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Karen is a tropical storm heading for the Gulf Coast.
Atlas is a Winter storm that has dumped snow on Wyoming and the Dakotas.
If you live near those storms, let us know what they have been like.
I live in eastern PA, where it has been Summer-like for the past few days, with highs in the low 80's with fairly high humidity. Except for a little bit of rain last night, it has been dry for the past few weeks.
What has your weather been like in your neck of the woods?
Karen is a tropical storm heading for the Gulf Coast.
Atlas is a Winter storm that has dumped snow on Wyoming and the Dakotas.
If you live near those storms, let us know what they have been like.
I live in eastern PA, where it has been Summer-like for the past few days, with highs in the low 80's with fairly high humidity. Except for a little bit of rain last night, it has been dry for the past few weeks.
What has your weather been like in your neck of the woods?
Winter storms are not "named" like tropical storms are.
We were slammed by "Atlas"...30 inches of heavy, wet snow (some areas got up to 50 inches). We are still without power (just passed the three day mark). There are trees and branches down all over the place, the roof on a shed caved in. There are still power lines and poles down and thousands of people without power. It has been warm the last two days, but roads are still a mess, many with only one lane open. Many are still impassable. Streets and businesses are now starting to flood from the snow melting. There are hundreds and hundreds of dead cattle and other livestock in pastures and on the sides of the roads. This will be a big loss for many ranching families, some may be bankrupted.
We were slammed by "Atlas"...30 inches of heavy, wet snow (some areas got up to 50 inches). We are still without power (just passed the three day mark). There are trees and branches down all over the place, the roof on a shed caved in. There are still power lines and poles down and thousands of people without power. It has been warm the last two days, but roads are still a mess, many with only one lane open. Many are still impassable. Streets and businesses are now starting to flood from the snow melting. There are hundreds and hundreds of dead cattle and other livestock in pastures and on the sides of the roads. This will be a big loss for many ranching families, some may be bankrupted.
That's a shame. It's too early in the season for that much snow.
Shouldn't the livestock have been brought in to shelter. Wasn't snow expected?
We (PA) had a major snowstorm last October. The leaves weren't even off the trees yet. It destroyed a lot of trees. We got about 4 inches for the rest of the Winter.
MAYBE it's only the Weather Channel but SOMEBODY is naming Winter storms.
We had some fairly warm weather until a front came through yesterday afternoon and brought a thunderstorm. This morning, it is in the 40's with a projected high of close to 70.
That's a shame. It's too early in the season for that much snow.
Shouldn't the livestock have been brought in to shelter. Wasn't snow expected?
We (PA) had a major snowstorm last October. The leaves weren't even off the trees yet. It destroyed a lot of trees. We got about 4 inches for the rest of the Winter.
The latest I've heard is tens of thousands of dead cattle. Most ranchers can't just bring them in to shelter. Many were in summer pastures and the animals hadn't grown winter coats yet.
Silvia Christen, executive director of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, said most ranchers she had spoken to were reporting that 20 to 50 percent of their herds had been killed.
"I have never heard of anything like it," she said. "And none of the ranchers I have talked to can remember anything like it."
While South Dakota ranchers are no strangers to blizzards, what made Friday's storm so damaging was how early it arrived in the season.
Christen said cattle hadn't yet grown their winter coats to insulate them from freezing wind and snow.
In addition, Christen said, during the cold months, ranchers tend to move their cattle to pastures that have more trees and gullies to protect them from storms. Because Friday's storm arrived so early in the year, most ranchers were still grazing their herds on summer pasture, which tend to be more exposed and located farther away from ranch homes.
Ultimately, Christen said, she believed that more than 5 percent of the roughly 1.5 million cattle in Western South Dakota had been killed.
"It's much higher than that," she said. "But I'm not sure where that number is going to land."
I hope this will be the one bad storm, but I don't think that will be the case. It wouldn't have been quite as bad if it hadn't been so early with leaves still on the trees. Power crews are having to be accompanied by the National Guard to get them access to some areas. I got power back last night, but many won't have it till later this week or next week. Snow was expected and as the week went on the forecast got worst. However, I think it ended up being worse than most expected.
How many inches of snow did you expect to get? The weather forecasts are USUALLY pretty accurate.
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