Snow????

[abunaitoo]

Has it started to snow in your parts????
Only time I've seen snow, is on trips to the lower 48.
It's not even cold here.
It is raining more during the days, not so much at night.
If it were ever to snow here, people wouldn't know what to do.
Vehicle collisions all over the place.
Not accidents, because only a stupid person would go driving in the snow here.
I'm sure many house fires, brush fires, condo fires.
Can only imagine what will happen to the homeless.
Airports and docks would have to close down.
Would be interesting.

[Hickory]

My wife's sister lives in Tacoma, WA and if they get snow, she says there are 2 kinds of idiots,"those who drive too fast and those who drive too slow."

[StuBach]

We get plenty of snow here in Michigan and every year it’s like people have never seen the stuff before. Have to relearn. Inevitably the first snow means a rash of accidents along the highways.

[lightman]

We don't get very much snow here in central Arkansas. Maybe a fraction of an inch once of twice. We do get some freezing rain and ice. And most of us can't deal with it. The grocery stores run out of stuff even though the snow only last for a short time. We have lots of vehicle accidents. We even have a few power outages. About every 10 years we will have a more severe ice storm with power outages lasting for a few weeks.

Being a retired Electrical Lineman it took reaching retirement for me to see any beauty in a winter snow scape! Up until retirement all snow meant was long hours, hard work and misery.

[nun2kute]

We get plenty of snow here in Michigan and every year it’s like people have never seen the stuff before. Have to relearn. Inevitably the first snow means a rash of accidents along the highways.

Stu ! Check this out ! https://www.ksl.com/article/46684670/598-crashes-uhp-makes-yet-another-plea-to-slow-down-following-horrendous-weekend

Hope that works, just so you know your not alone.

[GhostHawk]

6-8 inches last weekend, looks like its staying. Winter is here.

[StuBach]

Stu ! Check this out ! https://www.ksl.com/article/46684670/598-crashes-uhp-makes-yet-another-plea-to-slow-down-following-horrendous-weekend

Hope that works, just so you know your not alone.

Yeah, wife and I took the kids to Bronners (Christmas Paradise for those who have never heard of it) on Sunday and as we were getting off at the exit a Chevy Traverse went sideways down I-75 north at roughly 75mph. They got it under control with no injuries from what we saw but they were against the barrier on the inside lane pointed in the wrong direction when they were done. Note: we in our explorer were fine only going 70, drive the conditions not the car.

Rough weekend for those unprepared or not careful, that’s for sure.

[Idaho45guy]

I live in Northern Idaho and still no snow, and nothing but rain in the forecast.

I booked a "holiday lights" lake cruise for December 15th for me and my girlfriend, thinking it would be a nice romantic evening to see the Christmas lights in the snow covered mountains, but it's looking like it may just be a miserable time of standing on the deck of a boat in the rain.

I lived on Kauai for a couple of years and no snow at Christmas was weird.

I now live in an area that gets some decent snow in the winter, eventually. There are two major universities nearby with strong engineering programs, so lots of foreign students from Asia and the Middle East.

The first couple of weeks of snow-covered roads are quite entertaining...

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[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Here you go Hawaii :razz:

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[rbuck351]

Here in NW Montana about 10 miles from Canada there has been three dustings of snow that have melted. Hoping to get some for Christmas but can be sure of plenty in Jan and Feb, probably 2 or 3 feet. Eureka is a very small town and traffic accidents are few even in winter nothing like the 28 years I lived in Anchorage AK.

[Shawlerbrook]

Here at 1700’ in Central NYS we got about 2 feet in the last week.

[375supermag]

Hi...
Live in Southcentral Pennsylvania...we get enough snow here every year to make it interesting.
Every couple of years or so we get pounded with a big(12"+) and things generally grind to a halt until the roads get cleared of ice and snow.
Average snows of 3-4" cause huge runs on the grocery store for bread, milk and toilet paper. No idea why that happens but it always does.
Also causes enormous traffic problems...I determined years ago that it wasn't worth it to drive in snow even when I had a 4WD truck because you can't do anything about the other drivers. So...when snow and ice was forecast I just took a vacation day. Now that I am retired, I pretty much just stay home in bad weather, so not much difference to me. Of course, my wife believes that the world will end if she misses a day if work, so she goes to work no matter how much snow falls. Never understood that mindset...your employer isn't going to replace your vehicle if it gets damaged because of an accident or do much to help with your physical injuries except tell you how bad they feel about it.

[GOPHER SLAYER]

Thanksgiving Day. Snow on the palm trees, what a beautiful sight.

