We'll have the occasional snowstorm/icestorm. Last big snowstorm was in 2011.

Thursday morning will be a record.

Go to Grove every year for paddlefishing, so I kinda watch. They got hit earlier this year too.

Would be interested to see the snow totals of like there and KC so far this winter compared to us.

Yeah, they were calling for a dusting, or maybe an inch of snow, and we got 5-6 inches instead. :D Around 3 weeks ago.

My brother slipped on the ice and broke the **** out of his leg at work today down there.

:(

I haven’t gone out to measure yet but, unless something major not being forecasted happens overnight, we might hit 6” here. People have been freaking out the past two days about a possible 16”… I had my doubts, and all my weather apps were saying 8-12”. I looked at all of the individual models on Windy and saw one or two that had the 16” prediction, most were in the 8-12” and one was closer to what it looks like we are going to get.

Typical media taking the worst case outlier and promoting it. Though in fairness, they did call the bitter cold temperatures pretty spot on. That part of the forecast I actually believed though, those temperatures have been making at least one appearance a winter has been pretty reliable the past several years.

I was able to measure what is on the grill and I had 9 inches of snow. No clue how accurate that is though because of the wind. Parts of the patio have no snow and there are some huge drifts in the yard.

**** that sucksssssss

I ate shit last week on the melted, refrozen snow that turned into a sheet of death. It happened so fast and I dropped so hard I'm ****ing amazed I broke nothing.

Hopefully it's a quicker recovery break.

Daylight will tell story out in the rural areas. For sure have 8 plus inches on farm but as fluffy as it is drifte=s will be the issue. Cattle guys are calving now so will be imperitive they get to calving pastures with hay for baby calves to bed on and hay in all pastures for cows. So the roads will get tractor tire open but wee dont have township plows so it mostly up to us. This is Bates/St Clair county line country. Cass we have about 5 if i guess right, ill be plowing here about 10am

I49 is a mess going south Some jackleg semi driver rear ended a giant snowplow MoDot truck yesterday

8 inches at least here in Clinton. First time I can recall my furnace running all night

Back in the 70's we had a massive blizzard. They used the ANG here to fly C-130's with hay and drop them to the fields to feed the cattle.

I remember that. 3 days and nights in the kitchen. Dad brought my 90year old great grandmother to our house from town on a tractor. We had electricity, Lytton did not.

Dad shoveled snow out of the attic.

Hopefully the cow guys got their critters close to home and some shelter. Most guys here moved calving to March to avoid this kind of noise. But I'm sure some guys are calving now. Makes a guy like me happy he's not a cowboy.

Rear ending a snowplow is all time idiocy.

Ouch, that's really too bad, and it was super slick out. Nobody here (in our household) even ventured outside. Now it's a nice and clear sky, and has got all the way to +7 degrees. There were still semi's all over the place, interstates closed this morning.

Hope he gets OK!

Edit: The weatherman said because we got more sleet and freezing rain, it held the snowfall amounts down. We got around 3-4 inches, but it was on top of ice. 75 was closed most of the day yesterday south of Tulsa to Okmulgee with a sheet of ice, and it looked like a parking lot with multiple wrecks/stuck in the ditch/median.

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JFC those poor people's foundations

Have I just lost the plot or is this the worst winter in a long, long time?

Usually we'll get a semi serious snow storm, some dustings, and a week or so of an Arctic blast. This year there's been 3 bad storms and 2 Arctic blasts. So far.

We've only really had one snowstorm. Got 8 inches last weekend. Other than that, it's been really ****ing cold. Luckily we squeezed in some days in the 50's in between the -30 wind chills.

We've had almost no snow this winter. Seems like it's mostly hit south of us. Kind of funny that Tampa has had a bigger snow event this year than Chicago. Last weekend we got maybe four-five inches and the snowplow guys attacked it like it was the 2011 blizzard. I guess they were happy to finally get paid.

It is cold as ****, though.

Been there, done that, and now live in the desert haha

I hope he has a full and speedy recovery

**** ice forever

Good thing so many of them remembered to lift their windshield wipers.

Ouch!

What in the hell. That looks like something out of some dystopian video game.

No, you're right on target. It's been years since we've dealt with a winter like this one.

Flooding from a water main break! 54-inch steel water transmission main rupturing in the subfreezing temperatures. It was built in the 1930s
Holy cow...no thanks

We did it, the coldest place on the planet!

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net...FA&oe=67BC116A

Yeah, I'm done with -30.

Mother Nature is a ****, and she can go **** herself with the largest ice dildo she can find.

And "the hottest on record" a few months ago!

I think she’s ****ing US with the biggest ice dildo she could find.

I unhooked my water hoses at my sharn and turned both faucets to keep open then walked up to house to wrap and that one and accidentally turned on valve that feeds sharn. So it was blowing water in a T for at least an hour until the old lady thankfully heard it. But not before flooding the sharn driveway water and now ice frozen solid to hold up a 2025 Tony Harding ice whale.

I had to look up the word “sharn” and it is either a Scottish English word meaning dung, especially of sheep or cattle, or it has something to do with a fantasy video game.

I’ve tried putting both of those in the context of what you said and don’t believe either fits.

40x50. First quarter is shop and the rest is a barn.

You know, I have spent my entire life either in a rural setting or with ties in the rural communities and I don’t recall ever hearing that term before.

We have a family of Scharn's at home.


The weather guy on tv said KC has had a worse winter than Minneapolis.

Everyone one of those cars are “totaled”, right?

Wondering the same. Seems like there would be damage but can't fully get my mind around how bad.

I would think so.

Then you have to be careful of them showing up on the used car market.

