***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[MNCYWX]

Landed in Des Moines just before 7.

MX6303 (MXY6303) Breeze Airways Flight Tracking and History 08-Jan-2024 (KHOU-KDSM) - FlightAware

Track Breeze Airways (MX) #6303 flight from William P Hobby to Des Moines Intl

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Literally heard it overhead as I was walking into Target to get some makeup… I meant beer!

*Holds man card tightly*

 

[cowgirl836]

Yeah I thought it would change overnight and it narrowed a tich to 6-9. I was going to take down lights yesterday and DH is all one more week! That much snow to wade through and single digits next weekend. Looks like this just became his job.

I deeply regret this post. I indeed made him help me take everything down today. And he then decided to meticulously organize all the lights. Sort all the extra bulbs. Label the boxes by year. We have many of the same kind. And probably 50-75 in total. If you think I am the type of woman to put the same strand back in the box it came from every year.....well I guess you may be my husband who seems to have sent his brain on sabbatical. Because he did this during the time I arrived home with hungry children, while I made dinner and entertained them until bedtime. Still going.

I am confident that predictions of 6-9 inches tonight will *absolutely* be a bust.

 

[carvers4math]

Literally heard it overhead as I was walking into Target to get some makeup… I meant beer!

*Holds man card tightly*

The station doesn’t buy it for you or you sweat it all off over the forecast? I would never send my husband to buy makeup, he would come home with batteries and duct tape

 

[MNCYWX]

The station doesn’t buy it for you or you sweat it all off over the forecast? I would never send my husband to buy makeup, he would come home with batteries and duct tape

All on me. I even put it on too! Don't need me looking like a butterball, greasy face!

 

[cowgirl836]

All on me. I even put it on too! Don't need me looking like a butterball, greasy face!

Get some setting powder! Ah, there are women anchors I'm sure, they'd tell you all this.

 

[carvers4math]

All on me. I even put it on too! Don't need me looking like a butterball, greasy face!

I would probably do better with the forecast than the makeup under those lights, but I am old enough that anything but tinted moisturizer and light mascara is just going to make matters worse. You do a good job at both, have tuned in for this storm.

 

[AirWalke]

I feel like I recall a storm like this not long ago that started off above freezing, took awhile for the ground to cool down, and had people here crying “bust”… only for several more inches of snow to materialize overnight.

Go to sleep everyone. More snow on the way.

 

[BCClone]

Well, we have the 1-3 inches that they predicted so it may stop now.

 

[KidSilverhair]

My math may not be so good since my last math class was 42 years ago, but if I’m not wrong, this says nearly 13 1/2 inches for Cedar Rapids. That can’t be right. I added wrong, didn’t I?

 

[KidSilverhair]

Me when the NWS says we’re in for a foot of snow followed by wind and below-zero temperatures on the way

 

[bluestarcyclone]

My math may not be so good since my last math class was 42 years ago, but if I’m not wrong, this says nearly 13 1/2 inches for Cedar Rapids. That can’t be right. I added wrong, didn’t I?

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I believe that does add up to 13.4

 

[ISUAgronomist]

You will never lose power again. Not because your generator will run when the power is out... because the power will never go out again.

Our generac is now 5 years old. Has zero hours of actual use (all hours are exercise cycles).

That's usually how it goes but I live out in the sticks. We lost power twice in December and a few times this summer. Generally less than an hour but under bad conditions it can be a couple days out here.

 

[twojman]

Dry pocket coming through, lower snow amounts now

 

[BoxsterCy]

So, you guys aren't all gonna die? Guess I'll cancel the vigil I was planning for you all.

 

[nfrine]

3-4" 30 east of Ames. Wet sh*t.

 

[ClonesTwenty1]

I feel like I recall a storm like this not long ago that started off above freezing, took awhile for the ground to cool down, and had people here crying “bust”… only for several more inches of snow to materialize overnight.

Go to sleep everyone. More snow on the way.

Looks like 3-6am time period could pump some heavy bands

 

[CycloneErik]

So, you guys aren't all gonna die? Guess I'll cancel the vigil I was planning for you all.

Not all, but most of us. I can't see any way through this one.

 

[WartburgClone]

Can't wait to go into work tomorrow and see all the cars in the ditch along Riverside & Dayton.

 

[NWICY]

The station doesn’t buy it for you or you sweat it all off over the forecast? I would never send my husband to buy makeup, he would come home with batteries and duct tape

Hey it's a judgeme free zone.

 

[CYaeger]

Just did a 3:00 AM shovel, goodness that is some heavy wet snow here in Des Moines. Just looked at the radar and snow is filling in pretty good at this point. Will use the snow blower in the morning...