Ice to Meet You (another weather related thread)

[Ben]

You gon' get snow gators.

 

[dimmerwit]

I can't remember the last time London got that much snow. There were a few snow storms around 2009/10 but even then they seemed to have topped out at about that same level and we're almost 1500 miles north of you.

 

[Ben]

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8 inches

You know, these are very wolf-lookin' prints you have there, just saying.

Also snow depth.

 

[dimmerwit]

Snow depth for Canada: yes.

 

[Mark]

Florida, Texas, and Louisiana getting snow is fucking wild to me.



We’re cold in solidarity, though.

 

[dimmerwit]

I keep thinking "that doesn't seem too cold" until I realise it's degrees F, something we only use when it gets hot by our standards and we want them to sound vaguely impressive.

 

[Mark]

I keep thinking "that doesn't seem too cold" until I realise it's degrees F, something we only use when it gets hot by our standards and we want them to sound vaguely impressive.

I forget “you people” exist sometimes.

 

[dimmerwit]

I'm decent enough with F these days, it's just a reflexive thing when I see temps that could be plausible for both.

London it turns out has never quite hit 0F/-18C, at least in the modern era of temperature measurements.

 

[Nae'blis]

Coldest temperature I can remember was somewhere around -25C/-13F. Most snowfall about a foot and a half-ish.

 

[Ben]

Damn

 

[Nae'blis]

 

[VashTheStampede]

What do I do with this stuff? Bag it and put it out with the garbage?

 

[dimmerwit]

Make a snow angel.

I see your city retained the Florida snowfall record, so maybe something to appease the gods would help too.

 

[Nae'blis]

"Florida Man appeases weather gods with snow angel wrestling a snow gator."

 

[Mark]

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What do I do with this stuff? Bag it and put it out with the garbage?

Call your governor. It’s undocumented and from up north. Whatever you do… don’t call ICE first.

 

[Ben]

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What do I do with this stuff? Bag it and put it out with the garbage?

All that snow without owning an actual snow shovel has to suck though.

 

[TD]

EDIT: Server seems to have nuked the screenshot. Warning in my area for -50c and up to 100cm of snow.

 

[Mark]

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EDIT: Server seems to have nuked the screenshot. Warning in my area for -50c and up to 100cm of snow.

Nope. No thanks. My back hurts thinking about shoveling a walkway with that much, let alone a driveway or sidewalk. We’ll see you around Spring, buddy.

 

[canadaguy]

 

[Mark]

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But, hey, at least it’ll be sunny. Right?

…yeah, I know.

 

[dimmerwit]

 

[Mark]

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That’s another thing people don’t think about when regions that don’t typically get snow do… the damn stores don’t carry shovels, salt, snow blowers, or any of the shit you’d need.

 

[VashTheStampede]

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[Nae'blis]

That’s another thing people don’t think about when regions that don’t typically get snow do… the damn stores don’t carry shovels, salt, snow blowers, or any of the shit you’d need.

Just tell the local methheads it's free cocaine!

 

[dimmerwit]

I'm now expecting GTA 6 to have snow like the intro area to RDR2. It's realistic after all.

 

[shortkut]

Record snowfall in the state was 4 inches in 1954, coincidentally in the town I currently reside in.

I stuck a ruler in the snow a few minutes ago and it was 4.5 inches

But was it a snow drift or actual snow accumulation?

 

[Mark]

But was it a snow drift or actual snow accumulation?

Whoa now… let’s not overwhelm him with northern terms. At least find out if he owns a coat first… and not just a windbreaker.

 

[shortkut]

Whoa now… let’s not overwhelm him with northern terms. At least find out if he owns a coat first… and not just a windbreaker.

They bought when they came to NYC, but they may have returned them

 

[dimmerwit]

I'm still wondering how AI Vash will do removing it with a rake.

 

[shortkut]

I'm still wondering how AI Vash will do removing it with a rake.

