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Minnesotans Arguing About the Weather III: Storm's a comin'

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Got a few inches of snow where I live but 40+ mph winds so lots of drifting .Many state highways were shut down for much of the day until the wind started to die down and a few are still shut. But these are mostly through sparsely populated areas though there are certainly some people who were impacted. Another round of heavy snow forecasted for tomorrow night. A few roads are likely to close again while others will remain closed until late Sunday or Monday

I got to work early and told my crew we would leave early. We have live animals to care for so I said let's just do the absolutely necessary stuff. Then a little later our COO came through and said the same thing to everyone only he suggested to get out even than we planned. So we busted butt and got done. Left after a little over 3 hours and got home with clear roads. Less than an hour after I got home it started to hit. Made the right call.
 
Third pass with the snowblower ahead of me this morning, as well as a second rake of some parts of my roof. About 9" yesterday on top of the 7 we got Tues. Nice snow, though. Now it will get cold. Not up-north cold, but cold.
 
We had a few inches here, maybe 3 inches, by the looks of it. I haven’t bothered to measure it. The thing is, today is the warm day for the week with a predicted high of 13. Winds are 12mph sustained, gusting to 26mph, making the windchill -9. While that’s not bad by normal years’ standards, it’s just been so warm around here this winter that it feels like <strike>Hell</strike> ND.

ETA: Why doesn’t strike code work anymore? What the ND?
 
burd said:
A very very nasty thing to say, coming from a four-time Super Bowl LOSER! Wait til you apply for residence there and get DENIED by my boys.
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That’s a very cocky thing to say from a guy who hails from a state with no Super Bowl games played. Why is that?

Also, it turns out the snow wasn’t as much as I thought, the entire southern side of my house to the northern side of my neighbor’s house was just a giant drift spot. The snow fall was around 3/4”.
 
St. Clown said:
That’s a very cocky thing to say from a guy who hails from a state with no Super Bowl games played. Why is that?

Also, it turns out the snow wasn’t as much as I thought, the entire southern side of my house to the northern side of my neighbor’s house was just a giant drift spot. The snow fall was around 3/4”.
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I think we got a bit north of 2" but it's almost all gone thanks to the wind.

But holy Jesus is it cold. This entire winter I've gone out to feed the birds and squirrels in shorts and a t-shirt. That was a mistake today.

oh weird. And the rest of the snow seems to have fallen off the forecast. We were expecting another 3-4"!
 
We got exactly 0. Looks like I picked the right year to pay for plowing on a storm by storm basis ;^)
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I think we got a bit north of 2" but it's almost all gone thanks to the wind.

But holy Jesus is it cold. This entire winter I've gone out to feed the birds and squirrels in shorts and a t-shirt. That was a mistake today.
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Do you fill a feeder? I keep a seed feeder for the small birds that seem to move around the neighborhood in gangs (sparrows). When there is both a lot of snow and real cold, life can be challenging for them.
 
burd said:
Do you fill a feeder? I keep a seed feeder for the small birds that seem to move around the neighborhood in gangs (sparrows). When there is both a lot of snow and real cold, life can be challenging for them.
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We have a peanut/sunflower feeder on the deck that the squirrels (and some birds) visit as well as a suet feeder, worm feeder, and sunflower feeder near our office windows for the birds. Though the squirrels are able to climb slippery poles now.

Just this week I had a pileated woodpecker on the suet feeder. Which was quite an amazing and hilarious sight
 
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Dear El Ni?o,

Baby come back, yeah, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you, no
 
RaceBoarder said:
Storm was a dud here in my neck of the Chicago area (although this was also a storm where 30-40 miles made a HUGE difference.
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Not a did for me. MyRadar nailed the Friday prediction with 4-6" called and about 5" is what I got here. Turned to rain like for you, then turned back into a dusting of snow.

Glad I got the snowblower fixed because this was heart attack snow.

Shoveled the deck off today (another 2" overnight) and despite the falling temps, the rain soaked through the snow and was still wet. Glad I got the deck shoveled before it froze.
 
Xcel officially has asked Minnesotans to keep thermostat at 65 as demand for natural gas is up. Thats my normal temp, fine by me.

guessing Texas will fuck us all over again on rates
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I don't remember that being an ask even a decade ago. Am I just forgetting?
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Nope. But pipeline capacity hasn't kept up with demand and increased population.It's worse in the northeast where NIMBYs prevent almost all new pipelines of any sort, but there's a catch-22 in the Midwest, too. Interstate pipelines won't build new capacity until a significant portion is reserved, but the cost to reserve that at the local utility level is normally too large to do based on projections alone.

Which is why a lot of local gas utilities are experimenting with biogas, renewable natural gas, and LNG injections for peak usage that they can inject into their systems without going through the interstate pipeline systems.
 
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