Subj : Re: National Anthem To : MIKE POWELL From : Rob Mccart Date : Fri Jan 31 2025 01:27:00 RM>> I guess to earn being called a Blizzard requires higher winds. MP>I had forgotten that but, yes, I am pretty sure that is correct. Yes, you think of that from watching TV shows about people fighting their way through blowing snow, usually in old Westerns, but I don't think the wind displayed in those was quite as high as we got here, and we've definitely had some windy snowstorms that the weather apps just referred to as Blowing Snow or Whiteout conditions. I've had that driving to or from town a few times this winter. About half my 50 mile trip is on a major 4 lane highway with a 110 kph (68 mph?) speed limit, and there are people who try to drive at near that full speed when you can't see 20 feet in front of you and the roads are slippery enough your car can wander back and forth without you moving the steering wheel.. RM>> The drifts by my car were almost shovel breaking hard right down >> to the ground. MP>Wild that those drifts got so hard. Was there any melting and refreezing >involved? No, not that day. It stayed down around 3 to 5f that whole day. Snow just packs harder when the wind speed is higher, especially when it's good and cold. It was much nicer today, only a few degrees below freezing without too much wind compared to yesterday when I drove into town to get my shopping done and then home and trudging along through 10 inches of snow carrying it 250 feet to the house over rough ground, 3 trips to get it all there. I spent quite a while today and yesterday digging a path through 10 to 24 inch snow to most of the places on the property I need to walk every day. That was over about 350 feet. I have maybe another 125 feet to do but less than half of that needs to be done quickly. The rest of it is just out to my car and I won't be driving anywhere for possibly as much as another 2 weeks so there's no big hurry there.. The real shock this year is the wild changes in temperature up and down in a short time, like this week Friday will have a high of 32f and a low that night of -4f, a high of 8f the next day, then back up to 27f the next day. But what I started to say was we've had a number of days this year with a daytime high at or slightly above freezing and then dropping to -4f or so overnight. The worst part is those fast changes are always accompanied by high winds to move the systems in and out and it's harder to heat the house and get around in the wind than in colder temperatures. The guy that plows out the road here said to me the other day that this is the worst year for large and drifting snowfalls that he's seen in at least 5 years. I picked a great year to try wintering here again. B) --- * SLMR Rob * So... You say you sell life insurance Mr. Cthulhu? * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105) .