***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

[MNCYWX]

Tis better to promise low early and build up than to promise a wallop early and have it bust.

Hey! Phrasing!

Now all you gentlemen upthread with your promises of large totals that fail to measure up, take note. This is how you deliver.

 

[Iastfan112]

So, is a snow squall basically just white out conditions?

Best way to think of it is a short duration blizzard warning.

 

[simply1]

Just makes me want to vomit

I also want to vomit. Saving this for a topic in the retro.

 

[MTEORisu]

Best way to think of it is a short duration blizzard warning.

And smaller area.

 

[simply1]

And smaller area.

Can you just use sizes of blizzard like Dairy Queen?

This here is a junior blizzard, Friday we get a large!

 

[SaraV]

I recall a time back in the 2008-2009 time frame where something like this happened. Wasn't supposed to snow at all , and then out of the middle of nowhere we got hit with a 5-in storm. Driving from Nevada to Ames was atrocious.

I think it was...2013? We were living in Ottumwa, and I got stuck up here in Des Moines. Spent the night at my in-laws. I saw the front coming in real time, and I remember saying to myself "If I didn't know any better, I'd say that a thunderstorm's coming in." Took me an hour and a half if not two hours to get from Jordan Creek to Johnston where my inlaws lived. (Back roads, too)

 

[bluestarcyclone]

Can you just use sizes of blizzard like Dairy Queen?

This here is a junior blizzard, Friday we get a large!

Is this the infamous "u kno what?" that can be found at the windsor heights dairy queen?

 

[enisthemenace]

I also want to vomit. Saving this for a topic in the retro.

Oh god. Not the retro. Make it stop!!

 

[Hoggins]

I think we’ve gotten 3 inches so far in Monticello and it’s still snowing. 2 feet of snow in like 5 days is bizarre

 

[NorthCyd]

The older I get the more I understand why old people with means just get the **** out over winter. This ******* sucks.

 

[FDWxMan]

I think it was...2013? We were living in Ottumwa, and I got stuck up here in Des Moines. Spent the night at my in-laws. I saw the front coming in real time, and I remember saying to myself "If I didn't know any better, I'd say that a thunderstorm's coming in." Took me an hour and a half if not two hours to get from Jordan Creek to Johnston where my inlaws lived. (Back roads, too)

Oh man, I have an entire chapter of the book on that day at work.

Had a boss straight out of The Office at the time that added an extra carnival of insanity on top of the whole mess.

Sometimes I still can't believe everything was on the up and up. We had to be in a sitcom or some hidden camera something or other.

 

[NWICY]

Well poop more snow tonight already not as much as the metro, but still more than I prefer.

 

[SECyclone]

Saturday looks awesome for a drive to Ames

 

[Clonehomer]

Anyone know a good contractor for heated driveways? I may be in the market soon.

 

[CYDJ]

So.... What you are all saying is my wife is right and I shouldn't drive to Ames on Friday from CR? I hate it when she is right. Please give me hope that she is not. Any chance that it will be OK for the Men's game at least?

 

[Cyientist]

I’m supposed to be at a meeting in Western MN tomorrow. I’m sure there will be like 7 people there for my presentation, CF is granting me permission to postpone right?

 

[CychiatricWard]

What are the updates/predictions as Thursday is here? Got some work in Ames tomorrow and certainly won’t go if it’s nasty out.

 

[BCClone]

I’m supposed to be at a meeting in Western MN tomorrow. I’m sure there will be like 7 people there for my presentation, CF is granting me permission to postpone right?

Depends, we talking by Fargo or like Jackson?

 

[Cyclonepride]

Only a few years old as a product, so there have only been a couple around here.

Who is making them? I'd like to send it back.

 

[Clonehomer]

So.... What you are all saying is my wife is right and I shouldn't drive to Ames on Friday from CR? I hate it when she is right. Please give me hope that she is not. Any chance that it will be OK for the Men's game at least?

More information needed. Mostly, your life insurance coverage and pictures of your wife. Need to make sure she’ll be fine once you’re gone before answering who’s in the right here.