Looks like we will be getting some snow. National weather service is predicting a "significant" winter storm. They do tend to give out the maximum possibilities, and usually it is less than they say, but still it looks like it could get nasty out there.
Here is the winter storm warning from the NWS
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS... 9 TO 12 INCHES OF SNOW IS LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 7 INCHES ARE FORECAST FOR THOSE PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ALONG AND EAST OF I-135.
* ICE ACCUMULATIONS... A GLAZE OF ICE IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING... ESPECIALLY FOR LOCATIONS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 400.
* WINDS... NORTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE BETWEEN 25 AND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING.
* IMPACTS... THE FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL RESULT IN LIGHT ICE ACCUMULATIONS ON EXPOSED SURFACES AND UNTREATED ROADS THIS MORNING. HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL MAKE DRIVING DANGEROUS FROM TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. THE STRONG NORTH WINDS MAY RESULT IN BLIZZARD CONDITIONS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT... ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS... WITH NEAR ZERO VISIBILITIES POSSIBLE. DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS OF 15 BELOW TO 20 BELOW ARE LIKELY BY TUESDAY NIGHT.
Off topic:
ReplyDeleteJJ,
I'm a little surprised you haven't posted something about the "Turmoil in Egypt"?
The impact it could have on America is on the news 24 hours a day! It's possible effect on relations with Isreal? The price for oil?(Maybe they just don't have anyhting better to cover?)
There have been several references to the "MUSLIM BROTERHOOD" and fears that they want to continue the "strife" to then take control! (I don't think people are content anymore to be mindlessly ruled in this age of communication and the Internet!)
I do think we are seeing a battle for the minds and hearts of men/women!
ill post something on that in a little while
ReplyDeleteNot off-topic
ReplyDelete"They do tend to give out the maximum possibilities, and usually it is less than they say"
It's amazing how many people, many who've lived here for years, do not realize this and go into 'EVERYBODY PANIC!' mode. It's January, it's gonna be subzero, snowy and windy for a few days, then back into the 40's.
Yea, but that wont sell any newspapers or help tv and radio ratings :)
ReplyDeleteNow there you go the News Media Brotherhood!
ReplyDeleteThey warn us for a reason. I would rather be prepared for a blizzard and possible power outages than to not heed the warning and not be prepared. In my family we plan and take care of ourselves. Not ignore the warnings and need to be taken care of. BTW....I am a lifetime resident....I always heed the warnings. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThis is from an article on Yahoo today:
ReplyDeleteSeems Ground Hog day originally derived from an ancient Celtic Holiday that got revised when Chistianity swept through Europe!
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That may explain the origin of Groundhog Day in general, but it offers few clues on how groundhogs got involved. For that, we can thank 19th-century German immigrants and a creative city editor at the Punxsutawney Spirit newspaper.
Germans who settled in Pennsylvania in the 1800s brought many customs from home, including an old practice of predicting the end of winter based on bears' and badgers' hibernation habits. Some Germans may have switched to groundhogs when they arrived in America, but the new tradition didn't really take off until the late 1880s, when a group of local groundhog hunters caught the attention of Punxsutawney Spirit city editor Clymer H. Freas.
Freas reported on the men's groundhog hunts and barbecues, touting them as members of "the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club." He became so enthralled by local groundhog folklore that he went on to promote Punxsutawney as home to a weather-predicting groundhog, a story he then continued to repeat and embellish year after year. Other newspapers began reporting it, too, and Punxsutawney soon became ground zero for groundhog meteorology, as well as the hometown of world-renowned forecaster "Punxsutawney Phil".
Crowds of up to 30,000 people now swarm the city to watch Phil make his annual prediction, an event further popularized by the 1993 Bill Murray comedy Groundhog Day. The rise of Punxsutawney Phil has also inspired an array of other forecasting groundhogs across the United States and Canada, including Gen. Beauregard Lee in Atlanta, Sir Walter Wally in Raleigh and Wiarton Willie in Ontario.
Although there could be some truth to the link between clear weather on Feb. 2 and a longer winter — since sunny days in winter are often caused by cold, dry air masses, and cloudy days tend to result from moist, mild ocean air — the National Climatic Data Center points out that groundhogs are hardly reliable meteorologists. An NCDC analysis shows Punxsutawney Phil's winter predictions only held up 39 percent of the time from 1988 to 2005, and a study of Canada's 13 major weather-forecasting groundhogs found their success rate was about 37 percent over 30 to 40 years.
