According to most forecasters and the National Weather Service, a significant weather event begins tonight and will likely bring extreme snow and ice to much of the U.S. mainland.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE -…Major winter storm to begin impacting the Central and Southern Plains today, before moving into the Mid-South, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast this weekend… ♦Catastrophic ice accumulations are expected from the Southern Plains to the Southeast/Mid-Atlantic… ♦Dangerously cold temperatures set to expand across much of the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. through early next week.
A significant winter storm is forecast to begin in the Southern Rockies and Central/Southern Plains today, progressing eastward through the Mid-South and into the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast through Monday. This is expected to produce large swaths of heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain, bringing hazardous driving conditions, power outages, and tree damage. The heaviest snowfall is expected across a large area, including parts of the Southern Rockies, Plains, and through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Snowfall totals are expected to exceed one foot in parts of these areas, and widespread travel disruptions are likely.
South of the snow axis, widespread freezing rain and sleet are expected, affecting the Southern Plains, Lower Mississippi Valley, Tennessee Valley, and much of the Mid-Atlantic. Catastrophic impacts are expected where freezing rain totals exceed half an inch, with over an inch expected in parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and the Southern Appalachians.
After the passing of the winter storm, a strong arctic air mass originated from Canada will continue to bring frigid temperatures into the eastern
two-thirds of the U.S. into early next week. Sub-zero low temperatures will spread from through these regions, and will be accompanied by gusty winds, bringing dangerously low wind chills. The coldest wind chills may fall below -50F across the Northern Plains, and numerous other record lows are expected.
These wind chills will pose a life-threatening risk of hypothermia and frostbite to exposed skin, and risks could be prolonged and exacerbated by power outages caused by the aforementioned winter storm. Cold temperatures are then expected to continue across much of the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. into early February according to a Key Message from the Climate Prediction Center. [SOURCE]
Take this storm seriously, folks.
Moderate to major impacts are expected from the Central US through to the Northeast today through the weekend.
– Hazardous to impossible driving conditions are expected. Avoid travel if at all possible.
– Widespread closures and disruption to… pic.twitter.com/bR76NpsrEy— National Weather Service (@NWS) January 23, 2026
been watching Ryan Hall’s live feed of this storm all day; he’s got several storm chasers sharing their live streams too:
Total Solar Eclipse in April 2024 vs Snowstorm Fern Right Now
It seems to me that the path of totality of the eclipse is eerily similar to the path being forecast for the snowstorm.
As for the eclipse, it entered the United States in Texas, and then passed through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Mere coincidence? Prophetic symbolism? Curiouser and curiouser …
Chinese balloon.
Ryan Hall Yall has a side channel that is usually live 24/7.
He said he’d be on non-stop on his main channel linked up there during this weather event except when he’s sleeping.
Ryan has other weathermen who help him during his live shows as well as his storm chasers.
The side channel has weather maps and alerts.
Right now his side channel is on the fritz but he’s trying to fix it.
0.o
I do like Ryan, and also Max Velocity. They understand what people really need in order to be actionable. Max V has gotten me through many tornado alerts. I’ve always known exactly when to hit the safe room. This is my first time having to follow his winter storm coverage.
Both are definitely an improvement over weather channel!
Ryan knows his stuff, but I cain’t cotton to Max.
Max is too emotional and too big for his britches.
0.o
Ryan Hall is a great meteorologist. No drama, just the facts from models and weather data. Predictions are always followed with the caveat that it could all change tomorrow.
Been there done that.
This too shall pass.
Yep
I worked outside for 35 yrs.
Didn’t like it but the family needed fed.
me2
I work in and out,
Carpentry/remodeling,
The extreme cold is exhilarating at times.&
There’s been a lot worse than this is going to be, but the weather people love to scream “crisis!”
“Catastrophic impacts are expected where freezing rain totals exceed half an inch, with over an inch expected in parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and the Southern Appalachians.”
If the storm knocks out power for millions of people in a cold spell like what is coming – it is going to be a crisis.
Several years ago there was a blizzard forecast for here in the WNY area a week ahead of time. I think 30-40 people died that week. Heart attacks while shoveling snow, exposure outside, some people froze to death inside because of no heat and others died because Emergency Responders could not get to them or get them to a hospital fast enough.
You still had morons trying to drive without snow tires when the snow was deeper than the floors of their auto. Then they are stranded wearing inadequate clothing.
For people in the south who are not used to snow or very cold weather, I see that it could be a difficult period, but I wouldn’t call it a crisis. For people in the north or northeast, this is just winter. If you’re in western NY, I’m surprised to hear of so many problems with cold and snow, as you get a lot of it every year.
The blizzard whipped a super fine snow into multiple electric substations, knocking them offline for a substantial period of time. That did not happen during the blizzards we had in 1977 & 1985.
Literally thousands of people flat out ignored the warnings and created problems for first responders, etc. because they were not prepared and ventured out for trivial reasons.
That sounds like a bad situation, but also an isolated situation? It happened once, but it’s not something that can reasonably be expected to happen, is it?
The electric utilities revised the ventilation openings in the substations to prevent that from happening again. The weather was forecast, the multiple substations getting knocked offline for days at a time because they filled with snow was not.
