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BlueSpot

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37. The forecast keeps changing so I have no idea - but I expect trouble
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 11:42 PM
Thursday

I've seen snow forecasts from 3" to 14". It changes more often than daily. I went to the grocery store today for an item that I really didn't need but which was on sale. It was absolutely packed at about 1 pm. I bet it was worse when people got off work.

Not looking forward to all the shoveling that lies ahead. That 3" forecast is old. Nothing close to that little has been posted in a couple of days. And then, once I get the driveway clear, the plow will come and clog it back up again. Oh well. I guess it'll build character or something.

But I've got food on hand and I am warm. And the forecast is for snow rather than ice. I'll be content with that. Could be worse. I remember many years ago when we got a good 4" or so of ice. They chopped it into blocks and fork trucks stacked them on the corners. That was one for the books {shudder}.

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How's your weather forecast? [View all] VGNonly Thursday OP
Sunny and 50, same tomorrow. RandySF Thursday #1
It's 67, sunny, and my hibiscus is blooming, but it's going to be 28 degrees Monday morning surfered Thursday #2
we have something big coming for us in western NC - forecasts are too iffy to know how bad it will get NewHendoLib Thursday #3
Yeah, these ice predictions are scary Nittersing Thursday #5
In short: Snowpocalypse. Xavier Breath Thursday #4
Shitstorm likely with a chance of nuclear war (nt) Kennah Thursday #6
Right now it's 65 and cloudy. Haggard Celine Thursday #7
similar, just a little bit colder surrealAmerican Thursday #8
Schools already cancelled for tomorrow. -35 to -40 windchills forecast here in Appleton, WI (just South of Green Bay). Greybnk48 Thursday #9
Update: At 8:00 a.m. we will be at or around 48 below zero wind chill. Yikes! n/t Greybnk48 Thursday #36
Not good here in CT. But we are safe in our retirement community. The people who provide our services will be impacted, CTyankee Thursday #10
I am about to change into an Icycle Beringia Thursday #11
Cold. But the lowest wind chill they're predicting is -35, and since I can recall a winter when that was highplainsdem Thursday #12
The coldest I was ever in -30 VGNonly Thursday #19
Wonderful! Greg_In_SF Thursday #13
Some predictions for the Pittsburgh area and doc03 Thursday #14
And a dry, powdery snow they're saying. Xavier Breath Thursday #15
cold trueblueinmo Thursday #16
You'd hate me canetoad Thursday #17
I looked at your profile. VGNonly Thursday #21
I can see Tasmania from my ... canetoad Thursday #22
I believe Sir Douglas Mawson VGNonly Thursday #23
Gnarly EarthFirst Thursday #18
6 to 8 inches predicted, and bitter cold temps. Emile Thursday #20
Brutal. H2O Man Thursday #24
My sister and I are hunkering down in our homes. ananda Thursday #25
66 high, 51 low. Clear and dry. Iggo Thursday #26
It is -26 degrees (that is negative 26) at 8:30 p.m. CST on the western tip of Lake Superior (Duluth, MN). waterwatcher123 Thursday #27
Northern Virginia, DC, suburban Maryland, and beyond: mahatmakanejeeves Thursday #28
Currently 9 degrees in our far northwest suburb of greater Chicago, feeling like... 3catwoman3 Thursday #29
-37 C tonight, with windchill of -50 C, Swede Thursday #30
It's going to a high of 7 tomorrow MustLoveBeagles Thursday #31
Crappy. 3-9" snow, sleet & freezing rain SheltieLover Thursday #32
Not too bad in Wilmington, DE right now: 43 degrees. But . . . peggysue2 Thursday #33
Cold Weather Advisory and a Winter Storm Watch Coldwater Thursday #34
Probably ice storm with snow. Lars39 Thursday #35
The forecast keeps changing so I have no idea - but I expect trouble BlueSpot Thursday #37
Windchill could go as low as -35 tonight happybird 7 hrs ago #38
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