A better rule of thumb for predicting winter weather is to look at regional climate, according to the NCDC. For most of the United States, the three coldest months of the year are December, January and February, meaning winter is usually still going strong on Feb. 2 regardless of whether rodents cast shadows. But before we accuse the holiday's namesake forecasters of sleeping on the job, it's worth noting that wild groundhogs in North America often hibernate into late February and March — suggesting they may know winter isn't over without even stepping outside on Groundhog Day.
JJ,
I think you need to come up with a tradition for AC on Ground Hog day.
Got any suggestions?
What could you use in Cowley County?
Sorry, the above article was from CNN.
ReplyDeleteIll think on it. Sounds like a great idea.
ReplyDeleteWe do need a "hook" or a "gimmick" to put AC on the map of the american awareness.
How about "the spider bite capitol of Kansas".
ReplyDeleteFrom CNN:
ReplyDeleteThe unrest in Egypt presented Obama with a complex issue that lacked easy answers.
Egypt -- the main Arab ally of the United States -- is inexorably linked to neighboring Israel -- the main U.S. ally in the Middle East -- by a peace treaty that guarantees more than $1 billion a year in U.S. military aid to Mubarak's government.
Egypt also provides vital logistical and intelligence assistance to the United States, which has urged Mubarak for years to implement democratic reforms but always put the strategic benefits first.
Daniel Kurtzer, the U.S. ambassador to Egypt from 1997 to 2001, said the administration wants to both support "an exceedingly strong ally" and promote democratic reform and more openness in "a closed authoritarian society."
"The United States is trying to find comfortable ground in which we can argue for both without abandoning an ally and without abandoning our principles," Kurtzer told CNN on Monday.
JJ,
You want to blast the Corporate Titans but a billion dollars a year isn't Chump Change - especially when we are borrowing it from China!
@9:18
ReplyDeleteYou are an idiot. Does this have ANYTHING to do with the weather? You are obviously someone who has alienated everyone else you know with your nutjob ramblings so nobody will talk to you. You do a cut and paste and try to provoke people online. When there is no bite - you post more articles til someone acknowledges you.
He blew off your 10:32, then you tried again at 6:42 (again way off-topic) so you try again.
Start your own blog and post all you want about anything and loners will find you and discuss things that apparently only you want to talk about.
When there is no bite -
ReplyDeleteSo I'm an Idiot that got you to Bite!
Altough I'm probably not in the same league as the spider-bite people!
@9:18
ReplyDeleteYou are not an idiot-YOU ARE A PARTRIOT
Yeah, let's hear it for PARTRIOTISM.
ReplyDelete9:18, I agree that you are not an idiot but a patriot. Let the people like 3:19 PM bury their heads in the sand and only worry about what affects them right now, like the weather, while people who care about their country look to the rest of the world (and to history) to see what can be done to change the path we are on. People with narrow vision will be taken by surprise when things change, and then look to the people who were paying attention for advice on how to cope with it.
ReplyDeleteTommy,
ReplyDeleteJust because I don't want to read anti vs pro guns (about 20% of the big thread) or "you're a racist vs no, you are" (at least 25% of superthread" has no bearing whatsoever on where my head is.
The day we look to your narrow-minded worldview for advice will truly be a sad day for this society (not country)indeed.
The day we look to your narrow-minded worldview for advice will truly be a sad day for this society (not country)indeed.
ReplyDeleteNo, the really sad day is when we choose to use Government to determine how people can live and what they can SAY!
AND
WHEN RIGHT IS WRONG AND WRONG IS RIGHT!
Dear February 7, 2011 7:01 AM,
ReplyDeleteIt's not only because you don't want to know what's going on around you, it's also because you choose to chastize anyone who has an idea and speaks their mind. And because you like to call people idiots for caring about what is happening in the world around them. You say I have a narrow minded world view, yet you call people names for posting something off topic in a blog where the owner has made it perfectly clear that he is okay with posting off topic. In this case, the topic was the weather which had already passed, and the thread had zero posts. I don't see how someone posting to it with something they consider important was either idiotic or nuts. It may even widen your view of the world around you to have things brought to your attention that you were not aware of. That is, after all, the reason to read any blog. Information.
So to sum it all up, if anyone was out of line, it was not the poster you called and idiot and a nutjob, it was you for calling them that.
http://www.breitbart.tv/tn-county-solves-prison-overcrowding-saves-millions-by-deporting-illegal-immigrants/
ReplyDeleteTake a couple of minutes and watch this, and then ask yourself how better off this country would be if we did this everywhere.
