Just thought I'd let you know, I got Thursday and Friday off from Grad school as well. I love being in Oklahoma, the land where they don't believe in snow plows.
Weather Thread 1/30-2/2: Possible Major Storm
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Surely you couldn't possibly be accusing a TV meteorologist of not hyping a storm early enough? Don't I have to protect the ratings and all that jazz??
Seriously though, you did come with a very aggressive forecast, especially early and stuck with it, got the alarm raised early. Definitely deserves some props.
Friday last week, I was still anticipating the storm staying SE with the high digging in from Canada farther to the east than it did, adjusting later over the weekend toward your solution. Well done on your part.
If not for Monday coming in a bit low, you would have be right about on.
I went to their site a couple hours ago and it looks like about 2/3s of the flights are up and running. But I also hear that Texas is under rolling blackouts due to the ice and cold.
I got to thinking and find it kind of funny that this thread is still nowhere near as long as the thread the night money was supposed to commit.
Surely you couldn't possibly be accusing a TV meteorologist of not hyping a storm early enough? Don't I have to protect the ratings and all that jazz??
Seriously though, you did come with a very aggressive forecast, especially early and stuck with it, got the alarm raised early. Definitely deserves some props.
Friday last week, I was still anticipating the storm staying SE with the high digging in from Canada farther to the east than it did, adjusting later over the weekend toward your solution. Well done on your part.
If not for Monday coming in a bit low, you would have be right about on.
About Monday, I haven't looked all that hard, why were the WAA snows so weak here?
To be honest I know a lot of weather fanatics are talking about this being the most impressive snowstorm storm since 1999 for the Midwest but personally, I think the Christmas 2009 storm was more impressive, just hit hardest in areas that have significantly less population(MO River valley vs Miss Valley and east).
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Yep, water pipes at two coal power plants froze causing them to shut down and one natural gas power plant had low gas pressure due to demand on the pipeline causing low energy output. Awesome.
Lake Shore Drive in Chicago this morning.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1xqB1Fv8M0]YouTube - Chicago Blizzard 2011 - Lake Shore Drive[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1xqB1Fv8M0]YouTube - Chicago Blizzard 2011 - Lake Shore Drive[/ame]
You must be new to grad school...even when you have a "day off" its not at all a day off :twitcy:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZh1tSKHZdU]YouTube - [HQ] Jim Cantore - Thunder Snow in Chicago Blizzard 2011[/ame]
That was cool.
That was cool.
I love Jim Cantore. I watch the weather channel mainly because of that guy. And also Dr. Greg Forbes, if there's a bigger weather nerd than that guy, I want to meet him.