As far as people venturing out for trivial reasons and dying because they are not prepared – that is also referred to as “thinning the herd”.
“thinning the herd”
or
‘Darwin Award’ entrants
The blizzard of 1978 was phenomenal
I saw a snow drift in west central Ohio that went to the top of a farmers barn, never saw anything like that before.
In SE WI they hauled dump truck loads of snow off of the streets/medians out onto Lake Michigan.
It was a sight to behold.
Like deer in the road?
Illegal immigrants aren’t used to cold weather.
Yes, they should self-deport on account of the cold.
Good, Maybe they will run to some place warm.
They keep warm burning $USD
Somalis in Minnesota 🤔🤨
IF they lose power for a week in the cold, it will be a crisis.
After the freak “October surprise” snowstorm in 2006, this house I am in did not have electric service for 11 days. We made it through comfortably, but it was inconvenient.
https://www.weather.gov/buf/October_Snow_Storm
Southern states do not have snow plows or other snow removal equipment. The roads don’t get pretreated because we don’t have that equipment. Most homes don’t have fireplaces, wood stoves or other heat sources and rely on electric heat pumps out possibly gas heat. We may have a winter coat and gloves, but few people have snow pants or boots.
If the electricity goes out because of the ice and emergency vehicles can’t get through this could, indeed, be a crisis.
🙏❤️
I get it, in the south a storm like this is a problem. I know you don’t have the equipment to deal with it. I hope all of you down there make it through unscathed.
They also don’t order rock salt or sand ahead of the winter season.
Here in upstate South Carolina we’re expecting a half inch to more than an inch of ice over the weekend. Snow isolates, but ice snaps over weighted transmission lines and falling branches. A great many people here have electric heat. It’s forecast to be about 6 degrees Monday night, with the rest of the week’s nights in the low 20s and teens. If your power is out for a week or more, as many expect, that’s a crisis.
The problem is the breadth of the storm. There are too many areas hit hard and too few surplus line crews to help areas hardest hit. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a significant death toll.
Gas heat and granny’s canning beats it.
My grannie is long gone, I have canned just about everything (except fish) – but have not in about 10 years now. I do have stockpiles of commercial canned products.
Most gas heat still needs electric for the ignitor, thermostats, circulating pump or blower, etc. I have disconnected the boiler here and attached a power cord to run off a generator. I also have four 20# propane tanks and an infrared heater that mounts on top, as well as a kerosene heater.
Keep the house slightly vetilated, please.
Oh yes.
3 Carbon Monoxide detectors, one for each level.
The stinky kerosene heater would only be used as a last resort in a drafty garage under the bedrooms. I got that for free several years ago from a neighbor moving to Virginia.
Propane heater until the boiler can be rigged to the generator.
If the storm knocks out power for millions of people in a cold spell like what is coming – it is going to be a crisis.
Also if ICBMs fly in from over the pole could be a nuclear disaster.
The “Elite” that want about 7.5 billion less people on the planet so they can have it for themselves do not want that to happen because those mess up the Real Estate.
Hence the “jabs”.
https://open.substack.com/pub/josephsansone/p/sansone-v-desantis-mrna-bioweapons-244
They are not going to succeed. Biblical prophecy assures us that there are going to be plenty of people on planet earth when the LORD returns.
I remember as a wee child running to the ouhouse in this kind of weather and you had to look down the hole to make sure there wasn’t a frozen spike hiding in there. It’s funny ……………. now.
Ditto at grandparents’ farm. Some kinda cold. One didn’t dawdle.
My grand parents had a chamber pot for that kind of weather
EEK!
Yep. That was the sound!
No my son, that is NOT a chocolate popsicle!
“CRISIS” as in Climate Crisis, Global Warming etc etc etc. Has the left blamed PDT for this storm yet? There’s probably already some painfully twisted “Climate Crisis” model proving Al Gore might have been off about 20 years, 40 degrees and the whole 5 feet of water covering the entire State of Florida thing, but somehow he was right all along and this storm authenticates the Green New Scam
Just another facet of ‘the sky is falling, we’re gonna die’ pitch.
It’s called ‘winter’.
Alaskains are pepared.
I have to laugh. I survived an ice storm without power for a week in GA in the 1980’s. Been there, done that, got a tee shirt. God Bless all of you Treepers. Be Safe.
I won’t laugh, but I was there too. Trees falling in the yards around us, fortunately none on the house! Best part of it was our dad skiing down our short street to the cul-de-sac in his army boots and using my unicycle poles! Good times as a teen! 😉
Yep, a little diesel fuel for the tractor and I’ll be good to go.
Stay safe folks…I am in North Dakota and it has been -45 wind chill for days…It really is nothing to scoff at.
Lived decades in Montana/ND/MN and you are right. The air temperatures (much less “wind chill”) are painful, even for a few seconds. And will kill you if you are exposed very long.
One thing I do not miss about rural west Minnesota–the fact that going to get the mail could kill me, so we neighbors would let one another know by phone if we really had to go outside for anything–and then contact again by phone when we were back inside. We did not do that because we were fearful. We did it because we knew those conditions can kill very quickly.
