Blizzard-like conditions set to slam Southwest, plains

[jaxx]

Blizzard-like conditions set to slam Southwest, plains
Storm could dump up to a foot of snow in Kansas, Colorado and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles

updated 1 hour 45 minutes ago

AUSTIN. Texas. — A severe winter storm is expected to hit southwestern mountains on Sunday afternoon and evening and then move east to dump up to a foot of snow in Kansas, Colorado and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, weather forecasters said.

New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado are under winter storm warnings. Forecasters warned that some parts of the central and southern plains could see high winds and more than a foot of snow falling at a rate of up to two inches per hour in near-blizzard conditions.

<..> The mix of rain and snow will move through eastern Kansas on Monday night and into the Chicago and Detroit areas on Tuesday, forecasters said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45714838/ns/us_news/

The snow lovers will be happy, the travelers not so much. I can easily do without a white Christmas.

[Subdivisions]

Living as I do in Texas, I always look forward to any snow we might get. Where I live (just north of the Hill Country) it gets just cold enough to be cold and wet but not cold enough to produce much snow. One-half inch can shut the DFW Metroplex down but I always find myself wishing for more. Even moved to Jackson, Wyoming once, for a while, and loved it.

I want a white Christmas. I love the other-worldly quality of a snow event like a blizzard. I love the quiet a good snow fall brings.

[jaxx]

Snow is beautiful to watch falling, and there is a quiet that comes with it.

Here in IL, it piles up, has to be shoveled and plowed and the mall still opens.

[azmouse]

Getting some light rain here in the Phoenix area. Feels wintry... for us, that is.

Never has been, and almost certainly never will be, a white Christmas for Phoenix. I think the record snowfall here is somewhere around one inch and that happened more than 70 years ago. Some of the outlying areas see a bit of light snow with very cold storms but the snow never makes it into town. Our thrill last winter was 15 minutes of very light flurries. whoopee!

[Ikonoklast]

Glad I am taking the week off, last year it was one wintery blast after another coming through OK, MO, IL, IN and OH.

Oh, and the blizzards that ran up the Eastern Seaboard, one after another.

Driving a tractor/trailer 2800 miles a week through that dreaded four-letter word describing frozen water falling from the sky in crystalline form is brutal.

[Robconoclast]

(12-18-2011 02:35 PM)Ikonoklast Wrote:  Glad I am taking the week off, last year it was one wintery blast after another coming through OK, MO, IL, IN and OH.

Oh, and the blizzards that ran up the Eastern Seaboard, one after another.

Driving a tractor/trailer 2800 miles a week through that dreaded four-letter word describing frozen water falling from the sky in crystalline form is brutal.

Saturday it hit here. The drive downtown was progressively worse as I neared Cleveland (40 mph on 71). I heard 90 was full of accidents which is what always happens during the first snow in Cleveland.

[jaxx]

Everybody in the path of the storm....be careful. Santa has to be able to find you.

[Robconoclast]

(12-18-2011 10:20 PM)jaxx Wrote:  Everybody in the path of the storm....be careful. Santa has to be able to find you.

Last Saturday we had to cancel the last weekly festival in front of the brewery where I work due to the snow. Santa packed up and headed into his SUV...er, I mean sports utility sled.