Holy Lighting Batman!

Good Evening Everyone!

And what an evening it will be.  We are talking about snowfall rates of biblical (well maybe historical for our area) proportions in the next several hours.  3-4 inch/hr snowfall rates for a few hours is absolutely unheard of for this neck of the woods.  We could end up with another 12 inches of snow with this second round of snow that is starting to come through.

I must say it is quite eerie outside right now.  We went from heavy sleet for the past hour and increasing wind to virtually nothing.  Then all of a sudden...................lightning!!  Just an indication of what kind of roller coaster ride we are in for tonight. I anticipate the snow will start falling shortly in clips where you can't see your hand in front of your face, if you were actually outside in this madness.

If you watched the news stations today you would have seen every meteorologist talk about how this morning's 5-6 inches was virtually impossible to predict and I have to agree with them for once.  Most of them are on board for another 8-12 inches of snow tonight with some serious thunderstorm activity.  I thought to myself today, "Can you get struck by lighting in a snowstorm?"  Sure enough you can, they are talking about some cloud to ground lightning that you normally see in the hot months of July and August.  Not something you'll see often in your lifetime so grab a beer and head for your deck dressed in appropriate layers of course.

Look for things to die down around 1 or 2am and then it will quickly exit the coast shortly after that.  Schools WILL be closed tomorrow, there is no way the plows will get ahead of this storm as they won't dare to even touch the roads until this is all said and done.  The reason I say that is they will have zero visibility and will end up plowing your neighbors yard instead of the road.

As for the snow blowers, they may or may not come in handy.  I was out there today with mine and all it did was push the snow due to how compact it was.  And forget about snow blowing where someone has walked or a car has driven over, virtually impossible!!  I did what I could and shoveled the rest and boy was it heavy, my back was going through some lovely spasms after getting done with that.  By the way, anyone read the paper today?  I would have but my neighbor took the snow blower to it and the snow blower won.  He still had the courtesy to put the remaining pieces of it on my porch.

Thanks for reading and get your arse outside and enjoy this snow........just don't get struck by lightning!!
Gman the Weatherman