And because you like to call people idiots for caring about what is happening in the world around them-
ReplyDeleteGee, I dont' think I was the One who called anyone an Idiot!
I even agreed that I was an IDIOT and a PARROTRIOT (JJ, deleted that one):).
But, it is important to have a broad World View!
If you haven't noticed there is a current movement to include "Sharia Law" in U.S. Courts!
AT SOME POINT YOU WILL BE FORCED TO DECIDE WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND/OR STAND FOR OR AGAINST!
YOU BETTER KNOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE!
(They will try to make you compromise to the point you no longer can DECIDE!)
Gee, I dont' think I was the One who called anyone an Idiot!
ReplyDeleteThen why are you responding to a post that was meant for someone else?
Then why are you responding to a post that was meant for someone else?
ReplyDeleteOOOPs I checked my shoe and that smell is ME :)!
Btw:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/07/new.york.beheading/index.html
Here is a link to an article on CNN 2/7/11.
The NY man got second degree murder for beheading his wife who had filed for Divorce!
The article said the long knife used left marks on the tile floor!
While I wished that here was better alternative/solution than Divorce it is a necessary EVIL! At least in our Society!)
It just been made to convenient and people often give up to EASY! Maybe there are some Role Models who need to give Guidance!
(People who have made their marriages successful - who learned about Sharing?)
But in Some Cultures it's a One Way street!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-fault_divorce
ReplyDeleteFrom Wiki's link on No fault divorce!
ReplyDeleteRussian history
No-fault divorce was pioneered by the Bolsheviks following the Russian Revolution of 1917. Before the Revolution, churches, mosques, and synagogues defined family life. It was the ecclesiastical law of the various denominations that controlled the family, marriage, and divorce. For example, the official registration of birth, death, marriage, and divorce was the responsibility of the church parish. Under these non-secular laws, divorce was highly restricted (though never completely unavailable, as no major religion in Russia completely disallowed divorce).
The 1918 Decree on Divorce eliminated the religious marriage and the underlying ecclesiastical law, by replacing them with civil marriage sanctioned by the state. Divorce was obtained by filing a mutual consent document with the Russian Registry Office, or by the unilateral request of one party to the court. The divorce law under the Bolsheviks did not penalize the husband with alimony, child support, or debtor's prison for non-payment. The two partners were entirely free of legal obligations to each other after divorce.
Does that mean divorce is a commie plot?
ReplyDeleteDoes that mean divorce is a commie plot?
ReplyDeleteIDK, but we know how things turned out in the USSR! Makes you wonder what happens when you adopt other countries practices and/or policies?
Things have certainly changed in the USA since its adoption in 1970!
But, the point is - No fualt divorce wasn't invented or MADE IN AMERICA!
I know a couple who got a quick divorce that took less than a week, but then decided they had made a mistake and wanted to be married again, so they asked about having the divorce annulled. They were told that only marriages could be annulled, and they would have to get married all over again, even though it had been less than a month since the divorce. It seems so sad that the laws allow a marriage to be annulled for one year, but a divorce cannot be annulled at all. It's almost like they don't want people to stay married.
ReplyDeleteYou see I didn't really think you wanted to discuss REAL ISSUES!
ReplyDeleteWhere there is no REAL right or wrong or where there is no willingness to compromise? (But you can't compromise your BASIC OR CORE BELIEFS and still be in CONTROL!)
There is a DISCONNECT and a VACUUM!
How many people today are living or caught in that VACUUM?
To Feb 8 12:22
ReplyDeleteYou decry the onion for making up stuff, then suggest I visit a breitbart link?
Well the Onion is satire. it is SUPPOSED to be making stuff up. That is what satire is. The Onion has never ever suggested anything write actually happened, though some things do make a point.
ReplyDeleteas opposed to some organizations that claim to be news organizations ...
Breitbart tells the truth, albeit their stories come from a conservative viewpoint. The onion is satirical fiction. The link on breitbart is from a local news channel.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.breitbart.tv/tn-county-solves-prison-overcrowding-saves-millions-by-deporting-illegal-immigrants/
"Breitbart tells the truth"
ReplyDeleteReally, Tom? Really? This is what you actually believe? Have you heard of Shirley Sherrod? How about James O'Keefe?
This represents your idea of a "conservative viewpoint?"
I have to chuckle everytime I look at that!
"Breitbart tells the truth....."
Nice.
@ 4:13
ReplyDeleteThat kind of made me laugh, too.