Friday Night Ice Storm Wrap up

Saturday, January 13 10:00AM --

We sure dodged a bullet with this one, and I get to eat some crow. I feel a little sheepish about not trusting my initial instincts, and buying into the NWS hype about how bad this round of freezing rain was going to be.

At my house, we got about 1/4" of ice on the trees, but for the most part, our streets look like they would after a moderate rain event....namely, no ice to speak of. (Incidentally, this result is the one I gave the MOST weight to in my "Drop Dead Forecast." I am a sucker for not sticking to that. Oh, well; live and learn. )

So, I was dead-wrong about 3/4" of ice, and the streets being like a skating rink. The artic air didn't intrude quickly enough, and I am a bonehead for going against everything I know, and thinking that the arctic air WOULD make it here. It never does.

Still should be a busy weekend....

As of 10:00AM Saturday, STL is still under an Ice Storm Warning effective until 6AM Monday.

For Saturday....Nothing of note during the daylight hours, but we should see another minor round of freezing rain/drizzle this evening/overnight.

For Sunday... again, probably nothing notable during the daylight hours, but we should get another round much like Friday night's event on Sunday Night. This one may cause problems, only if because we already have 1/4" of ice on the trees, and if another 1/4" was added on top of that, it could bring lots of trees/electric wires down. Also, this time around, the cold air is already in place (we aren't waiting for it to intrude, like yesterday), and the ground is probably in the 35F range, so it won't take nearly as much entropy to cool the ground to 32F.

As that jackass Dave Murray likes to say, "We're not out of the woods yet!" Stay tuned.

-WD