This week, a storm system across the United States has led to tornadoes in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas and across Louisiana. Furthermore, a blizzard was seen in the Plains and the Midwest. Furthermore, blizzard conditions were seen in Upstate New York and New England. Freezing rain was seen in Maryland and Pennsylvania. New York City got mostly rain with temperatures above freezing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 908677002/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/us/natio ... index.html
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/snow ... e/3997255/

Yup, its winter. Happens every year.

LabQuest wrote:

Yup, its winter. Happens every year.

I am glad that system skirted us to the north as it moved West and hit Tahoe hard. It was 22F in Searchlight last night. I couldn't believe it.

LabQuest wrote:

Yup, its winter. Happens every year.

Wellllllllll............ to be fair, we're still a few days short of winter.

ArchGuy1 wrote:

This week, a storm system across the United States has led to tornadoes in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas and across Louisiana. Furthermore, a blizzard was seen in the Plains and the Midwest. Furthermore, blizzard conditions were seen in Upstate New York and New England. Freezing rain was seen in Maryland and Pennsylvania. New York City got mostly rain with temperatures above freezing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 908677002/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/us/natio ... index.html
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/snow ... e/3997255/

What kind of weather affected you this past week? Did you lose power or deal with water damage? I didn't have any water damage.

CaptHadley wrote:

What kind of weather affected you this past week? Did you lose power or deal with water damage? I didn't have any water damage.

Not a damage per se, but a thunderstorm had us abort the work we were doing on the job site previous Saturday. And the electrical room got flooded, but the water caused no serious damage. Fortunately, we didn't get any tornadoes following Monday. But a tornado watch was in effect. This was in an area a bit south of Fort Worth.
Now I'm traveling home to YXU and we have a bad winter storm in the forecast for the end of the week.

Texans, rest easy now...

Gov. Abbott, and the head of ERCOT, and the head of the PUC have assured that we have more than enough power generating capacity and reserves for this multi-day severe cold weather event.

https://youtu.be/WV4ux-EJ5dY

cjg225 wrote:

LabQuest wrote:

Yup, its winter. Happens every year.

Wellllllllll............ to be fair, we're still a few days short of winter.

Meteorological winter started December 1st though.

WildcatYXU wrote:

CaptHadley wrote:

What kind of weather affected you this past week? Did you lose power or deal with water damage? I didn't have any water damage.

Not a damage per se, but a thunderstorm had us abort the work we were doing on the job site previous Saturday. And the electrical room got flooded, but the water caused no serious damage. Fortunately, we didn't get any tornadoes following Monday. But a tornado watch was in effect. This was in an area a bit south of Fort Worth.
Now I'm traveling home to YXU and we have a bad winter storm in the forecast for the end of the week.

I believe that you missed Capt Hadley's sarcasm.

johns624 wrote:

WildcatYXU wrote:

CaptHadley wrote:

What kind of weather affected you this past week? Did you lose power or deal with water damage? I didn't have any water damage.

Not a damage per se, but a thunderstorm had us abort the work we were doing on the job site previous Saturday. And the electrical room got flooded, but the water caused no serious damage. Fortunately, we didn't get any tornadoes following Monday. But a tornado watch was in effect. This was in an area a bit south of Fort Worth.
Now I'm traveling home to YXU and we have a bad winter storm in the forecast for the end of the week.

I believe that you missed Capt Hadley's sarcasm.

Well, I guess it was at FL380 flying above my head...

Meteorological winter can hit lower elevations of the Pacific Northwest anytime from November to mid February. We are about to take a super hit on Friday, upwards of 24 hours of freezing rain.

A chilly night in N.A.



https://weather.com/maps/current-wind-chill

DIRECTFLT wrote:

A chilly night in N.A.



https://weather.com/maps/current-wind-chill

Glad I am that 48 number in southern Nevada!

NIKV69 wrote:

DIRECTFLT wrote:

A chilly night in N.A.



https://weather.com/maps/current-wind-chill

Glad I am that 48 number in southern Nevada!

Yep, we will be suffering with temps in the mid 60's this Christmas.

7 tonight, in New England. No snow, hurricane like winds during the night, on generator now.

