How is your weather? (Part 1)

yep. that much bad weather is never good. be safe Jeff! batten down the hatches!

subdood,
wasn’t it you who said a few days ago that in the 10 or 14 day forecast it was supposed to not get down to 32 at all?
Shows the long-range forecasts aren’t too good…tomorrow it’s only supposed to get to 32 for a HIGH!
Boy, a few days, how the forecast changes! (I call it missing their calling.)

I don’t remember saying that, but it is supposed to be below freezing maybe the next few nights, with maybe up to 3in of snow by tomorrow night. But, we are then in for a gradual warmup and more rain (hate it). It’s been dreary and rainy here the last couple days.

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It is currently 81 degrees with 73% humidity. Winds are about 20 mph. It feels quite pleasant, to be honest.

Fugly here

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25 inches? holy cats…

Calling for up to 8 inches around here Sunday…hope its only half that.

Looking ahead here…late next week could push the coldest air of the year so far into this area…

It got nasty last night…the bottom dropped out on the barometric pressure, and right around 10:15 the wind started howling, followed by the rain…oddly enough, that one storm was worse than our entire hurricane season…power flickered and went out for a few minutes…If you’ve never experienced it, it’s scary as hell when you hear the wind screaming around the house in the pitch dark…We were fortunate and didn’t lose any trees…Had there been more rain it might have been a different story, we got about .70 inches…

Realized I’m going to need to relocate my weather station…Throughout the storm, wind speed never got above 20mph and I know for sure some of the gusts were well north of 50…I think the anemometer needs to be a lot higher than it is…

Anyway, this gives you a good idea of the temp drop…went down 17 degrees in 45 minutes…

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Yep, 3 inches snow in Madison county…measured it on some evergreen shrubbery 4 feet off the ground. On the ground or pavement, much less as it melted from the bottom. What’s it like in the Carter/Boyd county area?

We got about 3in here, all schools in this area are closed, including my wife’s employer MSU. It started in about 1am, and is still flurrying some. This is the biggest snow here in three years.

I haven’t been outside yet, will try to get some pics. Our driveway is somewhat clear, but lots of snow on the grass and trees. From what I can see, the road is clear. It’s about 31, so if the sun comes out, I’d expect some to melt.

Our cats, who are less than a year old, aren’t liking the snow. They really want in, which we did let them come in for some treats. But, back outside they go.

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Some pics from my outing today, after we had got about 3 inches of snow this morning.

My feline escort. This was their first big snow, don’t think they cared for it, but still followed me everywhere

Triple Crown blackberry row by the barn. A bunch of canes on a double wire trellis. Huge four year old pear behind the row

View down below the house looking south

Juliet cherry in foreground, smaller Romeo in back

My four UArk blackberry varieties languishing in the snow, need to trellis them up.

Some apples and pluots below the barn

Old chicken coop and outhouse, currently unoccupied

Three year old Blushingstar peach

Snow covered old barn

One of my four year old Grimes Golden apple trees, with investigating cats

View looking down the hill toward the old house and huge pine tree

Early morning view down the drive

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A balmy -16 at 7:40 a.m.

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-10f here. its a cold cleanup day. had to bring the wife to work because of the 4ft. drifts in the driveway from yesterdays 2ft. snowfall. thank God for 4wd and good tires! was a wicked whiteout blizzard last night. my daughter in law had to sleep at her work at the hospital as the road home was closed because the DOT couldn’t keep up with the drifting.

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wow…we sat in the mid 20Fs most of the night and have no slide back down to 22F…a dusting of snow here too…some clearing now.

Still showing a good storm incoming…6 to 8 inches.

The gfs has really flipped long range… much more mild look. No subzero temps now next week.

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Plenty of sub zero temps here next week. It does look like we’ll miss the snow tomorrow though, so that doesn’t hurt my feelings.

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I don’t want any… I like that we almost got rid of what we had. Just when it was safe to wash the car.

I ordered some seeds so hope they get here quick… i’m a little behind…probably doesn’t matter when its snowing in May :slight_smile:

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Just returned from Florida vacation yesterday to this mess of snow and ICE. Wish I had taken pictures this morning…it was really pretty. Unfortunately the ice took down a lot of our orchard deer fence…that’ll be fun repairing over the coming days.:roll_eyes:

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Still a good 18" on the ground here, but after the one day warm up last weekend it is now crusted pretty hard.

Has this been a ‘normal’ winter for y’all so far? Last year was some historic cold, but this one seems a bit more tame. Still a month or so to go, tho.

Different climate here of course, but our coldest nights have been around the low teens, compared to a couple nights near zero last year. We had our biggest snow in three years yesterday, but it was only 3in or so. But, it has been very rainy too, which seems to be the norm.

We’ve been pretty average so far. Nothing like last year as far as cold goes. I think we’re behind last year on snowfall as fell. We are above average for snow though. That’s been pretty typical the last number of winters. About average temps and above average snow. I believe 2 of our coldest winters on record have occurred since 2012.

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