Lots of snow here in Tacoma

Kizzume · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject: Lots of snow here in Tacoma

Lots of snow here in Tacoma. It's like it followed me from Idaho. I was actually so happy to be on drier roads when I finally got back--the ride element was hellish when it came to the trip (4 people in a king-cab truck full of equipment, in the snow) and getting sick right after the show didn't help much.

We're supposed to have more snow by tonight.

Segep · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 222

Pretty snowy here this morning, too.

Kizzume · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

How much snow have you gotten there? Right now the streets cleared because of rain in the middle of the day but there's still snow on the lawns. We're supposed to get what local news is calling a "blizzard" by tonight.

Segep · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 222

I estimate we got about 3 inches here at sea level.

Kizzume · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject:

Well, it looks like the earlier forecasts were wrong. Now it's just going to be rain. No blizzard for us. I guess Idaho weather DIDN'T follow me as much as I thought.

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:52 pm Post subject:

Wow--it looked like we weren't going to get any snow--last night it was supposed to snow, then it just rained--but now it's coming down heavier right now than I can remember seeing it come down in Tacoma since I was little. Let's see how long it lasts. Smile

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Weirdness. I haven't received hardly any snow where I live. But I went to a funeral yesterday, and there was a ton of it in Redmond!

mark · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 38

We are having a good old fashioned Wisconsin winter here. Plenty of snow and cold. I have shoveled out the driveway more this year than in the last 7 or 8 combined. ANd it looks like tomorrow I will be shoveling again.

Where in hell is the global warming we were promised?

Mark

Kizzume · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:17 pm Post subject:

Well, more snow doesn't mean the ice caps aren't still melting faster than before.

But it is strange. My brother's predictions last year on both vegetation that lasts and what the weather would be this winter have been correct.

Over here though, I'm actually hoping to see one of those rare times when we get that really powdery dry snow with the super-cold wind chill. Like, a week of it or something. Just to help kill extra bothersome insects that are around, especially in the swampy areas. The effect of which freeze-dries most things that are outside (freeze-drying process working on the principle of the times when water becomes a vapor between when it freezes and almost thaws and totally freezes again and almost thaws again--that vapor then being sucked into some sort of container--but outside, when it's windy, it just carries that water vapor to different areas) and that certainly kills some mosquito larvae and other pesky insects that are surrounding swampy areas. Whenever we have that kind of winter, the following summer is so much more bearable. Smile