Those of you in the North East Get Ready!

[TLS Guy]

This picture of Benedict Lake I took last Friday, proved to be the calm before the storm!

Saturday the weather turned foul and we had a cold rain all weekend. Monday was warm with drizzle.

Since Friday the barometer has fallen like I have never seen to the lowest I have seen here at 27.5 inches of mercury.

We have had heavy rain all day with high winds. My friend Phil has been without power this evening in Lillydale a suburb of St. Paul MN. I had to talk him through powering down his system and shutting off his UPS.

Our light are flickering a lot now, with my UPS systems cutting in.

North Dakota is under a blizzard warning and we have a winter weather advisory fro tonight and tomorrow. Most of ND will get 8 inches of snow, we are forecast to get about 2 inches here at Benedict.

I hope as the wind builds and temperature drop we do not have power lines down due to icing. I ran up the generator to day and it passed all test. I ran the house on it for 35 minutes. So I hope I'm covered.

The storm is headed East, so you guys out there get ready.

 

[GO-NAD!]

Hmmm, there's nothing significant in our forecast for the next week or so - other than a lot of rain. The temperatures are a bit above seasonal. Maybe this system isn't tracking directly towards us.

Good luck, Doc!

 

[TLS Guy]

Hmmm, there's nothing significant in our forecast for the next week or so - other than a lot of rain. The temperatures are a bit above seasonal. Maybe this system isn't tracking directly towards us.

Good luck, Doc!

Its going to be hitting the Detroit/Port Huron area today, and is supposed to eventually get to the Eastern Seaboard, may be not as far North as Canada.

 

[Alex2507]

Our forecast doesn't show that being a problem in the next five days. Maybe it will swing into Canada. That's what the Canadians were hoping for anyway: an early winter. Why else would they live in Canada? Certainly not for the long summers. Right Billy?

It looks like you're getting a little foul weather now but there is worse to follow out of the Dakotas. I wonder how long before it reaches here. I take comfort in knowing that NY and CT get hit first. Company loves misery.

 

[3db]

Ontario got partially hit by this system. Chatam Ontario sawa few semi trailers turned over. Up here in Ottawa, its a bit breezy but nothing worth noting. I grew up in the Maritimes and wind was a daily occurance.

TLS.. How did you fare?

 

[TLS Guy]

Ontario got partially hit by this system. Chatam Ontario sawa few semi trailers turned over. Up here in Ottawa, its a bit breezy but nothing worth noting. I grew up in the Maritimes and wind was a daily occurance.

TLS.. How did you fare?

The wind has died down, light rain; noisy night though. We are supposed to get snow today and tonight. They have lowered the snow total to about an inch, probably as it is still raining here and not snowing like they forecast. There is significant snow falling over a lot of ND though.

Still pitch dark, so I don't know of any trees are down. My UPS units are still working overtime, probably from the events in ND. Our power is generated in Western ND.

 

[Midwesthonky]

It's been a heck of storm front. I'm not up in Minnesota, but I got relatives up in Fargo so they know what to do with that kind of weather. My office got hit by a tornado yesterday morning but I was off on a work trip. Apparently it installed several new skylights in the building. Oops! But no serious injuries. A pregnant lady was walking across the parking lot when it hit but she only lost her shoes to the tornado so that is a huge relief.

We had to hit the storm shelters at our facility in Indiana where I was visiting. We had 80+ mph winds roll through with some tornados. No damage but for bit there, we couldn't see the parking lot and flag due to the heavy rain and wind.

For as bad as the storm is, looks like for the most part, everyone is pretty safe. Enjoy the storm East coast!

 

[jeffsg4mac]

It is 68 and rainy here in NH. Tomorrow it is supposed to hit 70 and be sunny. No snow in our forecast.

 

[sawzalot]

The edge of this huge storm just hit the Jersey Shore this morning, We have slight drizzle with some light to medium winds the three day warm front that we just experienced is holding tough and seems to be pushing the edge of the storm right up the coast which means we will be spared the brunt of this huge system, our forecast actually calls for high sixties close to seventy, and mostly sunny Thursday thru Saturday and partly cloudy mid sixties on Sunday not too bad at all for scare night

 

[Alex2507]

It is 68 and rainy here in NH.

The edge of this huge storm just hit the Jersey Shore this morning,

That's a completely different system. Yeah, tomorrow is gonna be nice. I'm gonna wax the fofo.

 

[gmichael]

I'm gonna wax the fofo.

Too much information my friend.

 

[TLS Guy]

Ontario got partially hit by this system. Chatam Ontario sawa few semi trailers turned over. Up here in Ottawa, its a bit breezy but nothing worth noting. I grew up in the Maritimes and wind was a daily occurance.

TLS.. How did you fare?

Once day broke and I surveyed there were some problems.

I decided it was time to winterize my venerable 1988 Suburban 6.2 Lt diesel. This vehicle is close to mint, and drives like the day it left the factory. However this vehicle is now turning heads so I probably should not use it as much on the winter.

Anyhow I did not feel like grovelling in my shop, so I scrounged the use of a lift from Lowell Raditz owner of Lowell's Tire and oil at Kabekona. Kabekona is smaller than Benedict and just Has Lowell's Tire and oil and the Antique Peddler.

So as I get on my way, I see there are a number of small tree limbs scattered about. But a close look into the forest shows quite a few trees uprooted.

Close to the end of the 1/2 mile private road I maintain, Ladyslipper drive, there is a small patch on the edge of the forest that has all the trees down and two fur trees lying across Ladyslipper. Since I'm in my heavy duty Suburban (not like the new ones, which a low duty) I can drive around them. It looks as if there was a small patch of tornadic activity at that location.

There is a brisk wind and pretty heavy rain, ice and snow with some reduced visibility. On the higher ground at Laporte, 6 miles away, it is all snow and it is at Kabekona 16 miles away.

On the way back it was heavier. After I got back, I hopped on the old John Deere Model A, headed down Ladyslipper and pushed the trees back in the woods. The big tree must have missed the power line by the thinnest of whiskers. The old A moved the large tree with not a fuss and with very little throttle. Marvelous old tractor that. It was cold enough I was very glad I put on the comfort covers on Friday. I was soon good and warm from the engine heat.

Now it is blowing hard from the NW with light snow on and off and its getting colder.

I guess this event has been called a bomb cyclone. Just north of here they recorded the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in Minnesota. The readings I was getting yesterday were so low I was disbelieving and I re calibrated my barometer. The reading at Big Fork Lake came in at a low of 28.04 inches of mercury. The lowest reading I had here yesterday was around 28.5 inches of Mercury. Those are levels associated with class category 3 hurricanes and cyclones. So this event really was a massive inland hurricane.

The lowest barometric readings I had previously were during the huge four day snow storm over the last Christmas holiday.

This was certainly an interesting and very unusual weather event.