Rant; Winter 2013/14

[Freed Roger]

[Fat_Bulldog]

I like how they are powered by WGN Weather. Impressive.

At least jim and the like are in the know.

[jim]

Tom Skilling seriously creeps me out. Nobody should be that revved up on the weather. He starts talking about packed isobars and then makes a funny face and then the camera pans away quickly but not before you can't help but notice a big wet stain in his crotch.

[StL Dan]

which one of those faces is skilling?

[jim]

Bald guy/glasses. His brother was the Skilling from the Enron trial, probably still in jail.

He's a legend around here. If you are a weather geek you love him, and many do. He has by far the most detail in his forecast than I have ever seen in my life. But I'm one of those that can't stand all of that giberish - show me a picture of a smiling sun with a 75 under it and that's all I really need or care to know. dreamer probably wants to hear about the packed isobars and jet stream buckles and god knows what else he is talking about, but that's not for me.

[Radbird]

Does he have some kind of neck condition that prevents his head from being in an upright position?

[stlouie_lipp]

I'm glad I don't live in Chicago.

From the sounds of it, the way to tolerate Chicago is hammered on deluxe cocktails

I think the only way to tolerate Chicago would be to leave Chicago.

As long as they bypass STL and go to Florida. except our GRB brethren, of course.

Are you sure? All Chicagoans(?) seem to be whiny, American victims to me.

I already took responsibility for the winter a few pages back....I am a true American.

Oh, and all you people talking [expletive] about Tom Skilling will need to answer to me. No one talks [expletive] about Tom Skilling on my watch.

[IMADreamer]

Bald guy/glasses. His brother was the Skilling from the Enron trial, probably still in jail.

He's a legend around here. If you are a weather geek you love him, and many do. He has by far the most detail in his forecast than I have ever seen in my life. But I'm one of those that can't stand all of that giberish - show me a picture of a smiling sun with a 75 under it and that's all I really need or care to know. dreamer probably wants to hear about the packed isobars and jet stream buckles and god knows what else he is talking about, but that's not for me.

Skilling is probably the best in the business, but I don't watch him. I generally don't watch TV guys since i can kind of have my own forecast. Now geeking out with my other weather nerd friends via text message. Oh yeah I'm all over that. You'd want to shoot us all after five minutes.


Changing the subject. Another stellar day here in God's country. However the rain has come. It's been quite loud tonight, the power flashed once, and we've already gotten some heavy rain. Pretty good chance my basement is flooded in the morning.

[jim]

It's a complete mess. Just enough above freezing to melt stuff and make a mess. I parked in a lot this morning at work and couldn't figure out how to get out of it without going ankle deep in water. It's supposed to hang out in the 30's all day, get a quick spike to near 50, and then fall like a rock.

And dreamer - that promise of melted snow for us? Not gonna' happen by a long shot. I haven't measured it in the front yard but it's still well over 6", and once we hit that 50 today and start the plummet I don't see a high temp forecast above freezing for over a week. With no sun today there is no chance we melt the ground cover, let alone the 6' snow mountains all over the place. Next week is just brutally cold - 15 for a high on Wed? Going to the accuweather long range forecast, the next day I see above freezing is March 6.

HS baseball is going to get a late start around here.

[IMADreamer]

Well damn. The snow is all gone here now. Still had about four inches on the ground this morning but temps near 60 and a couple inches of rain took car of that.

Crazy thunderstorm came through. Hail, high wind, visibility at zero. I did a timelapse shot of the afternoon so hopefully I can process it tonight. I gotta run to the cabin first though and make sure I didn't take any damage.