We got maybe half an inch overnight but it's pretty icy outside. Seattle is two hours late again so my daughter is yet again thrilled.
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PNW Era, snowpocalypse incoming?
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No school for my kids second day in a row. It's not getting above freezing today and snow likely so who knows about tomorrow.
Got a light dusting here in Everett, but it sounds like the roads are pretty icy. Stay safe out there.
One more night of Convergence Zone madness for everyone north of Seattle. Just gonna be cold here with probably no more snow.
I tried to shovel the sidewalk but all I got was a fine layer of powder. The ice underneath wouldn't budge. Guess I'll throw down some ice melt so someone doesn't slip and fall.
I tried to shovel the sidewalk but all I got was a fine layer of powder. The ice underneath wouldn't budge. Guess I'll throw down some ice melt so someone doesn't slip and fall.
Well it finally snowed in east Vancouver WA...for ten minutes and did not stick. Snow largely disappearing from the forecast too. Ah well.
I'm in this skiing facebook group and I keep stressing to people that tires make a bigger difference than 4wd. Below are power rankings for driving in snow. Worst to best.
FWD with All Season Tires
AWD/4x4 with All Season Tires
FWD with good winter tires
AWD/4x4 with good winter tires (the GOAT)
People were giving me shit saying I didn't know that I was talking about when I said a FWD sedan with winter tires would outperform a AWD car with all seasons. But all it takes is a quick google to confirm it. Lots of tests have been done on this. The extra power and push from AWD means jack shit if the tires can't grip. Last sunday at Crystal Mountain I watched some kind of pick up truck strugging to get some traction to get out of the lot. My fwd sonata rolled out without skidding at all. Blizzaks were such a good purchase.
They dumped dirt on the roads in Mill Creek/Bothell overnight, probably thinking it would help but instead, it turned into frozen ice dirt and fuuuuuucked the roads.
Big bust in Portland so far. It's actually sunny outside right now, and there's no real precipitation coming in today. Even expectations for tomorrow are more subdued than they were yesterday.
Finally got some decent snow this morning in Bellingham. Hoping for more tonight. Sounds like temps will be rising Friday and on so only a couple days to enjoy it unfortunately.
My hopes for a day off have been dashed. I don't expect the rest of the week to be any different from today. Hell, didn't even have the two hour delay I had yesterday.
Hopefully it doesn't get too bad on Thurs night, that's when I get back to work. At the very least I can experience this weather from my comfy bed the next two days.
You can also feel the road - a lot of people just aren't attuned to the sensation coming through the tires to the steering wheel and literally don't pay attention to the information coming directly to their fingertips, Mrs Stinkles is like that. The steering wheel for her may as well just terminate at the dash and she never senses loss of traction till it's too late. That and steering away from skids put people in ditches all the time regardless of vehicles. You can drive a beater Chevy Caprice with bald tires if you pay attention.
When I moved to Seattle, I drove up from San Fran with a Mazda ProtƩgƩ with all-weather tires full of boxes and got caught in a brutal snowstorm storm in the mountains in Oregon. I carefully drove all the way through it, and felt plenty of white knuckle slides, but I must have passed three dozen stalled or spun out SUVs. I grew up in an icy wasteland and the only people with all wheel drive or 4WD were farmers and the landed gentry in Land Rovers.
School started two hours late and I just got a missed call from the school district. No message so no clue what that was about.
This too. I literally took my driving test in the winter the day after a big snow storm. The roads in CT are better treated and plowed though.
Also in all my years of living in the Northeast I can't recall ever seeing snow that looks like this. It looks like bits of styrofoam or dipping dots. So weird.
This is all kind of why I'm not in love with Seattle snow lol
It's rarely enough for actual.. snow driving, which works fine in a lot of vehicles. Instead it's ice driving, which works fine for.. very few vehicles.. and the roads are full of people who think their SUV for some reason can stop on ice on a dime.
Just drove the 3 blocks to Safeway (I don't have proper winter shoes right now to walk) and someone managed to nearly rear end me.
It's rarely enough for actual.. snow driving, which works fine in a lot of vehicles. Instead it's ice driving, which works fine for.. very few vehicles.. and the roads are full of people who think their SUV for some reason can stop on ice on a dime.
Just drove the 3 blocks to Safeway (I don't have proper winter shoes right now to walk) and someone managed to nearly rear end me.
Yeah I'm nervous about the drive home. I may bail early and work from the house today. Don't want to find out kids sent home and I can't get back in time....
Yeah I'm working from home myself; was supposed to have a late meeting this afternoon on the east side and luckily it got moved to tomorrow which should be better since it's not supposed to get below freezing.
Looks like it's over for us. Had a nice little bit earlier but now I'm thinking all rain.
Alderwood Fred Meyer was an ice rink last night.
Been snowing here in Green Lake all afternoon and looks like it should continue off and on until midnight. Seattle Public Schools canceled all after school activities.
Final round of snow later tonight. Don't relax just yet.
Final round of snow later tonight. Don't relax just yet.
Oh I missed that. Do they have an estimate on how much?
I'm dreading the drive down to Seattle tomorrow for my fiancee's appointment with a lawyer.
Weather patterns here are so weird.
Maybe 80% of my office left. One of my coworkers had her sister drop her off at work (she drives a jeep) and wants her to pick her up asap.
But her boss won't let her leave because they work in bellevue and its apparently not snowing there.
Maybe 80% of my office left. One of my coworkers had her sister drop her off at work (she drives a jeep) and wants her to pick her up asap.
But her boss won't let her leave because they work in bellevue and its apparently not snowing there.
My doctor's hiphop class tonight got canceled. We're gonna go do some sledding across the street when I get her from school.
Apparently it's called graupel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graupel
I don't recall seeing so much of it in other years.
So I drove home I a blizzard in Redmond, through freezing fog on the 520 with about twenty feet visibility, then snow on the i5 then blazing sunshine in Wallingford. As the crow flies less than ten miles apart. Schools canceled after school event so I had to be here anyway but it better goddamned snowpocalypse tonight or I'm pushing video game magazine racks over at KBToys!!
I'm gonna scatter a chaos carpet of Diehard Gamefan magazines.
I'm gonna scatter a chaos carpet of Diehard Gamefan magazines.
You would say that. White Northern Undead Bastard!
Man predicting weather here between two mountain ranges, a pacific inlet, the pacific Ocean and thousands of lakes must be hell.
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The blizzard had already come through North Seattle while you were on the east side.
