What's your Weather like today

[Don Alaska]

-10 F./-23 C. here this morning. Like you said @Jacob Petersheim late November is a bit of a crapshoot. Sometimes we have rather pleasant weather, sometimes we get heavy snow, and the coldest we have ever been at this location since we've lived here was in late November---56 F./-49 C. Earthquakes often happen now as well, but usually they are not significant. We had a magnitude 4 and a 4.9 over the last week, but no damage was done. The one we had in 2018 destroyed many houses and several schools just as it was getting cold.

Those poor people in Western Alaska near where we used to live are still trying to recover from the Typhoon Halong a\damage. I think several villages have been totally evacuated still, and rebuilding is going very slowly as everything now has to be flown in using small planes and helicopters, as the village airstrips do not accommodate large planes, and the barges normally used in the summer can no longer get in due to heavy ice on the coast.

 

[Bobby Cole]

It’s boating weather here in N. Alabama, as in: “And the Lord saith unto Noah…..

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

This incoming storm is looking more and more toothy. Up north, winds may gust to 60 MPH and in places 40 inches of snow could fall.

Really looking like snowmobile-travel weather ahead along the Lake Michigan coast and of course much of the Upper Peninsula.

And now a second system seems to be shaping up to follow. Network TV is pretty useless, but local organizations are helping to fill the gap getting news and information out:

YouTube gets more useful every day.

 

[Don Alaska]

If you can read a weather map, and you can get the National Weather Service channel for your area, you can see possible very cold stuff possible. What they now call the "Polar Vortex" outbreak was called a "surge" in my day. the barometric pressure building over northern Canada and Alaska will have to break sown before it gets too much higher, and when it does, there will be a burst of very cold air coming down your way (and mine, although mine is already showing up. The moisture over the Great Lakes could lead to catastrophic snowfall as you indicated.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Welllll here in Wisconsin, I tell everyone every year we will get our first snow the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. There was a light covering, no measurable, of snow yesterday. It is supposed to come, big time, on Saturday.
It is not too cold yet, low 20'sF, but the winds are bad for chickens, 20 mph+. I tried to explain the windbreaks in the pole building to them again but somehow they don't get it. Lots of places to go if need be, ie cubbies in the hay... I will get the chinking done tomorrow.
I think Monday we get Don Alaska's polar vortex with negative numbers.
The sheep were begging for hay yesterday. I guess eating al fresco is over.

 

[Mary Stetler]

If you can read a weather map, and you can get the National Weather Service channel for your area, you can see possible very cold stuff possible. What they now call the "Polar Vortex" outbreak was called a "surge" in my day. the barometric pressure building over northern Canada and Alaska will have to break sown before it gets too much higher, and when it does, there will be a burst of very cold air coming down your way (and mine, although mine is already showing up. The moisture over the Great Lakes could lead to catastrophic snowfall as you indicated.

polar vortex: 'Warning Will Robinson'
Today's weather on the news is now 'Storm Center!'

 

[Don Alaska]

Our cold has moved to the east and the temps are now into the 20s. We had a shaker this morning--6.0 magnitude nearby. Everything was moving and the toilets were sloshing, but so far we have found no damage. My wife suffers from PTSD due to her experience here in 2018 at about the same time of year. We lost our computers in that one--a 7.1 magnitude--and some of you may remember that from the SOC forum at that time. Earthquakes are scary, but you don't see them coming, a bit like tornados. Wildfires are still the scariest for me, for, like hurricanes, you can see them coming and there is nothing you personally can do but prepare as best you can. Hurricanes, however, leave stuff behind. Wildfires take it all.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

My stepdaughter lives in Alaska, near Palmer, I think, and she was reporting on the earthquake on her facebook page; so I wondered how you fared in the one today, @Don Alaska , and I am glad to hear that you are okay.
Not surprised that your wife has the PTST from that big quake you had in 2018. We lost you on the forum for almost 2 years (?) and didn’t think you were ever coming back, and had no way to find out what had happened to you and your family.
Stay safe up there !

 

[Don Alaska]

My stepdaughter lives in Alaska, near Palmer, I think, and she was reporting on the earthquake on her facebook page; so I wondered how you fared in the one today, @Don Alaska , and I am glad to hear that you are okay.
Not surprised that your wife has the PTST from that big quake you had in 2018. We lost you on the forum for almost 2 years (?) and didn’t think you were ever coming back, and had no way to find out what had happened to you and your family.
Stay safe up there !