[Geezer in NH]

Snowing as I type here in NH

[FISH4BUGS]

Ypu....snowing right now here south eastern central NH. Probably will get 3" plus on top of the 18" we got on Monday and Tuesday.
Hey....it's winter....what do you expect?
Plenty of wood for the stove, plenty of gas for the generator, plenty of food in the freezers, bring it on!

[quilbilly]

We are in the midst of a drought here on the Olympic Peninsula. Really! As of today there is no snow on top of Hurricane Ridge in Olympic Nat. Park which should have 4-5 feet by now. The rivers are dead low giving the salmon and steelhead problems. Normally our town has had 7-9 inches of rain in November but this year, less than 2/3". The weather forecast has no significant rain for another six days or mountain snow un til then so who knows if that will happen. On the bright side, it did make for a pleasant opening weekend for the late muzzleloader hunt which produced a fine buck using PRB.

[Tom W.]

I had enough when I lived in North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York. Even had a dream snowstorm some years back in Eufaula, about o foot or so, and there was one here in Phenix City maybe seven years ago that actually had the street covered and most businesses and all of the schools shut down.
Once in a great while we'll see some flakes falling, but when they hit the ground they're gone. It's been in the mid '60s during the day, and maybe by Wednesday we'll have some weather in the '50s.....and I shall not complain.

[DocSavage]

About 8" where I am in Ma,several years ago we got hit with 10 feet of snow total for the year. We were hit every couple of weeks with everything g from a dusting to a foot or more,had snow banks from snow blowing up to the 2nd story windows on my house.

[Maineboy]

252517 As you can see, we have snow and about 8 inches of ice on the lake as well. Winter comes early in Northern Maine. Yes, that is a red squirrel on the bird feeder.

[Geezer in NH]

Oh Man Fishing already!!! Our lakes ain't got but a skim in the small bays, it will be another month or so before I can fish

[Maineboy]

Oh Man Fishing already!!! Our lakes ain't got but a skim in the small bays, it will be another month or so before I can fish

We have ice, but the season on our lake opens February 15th. Most of the lakes around here open on January 1 but there are a few that open as soon as the ice is thick enough to walk on.

[Phlier]

One nice thing about living in the desert... we don't have to shovel sunshine off of our driveways. :)

[km101]

Snow????

Yep, about every 2-3 years. And everyone goes nuts! Schools close, businesses close and all the grocery stores run out of milk and bread. (are they making milk sandwiches?). And the snow usually only lasts for a day or two. If it’s a really bad winter we will get snow 2 or even 3 times! *gasp*. And the body shops and wreckers work overtime and the car salesmen are smiling! Almost no one here knows how to drive in snow/ice, especially the Cali transplants!

And don’t even mention the TV weather persons. They go into a frenzy. They are in permanent “we’re all gonna die” mode. They’re all predicting conditions 3X worse than actually happen. I’m retired, and I just stay in. For me, snow in Texas is a spectator sport! Y’all enjoy all that snow up there. I’ll take 50 degrees on Christmas Day anytime! YMMV

[Idaho45guy]

We need a good harsh winter every couple of years up here to send the Californians back to where they came from. Or at least down to Vegas.

[NyFirefighter357]

12F this morning, we've had snow on the ground for about a week. I do heating and am on the road 6 days a week 12hr+ 100-150 miles a day. My commute alone is 40 miles ea way. I drive a 3500 series rear wheel drive van with good snow tires. I drive right passed the stuck or spinning SUV's with all season or speed rated tires. $80K luxury 4x4 with autobahn tires & fancy rims doesn't work in the snow.

[Lloyd Smale]

our roads are snow covered at least 3 months a year. First storm everyone is driving slow. Within a week there driving as fast as on bare pavement. Always remember dad telling us about the guy from south Carolina that was in the air force and worked at the heating plant on base that he worked civils service. He had a dodge charger with big 60s on the back (70s guys will know what I mean) He went in the ditch after the first snow fall as did LOTS of the airmen. He asked my dad where he bought those tractor tires he had on his pickup!!! Didn't even know snow tires existed. When I was 16-18 I used to beg dad to take my car to work and leave me his 4x4 when we got a good snow. Guy could cruise the 2 lane highway that the front gate of the base was on and make big bucks (for back then) charging guys from the south that never drove on snow 20 bucks to pull them out of the ditch. It was about 25 miles to the bigger town in the area and I could run that road and pull two or three out get to town turn around and there would be 2 or 3 more in the ditch. Ive made 220 bucks in one day doing it. that was big money for a 16 year old back then. Always said if they had one nascar race in the UP or northern Wisconson in the winter after a snow storm my mother in an impala would outrun Jimmy Johnson and Earnhardt.

