When rain or snow starts while it’s still warm, but then the temps plummet and a bunch of snow falls onto a layer of glaze ice, creating a hidden hazard.
Or a bomb cyclone.
@Kyeh@tinamarie1974 That, plus 20+ MPH winds, and your dog needs a walk. (The dog isn’t meteorological, but he gives a reason to be out fully experiencing the event instead of dwelling in indoor denial.)
@Kyeh But it is way worse if you lose your power! NYC really didn’t get it bad, but I did fall on the steps by the front door because of black ice. We were suppose to have a day or more of it. Only really had a night and not where they salted the roads.
Ice &/or snow storms (esp Nor’easters) that lead to endless days of power outages in single-digit temps. Closely followed by storm after storm piling up feet of snow that never melts because the temp stays well below freezing all winter. #Snowtober #Snowmageddon
@ircon96
I had to drive to DC during one of the blizzards. Running up I-81 was … not fun. I passed six snowplows that had slid off into the ditches, some rolled over, and because I was afraid to stop for the night anywhere, I arrived six hours ahead of schedule.
I did that once driving to NYC from TX during hideous weather. Blizzard all the way from TN. After a while it was just me and the truckers.
I was terrified to get off and buy fuel. Wasn’t sure would be able to get back on the interstate. And I was terrified to stop because what if some hotel had no rooms or couldn’t find a place to stop or I stopped and then it was awful and I couldn’t start again so I just kept going.
@f00l@werehatrack Oof, those situations are way up there on my list of worst nightmares, right behind those people who get stuck on the interstate for 20+ hours. No thank you!
When it snows and the roads get really bad, but you have to go out because your stupid work doesn’t realize it’s too dangerous to be on the road and then some idiot who doesn’t understand physics slams into the back of your car at the stop light.
The Salt Lake valley gets some horrible inversions. Basically a lid gets put on the valley, trapping all the pollution, and the air turns brown and the mountains vanish.
It can be 20-30 degrees warmer, with clear skies, up on the mountains.
When that happens, we just have to wait for the next storm to clear things out.
@jnicholson0619 I live in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range, so if there is a chance of snow in the area, we usually get some of it. For example, during the relatively mild dusting in the Portland area the week after last Christmas, we got a little over 2 feet.
I generally don’t wish for snow.
When it rains and is actually cold here in West Central Fla.
@yakkoTDI Lies
Living in Florida, any temperature below 40°.
@cengland0 You mean below 70, right?
That’s my jacket threshold.
@cengland0 @Weboh my sweater threshold is 68 (So Cal). I don’t really own jackets anymore.
The type where it’s supposed to be cold but is stupidly hot.
Looking at you Texas. Get it together.
@mikesmells
Your timing is a bit off, for the remark to hit home at the moment.
/image icy texas roads
When the temp and the dew point are within 1F and the temp is at or below freezing.
Just above freezing and raining.
@panafonics that was NYC today.
@panafonics Yes! The cold seems to go all the way to your bones and you can’t get warm.
When it’s 80 degrees or higher.
@Tadlem43
Given the number of times that the high for Xmas in Miami was over 80, yeah, I know what that one’s about.
When rain or snow starts while it’s still warm, but then the temps plummet and a bunch of snow falls onto a layer of glaze ice, creating a hidden hazard.
Or a bomb cyclone.
@Kyeh I came here to basically say this!!
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 That, plus 20+ MPH winds, and your dog needs a walk. (The dog isn’t meteorological, but he gives a reason to be out fully experiencing the event instead of dwelling in indoor denial.)
@Ambiverbal @Kyeh @tinamarie1974
exactly. For anyone who isn’t domiciled on top of a glacier, Ice Ice Baby is the worst. Both as a song and as weather.
@Kyeh But it is way worse if you lose your power! NYC really didn’t get it bad, but I did fall on the steps by the front door because of black ice. We were suppose to have a day or more of it. Only really had a night and not where they salted the roads.
@dontwantaname
Oh, no - that sounds miserable!
When it snows in the tropics at sea level.
When it rains just before the freezing cold front hits. We all go slip slidin’ away.
Ice &/or snow storms (esp Nor’easters) that lead to endless days of power outages in single-digit temps. Closely followed by storm after storm piling up feet of snow that never melts because the temp stays well below freezing all winter. #Snowtober #Snowmageddon
@ircon96
I had to drive to DC during one of the blizzards. Running up I-81 was … not fun. I passed six snowplows that had slid off into the ditches, some rolled over, and because I was afraid to stop for the night anywhere, I arrived six hours ahead of schedule.
@ircon96 @werehatrack
I did that once driving to NYC from TX during hideous weather. Blizzard all the way from TN. After a while it was just me and the truckers.
I was terrified to get off and buy fuel. Wasn’t sure would be able to get back on the interstate. And I was terrified to stop because what if some hotel had no rooms or couldn’t find a place to stop or I stopped and then it was awful and I couldn’t start again so I just kept going.
I think this was probably the dumb strategy.
@f00l @werehatrack Oof, those situations are way up there on my list of worst nightmares, right behind those people who get stuck on the interstate for 20+ hours. No thank you!
When it snows and the roads get really bad, but you have to go out because your stupid work doesn’t realize it’s too dangerous to be on the road and then some idiot who doesn’t understand physics slams into the back of your car at the stop light.
@accelerator This is all theoretical, I’m sure.
The Salt Lake valley gets some horrible inversions. Basically a lid gets put on the valley, trapping all the pollution, and the air turns brown and the mountains vanish.
It can be 20-30 degrees warmer, with clear skies, up on the mountains.
When that happens, we just have to wait for the next storm to clear things out.
I don’t mind winter. I like all the seasons.
The ice storm days are the worst days.
When you fall and slip on the ice and hit your head and it hurts like a son of a bitch.
In Oregon, even you are wishing for snow, and it’s almost cold enough, but ends up just above freezing and raining.
@jnicholson0619 I live in the foothills of the Oregon Coast Range, so if there is a chance of snow in the area, we usually get some of it. For example, during the relatively mild dusting in the Portland area the week after last Christmas, we got a little over 2 feet.
I generally don’t wish for snow.
@macromeh I’m in the Salem area, so we dont always get snow. Under 200 ft in elevation, so it often misses us.
Mid-Atlantic when you get 20"+ snow on the first day of spring.
Typically between December 21 and March 20.
Unless you live in the southern hemisphere.