You know its a blizzard when they bring out the V plow to clear the roads. Havent seen a V plow in action since I was a kid.
February 2, 2016 at 6:25 am
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Good old fashioned blizzard
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February 2, 2016 at 8:02 am #1597248
OMG they named it! I’m so embarrassed.
February 2, 2016 at 8:03 am #1597249Here in Rochester we are seeing a lot of wind straight out of the east. The snow flakes just a few minutes ago started to show up. Not heavy but there. I just looked at the map again and there is no way this is going to miss us here unless Wisconsin developes a black hole around the Madison area and sucks this system sideways.
February 2, 2016 at 8:15 am #1597252OMG they named it! I’m so embarrassed.
What? I’ve missed that. What have they named it?? Besides Snowmageddon?
February 2, 2016 at 8:25 am #1597253<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>suzuki wrote:</div>
OMG they named it! I’m so embarrassed.What? I’ve missed that. What have they named it?? Besides Snowmageddon?
x2!
February 2, 2016 at 8:30 am #1597259<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Sharon M wrote:</div>
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>suzuki wrote:</div>
OMG they named it! I’m so embarrassed.What? I’ve missed that. What have they named it?? Besides Snowmageddon?
x2!
Winter storm Kayla.
All people in the NE are collectively laughing at us. Of course I laughed when they named that storm but at least it was monsterous with 3 times as much potential.
What’s next? Albert clipper “Larry”????
MN - 55082February 2, 2016 at 8:40 am #1597262Weird AL is writing a song about this now..
Kayla, you’ve got snow up to my knees
Kayla, I’m shoveling. Darling please.
Kayla, darling won’t you ease I’m snow blindFebruary 2, 2016 at 8:45 am #1597264Winter storm Kayla.
OK. I am ashamed, too. Let’s blame it on Iowa. Minnesotans would never do such a thing. Winter Storm Kayla? I call this Tuesday.
February 2, 2016 at 9:03 am #1597269I-80 is closed (at least) at Sidney NE.
He who lasts last…
February 2, 2016 at 9:05 am #1597270Leave it to the media to have to name something as simple as a snowstorm. Morons.
It has just started snowing in the Waterloo area according to a friend. I’d be fine with a freak warm-up to around 60 and some day-long thunderstorms.
February 2, 2016 at 9:09 am #1597272Weird AL is writing a song about this now..
Kayla, you’ve got snow up to my knees
Kayla, I’m shoveling. Darling please.
Kayla, darling won’t you ease I’m snow blind
So is Pure Prairie League.
“KAYLA, what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do”February 2, 2016 at 9:18 am #1597277Naming snowstorms. Wow. The wussification of America is now complete, we’re naming snowstorms.
It used to be just the south…
February 2, 2016 at 9:25 am #1597278The weather channel started naming storms other than hurricanes last year or the year before. Kinda hoky if you as me. Like Ralph said, its Tuesday and snowing. Just another television network vying for viewers by over estimating what is actually going to happen. Not that this isn’t going to be a dangerous storm, because it looks like it going to dump over a foot in some areas and have winds pushing 50mph.
February 2, 2016 at 9:27 am #1597279Who decides when storms get named anyway? Is that the National Weather Service?
February 2, 2016 at 10:08 am #1597288Who decides when storms get named anyway? Is that the National Weather Service?
Naming by The Weather Channel started in November 2012, TWC began systematically naming winter storms, starting with the November 2012 nor’easter it named “Winter Storm Athena.”
February 2, 2016 at 10:23 am #1597292<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Sharon M wrote:</div>
Who decides when storms get named anyway? Is that the National Weather Service?Naming by The Weather Channel started in November 2012, TWC began systematically naming winter storms, starting with the November 2012 nor’easter it named “Winter Storm Athena.”
When they named the last winter storm to hit Washington DC, “Snovechkin” I briefly lost the will to live.
Grouse
February 2, 2016 at 11:13 am #1597304Who decides when storms get named anyway? Is that the National Weather Service?
By the time they get to ‘S’ it will be hail storm Sharon!
Followed by scary thunderstorm Tom.
February 2, 2016 at 11:25 am #1597312Right now if I had to look for traffic up the street 50 feet I could not see it. Snowing sideways too. I live on a very busy street and traffic right now is slight. I’m happy to not be out and about in this.
February 2, 2016 at 11:29 am #1597313I just looked at the map again and there is no way this is going to miss us here unless Wisconsin developes a black hole around the Madison area and sucks this system sideways.
Madison is just our friendly liberal town for visitor……Milwaukee is our black eye….. I mean hole
February 2, 2016 at 11:29 am #1597314Hail Storm Sharon! I love it! That is a fantastic name!
February 2, 2016 at 11:42 am #1597317It has begun in Woodbury! Lock your doors and hide your children!!!
February 2, 2016 at 11:50 am #1597321Hail Storm Sharon! I love it! That is a fantastic name!
More like Sunny and Pleasant Sharon
February 2, 2016 at 11:52 am #1597322Blowing this should be easy….just raise the chute all the way and blow from east to west. With the wind we have here right now the snow would easily make it across the street to the neighbors over there.
February 2, 2016 at 12:22 pm #1597329“By the time they get to ‘S’ it will be hail storm Sharon! jester”
Oh, you have no idea……
RobbinsdaleFebruary 2, 2016 at 12:29 pm #1597334Only thing pissing me off with the storm is I didn’t make time to go fishing before it, I bet there smashing RIGHT NOW.
February 2, 2016 at 1:00 pm #1597345More like Sunny and Pleasant Sharon wave
Aww thanks, Randy! But you’ve never seen me caught in traffic when I have to go to the bathroom.
February 2, 2016 at 1:02 pm #1597346“By the time they get to ‘S’ it will be hail storm Sharon! jester”
Oh, you have no idea……
Hey wait a minute… !
February 2, 2016 at 1:05 pm #1597347Dads never exaggerate, Sharon!
February 2, 2016 at 1:09 pm #1597348http://climate.umn.edu/text/historical/mspsnow.txt
interesting to look at the records. actually if you look at the last 15 years 10 of those years were near or well above the historical average dating back 132 years.
February 2, 2016 at 1:17 pm #1597349This picture was taken 3 hours ago, now that the wind is really winding up it’s really bad, the DOT cameras on the bridges are just about a 99% white out. Pretty sure we just went past 10 inches
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All people in the NE are collectively laughing at us. Of course I laughed when they named that storm but at least it was monsterous with 3 times as much potential.
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