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It has rained basically non-stop for 4 days here.  That is like some kind of record.  Heaviest is right now.

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7 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

You chose to live there bub. 

I'm not complaining.  Winter has a purpose.  Just commenting on the severity and rarity of a storm on this level.  12" of snow is not typical in Iowa, but given how our overall moisture level has been increasing in the last 5 years, it might start getting that way.

I kinda relish our harsh climate.  We had a low of -30 and high of 100 in 2018.  The month of January alone saw a 90 degree swing (-30 to 60).  I've seen floods, droughts, tornadoes, windstorms, dust storms, blizzards, triple digit heat and -40 cold.  You have to be a little crazy to embrace it.

 

hehe, ok let me know and I will come up with beer to experience one of these. 

Just now, InkaUtexas said:

hehe, ok let me know and I will come up with beer to experience one of these. 

Beer definitely helps.

My buddy hosts an ice fishing contest the last weekend of January.  Last year, the pond was melted due to 50-60 degree weather.  This year there will likely be a foot of snow, and the early forecast is for a high of 4 and low of 0.

6 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I'm not complaining.  Winter has a purpose.  Just commenting on the severity and rarity of a storm on this level.  12" of snow is not typical in Iowa, but given how our overall moisture level has been increasing in the last 5 years, it might start getting that way.

I kinda relish our harsh climate.  We had a low of -30 and high of 100 in 2018.  The month of January alone saw a 90 degree swing (-30 to 60).  I've seen floods, droughts, tornadoes, windstorms, dust storms, blizzards, triple digit heat and -40 cold.  You have to be a little crazy to embrace it.

 

Sounds like Amarillo 

4 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Sounds like Amarillo 

Our dust storms are quite a bit less frequent.  They happen, but only in really dry springs when the land has been tilled and the top soil is loose and dried out.

In all seriousness, when I drove through the Panhandle going out to the Grand Canyon about 15 years ago, I was stunned by how similar to how much it looked like the Midwest.  Row crops, flat land, and livestock everywhere.  I guess it shouldn't be that surprising.  North Texas is still the Plains and looks pretty similar to everything between there and the north woods.

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Just now, MNLonghornFUKM said:

2.7? The fuck. Thought we were dodging this one

Condolences.  Looks like Minneapolis remains, somehow, unscathed again.  My brother lives in St. Paul, and I don't think he's shoveled snow once this year.

5 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Our dust storms are quite a bit less frequent.  They happen, but only in really dry springs when the land has been tilled and the top soil is loose and dried out.

In all seriousness, when I drove through the Panhandle going out to the Grand Canyon about 15 years ago, I was stunned by how similar to how much it looked like the Midwest.  Row crops, flat land, and livestock everywhere.  I guess it shouldn't be that surprising.  North Texas is still the Plains and looks pretty similar to everything between there and the north woods.

Yep, as the feller says, if you stand on top of the Bank in Lubbock or Amarillo, you can see Canada

To cheer you up, the other day USA Today ran an article on the 32 coldest inhabited places on earth.  They list 32 of them and yeah, it's slide clickbait, but interesting.  To save time, I'll just say 1) that about 8 of the 10 coldest places are either in Canada or Russa (#10 was a place in Greenland), and 2) what's more interesting is not the place, but the temps... the #1 coldest spot has an average January temp of -53.3°F, a -47 for the 3 coldest months average, and a "hottest month" July average of 56.3°.  The top 15 aren't that much better.  Most of the names you could only hope to spell when your shit-drool drunk. 

In case you don't wanna fuckwiddit, the coldest place on earth where people live (non-scientific a la Antarctica) is:
 

Spoiler

1. Oymyakon, Sakah Republic, Russia
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2019/01/10/coldest-inhabited-places-on-earth/38875135/

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LOL, speaking of which, USAToday with Your Sensationalist Weather Headline of the Day:
 

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'Blockbuster' storm heads east, could drop 40 inches of snow. Then an Arctic blast will freeze 200 million.

We're dooooooomed.....

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Did they stop naming winter storms?  That shit was stupid.

11 minutes ago, miguelito said:

Did they stop naming winter storms?  That shit was stupid.

But what if the storms name was .....Ditka????

 

Did they stop naming winter storms?  That shit was stupid.
Nope. It's named winter storm Harper
2 hours ago, Orange&White said:

But what if the storms name was .....Ditka????

 

1 large Ditka?  or 100 little Ditkas.

15 minutes ago, Hugh G. Rection said:

1 large Ditka?  or 100 little Ditkas.

That the answer my friend is a fart that’s feelin wet.  Oh the answer is fartin on the set 

8 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

It has rained basically non-stop for 4 days here.  That is like some kind of record.  Heaviest is right now.

T&P's for you, HarveyBruin.

5 hours ago, Updawg said:
6 hours ago, miguelito said:
Did they stop naming winter storms?  That shit was stupid.

Nope. It's named winter storm Harper

Well then it's going to take forever deciding where it's going to go. 

A little baseball humor for the peeps. Cause I'm a giver. 

