Will the Arctic Cold Front Cause Severe Weather and Damage to Crops?

In summary, the weather is gradually changing from cold to warmer temperatures. The forecast for tomorrow predicts that there will be winds between 20 and 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. This will create significant blowing and drifting of snow with near blizzard conditions possible at times. Visibilities will be reduced to below one half mile, making roads near impossible to travel on. The cold wind chill values will be widespread, ranging from 20 to 30 below zero. There is a potential for life-threatening situations due to the dangerously cold temperatures. Additionally, my aunt and uncle own a large strawberry farm and citrus orchard near Tampa, FL and stand to lose the entire crop due to the hard long freeze.
  • #281
Evo said:
Not fair, everyone is getting snow, except me. I'm just getting bitter cold.

Have some of the snow that we had today. It's sticky around the freezing temp.

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  • #282
Danger said:
My heart pumps purple piss for you. Please feel free to come up here and take the 20 tonnes or so of it that are currently occupying my yard. :rolleyes:

You mean you have room for snow in your back yard?
 
  • #283
-30 F, too cold to snow
 
  • #284
wolram said:
You mean you have room for snow in your back yard?
I have about 10 acres. Plenty of room to store snow. Anybody that is feeling left out is welcome to come get all the snow they want.
 
  • #285
wolram said:
You mean you have room for snow in your back yard?

Well, that's the thing about snow. There is as much lying on top of my cars and C-can and roof as there would be on the ground if those things weren't there. Maybe more, since it can't soak into them.
 
  • #286
It's 66F outside right now, and supposed to be 15F tomorrow night.
 
  • #287
Tonight we'll get about 5 inches of snow. We already have snow on snow, something rare in South Jersey. I think this may be the first time I've seen snow from 3 separate storms on the ground at one time in this area. I'm curious about what's going on in Maine. Where's our Maine correspondent?
 
  • #288
Sunny, clear and about 30 deg here. Looking at ~10" of snow tomorrow though. Ack! Snowmobilers will love it. I won't.
 
  • #289
You can thank us Kansans for the snow turbo. I got 10" of the puffy stuff before sending up to you. But now the wind is drifting it and blocking my drive. Tonight I looking at -5°F.
 
  • #290
dlgoff said:
You can thank us Kansans for the snow turbo. I got 10" of the puffy stuff before sending up to you. But now the wind is drifting it and blocking my drive. Tonight I looking at -5°F.
Every time I open the door, I get hit in the face with a gust of snow (from the wind blowing it). Damn, I should bring the squirrels inside tonight.
 
  • #291
Evo said:
Every time I open the door, I get hit in the face with a gust of snow (from the wind blowing it). Damn, I should bring the squirrels inside tonight.
I have a old outdoor cat that I let in for a time this afternoon. I didn't let here stay in too long. She is so use to the outdoor temps that it didn't take long before she was too hot. So I let her out and she didn't mind at all. At night she has her place in the chicken house.
 
  • #292
Catch the cold. I'm wondering if it'll drop below 30 minus this year.
 
  • #293
The UK seems to be living up to an old weather proverb: if the ice is thick enough for a duck to walk on before Christmas, it won't be thick enough for a goose to walk on all year.

After a record cold December (lowest average temp in the 100 years of data available) we are now at a rather unseasonal +10C. It that lasts for a couple of weeks, the lawn will need mowing!
 
  • #294
Snowing heavily now. We're getting at least an inch an hour currently, and the snow isn't expected to end until around midnight.
 
  • #295
Evo said:
Every time I open the door, I get hit in the face with a gust of snow (from the wind blowing it). Damn, I should bring the squirrels inside tonight.

Maybe get a rabies vaccination first...?
 
  • #296
The snow is too deep and soft for them to run across, a few brave souls have tried to hop around, but each time they land, they fall through the snow and are buried, then they have to jump out of the hole. In other words, they're mainly sticking to the trees.

turbo, I saw that you're getting socked with snow, good luck.
 
  • #297
Well, at least our towns have snow-removal equipment. One of the two newer/larger trucks was laid up a while back. I hope it's back in service now.
 
  • #298
turbo-1 said:
Well, at least our towns have snow-removal equipment. One of the two newer/larger trucks was laid up a while back. I hope it's back in service now.
Did you get the problem with the trail guy fixed?
 
