Comments on: A few more unusually cold days before a weekend warmup

By: Doug Griggs, SW ROA County, 1420 Ft

Doug Griggs, SW ROA County, 1420 Ft — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 02:10:49 +0000

wd, two things. If you are willing to tell us, what date did you choose for your first snow date? My wife just entered the contest and also chose a date during the last week of NOV, which I think I remember you commenting that you had chosen. If you want to wait until after tomorrow midnight (when the window for entries closes), no problem.
And with Kevin’s permission, yes, I guess Sam Oakey and I and the other few folks here who have seen the “good side” of The Force (THAT WAS A JOKE, PEOPLE!! ) are still in “business.” We just had a rather good winter, didn’t we?
By the way, wd, now that you don’t plow it anymore, do you count yourself as a snow lover, snow liker, or (and I bet this describes you best…) guy who simply accepts what happens?

By: Kevin Myatt

Kevin Myatt — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:02:30 +0000

I actually can’t make changes myself to the local blogs links, but perhaps will check on it soon. Have a few others that might need to be included on there too (Quags, Hokie Wx blog, a few others).

By: HokieTrax (west Hokieburg 2091' mountain level)

HokieTrax (west Hokieburg 2091' mountain level) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:55:49 +0000

For the first time in forever (since I moved to this area 30 years ago) I will be traveling for part of the Thanksgiving break, going to Columbus, OH. Watch a blizzard happen!

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:54:14 +0000

Hey Kevin, now that Kathryn is going to be on the Capitol Weather Gang blog – how about adding that as another link to the local weather blogs section?

By: wdbrand

wdbrand — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:04:56 +0000

Reckon I can assume that Griggs,Oakey&Co.,Inc. are still in business.

By: Doug Griggs, SW ROA County, 1420 Ft

Doug Griggs, SW ROA County, 1420 Ft — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:25:32 +0000

Kevin, I agree fully with the 2nd paragraph of your 3:48 PM comment. It seems that if November is an extreme in temp, odds go way up that most of winter will be the opposite. I remember being stunned that after a toasty November (+4.7 I think for ROA) and tame first 12 days or so of December in 2009, all Frozen H-LL broke loose that winter. We snow haters were BURIED, BOTH literally and figuratively. LOL LOL

By: Doug Griggs, SW ROA County, 1420 Ft

Doug Griggs, SW ROA County, 1420 Ft — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:07:52 +0000

Scott Saunders, WELCOME BACK!! I like the term “Griggsy” but spelled with the double g combo. Tell us, SS, when is this cold streak supposed to start? I am very surprised to hear that, what with the oscillations the way they are predicted to be over the next 10-14 days.

By: Doug Griggs, SW ROA County, 1420 Ft

Doug Griggs, SW ROA County, 1420 Ft — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:04:29 +0000

Shanon, I know that you work there (at Forest Park School), but I refrained from mentioning your name in my comment yesterday in case you did not want that “publicized” here.
Leave it to Roanoke city to not have a back-up person ready in case someone did call in sick. Both on the news and from 2-3 of my fellow postal employees, I learned that the lines at Ruffner Middle School (near Burlington Coat Factory store and Fleming High School) were up to 3+ hours yesterday!!! That is ridiculous. This is 2012, not 1912. I could understand it we had the tremendous infrastructure problems that coastal New York state and New Jersey had, but we don’t.

By: Kevin Myatt

Kevin Myatt — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:46:15 +0000

Rick: You are correct, I screwed it up on the new column. Got myself confused by changing it from April 15 which is what I’ve done in past.

I will email everyone who has sent me new contest entries today and tell them it is March 31 and ask if they want to change their entry. Easier to do that than to change all the previous entries to March 15.

By: Rick in Wytheville, 2450'

Rick in Wytheville, 2450' — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:43:03 +0000

In October you said the snow contest is Nov 15 to March 31.

In the paper today, you said Nov 15 to March 15.

I think we always did March 31 in the past.