I imagine our real cold snap will hit ohio in like February. I'm just glad the flooding near the door to my apartment didn't turn into a skating rink overnight.
The city snow plow left a wall of snow at the end of my driveway, maybe three feet wide and one and a half feet high.
Then the freezing rain turned that entire wall, from the top all the way down to the cement, into one singular block of ice.
I spent about an hour and twenty minutes chopping shoveling the wall away, then went in to shower and get ready for work.
While walking out to my car my neighbour came out with his ATV with a snowplow on the front, and cleared out the ice wall in front of their driveway in about a minute and forty seconds.
I like my neighbours, they're unintrusive and kind. I was not thinking kind thoughts of him at that moment though.
I was also wishing I had an atv with a snowplow on it.
Convergence Zone: Thin band of snow near the Lynnwood area with difficult driving near the I-405 interchange. These webcams are approximately 3 miles apart. Huge variation over a small area. #WAwx pic.twitter.com/tNIVgo6JUW
Not exactly weather, but my past month has hit "typhoon", "earthquake", and (kinda) "volcano", so that's something.
Yeah that part of the world is really being hit back to back. Stay safe!
Hasn't been bad for us, thankfully. We were in the mountains and only got "signal number 2" winds which is (I think?) Tropical storm level. Lost power for a few days, but we had a generator. Closer to the coast got it worse.
Quake was fairly far away and I think we only felt it because we were on the 4th floor at the time. I don't think there was any injuries in that one so it was kinda "neat" in that I've lived over a decade in CA but have been traveling or asleep for any I could feel, so it was my first.
Volcano was a different part of the country, but has disrupted air travel while going home - I'm thankfully not in the effected areas for it (there's a lot of evacuees for anyone looking for charities to donate to, I think there's some stuff for it). So fingers crossed.
Hey, what weather app, if any, do you all use?
I got rid of my previous one (Weather Underground) because it wouldn't give me current weather without me refreshing it, and the one I picked as a replacement (Vegoo) doesn't seem to be very accurate.
NOAA doesn't have an app, I guess, and I am not on twitter (twitter also would not put current weather on my homescreen), so I'm looking for something good, that will automatically refresh at intervals.
W-Underground started sucking extremely hard as soon as it was bought by The Weather Channel
I eventually replaced it with What The Forecast. I don't know if I'd recommend the app as its tone (can apps have a tone?) is monumentally irritating
but the forecast for the Boston region is way more accurate than any other I've had, and the interface isn't dumb (some of the icons are a bit unintuitive but if I just want to get a current temp and hi/low estimates for the next week it is extremely up front and no-frills).
My Google phone appears to use weather.com for its Weather app/widget thing. It is always there, doing its thing. When I actually want to check the forecast, though, I use the Environment Canada app. (Not necessarily helpful for you... but maybe looking into the Google weather.com thing may help you?)
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Sidewalks are getting icy and here I am wearing cowboy boots and not snow/hiking boots.
weather.com in the states has always been pretty blah as a web service, but I assume a lot of the apps out there are using it as the back-end - the UI is what makes the difference between usable and trash.
I got spoiled by Australia's BOM coverage, even 15 years ago they had some of the nicest interactive radar displays I've ever seen.
Hey, what weather app, if any, do you all use?
I got rid of my previous one (Weather Underground) because it wouldn't give me current weather without me refreshing it, and the one I picked as a replacement (Vegoo) doesn't seem to be very accurate.
NOAA doesn't have an app, I guess, and I am not on twitter (twitter also would not put current weather on my homescreen), so I'm looking for something good, that will automatically refresh at intervals.
I just keep my NOAA weather.com local forecast page open in my phone's browser all the time
It snowed late last week and some of the snow was still around on areas where the sun barely gets to and on bare ground. It rained today making it messy. But seriously I can do without the loud exhaust and gunshots
It snowed late last week and some of the snow was still around on areas where the sun barely gets to and on bare ground. It rained today making it messy. But seriously I can do without the loud exhaust and gunshots
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And sunday will be nice, having a couple cm of loose snow sitting right on top of like an inch of fresh ice.
"And so it begins, the great ice storm of our time." -Gandalf
It's going from the gulf all the way up diagonally to New Brunswick or so. That's crazy.
It's also 60f here in January. Though it's supposed to drop 30 whole degrees after the rain or so.
edit: I just realised that this is about 40C above where the temperature usually is in early January.
which is INSANE.
Still nothing wet falling from the sky.
Then the freezing rain turned that entire wall, from the top all the way down to the cement, into one singular block of ice.
I spent about an hour and twenty minutes chopping shoveling the wall away, then went in to shower and get ready for work.
While walking out to my car my neighbour came out with his ATV with a snowplow on the front, and cleared out the ice wall in front of their driveway in about a minute and forty seconds.
I like my neighbours, they're unintrusive and kind. I was not thinking kind thoughts of him at that moment though.
I was also wishing I had an atv with a snowplow on it.
Convergence Zone: Thin band of snow near the Lynnwood area with difficult driving near the I-405 interchange. These webcams are approximately 3 miles apart. Huge variation over a small area. #WAwx pic.twitter.com/tNIVgo6JUW
Holy shit!
I’m all prepared for snow here south of Seattle which means it probably won’t snow...
We'll probably get our normal snow, not last year's "HI HELLO ALL THE SNOW NOW".
Thanks for the warning banner (and push notifications), Environment Canada...
I'm sorry, where are you and how can I get there?
Yeah that part of the world is really being hit back to back.
Especially Kelvin.
Hasn't been bad for us, thankfully. We were in the mountains and only got "signal number 2" winds which is (I think?) Tropical storm level. Lost power for a few days, but we had a generator. Closer to the coast got it worse.
Quake was fairly far away and I think we only felt it because we were on the 4th floor at the time. I don't think there was any injuries in that one so it was kinda "neat" in that I've lived over a decade in CA but have been traveling or asleep for any I could feel, so it was my first.
Volcano was a different part of the country, but has disrupted air travel while going home - I'm thankfully not in the effected areas for it (there's a lot of evacuees for anyone looking for charities to donate to, I think there's some stuff for it). So fingers crossed.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, baby! Planes may freeze, so you may want to just drive it.
Seattle might get hit tomorrow, but given how much snow we've gotten thus far, I can't imagine we'll close the office.
Puyallup proper only had 0.5-1 inch, some more snow fell in our neighborhood after @Moriveth left for work this morning.
I got rid of my previous one (Weather Underground) because it wouldn't give me current weather without me refreshing it, and the one I picked as a replacement (Vegoo) doesn't seem to be very accurate.
NOAA doesn't have an app, I guess, and I am not on twitter (twitter also would not put current weather on my homescreen), so I'm looking for something good, that will automatically refresh at intervals.
I eventually replaced it with What The Forecast. I don't know if I'd recommend the app as its tone (can apps have a tone?) is monumentally irritating
but the forecast for the Boston region is way more accurate than any other I've had, and the interface isn't dumb (some of the icons are a bit unintuitive but if I just want to get a current temp and hi/low estimates for the next week it is extremely up front and no-frills).
I got spoiled by Australia's BOM coverage, even 15 years ago they had some of the nicest interactive radar displays I've ever seen.
I think our weather folks are more like hype-men.
I just keep my NOAA weather.com local forecast page open in my phone's browser all the time
My favorite CA weather blog has posted an update, focus on tomorrow's storm and the upcoming couple weeks.
:bigfrown: