Just curious....how is the weather in your neck of the woods?

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Did somebody just post their home address?

 

[Ferrari355]

Several days of rain and rain/snow mix

 

[Red Squirrel]

-24C feels like -30. Down to 7km/h winds with 11km/h gusts.

At least the wind and snow mostly died down now. On my days off I will start working on widening my driveway and walk way.

Was curious and checked air quality where I live. Nice thing about living in a small city.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Did somebody just post their home address?

Nah was just posting a particularly shocking reading from San Antonio that I would never have expected to see here. That AQI actually got into the 800s a little later as I presume more of the smoke from the downtown fireworks show drifted to the westside of town. The entire city had shockingly high AQI though (200+) and San Antonio is pretty large by land area.

 

[BoomerD]

Via phone call email, and text:

"Grays Harbor County Emergency Alert:

A Coastal Flood Warning has been issued by NWS Seattle WA from 9 AM to 1 PM Friday.

* Moderate coastal flooding expected. Inundation of 2 to 2.5 feet above ground level is possible along shorelines and low-lying coastal areas.

*This is expected to lead to numerous road closures. Low lying property including homes, businesses, and some critical infrastructure may be inundated. Shoreline erosion or damage may occur.

*Highest impacts will occur during the late morning high tides Friday, around 11 AM to 12 PM.

*Take the necessary actions to protect flood-prone property. If travel is required, do not drive around barricades or through water of unknown depth.

*Inundation above ground level refers to the height above the Mean Higher High Water (MHHW) level.

*Never turn your back on the ocean and keep children and pets close. Know the tides and surf forecast. Follow warning signs and respect barriers."

King tides...happens every winter.

King Tides Calendar

wsg.washington.edu

(Westport os the closest to me)

Ocean Shores, WA Extended Tide Forecast

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[Iron Woode]

@Red Squirrel

Timmins just got a video from a American youtuber amazed at your latest snow storm:

 

[Paperdoc]

Yep. I live on the north shore of Lake Superior - that's the westernmost of the five Great Lakes - about straight west from Timmins where Red Squirrel is. Here we have much less snow than Timmins does right now (end of December 2025).

What that video shows Is unusually high snowfall in one storm, but NOT uncommon. I have seen this type several times in my life. By the way, the wind blows snow around after it falls, producing localized piles or "drifts" much higher than the average snowfall number. Because it does happen, people and cities and governments are well prepared to deal with that in reasonable time. For that much snow, it will take a few days to complete clearing all local roads, but main highways and city roads will be cleared within one day, and homeowners can clear their own paths etc. in several hours' work.

Just to comment on a couple items in that video. The city of Timmins would have many heavy trucks equipped with snowplows to push snow to the side of roads into high snowbanks just off the road. But with that much snow they also will get out huge snowblowers that can blow the snow further away from the roadside, leaving space for the plows to push the rest. To facilitate this operation, our city has established a set of Priority Routes on which nobody can park overnight in the winter. That leaves those roads free for snow clearing during the night. After those are done, they attack the side streets where parking is restricted to one side on alternate days so plows can clear half the street on alternate days.

In the video the reviewer points to a large wide blue "shovel" a man is using. We call that a Snow Float. You use the wide handle to push through the snow, gathering a bunch in the big bucket. Then t you push down on the handle a bit and slide the whole thing over top of the snow and over to a discharge area off the road, where you tip it forward to empty it. This eliminates any lifting of the mass of snow. He also is surprised at the machines he calls "snowplows", but they are snowBLOWERS. Powered by a small gas engine that drives wheels to move the unit under operator guidance, they use a whirling spiral in the front to cut into the snowbank and feed it back to a spinning fan mechanism that throws the loose snow up and out of a chute to a discharge area. And yes, many homeowners in Canada have their own to replace most of the hand shovelling work in clearing snow from home paths and parking spaces. Not everybody - I've had one for only 13 years now. Before that it was hand shovelling.

