Massive winter storm to bring heavy snow, rain to these states

[riversedge]

Source: msn.com





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Don't be fooled by the mild winter weather in some places -- a massive storm is on its way to wreak havoc in several states as it treks across the country.


The next storm gearing up to affect the U.S. will start in the Northwest on Tuesday morning, bringing heavy snow to the mountains of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, forecasts show.


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By Wednesday, there will be a wide swath of snow from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes region, delivering possible blizzards to the northern Plains and upper Midwest.
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Many regions are projected to receive up to 2 feet of snow through Friday morning, but projected totals could increase as the storm gets closer................

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Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/massive-winter-storm-to-bring-heavy-snow-rain-to-these-states/ar-AA17G33S?ocid=ansmsnnews11&cvid=0bf1dffed02a482ce16c1dfa9705f9db

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Be careful folks. Ice and snow is nothing to fool around with. But Spring will come soon, just not this week

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[Srkdqltr]

1. February is still winter.

[paleotn]

8. Fool's Spring.

[DENVERPOPS]

16. LOL AKA

"Springtime in the Rockies"

[Warpy]

17. We've had several inches of snow here in NM in the first week of May

Nobody trusts the weather until Mother Nature throws the switch that gets the mercury stuck above 90F.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. Late May

three? maybe four? years ago in the front range mountains of northern Colorado we got FOUR TO FIVE FEET of WET snow.............A lot of the big game and small critters perished, sadly..........

No matter how much snow we get here in Colorado, that comprises most of what goes down the Colorado River, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Southern California keep their un-ending commercial and residential development, Utilizing every last drop on their countless green Golf Courses, green lawns, fountains and every house having a back yard pool..............

The two major Reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead are at their lowest levels since being filled............and they are still developing...

Last year, in the fall, one downstream community asked for Colorado to send more water.....LOL Do you think we manufacture it????
When the snow melts from the previous winter, that is it folks.............

[Warpy]

32. You're on the soggy Front Range

I'm living on the dry side of the mountains, so that May snowstorm was pretty remarkable. We usually just get cold weather some years until the switch gets thrown and it scoots over 90 within a day or two.

[paleotn]

7. Yep.

We're not done yet. Normally, we wouldn't see the grass again around here until early April, but this year has been weird. Ice is thin to non-existent on lakes and ponds. Needless to say, ice fishing season has been short and dicey. Didn't ice up much until nearly mid-Jan. Not much for the snowmobilers to work with either. But that will change starting Thursday, with a follow up system over the weekend. Another month and a week until cruel, cruel April. It's Spring! No, it's not. OK, now it's Spring! Nope, not yet.

[wnylib]

22. It's that thin or absent ice that causes heavy snowfalls

in the Midwest and East around the Great Lakes.

[thecrow]

2. I live near DC...

The forecast for Thursday is 78 Fahrenheit…
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[dweller]

6. 84 on Thursday in NC

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[orleans]

9. omg -- that's crazy! 78? n/t

[elleng]

12. Ditto, and 42 with 'rain and snow showers' in southern MD

Saturday 2/25!!!

[DENVERPOPS]

19. We here in Colorado

and other states that have utilities supplied by Xcel Energy are trying to cope with Xcel DOUBLING OR TRIPILING our utility bills starting January first..........

Our Public Utilities Commission was put in place to protect the consumers from a monopoly raping the public.
Now the Colorado PUC just rubber stamps every rate increase coming across their desks.
Two of our three PUC commissioners were appointed by our Corporate Leaning Governor.....POLIS

For over 10 years, Xcel has been gaining in their utility bill increases, now they are going for the GRAND SLAM......

Extremely egregious, considering they are currently paying ONE HALF what they evidently told the PUC was their costs for Natural Gas.....

We are a millimeter away from being ruled by a Corporate Fascist Tyranny, folks

[Delmette2.0]

25. Same here in Montana

My electric bill was doubled.

Yikes!

[sadasfyed]

41. go solar

I dont have a bill anymore and they buy my excess

[Delmette2.0]

42. I live in an apartment now.

[soldierant]

26. Would you have preferred for his opponent to be Governor?

https://www.cpr.org/2023/02/16/xcel-energy-bills-colorado-lawmakers-investigation/

[DENVERPOPS]

28. For all of my voting life

with the exception of Jimmy Carter, I have somewhat resigned myself to having to vote for many that were the lesser of two evils...............

Anyone who has any corporate leanings makes me wonder. I voted for Polis, even though he was not a self made man, and was Corporate, but he was as you would say, better than the alternative......

I think Polis has been doing a moderately ok job, but like most politicians, I watch what he does............

Xcel has been running roughshod over their utility customers for decades, and in particular, the past two years........And when the people on Social Security or other fixed incomes FINALLY blew their tops, the issue gets attention, and Polis saying he will have an "investigation".
The Colorado PUC, POLIS' APPOINTED PUC COMMISSIONERS, signed off on these latest Jan 1st increases that were double or triple. When the people finally protested, and when Polis said something, Suddenly, Xcel declared that the cost of the Natural Gas Prices they Quoted to get the increases were TWICE what they are reported to be currently paying, and they would lower the rates..........

So no, I wouldn't have preferred his opponent, but I think we drastically need to have better people to vote for.............
And, for the record, I believe that the best Governor we ever had, was Dick Lamm.

[soldierant]

33. I can't and won't argue with you on Lamm. (I liked Dottie too.)

I came to live in Colorado when I got out of the military in 1976, so I was here for most of his tenure. At that time I was advised to register Republican (I didn't) because only Republicans had the opportunity to influence government - just think what could have been had he had a Democratic legislature. Today we do, and I hope their investigations will nail Xcel for you and lead to more permanent reform than just one rollback.. My electricity and gas comes from Colorado Springs Utilities, and my bill has not doubled (compared to the same months in the previous year), but it did increase maybe 30% which is bad enough.

While you are correct that we cannot elect better candidates if better candidates don't run, I have to wonder whether, if we had better candidates, they could win. I fear elections like the Presidential election of 2016, and have seen too many of them, mostly not at that level of course. I am not happy with having to progress incrementally, yet fear that if we try too hard to move faster we will lose more than we gain. Backlash is real.

I know Polis isn't perfect, but I still remember with gratitude that he came to Colorado Springs to hold a town hall when Lamborn would not. That was when he was still in the House, before he was Governor. But if you want to rant about him, feel free for all of me. I'd listen.

Do you ever watch the videos of Beau of the Fifth Column on YouTube? He looks and sounds (in terms of accent) like a redneck but he mostly talks like a liberal - and by that I mean, and he means, considerably farther left than a lot of Democrats. If I'm ever feeling politically isolated, that's a place I can go to know I"m not completely alone.

[DENVERPOPS]

34. Hey

Thx for your info & Thoughts.....

I do watch Beau, and I think Beau is like Molly Ivans (may she rest in peace) Gene Amole (may he too rest in peace , NancRants, and others.

Beau is interesting, a real disconnect? from his earlier years. His commentaries are stellar.

I was really sad to see Dick Lamm pass away. We were not friends per se, but were connected through our love for mountaineering and politics. He was an incredible mountaineer, and was a member of the Adaman? Club in C.Spgs......quite an honor.
We exchanged emails now and then, I had known he and his wife since the mid sixties.
His wife Dottie was great also. She should have won when she ran for Senator if she hadn't have been blindsided by Josie Heath.
If there were ever a true visionary in Colorado, it would have to have been him..........
He wrote an incredible series of opeds in a weekly column for the RM News after he was governor, talking about political issues, etc
There were about 24? of them. If you read them today, your mind would be blown about how right on target his thinking was about the future, and his warnings......

[soldierant]

40. IMO the trouble that

put Beau in a Federal prison was definitely in the "good trouble" category. The way laws are written, getting people out of deadly danger without papers and thus saving thir lives is indistinguishable from "human trafficking." He knew it, and accepted the consequences like an adult. I don't see a disconnect there.

I am often a bit spooked at the predictions of intelligent people coming true - including people who are pretty well unknown. I "inherited" a blog from a fellow who died of cancer, going on two years ago, and committed to keeping it running, not that I am living up to his standard. He made his own political cartoons for it and I have kept that up, using his cartoons whenever possible (and falling back on"this day in history" when not), and I arbitrarily went back eight years for that. Most of them are as up to date now as they were then - scarily so. Perhaps Republicans haven't so much gotten worse as gotten louder.

