Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Snow Removal
The city's done a great job of cleaning up the streets but it would be a little more useful now for the plows to be clearing off sides streets rather than scraping the edge of Main like the one that just passed me. Main is free of ice and snow except along the edges while there are still dozens of side streets unplowed.
Labels: Carbondale, weather
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
School Closing List
It's already long and getting longer every time I look at it.
Update: Gotta love SIUC's optimism. 5:30 and they still haven't announced if the school is closing.
Update: 8 p.m and still no word on the website about Wednesday.
Update: Gotta love SIUC's optimism. 5:30 and they still haven't announced if the school is closing.
Update: 8 p.m and still no word on the website about Wednesday.
Monday, January 26, 2009
School Closings
The list of school closings gets longer by the minute. But, by gum, we're not closing SIUC.
Update: SIUC announced it was closing sometime between 10 p.m and 6 a.m.
Update: SIUC announced it was closing sometime between 10 p.m and 6 a.m.
Labels: schools, siuc, weather
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Bad Weather Coming
Here's the latest from the weather service as of 2:30 today:
250 PM CST SUN DEC 14 2008
250 PM CST SUN DEC 14 2008
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 12 PM CST
MONDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MAINLY THE OZARKS AND HIGHLAND AREAS IN
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI INTO SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
FROM 3 AM TO 12 PM CST MONDAY. THE ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT ROUGHLY
ALONG AND NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM POPLAR BLUFF MISSOURI...TO
CAPE GIRARDEAU...TO CARBONDALE ILLINOIS TO FAIRFIELD.
RAIN WILL DEVELOP AND EXPAND ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...AND AS IT
DOES...A COLD FRONT WILL BLAST ARCTIC AIR INTO THE REGION LATE
TONIGHT...PLUMMETING TEMPERATURES BELOW FREEZING. THIS WILL CHANGE
THE RAIN TO FREEZING RAIN AND CREATE AT LEAST MINOR ICING...WHICH
WILL IMPACT AREA ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY SECONDARY ROADS AND
ELEVATED SURFACES...AS WELL AS BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. THE
FREEZING RAIN MAY BRIEFLY MIX WITH SNOW OR SLEET WITH UP TO 1/4
INCH ACCUMULATIONS BY MONDAY MORNING POSSIBLE.
MONDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MAINLY THE OZARKS AND HIGHLAND AREAS IN
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI INTO SOUTHWEST ILLINOIS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
FROM 3 AM TO 12 PM CST MONDAY. THE ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT ROUGHLY
ALONG AND NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM POPLAR BLUFF MISSOURI...TO
CAPE GIRARDEAU...TO CARBONDALE ILLINOIS TO FAIRFIELD.
RAIN WILL DEVELOP AND EXPAND ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...AND AS IT
DOES...A COLD FRONT WILL BLAST ARCTIC AIR INTO THE REGION LATE
TONIGHT...PLUMMETING TEMPERATURES BELOW FREEZING. THIS WILL CHANGE
THE RAIN TO FREEZING RAIN AND CREATE AT LEAST MINOR ICING...WHICH
WILL IMPACT AREA ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY SECONDARY ROADS AND
ELEVATED SURFACES...AS WELL AS BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES. THE
FREEZING RAIN MAY BRIEFLY MIX WITH SNOW OR SLEET WITH UP TO 1/4
INCH ACCUMULATIONS BY MONDAY MORNING POSSIBLE.
Labels: Carbondale, weather
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