I’ve cleared deep snow with rakes and small brooms. It’s doable

 

[Ben]

Who's ready for more dumb weather?

 

[Kat]

Wow, must suck for all of you who are dealing with the frozen stuff. It's been mostly sunny and beautiful here in Oregon.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I stopped getting notifications for a thread I made...

Only anticipating rain.

Some clown on Reddit thinks another polar vortex is coming next week and based their information on random blogs and a single local news station pondering the possibility. However, there is nothing in the forecast for next week that would suggest any major weather event occurring next week. Cold weather and a chance of snow, in Northern states, but nothing like what we got a few weeks ago. There is nothing in Windy to suggest it either. Typcially you can tell if some major event is stirring up on Windy. Everything I'm seeing looks like normal February weather.

 

[Kat]

It's forecast to be chilly here for the next ten days, but certainly not polar-vortex chilly. I agree with you, it's typical February weather.

 

[Quagmire]

 

[Quagmire]

Damn it wrong thread, oh well

 

[Gloom-is-good]

Damn it wrong thread, oh well

yeah I was pretty confused why you put it here lol

 

[Crystal]

Damn it wrong thread, oh well

Cats are universal, they belong everywhere.

 

[Kat]

Damn it wrong thread, oh well

What's the right thread?

 

[Quagmire]

What's the right thread?

I was going to put it in the pets thread

 

[Mark]

Wow, must suck for all of you who are dealing with the frozen stuff. It's been mostly sunny and beautiful here in Oregon.

We’re kinda used to it. The most difficult thing for us in the mid-Atlantic area to adapt to was the switch from heavy accumulation fronts to those combo fronts that hit us with a bit of everything. It’s weird going from expecting a handful of low accumulation snowfalls and maybe 2-3 heavier accumulations to a week of 5 inches of ice-snow-ice-ice-snow on the ground at a time.

 

[Quagmire]

We lost power last night for about 20 minutes, in doing so our furnace now doesnt want to work

Waiting on a tech, I was told 10-3....still waiting

Luckily I was already off today

I dont think the whole thing will need to be replaced, the exhaust fan still works and I can manually get the blower running, just no warm air. (No pilot light sadly) So probably a fuse or the igniter that went out. If this was the spring I could fool around for a couple days fixing and problem solving, but not when its 20 degrees out.

Gave me a good reason to bake today and have the oven help heat

 

[Kat]

Yikes Quagmire, I hope you get that fixed soon.

There's an inch or two of snow on the ground here now from yesterday. Amazingly it seems to have not turned into ice overnight! But yet there was still a hundred car pileup on the freeway somehow. And when I went to get groceries (1 mile away), I saw two accidents with ambulances at them.

Stay safe out there, everybody.

 

[Quagmire]

Yikes Quagmire, I hope you get that fixed soon.

There's an inch or two of snow on the ground here now from yesterday. Amazingly it seems to have not turned into ice overnight! But yet there was still a hundred car pileup on the freeway somehow. And when I went to get groceries (1 mile away), I saw two accidents with ambulances at them.

Stay safe out there, everybody.

We have a space heater and a gas fireplace so that helps a little bit.

 

[Quagmire]

Gonna replace it. The control board got fried, it's like 1500 since it's old weird board. New furnace is about 3300 and current is 21 years old do may as well since we can afford it

Sucks that it won't be till Monday, it's cold here but not too bad, next two days will get to 50s

It is a company we've used before and do overall trust so don't think we're getting scammed. This was also a furnace that had it's own filter physical DRM, a special little bolt in the middle so you had to buy their filters that fit . I used a dremmel and cut it off and bought generic, so I definitely believe the board is expensive

 

[Ben]

This is fine.

