We Could Talk About The Weather

[w2amr]

Five inches of snow over an inch and a half of ice. Two pm yesterday it had been icing for a couple of hours when a large tree up the street came down. Eight poles in the neighborhood were replaced last night. Twelve hours without power. Twenty-nine hours without internet or even TV.

I started tuning around the FMBCB and AMBCB on a portable. Not one report of local conditions on the commercial stations. NOAA weather radio was useless in the situation as well. I would be interested in local reports and updates. Two meter repeaters were quiet. Need an updated scanner if I want to listen to public safety and work crews.

Twenty one degrees is the forecast for tonight. Thirty degrees last night in all the mess.

It snowed here for over 24 hrs. No ice though.

[W3WN]

Forecast earlier in the week said maybe an inch.
Thursday night, we were in the "1 to 3 inches" belt.
Snow was supposed to start falling at 6 PM, then at 9 PM yesterday.
Snow started at 1 PM, very light. Really started coming down & sticking around 4 PM.
We ended up with 7 inches.
10, 15 miles South of us (KB3LIX's neck of the woods) had 18 inches, and the further South you went, the deeper it got.
10, 15 miles North of us... nothing.

An 80+ mile stretch of the Pa Turnpike was closed last night. It's still closed. Estimated 500 vehicles stranded. Several tractor trailers jackknifed, and once traffic stopped, the snow just piled on. They have no idea when they're going to get traffic moving again. Meanwhile, most of those vehicles have been stuck for over 24 hours -- no food, no water, no way off. And you figure some of them have run out of gas by now, as well...

Stuck on the westbound side is the bus carrying the Duquesne University men's basketball team home. Stuck on the eastbound side is the bus carrying the Temple University girl's gymnastics team home. Hmmmm......

[K4PIH]

20160123_191443.jpgGot 30" at the qth here in northern virginia.

[KG4CGC]

That's a lot of four letter word.

[NQ6U]

Overnight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 51. South wind around 5 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph in the afternoon.

[kb2vxa]

We got clobbered here, with dual monitors I was watching movies on one and NWS Doppler radar on the other. I had the scanner on in the background listening to the usual stuff, nothing moving except for emergency services, even flights at Lakehurst NAS and McGuire AFB were suspended. Things are starting to move today, sort of, I heard them digging New Jersey Transit trains out in Bay Head Yard, still nothing moving at 4:00pm. Thankfully power and heat stayed on and so did cable for my Internet and TV for those easily entertained by dreck. Anything can happen here at the Jerky Shore, but I half expected power to stay on because the 27KV 3 phase atom by wire feeders are well clear of trees and I'm only a block from the substation so I expected the 4800V 3 phase secondaries to hold up, I'm glad I was right. This was a rare event here at the shoreline and I'm glad of that too, if it happened every winter I'd move to SoCal the land of fruits and nuts where I'd easily fit in the can of mixed nuts and leave the fruits to do their own thing. Floriduh has the weather but not the climate, you know what I mean. Oh, the scanner has a 12V 7.5AH gel battery on float charge so it doesn't even notice a power failure, at least I'd have had something to listen to while I froze my ass off by the light of a candle.

[XE1/N5AL]

...but I half expected power to stay on because the 27KV 3 phase atom by wire feeders are well clear of trees and I'm only a block from the substation so I expected the 4800V 3 phase secondaries to hold up, I'm glad I was right.

You must run a really big linyear to need them kind of volts in yer shack!

[KG4CGC]

You must run a really big linyear to need them kind of volts in yer shack!

Enough to knock him off his rocker?

[NQ6U]

Enough to knock him off his rocker?

That would explain a lot...

[n2ize]

Storm was severe here. Massive snow drifts driven by 100 mph crosswinds across from Brooklyn. . Snowfall at a rate of 12 inches a minute along with intense lightning, thunder and frequent tornado's. Had to climb out to the roof with snowshoes to get out of the house at hurricane wind driven ice and snow at temperatures of -80 below zero.