69 overnight in HNL...just terrible. Better not to show the Aloha state on that map anyway, throws all the pain off.

Going to be 6 overnight in eastern Pennsylvania. Yippee.

cjg225 wrote:

Going to be 6 overnight in eastern Pennsylvania. Yippee.

I woke up this morning at 7:45, went outside and it was 52.

I just took a walk with the dog at 10 , and it was 30. This is NC, and we are supposed to hit 10 tonight.

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

7 tonight, in New England. No snow, hurricane like winds during the night, on generator now.

Xmas Eve tomorrow at relatives who don't believe in central heating. Looks like I will be wearing longjohns under the fancy clothes.

frmrCapCadet wrote:

Meteorological winter can hit lower elevations of the Pacific Northwest anytime from November to mid February. We are about to take a super hit on Friday, upwards of 24 hours of freezing rain.

Yep, about a quarter inch of ice covering everything in sight this morning just SE of KSEA. Heard the runways were all shut down for a time earlier. Glad I have a set of Yaktrax for my shoes - only way the dog got out for his morning walk.

50° today with a high of 64° where I am. Such a nightmare!

ER757 wrote:

frmrCapCadet wrote:

Meteorological winter can hit lower elevations of the Pacific Northwest anytime from November to mid February. We are about to take a super hit on Friday, upwards of 24 hours of freezing rain.

Yep, about a quarter inch of ice covering everything in sight this morning just SE of KSEA. Heard the runways were all shut down for a time earlier. Glad I have a set of Yaktrax for my shoes - only way the dog got out for his morning walk.

YakTrax are one of the great inventions of all time!!!

jetwet1 wrote:

Yep, we will be suffering with temps in the mid 60's this Christmas.

It's a nice 65 here in Cal-Nev-Ari right now but I am taking a red eye to JFK to be with the family for Christmas tonight. When I am walking to the TWA hotel in the morning it will feel below zero!!! Ugh.

Just shoveled out the drifts from our driveway. About a foot of hard-packed snow. I could walk across the top. The wind made it hard to hold the shovel, gusting to 45 mph. Temperature about -5F. A good day for hot cocoa with a little extra additive.

7,000 + passengers flights cancelled by the airlines due to weather this week, so far...

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/friday-flight-cancellations/index.html

11 states taking emergency measures & 5 states under state of emergency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOP6jGYBpQQ

https://apnews.com/article/winter-storm ... 1b747572cb

Power outages have left about 1.4 million homes and businesses in the dark, according to the website PowerOutage, which tracks utility reports. Utilities in Nashville, Memphis and throughout the Tennessee Valley said they were implementing rolling blackouts Friday to conserve power as the region battles an extreme cold front.

And more than 4,600 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware, causing more mayhem as travelers try to make it home for the holidays.

https://poweroutage.us/

Wisconsin declared an energy shortage emergency too
"Energy emergency declared in Wisconsin"
https://www.nbc15.com/2022/12/22/energy ... wisconsin/

DIRECTFLT wrote:

https://apnews.com/article/winter-storm-forecast-updates-d0808da42ce16e8a0ca4541b747572cb

Power outages have left about 1.4 million homes and businesses in the dark, according to the website PowerOutage, which tracks utility reports. Utilities in Nashville, Memphis and throughout the Tennessee Valley said they were implementing rolling blackouts Friday to conserve power as the region battles an extreme cold front.

And more than 4,600 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware, causing more mayhem as travelers try to make it home for the holidays.

https://poweroutage.us/

A couple more winters like this (summers are already getting more extreme) and people will be welcoming nuclear power back.

casinterest wrote:

cjg225 wrote:

Going to be 6 overnight in eastern Pennsylvania. Yippee.

I woke up this morning at 7:45, went outside and it was 52.

I just took a walk with the dog at 10 , and it was 30. This is NC, and we are supposed to hit 10 tonight.

Yeah. It was actually somewhat warm this morning. Around 50-ish here, too. Dropped like a stone through the day. Was already around 30 by the time lunch rolled around.

Just went outside around 7:15pm. Takes me about 4 minutes to walk to my complex's dumpsters, a minute at the dumpsters, and 4 minutes back. Made the very stupid mistake of not wearing gloves.

