In 19 short days using wind chill. Oh my..........extreme!
How about early February 1996 when there was a 115 degree swing across the state in 6 days using actual temps. Would that be considered "extreme"?
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In 19 short days using wind chill. Oh my..........extreme!
How about early February 1996 when there was a 115 degree swing across the state in 6 days using actual temps. Would that be considered "extreme"?
LOL there isn't enough bovine methane in Iowa to matter. ( at least that would be my guess)
100% but not quite an Apples/Apples comparison to the stat being raised. Heck. There’s been single days with temps spread 75° or more across the state.
Here’s the Apples/Apples for the timeframe you mentioned for DSM.
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Im grateful they are getting it off the roads. It won’t take much of a temperature swing to have refreeze at night. And the side streets and parking lots have been messes for 2 weeks.
A lot of stuff never really cleared up after the 2 feet of snow plus the deep freeze, getting packed down. Now it's a whole mess of slush which is rough driving plus even worse when it hardens up all rutted at night. My neighborhood really needed the pass it got today
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I've been across that bridge and the one down at Red Rock in heavy fog, and it is a pretty freaky feeling.
My neighbors snow gage is at 8 inches morning, started out at 13 on Monday, so we are melting about 1.66 inches per day. If my math is correct by Tuesday most of it should be gone except the larger piles.
First thing that happens with snow melt is the air gets knocked out of it and you get the biggest loss right away. Then it is compact and doesn't melt as fast.
You're probably right, it went down about 2 inches Monday and Tuesday. In the last 24 hours it's went down in the 1-1.5 inch range.
It freaks me out even in good weather. Every time I am thinking what am I supposed to do if I go over this itty bitty rail? Sometimes I even put that rescue tool right next to me on my way out of the driveway. Wind is scary on it too.
What others have said and plus you want that stuff off the roads/drains if rain hits so it can drain away instead of pooling up and creating ice arenas everywhere.
Cyclonepride
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My wife is freaked out by that too. Someday, we are going to go back to Key West (where we had our honeymoon) and I want to take Highway 1 down (we flew on a puddle jumper last time which freaked me out a little bit lol) and she's not going to like that drive.
Completely irrational, but I always roll my windows down when I cross that bridge. I only go up there in the summer though.
