terrible weather here today.

Hays, Kansas current weather
Overcast
12 °F / -11 °C
Overcast
Windchill: -6 °F / -21 °C
Humidity: 53%
Dew Point: -2 °F / -19 °C
Wind: 20 mph / 32 km/h / 8.7 m/s from the NNW
Wind Gust: 32 mph / 52 km/h / 14.4 m/s

today windy. increasing clouds. a 30 percent chance of snow. highs 22 to 28. temperatures falling into the lower teens in the afternoon. north winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around40 mph. wind chill readings 2 below to 12 below zero. gonna have to hurry to get to 28.

and tonight...
mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. lows around 4. north winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. wind chill readings 4 below to 14 below zero.

It's a bit warmer in Florida.....

thanks for the reminder chris.

Yea, and that stuff is heading my way. To think, I was in Florida a couple weeks ago. Should have stayed there with my aunt for a few months, except I wouldn't have my Genie pooch then. She's worth enduring those long walks in the cold.

Almost hate to tell you it was in the low-mid 80's yesterday.

But, last night brought the bad weather in. Mid 20's right now and windy.

What a difference a day makes.............

I feel for all of you.

today the high temp was ......TaDa....+7º F/-14º C.

tonight
mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of snow showers. Lows around 5. East winds 5 to 15 mph. wind chill readings 2 below to 12 below zero

tomorrow
Cloudy. Chance of snow and patchy light freezing drizzle in the morning. Highs around 19. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent. Lowest wind chill readings 3 below to 13 below zero in the morning

Click to view attachment now it really is winter
7º F and snow.

Worse here! 5 inches is what we got so far! I had to drive home 15mph and come home to shovel my driveway.

hey dash i heard it's gonna get worse before it gets better!!

Yep, just ask all those folks up east without electric. OOPS!! Forgot - no electric, no computers.

4 1/2 hours to get home. Left work at 4PM, walked in the door at 8:20. Disgusted, Disgusted, Disgusted. These Chicago drivers are total morons. Only 5" of snow. Five Inches. You would have thought we were in Anchorage, Alaska in a blizzard gale with three feet of fluff. Lots of cars stalled because the owners are too freaking cheap to keep them maintained properly so they quit in cold weather in the middle of the street. Idiots that see the traffic light turned yellow, yet drive into the middle of the intersection and get stopped from backup in front of them. Now the light changes and they sit there like a horse's rear end holding up 1/2 mile of traffic that should be moving but isn't now because of them. Jerks that drive too close to the car in front of them, that car stops and they rear end the guy because they have air where brains are supposed to be. Aggh-h-h-h-h-h.

Hey Ranchhand, you shoulda seen the mess here in mo/ks area, only
3 inches, and they couldn't slide off the roads fast enuff LOL!!!. State
trooper sez "all they need to do is slow down"! LOL...lookin at some
ice maybe here tomorrow...crazy !!
don

Currently 81° in Jacksonville FL with w/sw winds of 3mph in case any of you are curious.

I DIDN"T NEED TO KNOW THAT !!!!!????? LOL...
don

today it's this

Winter Weather Advisory in effect until midnight CST tonight...

Cloudy. Chance of light freezing drizzle and very light snow in the morning...then chance of light freezing rain and light freezing drizzle in the afternoon. Areas of freezing fog through the day. Highs in the upper 20s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.

The coming Sunday, we're suppost to hit 77º
Monday the high will be 30º

Drops like that will kill ya.

fyi

We've already had a couple of -15 days here. The snow hasn't been so much an issue as it has south of us from 5 to 200 miles. They've already had a total of 8+ feet in some places in the snowbelts. The early snow and cold doesn't bode very well for us come Jan-Feb. Last year we had tons of snow but didn't get the typical below zero temps. I'm not so sure about this year. We also narrowly averted our catastrophic third historic ice storm as it slid to the south part of NY, Mass, New Hampshire and Vermont.

So much for global warming!

except in florida

"Record high temperature set at Jacksonville...

a record high temperature of 81 degrees was set at Jacksonville yesterday.
This ties the old record of 81 set in 1990."

Feels like Christmas

This ain't nice! After all the record highs.

y'all have nuthin to cry about busterb. y'alls low temps beat our high temps.

You said it Wes. Our car said it was -3 this afternoon. I think that was being kind. You walk outside round here you feel like your face freezes solid instantly.

The cold weather warning is in force today. I kid you not, it comes into force when the temperature goes below 12C/55F. This morning it hit 11C, so there are messages on TV and in the newspapers to wrap up warm. Hongkongers wouldn't last a minute in the mid-West USA.

All I know is we've had below zero temps and my shop has snowbanks up to my chin:

Wow, your shop looks like a gingerbread house! My mouth started watering!

looks cool but all that snow has to be the pits.

If only I had the ability to show you a pic of what snow we have. We got you beat I think John.

we're having a brief respite, atm 36º F. but look out tonight.

Snow. Snow accumulation around 2 inches. Lows around 10. North winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of precipitation 80 percent. Wind chill readings 3 below to 7 above zero.

in the flatlands of kansas 2" looks like a lot more than 2". maybe because it drifts most of the time.

They've already had 8 feet an hour south of us. We're on the lake shore so we don't get the snow they do only 15 minutes south...we cause it. Still, we've had plenty early in the season.

i can't even imagine 8'. worst i saw was in idaho was 4' back in the day. that was in the valley, mountains were like 14' but needless to say nobody but the foolhardy went to the mountains that winter

The report I posted was all government propaganda. It got down to 24, but no sleet or rain. Tonights low is suppose to be 57. But being old I was cold all day, at around 44º

Here's a gingerbread house (the real thing) that my 4-year old nephew made a couple days ago, with a little help from his mom, of course....

I really don't know how many we officially have received. Some has melted, but I can tell you that the snow plower at work is going to be in deep shite when Dunkin Donuts makes him (or the landlord I suppose) pay for the fence they destroyed by packing the snow too tightly on it. It's busted clear through in one section and leaning on a 30 degree angle in 4 other sections.

I also know I stepped in a foot and a half of new snow on my driveway when I got home tonight, and that's just the new stuff.

I'm with you, Dashie; a plower dented the fender of a workmate of mine at night in her apartment complex parking lot-of course, how do you prove it? The idiots from the Village where I live rammed 2000 lbs of snow up and over my garbage can stand just after I shoveled it clear, breaking the stand and burying the cans. Then that night the temp dropped and it all froze solid. I got on the phone to the Village Manager who sent the plow back and cleared it, but the following summer I spent three hours repairing the stand because they broke it. Come on, how much brains does it take to drive a snow plow?

That stinks ranchhand buddy. I'm glad they atleast (and I do mean least) came back to clear it for you.

For those curious about Christmas in the South (BTW I mowed yesterday)


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Actually, with global warming winters will become more severe and last longer in the north, opposite of what some may believe. With warmer temps there is more moisture available for storms and wind patterns are reinforced. Global warming also means hurricanes and tornadoes will also increase in frequency and intensity.

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Oh horray