🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 ⛈ The weather thread. The south braces for the weekend cold

[It Takes Eleven]

It looks like Bham might dodge it, but it's still several days before it comes into focus. Bham Saturday is chilly with periods of rain, and Nashville is showing up to 16 inches of snow. Ice likely Saturday in Atlanta, so we moved up a trip to Austin this week by a day to get out and through Atlanta on Friday.

 

[TerryP]

The Pile Up trend on X

 

[It Takes Eleven]

The Pile Up trend on X

Wait, every yankee I know says they know how to drive in the snow. When did all the southerners move north?

 

[TerryP]

Wait, every yankee I know says they know how to drive in the snow. When did all the southerners move north?

Augusta is pretty indicative of what's happening, or going to happen, here. The models show higher temps for them than here on Sat and Sun with rain and it's calling for snow here. The bridges will be shut down. No doubt. It feels like the kind of thing that could go bad for a day or two. By bad, iced over streets, etc. I just won't go anywhere.

An older fella I talk fishing with said it reminded him of a storm we got back in the early day's of Saban (only frame of reference other than the car I had at the time.) I want to say 2010. Then another in 18, I believe. It's just time. I think the '18 storm was the first week of Jan. We got a little last year about this time.

 

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[alabama mike]

Calling for 6-10” of snow here Saturday. Temps will go below zero in the days after due to clear skies and the snow pack.

 

[rick4bama]

We back above the freezing zone. Early Monday morning I will be back in the teens to single digit.

 

[Krimson]

We back above the freezing zone. Early Monday morning I will be back in the teens to single digit.

75/58 here on Monday. That's why I love being here in the winter.

 

[TerryP]

75/58 here on Monday. That's why I love being here in the winter.

I'm sure I've said this before but I think it was a different context.

IF we don't get at least one good freeze the insects are HORRIBLE come spring. I want it more for that than I do the lawn going dormant for at least a week or so.

The cold bit that came through a few weeks ago just fooled Mother Nature into thinking its already spring.

Your "high" is not a lot different than mine. A few degrees. The low is the difference...mid-30's that night. (Speaks a lot to the sweatpants thread and my biking before dawn.)

 

[TerryP]

I want it more for that than I do the lawn going dormant for at least a week or so.

And this isn't a joke. I am hoping to be able to get at least the back yard cut today. It's not poa annua growing out there...centipede thinks it is spring.

 

[alabama mike]

My neighbor mowed her lawn one day last week. She is in her 80's and did it for kicks and giggles. The lady loves being outside.

 

[Krimson]

I'm sure I've said this before but I think it was a different context.

IF we don't get at least one good freeze the insects are HORRIBLE come spring. I want it more for that than I do the lawn going dormant for at least a week or so.


Your "high" is not a lot different than mine. A few degrees. The low is the difference...mid-30's that night. (Speaks a lot to the sweatpants thread and my biking before dawn.)

I used to say that about mosquitoes, then I took a trip to Alaska in the summer. Place had the most mosquitoes I've ever seen.

The highs are often similar to lower alabama. It's the consistency I like so much. It's almost always within 5 degrees of 75/65. I can deal with cold better than hot but make it consistently cold not 80 today and 34 tomorrow.

 

[rick4bama]

 

[TerryP]

I used to say that about mosquitoes, then I took a trip to Alaska in the summer. Place had the most mosquitoes I've ever seen.

The highs are often similar to lower alabama. It's the consistency I like so much. It's almost always within 5 degrees of 75/65. I can deal with cold better than hot but make it consistently cold not 80 today and 34 tomorrow.

Just wanted to see...it's almost one and I've shed everything except the shorts and long sleeved tee. What started with light pants like we've talked about and a 3/4 zip.

Speaking of mosquitoes...I have wax myrtles in the back to combat those. It works. In those I also have a family of Cardinals; annually. This weather has them thinking spring, I guess. They've been active the last week or so and I normally don't see that until late Feb. I have houses I've built for blue birds. The same is happening with them.

The weather. It has to be.

I noticed weeks ago I wasn't seeing as many geese in their flights. Same stands true today proven by them standing in the street a little while ago. They had traffic backed up 18-20 cars. It's just a bit unusual in January.

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Side note: In today's age it's neat being able to watch a local TV news show in Texas and see how they are reacting (versus the national guys recaps.) And then, doing the same in Arkansas, then Tennessee ...

How bad is it snowing in Chicago? The Chicago station says ... and people say we don't have anything to watch. I'll watch some idiot freeze his nuts off in 2 ft of snow just to tell me there's two feet and it's cold.