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Winter Storm Nemo continues it's relentless trek up the East Coast and in from the Great Lakes in a pincer modoement that will result in a storm that will blossom fully in the NY-NE area. Blizzard conditions with 24"-32" of snow will persist across Cape Cod and a narrow corridor from Boston to Providence. A weaker, but still potent ring will encompass Portland Me., inland 50 miles and then down to at least New Haven, if not New York.. The last time Boston faced a storm of this magnitude in the winter was around 2006 when a truly humongous storm dumped fifty inches of snow at Logan Airport. I know, I was there three days after and parkjing spaces were like polar caves. Ahhh, the winter. Better learn to it enjoy it before it enjoys you!

Gad zooks! 3 feet of snow in Hartford, according to news reports from NBC/Weather Channel folks this Saturday morning! Let's hear some wintry tales!

Hurricane conditions on the Cape have eased as Blizzard Nemo starts to move out. There is an astrological (monthly) high tide at 10am and barrier island communities like Hull are being highly urged to leave immediately. In Ma. there are no mandatory evac. orders allowed but you'd have to be pretty stupid to stay (I'm watching waves break on backyards). This has the official label "Blizzard" stamped on it as there were three or more continuous hours of sustained winds over 40mph. Peak gust 75mph. Worcester Ma., reporting 27.5 inches. Hartford and surrounding areas are unofficially reporting 36 plus inches. Most of central, eastern Ma. and southern NH & SE Maine are reporting 18-24". No subway in Boston today, never mind airport. Official Boston total 21.5" as of 8am. Hundreds of cars buried out on the Long Island Expressway. If you live in Tahoe or Steamboat Springs or Vail or other great ski area, they are great cause they get this kind of snow on an almost continual basis. No biggie. In the densely populated NE the power outages become increasingly serious as people need shelter who have electric heat. Currently there are 400,000 homes without power. Time to kick back, do some fine cooking and do a small amount of shoveling, it hasn't stopped blowing and drifting yet.

Nemo was a lamb in central NJ. Posted an album of midnight pictures if anyone cares to see: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200601541306787.2203812.140…

I left New york City where it was Cold Rain & Snow..... in the 20'sI'm in Naples Florida where it's Here Comes Sunshine....in the 80's

Biggest snowstorm of the season due to blow through these parts in about 24 hours. Probably upwards of a foot of snow. One good thing is that snow doesn't last long this time of year. In fact, I'm changing the snowies out on Friday. For better mileage.

Mee-eh, biggest snow of a meager season.

WHERE THE HELL ART THOU?! 14F and blowin' snow here in the cheese belt.

15 degrees this morning with a half foot of snow in the coffee state (Vt., Green Mtn. Brand). March is always problematic. In like a lion, out like a lamb. Better than last year when temps in the 80s heralded in an unseasonably hot summer preceded by a tornado season to be reckoned with. Let's hope all lives are spared the funnel tube menace this year.

Is making a mess east of the Rockies, dumping heavy snow in KC and St. Louis and making a mess in Denver. Think we'd be used to it by now. Tomorrow the east coast gets it. It's been a bold March so far but that won't stop me from getting the snow tires off the car.

@ 3pm today in the northeast.

It was a long end to the winter this year in the northeast but spring and greenery en masse (along with pollen) have sprung! It is a true joy each year to watch people get out about with the business of planting in the garden. Hope you don't have allergies...

to finally have wind chills in the upper 70's and to be able to open the windows and watch the curtains dance with the wind once again. The new leaves along with the seemingly endless shades of green everywhere do wonders for the spirit.

Yes, it does...

Had record warmth yesterday -- 94 degrees Fahrenheit, an all-time record for the State. It might be the last year to experience the state as it was before the last ice age.

And the plants on the deck are beaming beautifully. September is often not thought of as a beach month but it serves that purpose admirably with it's lack of crowds, out-of-season prices and, occasionally, long stretches of beautiful weather. Today would have been a pick day for cropping.

From the Tennessee humidity. Mid 80's this weekend. Can't wait.

The Tri-State area of NH/VT/ME peaked today with it's foliage. Without the usual couple of cold-weather spikes the colors haven't been as vivid this year but the artist's palate, fully unfolded before my eyes, is enough to make me weep for life as it comes to this part of the never-ending cycle.

