jacindc

I had never seen that image before this week--seeing it now for my Wyoming forecast. -22 once the front arrives and the snow starts Wednesday evening, and a "high" of -10 on Thursday. (though then it taunts the area with "Rain and Snow" and a high of 44 on Christmas Day. Seriously??)

Got a three-day blizzard underway out at the Wyoming homestead, making the tracking of the Thursday morning threat here a lot more bearable. Not going to cash in as much as the Wyo/SD border areas probably will, but I'm still expecting well over a foot, with 7-8" already down. Nearby traffic cam on I-90, which I imagine isn't going to stay open too much longer.

This works for me, though it'd be better if I were actually in Wyoming right now.

Me, Dec. 1: I'll hit the road to WY as soon as there are three consecutive decent driving days weather-wise, since there's never much snow in the DMV in December. Me, post-18Z: Or.... (am going to enjoy watching the big blizzard heading to the northern plains tomorrow in the meantime, though!)

I was just talking with my family about Christmas '83 last night. We had driven up to NYC with another family to see a matinee, and hit quite a snowstorm on the northern Jersey Turnpike on the way back, a huge traffic jam of cars getting stuck on snow and ice. My dad and his friend had gotten out to push the car, having my 20-year-old brother take over the driving, and once the car got going, my brother didn't want to stop, leaving my dad and his friend screaming at him, and in the midst of that an 18-wheeler started sliding and jack-knifing right next to us, and brother managed to thread the needle between that and the cars in the other lane. Happy holidays, indeed!

I was at work, listening to WTOP as they'd try to catch up: "1 to 3 inches expected... 2-4 inches expected.... 4-8 inches expected...."

Meanwhile, out at the other homestead, a lovely vista and an overnight low of 12 degrees. (and it looks like a pretty big storm might be coming next week) Next best thing to being there is full-screening the video and pretending I'm looking out the window. I've finally figured out how to make DC winters bearable!

Winter storm warning up in my (Wyoming) neck of the woods today, though alas I've now returned east until after the holidays. Getting very addicted to road conditions camera feeds! Looks like it's made it down to about 4,500 feet, but I think it's mixing now at my place at 4,000 feet.

I arrived back in DC on Friday about an hour before the rain started. After 14 weeks in Wyoming where I saw maybe an inch of rain tops over the entire time, I feel like I'm growing moss.

I'm sure that some graphic artists could come up with a way to shade around the cone to show the potential breadth of impacts. (Which would then perhaps have shown more clearly a larger impact to the southeast of a land falling hurricane.) I know they do more now with surge forecasts, etc., and they repeat "don't focus just on the cone," but it's pretty clear that that's not good enough. They need a one-glance representation of potential level of impacts based on possible forecast deviations. (And no, not with a Sharpie!)

... and live in manufactured homes or mobile homes.

There's also the matter of how much expense the building codes add to the cost of a home, which is clearly an issue when you see how many people of fewer means are living in those developments that are just row upon row of manufactured houses. The fact that more homes on Sanibel withstood the surge (or at least their frames did) is as much a statement about the financial status of the owners as anything. The working class residents in SW FL are going to be the ones who really end up losing, because you can be sure that affordable little cottages and new manufactured home developments won't be high up on the rebuild priority.

Sanibel is gonna be in baaad shape.

Has anyone seen anything out of Sanibel?

Don't talk to me about Kate. I was in college in Florida, and my tickets to see REM turned to dust as the show got cancelled.

TWC has really upped their game. They are currently showing how to properly fill and place sandbags.

Longboat Key is off of Sarasota.

Them dots sure are close together.

11 pm, 65 mph, 989 mb

Anyone under 40 is going to call it Hermione anyway.

1.85" of rain in my spot in Sheridan Co., WY. Most sorely needed. Looks like today is topping out around 58 degrees.

Anyone want to edjumacate me on what to root for to have north central Wyoming buried in record snow?

62 and raining here in northern Wyoming. After a near lifetime hating the DC summer with the white-hot heat of a thousand suns, I have set up summer camp where the sun is hot (most days) but the humidity is low and the nights are cool. But I'll be back in DC for fall. (And yes, I'll be out here for part of winter, too. Guessing I won't be worrying about the rain-snow line.)

Longtime denizen of the Mid Atlantic forum popping in to declare that henceforth my summer (and probably part of winter) allegiance is to northern Wyoming (near Sheridan). :waves: