Sunday, November 24, 2013

The Metromess will soon merit it's nickname...

Today
chancerain A chance of rain or light sleet in the morning...then rain or light sleet in the afternoon. Little or no sleet accumulation. Highs in the upper 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
Tonight
nt_snow Cloudy. A chance of light freezing rain or light sleet or snow in the evening...then light sleet or light freezing rain and snow likely after midnight. Snow and sleet accumulation around 1 inch. Ice accumulation of up to two tenths of an inch. Lows in the upper 20s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Monday
chancesnow Light freezing rain or light sleet in the morning... then rain likely or a chance of snow in the afternoon. Snow and sleet accumulation up to 1 inch. Total snow accumulation 1 to 2 inches. Ice accumulation of up to one tenth of an inch. Highs in the mid 30s. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.
Monday Night
nt_chancesnow Cloudy. A chance of snow in the evening...then a slight chance of snow after midnight. Lows around 30. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 50 percent. 

 For those of you who deal with this sort of weather on an annual basis, or worse, this may be amusing to you.  But for Southerners, this means chaos Monday, a fair bit of property destruction, and a higher than usual potential for death on the roads.  We have the bare minimum of snow/ice removal and treatment equipment in the cities here.  Honestly we hardly ever need it.  Snow rarely lasts more than 24-48hrs on the ground...but ice?  YUCK!  If the city can't salt it or sand it, the entire Metromess pretty well shuts down until it all melts.  The weather was bad enough here yesterday that we decided discretion was the better part of valor, and skipped the bike ride.  The drizzle started at 9am, and got worse throughout the morning, combined with 10-15mph winds from the north, and air temps in the mid 30's.  We just didn't want to fall or get hypothermic or instigate the lung crud for the winter...so we went to the Funshow instead, and had Rudy's bacon, egg, cheese breakfast burritos for breakfast, and Rudy's BBQ sandwiches for lunch!

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