Midwest Icestorm 12/8-12/11

[CrazyC83]

Now hearing over 850,000 without power:

Oklahoma - 600,000
Missouri - 120,000
Kansas - 110,000
Iowa - 15,000
Illinois - 15,000

[Pebbles]

Those totals look like customers without power .. is that correct? Allot of times
it's number of customers without power (which equates to roughly 2.5-3 people per customer)
If so like over 2 million people with no power... that's huge.

[simplykristi]

Those totals look like customers without power .. is that correct? Allot of times
it's number of customers without power (which equates to roughly 2.5-3 people per customer)
If so like over 2 million people with no power... that's huge.

That is customers without power not total number of people which is much higher.

Kristi

[HarlequinBoy]

Looks like they have more snow coming.. especially the southern part of the ice storm affected areas.

...WINTER STORM OUTLOOK FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...

SIGNIFICANT SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS PARTS OF OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN
NORTH TEXAS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

AS CLEAN UP EFFORTS CONTINUE IN THE WAKE OF A MAJOR ICE
STORM...ANOTHER WINTER STORM APPEARS TO HAVE ITS SIGHTS ON THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS. THIS WINTER SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY LOCATED SEVERAL
HUNDRED MILES OFF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. BY LATE
THURSDAY...THE WINTER STORM IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AS IT MOVES
ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES. ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM ON
THURSDAY WILL MOVE QUICKLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND GREAT
LAKES STATES. MUCH COLDER AIR BEHIND THIS SYSTEM WILL PUSH SOUTHWARD
INTO THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS JUST IN TIME FOR THE
APPROACHING SYSTEM FROM THE WEST.

CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE SNOW WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN
OKLAHOMA BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THE PRECIPITATION MAY START
AS A COLD RAIN BUT IS EXPECTED TO CHANGE QUICKLY TO SNOW. THE SNOW
WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST DURING THE EARLY EVENING HOURS AND
SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO FALL FOR MOST OF THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. BY EARLY
SATURDAY MORNING THE MAIN STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BE OVER CENTRAL
OKLAHOMA AND THE SNOW WILL GRADUALLY END FROM WEST TO EAST DURING
THE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON.

THE SPEED OF THE STORM IS RELATIVELY FAST AND THIS SHOULD LIMIT
SNOWFALL TOTALS. HOWEVER...IT STILL APPEARS THAT PARTS OF
WESTERN...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA MAY RECEIVE FOUR OR MORE
INCHES OF SNOW. LIGHTER AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS WESTERN NORTH
TEXAS AND SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA.

MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN WEBSITE
AND TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS
DEVEOPLING WINTER STORM.

[CrazyC83]

That sounds like what happened in 1998...several storms came in one after another...