 

[Mark]

Gonna replace it. The control board got fried, it's like 1500 since it's old weird board. New furnace is about 3300 and current is 21 years old do may as well since we can afford it

Sucks that it won't be till Monday, it's cold here but not too bad, next two days will get to 50s

It is a company we've used before and do overall trust so don't think we're getting scammed. This was also a furnace that had it's own filter physical DRM, a special little bolt in the middle so you had to buy their filters that fit . I used a dremmel and cut it off and bought generic, so I definitely believe the board is expensive

It’s not uncommon for an older system to fry like that during an outage, especially if there’s a surge caused during the onset of the outage or restoration. We just had the same thing happen with a board that wasn’t even 5 years old that fried in-between heat cycles, it worked fine until it cycled off, and we noticed the burning smell from the board on the next cycle.

Hopefully, the next time this happens, it’ll be on a newer system with better parts availability. If you don’t already have one, I’d speak with your technician and see if they offer a maintenance service where they clean your system once or twice a year. It’ll help you catch problems before they become major expenses, and prolong the life of your system.

 

[The Eye in the Sky!]

Alright, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will take 2-3ft of pure snow over any amount of ice.

We got 6" of snow Saturday night (I drove through it for a surprise party just outside of Boston. Took me 2 hours to get home, which is typically a 1 hour drive).

Sunday it was freezing rain all day. I was able to go out and use the snowblower at around 5pm. The snow/slush was like sea foam. My snowblower is heavy duty, and even on the highest settings it struggled. Woke up this morning to go to work, everything is sheer ice. I barely got the car out of the driveway. I had my wife stand in the road blocking traffic and I had to gun it to get out. Even the main highways were slippery. Luckily it is a holiday and kids are off school this week otherwise the commute would have been a disaster.

I've driven front wheel drive cars in nor'easters before just fine. 12-16" of snow can be drivable. Ice is the headache.

 

[Ben]

Alright, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will take 2-3ft of pure snow over any amount of ice.

We got 6" of snow Saturday night (I drove through it for a surprise party just outside of Boston. Took me 2 hours to get home, which is typically a 1 hour drive).

Sunday it was freezing rain all day. I was able to go out and use the snowblower at around 5pm. The snow/slush was like sea foam. My snowblower is heavy duty, and even on the highest settings it struggled. Woke up this morning to go to work, everything is sheer ice. I barely got the car out of the driveway. I had my wife stand in the road blocking traffic and I had to gun it to get out. Even the main highways were slippery. Luckily it is a holiday and kids are off school this week otherwise the commute would have been a disaster.

I've driven front wheel drive cars in nor'easters before just fine. 12-16" of snow can be drivable. Ice is the headache.

Yep, basically this. I'm only assuming we haven't had power lines down, because of the last ice storm in March of 2024 that already broke the weakest limbs.

 

[Mark]

Alright, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I will take 2-3ft of pure snow over any amount of ice.

We got 6" of snow Saturday night (I drove through it for a surprise party just outside of Boston. Took me 2 hours to get home, which is typically a 1 hour drive).

Sunday it was freezing rain all day. I was able to go out and use the snowblower at around 5pm. The snow/slush was like sea foam. My snowblower is heavy duty, and even on the highest settings it struggled. Woke up this morning to go to work, everything is sheer ice. I barely got the car out of the driveway. I had my wife stand in the road blocking traffic and I had to gun it to get out. Even the main highways were slippery. Luckily it is a holiday and kids are off school this week otherwise the commute would have been a disaster.

I've driven front wheel drive cars in nor'easters before just fine. 12-16" of snow can be drivable. Ice is the headache.

Yeah, I’ll take a couple feet of snow over ice any day.

Two feet back in 2010 in a 4x4 2001 Dodge Dakota:


Almost three feet back in 2016 in an AWD 2006 Jeep Commander Hemi:


I kept snow in the bed of the pickup for extra weight to keep the ass grounded, tots and pears for the Commander because I was chewing through snow and hitting ice midway through.

But… when I had the Challenger? This was the best only time to drive it:

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