Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

Why is that jet sitting ass-down there? Weighed down by ice, or what?

If it's just bogged down by ice, I didn't know that could be a thing.

 

The first snowstorm hits Germany around Thanksgiving and spring doesn't arrive until the end of April. Otherwise, the weather is amazing.

 

Good luck to all y'all who have this storm front going overhead. Ugly booger.

 

Checked the GFS models as far out as they go. No hint of any Arctic Blasts™ anytime soon. Christmas Day will dawn a comfortable 55º in Dallas.

However, spring weather means ... spring weather, as we saw in Middle Tennessee.

 

Was surprised to wake up to snow on the ground in Virginia today. Came home at around 7:30 last night and it was still 60 degrees and rainy.

 

There ought to be betting spreads as to whether forecasters get it right.

 

The forecasters DID get it right. Accuweather had been calling for snow in my little slice of Virginia heaven since at least Thursday or Friday.

 

Find the Wxrisk guy on Facebook. He's a little bit crazy, but he gets into the nitty gritty when it comes to Mid-Atlantic forecasts.

I knew it was going to snow this morning, stick on the grass, and then melt away once the snow came out.

 

Even though the forecast was right, I’m about fucking sick of these 40-degree temperature swings.

My son and I left basketball practice at 7 last night wearing shorts and T-shirts and feeling perfectly comfortable. By midnight, the wind chill was in the 20s.

 

Thanks.

And Mother Nature can kiss my butt. I live a little under two miles from the worst of what went through the main drag north of Nashville. It's pretty today. The cat got me up to let me know the electricity was back on and she was weirded out by it. I was, at worst, moderately inconvenienced. That part was my fault for not being better prepared. This is going to be remedied.

Saturday after the storm, there was eerie, quiet darkness in the neighborhood that was bordered by spillover light from the kliegs set up to help the rescue efforts on Gallatin Road that stretched into the wee hours of the morning. The sirens started around 4:45 and didn't stop until around two am. Sunday was all about the helicopters and rubber-neckers.

With no electricity and very limited cell and wifi, my first look at what happened came from BBC and Reuters.

 

When I got up Sunday morning after the storms went over, I still had a weather radar up in my web browser. I hit refresh and took a look. At that point the line of thunderstorms stretched from Mexico City to Quebec.