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Snow forecast through Wednesday.
A winter storm moving in from the Pacific Ocean was expected to bring a foot or more of snow and 75 mph wind gusts to mountainous areas of California on Tuesday, before aiming for the Midwest and laying down a wintry blanket as it goes, the National Weather Service said.
Even coastal Californians would feel the storm's wrath in the form of high winds and heavy rains, forecasters said.
Weather.com meteorologists said the storm originated in the Gulf of Alaska and was taking a southerly course that would hammer California before the system turns inland and strikes as far northeast as Chicago and the Midwest.
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Mountainous parts of Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura counties in California were under winter storm warnings, and snow could present a danger on mountain highways, including Interstate 15, the weather service said.
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Ice and snow changes our environment, as winter engulfs our world.
Those on the Southern California coast were expected to see see wind-whipped waves. High-surf advisories, predicting waves up to 10 feet, have been issued from Ventura County south through Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.
Up to two inches of rain could fall in some areas as the storm moves through, and high winds and snow are likely to also cause problems inland, in heavily populated Riverside and San Bernardino counties, both of which are under winter storm and high-wind warnings.
After the storm moves through California, it will take a sharp turn and hit the Four Corners states Wednesday and Thursday, bringing widespread snowfall across the mountains of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and parts of Arizona, Weather.com reported.
Weather Channel meteorologist Nick Wiltgen said that as the storm moved eastward, cold air from Canada and moist air from the western Gulf of Mexico would mix to bring snowfalls of up to an inch an hour for several hours, setting the stage for a "major winter storm" over the Plains that could produce double-digit snowfalls along the Interstate 80 corridor. Just to the south, an icy mix could make travel treacherous.
A huge section of the middle of the country is under a winter storm watch, and the Deep South may see severe thunderstorms.
By the time the weather system reaches the Great Lakes, the snowfall was likely to be minor, Wiltgen said.
However some computer models suggested Chicago would get heavy snow late in the week.
The weather service has issued special weather statements and various winter storm advisories for large parts of the western Great Lakes region.
The Northern Plains were expected to remain in the icy grip of arctic winds, with wind chills in many approaching 40 degrees below zero. Up to nine inches of snow was thought possible in places.
Nearly the entire state of Minnesota and large parts of the Dakotas were under a wind-chill advisory.
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I'd save you exaggerated the story. I'm in the Midwest and the forecast here doesn't even call for half an inch. Ah, but sensationalism sells right?
You are right, but winter is almost over and this is likely the worst they are going to have to work with. What happened to the good old 5ft blizzards of yesterday?
Don't know where in the Midwest your are living in...since it does cover many states. I live in Eastern NE and they were predicting this bad boy last week. We have been told to expect 6-12 in on the low end and possibly up to 18 inces, on Thurs. Snow could reach up two inches per hour. Now, these are the same folks that predicted the heavy snows in the New England states last week......and they were wrong how?
I could care less about whether they are wrong or right...I like knowing that there is a potential and be prepared...if necessary.
I wonder what name they'll give this storm...as if that makes it more personnal....
Lets see , there will be little if any beneficial snowfall, my bills will go up again, gas prices will go up, it will close down business's,...hum.. wonder what it should be named..........
there are different parts of the midwest, you know.
Tutt Tutt Putt.
Coyotehunter: Winter storm Q. What a name huh?
Im just waiting for the next stupid idiot to blame this storm on Obama or some other political figure. As this always seems to be the case in the commentaries, LOL.
@king putt- I was ONLY warning of this plus I was just JOKING about this possibility. Notice the LOL? Lighten up!! Jeesh!!
Six to 12 inches and maybe 18 inches in New England, wow, that's historically normal winter weather for February in New England, and even in the southern Great Lakes too. Six to 12 inches in the Cascades only amounts to a light dusting on a historical basis too.
Thirty or more years ago I saw more than 5 feet of snow overnight in Montana, and 37 years ago in 1976 I saw the same amount of snow overnight 15 miles west of Kalamazoo, MI too. Remember the January, 1978 blizzard in Cleveland, OH where the eastern suburbs got 3 feet of snow over ice with 60 mph wind gusts and a standing air temperature of -15F? In fact, during that storm a semi got buried in a snow drift out on US 30 that was so deep that the day after the storm a snowmobile rode right over the truck without noticing it!!!
