Waiting For The Snow

In Ohio, it's snow snow snow.

Six inches of snow in Hertfordshire, according to my dad.

And there's snow in Dalston and Mile End, though not six inches of it.

No snow out in Fulham last night but High Wycombe was drenched in it from what I could see on the News so I'm glad I don't have to do the Oxford Tube run any more.

A bit of sleet in town counted as the first snow London had seen in October since 1934. Following an almost unyieldingly wet year.

How does this equate with global warming?

early snow = global warming
late snow = global warming
no snow = global warming
wet summers = global warming
dry hot summers = global warming

is pretty much how it's been covered for the past ten years.

slowing of the gulf stream due to Arctic ice melt if it has anything to do with it at all this could be, and probably is, just a fluctuation.

I thought we were having the bizarre (and impossible?) combination of thunder storm and snowstorm last night but the 'thunder' was just fucking guy fawkes ponces.

There was lightning and thunder last night, but when it was raining although AFAIK there is nothing to say you can't have a thunderstorm that produces snow.

No ice when coming out this morning either; it was freezing but otherwise completely dry and perfectly normal. Weird how SW6/SW10 missed out on it but everyone else got it.

GET THE BREAD AND MILK

man, this is going to suck

5-8" in nyc on Saturday, allegedly, for you whiny icicle bitches

THUNDERSNOW, milk, bread etc

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/19/east_coast_blizzard_will_impact_washington_new_york_boston.html

Weird that our biggest snow so far this season was early November.

My poor K (4 yrs old) thinks from books that there's snow on the ground all the time in winter and it only melts in spring, so she's confused and thinks it isn't winter yet. The other night she tried to make snow angels in that little dusting we got, it was so sweet.

unpleasant storm surge possible: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/20/blizzard_jonas_storm_surge_could_cause_record_flooding.html

Bread, milk, and toilet paper! BREAD MILK AND TOILET PAPER!!!!!

...Sorry, I grew up in the DC area, and that's our knee-jerk reaction to the word "snow." It's positively a folkway.

that makes sense to me as weather.com (p much never right) appeared to be downgrading this to 3-6in for NYC early today.

hope sweetums get a proper angel made, m.a.

xp/xxp

had to run by the grocery store at lunch and people were already doing the bread&milk shuffle! the place was and it usually never is. wtf it's only wednesday

was packed*

i already have milk & bread; tomw night i have to stop by the health food store and measure the desperation of the organic Brooklyn set.

12+ inches for brooklyn, according to wunderground. but then again, other parts of their site suggest 6 inches is more likely. regardless, BREAD MILK AND TOILET PAPER

for those of you with cats, do NOT let them uncoil the toilet paper all over the floor, this is a code red emergency

also CHEMO PILLS as i am due for a delivery no later than Saturday and sorely expect it will be Monday if i'm lucky

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9287652/images/gifs/codeten.gif

*dramatically blows the Doom Tuba once, twice, and then after a dramatic pause, three times*

people always freaking out about the first snow of the winter!

The doom tuba was really dramatic, possibly too dramatic

You know who's expected to get eight inches tonight?

YER MOM

This is what happens when anything happens in the media capital of the world. OMG, snow! It's the end of the world because it is happening right outside the 24 hour news studios!

I don't understand weather prediction at all. I can see how they know snow might be heading to a certain place, but I can't figure out how they can just say 1-2 feet or whatever, let alone do so nearly a week in advance.

nobody here gives two shits about nyc tbf, especially when the whole east coast is about to be covered by SNOW OMG

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZNvJaJXEAAmJOT.png

dc, 2011

um *here as in my current general location on google maps not on this board ig uess

haha x-post

had to run by the grocery store at lunch and people were already doing the bread&milk shuffle! the place was and it usually never is.

And the stores look very different today.

nobody here gives two shits about America tbf

3-5" in NYC is the smart bet

snowfall doesn't really count unless it traps interpol

miss u nc

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZQ_R5PW0AEZlmd.jpg

NYT:

Forecasts are centering on six to 12 inches of snow for the New York City area. Winds could be severe on Saturday evening, reaching up to 60 miles per hour.

Around Washington, residents are bracing for 24 to 30 inches, and the area will be under a blizzard warning beginning on Friday. Metro train and bus service will be suspended Saturday and Sunday.

The Philadelphia area will be under a blizzard watch on Friday and could see between 12 and 18 inches of snow.

*waits*

I kind of want to go into the office tomorrow out of spite

A snow emergency has been declared, effective from 5:00 PM on Friday, January 22 through 7:00 AM on Monday, January 25.

where

brooklyn forecast looks like it's back up over 12+ inches

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZWBXByWkAEJgUu.jpg

TheMoreYouKnow

Snowing now in Commie Virginia. Ordinarily I'd be ritually mocking the ritual panic, and repeating the ritual clichés about how everybody sees flakes and forgets how to drive, etc. etc.

But after almost a week of talking about this, I've moved on to a meta-whiny state where I'm whining about the whining about the whining.

Because it is a political year we are already hearing lots about how Washington is not a real place, the people who live and work and raise families here are not real, because Politics. Kinda tired of hearing so much of the known universe talk about how much my home and my townspeople suck. Makes a contrary part of me wish to spring to their defense, and reflect instead on their humanity, diversity, and dignity (despite all the usual refrains about how our reactions to frozen water are insufficiently macho).

Great tips: http://www.theonion.com/graphic/blizzard-survival-tips-37853

brooklyn forecast looks like it's back up over 12+ inches

i've never believed any promises over 8"