When my husband would face terrible driving conditions (15-20 years ago) and we knew ahead of time that he would stay in town after his Home Depot shift was over (so that he could get to work the next day)….before he left for work that day he would fill a large firewood frame on our deck, right outside the door, so that I would NEVER have to venture further than that to replenish the woodburning stove in the living room.
Where are you in ND, Randy G? the Montana farm I grew up on was about 30 miles due west of Williston.
I have a grandson who has chosen to live (and thrive) in Fargo-Moorhead area. He was willing to learn and has learned well what to do, when to do it, when not to even attempt.
Bismarck here.
Yes! When our younger (California born) son was in the Air Force, he requested to be stationed with a remote group south of Dickinson (near New England) for the stated reason that he wanted to experience firsthand the conditions that his grandfathers farmed in…. his paternal grandfather was in Ottertail County, MN.
Yup, spent 21 years in Bismarck myself. It’s cold. And then, the wind, I can count on one hand the number of days the wind not blowing in all those years.
Uncle went to visit daughter living in ND..
To get to the house he had to lean hard into the wind not to be blown over.
Gets to my cousin’s house and he asked “how do you live with that wind”?
Her reply “What wind”? Was a calm day from her perspective. SMH.
I grew up about 180 miles north. Worst blizzard I ever remember was April 1984. 27 inches of snow and 90mph winds made for a wind chill over -100.
First time I ever saw lightning during a snowstorm.
Lots of things would blow in the wind, break off and blow sideways until impacting something and just shattering due to the cold.
I lived in Wolf Point Montana for two years, and while I was there a warm winters day was -20 F.
Not wind chill, actual temp.
It was often -50 F, actual temp, yet the high school kids walked around in cut off shorts, open jacket, untied high top tennis shoes and no hat or gloves.
They raise ’em TOUGH in Montana!
Wolf Point was (is) “our” county seat/Roosevelt County, Val. Our farm was nine miles outside of Culbertson.
Ah yes, Culbertson.
I liked all the little towns out there, Scobey, Glasgow, Frazer…
But I sure don’t miss the mosquitos!
This might be a good time to jump in here and let everyone know that our Sharon is an author… ☺️
Thanks for the reminder. That book is a good read! Thanks Ad Rem, and thanks Sharon.
…and the 57 Chevies were the all-time best, weren’t they?
Added to the Amazon list. Winter ist lang, Kamerad. Thanks for the heads-up.
Why not Minot?
That was a saying at Penn Tech Inst. in Pgh., Pa. 50 some odd years ago! A company from there hired lots of the grads!
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Too bad Minnesota rioters won’t experience this storm.
We were hit last night and today with the coldest weather. It was down to -30s air temperature throughout most of the state, with windchills being much colder.
I’m guessing the protesters were doped up enough to not care what the temps were.
Our weather is now heading east.
Gee thanks!
Sorry, Mycroft.
Wish I had something I could do to stop it, seriously.
Last night I was awake for long stretches praying for anyone outside in the arctic cold, and the animals, and for people’s furnaces to run, etc.
I’m sure tonight will be no different, just for different people in different areas.
Hope you and your family remain safe and warm through this storm.
Thanks for you concern 🙂
Family is a home in a well insulated house and a great soapstone wood burner and plenty of wood.
However I am currently living in an old motor home down in the holler here in SE Ohio dead in the path.
Burning one heck of a lot of propane.
Take care!
And prayers up for our dear friend and “Marcia, Retired Magistrate Here”…who lives in rural Ohio…she and her husband are older…hoping they have what they need to make it through this weather.
I have been doing the same, Raven. My prayer has been constant and unremitting.
Dear Lord, be merciful 🙏🏻
🙏💕
That’s amazing, Raven. Who are you?
I never pray for people let alone during long nights. I expect God will take care of his own so I just go to sleep.
I’m an old lady who has lived in Minnesota most of my life.
I know what it is like to walk on snow and hear it crunch, what it is like to literally stick your tongue on the metal flagpole and have to pull it off, what it is like to see what a cat looks like after its paws freeze in a small pool of water, or what it looks like after spending most of the night outside in subzero temps.
I’ve heard stories most winters throughout my life of the people who died because they were outside too long.
One winter, not that long ago — at least it is fresh in my memory — it was extremely cold the first week of December. One night in particular I could not go to sleep thinking about and praying for anyone who might be stuck outside in the cold for whatever reason. I could not get to sleep that night. Not that I did not totally trust the Lord’s hand in every situation, but because I could go to Him throughout the night and knew that He was listening to His child’s cries.
Early the following morning the local news reported the story of a young college woman who got drunk the previous night, was dropped off at the house where she rented a room, couldn’t get into the house, fell asleep on the porch and laid there all night.
By the time she was found no one thought she would live.
The house where she was dropped off at was right next door to the house she actually lived in, but she was too drunk to know the difference.
The house she lived in was three blocks away from where I lived and where I was praying for her that night. I could have walked over and rescued her had I known what was happening.
Many of us prayed continuously for Alyssa Jo and rejoiced with every news story that said she was doing better and that she was going to live. She was not going to lose all her limbs. She was not going to be a vegetable.
In the end she lost large parts of her feet and hands, but through it all she was full of joy for being alive.
I’ve kept one article from that time and look at it every cold winter.
