Posted on 01/27/2010 7:11:54 AM PST by Star Traveler
Posted: Jan 27, 2010 6:37 AM
Updated: Jan 27, 2010 8:52 AM
On Friday, snow will still be falling with significant
accumulations likely along and north of the I-44 corridor.
TULSA, OK -- Most of northern Oklahoma is under a Winter Storm Warning which will be in effect from 6 a.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. Friday.
News On 6 meteorologist Alan Crone says a major storm moving east out of California is expected to collide with cold air from Canada late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.
Read Alan Crone's weather discussion.
Crone says rain will begin Thursday morning and could quickly change over to freezing rain across portions of northern Oklahoma.
By midday or early afternoon, precipitation will be in the form of sleet with freezing rain near the I-40 corridor.
Thursday evening, the sleet will transition to snow across the northern third of the state, with freezing rain remaining along the I-40 corridor.
Snow will continue to fall into Friday, with significant accumulations likely along and north of the I-44 corridor.
Crone says because of the potential for freezing rain, he expects an Ice Storm Warning will be issued for portions of eastern and central Oklahoma on Thursday.
With that in mind, Crone says power outages are possible, especially across the I-40 corridor into east central Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas.
Some locations could lose electric service for several days.
Bracing for impact in Tulsa.
Ugh! We had an ice storm a few weeks ago...what a mess!
Everyone: be safe!
OOOOOOOOOklahoma where the wind comes ridin’ down the plains!........................
Good luck everyone, I remember being on a trip from Denver back home to Florida in late ‘97 and a sudden snowstorm blew up out of nowhere and the forecasts were for icy and impassable conditions and I had to get home, I zig-zagged down little state roads out of Kansas leading into Oklahoma in hopes of staying ahead of the storm and at one point stopping to throw a quick $20 in the tank and literally being chased out of that gas station by the oncoming snow squalls, I got to warmer weather but that was quite the experience.
Again, good luck folks.
Bracing for impact in Tulsa.
Oh yeah, that's where I'm at. It could be 9 inches, could be 12 inches or more of snow... just depends... (on what, I don't know... LOL...)
Note to self:
Time to join every resident in town at Wally World for a milk/bread run
I need to get some Ice Melt this morning, Hope there are still some bags in stock. Might pick up a new snow shovel while I’m out. And some beer. And some pretzels.
Wait, I should get some eggs while I’m at it. And stop off at the Tag Office for the little 2010-2011 tag sticker for one of our vehicles.
Wow, I’d better hurry up and get a shower, cause I’ve got a lot to do today, suddenly.
Thanks.
Just called my Mom to make sure she was prepared and she is.
As a kid growing up in T town, I remember some great snowstorms in the late thirties and early forties.
was just online to hometown newspapaer and Wichita Falls Tx area is gonna get hammered be safe all !
This would of been the winter for all of you East of the Great Deviders to vacation in the Pacific Northwest. Its been the warmest and mildest January on record. Feels like March.
And I predicted this would happen long ago when Vancouver was selected for the Winter Olympics. We would have year after year of record snow-pack until the winter of 2009/10 when it would be “what snow-pack?”.
Have you gotten the hatches battened down?
Wow, I’d better hurry up and get a shower, cause I’ve got a lot to do today, suddenly.
Heck yeah... we all got a lot to do about right now... :-)
Yesterday I had to dig out a sewer line in the yard and find out what was plugged up. Got someone coming out today to do the cleanout and then there's a pipe repair to be done, but that won't be done until after the storm. Ughh...
Oh well... and it's off to the store for supplies. I hear that Home Depot was a madhouse yesterday around here in Tulsa.
Just called my Mom to make sure she was prepared and she is.
Glad to hear that. This sort of thing is getting to be quite a regular event around here in Oklahoma, it seems... LOL...
We don't have a generator, but if this is the way winters are going to be from now on, better get one, I guess...
Time to join every resident in town at Wally World for a milk/bread run
Me too... I actually wanted to do it yesterday but had to dig up a sewer line in the yard and I can't wait any longer now... so I'm going to be joining the crowds there, too... :-)
Right. Headed there right now. Got the snow shovel out of the shed for this one. Not like the Christmas blizzard that got here ahead of my brain. Keep safe everyone. No power outages please.
We've had warnings, since Monday, of an impending snow storm Thursday night...Doppler radar is our friend.
Yeah, but that was warnings from something that was sitting off the California Coast, in the Pacific Ocean, back then... LOL...
And weather forecasts tend to "tighten up" and modify in three to four days. In this case, it seems that it's going to hit where they were thinking -- but at other times, all it takes is a slight swerve (especially talking about a storm in the Pacific Ocean, when you're talking about Oklahoma)... and then it misses the entire area.
The last one we had, they didn't even know it was going to be a blizzard until about two or three hours before it hit here. They knew there was a storm coming, but not blizzard conditions.
If you watch these things as they come closer and watch the forecasters, they change their forecasts just about every single day, before it gets here... LOL...
Interesting audio/slide show from the Tulsa forecast office from 6am this morning:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/media/tsa/briefing/player.html
Pay special attention to the icing forecast to predict power outages.
Thanks and you too... :-)
Don’t forget beer.
Oklahoma City just had a record-setting blizzard with over a foot (close to 20 inches IIRC) on Christmas Eve.
This looks to be slightly north, but wow.
OK has been hammered this winter.
This is for Washington county, the latest update from Bartlesville/Washington County emergency management:
“The current track could keep Washington County out of the heaviest ice accumulations, however it appears the trade off would be heavier snow fall amounts. Will continue to monitor and advise.
