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(28,749 posts)Kind of meh so far, but it's eary yet...
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)Are you ready?
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)And yes we are quite prepared, generator ready to go and lots of food!
Hope everyone got a chance to get ready!
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NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)A generator is a basic need for a homeowner.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)light snow now. Wind is picking up. It's supposed to be really bad between 10 p.m. - 10 a.m.
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)I'm thinking about you guys!
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)Light winds so far.
hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)winter comes back this weekend, but until then, balmy weather prevails up the front range of CO!
Stay warm and safe on the east coast though...
calimary
(81,466 posts)Rainy off 'n' on all day today (which for us is a rarity), but it's oddly kinda warm. Windy yesterday (Sunday), and last week it was cold sometimes and warm sometimes. I wore both sleeveless tops and thermal tops last week.
brewens
(13,620 posts)I was up there yesterday and today and there were robins everywhere. We never even see those south of there in the valley where I live for another month usually. We will probably see winter come back and slam us though. I've driven in driving snow storms in the middle of April. Those usually just come down and it melts though. That late it never amounts to snow packed roads.
beveeheart
(1,370 posts)I almost feel bad that we're having such great weather and the NE is expecting all that snow. Our turn will come though. We might even have flurries later this week.
Be safe and warm, NE DUers.
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)I walked the dog all over town this morning, wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt (me, not the dog). It was 74 and not a cloud in the sky. The warm sun felt so good. Colorado: ya never know.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)expecting it to start again before long and get pretty bad after midnight ...
bpositive
(423 posts)Snowing - pretty light, no heavy winds yet. Have generator ready to go if necessary. Watching Young Frankenstein and enjoying a glass of wine
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)I hope your power stays and you stay warm!
bpositive
(423 posts)The generator- got about a foot and a half of snow- very manageable. But prepared nonetheless!
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)A good steady rain too. This is always welcome.
I hope everyone in the path of the snowstorm is safe and warm.
calimary
(81,466 posts)We need that moisture to soak down in, deep, so the dirt doesn't get washed away!
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)every 5 minutes or so were quite the teaser. I was so happy to see it develop into some real rain. I hope we get a lot more days like this. We so need them.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)for any more - until this rain. Now, I'm back to hoping for many days like today.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)We're home. The parrots are all tucked in for a warm uneventful night.
The dog (silly woobie) is barking to go out and play in the snow (not gonna happen).
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)BRRR! As Central Texan I have NO idea!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)The storm will strengthen after midnight. Dumping up to 4 inches of snow per hour until tomorrow. In short ... we're getting hammered! This could be a record breaker storm.
Advanced Observations For:
Poughkeepsie, NY
Elevation: 135ft
Data as of: 9:44 PM 1/26/2015
Current Conditions
Temperature: 16.0°F Pressure: 29.89"
Average Wind: 6mph N Sunrise: 7:13 AM
Humidity: 100% Sunset: 5:03 PM
Dew Point: 16°F Moonphase: -40
Wind Chill: 6°F Monthly Rain: 2.46"
So Far Today
High: 18°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Low: 12°F Gusts: 21mph N
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2015/01/25/winter-storm-regents-juno/22317351/
rgbecker
(4,834 posts)We're up to about 8-10 inches so far. Expecting quite a bit more. Will miss the internet when we lose the power, but I've got a stack of books from Christmas.
Actually more like 30 with gusts to 40 MPH. Pressure still falling.
meow2u3
(24,772 posts)Now, there's a lull in the snowfall. But the wind has been picking up and I see blowing snow.
18 degrees with a wind chill of 6. Power is still on, BTA, where I am, power outages are unlikely but possible.
Round 2 is expected to hit us overnight into all day tomorrow.
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)Enough booze and food?
meow2u3
(24,772 posts)In fact, I have to step away from the computer to get some booze.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)I have a colleague flying out there tomorrow. Maybe. Or maybe not!
meow2u3
(24,772 posts)In little Pen Argyl, Pennsyltucky, in fact.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)I grew up in Altoona, Pennsyltucky.