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19780201&id=We4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9-0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=981,198488
What's with naming run-of-the mill average winter storms anyway? Why not have some fun and let's try to name some of our historic monster winter storms instead? For instance, the 1913 blizzard in the Great Lakes that sank 8 different Great Lakes iron ore freighters without a single survivor and sank 30 more ships on top of those lost without a trace has been called the Great White Hurricane for the last century. What name would we give to it? Maybe storm "Z" or Zeus, King of the Gods, to indicate 100%, a measure that all other winter storms get to rate as a percentage of?
I want to name the 1978 Great Cleveland Blizzard "Brutus" and I'll give it a 91 on the Zeus scale.
I would probably give the big New England storm of a couple of weeks ago a similar number too.
There was also a separate big New England blizzard in February of 1978 that might rate around 90 points too.
While I might give the big Paw Paw, MI blizzard of 1976 a score of maybe 92, as drifts reached 2nd floor windows.
How about the Christmas Blizzard of 1982 in Denver, with up to 3 feet of snow, or the one just before Christmas of 2006, also with 3 feet of snow, or the one in March of 2003, also with 3 feet of snow?
And that as yet unnamed snow storm the winter of 1980-81 that I personally witnessed at the old Husky truck stop in St. Regis, MT, where when I woke-up in the morning and wanted to get out of the truck, I had to push snow with the door of a cabover truck tractor? How does someone rate 6 feet of standing snow from a single storm overnight?
My guess is that if we have to name all of the historic bad snowstorms going back for a century, we will run out of names and then we will have to make-up some more!
One way to conserve on snowstorm names would be to not name storms that have no reason to be named, as a single storm with only 6-12 inches of snow forecast for New England wouldn't even rate a score of 50 points on the scale that megastorm Zeus stands at the top of.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/stm_1913.php
Which is not to be confused with the other Great White Hurricane of 1888 either!
http://www.celebrateboston.com/disasters/blizzard-of-1888.htm
What about the Great Thanksgiving Blizzard of 1950, with 33 inches of standing snow and drifts of up to 15 feet high in northeastern Ohio? How about Winter Storm Bertha, as in Big Bertha?
http://ww2.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/swio/pages/content/1950_thanksgivingStorm.htm
Oh, I almost forgot, than name is already taken!
Gee, imagine that, it's winter and it's snowing.
Mankind continues to be punished for the abuse of the environment and leading lives of debauchery!
No, seriously, we could use a good snow to make up for the lack of ground water in our area. Just not at the expense of safety.
This is truly an amazing phenomenon! Winter storms have, until recently exposed by mass media, been extremely rare in the winter. What we are witnessing is a global event on an epic scale. Winter storms in the winter...who would have thought we'd ever see the day?
This is truly an amazing phenomenon! Winter storms have, until recently exposed by mass media, been extremely rare in the winter. What we are witnessing is a global event on an epic scale. Winter storms in the winter...who would have thought we'd ever see the day?
I realize that a major snowfall is annoying to the folks affected in the Midwest, a large area as someone observed and "Midwest" means different things to different people, but since most of the Midwest, however defined, is in the midst of a vicious drought, isn't there a significant upside here? Or is the upside so trivial as to be silly? Serious question.
It is 75 in Sarasota today with lows in the 60s at night. We expect it to be in the 80s by Friday and the rest of the weekend. Sandals are recommended to keep from burning feet.
Don Giacomo--winter is almost over?? where do you live?
yeah i'm in Socal and i observed a few rain drops this morning. WARNING WARNING!
Danger, Will Robinson, danger!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG0ochx16Dg
"winter wallop?"
methinks you doth exaggerate
But, but ..... CA could get up to 2 inches of rain.
2" omg....honey get the kids in the boat quick, and grab the potato chips.
they hyped so many storms to advance their diversionary agenda they are running out of "shocking" descriptive wording for their headlines.
And just what "diversionary agenda" would that be? and who, exactly are "they?"