Expecting 12-20” in the Capital District here in NY Saturday night into Sunday, wife took sunday off but I’m going in to work...  like a dumbass. 

Yeah, that's when your wife expects to get that 12-20 inches - while you're at work on Sunday.

13 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I'm not complaining.  Winter has a purpose.  Just commenting on the severity and rarity of a storm on this level.  12" of snow is not typical in Iowa, but given how our overall moisture level has been increasing in the last 5 years, it might start getting that way.

I kinda relish our harsh climate.  We had a low of -30 and high of 100 in 2018.  The month of January alone saw a 90 degree swing (-30 to 60).  I've seen floods, droughts, tornadoes, windstorms, dust storms, blizzards, triple digit heat and -40 cold.  You have to be a little crazy to embrace it.

 

Where the hell did it get to -30 in Iowa in 2018?

1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

Where the hell did it get to -30 in Iowa in 2018?

Jack Trice Stadium?

4 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

Where the hell did it get to -30 in Iowa in 2018?

I guess it was only -28.  Sioux City.

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2 hours ago, Chet Steadman said:

Love D.C. when it’s blanketed in snow.  

It's beautiful, other than the 20 minute walks to the Metro stations in slush

6 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I guess it was only -28.  Sioux City.

Damn, my son and DIL live in North Sioux City and he says it may have broken the -10 threshold a couple of times last winter. They are buying a house in Sioux City right now, so I’ll have to warn him that it gets colder a few miles over the state line.

 

54 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

Damn, my son and DIL live in North Sioux City and he says it may have broken the -10 threshold a couple of times last winter. They are buying a house in Sioux City right now, so I’ll have to warn him that it gets colder a few miles over the state line.

 

This was according to the internet.  Jan 2nd.  I live 3-4 hours east and north.  We were close to that temp.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/weather.com/amp/storms/winter/news/2018-01-01-arctic-record-cold-outbreak-forecast-midwest-east-south-early-january.html

 

 

You must be east of Spirit Lake. That’s a good ways from Sioux City. I was gonna to offer to buy you a beer at The Diving Elk next time I’m in Sioux City to see the never-ending I-29 reconstruction project. 

I live northwest of you, and that cold snap mentioned in your link was the only time I recall it being below -20 in almost 20 years since I moved back. Most years we have a handful of days that are barely sub-zero. However, I did survive a legit 120 F in the mid-2000s.  

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1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

You must be east of Spirit Lake. That’s a good ways from Sioux City. I was gonna to offer to buy you a beer at The Diving Elk next time I’m in Sioux City to see the never-ending I-29 reconstruction project. 

I live northwest of you, and that cold snap mentioned in your link was the only time I recall it being below -20 in almost 20 years since I moved back. Most years we have a handful of days that are barely sub-zero. However, I did survive a legit 120 F in the mid-2000s.  

I’m only an hour west of Wisconsin, on the same highway that runs through Spirit Lake

28 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Northern Midwest goings-on thread talk not going away.

Wanna join in?

1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

Wanna join in?

No.  You guys down there are a buncha nancies.

2 hours ago, Telegraph_it said:

Polar my vortex?

 

Dammit.  That would put CenTex in the single digits for lows. 

27 minutes ago, Parliament said:

No.  You guys down there are a buncha nancies.

Down there? Where the fuck do you live? The Northwest Territories?

35 minutes ago, Parliament said:

No.  You guys down there are a buncha nancies.

You weren’t aware that Heaven is, in fact, south?

1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

Down there? Where the fuck do you live? The Northwest Territories?

worse. Grand Forks. but its better than sioux city

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We’ve officially got a pile of snow and I’m riding my fat tire bike around town with a backpack full of beer.

Its a good night

44 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

worse. Grand Forks. but its better than sioux city

To be fair, I think Waco is the only place worse than Sioux City.

2 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

To be fair, I think Waco is the only place worse than Sioux City.

I see that you've never been to Gary, IN.

49 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

worse. Grand Forks. but its better than sioux city

And Sioux City is better than Waterloo.  I may have been raped at a gas station there in 1993.

7 minutes ago, Parliament said:

And Sioux City is better than Waterloo.  I may have been raped at a gas station there in 1993.

Waterloo at least has Cedar Falls attached.

10 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

I see that you've never been to Gary, IN.

I’ve passed through on the interstate.  I didn’t dare exit.

JFC, I wake up this morning and the wind is insane.  My back porch is a fucking mess.  TV turned sideways, couch cushions everywhere, vases and rugs flung around.  Fuck you old man winter!!!

44 minutes ago, Moby Ric said:

JFC, I wake up this morning and the wind is insane.  My back porch is a fucking mess.  TV turned sideways, couch cushions everywhere, vases and rugs flung around.  Fuck you old man winter!!!

Yep, the back patio furniture is now yard furniture, and my dog in all her yard protection duty, decided that since one of the chairs was now in her realm, to chew the shit out of the entire back of one chair and the seat of another. Way to go wind 

Yeah, it's blowin' out today. I didn't step out until late and had only looked out the window and seen that it was a nice sunny day. Shit got blowed around.

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