PADemD
(4,482 posts)Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Currently just above 1" of snow, 30-25 degrees all day, overcast skies, and freezing drizzle. More like late November/early December.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)Beautiful sunny day today about 55 degrees. Supposed to be 60 tomorrow. Warmest January on record.
It appears that the climate change definitions are upon us -- warmer where warm and colder were cold. Moving the boundaries of the extremes.
All of you hit by the cold weather -- stay warm, take care of yourselves AND your pets.
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)Weird but welcome!
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)It was sunny and 56* in the Four corners.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)We'll be below 70 for the next two days. Lows may plummet into the 50s! Brr.
--imm
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)So far it's been a mild winter, and I recently took advantage of cheap $2.17 a gallon heating oil to put 250 gallons into my then near empty tank. I don't know if that's enough to get me through the winter.
But it remains relatively mild here in rural west Michigan, with lots of sun and very little snow. Yup! It's still cold, but we've only been below zero (F) a couple of nights. That's unusual here in January.
Stay warm DUers. Keep the fires lit and find somebody to cuddle with.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)50s and 60s for the foreseeable future. strange winter this year.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I'm well aware of the few feet we had a bout 5 years ago, and another big one reported in 1994, but for the most part, we seem to be in more of a sweet spot than further East, certainly upstate (above I-80).
Still
Mr. Mickey's sawing logs inside a warm house while the trees are covered like a Christmas post card out there.
rogerashton
(3,920 posts)Where we are as tourists. But home, SE Pa, looks like dodging the bullet this time.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)We had our blizzard last week. All sunny and nice now.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Only have an inch or two so far but the bulk of the storm is expected overnight and into most of Tuesday.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)It's windy, but not abnormally, and we've gotten a moderate snowfall which at this point has stopped accumulating and is simply drifting a bit. A very, very normal winter snow. WTF?
But, they always do this - "the worst snowstorm/blizzard/snowmageddon in the entire history of this universe and every other!!!!!!111!!!" And then it rains.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)We got seven or eight inches of snow here in Anchorage over the weekend and now it's around zero, much more normal than the 30s and 40s we've been having. I like it.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)ballabosh
(330 posts)But surely not what they're getting out east. Stay safe everyone.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)Once again the weather idiot lied to me and told me Sunday evening that the nasty would start in a few hours. Until just recently we only had about and 1/8 of an inch but the winds have started up though they certainly aren't gusting, and it seems to be snowing ever so lightly now. I was out with the dog a couple of hours ago and noticed that the sky had huge clear breaks in the clouds. Supposedly we're to be getting 8-12 inches from now until tomorrow morning. I really don't know what to think though since until the afternoon on Sunday they'd been saying only 2-4 inches starting Monday night, then they suddenly changed it to 8-12 and starting Sunday night. We did get an every so light dusting last night, but that was it. Then today we got this 1/8 inch, and nothing much is happening at the moment.
Yoshi had a great time tasting everyone's snow though. He likes to trot along the sidewalk and drag his tongue through the snow. I wonder what people think his tongue prints are.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)Very heavy snow and wind from the north.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)it's a blizzard.
nruthie
(466 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)and after everybody has moved on to the latest breaking news.
Debating taking a shower while I can.
The storm in November left us without power for 5 days. I hadn't prepped ahead of time, in particular no shower...boy did I regret that! This time I'm hunkered down, have made extra pot of coffee in case power is out in the morning, etc.
KMOD
(7,906 posts)originally 8-14, now 4-8.
Hope of the coasters fair ok. They're going to take the brunt.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)applegrove
(118,778 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)rather than just drifting, but still seems kind of light, in contrast to the predictions. Not much wind now.
marlakay
(11,491 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Cat curled up in my lap. Have stopped watching the wall to wall snow coverage on T.V. Reading my book and checking for new toons on DU, smile.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)It has passed.
I don't envy anyone in the Northeast. Stay safe.
Is there anyone here from around Burlington, VT? How is it there?
Rhiannon12866
(206,006 posts)The local TV affiliates (Albany) are already posting the crawl at the bottom of the screen and it looks like everything's closed tomorrow, not just schools, but colleges, child care centers, church activities and even weekly bingo...