The ‘weird’ weather along the Gulf got interesting yesterday! Funny how this didn’t even get to be a ‘named’ storm, like all the ones that go through the Midwest!
The Gulf Coast was probably the biggest surprise, especially Florida. Most people head down to the Sunshine State in January to get away from snow and freezing temperatures, but cities from Pensacola to Jacksonville got hammered with the white stuff. The Pensacola area seems to have been hit the hardest. According to AccuWeather, the panhandle city recorded an official 7.6 inches, while the Pensacola News Journal reports that some other local areas potentially saw up to nine or more. The record for the city, which is from 1895, was a whopping three inches.
Full article, HERE from PJ Media.
Soooo, this storm dumped record levels of snow on New Orleans, Pensacola, and probably a lot of other places along the Gulf Coast, breaking some records that go back over 100 years.
Now I just want somebody to ‘splain to me how this is ‘globull warming’!
I know you folks up north are laughing at us, but the South is NOT set up for these temps or the snow. Probably the only snowblowers belong to the snowbirds that ‘forgot’ to take them out of their household good shipment…
And De Santis closed I-10 due to snow and ice, to keep folks from getting killed trying to drive in that mess. I-75 was also having issues in GA and North Florida as of last night.
But those folks will get through it, just like they do the hurricanes and tornadoes that are more ‘regular’ visitors. Although, with the new administration, they might actually get some help from the government if they ask for it!
We are in an interglacial period and it is due to come to an end. CO2 and greenhouse gases are our friend. CO2 is plant food and plants grow faster when it is warmer, a 2fer.
The glaciers are returning. We’ve been given notice.
For an interesting look at this, read Fallen Angels.
I live in Milwaukee. We’ve got less than 1 inch of snow on the ground, and on Saturday the temperature will be 34 degrees. If there’s an ice age coming it won’t be soon. During the last one there was 50 feet of snow in what is now Wisconsin.
Lots of authors have used that title. Any other clues?
Niven, Pournell, and Flynn. Published 1991.
Christmas week in 1963 the family lived in New Orleans. We got about 1/2 to 1 inch of snow, nothing on the streets or sidewalks. The city came to a complete halt except for the busses. Schools would’ve been closed if they weren’t already closed for the holidays. I can’t imagine NoLa with 8 inches, and yeah no snowplows, no salt/sand trucks, no snow shovels and no cold weather gear. Glad I’m living in Idaho now where we can deal with winter.
Read this morning some insurance companies treat “storms with names” differently as far coverage goes. I just scanned the article , but perhaps it does make a difference when filing claims . (payouts , deductibles ? )
I read somewhere the winter storm was called Enzo.
The snowfall was due to a low pressure system on the Gulf that was dumping the moisture into the cold arctic blast. Still, it was not as cold as the freeze we had (I am in occupied Houston, near Nasa) about 4 years ago nor the weeklong, IIRC, of sub-freezing temperatures experienced in Dec1989-Jan1990. just to mention 2 priors.
I was being transferred from Seattle to Orlando during that 89/90 bout. I went the northern route through Wisconsin with few issues other than really, really cold but my buddy, who chose to drive the southern route through Texas spent three days stuck in a motel during an ice storm.
The Weather Channel started naming storms in winter 1. because the European weather agencies name all low-pressure storms (cyclones), 2. it sounds neater, and 3. they thought people would take winter storms as seriously as hurricanes if they had names. The NWS caught on.
I think it’s silly, but that’s just me.
I’m waiting for a windstorm named Maria. 🙂
Yeah, driving into work yesterday morning, the freezing precipitation was persistent small drizzle. The type that nearly instantly freezes the time it hits the windshield. I probably should have taken the extra time to warm up the car, putting defogging velocity full blast from the get-go but did I ? No I didn’t. Another stupid committed by myself – I used intermittent windshield setting for the 1st half of trip. Which probably helped the ice accumulate too.
Nothing like compounding the stupid. But I think I learned it THIS TIME.
It was good it was 3:30 in the morning when I took off from house to work, about 8 miles away one way. Several times, I had to stop in place in road and scrape a little window of view so I could see where I was driving. My normal commute of 15 – 17 minutes turned to 35.
Got a pic from a San Antonio friend of the snow on the ground.
Hey Old NFO,
I made the comment in my insty account that “All those people on the left side of the aisle that screeched “Only way that Trump will be President again is if Hell freezes over, and since Middle Georgia got smacked 2 times in less than 3 weeks Ol Scratch gotta be cold by now.” Yeah it was humor, but since where I live don’t habitually see snow that much it is noticeable.
Calling it Globull Warmening is so last decade. Now it is ‘Anthropogenic Climate Change’ so no matter what happens it is (allegedly) caused by human activity.
They learned from 60 years of failed predictions of “DOOM in 10 years if you don’t do what I want NOW!!!”
60 years? Try more like DOUBLE that time frame! They started pushing this around 1890! It was always a big deal that was framed in the big magazines and probably the newspapers, also. They would flop the cold/warm prediction about every 25 years, IIRC.
F’ing scientists have been trying to scam the public for a long time. Might be time to start introducing some of them to a tall tree and a shorter rope.
I believe they were calling this event Winter Storm Enzo. Regardless it was a once in a generation…or longer…weather event.
All- Thanks! I wasn’t aware of the ‘name’…
jrg- Sigh, I’ve done that too.
Rick- I’m old, so sue me…LOL
Based at Ft. Wolters, TX in Jan of ’68 I was dating a gal in Dallas where we got 4″ of snow. Knowing it would be entertaining I found an intersection that was downhill headed to a stoplight.
I needn’t tell you “The REST of the story!”
A few years back, TPTB started some exercise thing called Blue Zone. Special parking spots about half-way from the edge of the lot, to encourage walking, and such.
The lady who was heading this decided to take her sled down a snowcovered street by her house. There was a stop sign at the bottom, and to no surprise, she couldn’t do so. Right in front of a large pickup going through.
The publicity for Blue Zone quietly disappeared after the funeral.
(After ice storms in college, I used to practice coming to a stop sign intersection with my car sliding sideways. Two right wheels on the limit line was the goal. Being merely crazy, I made sure no other idiots were on the road at the time.)
Has the schedule for the blanket fort livestreams changed?
Harlingen TX (30 miles from the gulf, 15 miles from the border) got a dusting of snow, it’s only the 4th time that snow showed up there since they started keeping records (c.1911).
All- Yeah, we did stuff that…we shouldn’t have survived…
RC- Ouch…
TOS- Yep, Tuesdays at 4pm, Thursday at noon.
Thanks!
Be careful, our Ancient Adversary, the Weather, is a fickle beast.
“once in a generation”
Hmmm. I already been through 4 of those.
Heck, I forget the year but we had snowfall on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
TOS- You’re welcome
LSP- That it is!
Jaine- I know that feeling.