Snowpocalypse Now

[filkertom]

The weather forecast said up to eight inches north of 8 Mile Road in Oakland and Macomb counties, some distance from here; Ann Arbor was supposed to get one to three inches, plus a bit of freezing rain that would ice up in the wee hours.

Surprise.

6-1/2" on the ground already, and this is supposed to continue until Rush Hour tomorrow. The radar looks like an Easter poster -- really, such lovely pastels all over the place. Oh, and we will get the freezing rain.

I'm stayin' riiiiiiiight here.

How's the weather where you are?

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

So far, so good. Of course, the prediction has moved from a dusting up to 1" to 1"-3" overnight tonight. Sounds familiar, eh? (I expect there to be over half a foot when I have to slog out to work, getting in at midnight Monday into Tuesday.

At least tomorrow's a holiday, so alt-side rules are suspended. Small mercies :-)

[druidsfire.livejournal.com]

A helluva lot nicer than up there. Thanks for being sensible and not going out in it! Hugs!

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Stay safe and warm! We're having a clear day right now, but it's just a break in rain that has been turning into quite a lot of snow up at the higher elevations. These storms have been slowing and shutting down the the interstates on the passes over the Sierra, in spite of how they really put some effort into keeping those stretches plowed open for the trucks.

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

43 degrees and clear. Possible freezing rain on Tuesday, according to my boss, who is a meteorologist.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

It's tree planting weather out here.

Snow!

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

There is going to be a foot and a half of snow, here in Minnesota. It is coming down so hard right now that, although Louie and I needed me to go to a nearby store (probably Target) to buy kitty litter, our cats will have to wait. And then tomorrow, if the snow has stopped, I estimate half an hour of shoveling to get my car off the street (i.e. in transit to another destination) and then Louie and I have a very wide driveway/parking lot out back, through which her car will need to maneuver to get her out to the street to deal with her clients. This looks just plain impossible, but we will manage somehow.

Nate

[jss]

Remarkably like the weather where you are, I'd say. Somehow I don't expect to be going to work at 6am.

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

Snowing, -4C, and all that green space we gained from that big melt earlier in the week is gone, baby, gone. Also, we're under a winter storm warning for later in the evening. I doubt it's going to be a real Snowpocalypse, but we're probably looking at some pretty heavy blowing snow, particularly out in the boonies where there's nothing to slow the wind down. Fortunately, tomorrow is a statutory holiday.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Reasonable weather, but we may well have ice Monday night from rain during the day.

60 mph wind gusts yesterday, though, which was rather surprising.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

It was wicked cold this morning - frost all over the motybike, which was parked outside at a friend's, but severe clear. Currently 41 and high cirrus. Calling for snow Tue-Wed but I call bullshit... not until I see what Cliff Mass has to say anyway. That'll be tomorrow.

Y'all stay warm, y'hear?

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

I don't buy the snow theory either. I think it'll rain, just as it's been doing for five months now. Why did I ever move here? (Oh, right. The six-foot tall redheaded lady who just came over for a kiss.)

[jw1776.livejournal.com]

Sunny 40 degrees

[hbruton.livejournal.com]

It's already started out there, first off as freezing rain and now it's snow. Pretty messy. Glad tomorrow is a holiday and the roomies don't have to drive to work through a mess. And it sure looks like it's going to be.

[sveethot.livejournal.com]

75 high, lunch & margaritas on the patio under a wicker umbrella, low of 61. You can haha in my face come August when we're having 100+ temps & 90% humidity.

Stay safe & warm. *hugs*

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

"Continued mostly dark tonight... changing over to widely scattered light in the morning." *grin, duck* (thanks George Carlin)

Virginia is doing fine weatherwise, right now but the storm is headed our way. Rain and wintry mix tonight, rain tomorrow, wintry mix tomorrow night through Tuesday, then warming up, but rain again on Thursday. I think that'll put paid to the last of the current snow mounds in our neighborhood. But I know better than to celebrate yet... our worst weather usually happens in March.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

"Tonight's low, 53 -- tomorrow's high, whenever I get up, ah ha ha ha ha!"

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I just shoveled at least 6 inches of snow off the sidewalk (and where is the snow-removal crew I hired, I would like to know!). It's still coming down.

I have a vacation day scheduled for tomorrow (nope, we don't get all the government holidays where I work). I'm glad I don't have to drive to work.

[poltr1]

No snow yet, but we're supposed to get about 4-6" this evening. And I'm driving from Buffalo to Dayton tomorrow.

[bentleywg.livejournal.com]

I just spoke to my sister in my Ann Arbor. "We just got 8 inches," she said. "How much did you get?"

Wha? We, in northwest suburban Chicago, got rain. That's it, just rain.