A little way down in the article is a photo showing Alyssa Jo Lommel a few years earlier, jumping with her arms raised high. That is the picture I imagined each time I prayed for Alyssa Jo, a woman who was free and warm and alive, and that is the same image I have of her today.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2543999/Alyssa-Jo-Lommel-19-fingers-amputated-left-porch-nine-hours-subzero-temperatures.html
I found out a long time ago that a toddy before bed doesn’t work. You just wake up again.
Alyssa Jo was smart enough to get into a good college but not smart enough to stay sober. If the experience of losing her fingers and toes didn’t teach her an important lesson nothing will.
Someone should have prayed that Alyssa Jo not go out drunk. I certainly hope she doesn’t drink anymore no matter what climate she lives in. I heard of another college girl living or vacationing in a warm tropical climate who was drinking beer and fell into a swamp full of alligators. That’s an awful way to die, too.
I’m just at a loss for words.
Yes, drinking to the point of oblivion is a bad thing to do.
Getting drunk is a bad thing to do.
Trying to help people stop doing both is a good thing to do, and also a very hard, sorrowful thing to try to do.
My mom was an alcoholic who also had a severe mental health issue, one that was never accurately diagnosed.
My mom died 36 years ago — by her own hand — when she was 59 and I was 35. Life with her was one of the biggest trials in my life, but I loved her fiercely then and still love her to this day.
Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it! LOL
I take it you haven’t heard of chemtrails?
Vision of them dropping like iguanas from trees in South Florida when it gets below freezing.
Was living in Port Charlotte, Fl in the early 2010s when it snowed and I had to clean mama’s car so she could go to work. Just a dusting but still?
It was a shock let me tell you after living in the Caribbean where 60 is frigid!
It is going to be terrifyingly dreadful weather for anyone having to travel any distance, and especially for EV owners.
Take appropriate precautions like emergency supplies in the car and for goodness sake let someone know you are traveling and follow up when you safely reach your destination.
Fortunately Mama’s EV carries it’s own backup generator.
If you get stuck in freezing conditions —
Do not leave your vehicle (unless you are literally next door to somewhere you can stay warm — every year people die from being exposed to the cold)
Run your car for short periods to stay warm. Keep your windows cracked while the engine is running, close them when the engine is off.
Bring an empty metal coffee can with candles to use as a heater if you run out of gas.
Bring large bottles of water and keep them close to your body so the water doesn’t freeze and you can drink it.
Bring extra heavy coats, gloves, pants and boots (even if you just store them in your back seat until you need them)
Bring lots of healthy snacks.
Bring flashlights w new batteries or solar powered lights.
Bring blankets and sleeping bags and an emergency thermal blanket (thin metal type material that keeps your body heat in)
Make sure your cellphone is charged when you head out
And like R F Burns said, make sure someone knows where you left from, what time you left, where you’re going to, what time you expect to arrive, and what path you plan on taking.
And if you live or travel anywhere near open water, make sure you have a window glass breaker close at hand in your car to be able to exit it if you go underwater.
Thanks for the assist.
I am just working on something else that is demanding most of my attention at the moment.
If you must use a flare to light the spare tire After you let the air out.
Make a lot of heat and a lot of smoke seen a long way off.
Chemical hand warmers are wonderful!
Make sure your tail pipe is not plugged up with snow, and fill up your gas tank when it is down to 75%, NOT 50%, but 75%.
That extra 25% could save your life.
If you use the makeshift candle-coffee can stove, keep the windows cracked and make dang sure it CANNOT tip over.
Don’t sleep while you use it!
Might want to bring along an empty can with a lid to use as a makeshift toilet, too.
Flashlights, powerful ones, can be useful to catch someone’s attention.
A small shovel and lock deicer can be useful, as well as some orange flagging to put on you car antenna in case your vehicle is run off into a ditch and snowed over.
And have extra wool socks, a pair of real winter boots, extra wool gloves and hats and wool blankets., for each passenger.
Wool can save your life, too.
Cotton is bad news.
Also tell them your planned route and any detours you must make.
Better yet, unless it’s life or death, just stay home.
Check 511 on for road conditions. For example, SD511 should give you a map of SD with DOT reports on highways. Just use 511 and the two-letter abbreviation for your state.
I didn’t know that! Thanks!
We’ve been @ sub-zero temps for 36 hours already in SE WI & from the map, it looks like we will dodge the worst of the storm.
Topped off the fuel & water and pray that the power stays on here.
Praying for everyone in the path to make it through unscathed.
Looks like a repeat of January 1978, in southeast Mo it snowed 14-18″ in a day and night. Big snow for the Bootheel
Calling for 10- 14″ in south central Mo Ozarks.
Colder n a witches tit also!
Burrr!ĺ 🥶
Thankful it is too cold for freezing rain here, but folks down south may get it bad
My baby sister is in SW Arkansas, my brother is in Lexington, Ky. and I’m in central NC. We’re all getting hit. My sister in Scottsdale, AZ., said the desert has it’s perks sometimes. Stay safe Treepers.
OK, so winter?
Yes. The same way a Category 5 hurricane in Tampa Bay is fall in Florida.
