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13 Feb 2007 16:16 The public radio station just turned back on. Sleet continues. Water droplets seem to be frozen to the window. The Winter Storm Warning, while still in effect, is not being updated. The short term forecast published four minutes ago offers this:

THE SLEET...MIXED AT TIMES WITH SNOW WILL CHANGE TO ALL SNOW
LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL AND SLEET
ACCUMULATIONS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING.
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL BEGIN TO OCCUR...RESULTING
IN WHITEOUT CONDITIONS. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE TO 20
TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL
AND NOT VENTURE OUT IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.

13 Feb 2007 15:46 I just noticed the public radio station is off the air. Either that, or it's some extended piece of musique concrète that I was unaware of.

13 Feb 2007 15:14 It's wet and slushy here. The preciptation goes in and out of an icy rain and something harder. Temperature is starting to fall below freezing, so things may ice up substantially in the next few hours. The trees have been coated with ice most of the day.

By the sound of things, emergency vehicles have been very busy in my area. The big airport stopped letting flights depart about three hours ago.

13 Feb 2007 06:49 I have been asked by my employer not to attempt to come into work.

12 Feb 2007 23:35 All is quiet under a sheen of new wet snow. The air hovers just above freezing. Right now, I am on the dividing line. The National Weather Service is predicting snow to the north (which is where I am potentially headed tomorrow, as travel is forecast to be "very hazardous to impossible") and nasty stuff to the south. But:

ANY SHIFT IN THE TRACK WILL HAVE A LARGE
IMPACT ON THE AMOUNT AND TYPE OF PRECIPITATION RECEIVED ACROSS
[THE AREA]. WE URGE EVERYONE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS
ON THIS DEVELOPING WINTER STORM.

12 Feb 2007 20:55 And so it begins. Some freezing rain is brushing against my window.

An exerpt from the text of the warning:

A MIX OF SNOW AND SLEET WILL FALL OVERNIGHT TONIGHT, WHILE A MIX
OF RAIN...FREEZING RAIN...AND SNOW WILL FALL AT TIMES DURING THE
DAY ON TUESDAY. SNOW WILL DIMINISH TUESDAY NIGHT...BUT GUSTY WINDS
WILL CAUSE BLOWING OF ANY SNOW THAT FALLS.

THE POTENTIAL EXISTS OF OVER A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF ICE TO FORM
FROM THE FREEZING RAIN DURING THE DAY ON TUESDAY. THIS COMBINED
WITH THE EXPECTED WINDS COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO TREES AND POWER LINES.

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