i love this weather hysteria. i'm hoping we get 16". but we won't we'll get a few inches and then we cna make fun of the forecasters on Wednesday.
Possible huge snow storm next week?
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i love this weather hysteria. i'm hoping we get 16". but we won't we'll get a few inches and then we cna make fun of the forecasters on Wednesday.
this will bea new thing. chapman throws like hurricane katrina. kershaw throws like sandy
NWS has 4-8" for Ankeny so I'll have a dusting on the drive way. Hope it is somewhat windy to where it just blows across the driveway.
Bring on spring...
Winnebago cancelled all three shifts tomorrow in all Iowa locations. Indiana and Oregon, carry on.
West Des Moines. I realize that you will go the game. But I am a bit of a chicken when it comes to winter driving and I'm a little leary of the blowing snow that they are predicting.
That all being said, I literally haven't missed a home game for 3 or 4 seasons and that includes all of the no-name games that everyone doesn't bother to show up. So I'm still a better fan then most
Great! That means when the ice cap at the North Pole melts this spring killing all the polar bears, when the sea levels rise to where Colorado and Kentucky are beach front property, when F5 tornado's roam the plains this spring looking for targets, and when cat. 5 hurricanes pummel the gulf coast on a weekly basis this summer, assuming we have a summer thank you very much.........................we will know where to send Al Gore.
West Des Moines. I realize that you will go the game. But I am a bit of a chicken when it comes to winter driving and I'm a little leary of the blowing snow that they are predicting.
That all being said, I literally haven't missed a home game for 3 or 4 seasons and that includes all of the no-name games that everyone doesn't bother to show up. So I'm still a better fan then most
If you're on the West side I find the Granger-Madrid-Slater-West Ames route is pretty good during snow. My thing is not being around other cars in those conditions and this is the path of least resistance.
I need to try that way sometime. For basketball, I usually meet someone on the east side of Des Moines, so we take the interstate in bad weather and Hwy 69 in good weather.
The gradient on the cutoff line is going to be nuts, and leads to a pretty decent chance of this forecast busting, pretty much a guarantee for somebody some where. Wouldn't be surprised to see a 5" difference across one county...for example way different in Carlisle than Grimes.
Anyway here's forecast. Looking for 3 to 5 at the Des Moines Airport right now. Again Grimes could be more in a 4 to 6.
Another thing to note with the Ames total, is it comes in two punches, first 4-5 in the morning, then the dry air wraps in that I talked about earlier. Could even see some melting and compaction throughout the day if it wraps up warm enough.
Late evening, after 11 pm, we do have a chance to see some wrap around snow, which with colder temps will be lighter and fluffier. I'm not overly confident on the overnight Tuesday-Wednesday snow yet, but it is the explanation for the Ames total being higher than I think may actually ever be on the ground...see below.
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The models and weather forecasters saw a ball of energy on the other side of the globe a week ago and predicted that 7 days later it would hit Iowa late Monday into Tuesday and drop up to a foot of snow in some parts, some parts could even get up to 16 inches. And tomorrow that will happen. Maybe not in the exact pinpoint location the report said 7 days ago, but maybe only 100 miles away from the original spot. I would say that is a pretty darn accurate forecast. I tend to be pretty impressed by modern science and forecasting that they can actually be that accurate.