What you must understand globul warming has reduced the air density and so the feedback loop has the ratisfamis misaligned and so we have this unheard of burst of cold in January.
plus what the chemtrails have done to all this
Its what the chemtrails do to humans that worries me. They’ve been spraying the sky in western PA all Wed and Thurs.
The chem trails have been in overdrive in northern IL….since early December…every day on some occasions. And that is when I could see them, sometimes cloud cover hid the trails.
I have noticed that within a day or two, after seeing them, often, not always, but often rain/snow follows.
I’m having flashbacks from Helene… The planes have sprayed the criss cross pattern here for 3 days. My patio furniture is again covered with fine whitish brownish crystals.
WV, too–daily.
LOL 🤣😂
Lol
I saw a map earlier indicating most of the lower half of Florida is basking in the high 70s low 80s.
As some wit wrote…
“Florida has won the coin toss and has elected not to receive.”
I’ve had to play this game. No choice. Not fun…terrifying.
Ughhh.. I hate that driving game.
I refuse to play.
I do too, now.
Once long ago I was in my sporty car halfway between middle of nowhere VA and Charlotte NC when I ran into a blinding snowstorm that obliterated any signs of pavement. I had to take an exit to a gas station and wait it out for hours until daylight. I thought I was going to freeze to death.
An important lesson learned.
I didn’t have a choice as a furnace repairman.
The good part is I could drive all over the place even when the roads were ordered close. 😉
LOL – I remember playing that one. I believe the Wife was yelling ‘Road! Road! Road!’.
But yea, we made it.
I’m glad I don’t have to participate in that game anymore. When your colleagues at the prison are counting on you to get there to relieve them so they don’t get stuck on mandatory overtime; I’ve seen that view too many times. A memorable one was when the taillights I was following suddenly were pointing straight up in the air !!! Whoa nelly !!
We already had our cold weather.
Last week we went down to as low as 24 degrees, with a high of 62 degrees during the day.
But it is 54 degrees a little after midnight right now here in Jacksonville in Northeast Florida.
Reached a high of 74 degrees here yesterday.
Expected to reach 67 degrees today.
Then back up to around 80 degrees on Sunday.
This storm will pass us by.
The ratisfamis?
Not a typical winter storm.
I haven’t seen a Nor’easter of this magnitude for a long time. Arguably the precipitation would make up for some drought conditions up my way, but I digress.
It’s not typical in that it covers so much of the country, including areas in the south that don’t normally see this kind of weather. But the temps and expected snowfall, at least for the northern U.S., are not unusual for January. Where I live, on Long Island, we have had it pretty easy the last 4-5 years, not that cold and not that much snow. So maybe this storm just seems worse because we’ve had it so easy recently.
I read estimates on how many windmills were going to be destroyed by freezing rain in this storm.
The more the better.
Useless eyesore contraptions.
Bird watchers will rejoice with less bird cuisinarts remaining in operation.
East central (Lehigh Valley) PA here. Have gotten by easy recently, also.
Getting 1-2 feet of snow here in Central NH. Gonna be light and fluffy so, all is well.
A foot or so where we are. It should be fine, all is well!
No big deal up here…
Lord i hope it dumps on us… We are at about 60% average snowpack so far. We need the water in the spring meltoff
Global Warming… err Climate Change… or just the Al Gore Effect?Stay safe everyone.
Prayers for you.
Nah, the Al-gore effect is hot air.
Al Gore hot air in Davos caused a polar vortex collapse.
The doom and gloom for this storm, as far as in Virginia, has decreased dramatically over the last 24 hours. Three days ago they said 1-2 feet of snow for Northern Virginia. Now the forecast is 8 inches. The ice forecast is still a concern for late Sunday, however.
Ice is way more deadly than snow.
Good luck!
Gotta watch the ICE, especially in Minnesota!
LOL
My uncle in Minnesota said he could ride out any blizzard as long as he had enough toilet paper and Johnny Walker Scotch.
Good on TP here! All is well…
Alcohol freezes at -170F so there’s that.
Ah, yes. I remember well the great TP shortage of 2020.
We just finished our last roll from our 2020 horde, about a week ago.
Aha! So YOU’RE the one who bought it all!
Pretty crappy thing to do!
Bought 60 pounds of “supposed” expired Starbucks Pike Place twice on eBay for $.55 a pound during the scam. I haven’t needed coffee to this day. These airtight packages smell as fresh as ever. Normally wouldn’t drink the woke brand. We keep emergency dehydrated food & lots of water for the next “thing.” Mostly rely God’s provision. He shall richly supply our needs in Christ Jesus!
Drink….Wisconsinbly…..
This all related to the Hunga Tonga underwater volcano from 3 years ago. It added a full 10% extra water vapor into the atmosphere. It’s taken 3 years for Mother Earth to get rid of it through extra rain, etc. Thank God it was underwater, otherwise it would have been another Krakatoa, with particulates blocking the sunlight and ruining crops.
Year without summer.
Yep
And yet most people have never heard of it.
If no one gets more than an inch of ice – well, it could be worse.
The Greenland ice sheet has an average thickness of 5,489 feet and reaches a maximum thickness of over 11,444 feet.
The immense weight of the ice has depressed the underlying Earth’s crust, with parts of central Greenland now sitting nearly 1,000 feet below sea level due to this pressure.
