Snowman63
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Wintry Feb 17-19 Smastsmasher Snow/Ice
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Weather station shows it dipped to 31.6 at some point last night but I see no signs of icing this morning, it is currently 32.6.... with more rain. Honestly this just sucks, I'm sick of it please make it stop
FallsLake
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Yeah I dropped briefly to freezing this morning, allowing the deck to start to freeze up. But that lasted about an hour or so and then it melted. Still got some ice in the tops of the trees. --Currently wet and wavering around 32 degrees (...seems like for days).
Yeah it's feast or famine these days. Probably gonna bake it dry this summer.
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Nope enjoy ! Mwahahah it’s what you wanted ! Even more of it to look forward too next week. My weenie destruction plan is working . We will change our name to torchwx and become torch lovers .
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Yeah I don't wanna see anymore bitching about drought ever again.
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Stupid comment, I've never said I wanted 32 and rain. Ice sure, snow yep, cold sure for a while but over 13" of rain since Jan. 1 and more just above freezing days than I can count, nope never wished for that once.
Running 10in above normal.
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Just meant it’s the risk we run in a lot of our potential for colder weather days. A lot turn out like that. This year in particular of course which makes it all the more miserable.
Snowman63
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That’s where I live.... ha ha
smast16
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So, what was the reason for the bust on Temps for this storm? I know i'm usually a sarcastic commentor, but i'm legitimately curious on the Post-Mortem.
Was the High weaker or in a less favorable position --> thus leading to less low level CAA, or was the rain rates higher --> thus leading to more latent heat release into the Cad? Or was it something else?
Was the High weaker or in a less favorable position --> thus leading to less low level CAA, or was the rain rates higher --> thus leading to more latent heat release into the Cad? Or was it something else?
Dunkman
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Seems like the CAD just wasn’t as strong as everyone thought? The winds that were forecast never came close to materializing.
NCHighCountryWX
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Southside Electric Cooperative Virginia still has over 50% of customers out. Looks to be about another week
Customers have been down since last weekend. Beautiful rural area but heavy tree laden and many muddy areas to traverse
Linemen are super heroes
Customers have been down since last weekend. Beautiful rural area but heavy tree laden and many muddy areas to traverse
Linemen are super heroes
Wild Weather Monger
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I see it's another balmy day in the deep central south tundra.
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NCHighCountryWX
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Something you will never see in the city but always see in the country.
City: It has been 2 hours, when is MY power coming back on. Then gets on Facebook booker and trashes the linemen.
Country: Power been out 6 days for 50% Southside Virginia Electric Cooperative: Farmers working hand in hand with utility lineman to pull their bucket trucks through fields and backlands to help the linemen get power back up.
Hard working farmers and country folk appreciate and understand hard working lineman.
The grit and backbone of America.
Prayers for the safety and protection of all during this challenging task.
City: It has been 2 hours, when is MY power coming back on. Then gets on Facebook booker and trashes the linemen.
Country: Power been out 6 days for 50% Southside Virginia Electric Cooperative: Farmers working hand in hand with utility lineman to pull their bucket trucks through fields and backlands to help the linemen get power back up.
Hard working farmers and country folk appreciate and understand hard working lineman.
The grit and backbone of America.
Prayers for the safety and protection of all during this challenging task.
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Loganelliott99
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That would be a trace! LolDo I need to make an entirely separate map for this?
Myfrotho704_
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I still wonder what brad saw last night, there was a 46 degree warm nose just a few hours before that in GSO, lol
Brads conservative and the one time he isn’t he is wrong lol.
Feathers blowing down ftom the brush mountains and Wilkes?
BullCityWx
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Those city folk are subsidizing the sticks though.
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weatherguy
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We ended up with 3/8" of freezing rain accretion on Monday the 15th which knocked the power out for over 7 hours, on top of that 1/2" of flurries thru the day. The 3/8" ice accretion we got on Monday never melted so on Wednesday the 17th we got 2" of snow and sleet then it changed to freezing rain again on the back side during the night and we ended up with 1/8" of extra freezing rain accretion, so the accretion totaled 1/2" on top of all branches. Our power went out again on Wednesday night at 11pm and came back on 25 hours later.
Tree branch pops and crashes could be heard some on Monday and Tuesday, but it really got bad Wednesday night thru this morning the 19th (it sounded like the 4th of July). Even while I was typing this post up the power blinked off for a second, so some branches are still breaking even though probably a quarter to half the ice has melted today when the sun came out.
Here are some pics:
A rare early blooming Red maple really suffered from damage since the bloom structures (red color) collected higher amounts of ice:
Early Blooming Red maple:
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ghost1
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I didn't realize Franklin Co had so much freezing rain. I thought you guys had about the same that we did up in Florence... a little bit of freezing rain on Monday followed by about 0.75" of sleet and 4-6 inches of snow on Wednesday. What part of Franklin do you live in?
weatherguy
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This is the southern part, it was more on the snow side in the northern areas as you got up toward Colbert and Lauderdale county, the southern extent of the ice really ended around south Marion county.
SWVAwxfan
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Believe it or not. There is snow falling in our area this morning. Was not in the forecast.
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Update from Southside Virginia Electric Cooperative
Southside Cooperative: Nearly 80% of our electric infrastructure, which we have built and maintained over the last 80 years, has been destroyed all at once. This is the worst storm I have seen in my 14 years at Southside and 36 years in the industry,”
Southside Cooperative: Nearly 80% of our electric infrastructure, which we have built and maintained over the last 80 years, has been destroyed all at once. This is the worst storm I have seen in my 14 years at Southside and 36 years in the industry,”
MichaelJ
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I am a city guy but do understand if it wasn't for the folks in the sticks, we would all be starving in the cities
StormStalker
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We got up to 45 degrees today and still have solid snow cover. I can’t recall ever the temp going up that high and not melting everything away. Even some of the roads have ice on them.
Brent
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It took getting to 56 today to finally clear most of it here. There's still somehow a couple spots in the shade. I even hit a spot in the alleyway coming home my car didn't like for a second. I never thought it would take this long considering we only had about 4 inches lol also most of it fell last Sunday! Only another half inch or maybe an inch occurred on Wednesday so it had days of sun even though it was below freezing til yesterday
Oh yeah and considering it's basically late February
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JLL1973
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Our backroads have been covered since last Monday. It takes sleet forever to melt