re: Big Cold Blast Coming - Increasing chances of ice/light snow flurries Tuesday afternoon

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Zachary, new roads, st Francisville have decent accumulations PLUS he called for maybe a couple of slick spots. The whole interstate system is shut down

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Yup.

Looks like BR just on the wrong side of persistent warm nose. Too bad. Wanted enough snow to make everything white and pretty.

What is the warm nose? In an illustrative fashion, if possible.

I'm putting a steam trace on every pipe I own this summer. This will be the last time I stay up all night making sure my shits still dripping.

Just checked twc they show a low of 14 now around 5 am brutal cold.

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TL; dr: It is cold as a motherfricker out there and the roads are a bitch. Stay off them.

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No doubt, roads gonna be a shite show tonight and tomorrow

I say rain because of the little holes it was forming in the already fallen ice.

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What is the warm nose?

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Imagine a column of air, from the ground to the top of the atmosphere. Typically the temperature is the warmest on the ground and cools as it goes up.

Instead, there's a much warmer pocket just above the ground. In that pocket the precip is melting some and then refreezing as sleet on its way down. This is probably why south of BR got so much sleet despite the incredible cold right at the ground.

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So a low of 15 with a high of 36 tomorrow -- about 5 hours above freezing. Will roads thaw out? And low tomorrow here is 20. Nasty.

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Excellent question

Temperatures have been lower then expected every which way too

Stay off the roads people

Oh I plan to but at some point I've got to go to work.

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2 meters

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I’m just saying ground temps essentially