Watches Halifax Metro and Halifax County West 12:18 AM AST Wednesday 18 February 2009 Winter storm watch for Halifax Metro and Halifax County West issued This is an alert to the potential development of dangerous winter weather conditions in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements. A low pressure system south of the Great Lakes will track eastward towards the Maritimes today. The low will move into the gulf of Maine on Thursday. A frontal system associated with this low will move over Nova Scotia late in the day. Snow and strong southeast winds with gusts up to 80 km/h are forecast to spread from west to east across the regions during the day. Snow will change to ice pellets with risk of freezing rain then to rain over southwestern regions in the evening. Snowfall amounts of 10 centimetres are predicted except local amounts up to 15 centimetres. Treacherous travelling conditions are likely with this kind of wintery weather situation.
i think thurs school will be canceled, it will snow (flurries, maybe 5cm) and then turn to rain...sun will be out by afternoon oh.. and goodie will probably come out of the closet with 17 the same day...
Snowfall prediction from: http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?blog=anderson&partner=accuweather Purple: 15-30 cm Green: 8-15 cm (I am thinking somewhere around 8-13 cm in Halifax) Gold:2-8 cm
I'm getting a VPN connection HOPEFULLY today so if that's the case I can call in on days like that and work from home
I love how this map of all the Atlantic provinces shows little old "Dayton". I'm sure it's because we have a shithole weather station there, I think, but Dayton is the size of a football field... maybe.
Wirelessly posted (LG9100/1.0 UP.Browser/6.2.3.9 (GUI) MMP/2.0 UP.Link/6.2.3.22.0) What are these mythical things called snow days? Surely they are a myth. It'll likely be fine when I leave for work in the morning and be a total disaster on my way home from work tomorrow.
Watches Halifax Metro and Halifax County West 3:55 PM AST Wednesday 18 February 2009 Winter storm watch for Halifax Metro and Halifax County West continued This is an alert to the potential development of dangerous winter weather conditions in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements. A low pressure system just south of the Great Lakes will track towards the Maritimes tonight. Snow ahead of this system is expected to begin early Thursday morning over extreme southwest regions to eventually reach Cape Breton late in the day. Strong southeast winds with gusts up to 80 km/h are forecast to spread from west to east across the regions during the day. Those easterly winds are expected to gust up to 100 km/h over northern Cape Breton from Margaree Harbour to Bay St Lawrence by late Thursday evening. Snowfall amounts with this system are still expected to be in the 10 to 15 cm range. Treacherous travelling conditions are likely with this kind of wintery weather situation.
What sucks is that we'll have to go out at midnight and shovel before the ice/rain comes (unless you want a rink for a front yard).
Definitely, get it, before it gets you. Half the time if you don't see snow plows out there immediately these days, most are doing their best to get to the snow until just before the rain starts. Getting as close to bare pavement/asphalt and then getting a shitpile of salt down before that suckyassed rain draws up the frost is key, lots of salt will get washed away, but it does help reduce the ice.
That's what it was like last storm....I was like, "where are the plows??" and just before the snow switched to rain, they showed up.
Unfortunately we are only just figuring this out this year as a strategy as we haven't had a year like this in some time, where the majority of the time it rains after the snow. Past years, the rain came before the snow and the salt runs came first. This was also a bitch, but at least it made plowing easier with already having salt down. It is definitely more expensive for the customers/city to salt after these events now, as more salt is required.
Watches Halifax Metro and Halifax County West 4:31 AM AST Thursday 19 February 2009 Winter storm watch for Halifax Metro and Halifax County West continued This is an alert to the potential development of dangerous winter weather conditions in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements. A complex low pressure system will approach the region from the west today. Snow ahead of this system is expected to begin early this morning over extreme southwest regions and into Cape Breton this evening. Strong easterly winds with gusts up to 80 km/h are forecast to spread from west to east across the region during the day today giving a period of blowing and drifting snow. Those easterly winds are expected to gust up to 130 km/h over northern Cape Breton from Margaree Harbour to Bay St Lawrence tonight. Snowfall amounts with this system are expected to be in the 10 to 15 centimetres range.
