# Holy crap! It's snowing!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505 "2008-01-29T21:47:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/1 "2008-01-29T21:47:47Z")
At noon the temperature was 68 degrees.
At 2:00 p.m. it was 60 degrees.
One hour, forty-five minutes later it’s snowing.
Life in the Midwest!
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### Author:  [@Contrary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrary)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/2 "2008-01-29T21:53:47Z")
Here in Kansas City, it was 55 degrees F when I got up at 5:20 AM. By 8:30 we’d dropped 20 degrees, an hour later down to 25, an hour after THAT it was 15 and snowing hard.
Now it’s sunny and 20.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/3 "2008-01-29T22:21:32Z")
It started snowing last night in Vancouver, we have about a foot of it.
You can tell, because the entire city is completely crippled. Snow is our kryptonite.
Ooh, just this moment, as I was typing this, I received e-mail that our office is closing at 3:30… because it snowed.
_Very_ West Coast.
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### Author:  [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/4 "2008-01-29T22:32:13Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou]
At noon the temperature was 68 degrees.
At 2:00 p.m. it was 60 degrees.
One hour, forty-five minutes later it’s snowing.
Life in the Midwest!
[/QUOTE]
Seriously! This morning it was 62. Now it’s 39, snowing, windy, foggy and there’s a tornado watch!
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### Author:  [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/5 "2008-01-29T22:33:47Z")
I think we’ve warmed up about three degrees to -30C or so.
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### Author:  [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/6 "2008-01-29T22:41:48Z")
I heard there was snow on top of Haleakala today as well, as well as possibly snow on the Big Island. However, Haleakala was closed due to icy conditions. If it hadn’t been closed, I bet my auntie and her family would have been up there in a heartbeat and even dragged me along. Would have been awesome fun.
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### Author:  [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/7 "2008-01-29T23:08:12Z")
We’ve dropped about 50ºF in the last 30 hours, and will go down about another 10.10 miles south of my house, they closed the interstate due to blizzard conditions.
I knew I should have taken yesterday off, due to good weather.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/8 "2008-01-29T23:09:08Z")
If it’s the same storm, it went by me the night before last, dropping a foot of snow where I am and more up higher. Enjoy!
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### Author:  [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/9 "2008-01-29T23:47:38Z")
No tornado watch that I know of … this time. Nice to know I’m sharing the crazy cold front today.
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### Author:  [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/10 "2008-01-30T00:45:53Z")
We had a temperature hovering in the mid minus 30s celsius today with a windchild at minus 50 celsius. Yes, it is cold enough for me.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/11 "2008-01-30T00:57:02Z")
+5C and wet here. We’re supposed to get ferocious winds and a dropping temperature tonight, though:
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> A POWERFUL COLD FRONT IS NOW RACING TOWARD SOUTHERN ONTARIO. THE FRONT WILL REACH THE WINDSOR AREA BY MIDNIGHT..THE TORONTO AND HIGHWAY 400 CORRIDOR AROUND 4 AM..AND EASTERN ONTARIO AROUND DAWN WEDNESDAY. BEHIND THE COLD FRONT A VERY STRONG BLAST OF COLD ARCTIC AIR IS EXPECTED THAT WILL CAUSE THE TEMPERATURE TO PLUMMET SHARPLY. WESTERLY WINDS WITH GUSTS TO 90 OR 100 KM/H ARE EXPECTED WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 110 KM/H IN EXPOSED AREAS NEAR THE GREAT LAKES. FLASH FREEZE WARNING.. THE COLD FRONT THAT WILL SPAWN THE HIGH WINDS WILL ALSO CAUSE TEMPERATURES TO RAPIDLY PLUMMET FROM VALUES NEAR +5 TO +8 TO VALUES OF NEAR -10 OR LOWER. THIS DRAMATIC TEMPERATURE DROP WILL OCCUR OVER ALL OF SOUTHERN ONTARIO. THE FLASH FREEZE WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PLACES WHERE CONSIDERABLE WATER IS EXPECTED TO BE LYING AROUND FROM MELTING SNOW. BLOWING SNOW WARNING.
- from the [Weather Network](http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/CAON0696).
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a “flash freeze warning” before.
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### Author:  [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-its-snowing/435505/12 "2008-01-30T01:00:41Z")
Heard on the radio STL set a record high today of 71.
Most definitely was snowing by 3 or 4 pm.
Living here drives me crazy.