In 76 we got a wopper of a snow strorm which they didn't forcast.for the rest of the yaer every time it got
cloudy they forcast 6 to 10 inchs
And now for our update from the Great Plains......Very windy today with blowing snow and hazardous wind conditions. A chance of snowfall late tonight-early morning hours could be a couple inches to a foot depending on which way the storm moves according to our computer models. Stay tuned for further updates......So how did I do, am I hired? Not quite as pretty as the Barbie Dolls but just as informative.
gm stonepipe
Why limit yourself to regional weather reporting? Go national:
"Do you want to know what the weather's like? Look out your damn window."
And a grand morning to you sir. Liked your post on the other story sounds like you have a lucky son-in-law.
GM Stonepipe, Bill, S.P.,
59 at 2:00 yesterday, dropped 10 degrees an hour from there. by 5 we had rain to snow, its 9 out there now. but the snow was just a dusting. this is a new one that hasn't gotten here yet. But i stocked up on beer yesterday so....
Hello Scooter, &King- have a good night.
"by the time it reaches the Great Lakes, the snowfall is expected to be minor."
Cool! That means we will only get a foot or so.
This Great Lakes State started out with sunny and in the 40's yesterday. Rain and high winds overnight. Temp. plummeted, highways are ice rinks, schools closing, businesses delaying, cars in ditch, crashes everywhere, and anywhere from a foot to 6-8 inches of snow inland predicted between today and tomorrow and into Thursday. A foot or better by the lakeshore. Whiteouts and heavy snow are bad enough, but it's the ICE underneath that is treacherous.
And meanwhile, even with advance warning, most people will find themselves unprepared.
But don't ya'll worry, us WORKING conservatives will bail your sorry asses out...AGAIN!
not in the Midwest, unless they are stupid, or in the "land of Lincoln".. ....yet i regress.......
i have a feeling nobody turns to you for help
GM Scooter
Seems someone in Tampa does not appreciate your humor! Wonder what liquid was poured on their cornflakes in sunny Tampa today?
i wasn't referring to GM. i was referring to terry, who sounds like quite a pleasant and empathetic chap
That's OK Tampa Bay Rays 1
when you make a comment and don't address "To Whom It May Concern", the messsage can be confused as to "who" you refer and taken out of context.
My question is: did you have cornflakes this morning? and i hope the correct liquid was poured on them! LOL Have a Good day.
King Putt - GM to you sir! LOL
Denver should avoid the heavy stuff by about a hundred miles more or less, depending upon where the low center and upslope flow sets up...we'll see.
They should have shot the groundhog. Weather sucks since it did it's thing.
I can hear Brian Williams on this evening's news already. "Good evening and let's get right to it!!! There's a MAJOR STORM brewing in the Pacific Ocean this evening just off the coast of California that will, through the course of it's travels IMPACT OVER 250,000,000 AMERICANS over the next several days with MANY PEOPLE being SLAMMED with SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW and couple that with DANGEROUS, HIGH WINDS....Oooooo The Humanity!!!!! People...do NOT take this HYPER-SENSATIONALISM LIGHTLY!!! Now let's go to Mike Seidell from the Weather Channel, who is standing at GROUND ZERO where the storm is expected to LAY WASTE in a small, rural town in Iowa....Mike?" "Hey, thanks and good evening, Brian. Yes, this storm is going to make MEGA-MONSTER SUPER SNOWSTORM NEMO look like a walk in the park!!!! Matter of fact, I've decided already to name this INCREDIBLE, DEADLY, MAGNANAMOUS, BIGGER MONSTER SNOW STORM - "FROSTY!" People no doubt will be DYING all along this AMAZING STORM'S DEADLY TRACK!!!"
And now...a word from our sponsors.... *Sheeeeeszch!!!* I guess I better buy a little gas for the snow blower and some cocoa. It is WINTER, after all.
And what ever happed to the flu outbreak they claim every year.
This damned Global Warming is ravaging everything. Come on Al (Gore) save us undeserving, non-believing mortals.
I'm kind of surprized that in the winter months it isn't called Global Cooling. That way they'd always be right. Makes sense to me, how about it Liberals, want to play this game too ?
