[Contest] The Worst Weather

evilmike

evilmike

Think your weather is bad? Then tell us about it!

Post a description of how bad your weather is to this thread. It can be about how miserable your weather has been this winter or how rotten your weather is all the time. The description must be of the area in which you are currently residing. The winner is the person with the most effective post. The deadline for entries is midnight (EDT), March 7th. Results will be announced March 10th.

The prize is small, tangible, and has no monetary value. Bragging rights are also included.

The contest will be judged by a group of forumites who can't possibly win this contest -- @WasabiPoptart , @bhamv3, and myself. (@Cheesy1 has also been invited to judge but has not responded as of yet.) Want to be a judge? You must be willing to contribute to the prize pool and live in an area with generally nice weather. (Send me a PM.)
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I'd just like to point out that I live in an area with dormant volcanoes, annual typhoons, and a monsoon season that makes scuba gear a good investment. I'd crush this competition if I was allowed to enter. :D

(Although, yes, when it's nice in Taiwan, it really is quite nice)
 
evilmike

evilmike

bhamv3 said:
I'd just like to point out that I live in an area with dormant volcanoes, annual typhoons, and a monsoon season that makes scuba gear a good investment. I'd crush this competition if I was allowed to enter. :D

(Although, yes, when it's nice in Taiwan, it really is quite nice)
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Yeah... I think that, until your weather starts trying to kill you, you're not eligible to enter the contest. :)
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

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Note, this is the same type of fog that we had a few years ago that caused a 20 car pileup and killed 4 people on the bridge between MN and WI.

This is also on the back of receiving a total of about 30 inches of snow in the last 2 months.
 
Shakey

Shakey

I didn't take into account the wind chill at all, but I'll just post some temperature related numbers. I'm sure other areas have had it worse. I got all my info from here.

Since December 1st, 80 days so far, we've had:
61 of those days started below 0 degrees F
26 of those days started below -20 F
12 of those days never got above 0 F
75 of those days never got above 32 F
 
Dave

Dave

Staff member
Sure, have a contest like this right when Omaha is starting to warm up and be livable.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

We're suffering the Year Without Winter - it hasn't frozen yet. You may think this is pleasant, but as we all know, the longest summers are followed by the longest and darkest winters. This is where the White Walkers will set out from.

But no, this year I'm afraid I can't compete, unless you include "the mosquitoes! They're all STILL ALIVE!" as a reason to hate the weather.
 
Dei

Dei

Bubble181 said:
We're suffering the Year Without Winter - it hasn't frozen yet. You may think this is pleasant, but as we all know, the longest summers are followed by the longest and darkest winters. This is where the White Walkers will set out from. But no, this year I'm afraid I can't compete, unless you include "the mosquitoes! They're all STILL ALIVE!" as a reason to hate the weather.
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I think that's a good reason to hate the weather. After we had massive flooding in September, the little buggers started breeding again and we had 2 extra months of dealing with them and I was ready to insecticide bomb the whole state, and all the people who bitch about the city spraying with them.
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

This was the end of my driveway yesterday afternoon:



Might be a bit difficult to judge height, but that snow is piled over 7 feet high. When I got home, there was a 4 foot high wall preventing me from accessing my driveway. There is nowhere else to put snow.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Piotyr said:
There is nowhere else to put snow.
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The city sent around dump trucks and end-loaders yesterday to pick up the 7+ foot snow piled next to the driveways and haul it away.
Then it snowed another 6" last night.

Note: If I do enter this contest, this is not my entry.

--Patrick
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

We got another inches of snow this morning. Our total is creeping close to 60" so far this winter. Tomorrow, we're supposed to see temps above 40F for the first time since January! And then maybe 50 F on Friday!.... and then next week it's supposed to drop again with more snow on the way.
EDIT: Almost forgot: our state ran out of road salt last week. We've had blizzards in April in my lifetime, so we are most likely not close to done with the snow.

We're a mid-Atlantic state. Our weather isn't supposed to be like this, or not this extreme, in any case.

But at least we have warm, wonderful summers! Without any major stor.... oh, wait.

SUPERSTORM SANDY. (And Lesser Hurricane Irene.)