[tinsnips]

Yesterday 50 degrees-today 8 degrees snowing and the wind is blowing like Fargo ND.

[GhostHawk]

Another 5 to 7 inches in Fargo tonight. Wife has 9:00 am doc's appointment. Just hoping city does not plow too big a ridge in front of my drive.

[Idaho45guy]

our roads are snow covered at least 3 months a year. First storm everyone is driving slow. Within a week there driving as fast as on bare pavement. Always remember dad telling us about the guy from south Carolina that was in the air force and worked at the heating plant on base that he worked civils service. He had a dodge charger with big 60s on the back (70s guys will know what I mean) He went in the ditch after the first snow fall as did LOTS of the airmen.

Reminds me of my absolutely worst drive home in a snow storm.

Back in `95, I was a young married guy trying to hold onto my youth by driving a `65 Dodge Dart GT. It was all black, had the original 273 D "Commando" motor that was warmed up. About 350hp. It had a narrowed 8 3/4" posi rear end, and 50 series BF Goodrich Comp TAs on it, and a 4spd transmission. Fast and fun little car!

Well, I lived outside of Grinnell, Iowa in a farmhouse and worked part-time as a DJ at a Christian radio station in Pella, IA, which was about 35 miles away on rolling rural highways.

I had my own Saturday night show, and one night in November, it started snowing. By the time I got off work at 11pm, it was slick as snot out and about 5" of fresh snow on the roads.

It took me nearly two hours to get home and my wife was worried sick (before cell phones for everyone).

I didn't put it in the ditch, but I distinctly remember that every time I gave it any throttle, the rear would kick sideways. Pretty sure I adjusted the idle higher and just let it idle all the way home with that big solid lifter cam threatening to put me sideways the whole way.

Good times, lol.

[FISH4BUGS]

In my younger days of my consulting practice, I worked as far south as the NJ shore. On one project, I finished my work and headed home to NH....unfortunately I was on the front edge of a Nor'Easter that was heading up the coast right along with me.
It took me 12 hours of white knuckle driving at about 30 mph all the way to NH.
Never again.
Snow in the forecast now? I don't go anywhere until the storm is over and the roads are cleared. I'm OK with MY driving.....I used to do 50,000 miles a year. I didn't worry about MY driving....i always worried about the other guy that can't drive in the snow.
Now? I do about 20,000 or so.
Gotta love the remote connection software!

[bedbugbilly]

I'm 15 miles south of Tucson . . . . been looking each day out the window so I can say "I saw the first flake" but so far, only place I've spotted any is on the mountain tops. I refuse to leave my watch post until I see the snow falling . . guess I'd better go put another pot of coffee on and wipe the lens of my spyglass as I have a feeling I'll be here watching for a loooooooong time! :-)

[429421Cowboy]

We have already set records here for snowfall, many areas of Montana are past their usual yearly snow level already. Set to snow again this week and some more on Saturday when we are planning to go elk hunting. Friday is an early out from work hopefully and ice fishing. We normally drive 3hr back up to the ranch a few weekends a month and there has been so much snow this year that I normally would have driven through but we are just done constantly running bad roads and slow driving that I won't do it anymore if I can help it at all. I have lived down here for 7 years and have done 7 winters of driving the Interstate back home enough to be sick of it. We love the ranch but have to have our little family here enough to keep it together too.
Had a big snow dump over Thanksgiving that kept us from taking the horses elk hunting for the end of the general season and doing turkey in the wall tents for our first holiday that would be just the two of us in the ten years we've been together. Stayed home in Bozeman to watch it snow and have the holiday just us at our home and it was wonderful. Love the snow and this time of year, love chasing elk in the snow, ice fishing, cutting a Christmas tree and sledding in it, don't mind the cold at all, just sick of having to drive so far on crummy roads and am done with it when it isn't necessary.

