Following Brendan’s Twitter feed today, how come Nirvana’s “Rape Me” song keeps popping into my head?
Casey
Our official forecast calls for 10-15 inches of snow, 15-25 mph winds gusting to 35mph, and treacherous driving conditions.
The NWS advises: “If you are stuck at home, running a generator, and thinking of complaining about our forecast accuracy, we offer the following tip: you can improve your heating efficiency by redirecting generator exhaust into your home!”
Casey
A quick revision: Weather Underground now says we will be getting “ice pellets” tomorrow. WTF is that? Ice pellets? I know what sleet is, but ice pellets? I don’t like the idea of being pelleted by anything.
Oh well. Guess we’ll find out tomorrow.
gahrie
Sunglasses and short sleeves for me tomorrow……
dcl
I believe ice pellets are like sleet only bigger but different from hail. I could be wrong though, you will have to let us know.
Alasdair
gahrie #5 – yup, me, too ,,, (well, rolled up long-sleeve shirt, but it’s the same idea …
Casey #4 – could it be that, during AGW, the term used was hail, so, now that the vocabulary had to change, they are now being called ice pellets ? (grin) Actually, ice pellets are fetal hail, abortifacts of insufficient updrafts during sufficiently but not excessively cold weather … hail occurs when the initial ice pellets keep getting taken back up to altitude by updrafts (as in thunderstorm cells) where additional ice layers get added, accreting onto prior layers, until the hail stone is sufficiently massy that the updraft is no longer strong enough to keep the hail stone air-borne …
Out here it’s 60’s for the rest of the week, warming up to low 70’s for the weekend.
Following Brendan’s Twitter feed today, how come Nirvana’s “Rape Me” song keeps popping into my head?
Our official forecast calls for 10-15 inches of snow, 15-25 mph winds gusting to 35mph, and treacherous driving conditions.
The NWS advises: “If you are stuck at home, running a generator, and thinking of complaining about our forecast accuracy, we offer the following tip: you can improve your heating efficiency by redirecting generator exhaust into your home!”
A quick revision: Weather Underground now says we will be getting “ice pellets” tomorrow. WTF is that? Ice pellets? I know what sleet is, but ice pellets? I don’t like the idea of being pelleted by anything.
Oh well. Guess we’ll find out tomorrow.
Sunglasses and short sleeves for me tomorrow……
I believe ice pellets are like sleet only bigger but different from hail. I could be wrong though, you will have to let us know.
gahrie #5 – yup, me, too ,,, (well, rolled up long-sleeve shirt, but it’s the same idea …
Casey #4 – could it be that, during AGW, the term used was hail, so, now that the vocabulary had to change, they are now being called ice pellets ? (grin) Actually, ice pellets are fetal hail, abortifacts of insufficient updrafts during sufficiently but not excessively cold weather … hail occurs when the initial ice pellets keep getting taken back up to altitude by updrafts (as in thunderstorm cells) where additional ice layers get added, accreting onto prior layers, until the hail stone is sufficiently massy that the updraft is no longer strong enough to keep the hail stone air-borne …