They are talking the possibility of significant accumulation here in Tennessee starting tomorrow night. I was going to North Carolina but now I will postpone the trip.
and batteries, candles, matches, etc...
You all are definitely over your yearly snowfall average by this point I would think. Crazy winter.
We even had several decent snows out here in Midland/Odessa, TX.
Heck, we got 4 inches in Abilene, TX on Christmas.
Reminds me of my childhood in Kansas.
And remember, depending on how ‘wet’ the snow is, about 11 inches of snow, give or take, equals one-inch of rain.
A great time to fertilize your lawn would be DURING the snow storm. I’ve been told.
Yeah, right.
No kidding. When I lived there every time it snowed it seemed it was a blizzard.
No my hatches are all unbattened.
LOL...
You all are definitely over your yearly snowfall average by this point I would think. Crazy winter.
Yeah, and I've been telling my relatives and friends around here that we're in for a decade or more of colder winter weather... according to the Dalton-type Minimum that we're currently in now.
I'm pretty sure we're going to have much colder winters, now (and much more ice and snow)... for the next decade and more... :-)....
I guess I'm going to have to get my skis back again, that I had while I was in Oregon. I liked doing the cross country skiing there... I could have used those croos country skis a number of times here...
Snow is like sex. You never know how much you are going to get or how long it is going to last.
I always wondered about that. Is there some tradition that you have French toast on snow days?
Bartlesville/Washington County Emergency Management The impact of a significant winter storm is almost certiain at this point. Forecast models are still changing but a Winter Storm Warning has already been issued for Washington County. Ice accumulations to 1/2” expected followed by as much as 12” of snow with winds in excess of 20mph and dangerous wind chills on Fri & Sat..
This is for Washington county, the latest update from Bartlesville/Washington County emergency management: “The current track could keep Washington County out of the heaviest ice accumulations, however it appears the trade off would be heavier snow fall amounts. Will continue to monitor and advise.
That weather service news report that "T-Bird45" supplied in his Post #23 -- is a good and informative report.
Thanks T-Bird45 for that link.
:-)
If you loose power and don't have any heat, DON'T USE your gas oven or top burners to heat your house.
A gas range produces carbon monoxide gas which is odorless and can kill you and your family.
It is just like attaching a hose to the tail pipe of your car and running it though a window to the inside of your house.
Think before using any alternate heat if the power goes out.
Or when you’ll get it again.
This would of been the winter for all of you East of the Great Deviders to vacation in the Pacific Northwest. Its been the warmest and mildest January on record. Feels like March.
In the Pacific Northwest, I remember what the weathermen called the "Pineapple Express" -- all the storms which would roll in off the Pacific Ocean, from Hawaii... LOL...
But, sometimes that Pineapple Express goes south and hits California, and the Pacific Northwest is warmer and drier than usual. Usually that's during an El Nino period that this happens.
It does seem that the storms are hitting California and not the Pacific Northwest, now.
And when that does happen, then it also seems that Oklahoma is one state that gets the brunt of those storms that have shifted down to California, from the Pacific Northwest... and they get hammered by a lot of snow and ice... interesting... :-)
The Pineapple Express went down to California, that’s what happened... :-)
And that does happen in cycles. I don’t know if we’re in an El Nino type of situation now, but that’s typically what happens up there with an El Nino with the Pineapple Express going south and then California getting slammed (by what would normally be going on up in the Pacific Northwest).
It’s cyclic...
What we don’t want to see around here is the convergence of the Pineapple Express and the Alberta Clipper. That’s when the shit hits the fan around here and it’s basically what’s going to take place over Oklahoma. On the one hand they might be lucky; most of the moisture has already been wrung out.
Bracing for impact in Tulsa.
Oh yeah, that's where I'm at.
Stay safe, and stay home - I saw how you guys drive in ice, and it ain't pretty! LOL
Back in 73-74 (CRS?) I drove out in January from upstate NY for a six-week training course. Got up one morning and found that an ice storm had dropped about two-three inches of ice. Saw folks spinning their wheels getting off at the lights, then locking brakes trying to stop; saw more accidents in that two mile drive than any two winters in upstate NY!
Went in the back entry to the parking lot up a fairly steep hill and scared the h3!! out of the security guard stopping folks driving down that driveway. Loved having studded tires all around! Closed the plant for two days for lack of power - fun times!
What we don’t want to see around here is the convergence of the Pineapple Express and the Alberta Clipper. That’s when the shit hits the fan around here and it’s basically what’s going to take place over Oklahoma. On the one hand they might be lucky; most of the moisture has already been wrung out.
I had to look that one up... :-)
Stay safe, and stay home - I saw how you guys drive in ice, and it ain't pretty! LOL
Well "excuuuuse me!"... LOL...
I've got experience from driving around in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest and chains and all, along with the ice and snow around there... :-)
I know what you mean, but when I see this kind of weather, I want to chain up and go driving around in it... :-)
I've driven across the Rockies in the dead of winter, and across 1,000 miles of packed snow/ice on the Interstates many times (in traveling between Oregon and Texas/Oklahoma... so I can make it about anywhere...
But, even in Oregon, and in Portland, people can go crazy when the snows hit.
You are welcome for the link - I found it to be much more in depth than the usual TV report but they are constrained by broadcast time. I will say the TV guys are doing a good job with the basic info but it is nice to get the background for better understanding.
I’ll try to keep an eye out for when they post the next update and add that link to this thread.
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