We currently have one such low about to move through (N Ohio) later today, have already gotten the wind and rain (too warm for snow-yet). This one is just a preview for the weekend one, which will be a real doozy: check out the isobars in this forecast map (the weird thing is that, instead of heading out over the North Atlantic it will instead reverse direction and hang out over Hudson Bay for awhile). It will likely make any outdoor NFL games a real adventure.
Don’t know much about interpreting isobars, but it sure looks like PA has a target pointed on it.
Raining here in NE Ohio. Forecasts can change, I’m hoping they are wrong, but 20 degrees for a high Sunday.
One year, a week before The Big Event ™ the 7-day forecast came out & it looked awful. Someone asked my boss what he was going to do & his response was, “Smile”
A cocked dog head look & a, “Whajamean?” got the following response:
The weather forecasters are never right this far out & if they’re calling for awful it can only get better.
Forecast shows snow for next week, of course last week’s forecast showed a lot of snow for this past Sat…the grass turned white…for a little bit…then it turned to slush & then rain. There was minimal slush on the ground on Sun morning but lots of big puddles. Today is calling for 2½" of rain & a high of around 50° If only it were 20° colder it would be a glorious day!
While in general you are correct (I was expecting 4" of snow yesterday morning, but just got mud), the (next) low in question already exists (currently parked over Vancouver Island, with 4 of its buddies), is already demonstratably powerful, and the steering winds normally bring them east. SOMEONE will get nailed, only a question of where and when exactly. Plus it quite easily could get worse.
I do agree with keeping a positive chin up and not overreacting tho. One reason I moved here (dunno where SuntanLotion is, I’m on the Westside) is to get away from hurricanes. These winter lows are hardly ever as powerful as a mere Category 1, and we don’t need to worry about storm surge.
Lake County.
That low out in the Vancouver area will likely pass my way in a few days. Weather Network is predicting daily highs of -30 C by the end of the week.
Apparently the normal seasonal mass of cold arctic air was stuck over Siberia for much of December, but is finally on the move.
Here in southern Ontario, we’ve been getting the predicted effects of El Nino all winter so far – unseasonably warm with no snow to speak of. Right now it feels like early fall, with light rain.
It’s been like late April here: dirty melting snow and above average humidity, but temps just below 0.
We’re getting that tomorrow, so you should have it soon. Not looking forward to it. At least, I managed to stock up with some things today, so I’ll have to go out as little as possible.
Not a blizzard-- some rain involved, but no snow. But howling high winds. My power went off; NYSEG’s auto line says, in effect though not in these words, “it’s out all over the place, thanks for telling us yet another place where it’s out, no idea yet when it’s going to be back on.”
So, since when it’s down all over they (reasonably) fix the things that will bring the most people their power back first, it may be a while. And, since I generally messageboard from the desktop, which I’m about to shut down before its backup power supply battery gives up, it may be a while tlll I’m back on the board. (My house is well set up for winter power outages: wood stove and firewood, hand water pump, lots of assorted lighting devices, lots of food and lots of books. No problem, or at least not much of one.)
See you tomorrow, I hope. I probably won’t start the desktop back up tonight even if the power comes up before bed.
Seattle area may actually get snow Fri and Sat, and the forecast is for it to be “butt cold” for the next few days. That is, below freezing as the high and down to 7F for the low. Hopefully, will avoid the snowpacalypse scenario where it gets slushy during the day, freezes at night, and end up with snow over an ice sheet on all the roads.
My power’s back on, as of about 3:00 this afternoon (so out for about 18 hours.)
Next round due Friday night into Saturday; but everything’s all charged back up and ready to go if needed.
Glad to hear that, Thorny_Locust!
We had a mini-blizzard overnight. Now just cold.
I just got an alert on my phone (I didn’t know it did this. How do they know?). Severe Winter Storm Warning! Hooray!! We need the snow BAD!
Smaller one predicted for the weekend.
Snow overnight and today, and severely cold: temps between -20C and -30C. Too cold to go out and shovel—at least that’s the excuse I’m using. The car is plugged in, but I’d rather not use it for a short trip. If I need anything (and I don’t think I will, but just in case), the corner store is three blocks away. It’ll be a chilly walk, but if I dress for it and keep moving, I should be fine.
Yes, bundle up and keep moving and you should be okay.
(Our car battery died a few years ago so I walked to work in -40 with appropriate gear. Still have all my fingers and toes.)
Next week the low temperatures here will be btwn 0 (Fahrenheit) and the low teens. Coincidentally we will be in the Caribbean.
I’m happy. When we are on vacation and it’s 30-40 I feel like we might as well be at home.
Sunday the high will be -3 degrees Fahrenheit–and the low -16.
That should be illegal! Write to your Congressman.