Then there are things like snow tires on cars, and antifreeze in the radiator and in the windshield washer fluid system. And good furnace systems in the house. Just a few of the ways we prepare for what happens every winter.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Pretty cool to see that video and his reaction haha. We're mostly recovered now and the city actually did a good job to plow almost every street within the day. Highways took a bit longer. They had to use graders because of how much snow there was, the regular plows couldn't do it.

Right now the biggest issue we're dealing with is the snow banks are so huge that lot of roads are down to 1 lane now. City needs to do snow removal which involves a big snow blower and dump trucks, but it's going to be a while before they do every street. They were already behind schedule before the storm even happened. They only have so much equipment and crews to do it. They are doing it faster than normal though, they're focusing on getting rid of the worse of it by cutting a chunk out of the snow banks instead of trying to clean them out completely. I suspect we already blew this year's snow removal budget lol.

 

[Paperdoc]

Yeah, just to help people well south of us understand, for most snowfalls the plows just push it all to the side, trying to get most of the width of the road clear. This leaves a big snow row at the edge, often near the sidewalk. When the total accumulation of several storms becomes too large, the city calls out teams of graders, snowblowers and MANY dump trucks. Overnight they go down the major streets. The graders pull the big piles back onto the road so the blowers can blow it all into a series of dump trucks. They ferry that load to a central snow dump site and return for more. The last stage is for the graders to push the small remains back over the edge. It's actually impressive to see how much snow can disappear that way, leaving roads clear out to their edges again.

 

[biostud]

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Yep. I live on the north shore of Lake Superior -

In the 80s, I knew some guys who had done time at KI Sawyer in the 70s. They knew snow. Clearing the flight line was a near contact task for days at a time. Blowers threw feet of snow hundred of yards to the side.

 

[Iron Woode]

Yep. I live on the north shore of Lake Superior - that's the westernmost of the five Great Lakes - about straight west from Timmins where Red Squirrel is. Here we have much less snow than Timmins does right now (end of December 2025).

What that video shows Is unusually high snowfall in one storm, but NOT uncommon. I have seen this type several times in my life. By the way, the wind blows snow around after it falls, producing localized piles or "drifts" much higher than the average snowfall number. Because it does happen, people and cities and governments are well prepared to deal with that in reasonable time. For that much snow, it will take a few days to complete clearing all local roads, but main highways and city roads will be cleared within one day, and homeowners can clear their own paths etc. in several hours' work.

Just to comment on a couple items in that video. The city of Timmins would have many heavy trucks equipped with snowplows to push snow to the side of roads into high snowbanks just off the road. But with that much snow they also will get out huge snowblowers that can blow the snow further away from the roadside, leaving space for the plows to push the rest. To facilitate this operation, our city has established a set of Priority Routes on which nobody can park overnight in the winter. That leaves those roads free for snow clearing during the night. After those are done, they attack the side streets where parking is restricted to one side on alternate days so plows can clear half the street on alternate days.

In the video the reviewer points to a large wide blue "shovel" a man is using. We call that a Snow Float. You use the wide handle to push through the snow, gathering a bunch in the big bucket. Then t you push down on the handle a bit and slide the whole thing over top of the snow and over to a discharge area off the road, where you tip it forward to empty it. This eliminates any lifting of the mass of snow. He also is surprised at the machines he calls "snowplows", but they are snowBLOWERS. Powered by a small gas engine that drives wheels to move the unit under operator guidance, they use a whirling spiral in the front to cut into the snowbank and feed it back to a spinning fan mechanism that throws the loose snow up and out of a chute to a discharge area. And yes, many homeowners in Canada have their own to replace most of the hand shovelling work in clearing snow from home paths and parking spaces. Not everybody - I've had one for only 13 years now. Before that it was hand shovelling.

Then there are things like snow tires on cars, and antifreeze in the radiator and in the windshield washer fluid system. And good furnace systems in the house. Just a few of the ways we prepare for what happens every winter.

London, Ontario's snowmageddon was in 2010 Dec 7 - Dec 9 where we received over 1 meter of snow.