The water ruined most of the car, then it froze, expanded, and completely wrecked what's left.

I can't imagine how bad it is either.

Yea the jet stream is all ****ed up.

Feels fine. Just woke up. 71 in my house. Not sure what the big deal is about.

I'd hate to see your gas bill

Gas bill is of no concern its the electric bill that takes me out

Out here in the desert, it hasn't been too bad. We had a lot of really nice weather early, it's cold now, but it seems like 2 out of the last 5 years, it hit -20 (I'm sure it can be documented on here - I was bitching about it pretty hard LOL) so it's not like all time cold. We've had 3 small snows, which is better than the 0 which is pretty catastrophic to the ecology out here.

Winter in general is gay. But this particular winter isn't any gayer than the normal gay winter.

That is because climate is changing.

Just like it has since the origin of this planet.

This will become more frequent in following years, the jet stream is toast right now think of it like worn out elastic, in the past it had protected the Canadian arctic air from coming deep into the states, now it doesn't always hold so we get days like today where air that is from northern Canada is in Missouri.

Just like the rubber thrown out of a 78 monte Carlo

We're experiencing an increase in extreme weather events. Which was predicted. The last 3 days have broken cold records in many states. Hardly a normal year. The climate instability causing rapid loss of ice in the arctic is affecting the polar vortex more than it did in the past. There's less cold in the arctic to keep it stable, causing the polar vortex to swing down much further south.

Yep and it's ****ed up the jet stream so there is literally no protection from it.

We are THIS close to the end.

It can't come soon enough.

Argumentative hogwash.

Things are different due to change. That's what the earth has always done, change. It did this before and guess what, it will do it again. You just don't like it and use it as an excuse for your agenda.

We are forecast to be 4 days away from 60 degrees in KC.

That's ****ed up.

That's called weather.

It's 63 today down here, It's usually in the mid to late 70's.

Our furnace couldn't keep up still showing 66 degrees in the house and been running all night. We set it at 70.

The evidence is readily available. No evidence is going to change your mind though, so I'll just leave it at that.

I really don't understand how we live in the world that we do.

You're God damn right it is.

We are experiencing the same cold as in the 1930's and flirting with the same cold records. Nobody says shit about that.

But the artic poles and the polar vortex, blah, blah, blah, blah blah.

We're in a crisis.

Just like we were in the 30's when that decade set records for heat and cold?

Blow it out your ass.

You're referring to the Dust Bowl. Which resulted in the Great Depression.
Rough comparison.

Are you aware of what caused the Dust Bowl?

Nah man you can just take your evidence and get rid of it, I obviously and more brilliant and educated than a scientist because I read this here internet that agreed with my views

I'll defer your bs to the DC thread. Feel free to wail away there.

I wish I was allowed to set my furnace at 65. The best temperature for sleep.

This is rich coming from the guy who plagiarizes Reddit communist forums.

JFC! Are we global warming or global cooling?
The jet stream.
The Arctic ice shelf
Acid rain
Aids
Covid
Trump
Taylor Swift.
Cow facts
Elon Musk
Aliens
Gama rays.
**** OFF!!

It cold like a bastard here in tulsa. I got my blanket on staying warm

We didn't start the fire

Global warming, climate change and all of that kind of stuff.

This is how we end up with extreme weather like what we saw in Florida this year which had never happened before.

Extreme cold snaps

Climate change affects the jet stream because different parts of the planet are warming at different rates. In particular, the Arctic is warming fastest. This means that, as the Earth warms, the temperature difference between the Arctic and mid-latitudes is getting smaller.

This makes the polar jet stream slower and weaker. That slower jet stream has less eastward momentum and is more likely to bend north and south as it encounters small variations in temperature and pressure.

If it bends far enough, the barrier between Arctic and mid-latitude air can plunge as far south as Mexico, bringing Arctic temperatures with it. These wavy jet streams span the Earth, so strange weather may be seen all around the northern hemisphere, with unusually warm temperatures in parts of the Arctic at the same time extreme cold spells reach far south. In February 2021, for instance, Texas endured over a week of freezing temperatures the state was not prepared for, causing power outages and killing hundreds, while much of northern Eurasia also saw extreme cold. And because a weak jet stream moves slowly, these weather conditions can last for days at a stretch.

https://i.imgur.com/ya7zZ5o.png

https://i.imgur.com/qwSGk00.png

Source: https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/p...d-polar-vortex

Yeah. It's called "weather".

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Remember the 70's?
 

In KC, if we didn't get 3-4 10"ers, it wasn't a winter. Weather changes...duh

I am thinking that going forward, we will revert back to weather like the 70's.

I put up on all my windows thermal insulated drapes. I need to reinsulate my old basement. Little things I think help a bit. I keep the thermostat at at 58 and wear sweaters. I have a heating pad on my bed.

Just stuff that makes sense.

I am glad that I wasn't around like a Neanderthal amidst the later part of the ice age:)

You'd think I'd be all excited about it getting up to 60 in KC next week. But here I am thinking about this bitch of a winter so far, and all I can think is

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.821a28c3...pid=ImgRaw&r=0

Rewatch the SB

58? Damn, I thought we kept it cold at 65.

It is feb 24

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66F in JoMo today.

Yeah it snowed in Miami… in 1977.

These “extreme weather events” are not new.

*heavy exhale*

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net...8g&oe=67C2E848

Got up into the 50s today. Felt downright tropical.

Who cares

75 and partly cloudy, it's almost like last week didn't happen.

Some thunderstorms in NW iowa


Big storms in the south US


Snow later. This one is a hard one to track in some places.