Rant; Winter 2013/14

[jim]

The forecast for Tuesday here is 6-8 inches. I don't have any milk or eggs or flour so I'm not sure how I will make it through. Nice knowing you guys.

That's what they are saying here too. Honestly 6-8" at this point doesn't even register any more. I do see on the Accuweather forecast that we are getting sunshine and 44 on Feb. 26 and 46 on Feb 27 with sunshine. That is going to be nice!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Glad to see you guys enjoying it. Reading about California, I think y'all need to wake up to the business opportunity laying out in your yards. Get your neighbors together, arbitrage your snowfall bounty with Jerry Brown, dump that snow in some train cars bound for the Left Coast, and laugh all the way to the bank.

[jim]

If I heard correctly I think their drought and our pattern of storm after storm after storm are linked. Some extra warm water in the Pacific or some damn thing.

[IMADreamer]

If I heard correctly I think their drought and our pattern of storm after storm after storm are linked. Some extra warm water in the Pacific or some damn thing.

This is pretty spot on. Everyone looks at El Nino but really it's the northern Pacific Oscillation that's much more important for us. So basically conditions out there are causing a ridge over the west and a trough over our neck of the woods. The result is drought for them and either stupid cold or snow storms depending on how the jet sets up exactly for us.

[Jocephus]

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[IMADreamer]

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I did that once at a presentation about in college. My classmates really appreciated it. My professor not so much.

[Jocephus]

gettin a snow day tomorrow

[jim]

If I heard correctly I think their drought and our pattern of storm after storm after storm are linked. Some extra warm water in the Pacific or some damn thing.

This is pretty spot on. Everyone looks at El Nino but really it's the northern Pacific Oscillation that's much more important for us. So basically conditions out there are causing a ridge over the west and a trough over our neck of the woods. The result is drought for them and either stupid cold or snow storms depending on how the jet sets up exactly for us.

Well that's all great info and all, but how do we fix it?

[planet planet]

MODOT is telling people to stay off the roads tomorrow if at all possible. In our case, we're totally able to work from home yet there continues to be this attitude of you're a wimp/slacker if you can't/decide not to take the chance to make it into work. I actually find it reckless for companies to not encourage people to work from home if you can. The snow in the STL area isn't going to start coming down heavily until tomorrow around 10 am which obviously means you're going in and then waiting until it's treacherous to go home early. I especially dislike the people who live five minutes from the office who claim "the roads are fine!" with no thought of the people who are scattered across the metro area in areas much more affected. Just so stupid and unproductive.

[JL21]

MODOT is telling people to stay off the roads tomorrow if at all possible. In our case, we're totally able to work from home yet there continues to be this attitude of you're a wimp/slacker if you can't/decide not to take the chance to make it into work. I actually find it reckless for companies to not encourage people to work from home if you can. The snow in the STL area isn't going to start coming down heavily until tomorrow around 10 am which obviously means you're going in and then waiting until it's treacherous to go home early. I especially dislike the people who live five minutes from the office who claim "the roads are fine!" with no thought of the people who are scattered across the metro area in areas much more affected. Just so stupid and unproductive.

Wuss