gravitylover

I'm going to go out and work on the car that's frozen shut now. I used a full 40 pound bag of sand and 20 pounds of salt and the driveway is still a disaster. Fkn neighbor won't let me trim the bushes on the south side and the driveway is perpetually shaded so the ground stays cold and once it ices it doesn't melt. Now the frozen crap is melting out of their bushes and coating the driveway in water that refreezes almost immediately. I have already had to move one of our cars that had almost slid out into the street so it's sideways and kind of jammed into the bank at the moment. I'm gonna go get a new hose (the old ones are frozen solid) and hook it up to the hot water heater drain and wash it all down, that should clear it up for a while anyway.

Still flurrying.

It has been flurrying here for about an hour now leaving a quick dusting that started to hide some of the ice. So, does that snow area down in WV/VA head east or does it make the turn and give us some snow overnight?

So 30 or so miles north of Times Sq is the fringe of the metro but 60 miles out in Suffolk isn't fringe? C'mon... I have tree branches bouncing off the roof now. Yup, non event.

This is a mess. 5-10mm of ice on everything, car doors frozen and the road below me is apparently blocked and has been for well over an hour now. 23° with moderate ZR and flakes mixing in.

I'm on the hill about 1/2 mile from Kings Ridge at just over 700 feet. Yeah that western side of town has a couple that top out just over 1k. I can picture what it's like on Kings Ridge right now, some people won't be making it home tonight, the roads are a disaster. There's easily a quarter inch of ice on the ground and exposed surfaces are solid ice now. It's loud with the ZR and crackling trees and the only road south off the hill is apparently a mess with cars scattered. There's one of those craters at the top and it's sending cars spinning down the steep twisty section right below it. I got the car doors open but no telling if I can again later but I have my heat gun ready to go. I need a fkn garage...

Ooh just wait until it gets cold tonight and over the next few days. The roads are going to be nearly impassable in some spots. Right in front of my house is one that the town has just been dumping hot mix into for 20 years and it's about 8" deep right now and filled with water so everyone keeps slamming it. By the morning it will be a foot deep and 4 feet across so there won't be any way to avoid it.

That temp spike I had a little while ago was pretty short lived, about 45 minutes overall. It's down to 26/26 with moderate freezing rain now and everything is icing up. PSA - The potholes that are opening up are epic. They are deep, some are several feet long and they are causing flats and significant vehicle damage here. Be careful out there folks.

Well, that odd temp spike didn't last very long at all. It's down to 26/26 and dropping with everything icing up quickly now. PSA - the potholes opening up are epic. Twice while I was out the car in front of me hit one and flatted, one wrecked both wheels on the passenger side. As you can imagine it came to a stop pretty quickly. There is a Honda Civic sitting in the middle of one of the two streets that access my neighborhood with the front right axle snapped and nobody around, I guess the driver just walked home.

Temp is up 4 to 32 and the ice that formed is melting with moderate rain now.

Temp is up almost 4° in the last hour. 32° and plain rain with what ice had formed now melting.

Yup, a couple of mm's on all exposed surfaces now. So far pavement appears tobe mostly wet but I think that's just because of the (outrageous amount of) salt. 29/29/RN

Does anyone uses any methods other than models to forecast anymore? Modelology should be it's own course of study...

Light rain @ 28° makes things messy in a hurry. So far though the icing on pavement isn't bad but with as much water is draining from melting snow and rain over the frozen ground it will get ugly if the wind comes up or if it gets any colder.

Icicles everywhere Power is ok so far but for how long..

28/28/N-VRBL/ZR Ice is accreting on all surfaces now.

Yep 31/30 here too. We're off to the races...

Mixed up temps here, mid 40s on my hill but I see a bunch of 36-38 around and some pinks popping on the radar.

40/41/SE3 with dense fog (again) .4" but with the fog and dramatic snowmelt it's much wetter out there than .4 would normally produce. It's gone from a very solid 4" pack to about 60% coverage of an inch or two.

40/41/SE3 Dense Fog The temp boundary hasn't moved in hours and the SE wind isn't helping. http://www.meteo.psu.edu/fxg1/WXTYPE/loop25ne.html IMO this one's a wash. Literally. The cars were nasty this morning and they're looking sharp now

Heh, look out the front window of your office, see that hill about a mile away? I'm just about at the top of it. It can be "interesting" going up and down when it gets slick.

Sorry but as often as not the discussion threads morph into obs as the event unfolds.

I dunno what to do with tomorrow. I have a cardiologist appt at 1 that I've been waiting 5 months for and the next availability is late March. I don't mind driving in shit weather all that much but most people are stupid and I can't have one of them take me out and ruin the only good car we have right now (that we just bought last month). I'm hoping the doc decides he doesn't want to travel either. NWS still has a couple tenths of ice here with temps in the low 20s by lunchtime.

Grass showing through in most of my yard now, probably be down to mud by this afternoon

January and Feb 2019, back to back ice storms, Feb 2021 two also and many other years were similar but my faulty brain is coming up empty.