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There is no longer any snow-fall here. If it starts up later tonight, I hope it's short and sweet.
Jimmy Snyder said:I see that Maine's 19 cars all crashed into each other.
No chains! Those rear tires are wide and they "float" more than you might expect, even in fluffy snow. If I get my tractor stuck in snow, I can generally get right back out by using my loader bucket and shifting the transmission down to "low". I hope the snow stop soon here. My wife has gone out a few times to clear the snow in front of our front door, and it's time for me to go clear that doorway again, so we can get the door open.G01 said:We have about 2 feet. Looks like it's finally slowing down. Thankfully, the city of Boston sent a backhoe to clean my one way, uphill street. Unfortunately, the backhoe driver got stuck in a snow drift:
This unusual condition was brought about by a wildcat strike of the meteorologist union local 4524.lisab said:Still no weather here.
But that could be a good thing.turbo said:For those not familiar with tractors, it is very hard to get decent bucket-loads of fluffy snow.
How do conditions that create thunder increase the snow so dramatically?THUNDER MAY ACCOMPANY THE SNOW RESULTING IN HIGHER SNOW RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR AT TIMES.
It's not the conditions that create the thunder, it's the thunder itself. What part of 'avalanche' don't you understand?Evo said:How do conditions that create thunder increase the snow so dramatically?
Lol, so the thunder will shake the snow out of the clouds? Well, I'm just sitting inside, so I want to see this happen. I've been in snow thunderstorms, but didn't notice an increase in snowfall.Jimmy Snyder said:It's not the conditions that create the thunder, it's the thunder itself. What part of 'avalanche' don't you understand?
That was earlier, it's heavier now.Feb 21, 2013; 8:58 AM ET Thunder, lightning, and 1-2" per hour snow rates.
wiki, and therefore unreliablewiki said:Thundersnow, also known as a winter thunderstorm or a thunder snowstorm, is an extremely rare kind of thunderstorm with snow falling as the primary precipitation instead of rain. ... Thundersnow often produces snowfall rates in the range of 2 to 4 inches per hour.
We get thundersnow when there is a heavy fall of wet snow. It's much like a thundershower. It's interesting to be in one with the lightning flashing through the snow.Evo said:The snow started about 1 1/2 hours ago. It was supposed to start at midnight last night, but didn't start until around 7am.
It's really coming down hard and we're supposed to get around 12 inches, but I don't understand this message that is in the official weather warning.
How do conditions that create thunder increase the snow so dramatically?
That's when I got stranded in Charlotte for 3 days because LaGuardia airport and others were closed. The closest airport to my home was actually open, and the pilot could have landed the 737 there. But no, he had to fly back to Charlotte.Evo said:So glad I'm missing the storm. Evo Child was born in New York during a blizzard that made NOAA's worse storm events lists. I left New York right after the blizzard of 1993, which also made the worst storms list.
The airport in Bangor is a former SAC base with an impressive array of plows, de-icers, etc. Still, I got "stranded" at airports all over the East coast that were unprepared for snow, so they wouldn't let flights depart. Newark was probably the worst. I spent many, many hours in that bland hell-hole. At least at O'Hare, you could get an OK sandwich and some hot coffee.Astronuc said:That's when I got stranded in Charlotte for 3 days because LaGuardia airport and others were closed. The closest airport to my home was actually open, and the pilot could have landed the 737 there. But no, he had to fly back to Charlotte.
I don't know but evidently it does. I was still in bed and awakened when I heard the rumble. I got up and looked out to see just a dusting, but two hours later there was 12 inches.Evo said:How do conditions that create thunder increase the snow so dramatically?