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

Cold and rainy. Tomorrow's supposed to be a "wintry mix"---snow and rain together. I'm not going anywhere.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

After I took the trash and recyclables to the curb this evening (Monday is our pickup day, and they might make it through), I let Sharon know that she might not be able to leave for work until after I run the snowblower in the morning.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I was gonna say. You're between me and jss1113, so icky all around for us.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Rain and sleet all today; temperatures dropping even more overnight for a skating rink drive into work tomorrow.

Happy President's Day!

[wizwom.livejournal.com]

moved a bit south - we hit 60. overcast, some rain predicted for Monday.

[caligogreywings.livejournal.com]

Balmy 67 degrees.

"Winter, she fall fast in these parts"

[capplor.livejournal.com]

-- from "Out of Boneville"

We suddenly got 1 inch of snow. Then it stopped.

[alverant.livejournal.com]

Rained pretty hard when I was driving to the DucKon meeting and when it was over it reduced to a drizzle. Radar says it's stopping soon and predicts a 32 degree low overnight. Hopefully that will prevent icing up for the morning rush hour.

[ladycheron.livejournal.com]

So far today, overcast, some drizzle. for tomorrow (Monday) NWS says: "Rain showers before noon, then rain and snow showers likely. Some thunder is also possible. Temperature falling to around 43 by 5pm." They add "no significant snow accumulation." Well, if the temp's staying above 35, of course not!!

Seriously, you folks getting winter 2.0: stay warm, dry and safe.

[jasperjones22.livejournal.com]

66F/18C and very windy

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Wet. It's Seattle in February. It's uniformly gray overhead when it isn't jet-black, which latter is about 16 hours a day, and it has been raining without cease since approximately October.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

Right now?

Overcast and 53 degrees.

But I've seen the radar. If that storm moves south a little bit, it's going to be ugly for the DC metro area in terms of snow and sleet, and we'll lose 20-25 degrees.

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

60 degrees. A bit of rain forecast, but other than that, this is one of those VERY few times that I'm glad to live in Southern Indiana.

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

60s and sunny the past few days. Should rain later today. Even this far south (TN), that's a tad warm for Feb. That's after we've had one of the snowiest winters we've seen in many years. Granted, it isn't much snow by MI standards.

[laurel-potter.livejournal.com]

I actually live in Wyoming, which is a city just SW of Grand Rapids. GR got between 5-7" in different parts of the city, and we got 5. I went out this morning and shoveled off the steps, and ran my car up and down the driveway so Dad's health care providers could get to us. It's not too bad. We had snow, then it warmed up just slightly and we had rain, then it got cold again, and the rain froze. We're having a lull right now, but later we're supposed to get another 1-2 inches.

As much as I might complain about taking care of the folks (and it gets more challenging every day) it's days like this that I'm glad I don't have to drive to work somewhere, lol. Been there, done that, glad I don't have to do it anymore.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Raining here and there, but that's about it. Closer to drizzle, actually.

[birder2.livejournal.com]

It's raining, the temperature is dropping, and it may well turn nasty.

[smparadox.livejournal.com]

we never really got the freezing rain we were promised, and I can live with that disappointment. But the light snow we were supposed to get all weekend fell all at once overnight, as did an additional foot, with another foot of drifting between our house and our shared-driveway-neighbor. The driveway is pretty much done, just some touch-up left to do before the Big Chill tomorrow, and we have a foot-and-a-half to clear off the cars (and then off the driveway again) and we are done. Good thing today is a holiday up here!

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Mid-40s and cloudy. Pretty standard Seattle weather, for this time of year.

[pooh27bear.livejournal.com]

Some of the cruddiest weather. First rain that melted almost the last of the snow from the snowpocolypes a couple weeks ago, then as everything is wet it started to sleet and ice up, then snow on top of that (the heavy wet stuff), and back to some rain then temps dropping to turn it all back into a thick 2"+ of pure ice. Shoveling was just chopping ice forever. Now tonight more snow on top of that.

[zorya-thinks.livejournal.com]

Cold rain all day long in Dayton, heavy at times, temps in the mid '30s with a windchill around 26. Changing to snow later. And a houseful of antsy cats.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I dodged the snow bullet today. Was supposed to get 1-2 inches overnight and another 2-4 during the day. With it being a holiday and school vacation, plows were not supposed to out until after all the snow stopped. Instead, we got 1 inch overnight, maybe another inch during the day, but it all stopped before lunchtime and was gone by when I had to drive home. No idea of Boston or south of the city got any harder, but north of Boston got off easy this time.

[antinomic.livejournal.com]

Spring has sprung! Cherry and Dogwood blossoms, other greenery coming real soon now. It will get to you soon, I'm sure.