Pics from the Sydney dust storm - amazing.

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Good lord. Does it ever just rain around here any more, or does it always have to be a Biblical deluge?

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Last night’s rainout game was rained out. So we rescheduled for tonight, but it appears as if the rainout rainout is going to be… rained out.
WGAL and other local TV stations could save money and reduce staff by getting rid of their weather people and simply replacing them with a recording: Today, rainy and below-normal […]

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As if. Whatever happened to the “bee” girl, anyway?
You’ll remember that back in January and February, we couldn’t buy a snowstorm. Every storm seemed to go around us; nearby counties would get three to five inches, we’d get a dusting. If that. And the stats bore it out; Millersville’s weather center tells us that in […]

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The wettest spring in recent memory means a bunch of second-graders are likely to be playing baseball into July. But I suppose a dome for 8-and-unders is out of the question…

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Since when did Lancaster turn into Seattle?

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Nothing but good news to start the day.
Foreclosures up an amazing 81 percent last year.
Israel shells the UN HQ in Gaza. Yeah, that’s gonna play well.
On the up side, there’s something odd on the ground out there. White and fluffy. Haven’t seen it in a while.

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Cold, and a colleague from Chicago sticks her finger in the air and says: It’s going to snow.
My guess is that finger is every bit as accurate as Super Doppler. Probably more.

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Yesterday, in response to the story of 2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW OMG WTF!!! I suggested that instead, we’d get a quarter-inch of snow and then freezing rain.
That was incorrect. Instead, we get NO snow. And now it’s sleeting.
Lamest winter ever.

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Weather Channel now telling me we’re expecting 1 inch of snow tomorrow. Then a ”mix of wintry precipitation” even though the high is supposed to be 31.
I’m so old I remember a time when temps below freezing actually meant, you know, snow rather than rain.

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Story on the front page of today’s Era:
Is Lancaster County due for its first plowable snow Friday night into Saturday? Maybe even up to 9 inches, as one computer model shows?
Yeah.
Here’s my official prediction: A quarter-inch of snow, followed by freezing rain.
It says here we don’t have a single snowfall over 2 inches the rest […]

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Lovely “storm” we got here, once again. Watching the Weather Channel, the jet stream appears to be moving directly over Lancaster County - meaning, perhaps, that we won’t get any snow this winter, at least nothing worth measuring.
I’m so old I remember when we used to get the occasional single-digit day, with enough snow for […]

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Watching that relative disappointment of a storm Tuesday, at one point I had on the Weather Channel and it had snow to the north, south, east and west of us - but there was this circle in the middle where it was only rain. The circle was, you guessed it, Lancaster.
Meanwhile Vegas and Malibu are […]

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Don’t look now, but in places like Atlanta and North Carolina, gas stations are running out of product because of refinery shutdowns due to Ike.

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Veddy interesting. It had struck me at some point mid-week that we hadn’t really been talking much about the post-hurricane situation in coastal Texas, and for obvious reasons - a global economic meltdown does tend to dominate the headlines.
But apparently one reason we’re not reading more about what happened in and around Galveston is that […]

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Lived in Houston for a couple of years when I was a kid, still remember trips to the beach at Galveston. Looks like Hurricane Ike is going to pulverize Galveston:
PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES MAY FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST […]

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I wonder if Obama and the rest of the Democratic Party on the whole - but especially the bigwigs - realize that if Gustav is half the storm it sounds like it might be, they ought to be not out campaigning early next week, but pitching in in the Gulf states - as true leaders, […]

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National Weather Service has Hurricane Gustav tracking west of New Orleans.
Via The Oil Drum, take a gander at what lies offshore to the west of New Orleans:

Those would be oil and gas rigs.
Going to be a scary few days, for many many reasons.

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Memories of Katrina likely to be plastered across your TV screen next week when the GOP takes the stage:

MSNBC just noted that with Gustav likely to hit the Gulf Coast next week this could be a “split-screen convention” for the Republicans.
A Gulf Coast hurricane disrupting the GOP’s messaging during convention week — three years after […]

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Uhhh, this could of course change, but right about now it looks as if Gustav is making a beeline for New Orleans.

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