[Mr. Evil]

29. I'm in Lexington, KY.

Wed. forecast is for 71 and Thur. is 76. Both of which are well above our historical average.

[Bayard]

30. 76 here on Thur for southern KY

Yesterday, we had snow flurries.

[Colorado Liberal]

31. Longmont, Colorado (northwest of Denver)

Wednesday: High of 28, low of -6
Thursday: High of 22, low of 6

Got a nice bike ride in yesterday, though...

[SheltieLover]

4. Stay safe, All!

[tinrobot]

5. Waxing my skis now.

Looks like at least couple of feet in the Sierras next week. And it's already a record year.

[thecrow]

11. Hunting for my sunblock..

It must be around here somewhere… 😆

[Sogo]

10. I'm in line for major rain....

....and glad of it!

But all in the line of snow, stay safe!!

[brooklynite]

13. NYC

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[Archae]

14. Snowstorm is supposed to hit us in WI starting Tuesday night.

Not sure how much we'll get.

[Kaleva]

18. I live in MI north of you and that's when we are expecting the storm

[wnylib]

23. Uh-oh. Western NY often gets Michigan's snow storms

the following day.

[PlutosHeart]

20. Need to stock up here in MN. WOOHOO!

As usual we look to be in the target in my area.
All the thawing has created about a 4-5" layer of solid ice. I literally have to hold onto everything I can when walking so I do not fall.

[OldBaldy1701E]

36. Tell me about it.

I had shoulder surgery last fall and was finally making some progress with the healing. THEN, I went out to grab the mail two weeks ago and slipped on the ice. I landed right on that shoulder. Now, major setback to healing. It was in the 80s where I am from. Sigh.

[CountAllVotes]

15. Freeze alerts and snow in the pacific northwest of California

I lost my fence in the last big storm and had enough money left thanks to my gofundme to have the other side fixed up as well. It was a finished job as of yesterday luckily!

It is a faux spring no doubt. People are putting in flower beds that will freeze. Its way to early for that!

& recommend.

[catbyte]

21. I'm afraid we're going to get an ice storm here in Michigan. I've seen models giving my area up to

1.5" of ice and 35 mph winds. Yuck. The last time we had an ice storm (2013) power was out in Lansing proper for 3 days. I'm getting nervous about my fishies and frogs. I've got those space blankets to insulate the tank but they only go so far. I've ordered a power bank that I think might work because it powers laptops, fans, micro mini-fridges, etc. that should be here tomorrow which will give me time to charge it up before the storm hits. I also have one of those little hand-crank radios that charge cell phones and I plan on gassing up my car in case I have to charge my phone that way. I'm hoping for sleet or snow. It's better to be safe than sorry.

Stay safe, everyone!

[MontanaMama]

27. Here we go...again.

I was just taking my garbage out to the street and looked back at my front yard:



Guess we will add more snow to what we’ve got. I so want spring…

Before anyone says anything about me taking the garbage out at night…I have a bearproof garbage can. And no, some bears don’t sleep in the winter.

[riversedge]

35. looks like my yard or it will look like it soon. We have big dirty banks of snow with about

6 to 8 inches on the ground yet [rained a few days ago and some snow packed down]--but will look like yours if the weather people are correct -in a day or two..


Anyway it is 13 degrees out this morning and the sap is not flowing. Got the pails ready during that warm up a few days ago but will have to wait now. Ready to make some maple syrup. -and that needs some warmer weather.

take care

[GusBob]

37. Let it snow

We need it badly up here!!

[MontanaMama]

38. I'll bring some up!

I have seen my yard since the 7th of November.

[Siwsan]

39. I just stay prepared for anything because the forecasts have been off, all season

The last two storms that came through dropped less than 50% of what was in the forecast. Weather.gov and AccuWeather both say maybe 1-3" with very little icing.

On the other hand, Weather Underground's forecast for Thursday changes by the hour. Started out at 5" then changed to 8" then 3, then 6 and now it is back to 8. By next Monday the forecast says temps in the 40's.

I'm stocked with food and beverage for me and the all of the kitcats, there's firewood in the garage and a snow blower ready to help me clear what ever does fall. Not to forget the generator, should the weather gods curse me with another power outage.

Winter can't end soon enough for me. I hate this season.