[Idaho45guy]

We have already set records here for snowfall, many areas of Montana are past their usual yearly snow level already. Set to snow again this week and some more on Saturday when we are planning to go elk hunting. Friday is an early out from work hopefully and ice fishing. We normally drive 3hr back up to the ranch a few weekends a month and there has been so much snow this year that I normally would have driven through but we are just done constantly running bad roads and slow driving that I won't do it anymore if I can help it at all. I have lived down here for 7 years and have done 7 winters of driving the Interstate back home enough to be sick of it. We love the ranch but have to have our little family here enough to keep it together too.
Had a big snow dump over Thanksgiving that kept us from taking the horses elk hunting for the end of the general season and doing turkey in the wall tents for our first holiday that would be just the two of us in the ten years we've been together. Stayed home in Bozeman to watch it snow and have the holiday just us at our home and it was wonderful. Love the snow and this time of year, love chasing elk in the snow, ice fishing, cutting a Christmas tree and sledding in it, don't mind the cold at all, just sick of having to drive so far on crummy roads and am done with it when it isn't necessary.

You're living the dream, buddy!

[Idaho45guy]

First measurable snow of the year tonight! 1".

I'm up until 6am due to graveyard shifts most nights, so I won't have to drive in it, being as it is. It will be melted off by the time I wake up around 2pm.

Can't wait until a real storm hits and we get about a foot on the roads. Then it will be "go time" in my 4wd 4Runner and aggressive tires.

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[375supermag]

Hi...
Another EOTWAWKI event last night.
Rained the last two days and then s cold front came through and buried the entire area in 1-2" of snow!!!
Panic ensued!!! Stores ran out of bread, milk and toilet paper!!! Numerous reports of wet roadways causing potentially hazardous driving conditions.
The entire region will be affected by this calamity of life altering weather for the next several hours!!!
The humanity!!!

[Idaho45guy]

Hi...
Another EOTWAWKI event last night.
Rained the last two days and then s cold front came through and buried the entire area in 1-2" of snow!!!
Panic ensued!!! Stores ran out of bread, milk and toilet paper!!! Numerous reports of wet roadways causing potentially hazardous driving conditions.
The entire region will be affected by this calamity of life altering weather for the next several hours!!!
The humanity!!!

Yeah, people are funny. Up here, you would think that most would be acclimated to wintry driving conditions. And most are. But with all of the Californians moving here and the college students, we get a ton of accidents the first few snow events. An inch that will melt off by noon is a non-event. But being the first snow, people are overreacting.

I just saw a snow plow go by my house! For an inch of snow! Geesh...

[Buddy]

It snowed enough to cover the ground and melted right after daylight a week ago in northern WV. I live along the Ohio River and we see our share of the white stuff but I don't care for it. 55 deg and cloudy yesterday, 20 deg this morning, SMH.

[375supermag]

Yeah, people are funny. Up here, you would think that most would be acclimated to wintry driving conditions. And most are. But with all of the Californians moving here and the college students, we get a ton of accidents the first few snow events. An inch that will melt off by noon is a non-event. But being the first snow, people are overreacting.

I just saw a snow plow go by my house! For an inch of snow! Geesh...

Hi...
They typically don't run the snow plows around here until there is 3" of snow on the roads, They will spread anti skid and salt most times when snow or ice is forecast.
Doesn't affect me at all...I just leave the car in the driveway until the roads are clear.
My wife and son have 4WD vehicles...mostly because they believe that the planet will cease rotating if they don't go to work regardless of how much snow and ice are on the roads.

[koehn,jim]

Go up to the observatory on The Big Island, last time I visited snow was up there. we don't get it here, maybe up north.

[xs11jack]

We had 3 or so inches Sunday so Monday morning I get my lawnmower gas can out and fill the snowblower. Next check things over and of course the carb is leaking like a sieve. Carb is miserable to get off but finally do and the bowl gasket is broken. Spent most of the day finding and replacing the gasket. Ah, no leaks, so roll the machine to the front of the garage and open the door. This one has a 120volt starter, plug it in. Runs like a champ, for 13 minutes and dies for no good reason. Back in the garage, can't find anything wrong. Plug in the starter and away we go, for 13 minutes. back in garage, can't find anything wrong. Getting late so today fire up the @#$%&*& snowblower, ran several hours, nothing failed. Is this someones comedy routine???
Ole Jack.
PS I alway drain the carb and tank when I put it away in the spring.
OJ

[bayjoe]

We got 15 inches Sunday

[WRideout]

We have had a dusting in SW Pennsylvania, but nothing to write home about.

I moved into snow country by degrees. Where I grew up in Oxnard, Southern California, it snowed in 1948 and they still talk about it. If we had some hail on the ground, my mother would collect it in a dishpan just to look at it. In my thirties I moved to Knoxville, TN, where a little snow on the ground is considered a national emergency. I once drove home in a light snowfall to find the only known snowplow in the city abandoned in the middle of an intersection.

