Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Mid Day Update

The clipper event for Thursday night into Friday looks to start as snow dropping an inch or two before warm air turns in into rain. It should not be a problem except on road surfaces where drivers go too fast for conditions and end up sliding-off or causing an accident.

I know it sounds like a rant but the number of accidents I keep hearing on the police scanner is unbelievable. You can hear the frustration of the officers. Even when there are 2 or 3 slide-offs in a short stretch of road and a couple of officers on scene with their lights on, people continue to speed along and end up in the ditch. Slow down people, just slow down!

Back to the clipper system, the most recent model runs show it a little colder but I wouldn’t hold out hope for an all snow event. An all snow event would be 3-5 inches which seem unlikely.

Next week has a storm which looks like more rain for us than snow but it has shown some flip-flop on a few model runs so hope is there for a snow maker. Of course the snow maker solutions are so way overdone dropping 8-12 inches of the stuff which naturally makes is less likely to happen.

Next week is Severe Weather Preparedness Week. I will try to feature some severe weather information each day. You can find daily information from the NWS next week too. -CLICK HERE- Of course one very important thing is to have a severe weather radio for home and work. I will discuss those in more detail next week.

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