bnsf

Photo was taken at 230pm from a Samsung Galaxy J7 from my Balcony. We have been under a Blizzard Warning since 8am this morning. At the time the photo was taken it has been snowing at a rate of 2 inches per hour and wind blowing at 45 mph. Total amount of expect snowfall for the storm should range between 12 to 18 inches. As of 10pm we have had 12 inches and still snowing. Storm is expected to end early Monday with a chance of snow again on Monday night along with Saturday night.

Hope you like my first post. Wish it could have been a better one but since it was this bad outside what could l do. Please comments are welcome so l can always improve my work.
Enjoy.

chase4 Loc: Punta Corona, California

Great shot of some nasty weather. Call Al Gore and ask him what's with this Global Warming deal? chase

Joe Blow

Are you blaming Al Gore for a Spring snow storm in a northern city or just think that was witty?

Joe Blow

Snow storms are somewhere between extremely difficult and just about impossible to shoot any meaningful scene. Each snowflake acts like a curtain, blocking out the scene in a fog of white. While photos can show documentary evidence of a storm's severity, they very rarely show anything more. It isn't totally impossible to get a good shot, but it is extremely difficult. Six or seven floors up, shooting into a parking lot with a cell phone, isn't going to win many prizes. I'm not saying "never", but I will say don't expect much.

While heavy particulate matter poses problems in other areas, snow and rain almost always have heavy clouds which block quality light. It is much easier to get a good photo shooting through dust and smoke as they will often come with better lighting.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

Green Bay, WI already has 30 inches on the ground and they are expecting more for today, April 16. This according to the weather folks in Boston.

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Think spring/summer will ever come?

rdrechsler Loc: Channel Islands Harbor, CA

The better question is why are we getting such radical weather this late in the season. It’s now called climate change so that those with limited vision don’t get too easily confused.

krashdragon

Blame the nasty weather on all the landscape/builders and road construction/improvement people...
Every tree that's cut down holds about 5 gal of water (some more, some less).
So that's millions of 5 gallon buckets of water with nowhere to go but... UP!
Evaporation.
And what goes up must come ... Down! As rain or snow.
And in hurricanes, blizzards, thunderstorms....etc.
Seems oversimplified, but driving around the country seeing many small towns abandoned and new developments being build right around them, I'm wondering why it's more cost effective to start from scratch... literally.... than rebuild places that already have infrastructure.
I drive a semi over the road, so I get a good look at how fast we're chewing up forests for new warehourses and car dealerships, among other things...
Not counting harvesting trees, they do have to replant trees for paper, or they'll run out...

chase4 Loc: Punta Corona, California

Yep rd - As an astigmatic mammal currently dwelling on planet Earth, I have an opinion about what's going on with the environment of our planet. This is based on my personal observations, information from the popular sources (i.e. the media) and selected peer-reviewed scientific literature. Planet Earth is an inanimate object that seems to contain enough resources to support some finite amount of biomass
(living organisms, both plant and animal). When the balance between available resources and biomass changes it appeares to create measurable changes in the environment. Seems to me like the primary sources of these changes are caused by an over population of humans that are over consuming available resources while creating pollution of the land, water and air that at some point in time might cause catastrophic and irreversible consequences to the environment.

My reference to Al Gore was a feeble attempt at humor for those that have to shovel snow from their driveways this spring. We both live in a place where we don't have that problem.

Cheers, chase

rdrechsler Loc: Channel Islands Harbor, CA

Thanks for the clarification. You’ve redeemed my faith that there are still signs of intelligent life in the biomass.

Cheers to you too,
Dick

bnsf

Remember what the Bible says "So as it was in the time of Noah so shall it be when the Son of Man comes again!" Was this the typical weather they were having in Noahs' day?

Bar Loc: da 'YouPee', eh!

This last little dusting was a bit problematic, took out the anemometer on my weather station (packed with shredded snow)

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