Winter Storm Watch?
This showed up last night when I checked my local weather:
Winter Storm Watch for Coastal Okaloosa, Florida
… Winter Storm Watch remains in effect from Tuesday morning
through Wednesday morning…* timing… a wintry mix of freezing rain and sleet may impact most locations generally along and south of the Highway 84 corridor and north of the immediate coast Tuesday morning… while a mix of snow and sleet will be possible over interior portions of southeast Mississippi and southwest Alabama. Precipitation may transition to a wintry mix of freezing rain… sleet… and snow near the coast Tuesday night… and to sleet then light snow across interior portions of the region. Precipitation should gradually come to an end Wednesday morning.
This watch actually runs from Central Texas along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Coast of the Carolinas, all of those ski resorts, like Houston, New Orleans, Gulfport, Mobile, Cinco Bayou, and Myrtle Beach.
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“They” promised us one… a “wintry mix” etc. But it never got here. When I woke up a bit after 6:00am, it was 43°F. It’s very slightly colder now, 37°F, but I don’t think I’ll see any snow accumulating today.
Weather forecasting is transforming from a science, to a craft, to just plain crap. And it’s not the forecasters’ fault.
Um, err, well, now the temp is finally dropping; it’s 33°F now. Still no sign of “wintry mix,” though.
At noon the wintery stuff is still confined to inland Alabama, but it does seem to be creeping South. The roads are wet, so it does freeze we will have a skating rink regardless. They are still saying ice pellets, etc. and have added a hard freeze for Thursday morning.
Like you say, the pattern has changed and we are not sure what is going on anymore.
My mother just called to tell me that it’s snowing in central Louisiana again. And that the weekend’s weather calls for highs in the mid 70’s.
Yeah, she’s starting to get a bit freaked out about the bizarro world weather. Only good thing is that, living in a small town, people check on her. A neighbor checked on her, and even the mayor stopped by to make sure she was okay. Yeah, that’s just how that town rolls.
Atlanta is a zoo, and the Local Puppy Trainer just reported that there’s a pick-up truck stuck on the bridge over Cinco Bayou which is ice covered. They just can’t handle it. At least the schools and bases are closed to minimize traffic, so we don’t have much traffic.
They have closed a number of local bridges, knowing people will get stuck. We don’t have snow, just ice encrusted with ice pellets and a temperature in the 20s. It will be in the 60s this weekend.