First one of the winter

[w8ob]

Here comes the first winter storm for Central Illinois this year. Nice messy rain/sleet/freezing rain combo and later maybe up to 12 in of snow. Got a ton of rain last night and it froze during the day today, the back deck is like a skating rink. Here's wishing for an early spring.

[KI4PEQ]

It's supposed to get nasty as far south as the Florida panhandle. Right now the wind is picking up, the temperature is dropping, and so is the barometer. Weather conditions at KI4PEQ (http://www.met.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base.cgi?stn=AS318)

[K9STH]

Someone ordered winter a month early here in north-central Texas! We try to schedule it for January 1,2, and 3, so that we can get it out of the way for the remainder of the year!

We got a little over an inch of snow on the ground and the temperature is 30 degrees at the city service center right now. Yesterday it was pretty much "normal" (high 70s) but the weather changed in a hurry. Not a true "Texas norther" but enough to get one's attention.

Not as bad as it can be in the "panhandle" of Texas. There are locations up in the Amarillo area that have had over a 100 degree drop in under 12 hours. It can be in the 90s in the afternoon and below 0 after midnight.

The largest temperature drop that I ever saw in a very short time was in northwestern Indiana. It was in early November and we had "Indian summer". I was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and the temperature was a little over 90 (according to the bank clock/thermometer) and was waiting on a bus to go home. A cold front came through and the temperature on the bank device started dropping. By the time the bus got there it was like 22 degrees! I was sure glad that the bus came!

I have seen like a 70 degree drop over less than 12 hours here in the Dallas, Texas, area. But, nothing as fast as in Indiana.

Glen, K9STH

[ka5piu]

Hello.

So much for global warming, its more like global freezing.

[KG6YTZ]

It's called "winter." #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

We're getting some "cold" here too - "cold" being a purely relative term, of course, and this would be shirt-sleeve weather to you Midwesterners. #We have yet to get our first real rain of the season - that "20% chance of" that moved through here on Monday was just enough to wet the pavement.

Up in the middle of Oregon, where most of the rest of my family now resides, they're getting highs in the 20's, and overnight lows in the teens and single-digits. #Apparently, that's still a little bit below average even for them, but I can't even imagine temperatures like that. #I don't think I've ever experienced anything below <thinks> something like maybe 29 or so, and that's very rare here. #Even at those temperatures, it only means frosted cars in the morning for us.

Wishing for an early spring? #The evening air gets flower-scented around here - especially in the Pasadena area - by early February. #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[w2amr]

Still 70 here in joisey.

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (ka5piu @ Dec. 01 2006,00:45)]Hello.

So much for global warming, its more like global freezing.
Actually from my perspective here in the northeast it IS more like global warming,namely the temperature is all over the place during the winter. Last year we had numerous incidents where it went from extremely and unseasonably mild, to arctic cold with snow, to unseasonably mild and all within a 24-48 hour period.

[KF0RT]

Quote[/b] (n2ize @ Dec. 01 2006,03:24)]Quote[/b] (ka5piu @ Dec. 01 2006,00:45)]Hello.

So much for global warming, its more like global freezing.
Actually from my perspective here in the northeast it IS more like global warming,namely the temperature is all over the place during the winter. Last year we had numerous incidents where it went from extremely and unseasonably mild, to arctic cold with snow, to unseasonably mild and all within a 24-48 hour period.
In Colorado, we call that "normal." We'll get a foot of snow and two days later, it's all gone. I've seen rain, hail, snow and sunshine all in the same hour.

73, Rob

[W3MIV]

It's about seventy here, and we are under a "severe weather" alert for high winds and big T-storms with a chance for tornadoes.

It would be nice were the heavy weather to sweep clean that malarial swamp that lies along the Potomac betwixt Georgetown and the Anacostia River. Wash the whole damned mess out into the Chesapeake and out the Capes.

Start over and move the Capital to the Worst Coast. Or, better yet, to Nawlins.

[w5klb]

Before this storm and the artic front moved through our area, the temperature at my QTH was a balmy 68°. In less than an hour, the temperature dropped to 44° and continued drop like a rock. Then we had freezing rain and ice before the real storm hit. After that, it started to snow hard and heavy. A blizzard warning was issued by the NWS in Tulsa. During this blizzard, one spotter south of Bartlesville reported that visibility had dropped to 10 feet at one point. The Oklahoma National Guard was out looking for stranded motorist in my neck of the woods.

I have nearly 13 inches of snow in my yard right now with drifts of nearly 2 to 4 feet and all travel to this part of the world is discouraged unless it is an emergency.

Local TV news out of Tulsa is reporting that this was "The Storm of the Century".

Having lived in places like Chicago and Boston, I would have expected to see snowfalls of this magnitude, but in Oklahoma, this kind of snowfall is unheard of. A lot of Oklahomans in my part of the world will be talking about "The Blizzard of 2006" for a long time. As a native of this area, I have NEVER experienced a blizzard in this part of Oklahoma.

For us in "Indian Territory", this storm was HUGE!

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (KF0RT @ Dec. 01 2006,03:40)]Quote[/b] (n2ize @ Dec. 01 2006,03:24)]Quote[/b] (ka5piu @ Dec. 01 2006,00:45)]Hello.

So much for global warming, its more like global freezing.
Actually from my perspective here in the northeast it IS more like global warming,namely the temperature is all over the place during the winter. Last year we had numerous incidents where it went from extremely and unseasonably mild, to arctic cold with snow, to unseasonably mild and all within a 24-48 hour period.
In Colorado, we call that "normal." We'll get a foot of snow and two days later, it's all gone. I've seen rain, hail, snow and sunshine all in the same hour.

73, Rob
It is somewhat normal for here too since we are very close to the coast and our local wx is easily influenced by warm coastal air from the south and cold arctic air from the north and west. Depends which way the wind blows. It's just that in recent years the sudden transitions from very mild to very cold have been happening with much greater frequency, much more often, and much more extreme. Or at least thats how it seems. Also we have been having more extreme weather in the summer months. Last summer we had tornadoes only a few miles from here. That type weather was unheard of when I was growing up here.

[k9kxq]

No snow here in Western Kentucky, but listen to some hams right now on 80 meters from Illinoise, have lost power,towers and antennas,wind was super strong here, last night befroe I hit the bed we had gusts up to 35 mph...

kxq

[w8ob]

Well we ended up with 12 inches of wet heavy snow and 2-3 ft drifts. Snow removal took 6 hours yesterday to open the driveway up and still no sign of the city plows. The wife and I took a trip to Peoria yesterday afternoon on I-474 and had trouble finding an open exit to turn around and head back on. I come from NE Mich. and I cannot believe the lack of snow handling machines down here and the fact they are afraid to put down a little salt. Of course my real snowblower ended up with a broken rim and the replacement will not arrive until next week. I ended up using one of those 2 cycle single stage models yesterday. With snow like this they are only slightly better than a shovel.

[w5klb]

Quote[/b] ]...I cannot believe the lack of snow handling machines down here and #the fact they are afraid to put down a little salt...

I see that nothing has really changed since I was living in Illinois in the late 80's.

[WB2WIK]

We had 40 mph of global warming this week, but WX is back to normal. Today was 77 degrees, sunny and very clear.

Now it's night...and it's "starry, starry, night..." really beautiful. Still breezy, and at 7:00 PM it's 72 degrees.

WB2WIK/6
La la land.