Forecast: Wickedly windy and cold

How about that wind overnight? Woke me up several times. Anyone see any snow flurries overnight or early this morning? It looks like a few have popped up on radar, mainly north of town.

Holy awful. Outside of tornado warning red on the CWA map, there is nothing that I hate more than Wind Advisory/Warning brown...No flurries in SE LoCo, but gawd was that some wind. 30 degrees at 6am.

hi guys,
see my new sculpture at http://www.flickr.com/photos/58171957@N00/
(chickenlady already found it on her own!)

the eskimo word for this kind of "snow" translates roughly as "icy chunky junk". it was rock salt sized ice granules mixed with gravel sized ice rocks....not the best raw material...

Love that 50/500 chance.

Well, Friday marks the start of the last year of this decade, rather than the start of the next. There was no year "0" zero, so 1-10 = one decade. Cheers, and Happy New Year!

Great pix and wonderful sculptures!

To mouseandhung:
Friday marks the beginning of the 2010-2019 decade. You are correct that it doesn't mark the beginning of the 202st decade since the incorrect birth date of some people's lord.

However, everybody knows that 1/1/1990 was the first day of "the nineties". It just wasn't the first day of the 200th decade since the incorrect birth date of some people's lord.

So everybody enjoy the new decade on Friday and have a Happy New Year.

Thanks for catching that 50/500 error there, sorry about that. Also, I wondered if the decade comment would ignite that debate. I tend to side with the idea that the 2010s are starting. Happy New Year!

This cold wind is REALLY NASTY!!!...and unfortunately the cold doesn't hang around enough to avoid a nasty rain event for the New Year.

We don't seem to be getting a lot of flurries...last winter we got no snow until March, but got lots of pesky flurries and snow squalls with little if any accumulation. This year, we've gotten the one huge blizzard, but no flurries...wonder what's going on.

Models and model ensembles appear to be "bombing out" the next storm off Cape May rather than Cape Hatteras...not good for big snow accumulation here. It promises another nasty wind-chill event this weekend.

I was just knocked over by a gust of wind in Alexandria. Literally. Like I was walking, then - WHOOSH! - I wasn't. Luckily, my dignity remained intact, as there were no witnesses. I'm sure the look of surprise on my face was priceless. Apparently, wind advisories aren't just for boating or flying (the only time I pay 'em any mind).

Guys, you are great with our local weather. You do a great job. Don't embarass yourselves by trying to take a global perspective here on this website.

I'm not a climate scientist, but I can report what I observe:
-Scientists in the 1970s utterly convinced earth would freeze in short order...and now sure that it will warm up.
-Predictions of tropical storms being more powerful and more frequent. Yet some very quiet years these past few.
-Scientists doing what they do best- following the funding of what is en vogue.
-Hypocrite celebrity personalities jetting around the world admonishing the rest of us how much energy we use.

By all means, a studied and spirited debate is warranted as it is for all scientific questions. Ooops, I called it into question. Which probably makes me a heretic.

But until somebody can zero in on whether our weather is changing on a 5 billion year old planet, and if there's actually something we can do, and CHINA will sign up for a solution...the whole situation is really appearing to be a good backstory for the rich to make themselves richer once again.

I can see it. Hospitality suites, cocktail receptions, banquets, little workshops where they discuss how bad we all are. Who WOULDN'T love a free trip to Copenhagen to ride in a limo and eat great food and talk about all the "other" people on Earth need to get their act together?

sorry, i meant to post my comment in the climate change article. my bad!

I agree with those who say that a decade is from the 0 year until the 9 year. 2000-2009 was one decade, 2010-2019 is another decade, and so on (even if a Year 0 wasn't recognized).

Oh, and it's freakin' cold. It's 29 here even through the bright sun. I think our heat stopped working, or something happened to it. We have it set at 72 and it's in the mid-60s in my room, near 70 in the living room and in the low-60s in the master bedroom.

Wow, interested to see all of the decade talk. It was a bigger deal, I think, when the argument was over the start of the 21st century, which I would say was NINE years ago, making it 2001-2100. There is no "21" in 2000-2099. But since a decade CAN be any 10-year period, you can have your decade and I'll have mine.

Another plain-English weather explanation. Thank you. My kids want to go out but I am waiting for a not-so-cold-feeling day. Wednesday may be the best chance this week.

Wow. I feel for you folks. I'm in Luquillo, Puerto Rico right now and the temp is in the '70's, listening to the whoosh-whoosh-whoosh of the waves just outside our apartment. We were down on the beach all day playing in the warm Atlantic Ocean. In fact, I'm hoping the wife will put some cream on my poor sun-burned back. Body surfing in December! Whodathunk it possible?

Tomorrow, we're taking the ferry from Fajardo over to Culebra to frolick on the white sand beach and crystal blue Carribean Sea waters on Playa Flamenco. I'm hoping that I can get a tropical fruit drink with a little umbrella to drink on the beach.

Okay. 'nuff said. It sucks to be all of you in the DC metro area. And it will suck to be me when I return to DC on Saturday night. Sigh. If only I didn't have to go to work. I suppose I'm just going to have to work harder at winning that damn lottery.

Until then, I'm going to get as much sun, surf and sand as I possibly can. That, and set naked on my patio with a beautiful view of the ocean...

Those snow sculptures are freakin' awesome! Way to go, Walter!

"New Year's Day Friday is the first day of our new decade..."

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Mmmm... nooo... it's the first day of the last year of the same decade.

Some interesting links below, relating to time systems. . . Merry New Year!

http://www.legionxxiv.org/dateyeartime/

http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/master-clock/systems-of-time