Now I live in Pennsylvania just north of Pittsburgh. I have had to learn the use of the snow shovel, sidewalk salt, and ice chipper. I don't really mind it that much but by March, I have about had enough.

Wayne

[Idaho45guy]

Looking like it won't be a white Christmas here in Idaho this year. Weird and sad.

It's my fault since I stocked up on de-icer, got the snow shovel and big broom ready by the front door in anticipation of some good storms.

[slim1836]

Y'all keep that stuff up there.

Slim

[abunaitoo]

Looking like it won't be a white Christmas here in Idaho this year. Weird and sad.

It's my fault since I stocked up on de-icer, got the snow shovel and big broom ready by the front door in anticipation of some good storms.

Kind of like washing a car here.
If you wash your car, it will rain.
Unless you want it to rain.

[fcvan]

Last year in mid November, I got a call from a buddy I used to work with. He was barbecuing steaks in 65 degree weather . . . in Homer AK! they hadn't had a lick yet in November. I guess I need to call him tomorrow and see what he's up to. Back in CO it has snowed quite a bit. I'm out west on the coast near the CA/OR border as the middle daughter just had a son. We get snow on the beach every few years, this may be the year as it's mighty cold the last few days.

[richhodg66]

We got between six and nine inches here Sunday, was the last day of the firearms deer season so I sat out in it that morning. We haven't had a real snow year in a while, so we're due.

Personally, I could go the rest of my life and never see snow again and be just fine with it. I'm not afraid of it like some and I can deal with it, but it's just a PITA to me, nothing more.

[robg]

always remember the female newsreader asking the weatherman what happened to the 6 inchs he promised her?

[snowwolfe]

Day before yesterday had the motorcycle out for a ride. It was 72.

[Alan in Vermont]

We have had a cumulative total of around 24" so far this season. Annual average hovers around 80" but could be 120" one year and 40ish" another. Worst storm we ever worked was 27", started late morning on a Monday and carried through until just about sundown on Wednesday. Our 2500HD lost reverse on the first stop of the first afternoon so we sent our spare driver home and we plowed that whole storm with two S-10s. Had to call in a tractor backhoe to open up some places that we couldn't keep open with the trucks. From the time I got up on Monday morning until we polished off the last of it, in the middle of the night Friday we had worked virtually straight through with about 8 hours sleep for each of us.

[tankgunner59]

7 inches last Sunday night. It's just starting to melt now. I love winter!

[Walks]

What's Snow ?

[Walks]

I've always thought I was luckier then most. We had a Place near Big Bear up in the Mtns East of LA. So My Dad made sure all His Boys learned to drive on snowy roads and off-road in the snow too.
And How to put on chains, oh what a joy......

[Idaho45guy]

I woke up this afternoon (work graveyard shifts) and checked the weather forecast.

It is currently 53 degrees outside. In Northern Idaho. 4 days before Christmas. Crazy.

[Kev18]

Looks at where I'm from. Should answer your question!

[abunaitoo]

Weather here has been cold and rain.
Lucky not to much wind.
Saw on the news it showed up on Haleakala. That's on the island of Maui.
They say it's going to snow up on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island.
You might have see on the news, the protesters on Mauna Kea.
I hope they freeze up there.

[Hickory]

It rained for the last 34 hours and as I look out the window this morning the ground is covered with snow.

[Idaho45guy]

Back home the area got hit pretty good with constant snow the last few days. Supposed to get more snow the entire time me and my girlfriend are on vacation down here in Yuma.

Here in Yuma, it's been sunny and in the 70's.

[quilbilly]

We are supposed to get 3-5" beginning this afternoon out here near the saltwater on the Olympic Peninsula and continue with up to 14" by mid week according to some forecasts. It has been a "warm" dry winter so far this season so this is our first snow.

[Idaho45guy]

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Having a date shake in Yuma in 74 degree weather.

[MaryB]

Only a couple inches in SW MN so far this winter... so far... this is setting up as a repeat of last year and we got dumped in end of Jan through March.

[Wis Tom]

Same here in Wis. Not alot of snow, but still can't wait for April.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Glencoe has about a foot to a foot an a half on the ground right now.
Big storm a com'n...
The weather sooth sayers are saying 6" to 12" in the next 48 hours, with some areas near 18"

[Cast_outlaw]

We just got first snow of the year but it’s above freezing now and melting got around 10”

[Cole440]

The snow line dropped pretty far here in SoCal a few times already this year. Lower than I have seen it in a long time.

[MaryB]

6 inches total from the last storm, and 8+ foot drifts!