BLIZZARD!

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5-8 inches now lolol

alarmist crap, not seeing this anywhere

http://i.imgur.com/az3MjdA.jpg

weather underground's site is weird, though - it says 5-8in for Friday but the rest of the data/charts/descriptions they have don't use the same figure, as far as I can tell

meh "underground," what poseurs

not lookin good for the NYU home baseball opener on the 28th tho

BLIZZARD!!

They've downgraded to 1-3 inches btw

hmm, still says 4 to 6 for my neighborhood (http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=11226)

I've never heard of that place before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8P7eRickUo

*looks outside at what were once 6 feet snowdrifts that still haven't totally melted 3 weeks later*

1-3 inches? come on y'all it can't be that bad

fuck this shit forever

my only worry is how much snow it takes to paralyze the trains now; guessing 1.5"

With Morbs. Unnecessary freaking out over a little snow going on at my work. "oh no I didn't wear boots!" So silly.

Running out of local delivery food options that I can also pay for by debit card because I'm out of cash and I'd have to leave my neighborhood to get to a bank.

grubhub?

I feel bad about asking anyone to come out here in this tbh! Maybe I'll just pick up some tortilla chips and call nachos good.

yeah, i usually feel kind of bad too, but i throw on the shitty weather bonus funtime tip and call it even. :)

it's actually NOT THAT BAD

Yeah it's not really sticking. In Manhattan at least

Pre-Christmas Bomb Cyclone Great Lakes Blizzard!

I haven't seen people this whipped up about a potential blizzard in Chicago in years. It's insane. I'm guessing largely this is down to the travel disruptions right before the holidays, but there is def a more anxious than usual vibe around.

The Blizzard of (January) ‘79 in Chicago was notable for (among other things) the amount of snow, how the city majorly fucked up the response and — as looks likely on Thursday/Friday — bitterly cold temperatures for days afterward that exacerbated all snow-related problems. So anyone in the Chicago area right now who lived through that is understandably getting nervous.

hmmm this may be a good time to make sure my snowblower is still working

I'm nervous about the 40-50 mph winds, since a windstorm knocked out power in my apartment last summer. Wouldn't want that to happen with these upcoming windchills. Other than that, looks like none of the snow will melt until next Thursday or so.

Also, happy not to be flying/driving this week. I have a few headstrong friends who "just have to do it" to be with parents on Christmas.

Here in the ATL, I'm mostly worried about freezing rain. That takes out power lines. In 2000, we were without power for nearly a week.

Calling a weather event a Cyclone Bomb is a surefire recipe for getting people whipped up in a froth.

That’s its name though, isn’t it? Maybe there is another, slightly more neutral name though, I vaguely seem to recall.

apparently the term bomb cyclone originated in 1980 and was used among professional meteorologists, but to my recollection it only started to appear in US media reporting very recently.

that's because the atmospheric conditions that create it have accelerated due to climate change, so it is more common now

The long name is explosive cyclogenesis, kind of a mouthful. I first learned that in its Spanish equivalent which is pretty much exactly the same, when a friend used it as a song title.

Got a flight at 4pm Friday. Dunno about that.

Something similar

Pretty risky move, updating the forecast and downgrading (however slightly) the (local) snowpocalypse. No longer calling for much snow, and now the worst is supposed to hit here Thursday night, though the super cold temps and high winds (and attendant ice and whatnot) through Saturday are still expected.

From what I can tell, it's the temps and wind that are the bigger risk with this storm. The snow, not as much.

The cold front has arrived in Cheyenne and it is already a record-breaker! From 1:05 to 1:35, the temperature plunged from 43 to 3 degrees, a FOURTY-DEGREE drop in just 30 minutes! This shatters our previous 1-hour temp drop record of 37 degrees, and we are still dropping! #wywx pic.twitter.com/twQcNgy9qx

— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) December 21, 2022

wow - that tweet is pretty insane

That account is a little too excited about that.

well, it is the National Weather Service.. that's kinda their bag

There's Nowmageddon like Snowmageddon like Nowmageddon I know...Not quite what you're getting across the upper states, but we're supposed to get 25-30 cm where I am (southwest Ontario) on Friday and another 10 cm (plus a drastic temperature drop that will produce "flash freezing" on roads) on Saturday.

that sounds like the kind of weather that will kill some people

Our flight Friday was preemptively cancelled. Airline, website, email, twitter, text all say it's cancelled, as well as all of the airline's other flights out of Chicago. Annoyingly, travel booker insists it is not cancelled. We've been either on hold or on calls literally for hours now. High volume, for some reason ...

What airline / airport?

Supposedly my parents are flying in Saturday morning. Status still says on time. American / O’Hare

ANA/Air Nippon Airways.

Good evening! International Bad Weather Alert for DEC 23. Chicago(ORD) : all flights has been canceled .
Latest info: https://t.co/gfUVeWjlbX ✈

— ANA Flight Info (@ANAFlightInfo_e) December 22, 2022

Just got back from a walk to the store for some last minute provisions, since we had intentionally gone through most of the important fridge stuff thinking we'd be gone. It's wild to think it's going to go from as mild as it is (32, snow just barely started, didn't need a hat or gloves, or even to zip up my coat) to, like, -8 overnight. Reminds me of a day decades ago when I parked in a puddle and came back a couple of hours later to find the wheel literally frozen in place.

It’s so nice out right now, 32 with pretty flurries and no wind.

Crazy that at 12:30 p.m. it was 29 at O’Hare and 11 in DeKalb (with a -3 windchill).

And now we’re in it: 10 degrees colder in the past hour, wind up to 16 mph, falling snow still pretty.

And my dumb kid just went out to meet a friend for coffee. I told her it was literally getting worse by the minute, but ... kids.

It is absolutely bonkers how long our travel bookers (wherever they are located) kept insisting our flight was not cancelled, despite us sending them screenshots of texts, emails and web updates from the carrier saying the flight is cancelled. It went on forever. They finally relented and re-booked us for Sunday, but when we tried later to see if we could get out a day earlier, on a Saturday flight, the process began anew. "Our system is showing the flight is not cancelled" etc. Like, look at the news, dummies.

Christmas Eve gonna be a flashback to peak covid Christmas Eve, when we bundled up and had drinks with friends in their backyard despite it being -2 or whatever it was. The shrimp and oysters (remnants of a truncated Feast of the Seven Fishes) literally froze, and we had to thaw them under the same ad hoc conditions (fire pit, heat lamp) that we were desperately enlisting to keep ourselves warm.