In which yesterday’s nice, sweet weather turns to snow.
Yesterday was beautiful. The kind of beautiful that, in Iowa in January, makes people mutter suspiciously to one another, “It’s too nice out. Probably gonna dump a foot of snow on us any minute now.”
And so it has begun. And it might keep up all day:
URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUAD CITIES IA IL
1121 AM CST FRI JAN 20 2006A FAST-MOVING WINTER STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SNOW WILL RAPIDLY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS.
ADDITIONALLY… AREAS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PROPHETSTOWN TO KEOSAUQUA MAY SEE THUNDER SNOW.
AN ADDITIONAL THREAT WILL BE THE SNOW. SNOW…HEAVY AT TIMES…IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE THREAT OF THUNDER SNOW IS QUITE HIGH WHICH WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO IN LOCALIZED AREAS.
TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE BY MIDNIGHT.
A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW… SLEET…AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.
Naturally, what this means to me is that my DH is in the next room right this very minute cutting a giant, gaping hole in an external wall of our future living room with his trusty Sawzall.
There’ll be a nice new big window in it by dark, but still. Who cuts a 4′ x 6′ hole in his own house when threatened with thunder snow?!
(Okay, okay. I admit it. That warning’s not exactly for the county I live in. I just like the idea of thunder snow.)
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Update: Check it out! A new Pella window, set in the hole:
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Thunder Snow, HOooooooooooooooooo!
er… wait. That’s Thundercats. Nevermind.
It’s a balmy 60ish degrees here. And supposed to be warmer tomorrow. Me likey.
Stay warm!
*smooch*
Thunder snow… sawzall… LOL
Think I’ll go bake something gooey and sweet and watch the snow from inside a warm kitchen.
xo
I love the strategically placed Pella window sticker over Bread’s face. And despite the fact that I (unlike Miz Ermadine) loathe snow, it sure is purty outside my office window. I’m guessing it’ll be absolutely hideous come 5:00 though when I have to go home and shovel it.
“Huh,” I thought to myself. “we usually have the same weather as Iowa, but we don’t have snow…” But not until I read Cootera’s comment did it sink into my thick head that maybe I should look out the window.
Oh. Right. Snow.
Plenty of it, too, looks like.
Sheeeit.
Thundersnow? Wow. So it was snowing like hell? I am just glad we only get a few times of snowy days. 🙂 I hope you have a fantabulous warm weekend (of course, inside)
WTH is ‘Thunder snow’? Oh, btw, it’s 72F outside here. Sun is shining and all. I’m wearing short sleeves with all the windows and doors on the RV open.