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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Mar 2, 2024 8:50:49 GMT -6
All we gotta do is drive down one us highway to get there I drove 50 from Sacramento to Tahoe in early October in 1990. I can't imagine going through Echo Summit in this weather. I drove from Reno to Sacramento on I-80 in 2006. There is so much tire chain use on that section that the concrete has valleys worn in it where the tires run in each lane.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Mar 1, 2024 10:39:21 GMT -6
This is going to come as a surprise, but we had sleet in Marissa this morning. There was sleet in St. Peters, too. Woke me up hitting the back sliding door. Prayers for your sister, Reb.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 29, 2024 7:28:31 GMT -6
YouTube forecast from Wednesday evening for Sacramento and the Sierras including blizzard warning and 10 fee5 of snow.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 28, 2024 19:44:24 GMT -6
If models are right the Sierra Nevada Mountains are going to get some epic snows. Watched a forecast out of Sacramento on YouTube this morning that said exactly that. Like 8-12 feet starting early Friday.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 27, 2024 20:31:16 GMT -6
I did not have a 60F temperature drop on my bingo card for 2024. And we still have 10 months left! Imagine the possibilities It may not be what we want or need but it won't be dull.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 27, 2024 15:34:19 GMT -6
Already at 84⁰. Will we make it to 85⁰ and tie the all time February record or go higher and break it?
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 27, 2024 7:32:10 GMT -6
I am amused seeing the train station platform heavily salted and it being 78 degrees today 😂 Tomorrow looks icy though, so I get it No doubt the salt is drawing tons of moisture, too.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 27, 2024 2:34:27 GMT -6
I just had a brief sprinkle of rain at 230 AM. Few little pop up cells scattered across St. Charles County. That's unexpected.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 22, 2024 22:25:17 GMT -6
Meh, first couple weeks in March is better than the the first couple weeks in May. Anyway, we can get almost anything at anytime, so it matters little. I say did there was no good time. But maybe some time during October.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 22, 2024 19:25:53 GMT -6
Not that there's ever a good time to do it but can't they find a better time to do radar maintenance than at the time where winter storms transition to spring severe weather?
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 20, 2024 2:16:17 GMT -6
I hope your move goes well. I'm glad it's not me.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 18, 2024 15:24:30 GMT -6
Snow is going away in hurry. My south-facing front lawn is almost bare already (we had 4.25"), while the houses across the street have 2" probably still left in their yard. That sun angle makes a big difference! 39F I'm up to 43⁰. I had close to 6" and any snow not in the shade is gone.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 18, 2024 12:56:38 GMT -6
Snow is going away in hurry.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 17, 2024 21:23:57 GMT -6
I have to say all forecasters were on top of this, afaiac. I personally think too often the public hangs on every. Single. Word in a forecast. Also way too much gets read into whether theres a headline or not. Its almost as if a wsw is a status symbol. The difference between an inch of snow and 4 inches of snow is pretty negligible in terms of precip amts, and theres so many variables that go into impact level. The high feb sun certainly tempered my expectations. Like tk mentioned 4.5 inches here, and im surprised there was a cottleville location at 6.7? It seems to be an outlier although the nws 3 miles to my south had a pretty close measurement (5.7 iirc?) I just realize now that since we dont get much snow, a small amt of snow brings impacts and with the new luxury of wfh, i take advantage of that. Rain forecasts are given in increments of .1 or .25 or larger. Increments for snow amount to .01 or .02 of water. That's a pretty fine line to hit compared to the rain prediction. I don't think the general public understands that.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 17, 2024 21:14:29 GMT -6
Not sure, the data I pulled from AccuWx Pro shows 3.4" It's correct on the daily summary. 3.4"
They must have corrected. That or I'm more senile than I thought.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 17, 2024 9:34:54 GMT -6
Lambert recorded 3.4" with 0.39" liquid equivalent(about 9:1 SLR). I'm confused. Why is the NWS daily summary showing 2.1? The snow started Friday morning and ended Friday afternoon.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 17, 2024 8:02:05 GMT -6
Anyone have the official snowfall total at Lambert? 2.1" according to the daily summary. But I thought ch. 2 was reporting 3.3" last night.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 16, 2024 15:01:06 GMT -6
The sun is trying to come out but it's still snowing. Streets are covered and slushy.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 16, 2024 10:48:29 GMT -6
Ground starting to whiten up some in far north St. Peter. Pavement is just wet.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 13, 2024 20:07:03 GMT -6
The ICON reminds me of the old GEM that was always over-amped with a major cold bias. Come on everyone The Germans want to throw us a bone..lol they know how starved we are..hey I'm in Waterloo and part German big German population here..I'll keep hope alive...well if it fails I'll just head over to the Stubborn German in town and drown my Winter sorrows.. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 12, 2024 14:56:31 GMT -6
Full sunshine in Godfrey this afternoon. 48hrs ago models had it ripping snow. Unbelievably poor model performance. Full sunshine in far north St. Peters, too. Started getting breaks in the clouds about 10 AM or so.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 12, 2024 14:53:55 GMT -6
I planted tomato and pepper seeds yesterday. Yeah, I’m starting to go in that direction too. My mom (when she was alive) was a school teacher. She would plant her tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, all those kinds of crops when she would have the day off for President's Day. Of course she kept them in house until it got warmer.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 10, 2024 20:05:33 GMT -6
NWS now calling for a narrow band of 4" in the area where no one lives.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 10, 2024 15:41:41 GMT -6
As Chris said several days ago this sounds very much like a March or April snow event
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 9, 2024 15:05:17 GMT -6
C’mon man there is not even a remote chance that anyone’s lawn will be remotely close to needing mowed in the CWA in 2 weeks. I think you misunderstood him. He is cutting the grass... he just wants to mow down the mole hills. No way grass will be growing... especially with colder air slowly swinging back our way. So he's making mole burger?
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 9, 2024 15:03:58 GMT -6
Waiting to hear the spring peepers before I believe! I've been hearing a few cardinals chirping around in the morning for a couple of weeks. This morning I heard some other birds joining the cardinals. So spring is not far off.
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 9, 2024 11:28:53 GMT -6
If we get any hail tonight can we consider it very large, exceptionally heavy, exceptionally solid snowflakes?
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 8, 2024 10:28:50 GMT -6
3-6" of heavy WET snow but never gets deeper than 0.5-1.5" due to ground temps and melting. Hasn't that been the story of just about all our snow this winter?
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Feb 4, 2024 10:24:37 GMT -6
I'm sure Iowa will enjoy their snow storm next week...once again it looks like the N stream doesn't want to play ball and get the cold air in place ahead of the storm. That would be number 6 or 7 this winter for Iowa
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Post by guyatacomputer - NE St. Peters on Jan 30, 2024 17:30:37 GMT -6
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