Sounds so depressing 🙁
My son was suppose to come here (Buffalo) tomorrow from Cleveland with my two grandsons. Their mother nixed that idea, even though they would be back in Cleveland on Saturday night – before the heavy weather.
There is another Saturday coming up in a week!
Snow thrower is keeping warm in the garage, along with two portable generators. Just changed the oil in the snow thrower. The generators are next. I have 25 gallons of stabilized fuel in an outdoor shed. Hopefully I will not have to use any of it.
What happened to Global Warming? Oops, the new name is Climate Change…I wonder if those windmills/solar panels are working well under these conditions…Stay warm, stay safe all!!!
Its global cooling.
“It’s going to get colder.”
PDJT, in response to a reporter’s question about global warming, about six years ago.
And as usual, he was right.
Prayers for safety and protection for all those in the path of the storm, particularly any who may be affected by the ice.
The damn libtards caused this with their global warming!!!
For much of my career I worked on commercial HAVC.
Guess where the put the equipment on commercial buildings?
I was a skinny little runt and along comes The Great Blizzard of 1978 here in Ohio and I’m climbing up on roof tops to fix the heat…
They cleaned the highways with bulldozers. That was a storm I won’t forget! LOL
The 1978 Blizzard was far worse than we’re going to get this weekend. Where I live, it was also accompanied by a blackout. That was a serious storm.
In 1977 with a blizzard heading straight for the University of Akron, a commuter school, the administration let all of the students drive in for class. Then at the height of the blizzard, told all of us to leave and go home. Two other girls and I held on to each other as we battled the wind to make our way to our cars across campus. Somehow the wind in those conditions whips your breath away and makes it difficult to breathe. We came upon a blind student who normally got by with a white tapping cane but was totally disoriented in the wind and snow. We grabbed him and made our way into a building to wait for the wind to break. Once it did, he went about his business and I jumped in my car to go home. My normal 30 minute drive took over two dangerous, white knuckled hours . After the horrible storm the student newspaper had an editorial urging all of us to remember being treated like blizzard fodder by the University when it came begging for donations year later. I have.
Didn’t they find an entire semi under a snowdrift near Toledo a month later? The driver had succumbed to the cold.
Mom worked in a hospital and went there early, stayed there the whole time.
Dad let all the outside cats inside, one didn’t come in and lost parts of its ears to frostbite. Power was out, snow stomped off of boots in the kitchen didn’t melt.
A local farmer’s wife got ill, he burned furniture in the kitchen sink to keep warm, gave up and got her into his largest tractor. It took them 3 hours to go 7 miles to the nearest town with a hospital.
I was in college in VA and we only had wind, but it blew in a window in one of the dorms.
You’re completely right, an unforgettable storm.
Your profession will always be needed. AI won’t be replacing HVAC installation & repair. Not easy work. Youngsters, take notice!
If you have family you never get to retire 😉
“Heavy Snow” in Canton Oh.
4 to 8 inches …………..
It is cold and outages will be rough. Lookout for your local Seniors.
Trump and his team are on the ball! “Stay safe and stay warm”
An Observation:
Today they have been spraying chemtrails like crazy in Western NC just like happened before Hurricane Helene.
Wrote above in a reply that the chemtrail sprayers have been busy doing their thing all day Wednesday and Thursday here in Western PA. Who knows what they spray at night.
Yup.
All Wednesday. At least ten sprayers within view in the sky, all at the same time. Going crazy.
After a period of months in which that kind of activity was considerably reduced.
Does anybody have any idea who in hell is doing this? Serious question. This has been going on for years now.
Over Orange County m, Virginia the chemtrails and amount of air traffic is unbelievable. Rippled cloud packs as well.
Over Orange County, Virginia the chemtrails and amount of air traffic is unbelievable. Rippled cloud packs as well.
Same here in central Florida.
I thought DeSantis put a stop to that???
He made a big deal about that, about a year-year and a half ago…
Same here in Southwest Florida.
The day after DeSantis announced the new law, they were spraying and have NOT stopped since, including today.
The SKIES have NOT been bright blue (normal) in several YEARS here.
When these new laws are announced, Dane Wigington of GeoEngineerimgWatch.org WARNED us not to take this as SOLVED.
Most people think it’s illegal so problem solved and went back to looking DOWN at their cell phones (not looking carefully at the skies).
It’s a FEDERAL (likely military) program ALL over the World.
How can a STATE stop the Feds?
dane wigington, believes this storm is weather weaponization. i do too. i think this is a result of the davos conference and the tantrum that globalism is over. they decided to attempt to destroy america as punishment. with downed power lines, a big use of gasoline and propane and natural gas, and a huge hit to productivity. add in the solar and wind turbines being destroyed or out of service. and the so-called saturday riots called off? darpa still spraying and this not shut down? ussc to meet with the brunson case v election integrity reportedly tomorrow? coincidences. remember no such thing as a coincidence.
Wasn’t it just a few days ago that Kirill Dmitriev tweeted out the Storm Warning sign?
I do not like it at all that the major papers are dooming major catastrophic power outages either.
This level of cold this expansive and this far south is not similar to anything within my living memory.
We are just maybe 85 percent back from Helene in southern Appalachia.
