The Weather Thread

[Geowhizzer]

It's funny to watch the weather forecasters down here talk excitedly about "wind chill."

If it ever snows down here (SW Florida), it's a sign that climate change has gone past the point of no return.  It's never officially happened in either Fort Myers or Naples since records have been kept.

I did have frost on my windshield twice last week, so there's that...

[PhillyPhreak54]

Update on Icemageddon in treacherous Houston Texas...

It started raining about 8am. That's it.

You can hear the news people's boners deflating.

However...90% of the businesses are closed. Schools are closed. The city looks like a ghost town.

lololol

[Sgt PSN]

My sisters school in Austin was closed Fri and yesterday because they got a light dusting of snow. Apparently you can't just shoot it and make it go away.

I don't want to hear another Texan talk about how bad ass Texans are. Hoydas.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-74.55,37.24,3000

Coastal Low just showed up. 

[SunMo]

holy shtein, what an awesome map.

what's the coastal low, the hurricane looking thing down by georgia?

[Seabiscuit36]

Yup, Thing is pretty awesome as you can drag and zoom all over the earth.  It just gives you an idea of where the swarm of wind are.  It'd be pretty awesome to look at during hurricanes and whatnot. 

[SunMo]

smoke a bowl and you'd probably watch that for half a day

[Tomahawk]

i dont care where you live....icy roads are not to be trifiled with....its places that freak out over an inch of snow that need to be obliterated

I turn the traction control off to better enjoy the icy roads

[ice grillin you]

when im feeling frisky i luge to work

[Dillen]

Maybe 5 years ago, it had been below freezing for awhile and finally started to snow. I'm driving in the left lane of a 45 mph road, usually heavy traffic, with cars coming from the opposite direction. There's a car next to me in the right lane, I hit an ice patch and start fishtailing, front of my car was maybe a foot away from smashing into his. From what I can remember (no idea if this is actually true, I might just have tricked my mind into believing it after the fact), I looked at the traffic from the opposite side and saw the oncoming cars were not very close, so I pumped the brakes and swung a hard left, slid sideways across all lanes of traffic and wound up doing a perfect 180 stopped on the shoulder of the opposite side of the road.

[SunMo]

actually what happened is you hit oncoming traffic and you're dead.  this is hell, welcome.

[Rome]

Lies.  If this was hell there'd be more puns.

[Don Ho]

smoke a bowl and you'd probably watch that for half a day

HA!

[Diomedes]

holy shtein, what an awesome map.

seconded.

best thing I've seen on the innertubes in a while

[MDS]

a school district around here canceled basketball games....basketball....because it was relatively cold out.