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SNOW! and more SNOW! ...

Chicago (62") - has been more snowy than International Falls - 'the icebox of the nation'!
NY (54") - more than Anchorage!
Detroit over 70" !! - Could end up being their 2nd snowiest year ever!
Philly - (54") - already in 4th place and it's not over yet!
Indianapolis - more than Fairbanks???!!
Yikes! - just forget about all my complaining - :duc

:hugs... Making a good thing out of bad weather - TIME newsfeed
 

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Those maps ARE updating! I should have known the WS would come through on that :).

Look at that storm in the South!

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Another foot here... They are promising 40 degrees next week. I really hope they aren't wrong!!
 

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I should point out that the maps are updating, but . .

they are still forecast maps and 6 days out ;).

Lisa, you and the New Englanders have immediate problems! Not quite getting a break yet either, I guess.

(Is there a Northwesterner? No. The spellchequer doesn't want to give that one to me. Anyway, Oregon is looking like it is wearing a loaded diaper this morning ;).)

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Another wave of weather coming. The maps on the first page are almost in the "aftermath" phase of what is expected over the next few days. I'm sorry to say that for most of us it is more of what we don't really want. The exception is California and neighborhood. They will benefit from some more rain, the Weather Service is thinking.

Cold here after a little more snow. I may have to cover the rosemary in the greenhouse again, is all. Let me see on this tablet if this map gif will work. This kind of fills in the time between now and those updating maps on the first page.

Steve
edit: well shoot! just look at this:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/basicwx/day0-7loop.html
 
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Today, it is melting!! Which is a wonderful thing... unfortunately, next week we are back into the 20's and single digits at night. Ugh.
 

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Ugh.

I don't know how you can even take it that well, Lesa. It is almost March! Your lows will be the highs in some parts of the upper Plains!!!! Yeah . .

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Just as long as it's not a repeat of the weather we had yesterday!! .. .:eek:
When the roads are worse than they have seen in 25 years in MN you know it's really really BAD!

I crawled to work this AM and skated home ... :hide

Unseasonably cold all week ... not sure what that even means anymore...
BUT YAY!... no snow!
 

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More snow heading our way, so maybe we'll get a little more sledding in. During the long freeze we just came out of, we could have built a "gem" igloo (time-lapse video), had we been feeling a little more creative. :cool: My dad said he couldn't remember back to when we'd last had snow hang on the ground so long either.

Colorful-igloo-in-New-Jersey-jpg.jpg
 

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See that is what we could have fun making at home and just stay there when it gets too tuff to drive. Ha!

This wouldn't have been nearly such a kick for the kids: Brunelleschi, the greatest architect and engineer of the Renaissance (link). It was on PBS recently as modern engineers try to understand how such a huge brick dome could have been built during that time. One thing, they found & excavated a small "model dome" nearby.

As I'm watching your video, Journey, I thought it might work okay to build an ice igloo just by piling up the snow into the proper shape, laying the ice over it, "chinking" appropriately, allowing everything to freeze in place, and then digging the snow out from inside thru the door . . . :)

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