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Weather Forecasts

Kachina624 — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:36:12 GMT

Last week we had three major storms, with doom and gloom predicted. We had wind, we had extreme cold, and here's a measurement of the predicted snow total.

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cheriere — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:39:13 GMT

@Kachina624 Oh my! I really hope there's not another round of this headed your way! 💝. Stay warm & safe 😊

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Kachina624 — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:41:50 GMT

@cheriere. We're desert and desperately need the moisture so badly.

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SilleeMee — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:49:37 GMT

@Kachina624

It's sorta the same way here. Hardly any snow but plenty of high winds and cold. Colorado Springs is also in a high desert region.

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deepwaterdotter — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:52:15 GMT

Last week I measured a total of 2 feet of snowfall in my backyard in Wisconsin..

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SharkE — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:53:11 GMT

People in N. M. all need to have frozen plumbing then all go outside and pee.

Problem solved.

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KailaS — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:04:45 GMT

I shall be happy to share my ice, snow, wind, and freezing temperatures.

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Icegoddess — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 22:14:16 GMT

Usually, our weather forecasters get all hyper when it comes to storms. There are so many jokes about us Southerners running to the grocery store any time that 4-letter word snow is even mentioned. So, this time we were told for days it was going to be nothing. Maybe some flurries, maybe a wintery mix. Then, the day before they changed it to maybe a one or two day event since we all know snow shuts down the city. Well, we didn't get snow; we got ice.

So, yeah, if you bring out a measuring stick, there's not much to measure. But when you put that on the roads, nobody's going anywhere for days because the temps plummeted and didn't get above freezing for a couple of days. And even when they did get a little above freezing, it was cloudy, so no sun to warm up the streets, so we got freezing rain to add to what was already there.

No mail or deliveries all week. 18-wheelers getting stuck. Cars in ditches all over the place. We had a local Jeep group transporting essential workers to/from work and home. I've got a Jeep, but I'm not driving on this stuff. Sout of us, on the Interstate, they had to call in the National Guard to rescue stranded drivers. The tow trucks couldn't get to them because they were running off the road too.

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Chessa35 — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 23:21:42 GMT

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AuntG — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 23:31:03 GMT

@deepwaterdotter wrote:
Last week I measured a total of 2 feet of snowfall in my backyard in Wisconsin..

At least we'll warm up this week @deepwaterdotter. We had an eight in snowfall, followed by a twelve inch one in central WI. The drifting was awful.

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SaveTheTurtles — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:15:23 GMT

I think sometimes the meteorologists just get dramatic cuz they can. 🤣

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laluzdelmundo — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:22:24 GMT

TV meteorologists have to generate their own excitement because most of the year here it's dry, sunny, fairly warm to awfully hot. They like to talk about rain and snow in the "high country," and are fairly animated when there's possibility of a monsoon storm in the summer.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:37:54 GMT

@SharkE wrote:
People in N. M. all need to have frozen plumbing then all go outside and pee.

Problem solved.

@SharkE. People in Texas shouldn't build houses with the plumbing in the unheated attics. Having to pee outside is the least of it. Pipes swell, then burst with water soaking drywall. The interior of the house is trashed.

Run water in a bathtub before a freeze then use it to flush toilets.

It's a very pleasant 50° in West NM; the East side is freezing with single digit temps.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:40:52 GMT

@Chessa35 wrote:

@Chessa35. There are places in the mountains in the Rockies and Sierra Nevada that look just like that.

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Spacrazy — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 02:12:51 GMT

@Chessa35 Just WOW

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SharkE — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 02:12:54 GMT

My house the plumbing is in the walls and under the foundation. No pier and beam houses here I don't think

Up in Ind when I lived in a mobile home we had to run electric tape around the pipes underneath the mobile home and run a drop cord to a electric plug in

Also, put a rug over the electric meter down in the meter hole to keep it from freezing up. Water froze up one time . Meter wasn't installed far enough down.

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rockygems123 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 06:06:20 GMT

@SilleeMee wrote:
@Kachina624
It's sorta the same way here. Hardly any snow but plenty of high winds and cold. Colorado Springs is also in a high desert region.

@SilleeMee

That stinks with the wind. We got about 4 - 6" of snow here in the foothills of metro Denver. Did you get much?

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EastCoastGal — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 08:33:02 GMT

@Chessa35 ... Is this for real and that's snow? I wouldn't be able to be right there having those two walls of snow by me! That's by a mountain so the whole country isn't like that right? Just WOW !!!! Claustrophobic city !!!

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Lilysmom1 — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 12:25:53 GMT

@Kachina624 , my brother in interior BC was lamenting no precipitation as well. Things changed! After the bitter cold, he was X country skiing yesterday!

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Estellee — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:13:46 GMT

@Chessa35 I havn't seen one quite so high, wow!