Tom Smith

Yikes!

(I'm not in the path, so I'm okay, but I will be keeping an eye on this one...)

Edited at 2013-01-30 01:55 am (UTC)

We got in at noon today, well in front of it. We expect ice and snow and maybe an extra day of our vacation.

It's been a little interesting. Things were OK for most of the day. With the warm weather I left my winter coat at home and walked to the train station for lunch and get the February train ticket. When it was time to go home I looked outside and it was dark but no rain so I left my umbrella there and went to the elevator. On the way down someone commented that it was raining really bad and when we got to the ground floor we confirmed it (I'm on the 16th floor so it can be hard to tell when it's raining). So I go back up and grab my stuff and go as fast as I dare to catch my train half-expecting to miss it. Except there was hardly any rain and I felt like I went back for nothing. Fortunately I don't miss it, but it wasn't by much. I entered in the closest car and on making my way to my usual car, the doors closed and we pulled out. Whew! I found a seat, settled in, took a nap and by the first stop the rain had come back. The train stopped at the station before mine and all I could see was black out my window. Normally at this station I could see restaurant signs and what's showing at that movie theater. I thought "Crap! Blackout!" Turned out the train stopped too soon and we weren't at the station yet. That meant no blackout (there's woods right before that station). Everything was fine except for the rain. My main concern is that it's going to freeze into ice tomorrow and make for a very slippery commute to work. Maybe I can fake being sick to avoid going in.

I had to run the AC for a bit tonight to get the humidity out. Can you believe this, 60 degree weather in Chicago in January!

So far, just rain. Buckets and buckets of rain. (At one point, the weather station in the backyard reported 3+ inches/hour.) Still raining even as I write this. Then it gets cold and switches to snow (over ice). Yippie.

Hmm...directly in line with the storms (about 5 minutes away) and the tornado warning siren just went off...tell you in 20 minutes.

It's supposed to be here in Louisville sometime around 3 am EST. We're under tornado watch until 5 am and wind advisory until 4 pm.

The high temperatures in the NY metropolitan area flirted with 55 today. There's a high wind warning and a flash-flood watch (like we need more flooding - I'm still dealing with the damage from Superstorm Sandy) for Wednesday, and a chance of "potentially severe" thunderstorms Wednesday night, with highs 60 or higher... and then dropping back into the more normal low 40s. (It's those huge temperature differences that create the conditions for storms.) So far, though, no tornadoes are predicted around here. Yet.

Edited at 2013-01-30 04:54 am (UTC)

The World's Greatest Husband (WGH) and I witnessed a thunderstorm in Wisconsin on Monday night, with rain continuing until sometime last night when it turned to snow. Woke up to a white earth that got whiter as the day continued. Went to work anyway, but left at 1:30 just to be safe.

Now safe and sound at home, even if I have to carry my dachshund chihuahua blend outside to go pee.
-L.

I'm still here and still alive. I think the first front moved through southwest Ohio on Wednesday morning. We had lots of winds, but I had no damage. Then the second front moved through on Wednesday evening, and the temperature dropped like a stone. Thursday morning was OK -- it had snowed north of I-70. This evening, I have snow.

These are the times I'm thankful to be unemployed this time of year.