Up here in the PNW my forecasts are about as accurate as the weatherman’s, but when I spent my winters in southern Texas they could predict the weather two weeks in advance and be spot on.
On Thursday, the forecast was for possible snow showers.
On Friday, the forecast was snow showers with 1-2 inch accumulation.
On Saturday, the forecast was 3-4 inches of accumulation.
On Sunday, we got 14 inches of snow in Southeast Virginia.
Those pesky eastern coastal storms!
It is especially hard to predict the break lines for the snow.
Saucy got 14 inches in SE VA, it snowed in Richmond, (Central VA), but we got nothing in Northern VA as the storm just far enough off the coast to clobber everyone on the eastern shore of MD and northward.
Our county closed schools one year because there was 15 inches of snow in Leesburg, the county seat, but 11 miles away in Sterling, we didn’t even get a snow flurry.
With challenges like that, I think the weather forecasters do a pretty good job.
wendy adamek Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Rory, move in with me, you will never have to worry about winter again, and I’ll teach you how to surf.
margueritem almost 14 years ago
Rory, ya think?
cleokaya almost 14 years ago
Up here in the PNW my forecasts are about as accurate as the weatherman’s, but when I spent my winters in southern Texas they could predict the weather two weeks in advance and be spot on.
Coyoty Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Go ask the groundhog.
odeliasimone almost 14 years ago
I think that great wise ram is an oxymoron.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Yes Rory there is! Otherwise the Vikings/Eagles game would have been played as scheduled!
hopeandjoy2 almost 14 years ago
We just take it as it comes!
lisa4romMpls almost 14 years ago
Weathermen throw darts at a weather board - at least that’s what it seems like.
Saucy1121 Premium Member almost 14 years ago
On Thursday, the forecast was for possible snow showers. On Friday, the forecast was snow showers with 1-2 inch accumulation. On Saturday, the forecast was 3-4 inches of accumulation. On Sunday, we got 14 inches of snow in Southeast Virginia.
SaunaBeach almost 14 years ago
Spring comes, winter goes. That’s a dangerous cycle…we’ll have to kill it. Remind me to kilocycle……
Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!
ellisaana Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Those pesky eastern coastal storms! It is especially hard to predict the break lines for the snow.
Saucy got 14 inches in SE VA, it snowed in Richmond, (Central VA), but we got nothing in Northern VA as the storm just far enough off the coast to clobber everyone on the eastern shore of MD and northward.
Our county closed schools one year because there was 15 inches of snow in Leesburg, the county seat, but 11 miles away in Sterling, we didn’t even get a snow flurry.
With challenges like that, I think the weather forecasters do a pretty good job.
Destiny23 almost 14 years ago
Of course, seasons and weather are two completely unrelated things, but you can’t expect rams and lambs to understand such things…
COWBOY7 almost 14 years ago
It’ll get here when it gets here. LOL Don’t dwell on it too long, Rory!
ellisaana Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Rory would probably be impatient on a long car drive, too.