Wasn’t it just a few days ago that Kirill Dmitriev tweeted out the Storm Warning sign?
He sure did.
Transatlantic unity is over. Leftist, globalist EU/UK elites failed.
https://xcancel.com/kadmitriev/status/2012621940402368862#m
0.o
Makes one wonder….
Study the well-documented info on GeoEngineerimgWatch.org if interested.
Typo, my apologies …
should be:
Study the well-documented info on GeoEngineeringWatch.org if interested.
Noticed the same thing here yesterday (also in western NC) . Don’t often see them at this location, but there were a LOT of them. I thought, why are they shutting out the sunlight one day before the storm?
And now they are predicting one inch + of ice here. We’ll be burning some wood from the Helene storm damage…
Thank you treepers for your prayers.
Be safe…and…I am not the only one then who notices the precip after a spraying….?
Nope, it’s as regular as a well wound clock. Spray the skies. Within 48 hours it will rain.
The stratosphere (upper layer where jets fly) gets wetter before the trophosphere does (where we live). Contrails last longer a day or two before a storm.
Having said that, I intensely dislike the planes that are trying to seed clouds before a storm. If you catch it at just the right time, the satellite map on the NOAA website will show it. I saw a set of 6 relatively short parallel lines of cloud over southern Idaho one time, a totally artificial cloud formation. It had to be from cloud seeders. The flares they burn to get the silver iodide have other elements in them that are also aerosolized.
Contrails are just vapor and disappear rapidly.
Chemtrails are the spraying that STAYS and STAYS and contain MANY TOXINS.
The DIFFERENCE between Contrails and Chemtrails are discussed in detail on the well-documented web site:
GeoEngineeringWatch.org
Don’t forget Global Warming is real. These extreme weather events are part of how climate change works.
Please keep believing man can control the climate.
Forget there is a God that created everything.
This announcement is brought to by your local Marxist party leader.
So…..your telling me that if I had only paid a few dollars more in taxes this major snow ice and wind storm could have been prevented? Gosh…….who’d a thunk…………..
The problem is, IMHO, there are too many out there who try to mess with God’s creations….
It’s called winter and who ever started naming snow storms should be slapped hard.
A daily weather forecast can not even be accurately forecast and this will not be what they claim
Agree. The naming of snowstorms was the weather media’s contribution to the climate hysteria conspiracy. Now, every snowstorm is an emergency of biblical proportions. I guarantee Gov Hochul will declare a state of emergency tomorrow over cold weather and a mediocre snowstorm.
Didn’t take the insurance companies too long to jump on the bandwagon. Check the fine print on your homeowner’s policy. On mine there is a huge deductible applied to any claims happening as a result of a “named” storm.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And then slapped on the other side!
It’s called winter and who ever started naming snow storms should be slapped hard.
Hear Hear!
The Weather Channel started it in 2012.
You know when i was a kid…
Western suburbs of Chicago: not expecting any big snow but it is bitterly cold out. It is -7 (9:15 pm) with a wind chill of -26.
SW ‘Burbs still cold…no wind but minus six.
I’m very fortunate to live in that little sliver of coastal SC that won’t have snow or ice. We are supposed to get some much needed rain late Sunday but our lows that night will be in the low 40s.
Coincidentally, ten years ago to the day tomorrow, 1/23, which was also a Saturday, we had a major snowstorm in central Maryland (don’t remember how far flung it was) that covered my Honda Accord up to the roof line and ended up being as high as the porch railing on my uncovered porch. That’s the weekend I decided I needed to move south.
I’m praying that God protects everyone and all the animals affected by this storm.
We are in the northern section of Greenville, SC, 16 miles from western NC line. We are told to expect .5 to 1” if not more. Prayers for everyone.
Central PA here.
Picked up beer and gas on Thursday when it was 40 degrees. ( do things when you can, not when you must ).
Snow thrower staged and ready. Have water canisters filled.
Will cook dinner tomorrow morning. Left overs should carry me for a few days.
Whereabouts in central PA?
Ted Cruz has already vacated to a warmer climate as usual. Look out for each other folks
This year’s winter weather makes me think of the “1923″ TV Series with Spenser and Alexandra Dutton. My take-home lesson from that series was don’t drink, don’t drive in icy conditions. I mean it really hit me that they thought they could drink and drive in that era like that.
The first effect that alcohol does, before you even get any euphoria, is to knock out the part of the brain that regulates judgement.
Good luck and God bless all of you facing the cold weather this week. here in AZ we are having a rather warm winter, lows in the 40s, highs around 70. Sucky summers, great winters.
My sister lives in Scottsdale and was laughing at me today. I’m in Central NC.
My niece in northern Minnesota told me today they had a wind chill of -51.
I’m in Nevada, I get cold at 55 above.
Ryan Hall is the best!
Tonight?? I’ve been blowing snow for three days straight and dealing with howling winds and it’s colder than a witches……… well you all know how that goes. Stay warm my fellow Treepers.
In a brass bra???
Guys, chill. It’s winter. It snows in winter. 10 to 14 inches of snow is forecasted for my area, hardly unheard of. If you live where it shows, the municipalities know how to handle it. The southern states with ice may be more of an issue.
