Curse

REDdelver · Mar 07, 2011, 12:44 PM // 12:44

So the last approximately 36 hours have been a trip here on the east coast.

At roughly 6pm eastern time on Saturday, the temperature was around 50 degrees and just beginning to rain.

At 6am(ish) on Sunday morning, its 55 degrees and still raining.

By 5 pm Sunday late day, its 38 degrees and snowing like crazy. ( We had close to 2 inches of steady soaking rain for almost 24 hours.)

At 6am Monday morning, its 23 degrees with freaking 6-7 inches of snow on the ground and the sun is shining without a cloud in sky.

Trees are bent down everywhere due to the heavy wet snow.

I can only imagine if that all would have came as snow. With the common conversion of 1 inch of rain = 10 inches of snow, that would have put us at about 26+ inches. Crazy weather pattern...indeed.

SH4D0WZ0MB1E · Mar 08, 2011, 02:46 AM // 02:46

Yup that's the east for ya. Last week, around where I live, there was some massive flooding. Just goes to show you that Mother Nature is a very finicky woman.

Atro · Mar 08, 2011, 03:22 AM // 03:22

-_- Yea the whether is sooooo stupid, days are sometimes 70degress+ and then drop to the 40s.

**cosyfiep** · Mar 08, 2011, 04:18 AM // 04:18

when I was a kid living in Chicago we had days that started with snow in the morning, changed to rain during the day, and ended with it being clear and temps in the 50's--happened plenty of times. That's just the price you pay for living in the northern part of the usa (they have a saying in the midwest--if you dont like the weather, wait 15 minutes)

Verene · Mar 08, 2011, 05:53 PM // 17:53

Haha, I'm going to agree with Cosy that weather like that is the norm here in Chicago. My birthday this year was spent shoveling two feet of snow and digging my car out of a snowdrift so high you couldn't tell there was a car there originally.

Unlucky Slayer · Mar 08, 2011, 06:52 PM // 18:52

Woo go go normal Chicago/NWI weather. Nothing to see here, move along.

SH4D0WZ0MB1E · Mar 09, 2011, 02:58 AM // 02:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by cosyfiep

they have a saying in the midwest--if you dont like the weather, wait 15 minutes

This pretty much sums it up. I've seen plenty of days where this has held true.