A few news items related to the weather:
- This is why airports sometimes close during snow storms.
- Snow storms cost cities a lot of money. And airports.
- While NOAA claims that 2006 was the warmest year ever in the US, I think it was all because Denver became a cold sink in the last two weeks of the year.
And, meanwhile, the next storm is hurtling in …
This week’s storm will start with a “wintry mix” – freezing drizzle that develops about midday Thursday before changing to snow overnight into Friday.
“It’s gonna get cold – really, really cold,” said Carl Burroughs, a meteorologist in Boulder with the National Weather Service.
Temperatures are expected to drop into single digits Thursday night. Nighttime lows will be zero or below through Monday and maybe Tuesday, with daytime temperatures at 10-15 degrees above zero.
It’s too early to tell how much snow will come. Weather statements are expected to be issued today, although TV meteorologists Wednesday predicted from 3 to 8 inches in the metro area.
“There is the potential for a significant amount of snow,” Burroughs said Wednesday. “We could get nothing or we could end up with a whole bunch.”
Though the current forecast for our neck of the woods is Thursday high of 37, low of 9, 20% chance of snow; Friday 20/2 and 50% chance: Saturday 12/-2 and 50%, Sunday 14/-2 and a 20% chance.
Still on the fence about the Twelfth Night (not helped by such fearless predictions as the above). Our street is still kind of a mess, and a lot will depend on how it looks tomorrow (since I don’t expect, even if there’s zero snow, that we’ll lose much of what’s already on the ground Friday). If nothing else, I expect the temps will keep a lot of folks home regardless (though we’ll have plenty of hot glög and punch).
We shall see.
Mmmm…
Gløg. 🙂
I did have a thought about your ice bank problem. Use the walkway deicer (salt) on them today while sunny and tomorrow to hopefully get down to pavement.
Hmmm. An interesting idea.
Assuming I can find de-icer left anywhere in the metro area …
Or, in the thinking outside the box mode, or as the women on the Wing side of the family put it “what in the hell are you doing?”:
Hook a hose up to a faucet with hot water, have a nozzle sprayer on the end and go out and hose down your snow banks. 140 degree water should melt it. ;P
I don’t think we have a hot water spigot that will take a hose end — and I don’t think we have a large enough hot water tank.
I did stop and get some de-icer on the way home and applied it to the stuff out front of the house. We’ll see how it does. Part of the problem is that that clears up space for maybe five or six cars — we’d really need to be doing the whole street. Rrg.