What's more current than the weather?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Just think, Congress could be wiped out!

Oh happy day!!

[tw]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Just think, Congress could be wiped out!

And then extremists would get what they want. Extremists even burned down the Reichstag so as to gain power. Because extremists hate or must subvert Congress, Parliament, Diet, Reichstag, or Knesset.

Problem is not Congress. Problem is many moderates who do not vote. And do not even bother to learn / listen to the news. By doing so, therefore all but vote extremists into Congress. Also contributing is gerrymandering. Gerrymandering means more power to wacko extremist liberals and conservatives to the detriment of moderates.

So people blame an institution called Congress rather than ill informed voters who subvert Congress. So let's burn down Congress. It worked so well in 1930s Germany.

[Griff]

50% chance of snow for Sunday.

[Gravdigr]

76° yesterday, 58° today

[glatt]

That lake effect snow is amazing. Slideshow here.

Some neighborhoods near Buffalo got 4 inches,

while others got 5 feet!


You can see how it just hits some places. Not sure why some of the water is warm enough to generate the snow clouds while some isn't.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The distribution of snowfall in the Great Lakes region resulting from lake-effect snowfall is dependent upon several factors: the position of the storm tracks, the degree and variations in lake water temperatures, the extent of ice coverage, prevailing wind directions and the frequency of strong wind speeds. Topographic contrasts to the lee of each of the Great Lakes also affect the intensity and spatial distribution of lake effect snowfall. Lake effect snowfall contributes between 30% and 50% of the annual winter snowfall on the eastern and southern shores of the Great Lakes.

I knew the wind picked up water vapor crossing the lake, if it's not frozen, but hadn't thought of the difference in vapor pressure speeding up the evaporation rate.

[Gravdigr]

Auntiedigr in Buffalo, well, NE of Buffalo, says they got nothing, like an inch or two.

Twenty minutes south? Five feet. In 24 hrs.

[glatt]

[limey]

The joys of island life. Coal scuttles and log basket filled. Fire laid, stove set to go. Enough groceries in to last til the weekend (ferries cancelled for the rest of today). Plenty of candles, battery-powered Christmas lights, fully-charged music-playback system ...
I may be out of touch for a while ...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Sounds like you're prepared, guess you've done this drill before.

[glatt]

Don't forget to batten down any hatches you may have.

[limey]

They've cancelled tomorrow's trains as well ...
This is what the railway line looked like in January in a similar storm:

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's nice to get the tracks washed every once in a while.

[Gravdigr]

Miles per hour? Guess they haven't converted the anemometer yet.

And, no, an anemometer does not measure how much of an emo you are. Or aren't.

[limey]

We do miles for big measurements and metres and centimetres for small ones. :/