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Global warming :sarcasm:

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Weather guessers say there are three scenarios.

Scenario 1 (NBC): 12+ inches of the white stuff

Scenario 2 (ABC): 6-12" of the white stuff

Scenario 3 (unlikely): 3-5" of the white stuff.

The first scenario would be a December record. The weather will be bone cold and the snow will not melt soon. Washington DC will have a White Christmas.

Global Warming my ass.
 
Winter Storm Warning

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 AM EST SUNDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 6 AM EST SUNDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

* PRECIP TYPE...SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS...HEAVY SNOW WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES THROUGH SUNSET SATURDAY. LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE... MAINLY IN OR NEAR SOUTHERN MARYLAND. ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED SATURDAY NIGHT.

* TIMING...SNOW WILL BEGIN LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING.

* TEMPERATURES...UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S THROUGH THE EVENT IN THE BALTIMORE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA...MID TO UPPER 20S ACROSS WESTERN MARYLAND.

* WINDS...10 TO 20 MPH THROUGH THE EVENT...WITH GUSTS OF 25 TO 30 MPH SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET... AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.

&&
 
Four inches of wet snow right now (6:30 pm EST) and it keeps on coming down. They're calling for another four inches before its over tomorrow. Took me twice as long to get home this evening and it took about 15 minutes to clean off the car. But I didn't mind working out in it...as long as it was snow.
 
buckaroo said:
Four inches of wet snow right now (6:30 pm EST) and it keeps on coming down. They're calling for another four inches before its over tomorrow. Took me twice as long to get home this evening and it took about 15 minutes to clean off the car. But I didn't mind working out in it...as long as it was snow.
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Just rain down here, Buck. :D
 
Weather is fine here. A tad chilly, not bad. Just took the dog for a mile long walk through the ommunity.
 
The National Weather Service says it all:

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
1106 PM EST FRI DEC 18 2009

MDZ016-017-191215-
/O.NEW.KLWX.BZ.W.0001.091219T1100Z-091219T2300Z/
/O.NEW.KLWX.WS.W.0009.091219T2300Z-091220T1100Z/
/O.EXT.KLWX.WS.W.0008.000000T0000Z-091219T1100Z/
CHARLES-ST. MARYS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WALDORF...ST MARYS CITY
1106 PM EST FRI DEC 18 2009

...WINTER STORM WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EST SATURDAY...
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 6 PM EST SATURDAY...
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM SATURDAY TO 6 AM EST
SUNDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A
BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 6 PM EST
SATURDAY. A WINTER STORM WARNING HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS
WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM SATURDAY
MORNING...AND AGAIN FROM 6 PM SATURDAY EVENING UNTIL 6 AM SUNDAY
MORNING.

* PRECIPITATION TYPE...SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS...HEAVY SNOW WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 2 FEET
THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.

* TIMING...SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE SATURDAY NIGHT. SNOW
WILL BE HEAVIEST FROM 5 AM TO 5 PM SATURDAY.

* TEMPERATURES...UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S IN THE VALLEYS AND
FOOTHILLS...LOW TO MID 20S IN THE MOUNTAINS...AND LOW TO MID
30S IN COASTAL SOUTHERN MARYLAND.

* WINDS...15 TO 25 MPH...WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH DURING THE DAY
SATURDAY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT
CONDITIONS...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF
YOU MUST TRAVEL...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET
STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW...
SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO
POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.

&&

$$
 
Weather guessers said this will be either the worst or the second worst blizzard in history in DC.

This is, to make an understatement, the big one. Storm of the century here in Washington, DC.

:(
 
Well, I was supposed to go to La Plata today to see someone. Needless to say that ain't gonna happen.

Latest forecast: 15-22"
 
Bucky Badger said:
Yeah yeah...we got 19.5 last week, we all survived;)
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Big deal!! Wisconsin has snow plows. Evidently you have never beein in the DC area when they have a big storm.

And for Andy. The storms of 1983 and 1979 were probably worse than what you are now getting.....at least they were for the Maryland suburbs of DC.
 
Last night the weather guesser said 3-6 inches, 5 am this morning it was upped to 5-8.
Now they are predicting 12-15 inches and the official disclaimer was issued "if it stays on the projected path". Meaning if it tracks 100 miles to the south it'll be a minor storm, 100 miles north it'll be minimum 15+ inches.

Weather guessers, a pox on them!
 
SST55 said:
Last night the weather guesser said 3-6 inches, 5 am this morning it was upped to 5-8.
Now they are predicting 12-15 inches and the official disclaimer was issued "if it stays on the projected path". Meaning if it tracks 100 miles to the south it'll be a minor storm, 100 miles north it'll be minimum 15+ inches.

Weather guessers, a pox on them!
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They were dead on about this storm for us.
 
Same storm here, just a few degrees to warm. We're under a coastal flood warning (again) and are looking at yet another weekend of rain. Just 20 miles to the north in Williamsburg is getting snow.
 
muggle not said:
Big deal!! Wisconsin has snow plows. Evidently you have never beein in the DC area when they have a big storm.
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How many snow plows does DC have????

EDIT: Forget it I did it for you

1100 miles of roads

Approx pieces of snow equipment: 400
Number of heavy dump trucks fitted w/plows: 146
Number of light plows: 71

That's quite a lot of equipment...
 
Got a few inches of snow overnight. It is snowing very lightly right now. It actually feels warmer now than it did a few days ago though. The damp cold is much worse, it chills you to the bone. My sister-in-law lived in Alaska for years and said it feels a lot colder here in the winter than it did in Anchorage because it never got above freezing there, in the winter, so it was a much dryer cold.
 
Blizzard Warning's been extended. It was supposed to end two hours ago but the storm strengthened and pushed more snow towards us. Looks like we'll have two feet of snow before the end of this thing.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Blizzard Warning's been extended. It was supposed to end two hours ago but the storm strengthened and pushed more snow towards us. Looks like we'll have two feet of snow before the end of this thing.
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Do you have to shovel.....That would be a pain the the arse
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I need a damn tractor, not a shovel.
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LOL Andy - Don't get too worked up about it. I've shoveled many days, in many years that much snow & more. You just keep working at it. We just got a decent snow blower last year. The times it's the worse is when it's drifted. Aren't you going to be out of there soon to FL? You can handle it. :)
 
Our rain finally turned to snow! We got about an inch (my apologies to those who still have to shovel:D)
 
Most weather guessers are saying we got 12-15 inches. But I have a drift around my truck up to the windows! Still coming down but supposedly tapering off.
 
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