oh, my

[mmegaera]

You know it's going to be a storm when your local weather makes it to the national news and it's the lead story on the Weather Channel, with Jim Cantore on location, no less [g] (the Weather Channel basically ignores us off up here 99% of the time).

We've got only about four inches of snow on the ground now, but we may get well over a foot more in the next 24 hours or so. There's this arctic air mass which is about to collide with a Pineapple Express (so called because it comes to us across the Pacific from Hawaii, bringing a fire hose with it) right over our heads. It'll warm up to rain (can we say flooding, boys and girls?) in a couple of days, but in the meantime...

And, no, this isn't Buffalo. I'm an hour south of Seattle. We average five inches of snow per year.

Battening down, because I don't think I'll be getting out of my driveway for at least a couple of days (when you don't get snow very often, you don't have a lot of snow removal equipment, right, Atlantans?).

Weather geek signing off now.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Yikes! Good luck!

[mmegaera]

Power's still on, so things are fine (see my next post for an update). But my class got cancelled last night (even though it hadn't started snowing by the time I went to bed, the puddles on the streets were frozen solid), and the two appointments I had today? Postponed [g].

[archangelbeth]

Frozen puddles are annoying things! Glad that your power is still on. O:>

[nlbarber]

Oh, yeah. Though metro Atlanta theoretically has dome some more planning since our last round of snow-n-ice, so Things Should Be Better(TM).

Stay warm! A co-worker in Boise just emailed that their office was closing as the storm moves east, so it looks like people are taking this one seriously.

[mmegaera]

So did Seattle after the Debacle of January '09. So far I can't tell that it's made any difference [wry g].

[madwriter]

Good luck!

The last time my hometown was the lead on the news for weather was in November 1985, when the first story (and sometimes more) of every building in downtown was underwater thanks to 11 inches of rain dropping on us in the space of a few hours.

[mmegaera]

Yikes! Well, it's supposed to turn to rain sometime tomorrow, and then rain for about four days, and it wouldn't be the first time low-lying areas in this part of the world have been underwater, either.

Here there are two choices about where to live -- you can live in a nice flat valley and get flooded out regularly, or you can live on a moraine and dig rocks out of your garden every year. I live on a moraine [g].