Look Up in the Sky! It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's More Damn Snow! UPDATED!!! (Scroll Down)

If tomorrow's Wednesday, it must be time for another winter storm! Like clockwork over the past month, we have gotten significant snowfall here in New England. One the storms that hit us was a full-blown blizzard. Out of these three storms we have gotten almost six feet of snow! Mother Nature must be wearing the finest of Swiss watches because tomorrow we are gonna get blasted with at least another foot of snow, to the leftovers from the previous nor'easters. You can see what I mean in the photo below which was taken while I was standing on my front porch.

Leftovers

I also took some shots of the parking lot and the sidewalk just outside the front door. I did so in order to provide a contrast in what snow is on the ground now and what new snowfall this latest storm will bring. 

No snow on the sidewalk

We are supposed to get about 3 inches of snow today and tonight, then the bottom falls out in the morning. The approaching nor'easter is slated to dump at least another foot snow by early Thursday morning. Oh, the joy of living in the northeast. I actually don't mind the snow because I like to watch the snowflakes dancing about on their journey from cloud to ground. I know what you're thinking, tell Heather to hide all the shiny  objects and knives in the house. 

I guess I can't complain too much because other parts of the country where snow is a rarity are getting slammed also. I know Texas is getting some wintry weather from the same system that's gonna blast us tomorrow. I know real good people in Texas and I know that the ice/snow/sleet has the Dumbass Effect on even the best of them. Let me put it this way. There are over 6 million people in the DFW area. With ice/snow/sleet on the highways and byways, every damn one of the 6 million people there turn into dumbasses at one time while driving in the stuff. I'm just sayin'

If the incoming weather brings us anything unexpected, I'll jump on here and do an update. Until then, my family is celebrating my little girl's 4th birthday today, weather be damned. That's just the way it goes.

Because Toby said so.

UPDATE: here's the latest from Weather.com:

 

Right Now	Next 36 Hours

	Tonight	Tomorrow	Tomorrow Night
Light Snow	Snow Shower	Heavy Snow	Snow Shower
12°F	11°	15°	9°
Feels Like: 3° Get FREE weather on your desktop	Low	High	Low
Past 24-hr: Precip: 0.08 in (est.) Snow: 2.3 in (est.)	Chance of Snow: 50%	Chance of Snow: 100%	Chance of Snow: 60%
Wind: From NNE at 6mph	Wind: NNE at 10 mph	Wind: NNE at 18 mph	Wind: N at 16 mph

Humidity: 82%	73%	65%	68%
Dew Point:9°
Pressure: 30.36 in
Visibility: 1.3 mi
UV Index: 0 - Low	--	1 - Low	--
Daylight Remaining: 0 hrs 57 min	Sunset: 4:48 pm	Sunrise: 6:56 am	Sunset: 4:50 pm
Through 9pm: Periods of snow will end by early evening. Cloudy with temperatures rising to near 17F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 70%. About one inch of additional snow through 9:00pm.	Snow showers this evening becoming more scattered later. Low 11F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 50%.	Snow showers early will transition to a steadier, sometimes heavy, snow. Cold. High near 15F. Winds NNE at 15 to 25 mph. Snow accumulating 8 to 12 inches.	Variable clouds with snow showers. Low 9F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 60%. 5 to 8 inches of snow expected.

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Building a New Neighborhood in Maine

A few weeks ago, one of my friends in Texas saw where I had been Live Blogging the blizzard that hit here in Maine. I told him to hold on to his hat because he ain't seen nothin' yet. We are about to get slammed with the coldest weather we've had so far this winter. Before today, we had seen temperatures in the single digits with the lowest I have seen at 1 (one) degree a few days ago. Currently, it's snow at a rate of about an inch an hour and we are expected to get about 10 inches here in Augusta. I am expecting closer to 15 inches based on what I see right now and past experience. We shall see what we shall see. Below you'll see the weather forecast for Irving, Texas (my hometown) and Augusta, Maine (where I live now).

Irving, TX (75060) Weather

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Updated: Jan 21, 2011, 7:05am CST

Right Now	Next 36 Hours

	Today	Tonight	Tomorrow
Partly Cloudy	Mostly Sunny	Clear	Mostly Sunny
23°F	47°	32°	56°
Feels Like: 23° Get FREE weather on your desktop	High	Low	High
Past 24-hr: Precip: 0 in Snow: 0 in	Chance of Precip: 10%	Chance of Precip: 0%	Chance of Precip: 10%
Wind: Calm	Wind: SE at 8 mph	Wind: S at 5 mph	Wind: SW at 8 mph

Augusta, ME (04330) Weather

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Updated: Jan 21, 2011, 8:05am EST

Today Jan 21

Sat 22

Sun 23

Mon 24

Tue 25

Heavy Snow	Mostly Sunny	Partly Cloudy	Sunny	Few Snow Showers
22°F	17°	8°	6°	15°
High	High	High	High	High
5°	-1°	-14°	-11°	7°
Low	Low	Low	Low	Low
Chance of Snow: 100%	Chance of Precip: 0%	Chance of Precip: 20%	Chance of Precip: 0%	Chance of Snow: 30%

Notice any difference? To all my friends and family in Texas: I love you all with all my heart, but please quit bitchin' about how cold it is down there! :) Seriously, the average temps for Augusta for this time of year are something like 25 for the high and 9 for the low, so what we'll be getting for a few days is cold even for up here. I'll keep you posted on what goes on with the weather over the next few days as we graciously accept the weather that our neighbors to the North in Canada have been so kind to send us. Eh? Hosers.  :)

Because Toby said so.

UPDATE: The intensity of the snow picked up shortly after I posted this article. It's now snowing at about 2-3 inches per hour. That's gettin' busy. It would be a blizzard but the wind is not b;owing hard enough, but it's blowing enough to reduce visibility to around 150 yards. Here's an idea of what I am talking about. At 9:00 this morning  I had to run a quick errand. Before leaving I brushed off 6 inches of snow off the car. I just had to make a quick run to the dumpstaer and I had to brush off another 6 inches of snow off the car. Do the math. We are getting a good nor'easter as we speak and the snow is supposed to fall until at least 7:00 tonight. The current weather shows a temperature of 16 degrees with the Chill Factor at minus 3. I'll be updating again some time later this afternoon, I hope, and maybe I'll have some pictures to post

UPDATE 2 : I just received this infi from one of our Canadian readers. It's astounding!

Anonymous said...

*Ahem* http://www.winnipegweather.com/ Temperature: -24.6°C Wind Chill: -40 Wind: SSE 33 km/h Humidity: 69 % Dewpoint: -28.7°C Pressure: 101.6 kPa Tendency: falling Air Quality Health Index: 2 Visibility: 3 km

January 21, 2011 10:31 AM

Minus 24.6 C = minus 78.28 F
Minus 40 C = minus 104 F

Now that's cold! Thanks for the comment Anonymous!

UPDATE 3: The snow is tapering off now and will out of here in an hour or so. My best estimate is that we got from 15- 18 inches, a pretty good snowfall. Thanks to Anonymous for the Canadian Weather Report and thanks to all of you for living through this storm with me.  :)