OT: It's Snowing@Home! :D

[Sukhoi]

We got about 12 inches of snow yesterday and last night, and it's still snowing! This is wonderful

 

[fdiskboy]

I would LOVE to have a white Thanksgiving....I'd even settle for a White Christmas.


I'm jealous!

 

[Assimilator1]

All good fun ,until you have to drive

BTW Sukhoi ,where did you say you are?

 

[Poof]

<< This is wonderful >>



ACK!!!!!! Keep that stuff where you are!

 

[PeterN]

Guess you won't need any cooling for all those OC'ed machines you have running!

 

[Maniac9127]

I could use some snow, maybe I can get a few extra hundred MHz with some ductwork .

 

[toph99]

i have about 3 inches here, but it esd -10C today... cold waiting for the bus this morning. i hate snow :| snow means getting up a half hour earlier to shovel the driveway, and i don't like getting up at 5:50...
if anyone want some snow you can come and take it off of my driveway, i don't mind

 

[networkman]

Congratulations!

Grand Rapids has now had its snowiest November on record EVER(and that's going back all the way into the late 1800's).. 11.5&quot; of snow on November the 20th! A couple places just to our south and west(around Holland,MI) got as much as 25&quot; of snow due to &quot;lake effect&quot;!! :Q

 

[SSP]

It's snowing here too! But not that much. (just wait till January [shudder]).

 

[Rendus]

Heh.. I'm originally from Minnesota.. I remember one Halloween we got 3 feet of snow in the middle of St. Paul. Was slightly annoying But life is good in Las Vegas now.



<< A couple places just to our south and west(around Holland,MI) got as much as 25&quot; of snow due to &quot;lake effect&quot;!! >>


I guess that means Slashdot got snowdotted? (Most of the slashdot crew, including Malda, live in Holland, MI).

 

[Joe O]

Buffalo, New York got 24 inches and more on the way.

 

[Sukhoi]

Assim, I live not far from JHutch in Ohio.

 

[BoberFett]

Rendus

I think that was either Halloween of 91 or 92. I don't recall right now if it was during my senior year of high school or after I was out. But it was one of those two.

 

[Orange Kid]

Rendus,BoberFett:
it was 1991, the great halloween snow storm. 26.7 inches of snow fell started halloween night and ended the next day.
had another 12+ inches end of november that year also.
one of the snowiest winters on record i think.
my back hurt a lot that year.

 

[Rendus]

Sad thing is, I can tell people here I'm from Minnesota, and a good 25% of them ask &quot;Isn't that up north?&quot;

 

[TOOCOOL]

1943 was really bad in NY !

 

[Wolfie]

Sukhoi
I wish we had that much snow. I know I wouldn't be here. I would be out riding my snowmobile. Send some of it this way.

Rendus
It's wasn't quite 3 feet. But almost. 27 inches to be exact. (ok so OrangeKid remembers those totals.) I will never forget the storm of '91. And don't forget. That same year we got almost 14 inches on Thanksgiving.

TooCool
You remember that far back.

Wolfie

 

[Assimilator1]

NWM

What's the lake effect?

 

[Fardringle]

I don't know the exact science of it, but we get the same thing here in Salt Lake City, UT, and from what I understand, it's a combination of extra evaporation from the lake collecting in the storm clouds to create a heavier storm from the clouds themselves, and the falling flakes freezing the evaporated water in the air to create even more snow...thereby leading to a much heavier snowfall around a lake than you would get anywhere else from the same storm.

 

[Aybara]

Here in NW Ohio we just got a light layer of snow. All gone today. I'm itchin to take my quad out (almost as fun as a snowmobile)

 

[Assimilator1]

Thanks FD ,makes sense

 

[RobrBaron]

Yea yea yea, i was just to your south NetworkMan. Kalamazoo was just not a good place to be. Too much freaking snow. but on the brighter side, classes were cancelled at Kalamazoo College.

Go Hornets (or something like that)

Rob

Rendus: Well, i know at least one slashdotter who skipped out on the fluffy white stuff and happens to be out in CA right now, livin the good life (why doesn't andover.net buy me out???? i'm marketable, i'm good looking, but i don't have a website), so i doubt he got much sub-zero (Celsius) precipitation. Well, at least those dreaded Dutchmen from Hope got what they deserved!!! (a little MIAA humor for the peeps in the know)

Assim: Straight from Weather.com - Lake effect snows occur when a mass of sufficiently cold air moves over a body of warmer water, creating an unstable temperature profile in the atmosphere. as a result, clouds build over the lake and eventually develop into snow showers and squalls as they move downwind. The intensity of lake effect snow is increased when higher elevations downwind of the lake force the cold, snow-producing air to rise even further. The most likely setting for this localized type of snowfall is when very cold Arctic air rushes over warmer water on the heels of a passing cold front, as often happens in the Great Lakes region during winter.