Countdown Stormagedden

If you want to know what messed up weather forecasts are like, come live in North Georgia for a year. Over the course of the last week, the weather forecast for this coming weekend went from possibly 3-4 inches of snow, to snow showers, to snow flurries, to rain, to mid-to-upper forties and maybe rain.

Of course, last year during the Snowpocalypse, the forecast called for all the snow to fall from Atlanta to Macon, up until the morning of the storm, when everything changed, but only after most of metro Atlanta had gone to work. I made it home safely, but was then stuck at home for three days. Originally forecast to get maybe an inch or two or snow and ice. Ended up with 6-8 inches at my house, iced over roads and breaking limbs from the wind.

I would hate to be a meteorologist in Georgia.

 

It's a brisk 46 degrees outside, bright and sunny. Road conditions were fine until I got behind a school bus with a leaky exhaust. It took a mind-blowing 3 miles before me and the Honda on my bumper could pass.

 

Meteorologists apologize for huge blizzard miss.

Whoops.

For most of New York and New Jersey, what was supposed to be the Blizzard of 2015 turned into the Bust of the Century instead.

As the sun rose Monday, there were forecasts that New York City and northern New Jersey could conceivably see 24 to 36 inches of snow from a storm described as "crippling" and "historic."

By sunrise Tuesday, Central Park had only 6.3 inches of snow, with the National Weather Service acknowledging there might as little as 2 more inches on the way. Parts of New Jersey that had been in line for as much as 18 inches ended up with as little as 3 inches.

Gary Szatkowski, the meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service's office in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, stunned people in the wee hours Tuesday with a heartfelt apology for the blown forecast.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102371281

 

Have a slightly inclined driveway that faces north and is in the house's shadow. I parked my truck, got out and was going to open the back door to retrieve some boxes when I noticed the truck was starting to slide down the driveway! I quickly hopped into the truck, started it up, and did a brake stand, hoping to melt the ice under the rear tires to give the truck purchase on the driveway. That didn't work, so I had to back the truck out of the driveway and salt the tire tread marks where I drive up/down the driveway.

Very strange thing to see a parked vehicle sliding down my driveway.

 

Had the same thing happen, though I did not discover it until my auto was stopped in the center of the street.