Death Storm, Jan 2026

[superjohn]

But he does drive at least 300 feet behind the car in front of him. So there's that! Lol.

As an aside, and I would put it in the other thread but I put it on Ignore, I was watching the cars on the highway as I was coming into work today after the morning rush hour. There's no way anyone drives 300 feet behind the car in front of them. If everyone did that there would be about 18 cars in a 1 mile stretch (5280/300) in each lane. I'm not sure what rural area he lives in but I can definitely say there are no areas of the Mass. Pike in Eastern Massachusetts that only have 18 cars in a 1 mile stretch. Maybe in the middle of the night.

Of course he doesn't, he spent two days and 6 pages worth of posts trolling himself.

Which is about par for the course for him.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

The models for Pittsburgh give us a 0.00005% chance of 53 inches.

I was there this past weekend watching a blizzard come and go from the inside of the Chevy dealership in Washington. (Had a flat tire with a wheel lock on it. Only problem, I didn’t have the key). Couldn’t see more than 20 yards at one point…then the sun came out as I was leaving to come home.

Incidentally, we went to dinner at the steakhouse inside the Hollywood casino and it was fantastic. Only food place that was open around us that was walkable.

 

[rashadray11]

The reason the South lost the civil war - they waited for their snow to melt.

 

[CL82]

It's good the storm seems to be tracking north, it would mean less deaths. If this is a 3 inch ice event for a large swath of The South there will be a lot of deaths.

The size of the "swath" remains the same as the storm tracks further north. Instead of being in the south, though, it would be over the more populous Midlantic states. I'm not convinced that's a trade up.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Yep but the upper Midwest and New England are much better equipped to deal with ice and other extreme winter weather than The South is which is why I'm hoping this moves to the North and is mostly a major snow event with frigid temps.

Yes on better equipped . And, damn. Now I'm feeling old. I started to type "22' but realized it's been almost 32 years since I was in Memphis in 1994 and we had a big ice storm in Jan or Feb. Shut everything down for 5 or 6 days. Place was a disaster.

 

[Dove]

 

[karstenkibbe]

Sheesh.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Frigid temps Saturday. Snow Sunday into Monday. Not sure I trust this one, but another Boston station is still saying widespread 12-18". I am on the edge of the red. UConn game will be fine. It's the power situation for the Patriots game I'm worried about. Imagine if that was a home game.

 

[sledog]

12-18" forcast for N NJ and N of NYC on local TV.

Just returned from local ShopRite - packed! Haven't seen a crowd like this since covid. Run on TP/AW!

ps - game Sat in Phil at noon. Should be able to get home bfore the snow flies.

 

[HooperScooper]

After Saturday's game....

 

[Samoo]

Yep but the upper Midwest and New England are much better equipped to deal with ice and other extreme winter weather than The South is which is why I'm hoping this moves to the North and is mostly a major snow event with frigid temps.

3" of a ice would be among the top three worst recorded ice storms and probably drop half the trees and power lines in the area it happened. Pretty sure no region is really prepared for that, particularly if it is going to stay cold for multiple days afterwards.

TBH the weather system required for 3" of ice would cause lots of death anywhere in the US.