Typhoon Haiyan LIVE: Philippines mass burials begin as corpses clog roads. Nobody had ever heard of Tacloban, a coastal city on one of the islands that make up the 7000 that comprise the Phillipines. Despite the islands acting as a barrier to the sea, a wall of water piled up with the 190 mph winds as the superstorm piled up a storm surge that completely devastated the flimsy buildings of the city. Scenes of interviews with the survivors were harrowing, people climbing trees to survive and such. Current total is 2200 confirmed dead with many thousands more missing. Although the hurricane season was below normal in the US this is a definite sign of things to come with a one foot rise in sea levels in the last 100 years. The ocean has been absorbing the fossil-burning based heating of the atmosphere but nobody has an idea how long this can go on. Low-lying areas everywhere are in peril. Flood insurance will either not be offered or become so expensive as to be prohibitive. Rebuilding the Jersey Shore may have seemed like the "American Way" but it now seems to be a fool's errand. Better to make a realistic survey of the shoreline and give way to the ever-encroaching sea and make a stand with huge sea-walls. That seems to be the more realistic path. I think it's time or a summer holiday at Hatteras National Seashore before this great area disappears and is reclaimed by the sea. It could have all been so much different if the industrialized companies had compromised with the developing countries in the late 80s, early 90s. Nothing but the karma of environmental degradation due to greed is left to harvest.

For the weather! California has a more than moderate drought on it's hands. Last year there was about 1% and this year it is a 28% area constituting drought in the Sierra Nevada. The rains just aren't getting far enough South to make up the snow pack. Better hope for those Pineapple Expresses to start lining up. (Not the Seth Rogen kind!) This is the life-blood drinking water for SF & LA.

high temps in the single digits and strong winds will make it feel like -20F to -35F for the next couple of days and nights. That damn northwest wind cuts right through the clothes.

Early December has really been cold in much of the USA. KC hasn't seen a day above freezing in almost 2 weeks. The beer in my garage is perilously near the freezing point. Storm Electra may give us out first snow Friday night before she moves east to wallop Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and the northeast. I have a nephew near Bozeman, MT: he sent me a photo of the Gallatin River completely frozen and jammed-up with ice chunks....brrr

It's "Groundhog Day" practically everyday in Los Osos, CA: Sunny, high in the 60's, lows in the 40's. Like San Francisco ( 240 miles to the north), we can get fogged in for weeks in the summer - it's our natural air conditioning. Definitely a climate that suits my clothes!

Even though it's still going to be a sunny day the high is predicted to be only 69 degrees here in Clearwater, Florida. I guess that's why they call us the sunshine state.

Sunny, some clouds, a little breezy in Boca Raton, FL. Awesome!!! I just moved down here from New York.

I predicted that this winter would be a bad one and that has so far come to pass, with a vengeance. In the Dakotas an early blizzard in October killed 75,000 head of cattle. Here in NE winter was slow coming on but 2 days after I got the snow tires on (12/4) the snow started and has come down in typical deep winter fashion, at least a dusting each night and we live in a river valley, not on a mountain ridge. Right now we're in the midst of the worst storm of the season, WS Hercules, which will bring blizzard-like conditions to Boston and the Cape later this evening depositing a uniform 8-12 inches by tomorrow. There would appear to be a pattern of arctic air breakouts that will continue throughout the winter. Many attribute this new winter weather pattern to global warming -- the total of which I count myself them amongst. If winter gives you cold & snow, dress warm and do winter sports. Unfortunately a poor man froze to death in a winter encampment 25 miles to the South. I pray it doesn't happen anywhere else.

It has been a brutal winter here in sand county also. We too have had just enough snow every other day to keep the roads slick and hazardous with seriously low temps. Forecast tonight: 18 below with Monday and Tuesday night forecast at around 20 to 25 below with wind chills to 40 to 50 below. That's just flat out f#@*ing cold! And to think that non-hibernating animals like deer, squirrels, and birds survive those temps is utterly amazing. I don't know how our Canadian friends do it year after year; this furless cat is far enough north. All I know is that lots of layers and a few boilermakers help make the hard parts of winter warmer :) *For those few San Fran folks crazy enough to come to Green Bay this weekend, Sunday will hit a high of three below....bundle up!

Keeping almost warm indoors this morning as the mercury hovers around -6 in Kansas. Stay warm, my friends.

we hit our high today of -12F. Looking forward to tomorrow's radiant glow of 2F above. These wind chills are the coldest I've ever experienced.

If you saw the movie, the weather pattern this year, while not so extreme, is still reminiscent of the major theme of global weather shift. Breakouts of Arctic air from the polar regions due to ocean temps being warmer than normal. I don't think the idea is to study this new polar vortex for the best way for corporations to exploit it, rather, even ice breakers seem powerless to break out scientific research ships from the polar regions. Couple this with the lack of snowfall in the Sierra and you can see a catastrophic winter lining up. I hope Jon Stewart has a glib expert or two in this week to expand on the current evolving crisis...

A town just east of me was featured on the news tonight with a low of -29. It was fun picking my wife up from the auto repair shop after midnight last night. She must have thought it was a swell time for a night out. When she arrived back to the car in the parking lot, it would not start and the hood latch was frozen. Awesome! Will try out the new snowshoes Wednesday if it's not so windy...I love Wisconsin.

How about it's -2 with a wind chill of -9 here in CT.

on behalf of all Wisconsinites, JDSept, we feel your pain.

