanwhile, chances of snow by morning are increasing!

Guessing it's gonna be one more day of working at home with a bored kid

so Austin schools are officially closed tomorrow because.... it's going to be slightly below freezing. I suspect there will be little or probably no precipitation. I don't really understand what's going on at this point.

Portland, OR schools will most definitely be closed tomorrow because things are a huge mess atm with temps tonight dropping in the teens, high winds, about half a foot of snow, and more snow on the way tomorrow.

Q: So how cold was Thursday?

A: The national average temperature of 11 degrees is the coldest of this winter and will likely be the coldest of the season, according to calculations by Weather Bell Analytics meteorologist Ryan Maue. It was computed from temperatures at 7 a.m. EST in the Lower 48 states.

The lowest was minus 34 in Montana and several areas were minus 20, according to the National Weather Service.

Q: Has this been a record winter?

A: No. Given the unusual heat in the West and the cold in the East, they almost balance each other, Masters and Arndt said. So when the final monthly statistics come out, January in the U.S. won't be near record cold.