Yes, it will be cold this week, a few the days in the single digits for a high....ugh.
The weather where you are?
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Two winters ago my daughter was considering transferring to either Northeastern or Boston University. Now understand - I value a quality education, and I know the schools up there are terrific. But at the same time, they're also much more expensive, especially considering there would be no scholarship offerings like she enjoys down at UGA. But... if that's where she felt she needed to be - obviously the wife and I would make necessary sacrifices to see it through.
We went up there over a 4-day break she had in February. She flew into Philly, we picked her up, came home and spent the night, then the next morning we drove up to Boston. It was miserably cold... there wasn't much snow on the ground but still it wasn't like you wanted to spend any amount of time outside if you could avoid it.
Compared to Athens, GA - it may as well have been Siberia. On the way home she said, "beautiful city, but there's no way I'm cut out to deal with that weather. I saw what I needed to see - I think I'll be happier in Athens."
To say that I was elated to hear her say that would be an understatement. I don't like it that she's 13 hours away, but at the same time I know she enjoys the warmer weather, not to mention that she enjoys having her car with her and traveling when she gets the chance. Just from the standpoint of her not being forced to drive in serious winter weather alone is a huge burden off of my shoulders, not to mention the $40k more per year in tuition that I would've had to assume.
R....my brother says Seattle is suppose to get heavy snows this year. He lives in the Sand Point area on a hill so he has to park 1/2 mile from his house even with 4 wheel drive.
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Sand Point is close to U.W. where my youngest is, attending under graduate school. Used to know a few friends belong to the Sand Point Golf Club.
One thing we do have is hilly streets. And more drivers whom do not know how to drive in the rain and the frost ( newly transplants and new drivers, 27 per day moved into our King County from outside ).
Around my house near Issaquah, we have higher elevation than Sand Point. Many of my neighbors would park out blocks away on the shoulders on the main street because City would not clear the side streets until much later. Being environmentally conscious, we seldom spread salt on the street. The defrost agent they put on the roads will not help if accumulation is more than a few inches. The snow shoveling truck is the only way to clear the street when we have heavy accumulation of snow.
I have 4x4 not just AWD, but when the snow reach the bottom of the frame and the bumpers, nothing will move on a hilly street.
I think your brother is worried about the ice and frost built up on the roadway. Which is probable because U.W. and Sand Point will be very windy and much colder with wind chill factored in.
Wind chill factor is something we are very familiar with in SW Minnesota. A couple of days ago it was in single digits here (actual temp) but it felt much warmer than that because there was no wind. That is odd for this part of the country as we seem to always have wind. Much of this week it is predicted to be 0-single digits for highs and wind chills of around the minus 20's. We do not (in most cases) have to drive on very hilly streets however. It's very flat here on the prairie, which is also much of the reason for for always feeling the wind. There are not many valleys and not many trees, just flat farmland. You can see for miles in the country.
1st snow of the year. In teens tonight and the blower motor on my main floor air handler took a dump.
Temps in the low 20's tonight and barely reaching 40* tomorrow with rain all day and winds up to 25 MPH. No golf tomorrow or the rest of the week as it looks pretty much the same except for possible snow as well.
West-central Indiana here. Snowed here all morning. Negative wind chills Thursday night but 50 deg Saturday. I'll never understand the weather...
Played golf exactly two weeks ago here in NW Ohio....not today though! There are about 6 inches of snow on the ground from Sunday night and about 20 degree temps. Shoveled my butt off yesterday b/c the snow was so wet the snowblower couldn't handle it. White Christmas coming up, then off to FLA from mid-January to mid-February.
First road closure of the year a few hours ago. Squalls are coming in off the lake. You haven't lived until you have driven in 50 mph winds in lake effect snow streamers...
Right now, 13 & w/c -7, been a bitch of day with those winds at 21+ mph. Think the high actually got to 21, but dropped like a bomb in just a few minutes. This weekend looks like total Arctic crap.....Sat. 24 high, -13 low. Sun. -2 high, -11 low. And the bastard winds shall blow on top of all that.
I'm beginning to think I hate winter. All over again. We got spoiled last year; we'll pay for it this time around.
Wind chills -20+ overnight, fri-sat calling for up to a foot of snow
Arctic Blast !!!!!!!!
WOW!
4° here. Don't know about the windchill. I'm not going out of the house today. Still no heat on my main floor. Space heaters going.
It was 2 when I went to the gym this morning. 8 driving into work. Snot freezing weather...
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It was so cold here this a.m. that a couple of 'wanted' felons walked into the courthouse & asked to be electrocuted!!
It was so cold today in Northeast, PA that I saw a politician standing on the street corner and he had his hands in his own pockets.
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Ya know, Rick Flair spent his kid years in Minnesota, I think the weather we are experiencing now is the reason he moved out... Today is about as good as it's been for a week or so. Temps last night didn't drop below zero and the high for today is supposed to be 13F. The wind isn't even bad today at 10 MPH. The bad part is that we are supposed to receive 4" of snow today (just starting as I enter this post). We are to receive another 5" of snow tonight with a low of -5 and wind is supposed to gust to 30 MPH (wind chill of -20's) which will get all of that snow up in the air which then makes driving a car almost impossible because you can't see to drive in a white-out. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny but temps are to drop all day and reach -12 by 5 PM. Winds will stay gusting to 30 MPH creating wind chills as low as -35. Our projected overnight low tomorrow night is -24 with a wind chill of around -45. Keep your brass monkey indoors tonight! I'm looking forward to operating the snowblower tomorrow morning with those temps and wind chills (LOL). Actually, if you dress right it's tolerable. Below zero weather isn't that bad without the wind if you're doing something that keeps you moving.
