Rant; Winter 2013/14

[StL Dan]

3-6" headed to southwestern KC metro. 6-12" northern metro and into northern MO.

sweet

[Jocephus]

certainly won't compete with what yer getting jim but wichita is expected to get a new "wintry mix" and "snow" storm on saturday evening and into sunday...though can't tell how much accumulation we will actually be getting. and to think we had like mid 50's last weekend.

[jim]

Looks worse south. For once St. Louis is getting it worse than us. Central Illinois as well.

[stlouie_lipp]

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.

March 1st. I took this pic today at DeKalb's girls softball field. When is HS baseball supposed to start? I'm thinking it will start late.

[cardsfansince82]

6-10 inches of snow tonight into tomorrow afternoon. I knew my "winter is finally over" celebration a few weeks ago was premature.

[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.

March 1st. I took this pic today at DeKalb's girls softball field. When is HS baseball supposed to start? I'm thinking it will start late.

First day of practice was Saturday. HS start earlier and earlier, when I played we didn't start games until the last weekend of March, now they start before Mar 15 in some cases. In fact my Soph year we had a terrible winter (78/79), and the snow was piled up until late March and we had a huge late April snowstorm that dumped almost a foot of snow on Central Illinois. I am not kidding we had something like a 15 game HS season, it was awful.

[jim]

Just shoveled. So sick of it. It's so frustrating because I just don't know where to put it. Up by my garage the driveway widens out and hugs my neighbors property line - about 3' between the edge of the drive and his property. There are big bushes like 8 feet tall in that area, and he has a 4' chain link fence. The drifts there ae 5'+ tall, and have been most of the winter. When I dump snow on top of them it just all comes back down, so i have to throw it pretty far to get it over the damn snow drift.

It just sucks.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

They're calling for an all time record low ever in the month of march going back to the beginning of known history in little rock. Lowest march temp known. Awesome. The good news is the record might not last long as it could be broken tomorrow.

[jim]

I just got back from an errand and I believe that. My god is it cold. This would be shockingly cold for January. This is car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and you don't have your coat with you then you die cold.

[tlombard]

A guy I went to HS with is the superintendent of Bell City Schools and he posted on Facebook that today was supposed to be the first day of HS baseball season. I don't think they'll be having much of a season this year.