A Moonlit Sky Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 There were large staffing shortages at CTDOT prior to omicron--it's even worse with omicron. Crews are dropping like flies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarverWX Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 14 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said: It was almost 40 on my way to work and it was a total clown show When I left at 5 today 44 and rt3 had a light coating of what looked like frost. It was slick all the way up to Rockland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, Whineminster said: They probably didn't have enough people to complete pretreatment. It's always a tough go/no go with marginal situations. Yeah. I don't think people understand how stretched thin some industries are right now. My friend is a paramedic and has been working 16+ hours shifts as they have like no staff. Police and fire departments are experiencing huge issues as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, A Moonlit Sky said: There were large staffing shortages at CTDOT prior to omicron--it's even worse with omicron. Crews are dropping like flies. That would explain it at least on state roads. Not sure why there were no local crews out putting down salt/mag chloride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Moonlit Sky Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 3 minutes ago, Brian5671 said: That would explain it at least on state roads. Not sure why there were no local crews out putting down salt/mag chloride I don't have insight into the locals, but I suspect it's the same. NYS is dealing with it too and we just saw what happened in VA. On the plus side--the DOT is usually pretty good. They're no Eversource. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Wow, it’s nuts outside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Crazy temp gradient from my hills 45 to valley 30. About 1/2 mile trip. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Snowing at home. PLFZRA at CON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 still holding at 32 here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 31F here with freezing rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 NH is bad too, 93 is closed in a few spots, traffic on the Everett (right outside my office window) is crawling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 44 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 40 here and dry as a bone, getting downsloped hard. Alex is 42. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 mod zr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 93 is a mess apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, PhineasC said: 40 here and dry as a bone, getting downsloped hard. Alex is 42. Haha 21.9° at my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn0waddict Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Thankfully been hovering around 32.5-33 for the duration of this so I avoided the ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaStorm05 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 My sister spun out near Manchester CT trying to get to work. She said “I wanted to teleport home but was halfway to work”. So I sang to her. “slip slidin away. Slip slidin away. You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin away” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Just now, dendrite said: Haha 21.9° at my house. You can have it when ice is involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NW_of_GYX Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Haha 21.9° at my house. 23 and light snow here . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Just now, PhineasC said: You can have it when ice is involved. Snow and sleet at the casa. CON is slippery though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan2 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Lots of icing issues I 395 corridor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaStorm05 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 And it was more than 25 degrees colder at Willimantic here than Groton. That’s crazy warm front Ness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saguaro Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 I've been back in Maine for Christmastime. This was a very rare year where there wasn't a grinch storm for Christmas. Instead there was a snow event on Christmas day as well as a few minor events in the preceding week. It does seem very difficult to keep rain at bay for the Christmas to New Year stretch, and sure enough there were some rain events the week after Christmas as well as New Years day. In the meantime, back in AZ the same time period had a very gloomy, chilly and damp stretch which rivaled the typical late May pattern in Maine. The Phoenix area even got down near freezing last weekend. Today's event has begun as snow with those anomalously large flakes that warn of warming in the upper levels and imply an imminent switch to sleet and freezing rain. Heading back to AZ tomorrow, where the pattern has greatly improved to clear skies with highs in the lower 70s. Someone at the NWS there sounds like springtime powderfreak, focusing on the large diurnal spreads: Quote `Quiet` best summarizes our weather for the next few days. 12Z Sounding data from across the west reveals a strong jet streak at 500mb entering OR and N CA. Arizona and SoCal will sit to the south of this feature, beneath the influence of flat ridging and surface high pressure. Light boundary layer winds, dry air, and clear skies are allowing for pretty substantial diurnal temperature swings - as much as 35 to 40 degrees across rural deserts. According to the NBM, the chance of reaching 70F at Sky Harbor climb from nil on Wednesday to 60% Friday afternoon. However, this guidance (specifically for PHX) is about 2F too cool as of this writing, and was biased a bit cool yesterday as well. A little over-performance won`t surprise me too much the next couple afternoons. Bottom line, expect to need that jacket in the mornings, and maybe a pair of shorts by mid-afternoon! 14 hours ago, ORH_wxman said: Jan 2019 was pretty impressive. ORH had a high of 1F. Had to go back to 1994 to get that. Even Jan 2004 didn’t beat that. I've never seen anything which has topped that Jan 1994 arctic outbreak. We had a solid week of single digit highs in southwest CT at the time, while I believe the Burlington VT area couldn't get above zero for that duration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv0ovzETWug?&t=84s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 22F Light snow just passed through with a heavy dusting. Cloudy at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 14 minutes ago, SJonesWX said: NH is bad too, 93 is closed in a few spots, traffic on the Everett (right outside my office window) is crawling as I sit here and watch the traffic go by, most people are going around 25-35. then evry once in a while I see a truck fly by at highway speed. dummies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 congrats mht 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanks45 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 31.9⁰, just about there...what a disaster. Hope to see some snow on Friday, no more of this please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 1 minute ago, dendrite said: congrats mht I was just going to post this. Look at the other side of the highway. Cars just all pulled over to the shoulder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 nice line of showers in CT now havent seen lightning with it yet though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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