Mid West People! Ice Everywhere!

[Trombones13]

Looks like the worst is passing me by. We'll be getting some freezing rain tonight, then snow, then more rain, then snow tomorrow. None of the blizzard stuff everyone else is getting.

Freezing rain still is a big deal on the roads; stay safe.

 

[jmurrayhead]

Freezing rain still is a big deal on the roads; stay safe.

We'll be getting some of that tonight and into tomorrow. oh hem...guess I'll just telecommute tomorrow

 

[glorify]

Where are you at?

Pretty close to Chicago

 

[Peggy]

Pretty close to Chicago

oh yeah, you'll get slammed. We're not going to get much as it seems to be going south and north of us lol.

 

[Mattie Num Nums]

Snow is fun. An inch of Ice is not :'(

 

[Peggy]

This is what our area roads are looking like right about now. A neighbor took this pic....

 

[DaKat]

Snowed in here

 

[Cam2]

Tomorrow morning: -30 wind chill. Not looking forward to it!

 

[Peggy]

I'm beginning to feel left out.

 

[Kim]

What is an ice storm? Is it like hail?

Ice on the roads must be so dangerous, do take care and stay safe anyone in those areas!

 

[Peggy]

What is an ice storm? Is it like hail?

Ice on the roads must be so dangerous, do take care and stay safe anyone in those areas!

An ice storm is rain that freezes and turns to ice before it reaches the ground. That's what I have going on in my area right now, but it's not really a storm, it's just raining ice.

 

[Kim]

wow.. hard ice or soft like a slushie?

 

[Elizabeth]

wow.. hard ice or soft like a slushie?

Kim, it's both.

A blizzard is basically a winter hurricane. Here is one of the stories on it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/01/AR2011020106879.html

 

[Elizabeth]

This is the one I remember best, March 13 1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century If you look at the scale rating on it, it was actually a class 2 hurricane.

 

[Kim]

This is the one I remember best, March 13 1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Storm_of_the_Century If you look at the scale rating on it, it was actually a class 2 hurricane.

Wow.. I had no idea it could snow in Florida!

 

[Elizabeth]

Wow.. I had no idea it could snow in Florida!

Kim at one point this last month there was snow in 49 of 50 states. Including Hawaii.

 

[jmurrayhead]

w00t the storm missed us again...we just got regular rain

 

[Elizabeth]

We've just got cold and wind here. I think we are in for some rain later on today but no snow in our forecast, thank goodness.

 

[Lawrence]

We had 15cm of snow overnight, and 50 more coming between today and tomorrow.

The most I seen in a 3 day period was 140cm's of snow when I lived in Northern Ontario. That year we had so much snow that personal snow blowers could not blow the snow over the banks.

The most snow in a season I seen was in Goose Bay, Labrador. The drifts were so high that the CO of our Base had to issue a memo telling people to not snowmobile on top of the hangars. Some parts of the roads ran through tunnels of snow. Driveways were tunnels too. The worst part was that parents had to check the outsides of the houses for trapped kids, as the snow would melt about 8 inches from the sides, and drop about 8 feet down.

 

[Floris]

Open fireplace, FTW!