When I got back, my hands were so stiff and numb that I could barely work the key for the mailbox in my building's vestibule or my apartment's door.

Took like 5 minutes being back inside my apartment for my left thumb to stop hurting even after washing my hands under warm water for a minute. Absolutely brutal outside.

According to my phone, it's 8 outside right now with a windchill of -12.

Aaron747 wrote:

DIRECTFLT wrote:

https://apnews.com/article/winter-storm-forecast-updates-d0808da42ce16e8a0ca4541b747572cb

Power outages have left about 1.4 million homes and businesses in the dark, according to the website PowerOutage, which tracks utility reports. Utilities in Nashville, Memphis and throughout the Tennessee Valley said they were implementing rolling blackouts Friday to conserve power as the region battles an extreme cold front.

And more than 4,600 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware, causing more mayhem as travelers try to make it home for the holidays.

https://poweroutage.us/

A couple more winters like this (summers are already getting more extreme) and people will be welcoming nuclear power back.

They've already welcomed coal back in Europe.

https://buffalonews.com/news/local/the- ... cc887.html

'The worst storm in our community's history': Day 2 of Buffalo blizzard brings suffering, rescues

Erie County (Buffalo) 4 p.m. winter storm update on Saturday, Dec. 24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNoPGzTxmAg

Buffalo Bills will not be flying back to Buffalo tonight or tomorrow.
They will instead fly to Rochester Sunday, and then see about getting to Buffalo if that's possible.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/a ... zzard.html

SUNDAY:

9:00 A.M. On Sunday Erie County County Executive Mark Poloncarz said the travel ban will remain in effect due to more snow accumulating Saturday night. Also, that there are 26, 000 power outages in Erie County and 20,000 in Buffalo. He said the earliest power will be restored is Monday.

Poloncarz said there were four deaths overnight in Erie County from the winter storm, totaling seven deaths as of this morning.

https://www.wgrz.com/article/weather/se ... xit-recirc

DIRECTFLT wrote:

Aaron747 wrote:

DIRECTFLT wrote:

https://apnews.com/article/winter-storm-forecast-updates-d0808da42ce16e8a0ca4541b747572cb

Power outages have left about 1.4 million homes and businesses in the dark, according to the website PowerOutage, which tracks utility reports. Utilities in Nashville, Memphis and throughout the Tennessee Valley said they were implementing rolling blackouts Friday to conserve power as the region battles an extreme cold front.

And more than 4,600 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were canceled Friday, according to the tracking site FlightAware, causing more mayhem as travelers try to make it home for the holidays.

https://poweroutage.us/

A couple more winters like this (summers are already getting more extreme) and people will be welcoming nuclear power back.

They've already welcomed coal back in Europe.

Coal is unsustainable for a country the size of the US. Nuclear is not.

Aaron747 wrote:

DIRECTFLT wrote:

Aaron747 wrote:

A couple more winters like this (summers are already getting more extreme) and people will be welcoming nuclear power back.

They've already welcomed coal back in Europe.

Coal is unsustainable for a country the size of the US. Nuclear is not.

Not wanting to derail a thread, given this storm has taken lives and it’s a moot point now, though I was shocked to find that coal became the leading power generation fuel in the 1960’s, not 1860’s as you might expect.

Not much electrification in the 1860s. I visited England in the ‘60s and there were still coal-fired steam trains. Loved seeing them in Bournemouth

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

Not much electrification in the 1860s. I visited England in the ‘60s and there were still coal-fired steam trains. Loved seeing them in Bournemouth

You were just in time, I think the last few scheduled British Rail ones were in 1968.
Enthusiasts run/restored some since.

That nasty cold weather is heading for the UK and is expected the first week of New Year, let's how we cope.

Looks like more bad weather for the Bay Area after the second rainiest day in SFO history. I was in SMF for the New Years Eve storm last weekend and saw so much tree damage across Sacramento. There was a lot of property damage there. The drive from SFO to SMF was horrible. The Bay Bridge had so much water. Not a typical pattern for La Nina in the Bay Area.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/ne ... -bay-area/

Seems like the jet stream is running at over 200mph, and the weekend could see 100mm of rain, Mother Nature is pissed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64169954