I just got to thinking after reading a post from Capt and Netty's reply... Do the storms fore casted for your area usually hit during the night or during the day? Is where we live a factor for when the storm hits? I seem to think that the majority of our sever weather such as, the snow yesterday, accumulates overnight. Netty said their storm was just starting this morning? Netty, does your area usually have the storm or accumulation of the precipitation start in the day? I was talking to a friend who lives in Iowa yesterday and she said their snow was to start at 9:00 that morning, but hadn't yet when I spoke to her. I just seem to think ours usually doesn't start in the morning.
I guess it depends upon your definition of 'morning'. It appears to me that the weather 'starts' around 0330 to 0430. At least this year.
You are so lucky getting forecasts that have some accuracy. Weather coming off the Pacific is a guess or by gosh affair. It is seldom if ever that big storms are predicted since there are no northern Pacific weather stations. Makes life interesting :-? Interior and eastern Washington gets to know what's coming once it hits land. :-D
I just seem to think that most of our precipitation is fore casted for "over night" here. Usually before daybreak most of what we are to get is done. Anything for "during the day" either doesn't materialize or it isn't much. On the rare occasion it makes for a commuters nightmare, but not often.
The storm that just dumped 12 inches in our back yard and elsewhere in the area started about 3am in the morning and did not end till 8pm. I fed the ground birds twice during the storm. Thirty birds on half a sheet of plywood makes for a crowded restaurant. The wait staff watched from a window in a warm house as the patrons came and went in groups, often scattering as a nervous eater flapped furiously and sent all to a nearby bush. I have found the norm is to have us waking in the morning to a blanket of white and that all day storms are unusual. The birds were not thrilled, they did not have snow shovels. Jerry
It seems we usually get hit with storms during the night, occasionally it starts during the day. This year it just seems to be snowing all the time LOL
Snow/ice storms usually start really early morning here when the temperature is at it's coldest. In Spring and Summer Thunderstorms fire up in the late afternoon or early evening when the temperature is at it's warmest. I believe that the temperature has more to do with when a storm of any kind will start.
