The Winter That Won’t Die™ is taking aim at us here in the land of cheese and beer again. Yes, we dodged a bullet overnight, when it was a bit warmer than anticipated and the moisture for the most part missed the bunker and the measuring sticks at Mitchell, but the National Weather Service is calling for at least 6 inches of snow Thursday (note; the link is highly dynamic, and the forecast is valid at the time listed at the bottom of this post), with an unspecified higher amount near the lake. The bad news; the bunker and the measuring sticks are in the traditional lake-effect belt, and we only need 11.8 inches to bust the record. The ugly; it’s going to be another wet, heavy snow.
I suppose the good news, such as it is, is I’m seeing bare spots outside the bunker. Of course, that isn’t good news for those along rivers. Further (and actual) react is banished to Page 2 for the reason of excessive vulgarities.
At least you have an est. on amount….they’re just telling us we’ll get “significan” snowfall and have left us guessing. I took the snowblower off the tractor today so God will need to remove what He puts down this time!
Let me tell you a thing or two about that “estimate”. As late as Maunday Thursday, the Good Friday Snowpocalypse was estimated to be no more than 3-6 inches. It turned into 12-15.
Worse, one underestimates the lake effect at one’s own peril. I remember one snowstorm when I worked on Milwaukee’s northwest side many moons ago. The snow was barely 2 inches there, but by the time I got to downtown Milwaukee, it was a foot. Needless to say, I was thankful I had a 4WD vehicle then.
You should know better than to declare winter dead before Tax Day :-)
Amen!
We were supposed to get 2-4 on Maunday Thursday. By the time it stopped, 3DAYS LATER, we ended up with about 12″. I’m sure glad they’ve got this global warming thing figured out ’cause they can’t do squat with the next 72 hours!