I was fortunate enough to re-locate to northern California in 1989, but not until I had spent many years in Ohio, where I saw -30, an ore boat frozen in the ice out on Lake Erie, and several ice storms that were remarkably severe. "If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind". Ain't no wind chill like being out on the glare ice of a frozen Great Lake! Of course, after the smoke and ash from the big fires last summer, our currently balmy weather is enjoyable, but I am also having to water the garden so the bees and toads have some moisture - it is really DRY here. It snowed on December 8th here in the foothills of the Sierra, but, yes, honeybees and hummingbirds in January! The manzanita bushes used to bloom in February, but now they are blooming in mid-December, and the daffodils are coming up already. People don't realize that global warming can cause severe snowstorms - it's not a direct effect. If the polar seas thaw out and turn to open water, glacier-building storms will come down from the north, and the mountain passes could possibly be completely closed all year. A little-known fact from NOAA weather satellites is that the very edge of our solar system, out by the De Kuyper belts, is running into electromagnetic radiation from other sources outside our sun's influence, and the normal wavelike energy patterns are bunching up, like the ruffles on a ballerina's dress. This is in turn slightly warming up the entire solar system, and increasing the sun's solar flare activity. Really. A doctor in Aptos, California did a webinar on this last year, it's well-documented, but not well-known. California is having a drought, that's for sure!

New England has been an icicle this year. Alaska has been warmer. Since I can't do winter sports anymore all I want to do it is hibernate. Cabin Fever is at a pitch up in the hills these days. Meanwhile, record low snow packs in the Sierra has the Central Valley crisping our (corp.) veggie crops.... Pensacola, Fl. was under a winter weather advisory yesterday. Acornmaxe's post is right on. The oceans in general have been mitigating the effect of global warming by soaking up the heat, making this years repeated breakout of the polar vortex completely predictable. Human beings will not adapt in time and there will be a mass kill-off sometime in the next 20-30 years. A few will thrive and profit in that post-apocalyptic world. I'm planning on directing my next incarnation to another planet.

Now reporting 15% of normal statewide. Forecast for Truckee is warm and rainy for the next 10 days. Meanwhile, 3300 miles to the East, we're getting lashed by snowstorm after snowstorm. Cape Cod is being battered as well as the North Woods. I love winter, just not continuous winter. The old folks are are taking a battering slipping in the snow, slush and ice - lots of broken hips, arms, ankles. Also fractures and sprains backing up the emergency rooms. They look so apologetic as they seek aid.

of snow today, finally. 5" and I've shoveled 3 times to keep the drive open. Schools and many businesses are closed. The long awaited release of Boulevard Brewing's Chocolate Ale has been postponed (aaargggh) but I still have a good stash of Hopslam!I don't get the Weather Channel anymore, since Directv told Jim Cantorre to go f#%k himself, so I rely on the National Weather Service site for snow news.

so cold that the avg. four foot frost line is now at seven feet. Many townships are requiring people to run their faucets open at a "pencil-wide stream" until told to turn them off. No increase in the water bill but a full charge to unfreeze a frozen lateral. Water mains frozen beyond belief. One more week of continuous 20 below nights. Just hoping the car starts every day and the power doesn't go out. Propane? Customers here had the opportunity to "lock-in" in the fall of '13 for about $1.50/gal. Currently at $3.60/gal. A 400 gal fill up is $1,440! Here in the second lowest per capita income county in WI., that's all but impossible for most. Seven adults and five children recently were rescued when one family member was able to call 911 before they all died. Tried to heat the house with a charcoal grill. Even the police were overcome by the carbon monoxide. That's how cold it is. March is coming. Hopefully there will be some new and warmer conditions to complain about. "My wife, she's so cold, when she opens her legs the furnace comes on." -Rodney Dangerfield

This is the winter America's fat people have been preparing for.

big changes in da Buff....after an extremely dry hot and humid summer, a cold front is moving in on the back end of some heavy rain.... After today, hi in the 60s, lows in the 40s....gotta get out the hoodies and jeans.... Time for some hot cider and a fire to warm them bones....

Stalled high pressure has us sunny, clear and seasonable here in western WI. Highs will be near 60 and lows mid-30's the next 5 days/nights. Fall colors are arriving at their peak as well. I hope to get in one more solid bike trip in the forest (Monday) before the snow flies. The colors should prove to be gorgeous!

Well, it took a while but, fall has set in here in St. Louis. Had to break out the jackets and such. Not much color on the trees yet, but it shouldn't be long now...

Looking at a weather maker coming through tomorrow afternoon into Tuesday. We're due for some significant snowfall having had nearly none this December and mild temps for most of the month. Global weirding anyone? We're looking at 6-12". I have my snow shoes at the ready, of course...

So they got a half inch in DC? More on the way? Ain't really got squat in Western WI. Maybe 5" of snow cover. So much for snowshoeing. Oh well, gonna give it a shot anyway Saturday, maybe check out the ice falls and slap some dinner on the stove in the warming cabin after. Curried Pork Chops w/ Mashed Potatoes and Honey Glazed Green Beans.