It's still snowing... and its gonna continue! Check out this forecast for Lakewood for the weekend...
Overnight: A 20 percent chance of snow showers. Patchy fog. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a low near 24. North wind 6 to 8 mph becoming south southeast.
Saturday: A slight chance of snow showers before 8am, then scattered rain showers after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy early, then becoming mostly sunny, with a high around 51. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday Night: Snow likely. Cloudy, with a low around 26. North wind between 4 and 7 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.
Sunday: Snow likely. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Calm wind becoming northeast between 4 and 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Sunday Night: Snow likely. Cloudy, with a low around 26. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Monday: Snow likely before noon, then scattered rain and snow showers. Cloudy, with a high around 44. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Monday Night: Scattered rain and snow showers before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low near 31. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Tuesday: A slight chance of showers after noon. Partly cloudy, with a high around 59.
Tuesday Night: A slight chance of showers before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 34.
That sucks! I think I would've rather been in Arkansas today all things considered. The good news from this, if any, is that I don't chase and get to save my money for the real trip. The bad news, I don't chase.. God this sucks. But I feel pretty good compared to those who ventured to chase today... unfortunately I was not proven wrong and things were crappy. Check out
Amos Magliocco's Blog entry and see for yourself. I hope his dinner was good at least. Sorry to everyone cept the MSU gang (who apparently got one of the TWO reported today). Not a great chase day... I think I can safely say we're waiting for May to get here. While they chased grundge, I scraped snow... not sure which if the better of the two.
In other news, the 'Service Engine Soon' light on the Storm Tracer is gone... while driving pies tonight, it went off during a run only to come back on again; later in the night, it went back out and I haven't seen it since. I'll see if it returns tomorrow, but in any case, the car continues to run with the same performance as before the light appeared, so I may opt to clean the questionable parts and see if that takes care of the problem. With the tune-up and oil change, I oughta eliminate the issue and hopefully resume my peaceful driving. If not, I'll start replacing parts as needed. In any case, I am very certain that this will not jepardize my upcoming trip.
By the way, did you see my counter? It's now in the single digits... my big question at the moment; how long after that counter reaches zero will it be before I can hit the road for something worthy of a chase? Oddly enough, I have a strange feeling my mid-May start is going to be a wonderful thing, as I feel the time prior to the 10th may be a waste to entirely take off, minus maybe on good chase day someplace. Other than that, I think I'll get the prime three weeks to play with what's shaping up to be a late start. I guess because of my timing with my trip (being selfish), it's not entirely a bad thing, but I still want to shake this snow... it makes that 9 days seem even further out. Some good news, the latter half of that forecast above has temps back into the mid to upper 60s toward next weekend... hopefully that verifies.
In the meantime, I imagine the blog will be rather quiet over the next 3 to 5 days as I dive into a massive week of work. Still awaiting coverage on those last two shifts on Wed and Fri, but in the meantime, I am workig just about every hour I'm not sleeping or in class, and even class is taking a backseat this week. Lots to do in preparation.. lets just hope Nature gets off her ass and glances at a calender to remind her what's suppose to be kicking into high gear in the next few weeks...