I’m going to work on Monday, just as most others. I have to, calling out for a snow day isn’t a thing for my profession. It will be fine.
good man. appreciated.
bumper skiing. yes and yes. put those duck boots on. find that remote road or expansive mall level parking lot and just have fun fun with it.
bumper skiing.
Used to do that every winter when I was in my teens. But we just did it on public roads, grabbing any bumper that passed by. Good freaking times.
Donuts
I’m in North Carolina…..25 miles north of Charlotte. We are in the path for the ice storm.
I’m ready but I’m also worried…….
Burlington here. Stay safe.
I live in north central Maryland, an area that’s supposed to be hard hit. I live in a wooded area and though I’m 78, I’ve spent the last couple of days cutting firewood, splitting it with a sledge hammer and hauling it under my front porch. The temps here have dropped 20 degrees F in the last 4 hours and my area is expecting widespread power outages but I have a generator and about 100 gallons of propane in my tanks, enough to see me through 50 hours or so of blackout. I have bad knees but a strong enough back to shovel a couple hundred feet of front walk and paths to the cars and wood pile.
I lost my wife recently and I wish I was doing these preparations for both of us…but my ancestors had to put up with a hell of a lot more hardships than me, so my home fire’s burning, I’m eating hot soup and life is good!
Praying for the best for you, LTB, very sorry for your loss. But you sound like a good strong man who has seen many a storm.
Many a storm, R Iacoveo…we weather them all!
Stay safe, my friend.
You have our sympathies LionTigerBear. Stay safe and God bless you!
Sending hugs to you, LTB..
Thank you, Ross.
Stay safe, my friend.
My wife’s name was Kitty. God loaned her to me for 60 years. I have only gratitude for that.
You stay safe too, KittyJ.
God bless and keep you!
Thank you, TR. So far He’s been doing a a pretty good joh.
Stay safe, my friend.
Great attitude.
Than you, mycroft.
My wife was a gift from God, on loan to me for 60 years. How can I not be grateful for that?
We are as prepared as possible. Generator maintenance complete, good to go. Lots of food of course, fully stocked everything really. Jerry the outdoor cat is not happy, we are keeping him in tonight. Current temp, 12F and falling. Not snowing though, which is strange considering the weather website shows us getting snow right now.
Here is northern southeast Alaska we’re finally coming out of a month long deep freeze followed by an apocalyptic snow event that dumped 5ft of the fluffy white stuff in just four days. Mother Nature quickly followed that up with several inches of rain to remind us all who’s the boss around here. For us it wasn’t a historic weather event by any means, but it was nasty nonetheless.
To commemorate the event I decided to decorate the side of my house with a giant cartoon painting of a hand sticking out of the snow holding a sign that says “Global Warming My *ss”
You can’t beat Mother Nature, but you can make fun of her now and again.
Pic please!! Any moose or boo in the freezer this year?
Let’s see if this works.
No, but there’s this big bull moose hanging out in the woods near the house and if he charges me or my neighbor one more time he’s going to be feeding our seniors for the rest of the winter. Me I’m more of a fish guy cause I’ve had enough moose heart to last me a lifetime.
MM
Do the sign, that’s funny!
Already up there Jimbo.
This is a dangerous weather event because of the size of it. If freezing rain knocks out power across a wide region, it could take a LOOOOONG time for power to be restored. There will be so much demand for power line crews across a VERY LARGE area, people will be on their own to survive. You won’t be able to expect help from crews from other states who will be swamped with outages. Those of us who have had some survival training may be called upon to use our skills.
Hopefully, the electric companies have already staged their repair crews…
A year or so ago…a little more, was on my way to FL and passed huge convoys of electric power company trucks from all over, heading on home…
It is winter over here in Colorado we just had an 80 F Christmas. It’s a lil nippy out dogs ran 2 miles just fine with my old ass. When I grew up in Alaska 1971 to 2014 As a Heavy Equipment field mechanic I never missed a day over the weather for a 10 year stretch I worked 3100 hours a year socking away $$$ to start my business. And I did. I love the Cold dress correctly and dont sweat all will be well. Ps the Ferral cat figured out how to move the exhaust hose out of its place and sneak into the shop. Mr. Bones now has his own bed perch at the South window and food and water bowels filled daily. Please folks slow down and be safe God Loves you and so do I.
The high temp today in Green Bay was -7. Down to -16 tonight, might get to 0 tomorrow. Everybody drive careful if you have to drive.
Weather or not, here it comes
Asheville can’t catch a break.
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2014897795627384836
That is an impressive map within the post…
Prayers up for those who are there…
“Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”
Independent (UK newspaper) 3/20/00.
Avoid You tubers giving storm preparedness advice; especially the one about going out to Harbor Freight and getting a generator. Anyone who has never had a generator would kill themselves and their family if this was the first time they ever tried to rig one up.
I wonder how Central Maine will do ? im not getting anything definitive ,I just had shoulder replacement surgery last Friday so there’s that , 🙏
The map shows minor impacts for that part of Maine, so hopefully you won’t get much.
Maine is expecting 75,000 refugees by 2030 according to kommisar Janet Mills.
I guess we’ll have to see how things are there The Day After Tomorrow.
You mean like the propaganda movie?
Perzackaly, as the slang goes down under.