DaveNay

Local media looking for a story....dredges up the Polar Vortex boogeyman.

https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2018/12/17/polar-vortex-could-unleash-winter-wallop-by-january/aqvclg6/

5 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Ordered a new Vue tonight to replace the POS VP2.  Tried several different things to revive the VP2 to no avail.  VP2's are normally pretty reliable from everything I've read, but apparently I got the lemon that was built on a Monday/Friday.  At least I got a few years of use out of it before it shit the bed.  Other than having the option to mount the anemometer away from the rest of the sensor suite there's really not much of an advantage over the VUE anyway.  You can't get the aspirated thermo shield with the VUE, but in my experience with the 24hr FARS it didn't make that much of a difference anyway.  Perhaps one degree.

I got about five years out of my VP2 before the base unit died. It was the wired version and a replacement base unit was stupid expensive. I replaced it with a WS-2902A from Ambient. Not as good specs (at least on paper), but it was only 1/4 the cost and it has built-in internet functions instead of the add-on cost like the Davis.

WV is kind of in between IMO but there are definitely some south mixed in. Maybe S IN/OH KY/WV is the mixing zone. The 'sleet' area

I was born in Clarksburg WV. I still have family in WV. WV is neither North nor South.... it's Appalachia. Your level of Appalachianess is measured by altitude and not latitude.

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16 hours ago, Jackstraw said:

The SE storm thread for this weekend has 4k posts lol. I'd say they be a little excited.

4800+ posts, and 352,000+ views so far, and the storm is still 24 hours out.

That makes two of us watching from afar, though you are much farther away. Is it still unseasonably warm out in western Europe?

I'm watching from northern Illinois. We are moving to Chapel Hill next summer, so I wasn't expecting this. LOL, we already had a blizzard and 10" of snow this year.

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Due to relocating to Chapel Hill NC next summer, I have started monitoring the SE States forum as well as social media weather sources for the region.

The response to the potential 3"-5" this coming weekend is.....comical.

It's all about perspective I guess. After a few years acclimating there,  I will probably feel similar. Naaaahhhhh....lived in Chicagoland for the last 48 years, I'm not going to forget how to handle a few inches of snow that easily.

39 minutes ago, Angrysummons said:

Nice warmth today. Probably won't get this warm until spring unless we get a big warm up down the road like the last 2 years.

I'd bet on it.

Radar returns over the far NW counties appear to be collapsing.

6 minutes ago, luckyweather said:

You might have heard the mabas call for 3 alarm house fire in Harlem Roscoe. I posted here around 2pm at the onset of sn, wasn’t 10 minutes later we were evacuated from our house, next door neighbors house was fully engulfed. I saw trucks from Byron, Cherry Valley, etc- response was heavy, no hydrants out here. Everybody is fine but it was quite the wild scene, with the heavy fire, all the equipment, and the firefighting efforts in effectively blizzard conditions.

Friend of mine lives right behind that house (Last name starts with a Z) and they posted that to FB too.

Just now, Baum said:

Where?

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Just the little circle of rain....probably a glitch in the radar depiction.

LOL @ screwhole

Just now, TimChgo9 said:

slushy mess on the roads and sidewalks, and the grass is covered without an inch or so I think.  Hearing reports of IDOT pulling plows off the roads until conditions improve.  Also hearing Route 38 is closed west of DeKalb (confirmation?).  Some schools in my area closing also.  

38 west of DeKalb had a four car accident that I'm sure closed the road. I haven't heard of any further closing.

Here we sit in a rare November blizzard, and The "Weather" channel is showing....not weather. F'ing useless.

Just got the automatic phone call saying school is cancelled tomorrow.

Just now, SchaumburgStormer said:

TSSN in DKB

That's an understatement....it sounds like April out there!

Was just out to the barn to feed the horses and chickens, and we had three big lightnings and thundersnow. Snow rate and wind isn't really that impressive here though.

You know it's an "event" when the out-of-forum members are stalking us! Welcome!

1 minute ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

He is caught in a little pseudo “pivot point” for the dry slot 

It's kinda bizarre how deep that dry slot is  following I88

Snow has tapered off to almost nothing here.

Waukegan to Rockford to Iowa City appears to be the axis.

1 minute ago, miamarsden8 said:

Still nothing.

For some reason the link still goes to port 87.

http://vidanay.dyndns.org:8080/live/1/mjpeg.jpg

2 minutes ago, luckyweather said:

 

Can’t use port 87, RFC restricted port, Safari won’t even try to connect. Can you change the port to something like 8080?

 

Changed to port 8080. 

http://vidanay.dyndns.org:8080/live/1/mjpeg.jpg

Live cam of my dilapidated barn. (I'd appreciate a reply if it's working or not)

http://vidanay.dyndns.org:8080/live/1/mjpeg.jpg

Snow has started here as well.