Posted on 02/15/2015 11:18:14 PM PST by Star Traveler
A winter storm could dump 3 to 7 inches of snow and sleet in the Tulsa area overnight into Monday, forecasters said.
Tulsa and surrounding counties are under a winter storm warning from until noon Monday.
"Travel will become very hazardous," the National Weather Service said.
Forecasters said snow was likely to continue early Monday, with chances of precipitation in the Tulsa area around 70 percent. The winter storm started Sunday as freezing rain, then drizzle before changing over to snow.
"Around 3 to 7 inches of snow and sleet accumulation is expected mainly north of (U.S.) 412, with the highest totals near the Kansas border," forecasters said.
"Areas between (U.S.) 412 and Interstate 40 may see around 1 to 3 inches of snow and sleet, with ice accumulations around a quarter of an inch or less."
(Excerpt) Read more at tulsaworld.com ...
But years (60’s) ago 4X4 was rare, and front wheel drive was not the norm. Both provide much improvement for snowy travel.
Yeah, but in Oregon, if you don’t chain up (where it’s posted and required) ... you’re going to get a ticket and be taken off the road. And with four wheel drive vehicles you HAVE TO have chains “within the vehicle” and also you have to have special tires, or else you will have to actually chain up with everyone else!
Admittedly, what you say does help driving ... but chains are even better.
Oregon Chain Law
https://www.tripcheck.com/Pages/chain-laws.asp
There’s nothing like the feeling and sound of those v-bar chains grinding that ice, as you’re chewing your way up a hill ... :-) ...
That’s good! So, can you drink that nice weather that produces no precipitation out in CA, where there is a record drought? :P
Naw, I love scabs and catfish...
Ah...typical February in Oklahoma. I traveled for business down there for many years (am from Iowa)...and loved it..some of my best customers.
Luckily, up here we don’t have as many ice storms. BUT, the good news out of all of this is that these events in OK and AR always seemed to be a harbinger of Spring weather patterns beginning. Next stop, tulips! Stay safe and drive carefully everyone!
It’s strange. When I was a kid, we all sang cute little songs about snow. Now, snow is considered “extreme” and the Freddy Krueger of all natural phenomenon.
I hope you’re not looking for sympathy from those of us in the Northeast...
Our first band of snow went through early this morning. The second band is due here ... within the hour. It’s supposed to be over by this afternoon.
I’m looking at my car right now, through the front window of the house ... and thinking about getting it scraped and warmed up and go for a quick drive down to QuikTrip! The car got all iced up last nice with the initial blast of freezing rain.
I just love to get out and drive around in this stuff ... :-) ...
Years ago I went fishing just below KEYSTONE Dam. The gates had been opened a few days before and there were dead gar all over the place.
Saw lots of gar on the Pecos outside of Carlsbad back in the 1960s.
As for winter, everyone here from Tulsa still remembers the March 14 1968 blizzard! I remember quite a few bad ice storms there.
For some reason the sand trucks hit the local bridges but did not hit the stop lights just before the bridges. So there I sat, spinning my wheels trying to get through the stoplight so I could make traction on the well sanded bridge.
This could be a chain day! freezing rain followed by snow. I hate freezing rain! I still remember the ice storm from a few years ago which knocked out power for three days. It was the first time there was absolutely silence here. No trains, no traffic, no noise at all except limbs breaking off the trees.
We did well. The only radio stations on the air were KRMG from Tulsa and a local NW Arkansas station.
You would be shocked at the number of people who were completely unprepared for it.
Then there was that two foot snow a few years ago. Again absolute quiet. I had to get the tractor out to clear our driveway and lane.
Roads are snowy..but fine.
Get through the next two weeks and the snows of the Northeast will begin melting in earnest. Even now, the sun angle is much higher. It's still about zero here in CT but that bright sun feels good coming through the windows. Just a month ago, the sun was barely climbing above the tree line in back of my house.
I just got the car scraped and cleared. I’m about ready to head out. I’m not going far ... just to QuikTrip for coffee, get some more cans of deicer, and then I broke one of my scrapers ... so another one of those.
Naw....no chains here. Ha!!
I use to fish in Poteau
Incredible
My brother and I regularly pulled 8 pounders out.
I used to have a 67 Catalina with 15'' studded snows, but never had v-bar chains, though in the Blizzard of 78 they would have helped!
I remember a ski trip to Utah a bunch of years ago. When we started the drive up to (I think) Park City and Park City E. we reached the mountain pass road and there was a big sign that gave the weather condition of the road. On the bad days it said that no vehicles were allowed unless they were 4WD or tire chains were installed. And there was a state police officer stationed there visually observing the vehicles turning onto the mountain road.
If you didn't have your chains installed, there was a staging area to the left where you could drive your vehicle into it and put your chains on.
Fortunately for ME, the road was clear on the days we made the drive because that was the most nerve wracking trip I have ever taken considering there were NO GUARD RAILS on the right side of the road up the mountain pass.......
That's because you were the little kid in the back seat that wasn't driving...LOL!
Growing up where I did in northern Michigan, when I was a little kid, I remember winter snow becoming so deep that it was up to my chest.......but then again, I was only about 5'2 at the time.
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