Nor Easter in the PNW

[icehorse]

We're having quite the "nor easter" up here in Puget Sound area. @YmirGF , you hanging in there?

In fact it was soooo windy today that our windsock ripped off of its frame. I know, right?

My wife's first thought was: "you had just one job..."
I was guessing that somewhere in the warranty it said: "warning, not for use in high winds"

 

[Aldrnari]

We're having quite the "nor easter" up here in Puget Sound area. @YmirGF , you hanging in there?

In fact it was soooo windy today that our windsock ripped off of its frame. I know, right?

My wife's first thought was: "you had just one job..."
I was guessing that somewhere in the warranty it said: "warning, not for use in high winds"

God, not only is it windy, but it's cold too... I nearly got frostbitten fingers from stepping outside to get my pizza from the pizza lady today. Tonight it's supposed to dip well below freezing, too.

Did you guys get snow today? Snowed a little by the shipyard area earlier.

 

[Revoltingest]

We're having quite the "nor easter" up here in Puget Sound area. @YmirGF , you hanging in there?

In fact it was soooo windy today that our windsock ripped off of its frame. I know, right?

My wife's first thought was: "you had just one job..."
I was guessing that somewhere in the warranty it said: "warning, not for use in high winds"

Wouldn't it be a "Nor wester" up over there?

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Here in Portland it snowed for a bit, nothing stuck. Thankfully no wind. I walked to my clinic today (only a half mile.)

Wouldn't it be a "Nor wester" up over there?

Ba bum tish.

 

[icehorse]

Wouldn't it be a "Nor wester" up over there?

for those not in the know "nor easter" refers to the wind direction

 

[icehorse]

God, not only is it windy, but it's cold too... I nearly got frostbitten fingers from stepping outside to get my pizza from the pizza lady today. Tonight it's supposed to dip well below freezing, too.

Did you guys get snow today? Snowed a little by the shipyard area earlier.

a few flurries, nothing stuck

 

[Subduction Zone]

a few flurries, nothing stuck

We still have a little in the shade up north here. But the wind storm was not nearly as severe here either.

 

[siti]

for those not in the know "nor easter" refers to the wind direction

Heck - I thought it was some kind of quirky bah humbug scroogy thing like anti-christmas only against the commemoration of the Lord's death rather than his birth...

 

[YmirGF]

We're having quite the "nor easter" up here in Puget Sound area. @YmirGF , you hanging in there?

In fact it was soooo windy today that our windsock ripped off of its frame. I know, right?

My wife's first thought was: "you had just one job..."
I was guessing that somewhere in the warranty it said: "warning, not for use in high winds"

I'm sitting here shivering in below zero (Celcius) weather. Power went out last night at 3 am and came back about 22 hours later. We got 17 Cm(6.8 inches) of wet snow in about 3 hours last night which snapped trees like twigs due to the tremendous weight. You don't realize how much electricity means to our way of life until you have to do without for a longer period of time. Definitely one of the drawbacks living in rural areas. Today was clear and cold and everything looked awesome. It certainly made this frost giant smile. By 4pm I was finished smiling though as I was going through serious Internet deprivation jitters. I'm wonder who I can sue for this.

At least we were spared the high winds though we were under a severe wind warning. Nothing spooks me other than wind. Again, it's a living in a rural area thing.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I'm sitting here shivering in below zero (Celcius) weather. Power went out last night at 3 am and came back about 22 hours later. We got 17 Cm(6.8 inches) of wet snow in about 3 hours last night which snapped trees like twigs due to the tremendous weight. You don't realize how much electricity means to our way of life until you have to do without for a longer period of time. Definitely one of the drawbacks living in rural areas. Today was clear and cold and everything looked awesome. It certainly made this frost giant smile. By 4pm I was finished smiling though as I was going through serious Internet deprivation jitters. I'm wonder who I can sue for this.

At least we were spared the high winds though we were under a severe wind warning. Nothing spooks me other than wind. Again, it's a living in a rural area thing.

Hah! When I grew up and it got below zero, it was really below zero. None of this namby pamby Celsius nonsense. And that was when it was just getting cold. When we had our midwinter thaw, a cruel tradition that almost always occurred followed by eight more weeks of winter, it was short sleeved weather time.

