Posted on 12/26/2017 8:25:30 AM PST by EdnaMode
The good news for many in the Northeast and Midwest was that it was a white Christmas. The bad news was that a blizzard swept into parts of New England and bitter cold enveloped much of the Midwest.
Erie, Pa., recieved a record 34 inches of snow.
NWS Cleveland ✔ @NWSCLE Erie, PA received 34" of snow on Christmas Day! This is a new all-time daily snowfall record. The previous record was 20" set on 11/22/56. For reference, the greatest 3-day snowfall in Erie was 30.2" (12/29-31/2002), greatest 7-day snowfall is 39.8" (12/27/01-1/2/2002) #pawx 1:26 AM - Dec 26, 2017
And another 19 inches fell before dawn Tuesday, bringing the total to 53 inches — the greatest two-day total in commonwealth history. The previous record was the 44 inches that fell in Morgantown in March 1958.
And it’s not over for Erie - the snow is expected to continue falling through Wednesday. The city of Erie issued a snow emergency, citing “dangerous and impassable” roads, and asked residents to stay off city streets until the snow stops and roads can reopen.
State police and the Department of Transportation are urging people to avoid travel, citing poor visibility and deteriorating conditions.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Record my a$$.
For democrats History always starts every day at breakfast.
I was on I-90 in Massachusetts yesterday morning and for a while it was terrible.Visibility close to zero....roads so bad that you were lucky to hit 10MPH...
It was brutal-——and then the sun came out.
Very fast,very annoying.
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Not 34 inches at once. It’s a record which is the point. You have to admit we’re having odd weather. Earthquakes, fires, hurricanes tornadoes all bigger in strength then in the past. Record hot weather not seen ever. Maybe not climate change but something is up.
It is like an eastward trough of cold with warm edges as you move south out of it. I can remember that more than once, going from Erie down Route 11 on my Kawasaki 750, within two or three hundred feet I crossed an east-west wall that on the more southern side was about ten or fifteen degrees Fahrenheit warmer that you could instantly tangibly sense. I had come from freezing cold New York air east of Erie, PA to take-your-leathers-off warmth in Cleveland, far enough away from the lake trough to feel as if I had wound up in Florida, the change sharply defined about 30 miles below Erie.
Right now, the sun is shining in Wilmington DE, and there has been no snow on the ground since a week ago when we got an idiosyncratic six inches, but after it the snow disappeared the next day, and thereafter up to 58 degF on Saturday last.
Please single out a recent earthquake larger than those we have experienced in the past?
Took long enough but it finally arrived......
Was Algore there with his hand out demanding Global Warming money ,LOL
Wow, that’s a lot of snow! In the DC area, everything shuts down for a few inches of snow.
Earthquakes aren't weather.
SoCal has always had fires, now more destructive because of poor environmental planning.
Just read the other day that sea levels have not risen in 117 yrs.
Change is due to the sun and our orbit.
Northern Arizona and Northern New Mexico got quite a snowfall/blizzard in December 1967, snow was measured in feet. I was living in Northern AZ on a ranch next to the Navajo Nation at the time and we were snowed in for weeks. My dad and the other cowboys had to work out in that mess to try to keep thousands of cows from dying. Most were saved though.
That is when I found out the government does not view people the same, the National Guard was out to help the Navajos, dropping food and medical supplies, hay for their animals from helicopters. Huge government rescue/relief effort on the reservation. We were right there next door and on our own, as were all the ranchers in the area as far as I know. My parents kept plenty of groceries on hand and medical supplies so that was not an issue. The ranch my dad worked for hired a helicopter to drop hay for their livestock...the government was checking on people all over the reservation and not once did anyone of that large effort check on us.
It was fifty years ago and to me it seems like yesterday. I rode horseback with my dad out in that cold and deep snow, we had to gather the cattle into feeding grounds so the hay could be dropped to them efficiently. The ranch had a cat operator that was breaking trails and had cleared areas for the hay drops, it still took a lot to get the cattle off the fences and to the trails and the hay drops.
Lucky you had full tanks. I never got stranded on the road but once spent three days at the Holiday Inn Holidome on I-90 somewhere.
Made a split decision to take an exit and got one of the last three rooms. Surreal swimming inside the dome while the blizzard was blizzarding outside.
Darn glad I did not get stuck like you did as I was in a passenger car.
St Patrick’s Day 1993 we got 36” in one night in Pittsburgh. Almost 5’ in the mountains.
Yep - still remember Mr. Marionetti (science teacher and good guy) talking about mini ice age.
Yeah = back then, I-90 was the original concrete slabs and the joints would make the tires keep cadence...bu-bip....bu-bip....
I remember that well, growing up a few miles south of Buffalo during the ‘50s and ‘60s. We’d have strangers staying at our house (parsonage) who were made to exit the Thruway during bad blizzards.
Snow storms have always sent me into a panic.
Not getting the snow, but it looks like we are in for ‘Buffalo-level COLD’ here in East Tennessee thru the New Year’s weekend. (3 above Saturday and Sunday night.) Yikes!
Yep - grew up in Rochester - great boating and fishing but Winter could be nasty - remember on Winter where it was colder “than usual” and storms blew water mist up in quantities that many beach homes were covered in a foot or more of solid ice.
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