Snow?

[Tjodalv]

I fucking love snow. One of the best things about living in Buffalo for a while was similar snow fall to Chicago without the bone-raping cold (it was almost always 10-15 degrees warmer there). If I could live in a place with ungodly amounts of snow and have it hover around freezing the entire time I'd be in paradise...a massive snow-tunnel/fort filled paradise (yes I still engage in youthful acts like building epic snow forts [and drinking in them...]).

 

[Run the ball]

What's "pretty warm" in Canada? Like -20F?

Oh crap , the F thing fucks me up, lol. But it's been -3 to 10 degrees Celcius and that's bove normal for here, out at the rig it's been -25 or below at night for a few weeks, but that's in northern BC/Alberta and that's cold!

Edit - I googled the conversion ... -20 F is -28 Celcius, that's pretty chilly and hardly ever gets that cold where I live, but it has been @ the rig for a few weeks!

The lowest I've ever seen a thermometer is -55 C which is -69F. The truck thermometer stops reading below -40(it defaults to zero) and it read zero for 14 days straight, I hated life during that stretch ...

 

[MIKETOUHY]

For the second year in a row, I'm looking at green grass alongside Christmas lights. This is just...wrong. Less than 2 years ago, the groundhog was being pummeled by a winter hurricane...took these pics the following morning.

I want snow damnit, didn't leave Florida behind to see people out on Harley's in December.

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Who needs it?

 

[ShiftyDevil]

I fucking love snow. One of the best things about living in Buffalo for a while was similar snow fall to Chicago without the bone-raping cold (it was almost always 10-15 degrees warmer there). If I could live in a place with ungodly amounts of snow and have it hover around freezing the entire time I'd be in paradise...a massive snow-tunnel/fort filled paradise (yes I still engage in youthful acts like building epic snow forts [and drinking in them...]).

Agreed!

 

[DC]

Who needs it?

People that depend on it for drinking water. States like Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada. Water from the mountains melts and runs into tributaries, rivers, and streams and our rivers stretch several states feeding and watering hundreds of thousands of people.

And every year we get less and less snow.

 

[Sunbiz1]

People that depend on it for drinking water. States like Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada. Water from the mountains melts and runs into tributaries, rivers, and streams and our rivers stretch several states feeding and watering hundreds of thousands of people.

And every year we get less and less snow.

Get used to it, this pattern is not one of those 2-3 year El Nino events but rather a global warming cycle. It could last for decades.

 

[DC]

Hopefully not!

 

[BNB]

It will last. Technically, we're actually still in an ice age... or coming out of one. The ice has been receding for thousands of years and there's obviously still some left in Greenland, Alaska, etc. On average, it's going to continue getting warmer over the next x amount of years. Probably another few thousand.

Oddly, the effect of of getting out of the ice age is more snow in some places. Chicago will probably be one of those places and the temperature bumps up a few extra degrees on average over the next x amount of years, which would be the ideal temperature for snow.

 

[Run the ball]

To go along the theme of global warming, my work season always ends with Mother Nature bringing in spring. This has been happening earlier and earlier over the last 12 years. We used to be able to stretch work into early April and now we're lucky to get to mid March. A small sample size and pretty subjective, but this is the reality in northern Canada.

 

[Sunbiz1]

It will last. Technically, we're actually still in an ice age... or coming out of one. The ice has been receding for thousands of years and there's obviously still some left in Greenland, Alaska, etc. On average, it's going to continue getting warmer over the next x amount of years. Probably another few thousand.

Oddly, the effect of of getting out of the ice age is more snow in some places. Chicago will probably be one of those places and the temperature bumps up a few extra degrees on average over the next x amount of years, which would be the ideal temperature for snow.

I was under the impression this should translate to more Winter liquid precip. in Chicago...like today. Those added several degrees seem to shift storm tracks further north.

 

[Uman85]

I fucking love snow. One of the best things about living in Buffalo for a while was similar snow fall to Chicago without the bone-raping cold (it was almost always 10-15 degrees warmer there). If I could live in a place with ungodly amounts of snow and have it hover around freezing the entire time I'd be in paradise...a massive snow-tunnel/fort filled paradise (yes I still engage in youthful acts like building epic snow forts [and drinking in them...]).

I thought I was the only one. I love snow and cold weather. Just doesn't get any better than seeing a blanket of snow in the morning and a long day of snowfall.

 

[Capt. Serious]

Not sure how much, but snow tomorrow.

 

[Sunbiz1]

Not sure how much, but snow tomorrow.

Enough for a white Christmas, and should arrive just in time for the evening rush.

 

[zack54attack]

Enough for a white Christmas, and should arrive just in time for the evening rush.

Great.

 

[Sunbiz1]

Great.

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsig...012&local_place1=&product1=Winter+Storm+Watch

And that's a good forecast, Wisconsin and Eastern Iowa expecting blizzard conditions.

 

[Uman85]

Not sure how much, but snow tomorrow.

Enough for a white Christmas, and should arrive just in time for the evening rush.

http://forecast.weather.gov/showsig...012&local_place1=&product1=Winter+Storm+Watch

And that's a good forecast, Wisconsin and Eastern Iowa expecting blizzard conditions.

Damn. You lucky bastards. It's 50 damn degrees down here.

 

[brett05]

Don't be too jealous Uman, forecast says a small warm up just before Christmas might melt it all away

 

[RosettaStoned]

Expecting 6-12 inches in Des Moines tonight.. yuck.

 

[Scoot26]

Expecting 6-12 inches in Des Moines tonight.. yuck.

Sounds like a good time to me. I always wish for 24+ inches in an evening. Enough to get a extra paid day off work.

 

[JosMin]

Four-wheel drive bitches. Bring on some powder