  • #299
Evo said:
Did you get the problem with the trail guy fixed?
The trailmaster managed to remove the obstruction well enough to be able to groom the snow. It's not an isolated incident, though. If the new driver doesn't learn to operate that plow properly, it will cost this little town thousands of dollars to fix the problems he's causing. Many of our back roads are gravel, and without clear ditches to divert the water away from the roads, they can easily be washed out by heavy rain. He's been carelessly plowing gravel from the shoulders into the ditches, and we may have to hire an excavator to clear them in the spring.

Ah well.
 
  • #300
I was supposed to be up in Seattle today but wasn't about to drive through a snow storm last night.

That was a tough call. It was a very important meeting and the roads may or may not have been okay, but it looks like I made the right call. It was snowing here by 2 PM. Later, it was 31 degrees F and raining.
 
  • #301
My wife has a Legacy AWD with studded snow tires and I am very glad of it. I hope the pokey plow-truck driver manages to make another pass by 3pm or so. I just took Duke out for a walk and there is already another 5" of snow on the roads since his first pass. At the rate this stuff is piling up we'll have a few more inches by commute-time.
 
  • #302
We have only traces of snow left, above 0 deg C day and night for over a week here - and similar forecast.
 
  • #303
We got about 50mm yesterday. :wink:
 
  • #305
Ivan Seeking said:
I was supposed to be up in Seattle today but wasn't about to drive through a snow storm last night.

That was a tough call. It was a very important meeting and the roads may or may not have been okay, but it looks like I made the right call. It was snowing here by 2 PM. Later, it was 31 degrees F and raining.

This morning it was 48F and raining. I think you can get up to Seattle today.
 
  • #306
It took me 1 hour 47 minutes to drive 11 miles on the freeways of Cleveland, OH yesterday - due to snow whiteouts and accumulation. After the meeting, I headed south east 30 miles and the sun was bright, sky was clear, and the road was dry. Ironically, I heard discussion on the various radio stations that schools were open in Cleveland and closed in the sunny areas.
 
  • #307
Just back in for a re-hydration break after cleaning off vehicles. Now to dig out the door of my detached garage so I can get my snow-blower out... I hate snow.
 
  • #308
It was about -11°F early this morning here. :shiver:
 
  • #309
Another re-hydration break. Driveway is 1/2 cleared. Swirling winds with occasional strong gusts make snow-blowing "interesting" - painfully so.
 
  • #310
turbo-1 said:
Just back in for a re-hydration break after cleaning off vehicles. Now to dig out the door of my detached garage so I can get my snow-blower out... I hate snow.
Digging out the snow blower is just wrong.
 
  • #311
turbo-1 said:
Just back in for a re-hydration break after cleaning off vehicles. Now to dig out the door of my detached garage so I can get my snow-blower out... I hate snow.

Snow-blower? Fire up that tractor turbo!
 
  • #312
WhoWee said:
Snow-blower? Fire up that tractor turbo!
The problem with that is the steel cutter on the bucket is pretty rough my my driveway, and after you have made snow-piles at the limit of the loader arms, there's no place left to put more snow. I use it to cut back snow banks so we have visibility in late winter, though. It's a LOT easier than cutting back the banks with a shovel. As you can see, winters can bring some logistics problems here. We don't get extended thaws like some parts of the country.

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  • #313
turbo-1 said:
The problem with that is the steel cutter on the bucket is pretty rough my my driveway, and after you have made snow-piles at the limit of the loader arms, there's no place left to put more snow. I use it to cut back snow banks so we have visibility in late winter, though. It's a LOT easier than cutting back the banks with a shovel. As you can see, winters can bring some logistics problems here. We don't get extended thaws like some parts of the country.

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Fair enough. I have an idea for using the tractor next summer - dig up the drive and put in a floor heat system:


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  • #314
It snowed here last night. That means there is now snow from 4 separate storms on the ground at the same time. I can't remember if I have seen that here before. It's not a lot of snow, its just that the temperatures have stayed below freezing for almost 2 months now.
 
  • #315
No snow here, we are still well above freezing, not typical for January. They say heatwave will end tomorrow.
 

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