Blizzard in northern Illinois...

[bmx672]

So much for any test drives this weekend...
I'm 38 and I don't EVER remember seeing it snow and blow like this before. I'm going to have to wait another week @!$!^@%

[djomlas]

its like 10:20pm, just came in the house, its horrible out there

on the other hand: box took it like a champ with no traction control, summer tires, no heated seats...it warmed right up and ice started melting very fast off of windows, when i got home there is a big parking lot and i just had to take it for some slip and slide(i was gonna do one or 2 slides, ended up being there for 20 mins powersliding and 'drifting it yo dawg" hehehe

but yea, its crap out there

[Brucelee]

Send Al Gore a note and ask him to explain this winter!

Stay warm!

[MNBoxster]

Hi,

********************, I live right on the Mississippi River separating Mpls. and St. Paul , on the St. Paul side. I haven't been able to see the other side since about 3pm cause the snow is falling/blowing so hard (forecast 8" by morning), and we're forecast to have snow all week.

But, I do have to admit that the worse winters I ever spent were several of the ones I went through in Chicago. I remember Jan. 10 in 1982, the ambient temp on Michigan Ave. was -26°F. I had to go 5 blocks north to Superior Street (Walgreens) and the Windchill was -84°F. The only part of me exposed was my eyes (Storm Coat, Balaclava, gloves, etc). When I got to Walgreens, my eyes felt like they were frozen... I took a Cab back...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

[husker boxster]

Looks like we got 5" overnight. About 7pm there was a huge flash of lightning and then it started snowing like a mother. It looked like 3 of the 5" fell before 9pm.

But I'm happy we're getting another blast of winter. My buddies and I are leaving on Wed for 4 days of golf in Temecula, CA (50 mi ne of SD). Can't wait.

[Brucelee]

Originally Posted by husker boxster

Looks like we got 5" overnight. About 7pm there was a huge flash of lightning and then it started snowing like a mother. It looked like 3 of the 5" fell before 9pm.

But I'm happy we're getting another blast of winter. My buddies and I are leaving on Wed for 4 days of golf in Temecula, CA (50 mi ne of SD). Can't wait.

Temecula should have very nice days next week Bring nighttime clothes as it gets cool there at night.

Have a great time!

Mulligan!

[moxster01]

and you guys say its cold up here in canada!! :ah:

[Paul]

It's still snowing here and it's forecasted to stop sometime on Tuesday.

Knee deep so far...

[drburton]

We got dumped on last night and I went out to a party any how. All was good until we hitched a ride home with a friend who drives a 545i BMW. I'm pretty sure we pushed the car half way home. I've never seen a car that bad in the snow, pretty much didn't move.

Ohh well, made it home without any serious incident.

[Grizzly]

Certainly nothing like what you guys are experiencing, but I'm headed out to shovel this "light rain" right now. We're expecting some more "light rain" this evening.

In my next life, I'm coming back as a weatherman. In what other profession can you be consistently wrong, with no apologies, and no consequences?

[djomlas]

actually they are 99.8% right with what they forcast based on the percentages

[Grizzly]

Originally Posted by djomlas

actually they are 99.8% right with what they forcast based on the percentages

Dude, where'd you get that number?

An agency called Forecast Advisor compiles weather forecasts of the major providers in the the U.S. and measures the reliability of the forecasted information. Of course, some areas of the Country are a lot more predictable weather-wise than here, but in my zip, weather forecasts are correct anywhere between 70 and 76% of the time, with the National Weather Service being only 71.45% correct. I don't know about you, but in my profession, if I were wrong 30% of the time, I'd be very, very dead.

A similar study that I read from the U.K. found that their weather forecasts are correct about 57% of the time for the following day, dropping to 25-27% looking four days out. That's abysmal.

[djomlas]

when they say that it will rain 67% of the time, they will come withing one or 2 % of that number (67 in this case), but for us, 67 is not really good number, but they will predict 67 and that will be the percentage of the rain, but for instance when you are planning a picnic and it raint on a 67% you will remember that and hate them for missing, when they in reality did predict that, but it just didnt play out in your favor

we just did that in a class the other day with a comparison of a doctor and a forecaster:
Forecaster: 40% chance of rain=rain falls 39% of the time
Doctor: 65% a chance of pneumonia=pneumonia only 10% of the time

but it is just the human nature to trust a doctor more than a forecaster,
if you show up at the doctors office and they dont reallly know if its one or the other, they will most likely give you medication for it, even if you are not sick, the risk of them saying its not and you dying is far more greater than the other way around

[larryshomework]

I picked up my Box in Chicago on Friday afternoon - was going to stay through the weekend but left early Saturday morning for the drive back to Alabama.

Looks like I got out of there at the right time.

Sunny and 70 today here in Alabama - great day for my first day at home with my new toy...

[djomlas]

damn you, steal a nice ride in chicago, and leave us w blizzard