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Damn Snow Drifts
Posted by:
Dangerous Drifts
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Date: January 30, 2016 08:23PM
Damn plows left big ass snow drifts everywhere so you can't see anything when turning. People have half of their cars sticking out into the main road to see. Shit's dangerous as hell.
Re: Damn Snow Drifts
Posted by:
Jerry
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Date: January 30, 2016 11:09PM
A snow drift is not the same thing as a big pile of snow. It is created by the wind blowing snow around during a snowstorm. But yeah there are some places with high pilled snow that have made it really tough to pull out this week. Getting out of Springfield plaza onto commerce near Trader Joe's was kind of scary.
Re: Damn Snow Drifts
Posted by:
Greybeard
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Date: January 30, 2016 11:59PM
Yep. VDOT seems to be working on those piles too -- I was surprised to see a bunch of 'em cut away today.
Re: Damn Snow Drifts
Posted by:
Burke Brat
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Date: January 31, 2016 12:39AM
yeah 175 Million and will grow. ABOUT FEB 5 -11 TIME FRAME -- SEVERAL POSSIBLE EAST COAST WINTER STORM THREATS
This is Saturday evening post is a brief discussion about the various possible East Coast winter storm threats which exists during the seven day interval from February 5 -11. There actually a couple different possibilities which have to be looked at.
THREAT #1 - FEB 5 EASTERN NC / SE VA ONLY
The strong cold front which will arrive on the East Coast February 4 will stall on the Southeast U.S. Coast late on FEB4 and FEB 5. There is no doubt that a wave of LOW pressure is likely to form on the front and this weak LOW could pass close enough to Cape Hatteras NC to bring precipitation into the eastern third of NC and southeast third of VA. Given how warm it is s going to be on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday... it appears that this precipitation will likely be rain for eastern third of NC and southeast third of VA. BUT there is a small chance that IF...IF... if the cold air gets into eastern third of NC and southeast third of VA.. The precipitation type maybe snow instead of rain. The odds of THREAT #1 working out and bringing a period of snow to Eastern North Carolina and Southeast Virginia on Friday, February 5 is not high but it can't be ruled out completely.
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THREAT #2 .. IS FEB 7. The regular or operational European model on Saturday is making this into a pretty big coastal storm that would bring heavy snow to Eastern North Carolina Eastern Virginia the Delmarva and into far Southern New Jersey and a moderate snow into interior areas of North Carolina Virginia Washington, DC Baltimore up into Philly NJ NYC and Southern New England. The euro ensembles shows some sort of Middle Atlantic east coast Low so this threat may be more serious than Threat #1
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THREAT #3 FEB 9-10.. This is the one I have been more focused about over the past few days. The " signal" from the various weather models appear to be more significant with this system. Not only does the European ensemble model support THREAT #3 as the more serious of the three possibilities but so does the Canadian and the GFS ensemble models.
This is Saturday evening post is a brief discussion about the various possible East Coast winter storm threats which exists during the seven day interval from February 5 -11. There actually a couple different possibilities which have to be looked at.
THREAT #1 - FEB 5 EASTERN NC / SE VA ONLY
The strong cold front which will arrive on the East Coast February 4 will stall on the Southeast U.S. Coast late on FEB4 and FEB 5. There is no doubt that a wave of LOW pressure is likely to form on the front and this weak LOW could pass close enough to Cape Hatteras NC to bring precipitation into the eastern third of NC and southeast third of VA. Given how warm it is s going to be on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday... it appears that this precipitation will likely be rain for eastern third of NC and southeast third of VA. BUT there is a small chance that IF...IF... if the cold air gets into eastern third of NC and southeast third of VA.. The precipitation type maybe snow instead of rain. The odds of THREAT #1 working out and bringing a period of snow to Eastern North Carolina and Southeast Virginia on Friday, February 5 is not high but it can't be ruled out completely.
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THREAT #2 .. IS FEB 7. The regular or operational European model on Saturday is making this into a pretty big coastal storm that would bring heavy snow to Eastern North Carolina Eastern Virginia the Delmarva and into far Southern New Jersey and a moderate snow into interior areas of North Carolina Virginia Washington, DC Baltimore up into Philly NJ NYC and Southern New England. The euro ensembles shows some sort of Middle Atlantic east coast Low so this threat may be more serious than Threat #1
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THREAT #3 FEB 9-10.. This is the one I have been more focused about over the past few days. The " signal" from the various weather models appear to be more significant with this system. Not only does the European ensemble model support THREAT #3 as the more serious of the three possibilities but so does the Canadian and the GFS ensemble models.
Re: Damn Snow Drifts
Posted by:
Brown Onion's warm diahrrea
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Date: January 31, 2016 12:42AM
We need Brown Onion and his explosive bowels to sit atop these snow piles and melt them away.