Auld Lang Snowstorm™ update
My good people,
As 2013 draws to a close, we are cold. If you plan on being outside for New Year's Eve, bundle snugly up or reconsider. Temperatures will be in the mid 20s with breezes sending wind chills into the teens.
We could also see a snow shower or two Tuesday afternoon, which will otherwise be mostly cloudy and breezy.
New Year's Day will see predominant clouds with some breaks of sunshine. High will be 33; low 24.
And then Thursday.
Model guidance continues to support a major winter storm. Highs will be around 32 on Thursday, and overnight low will be 14 thanks to arctic air from Canada. So this also points to higher snow totals. Snow starts late Wednesday night and really gets going Thursday morning. It will be windy and nasty during this storm: wind chills in the 20s during the day and below zero at night. Snow will taper late Thursday night, after which it will become even colder, prompting people to look at one another, shiver violently, and exclaim, "God damn it's cold!"
Here are the percentages, revised:
15% chance of a complete miss
20% chance of a 3-6 inch accumulation
40% chance of a 6-10 inch accumulation
25% chance of a 10-15 inch accumulation
For those hapless souls who have to go back to school on Thursday, here are my preliminary school closing predictions:
Thursday delay, 20%
Thursday cancellation, 70%
Friday delay, 65%
Friday cancellation, 40%
(Yes, I realize these percentages do not add up to 100%. They are not meant to. These figures are meant to represent the percent chance of each event. Like, in terms of odds. Math.)
Friday will be cold. Frigid, actually. Like, North Dakota cold. Minot, North Dakota.
(Alright, I looked this up. The high on Wednesday in Minot will be -3. That's negative three degrees. The low? -18. So, not quite Minot cold. But still.)
#alwayswithacar #hangloose #randomfarrahfawcetttshirt #skinnyjeans #hoffcoifBack to Friday. The high will be 16. The low will be 1. One! I shit you not. And it will be bitterly windy, so expect wind chills near zero during the day and in the negative single digits at night.
This is the kind of cold that will make you think you are being somehow punished. You will cry out and your tears will freeze right on your face. Icicles of snot. That sort of thing.
Saturday will be cold again, but less windy. And then Sunday will be a bit milder (high of 36!).
And then on Monday, when everyone else goes back to school, we may not, because of an icy mess.
This is going to be a snowy and icy and cold January, my friends. Gird your loins, and gird them well.
And stay tuned for updates!