2010-02-21, 04:47 AM | #1 |
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Holy snow!
Went driving around town tonight, and I got a couple pics. I took a friend home from over by UNR down off of Skyline south of Plumb. All of this snow is a reminder of why I call my car "the snowplow". Here are the pics:
Here's my car after I dropped him off, and after I cleared the snow off of my headlights and foglights Here's my car after getting gas at Raley's on Mae Anne and Robb Here's my car in the garage when I got home I was having a lot of fun, but the snow kept packing in my wheel wells, and I couldn't turn my wheel more than half of a turn before I got home. |
2010-02-21, 07:55 AM | #2 |
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Damn I don't even want to look outside!!!! I think I'm sick I can't work *cough cough* ha
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2010-02-21, 07:57 AM | #3 |
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Yeah, that snow came quietly in the middle of the night. It was barely a light dusting down in the south until I woke up this morning to a full 6 inches.
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2010-02-21, 08:22 AM | #4 |
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I just read on the Weather Channel app on my phone that NW Reno got 14" and I believe it. I just had to go pick up my gf and take her to work because she got stuck. She said, "I keep waiting for your car to stop like mine does, but it just goes." That about made my day.
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2010-02-21, 08:56 AM | #5 |
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Carrie and I just shoveled the driveway so I can take the FJ out for some fun (and a store run)1' of untouched fresh snow everywhere = fun driving this morning. We measured 12"!!! in Spanish Springs... When I went to bed last night it was snowing heavily but I thought it would let up. Wow! Funny thing, yesterday I was doing yard work in shorts and a tshirt in the morning, you can see my wheelbarrow where I left it, oops...
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2010-02-21, 09:02 AM | #6 |
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Up to 8 inches in the south now. Wowzers.
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2010-02-21, 09:44 AM | #7 |
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14in-16in here off of Stone Valley and Mae Anne.
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2010-02-21, 09:58 AM | #8 |
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2" in Truckee.......doh!
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2010-02-21, 10:45 AM | #9 |
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What happened to 2-3" in Stead.
Even on the 11 'oclock news last night they were only saying I'd get 6" at the most.
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2010-02-21, 10:46 AM | #10 |
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There's definitely a foot here in NW reno. I looked outside this morning and, if I could see myself, probably went bugeyed. lol
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2010-02-21, 10:59 AM | #11 |
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I just measured 20"
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2010-02-21, 11:09 AM | #12 |
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The darn NOAA radar is down, I am very curious to see if this is "lake effect" snow from the Pyramid side. Here in the NW, we have over a foot for sure, if not 1.5ft+. Down in Carson on the west side, they only have an inch or so, and usually they get buried there if the storm is from the west.
Based on Matt's comments from SS, the 2" comment from Truckee, the total miss on the forecast, and the prevailing wind directions yesterday, I am hypothesizing that this could be "lake effect" from the east side, driven by the southern "Tonopah Low" that is currently centered over the Caliente/Panaca/Modena region. A rather unusual event, if so, to get this much out of it. Perfect combination of air mass characteristics.
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2010-02-21, 11:15 AM | #13 |
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It seems to be moving over us in a NW to SE direction though...and has been all night and morning. Strange.
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We are still getting huge flakes in the NW.
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2010-02-21, 11:34 AM | #16 |
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Yeah, the GOES West infrared shows at least general circulation in the NW->SE direction, but gives no clues as to precip occuring anywhere near here. The visible is pretty crazy.
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2010-02-21, 11:36 AM | #17 |
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19" when I shoveled out the Forester this morning, Damn that car is fun in the snow.
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2010-02-21, 11:53 AM | #18 |
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I really wanted to go skiing to day, but after shoveling I was not feeling it.
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2010-02-21, 12:06 PM | #19 |
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Wow, good thing I am not a weatherman, they just got the radar image back, and it is this super-narrow stream W->E over the crest between Honey Lake and Lake Tahoe! Cool!
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?r...01111&loop=yes
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I'm sorry to hear that.
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2010-02-21, 04:07 PM | #21 |
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The funny thing is 80 has been open all night/day with no controls. Just checking trucks on both sides. Most city streets are pretty good too except of course my neighborhood.
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2010-02-21, 04:13 PM | #22 |
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And everybody else in northwest.
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2010-02-21, 04:20 PM | #23 |
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I don't think it has stopped snowing here all day.
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2010-02-21, 04:33 PM | #24 |
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Same here, but if you get it cleared down to concrete or pavement, it appears to melt faster than it falls. The problem was clearing that first foot plus. My huge driveway took hours. I need an exhausted emoticon.
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2010-02-21, 04:44 PM | #25 |
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I lucked out enough that the streets were warm enough down here and the snow light enough that even though it's been snowing all day today, the streets are clear and the amount of snow on the ground is actually lower now than it was this morning.
'Course, if it snows through the night again, tomorrow I may not be so lucky. Ugh... I'm sick of winter. Like permanently sick of it. I want to move to AZ.
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