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)"

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.