***Official 2024 Weather Thread***
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10" of snow in January. Meh, I can make it to the office, it's a short drive through town. 1" of snow in the 3rd week of March. Going to have to "work" from home today, driving conditions are too hazardous.
Damn wet snow! Forgot when I left home about the snow on the roof of my car. I thought it would slide off the back of it. Was not expecting it to all come forward down the front of my windshield while I had my wipers on. With all the weight of the wet heavy stuff it rendered my windshield wiper to quit. So here I am driving down the road with a windshield full of snow. Was able to get out after getting to a stop light and clear off the drivers side but not the passenger side. Kinda scary, but thankfully only going around 30 mph.
Looks like round 2 bullseye will be along Highway 23. Hoping it keeps tracking further west and north. I really don’t want to shovel heavy, wet snow.
KidSilverhair
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I do appreciate it when weather folks do a little postmortem and explain why they got it wrong when a forecast goes completely upside-down. I feel like this is a new thing … I recall many weather events in CR when a forecast was completely blown and the TV weather people the next day made zero mention of why the conditions were so far different from what they told us they’d be the night before. This is refreshing.
My sense is that forecasting gets really tricky this time of years where slight variability in temperature or moisture can make the forecast swing wildly.
I guess if they want to be known for consistency the forecasters can go work in Phoenix.
KidSilverhair
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I give meteorologists all kinds of grace - I know how difficult it can be to predict the outcomes of these massive systems with nearly infinite variables - but it just bugged me when we’d get a forecast of something one day and the next day‘s actual weather would show they completely whiffed, but they’d get on the air and act like they never said anything different from what actually occurred. I think explaining why they got things wrong actually helps viewers understand how hard it is and why it’s not always an exact science.
I don't mind snow this time of year; it's April in about a week and it won't be around long.
And especially this year, any precipitation is great and it's not like it's been a long grueling winter.
And especially this year, any precipitation is great and it's not like it's been a long grueling winter.
A find that a nice rack always eases the irritation.
Currently raining in north Ankeny, and we had a big ol' thunder clap around 5 minutes ago.
