***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[enisthemenace]

Dear lord. I hope there is less wind with this one. I’m already searching for more places to put the snow that I already have, and as it gets colder, it will get harder and harder to move.

EDIT: Looks like I’m boned (based on other responses). Wind will be an issue. I love big snow storms, but wind is a beotch.

 

[wxman1]

 

[nfrine]

Looks like a whiteout to me.

 

[Bret44]

Fun stuff coming our way:

.WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SATURDAY MORNING...

* WHAT...Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 10
inches. Winds could gust as high as 30 to 40 mph, resulting in
near whiteout conditions at times.

* WHERE...Northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, southwest into
central Wisconsin.

* WHEN...From late Thursday night through Saturday morning.

* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. Blowing snow could
significantly reduce visibility. The hazardous conditions would
impact the morning and evening commute.

 

[alarson]

Ugh. And Ankeny hasn't even gotten the last stuff all plowed off yet. Hoping that line moves south a bit

 

[ISUTex]

Just giving you a hard time.

I do think people are quite a bit softer nowadays than in the past, but maybe also just more rational too? Some things are just not important enough in the scheme of things to put your life at risk for. Or they are things that can just be done from home now too... including school.

That's just wrong. Snow days are for video games, snow forts, snowball fights and sledding. Nobody wants to do no school on snow days.

 

[wxman1]

 

[ISUTex]

Yeah, 30 years ago when I was in grade school, it was very common for school buses to get stuck in snow drifts, peoples driveways, and even go in the ditch when you'd have the ditches full and there were borderline white out conditions.

It's a minor miracle no one got hurt, and even more miraculous that school districts never got sued over it.

If we ever wanted a day off from school when it was really cold somebody would just go unplug the busses in the middle of the night. They were all parked outside. Bam. No school.

 

[AgronAlum]

Ugh. And Ankeny hasn't even gotten the last stuff all plowed off yet. Hoping that line moves south a bit

We got a plow in our neighborhood for the first time overnight. It was packed down enough that the plow just shot a bit of ice at the bottom of the drive.

 

[alarson]

We got a plow in our neighborhood for the first time overnight. It was packed down enough that the plow just shot a bit of ice at the bottom of the drive.

About the same here (SE ankeny, they rolled through around 330 in the morning). And nowhere near all the way to the curb so roads are still narrowed.

 

[bawbie]

We got a plow in our neighborhood for the first time overnight. It was packed down enough that the plow just shot a bit of ice at the bottom of the drive.

Here is SE CR we got a city pickup with a blade that went up and down our street twice about noon today. It didn't get down to the pavement and barely cleared a vehicle width

 

[exCYtable]

10 inches and another 8 inches all in five days? Mercy!

 

[alarson]

Will this be another heavy wet snow? Hopefully not

 

[Trice]

Clear your driveways on Friday night before the real cold hits on Saturday.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Will this be another heavy wet snow? Hopefully not

Drier and blow like a SOB

 

[clonerules]

Will this be another heavy wet snow? Hopefully not

No, very light and dry.

 

[mynameisjonas]

**** a duck

 

[jsb]

I had forgotten what a mess the roads are after a snow storm. The side streets in WEST DES MOINES are pretty garbage still this afternoon. Add in an inch or two tonight and 7-10 inches tomorrow night/Friday and it'll be a **** show.

 

[NoCreativity]

Bring it on, we need all the moisture we can get in whatever form.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Bring it on, we need all the moisture we can get in whatever form.

I am with ya, but I also remember all the snow Minnesota had last winter - it melted and ran off into the Mississippi, causing plenty of high water in the spring - but it didn’t help soil moisture conditions at all this summer.

In general, yes, we need moisture to get back into the soil and lots of it.