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Misc General Banter Thread

NE Ga Wx said:
Everyone assume no one likes an ice storm but that is not true. Some like all types of winter weather and extreme weather. We can’t change it so if it is going to happen might as well enjoy it.

DUSTIN I think it was you this was directed at quite a while ago “I hope you get an inch” of ice lol
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It wasn’t lol. But I remember that well.
 
LongRanger said:
Nothing fun about a damn ice storm! If you were in my shoes with a dependant spouse you probably think different
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Don’t worry Burrell I think this is the guy that accused me of wanting to off people bc I says I wanted something interesting. “Ohhh no someone on the internet said something I didn’t agree with today …..”


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I feel for those of you that social media forecast. We have an amazing local forecaster who also haunts these boards at times. He’s taking time out of his own life to keep people updated and safe and FB trolls posting irrelevant maps and talking trash. Like it’s not actively snowing at their house, so the ice storm warning is bunk. 😵‍💫 Thank you for your patience and willingness to navigate the masses, cause that’s an act of service right there.
 
Drizzle Snizzle said:
Does it also depend on the temp the day before ? Like if it’s well above 32 the day before that would make it harder to freeze if temps are around 31-32 ?
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The only thing prior warm temperatures would affect directly would be the ground and roads, but they don't take long to adjust.
 
Drizzle Snizzle said:
Don't you need to get several degrees below 32 to have real significant icing ?
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I believe some of ATL’s worst ice storms happened without the temperature getting below 30 or 31. @GaWx could confirm. Temperatures that warm will mean the surface itself might not get as iced and the roads might be fine, but you really just need it barely below freezing to stick to the trees, power lines, etc.
 
Drizzle Snizzle said:
Don't you need to get several degrees below 32 to have real significant icing ?
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superjames1992 said:
I believe some of ATL’s worst ice storms happened without the temperature getting below 30 or 31. @GaWx could confirm. Temperatures that warm will mean the surface itself might not get as iced and the roads might be fine, but you really just need it barely below freezing to stick to the trees, power lines, etc.
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DS, What you’re saying is intuitive and what I may have thought, too. However, as Tony
@dsaur has said many times, Jan of 1973 terrible storm was with temps at or only barely below 32. Also, the twin icestorms I experienced in 1/2000 had much of the ice accrue when temps were 30-31.
 
GaWx said:
DS, What you’re saying is intuitive and what I may have thought, too. However, as Tony
@dsaur has said many times, Jan of 1973 terrible storm was with temps at or only barely below 32. Also, the twin icestorms I experienced in 1/2000 had much of the ice accrue when temps were 30-31.
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We are talking super cooled water here, and probably some hoodoo kind of physics stuff, lol. But I can imagine the scenarios available as to how "supercooled" water is going to react. I never underestimate it. It's liquid ice. It's below it's freezing point, but it's liquid. All it needs is to touch something and it's instantly ice. Seems to me it could bump it's neighbors on the way down, and turn to ice drops, but nope. It accrued like crazy at 32 which it probably shouldn't do, but there is a super in front of cooled meaning it can defy normal. My recollection is there wasn't much water lost, It all froze. Larry once asked if it stuck to the roads and I don't think it did. I walked up to P'tree St the next day when the rain stopped and I didn't break my neck. But if you were a tree or a pole you were toast.
 
Flo said:
Had 2 bloody Mary’s, a fireball, now drinking Busch light and starting the fire pit. I’m drinking til I see something frozen in my damn yard.
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Go to Aiken or, better yet, leave the country before next weekend. That way you can't jinx us and we won't have to hear your incessant whining. Besides, who truly wanna get belted by freezing rain?

A tad of freezing rain is okay, but that's generally after a good snow IMO. Otherwise, most people don't want it unless they're attempting to get a day or so off from work.
 
ColaSnow said:
Go to Aiken or, better yet, leave the country before next weekend. That way you can't jinx us and we won't have to hear your incessant whining. Besides, who truly wanna get belted by freezing rain?

A tad of freezing rain is okay, but that's generally after a good snow IMO. Otherwise, most people don't want it unless they're attempting to get a day or so off from work.
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I clearly said all I want is a glaze and nothing crippling. Why don’t you just ignore me. It’s not hard.
 
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