I know its increasingly hard to keep up with Obamaspeak, but when "Global Warming" was taking heat for its false logic and refuted by most it was changed to "Climate Change"....
You are absolutely right, Climate Change, can cover any weather anomaly and that way the Liberals don't have to lie quite so much. Now it's all covered with just one whopper. And to think that I, for one, believe the Liberals to be idiots.
I wonder how Al's doing selling his "carbon credits"? Carbon credits, isn't that kind of like trying to un-ring the bell ?
And I see some people are still confused about the difference between weather and climate.
Severed Head in a Jar,
Why don't you give us a little dissertation on what you believe to be the differences, because if you look weather / climate up in the dictionary, they are pretty much the same thing. You look up weather, it talks about climate, you look up climate, it talks about weather.
I'm sure with your advanced degree in meteorology, which I assume you must have, right, you can easily persuade me and make me see the light. You probably attended the Al Gore advanced studies on hypocrisy and the selling of carbon credits. Don't be shy now, you did didn't you ?
To those in the path of the storm, be prepared and stay safe. Looks like some had better "hatten' down the batches", since, by golly, the media would like us to believe that some of us in this country have never experienced winter or bad weather at all, and that "every severe storm is the result of the human-induced climate anomaly" (I said that in my best British accent in case you didn't hear it clearly). I say it is a long-fabled but never proven anomaly, but what do I know, I'm just a denier.
I live in Utah and more snow is always welcome here to keep our lakes and reservours full. Water in the west here is always a little more of a preciuos resource. BRING IT ON MOTHER NATURE!!!
6-12 inches WOAH, this gonna be a kick-ass dusting
Where EXACTLY is "the midwest"?
Why does everyone want to be part of "the midwest"? Can anyone figure this out?
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And yet there will still be people denying the global warming effect.
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Biden in 2016.
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I'm actually GLAD we are getting storms. Thats where we get our water from after all. We should remember that when your making your next pot of coffee or need to take that shower.
I live in Flagstaff az and a little storm like this i call a AZ. s— _t blizzard .
Im sick of it just being cold, it better snow!!!!!!
WOW! We get to comment on an article about a storm but on issues that are important MSN doesn't give us the option?
Sooooo........at least MSN IS covering weather that doesn't involve the east coast - seems that's all we hear about, what the weather is doing on the east coast, the rest of the country usually doesn't exist.
Someone else noticed that we usually only hear about storms on the east coast..... We have had blizzards and below zero temps for weeks now and nary a word.... Our storms don't even get names.... I heard someone on the Weather Channel say that is because people in ND and a few other states are used to it...
Well, Duh...
I was watching that twit Diane the slayer last night, love to hear the lame stream media defend barry and try to talk us into another war. Well guess what Syria is a threat to the US of A, boy I am worried, we better send in the troops. But anyway I listen to some liberal progressive college prof try to explain all the snow, but blame it on Man Made Global Warming. See what is going to happen is we are going to get less storms but more snow, I sure sign at least in his sick demented liberal progressive mind is a sure sign of MMGW.
Funny, I just read an article the other daywhich made the claim that the heavy snow in the NE along with no snow in the Midwest was proof of climate change, I assume heavy snow in the Midwest will also be proof of climate change, and I expect me drinking my third cup of coffee will also be proof of climate change. Oh yeah, why shouldn't we expect the climate to change? Our planet, solar system and galaxy experience changes.
I'd like to ask a question: What are the implications, if any, of the fact that every single weather event of any significance, summer or winter, is now being named. I ask because I believe homeowners' insurance companies limit their liabilities when damage occurs to your home from a named storm. For instance, here in Florida, there are insurance companies that include the proviso that if your home is damaged due to a named storm or hurricane, the deductible on your policy changes dramatically.
We had a LOT more snow back when I was a toddler! It came up to my shoulders--it's less now because of global warming------
Maybe because you were only 24 inchs tall.
A blizzard? Damn that global warming!
When our temps. are 15 and 20 below zero, it is really hard to listen to some idiot tell us about global warming. Hey, global warming freaks, we are on this globe too...
Its global warming! Or,Its George Bushs fault! People who own guns,they caused it! Actually im causing it because i cleaned the ice off the driveway.