Snow Expected 12/13 & 12/14 - Predictions

[390ford]

Seems like alot of the time the local weather calls for a dusting, we end up get 4" to 8" of snow. they say well that was unexpected. Then when they call for a winter storm saying how bad it will get, 8" plus. we get a dusting to an 1".

[NoCorruptionAllowed]

In northern Washington state on the coast it's 53F, hard to believe that though. Thought there might be snow soon. Instead roads are flooded in a few places and the Skagit river was way over it's lid. I think it's better today. In the winter here it's either southwest winds circling in from warmer California,  or northeast winds which go freezing cold coming in from Alaska, which makes the skies blue and sunny, but very cold.

[FlyersFan]

For anyone keeping track ...

Snow is just about over.

We got 8 inches of heavy wet snow.

So EVERY weather prediction on every channel and every source was WRONG.

And yet ... they all will be able to keep their jobs.    

I should have been a meteorologist.

Best job in the world.   You can screw it up every time and still be employed.

[Tecate]

Bahahaha! Right?!

In some jobs, you fuck up that bad and people die… and then you have the consequences, legal, administrative etc.

Not this.  I’m with you, I should have done the same. 

Tecate the meteorologist, hmm. Probably not quite as exciting as what I have been able to experience, but probably better pay and far less repercussions!!!

Ha!

Tecate

[rickymouse]

I'm three miles from the National Weather service where I live.  I can fine tune our location to our spot.  Our weather at our house is different than at the national weather service station, and also different than in Negaunee, which is about three miles from our house, and also three miles from the weather service.  I find that they usually have better predictions there than the local news stations.  for us anyway.  We can get six inches of snow while Negaunee gets a half inch...and vice versa, because of the wind direction.  When they logged out across the road from us....the snow does not fill our yard and drive so much anymore, it is more like the snowfall a thousand feet down the road both ways now.  Before the snowbanks grew the last eighth mile to our house, then went down back to normal an eighth mile the other way.  I kind of like it when all the snow doesn't land on our house and driveway anymore.  we live in the hills, logging those pines out changed the way the snow falls, now everyone is getting a little more and we get lots less. 

The old weatherman was much more experienced on our local tv weather, but he quit because he had to because he did not want the covid shot a while ago.  The young people now seem to not have enough experience yet to predict the weather in the UP, between lake Michigan and Lake superior, it is way different than in other areas of the country.

They also had some of the better more experienced weathermen at the National weather service retire...without training in new meteoroligists for this area before they retired...so much for decent forecasts anymore around here, but at least they are better than the local news.  Hire local people for the weather, people who know the UP of michigan who have lived here their whole life.

[rickymouse]

For anyone keeping track ...

Snow is just about over.

We got 8 inches of heavy wet snow.

So EVERY weather prediction on every channel and every source was WRONG.

And yet ... they all will be able to keep their jobs.    

I should have been a meteorologist.

Best job in the world.   You can screw it up every time and still be employed.

Eight inches of heavy wet snow?  That isn't even a snowstorm around here, just moderate snow.  Now we had fifteen inches a few times this year, the first time it all melted, the second time it stayed.  six inches doesn't even require plowing the drive, but I do it anyway.  We have a long circular drive and plowing over a foot and cleaning up usually takes me about an hour and a half to plow if there is over a foot.  About eight hundred feet to plow total with the area by the garages and parking area and windrow by the road so the plow doesn't pack the driveway full as soon as I plow.  about three gallons of gas every time I plow over eight inches average, light or heavy snow averaged in.

If we get a big snowstorm, like thirty inches, I use the tractor with the seven foot snowblower on the back....but that is cold, no cab on the tractor and it is hard on the neck looking backwards all the time with snow blowing on me...so I like the old chevy squarebody truck which is nice and warm for plowing.  After all the plowing spots are full, then I have to use the tractor to blow the snow over the five foot high banks...higher than the roof of the subaru forester.  But usually that happens in march, and it is not ten below anymore when I am out there blowing.

Glad that they logged across the road, lots less snow in our drive the last fifteen years.  By the garages and near the house, the snowbanks can be eight feet high when the winter is bad.  From going around the corners of the driveway, both truck doors are pushed in from hitting the banks.  Someday I need to cut some more trees, but I am seventy, I have cut too many trees down already, I feel guilty if I kill a nice tree now.

[rickymouse]

Seems like alot of the time the local weather calls for a dusting, we end up get 4" to 8" of snow. they say well that was unexpected. Then when they call for a winter storm saying how bad it will get, 8" plus. we get a dusting to an 1".

Four to six inches IS a dusting, one inch is a partly sunny day around here.