Now we have exchanged emails, so at least we can get back in touch if bad things happen.

 

[Tony Page]

Yvonne,
Hope your family stay safe, and the earthquake are over.

Don,
Relieved to hear you and your wife are OK.
I hope you'll find no damages, and you and your wife stay safe.

Tony

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Yvonne,
Hope your family stay safe, and the earthquake are over.

Don,
Relieved to hear you and your wife are OK.
I hope you'll find no damages, and you and your wife stay safe.

Tony

We are fine here, @Tony Page . Bobby and I are in northern Alabama, so no where near any earthquakes or volcanoes. I do have a lot of family out in the Seattle area though, so I always watch to see what is happening out there, too.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Our cold has moved to the east and the temps are now into the 20s. We had a shaker this morning--6.0 magnitude nearby. Everything was moving and the toilets were sloshing, but so far we have found no damage. My wife suffers from PTSD due to her experience here in 2018 at about the same time of year. We lost our computers in that one--a 7.1 magnitude--and some of you may remember that from the SOC forum at that time. Earthquakes are scary, but you don't see them coming, a bit like tornados. Wildfires are still the scariest for me, for, like hurricanes, you can see them coming and there is nothing you personally can do but prepare as best you can. Hurricanes, however, leave stuff behind. Wildfires take it all.

Wild fires still scare me too, in dry years. We have not had a bad one yet so people think I am nuts for pointing out the foolishness of piling up brush around wooded areas and grass lands. I have burn areas but am careful about moisture and wind. It will only take one ignorant person...

 

[Don Alaska]

Wild fires still scare me too, in dry years. We have not had a bad one yet so people think I am nuts for pointing out the foolishness of piling up brush around wooded areas and grass lands. I have burn areas but am careful about moisture and wind. It will only take one ignorant person...

We have lots of ignorant people here, mostly from Anchorage. They buy vacation cabins out here and have no idea how to deal with land. They also seem to think that any land outside the city is public property.

 

[Mary Stetler]

We have lots of ignorant people here, mostly from Anchorage. They buy vacation cabins out here and have no idea how to deal with land. They also seem to think that any land outside the city is public property.

 

[Marie Mallory]

We have lots of ignorant people here, mostly from Anchorage. They buy vacation cabins out here and have no idea how to deal with land. They also seem to think that any land outside the city is public property.

I think most areas can say that about some.

 

[Krystal]

It's 35 degrees and sunny today. We are supposed to have snow by sunrise tomorrow morning that will be turning to rain later on in the day. Winter has arrived.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Last night we had a slight freeze. 31F.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Last night we had a slight freeze. 31F.

Hopefully, that kills some of those pesky bugs that have been biting you so much, @Marie Mallory ! We have mosquito spray, but it seems like the Avon Skin So Soft works as good as any of them for me.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Just below freezing here all day. Morning started out sunny and I got in the jalopy and made a grocery run ahead of the snow event coming this weekend. By the time I came out and loaded the car it was already clouding up for the drive home.

Stopped at the pharmacy, got everything inside. Got my last load of leaves to the curb. Still no real new snow accumulation by after dark. Went out and got a few last things settled out there, but decided to still hold off on turning on my Christmas lights. About the only thing left is to fill up the tank on the car, but I'm just below half so I don't feel any panic there. Snow won't get here in earnest until late tomorrow afternoon, so I still have plenty of opportunity to gas up if I decide to push ahead on that.

Latest projections are showing 9 to 10 inches for me this weekend.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

WOW, @Jacob Petersheim , it sounds like winter has decided to hit there with a “big bang” of snow for you ! Hope you do not have to do a lot of shoveling, or do you have a snow blower for the driveway ?
We have freezing temps here next week, and possible precipitation, so we could see snow maybe, but right now it is showing as rain.

I usually order in groceries for delivery, and we are pretty well stocked up, so it is just the perishable things that we go through , like bread and milk, that I have to keep ahead of.
I bought a whole 40 lb box of Ida Red apples, which will store really well, and we keep them in the coolest room, so I have plenty of apples for the rest of the winter.
If it does snow, we are not budging out of the house, at least i am not. Bobby might, because he has better balance in that slippery stuff than I do .