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Old 01-21-2014, 09:47 AM
 
Location: Chicago area
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Today is Monday and it looks like now you do know how to spell icicle.

You're welcome.



(Seriously, I was just teasing...I'm far from perfect myself.)

Doh, no offense taken. That work schedule was brutal thanks to the high octane winter we're having. It's very cold here and we just got a nice dump of snow I'm heading out to shovel in a few minutes. It's about eight degrees here with a brilliant blue sky. As beautiful as it is here now it pales in comparison to Maine covered in snow. Now that's truly magic. Stay safe and warm up there.
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Old 01-22-2014, 09:02 AM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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It was 2 below at 6 AM when I went out. Now it's 7 below with a stiff breeze out of the northwest. The lake is booming. "She's makin' ice" as the old timers used to say. It's time to harvest ice for the ice houses. We normally harvest ice when it's 14 to 16 inches thick. We put it into the ice house on a day when it's 10 below or colder. We used to ship ice to New Orleans with layers of lumber over the ice.
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Old 01-22-2014, 10:21 PM
 
Location: Chicago area
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I think we must be in the same weather pattern here. It's supposed to be in the single digits for another ten days and another six inches of snow will be falling next weekend. I'm dieing to go skiing but it's too blasted cold. There's a lot of ice on Lake Michigan and I don't ever remember that happening. I'm trying to retire but after five days of being in the house I think I'll be going back to work soon.
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Old 01-23-2014, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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I worked in a paper mill in NY for a few years. Lake ontario is about 700 feet deep and rarely freezes. That open water pours water vapor into very cold air which precipitates out as snow on the Tug Hill Plateau and the Black River Valley. They get a LOT of snow. The same thing happens in Maine when very cold air becomes saturated with moisture from Buzzards Bay and the Gulf of Maine. Low pressure areas pull that into Maine as a "noreaster".
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Old 01-29-2014, 03:03 PM
 
Location: Cumberland Maine
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Over 400 accidents on the roads yesterday in Austin, Texas because of Snowpocolyps II (as it's being called). For those of you in Maine, that means we had 1/100th of an inch of ice/rain yesterday. That's not my number. That comes from the weatherman on the radio. I knew the drivers would be going nuts so I stayed home until noon and then took back roads to work. No sign of ice anywhere.
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Old 02-06-2014, 04:00 AM
 
Location: Chicago area
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We just had another six inches with another arctic blast here as I type this. It looked like Maine and most of New England was getting some snow on our news tonight. It took us both about 2 hours to shovel enough to get the cars out. My vacation got cut short and I'm back to working crazy hours again. We have more snow heading our way on Saturday. There's at least a foot on the ground and the piles from shoveling are four to five feet high. It's been the most amazing winter ever!!! Those really large icicles are back Radio Flyer. Love it.
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Old 02-06-2014, 01:32 PM
 
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We just had another six inches with another arctic blast here as I type this. It looked like Maine and most of New England was getting some snow on our news tonight. It took us both about 2 hours to shovel enough to get the cars out. My vacation got cut short and I'm back to working crazy hours again. We have more snow heading our way on Saturday. There's at least a foot on the ground and the piles from shoveling are four to five feet high. It's been the most amazing winter ever!!! Those really large icicles are back Radio Flyer. Love it.
Wow... two hour to shovel 6 inches of powder. Were you using a tablespoon?

We got about 7 here on the northern part of the island. I snow blowed it in about 10 minutes; snowblower wasn't happy since it really needs about 10 inches to do a decent job, but I had the Brown appliance guy coming to replace the evaporator fan motor on my refrigerator. Could of driven through it with the Subaru Impreza Sedan without an issue. Didn't even need Big Boy(Eddie Bauer AWD Ford Explorer 5.0 liter V-8).
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Old 02-06-2014, 05:01 PM
 
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Wow... two hour to shovel 6 inches of powder. Were you using a tablespoon?

We got about 7 here on the northern part of the island. I snow blowed it in about 10 minutes; snowblower wasn't happy since it really needs about 10 inches to do a decent job, but I had the Brown appliance guy coming to replace the evaporator fan motor on my refrigerator. Could of driven through it with the Subaru Impreza Sedan without an issue. Didn't even need Big Boy(Eddie Bauer AWD Ford Explorer 5.0 liter V-8).
Seven inches with an Impreza sounds impressive. I'm considering an Outback when me make our Maine move, but I'm assuming that a hilly terrain changes the formula somewhat.
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Old 02-06-2014, 07:34 PM
 
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At my house, the snow was so light and fluffy, I sneezed and viola! our driveway was clean.


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Those really large icicles are back Radio Flyer. Love it.
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Old 02-11-2014, 07:46 PM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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Skip the Outback. Get the Forester. It has better ground clearance, better gear ratios and more room and a lower price.

-break-

Referring back to the title of this thread, we are going to have a snowstorm. Too often the weather people get confused and misstate their forecasts. A rainy day is not a rainstorm unless the wind is howling. A snowy day is not a snowstorm unless it meets certain criteria. This Thursday and through Friday we are going to have a real snowstorm. It may not be a record breaker, but it they be very poor days to travel.

...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
FRIDAY MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CARIBOU HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM
WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY
MORNING.

* LOCATIONS...INTERIOR DOWNEAST MAINE.

* HAZARD TYPES...SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS...GREATER THAN 10 INCHES POSSIBLE.

* TIMING...EARLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS...HIGH IMPACT. HEAVY SNOWFALL ALONG WITH BLOWING SNOW
WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES AND MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS.

* WINDS...NORTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH.

* TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 20S.
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