Weather update

[Bob Herrin]

Listening to the NWS webinar. Looks like Jackson County is right at the border of the Winter Storm Watch and the Ice Storm Warning, so we’ll get some of both it appears. Whatever comes down will begin between 2 & 3 am and will continue all day Wednesday and into the night. I’ll send out updates a little later this evening, including graphics from NWS. I hope you’re stocked up with extra batteries, food and water. We may dodge the bullet on power outages, since most of the sleet and ice is predicted to be south of us. Snowfall is predicted to be 6-7” for our area. Winds will pick up Wednesday and increases potential for downed limbs and trees even though most of the ice will miss us. But as I said earlier, we are on the edge of the line that separates the two storms.  Precipitation should end around noon on Thursday but temps will be low. It should go above freezing Thursday afternoon but whatever melts will re-freeze overnight Friday. Highs in the 50s on Friday.

 

SO bottom line – stay home, stay inside as much as possible, and monitor your local repeaters. Reports to NWS will be taken on d-Star, Reflector B.

 

Bob

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