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2024-02-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Major Storm for CA coming 29 Feb - 3 Mar
[MSN] Over a four-day period from Thursday to Sunday, snow levels could drop to 1,000 feet and accumulate up to 10 feet in higher terrain, and six inches in lower elevation areas like Placerville and Grass Valley, said David Rowe, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service's Sacramento office.

"We are looking at potential for significant travel delays and road closures for extended periods if we get the magnitude of snow we're forecasting, particularly on Interstate 80 and Highway 50," Rowe said. "It's possible we"ll see blizzard conditions at times late Friday into Saturday. If you're thinking about heading up to Tahoe or Reno, reevaluate your plans and stay up to date with the forecast."
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Snow is likely to be fluffy: more easily plowed but also more subject to drifting.
In Cincinnati we had about an inch of snow the other night. Today it’s supposed to reach 65F. *shrug* So does this count as warming, cooling, or just changeable weather?
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Posted by lord garth 2024-02-26 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1810 views ]  Top

1 We have not had snow in Alpine Ca since 1967....
Elevation 2000 FT... stuck for a couple days...
Posted by crazyhorse 2024-02-26 01:14||   2024-02-26 01:14|| Front Page Top

2 Projected high of 90 today. High of 52, Wed.
There's a tornado in there somewhere.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-26 04:35||   2024-02-26 04:35|| Front Page Top

3 Data reveals where climate change skeptics and believers live in the US... so which way does YOUR state lean?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-26 06:14||   2024-02-26 06:14|| Front Page Top

4 Going to college in the mid-70’s near Cincy (Miami U.), I remember the snows of 1976. Talk about Snowmaggedon! Back then we called it “Winter”
Posted by Warthog 2024-02-26 07:57||   2024-02-26 07:57|| Front Page Top

5 I was a freshman at CWRU in Cleveland in 1977 when the "Blizzard of '77" shut down the school for the first time since 1952.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-26 08:00||   2024-02-26 08:00|| Front Page Top

6 
So does this count as warming, cooling, or just changeable weather?

You're in the Midwest, so the answer is "Yes"
Posted by Elmaper McGurque1612 2024-02-26 09:36||   2024-02-26 09:36|| Front Page Top

7 Water, water everywhere - be nice if we had some resevoirs.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-02-26 10:36||   2024-02-26 10:36|| Front Page Top

8 Saturday dawned sunny and 45. Got up to 53 then wind picked up, clouds moved in, sleet and then pea-sized frozen rain covered the ground. I got up yesterday to 23. Temperature went to 56. 45 and cloudy now.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-02-26 11:08||   2024-02-26 11:08|| Front Page Top

9 Ref #1, to be fair, Alpine California is in San Diego County, near the US/Mexico border. Alpine County California, County Seat Markleeville, elevation 5,500, is much farther North in the Sierra's.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-26 13:35||   2024-02-26 13:35|| Front Page Top

10 You're in the Midwest, so the answer is "Yes"

:-) The windows are open to air the house today, and I sat with my mother on the deck after lunch, enjoying the sunshine and the overexcited birds.

During the Winters of ‘76/77 and ‘78 I was in high school in Buffalo, NY. That was when we were being instructed to panic about the coming ice age, remember? Pace the first act of Thornton Wilder’s 1942 play The Skin of Our Teeth.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-26 17:20||   2024-02-26 17:20|| Front Page Top

11  So does this count as warming, cooling, or just changeable weather?

In GA that’s called Tuesday
Posted by Beavis 2024-02-26 17:33||   2024-02-26 17:33|| Front Page Top

12 Welp, tornado season eh?
Time to start thinking emergency kit re-pack.

Great thing about kids growing up, all my old work boots with the reinforced boot soles now fit well enough for emergency kit.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-26 19:15||   2024-02-26 19:15|| Front Page Top

13 lol OK, speaking emergency kits

Was exposed to an ad, because can't get away from ads, was a new fire starter. They had a demo during the ad which the fire starter was used to penetrate a can.

The can, at a glance, looked like a WD-40 can. It isn't, but for a half second I went, "Don't do that firfukssake!"
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-26 19:37||   2024-02-26 19:37|| Front Page Top

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