"WILL OHIO EVER GET A SNOWSTORM"Having snow withdr

[carve]

Man it's time for an Ohio valley low..One that just creeps up the western side of the App.Just asking for one before winter is over!!

[Miss Mary]

Let's just say I'm no longer holding my breath. I'll be pleasantly surprised but I'm not counting on one now.

[Gord_on_snow]

I need one, i'm going home to England this summer so this is my last winter here....and i need to see something before i go!

Now if my wife had gone to study at Rhode Island uni insead of Ohio uni...they've just had a good snowstorm!

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

I agree, doesn't look to promising this Winter. However, with weather, one never knows for sure (take the Blizzard of 2006 for example). That is why I love it

[Gord_on_snow]

Well we're certainly the cold now.

But once again, those storms just do not want to come near here!

We deserve a big one...and it has to be between now and the end of winter as i wont be here next year!

I have two areas of hope though...and both are unlikely. The first one is a late season snowstorm for central Ohio this year...the 2nd one is a return to 80's style winters back in England for when i return!

(There is a 3rd one and thats the Atlantic jet stream shutting down and the Atlantic turning colder therfore Britain will no longer have its natural heating system in the winter anymore!)

I think Ohio is my best chance....but time is running out!

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Well never say never when it comes to the Weather in the NE. I hope you get your storm friend

[JenyEliza]

Wouldn't it be lovely if we could give Gord a proper send off back to the UK?

I'm thinking a March 1993 style storm that all of us on the eastern seaboard could get in on the action. Now *that* would be lovely!

Hope you get your snow, Gord.

[Gord_on_snow]

Thank you!

Whatever happens, i can go home in the knowledge that you were willing it on for me!

Maybe next weekend will deliver something.

Gonna stay hopeful right up to the wire! (Although with each system missing, its getting harder and harder)

[Gord_on_snow]

Well its not going to be this weekend either!

At least we had the snow taken away from us 3 days before rather than 3 hours before this time.

Hmmm..we're running out of weekends this winter.

[JenyEliza]

Yes, and Gord...by March 11, 1993--way down here in Gawja (Georgia), we had already put away our winter clothes and brought out the spring wear. We don't get cold, snowy weather often in March--and it was WARM that week. Spring time.

All week they keep saying "could see some snow this weekend"--but we Atlantans just laughed at good ole Glen Burns. NO WAY we said. Silly weather man needed a vacation (keep in mind, this was long before the internet and our easy ability to keep up with wx models online--so we were clueless about what the models said).

Friday at work I thought....hmmm. Maybe I should get some food on the way home--"just in case". I knew I wouldn't need it--but what the heck. Just in case.

Good darned thing I did. Because about 2 am Saturday--the skies broke loose...and they snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed.

Got a whole foot, with 4' drifts. Blizzard conditions. High winds, white outs. It was SPECTACULAR.

I couldn't leave the townhouse I was renting at the time (it was on a small mountain in metro Atlanta) because the road up and down was closed. For three days.

It was a blast. The entire eastern seaboard from Florida north got in on the action.

And this, my dear friend from the UK is what I am wishing for you. A huge, surprise out of no-where massive snow storm BEFORE your send off home to the UK.

I hope my wish for you comes true!

[azsnowman]

Don't come to Northern Az. looking for snow, rain or CLOUDS for that matter........2006, The Winter of my discontent!

Dennis

[Gord_on_snow]

Yes, and Gord...by March 11, 1993--way down here in Gawja (Georgia), we had already put away our winter clothes and brought out the spring wear. We don't get cold, snowy weather often in March--and it was WARM that week. Spring time.

All week they keep saying "could see some snow this weekend"--but we Atlantans just laughed at good ole Glen Burns. NO WAY we said. Silly weather man needed a vacation (keep in mind, this was long before the internet and our easy ability to keep up with wx models online--so we were clueless about what the models said).

Friday at work I thought....hmmm. Maybe I should get some food on the way home--"just in case". I knew I wouldn't need it--but what the heck. Just in case.

Good darned thing I did. Because about 2 am Saturday--the skies broke loose...and they snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed.

Got a whole foot, with 4' drifts. Blizzard conditions. High winds, white outs. It was SPECTACULAR.

I couldn't leave the townhouse I was renting at the time (it was on a small mountain in metro Atlanta) because the road up and down was closed. For three days.

It was a blast. The entire eastern seaboard from Florida north got in on the action.

And this, my dear friend from the UK is what I am wishing for you. A huge, surprise out of no-where massive snow storm BEFORE your send off home to the UK.

I hope my wish for you comes true!

Well thank you very much!

Now that would be fantastic memory to go hoem on. The last snowstorm i experienced in England was at the end of February, 6 months before i moved to the USA was incredibly localised, (ours was the only city to get it basically, move in from the north sea in a narrow band right on top of us and 10 miles inland it broke up!). A whole night and morning of persistent heavy snow..we had well over a foot with 2 foot drifts by the time it was over. 10 miles down the road, they had a dusting! The forecast called for light snow flurries possibly moving in off the north sea. It was very special indeed and left me with great memories to take to Ohio with me. I haven't seen anything as great as that here..though i know its more than possible after talking to people on here.

So if i could go the other way back home with similar memories, it would be great. And yes, a surprise one would be the greatest!

June/July is the time of the big move back home by the way...i'll still be checking in on here next winter though....just out of curiousity!

Thanks again though!