And when we're not getting knocked over by hurricanes, we get infestations of these pests:
 
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WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

The only thing they don't mention is how bad the vog (volcanic haze) has been in the last week and will be thru Thursday. My daughter's got an awful cough from it. Kona low is yuck for that and humidity. But it's not snow.

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I don't really wish bad weather for anyone, but in this case may the worst win! :)
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

The general pattern this month: Snows really bad, next day most of it melts, next day nice and clear, next day it rains, repeat. Its either really tough to shovel, or really wet and slippery.
 
Shakey

Shakey

Piotyr said:
This was the end of my driveway yesterday afternoon:



Might be a bit difficult to judge height, but that snow is piled over 7 feet high. When I got home, there was a 4 foot high wall preventing me from accessing my driveway. There is nowhere else to put snow.
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That's why you need a tractor! I've got another pile the same size.

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I like big piles of snow though, they're fun to play in. When my niece, nephew, and fiancee's daughter were here we all we went digging in them. We made tunnels and rooms and slides inside of the pile. The best was this quote I overheard. "It's just like minecraft, except for real!"
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Oh yeah. Prime playtime was growing up in a city that had its own ice arena. The snow would pile up in the public park behind it anyway, and then the zamboni would come out and dump more snow on top of that? Good times.

--Patrick
 
General Specific

General Specific

I live in South Carolina. Three weeks ago, it snowed. Then it warmed up and was average (~60F). Then a week ago, we had more snow and ice. This week it is going to break 80 and possibly set record highs. Finally, Saturday, March 1st, some forecast models are calling for more ice/sleet.

If you live somewhere cold and it stays cold, you get used to it after a bit and know how to deal with it. But to have the temperatures seesaw back & forth like that is just stupid. Especially in an area like this where we do not have the infrastructure to handle cold weather. Which is why if it snows just a bit, we shut everything down.
 
strawman

strawman

So we are already up to 78" of seasonal snowfall, breaking most records, and the longest period of continuous snow on the ground on record.

Today we wake to a nice day, just below freezing. Heading into work we get dumped on with two inches of snow in an hour period.

This snow includes thunder and lightning, btw. First time I've ever experienced it. A bit surreal.

However, this will turn to rain and slush over the day, and we are going to end up with the worst possible conditions tonight as the slush turns to solid ice.

Worst weather? Maybe not. Oddest weather?

Ayup.
 
Tress

Tress

Our rainfall is at 15% of what it should be. There is discussion of rigid water use rationing and restrictions. Farmers can't keep their crops watered properly. The rivers are literally drying up. A lake near my house has almost completely evaporated and been filled with soil.
 
strawman

strawman

Celt Z said:
They've been calling that "thunder snow" around here. It's happened a few times in recent years, and it is weeeeeeeird.
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Not as much fun while driving in the freeway, I assure you. Normal thunderstorms flash in the peripheral vision, but this causes all the snow to be bright white, so it was a very brief white out where I couldn't see anything. While on the freeway. Going 80.

People slowed down after the first one.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

stienman said:
Not as much fun while driving in the freeway, I assure you. Normal thunderstorms flash in the peripheral vision, but this causes all the snow to be bright white, so it was a very brief white out where I couldn't see anything. While on the freeway. Going 80. People slowed down after the first one.
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Was at work through the entire thundersnow incident (though I heard about it from coworkers, etc.), getting ready to climb into my car and go home. We shall see what the evening brings.

--Patrick
 
strawman

strawman

The evening brought several hundred pounds of water laden slush to my driveway when the plows went through. Trying to cast 30 pound shovel fulls of slush on top of the existing 6 foot piles of snow was not as fun as I had hoped.

But I got it and the slushy snow from the morning cleared and that will prevent the layer of freezing ice I'd otherwise expect overnight.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I also dug a channel through the plow scree to allow the driveway to drain to the street before it all freezes over.

Tomorrow morning is going to be SO much fun on the way to work.

--Patrick
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Yesterday afternoon through this morning, everything was shut down, including the plows. I took my dog out this morning and he ended up diving into snow up to his head.
 
Shakey

Shakey

Luckily most of the storm skirted past us. We did get plenty of ice yesterday, but not nearly as bad as some got.
 
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