Seriously it would get -20 F almost every winter when I was growing up. Something that I had to convince my brother of by telling him to look it up, when we the "Arctic Express" was national news a few years ago. The change in climate of the state that I was born in convinced me of AGW. Now I am in the Pacific Northwest and people complain if it does freeze.

At any rate the storm seemed to hit Seattle rather hard, but just 30 miles north there was very little in the way of wind. The news showed the wind and it looks like it was aimed right at where I assume icehorse lives. It was an amazing short but intense storm for them.

 

[YmirGF]

Hah! When I grew up and it got below zero, it was really below zero. None of this namby pamby Celsius nonsense. And that was when it was just getting cold. When we had our midwinter thaw, a cruel tradition that almost always occurred followed by eight more weeks of winter, it was short sleeved weather time.

Seriously it would get -20 F almost every winter when I was growing up. Something that I had to convince my brother of by telling him to look it up, when we the "Arctic Express" was national news a few years ago. The change in climate of the state that I was born in convinced me of AGW. Now I am in the Pacific Northwest and people complain if it does freeze.

At any rate the storm seemed to hit Seattle rather hard, but just 30 miles north there was very little in the way of wind. The news showed the wind and it looks like it was aimed right at where I assume icehorse lives. It was an amazing short but intense storm for them.

Yeah, I joked to my sister that our neighbor was probably shoveling in a T-shirt and shorts as he was working in Northern Alberta for the last decade or so.

*continues scanning Caribbean cruse deals online*
Barbados is looking good right now.
Hmmm. A month in Ixtapa. Hmmmm.
Tempting...

 

[sandy whitelinger]

We're having quite the "nor easter" up here in Puget Sound area. @YmirGF , you hanging in there?

In fact it was soooo windy today that our windsock ripped off of its frame. I know, right?

My wife's first thought was: "you had just one job..."
I was guessing that somewhere in the warranty it said: "warning, not for use in high winds"

Must be God's punishment. Repent before he sends a cyclone and a Siberian express at the same time.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Must be God's punishment. Repent before he sends a cyclone and a Siberian express at the same time.

That would be interesting. Our worst storms are of the Pineapple Express variety.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

Hah! When I grew up and it got below zero, it was really below zero. None of this namby pamby Celsius nonsense. And that was when it was just getting cold. When we had our midwinter thaw, a cruel tradition that almost always occurred followed by eight more weeks of winter, it was short sleeved weather time.

Seriously it would get -20 F almost every winter when I was growing up. Something that I had to convince my brother of by telling him to look it up, when we the "Arctic Express" was national news a few years ago. The change in climate of the state that I was born in convinced me of AGW. Now I am in the Pacific Northwest and people complain if it does freeze.

At any rate the storm seemed to hit Seattle rather hard, but just 30 miles north there was very little in the way of wind. The news showed the wind and it looks like it was aimed right at where I assume icehorse lives. It was an amazing short but intense storm for them.

It was only -10° when I took this pick on frozen Honeoye Lake here where I live in NY.

 

[Subduction Zone]

It was only -10° when I took this pick on frozen Honeoye Lake here where I live in NY.

After a thirty year absence I think my body might seize up if suddenly exposed to those temperatures again. The absolute worst weather that I was ever out in was -29 without windchill. I had to take off my glasses because they kept icing up, and then when I blinked my eyelashes would freeze together. Recently I even caught myself saying that it was cold out once when it was in the 20's. I may have lost all of my natural Scandinavian anti-freeze.

 

[sandy whitelinger]

After a thirty year absence I think my body might seize up if suddenly exposed to those temperatures again. The absolute worst weather that I was ever out in was -29 without windchill. I had to take off my glasses because they kept icing up, and then when I blinked my eyelashes would freeze together. Recently I even caught myself saying that it was cold out once when it was in the 20's. I may have lost all of my natural Scandinavian anti-freeze.

You're poor excuse for a Svandanavian. Suck it up buttercup.

 

[Revoltingest]

for those not in the know "nor easter" refers to the wind direction

Well, a ruined joke, but an explanation for the cold.