9 inches of snow on the way and very cold. Highs in the teens. Southeastern Wisconsin. Bad winter early here. Merry frig'in Christmas.
We have had so much rain that there is a flood watch in our county.The weather man said we had rain now we are going to have ice. Temps in the teens coming up.
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we had 30 degrees and freezing rain this morning - neighborhood was a skating rink. Sunny and 56degrees this afternoon. Good grief.
60° and pouring. 20's tomorrow and snow. I hate Ohio.
Was almost 70° yesterday here in Southern Oklahoma. Right now it is mid 20's with freezing drizzle and dropping. There was a 50° temp drop in about 24hrs.
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Snow/slush overnight in the Lehigh Valley. Thankfully the ice wasn't an issue like it was in Baltimore... I'm gonna try to provide a link, but if I can't - I'm gonna tell you where you can find it. You need to see what happens when bridges and overpasses freeze and commuters have no idea. You DEFINITELY NEED TO CHECK THIS OUT.
Recorded in the early-morning hours of Dec 17th, 2016...
Anyway... it was manageable here in Northeast, PA. Temps of upper-40's for Sunday, will melt quit a bit of the 2-3 inches of snow/slush.
Golf is pretty much over now until April. Oh well. I am heading to Port St. Lucie in late March on a week-long golf trip, so there's that.
Just gotta keep things in perspective I guess.
PS - only 2 people dead, a dozen or so injured in the Baltimore pileup. Remarkable that more people didn't die.
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wow that was horrific......so that semi trailer went in-between the two roadways and plummeted to the ground and ignited? Holy shit!
The guys commentary cracked me up a little.
That's nasty. I don't know these folks stories who were involved, but unless I had to go somewhere in weather like that, I wouldn't. Nothing but trucks on the interstate in weather like that too.
It was obviously no laughing matter... but his commentary didn't exactly fit the mood. I laughed a little too. When he said, "somebody need to call 911" I kinda lost it. And I say that ashamedly so... there was nothing remotely funny about what happened there. I felt bad for laughing, but couldn't help it.
But... it was just interesting to see how dangerous shit gets when bridges and overpasses freeze. I made both my son and daughter watch this with me this evening.
"Wanna know why I worry and tell you to BE SAFE when you're out on the road? Here you go."
They still can't appreciate it. And they probably won't until they have kids who are licensed to drive.
PA-PLAYA yeah I felt bad too, but watcha gonna do....the worst accident in memory was on i43 just south of the city and the fog was brutal and cars were piling up one after another....they had no idea what was ahead.....what an awful feeling for those who ran into someone and then laying in wait for the next car....ugh!
Today they had the police out with a barricade closing off one road that as a fairly steep pitch to it, had to turn around. Get to the next route and there was an officer onone of the main roads going right through the middle of the city where there is a bridge that is quite steep, passes the hispital....officer was parked at the bottom of the hill in the NB left lane with his lightsg on....I have never seen either of those two things in the 18 yrs I've been here. It was slick and the PD was taking precautions to keep people safe and slow down traffic in the dangerous areas.
Snowed yesterday...really sucked since they plowed nothing until 11 am. Cars couldn't even get up small inclines on major roads.
Today it's 50 degrees....where the fuck are my short pants?
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Had to go to the airport to pick up one of my kids coming home for the Winter break.
Out of the driveway and the dummy alert in the car kept flashing "ICY" and 26°F, now, maybe this is not a big deal for some of you living in a much colder Winter climate than we do. The Pacific Northwest seldom see temperatures in the 20's but a few days a calendar year. This Arctic Blast had brought very cold temperatures, luckily not much moisture came with it so we're not stuck in a Winter storm like a few times we had had in the last few decades.
Backing up to in the low 40's next week.
These idiots on the roadway did not understand when weather gets below 30° F the road surface actually will be frozen and the tires on their vehicle will not react the same even with special compound made for colder temperature. They still zoom by 10-20 MPH over the posted speed limit, like they were late for their own funeral.
Sign, their family should have talked to them, a mere minute or less than that gained is not worth a human life.
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Funny guy! Yeas, Friday we saw wind chills at -30 degrees, and I had to work outside because all these pricks at work get a friggin hangnail and they're out for a month. Pussies.
So...
Friday -30, Typhoon in 90 layers
Saturday 6" of snow Typhoon in parka
Sunday 50 degrees. Typhoon in shorts
Monday 25 degrees, Typhoon in 4 layers
I'm not exactly an ad for the Massachusetts Board of Tourism am I?!
Bill, my brother lives in Georgia, same type of thing with people being clueless to when the roads get slippery. They drive like they just stole the car all the time.
Typhoon Bill, my brother lives in Georgia, same type of thing with people being clueless to when the roads get slippery. They drive like they just stole the car all the time.
Shit, the smokies do that down there too! I swear when I was driving a semi through there, Buford T. Pusser passed me. On the damn shoulder, lights rollin'! Other lane was clear.