October 2019 Snowpocalypse

[WormWiggler]

Is it here yet?

 

[ShootnBlanks]

Everything will be dead by Monday

 

[Migrator Man]

I wonder what waterfowl will stick around? At least the dogs can find you some birds on Saturday. Might not have to take any shots to fill a limit......

Anybirds out east will take the brunt of it.

 

[ndfinfan]

They pumping water across?

Yup...slowly...Audubon was down maybe half a foot from the summer high level yesterday.

 

[shorthairsrus]

Fargo shows 31 mph gusts. In other words a normal day in the valley

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That was the change I was referring to

 

[Kurtr]

does it seem to be forming alot slower than first thought? We have a mist down here thats been pretty steady

 

[Duckslayer100]

I'm gunning for Saturday morning in the marsh. I can't miss the chance to get some edge birds. Then again, they all my blow the F out of here and I'll get to watch the snow fall on the decoys. Either way, I can't wait.

 

[risingsun]

I guess I will do what they did in the old days before computer models. Wait and see when it is over what mother nature decides to do. It is by far the best and 100% ACCURATE

 

[eliminator]

We had a mist all morning and then a little heavier but mostly just wind so far

 

[Wags2.0]

I'm gunning for Saturday morning in the marsh. I can't miss the chance to get some edge birds. Then again, they all my blow the F out of here and I'll get to watch the snow fall on the decoys. Either way, I can't wait.

I bet you crush birds if you can get out

 

[BP338]

They need a new word for big snow storms...Snowapocalypse is getting lame. Why don't they say rainapocalypse, or windapocalypse...?

 

[dean nelson]

I'm gunning for Saturday morning in the marsh. I can't miss the chance to get some edge birds. Then again, they all my blow the F out of here and I'll get to watch the snow fall on the decoys. Either way, I can't wait.

Was out this morning and bird numbers where I was were up a ton from a week ago. We're flying hard in the weather and made for an easy limit.

 

[sl1000794]

NDAWN weather station 14 miles west of Botno along hwy 5 @ 4:00pm today. Snow cannot be far away.

 

[Bed Wetter]

Heated bird bath sounds like a death sentence when it’s below zero. Birdsicles

Maybe his coworker REALLY hates those fuckin birds.

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I ran 11 miles on Monday and 8 miles today (Wednesday). The next few days could create an interesting running experience, although it’s unlikely we’ll retain any white stuff in Little Mogadishu.

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They need a new word for big snow storms...Snowapocalypse is getting lame. Why don't they say rainapocalypse, or windapocalypse...?

Agreed. This event will henceforth be the “Big Wet One.”

 

[gone_fishing]

Farmers are effed. There will be about a 10% harvest this year. Pheasants are all going to die the day before the opener. Glad I received and filled a pronghorn tag this year as they’re likely to go extinct after this weekend. Maybe scientists will use DNA from my antelope sausage to create some kind hybrid pronghorn coyote in a laboratory to keep the species from disappearing entirely.

Prongyote....Coyhorn?

 

[dean nelson]

Prongyote....Coyhorn?

Wouldn't that be more like a roeyote?

 

[Skeeter]

 

[Kurtr]

0 inches here so far

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Just started thunder snowing

 

[johnr]

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This could make getting to out west for pheasants a bit interesting.....

there are no birds here in the west. Try going to the Wyndmere area tons of roosters over there

 

[shorthairman]

Wags, I think the trick here is all in the timing of the switch from rain to snow, and then where you measure. That first image in the sitrep suggests we in the Bis to Langdon axis of the first storm (before Friday) will see around 12 inches of snow. The ground is still warm and will melt snow as it comes into contact with it, so best chance for the stuff to accumulate more is in grassy areas where the snow gets elevated above the warm'ish ground.

Starting Friday, it's going to be round two of something that is right now a little wider in scope (that should narrow in the forecast as we go forward), but again from Bismarck to Bottineau and all the way to the Red is going to get another serving of water. Don't be surprised, but if this holds together a lot of the same areas will see another 10+ inches of snow. By then it will likely fall on top of a snowpack that has already shrunk due to melting and compaction, so by Sunday those that got two good doses of whiteness will probably have something around 12-18 inches of slop on the ground and a lot of mud underneath it.

Of course, that's just my take on it, but I'm also not a meteorologist...nor do I usually try to interpret the models themselves. It's just based on the NWS forecasts and what I expect to happen to the white stuff after it hits the ground.

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p.s. The NWS is a gov't agency, user friendly features come at quite the cost in details and accuracy.

Not a meteorologist...just stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night...