…BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM MST THURSDAY…
A BLIZZARD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 PM MST THURSDAY.
SNOW…HEAVY AT TIMES…WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. TOTAL
ACCUMULATIONS OF 10 TO 20 INCHES ARE EXPECTED IN MOST LOCATIONS
BY THURSDAY MORNING. AS MUCH AS 2 FEET OF SNOW WILL FALL IN THE
SOUTHERN SUBURBS AND PALMER DIVIDE AREA.
NORTH WINDS INCREASING TO AROUND 25 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS UP TO
40 MPH ESPECIALLY EAST OF I-25 WILL PRODUCE BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.
TRAVEL IS RAPIDLY BECOMING EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS AND WILL LIKELY
BECOME IMPOSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. TRAVEL IS NOT RECOMMENDED
THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING.
Snow is falling at a rate of 2" an hour for the last 3 hours. The wind is NE at about 20 mph with gusts much higher. The system is supposed to stall out about where it is right now, which means about 16 more hours of this.
Good thing I bought that bottle of Dewar’s last night.
Fun! We’re in a winter weather advisory, I think. Right now it’s just raining but it’s expected to change over to snow tonight. We’re supposed to get 3-5", which is a nice amount. Not too much, but should stick around for Christmas. I was beginning to worry that we wouldn’t have a white Christmas. I definitely don’t envy you the 10-20 inches though.
A couple of weeks ago, I read an article from a weather “expert” stating that the Front Range would stay dry till March.
Heh.
My boss was nice enough to close the office at 11, when most places are closing at noon or one. So I was able to make my way home, and my food, beer, and cigarette stops before it gets totally crazy. Fortunately, I got to the library yesterday.
So I’m home - warm, dry, fed, and amused - watching the snow fall and knowing I won’t be going to work till Friday. Kind of nice, really. Thank goodness I’m not a plow driver!
Damn the luck, I just couldn’t make it to work this morning.
Here I am with a couple nice thick juicy Ribeyes, a grill heating up outside, a bowl of potato Salad, and most of a bottle of Lagavullin, and no reason to leave for about 2 days. I will try to do my best to survive.
Holy crap it’s coming down fast! I’ve added another photo here.
That’s already a foot in my backyard out of the wind. There was just a dusting at 8 this morning. 12 inches in 5 hours! That 20" forecast is gonna need to get updated if this keeps up - which by all indications it is.
I’ve only got about (more or less) 6 inches on my balcony rail, in very southeast Denver. (Parker & Havana) There was a couple inches less at Orchard when I left work, but that was a while ago, and it was windier down there.
If I had any sense, this would be a good time to go out and knock down the wasp nest.
Man, got about a foot on the ground already (just north of Parker) and still coming down. I still have to go pick up my wife from her work and go to work myself tonight. My wife works within rock throwing distance of you, Frank. THIS is the reason we own 1 SUV. My car ain’t going nowhere until this is all over.
It’s funny, one of the nightly newscasts ran another “Oh noes! It’s unseasonably warm throughout the country! Must be global warming!” segment. One slice of humble pie, coming right up.
Bah! Not a flake of snow here in the Greater Toronto Area, and no prospects for any for the rest of 2006 much less Christmas. I feel like singing, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Easter.”
Granted, I don’t snow and am absolutely not a winter person, but Christmas needs snow. It just … does.
Parker Road from 225 up was not bad when I came through. MUCH better than the freeway. 25 looked like it hadn’t been touched at all. Huge drifts between the lanes; I had to look for SUVs breaking a trail when I needed to cross over.
I’m about to venture out on foot to the grocery store. Maybe there is a movie still on the shelves. It’s only a few blocks, but I expect to see a few cars stuck.
