Oy gewalt! It’s still coming down. The last call for my area was 18 inches of snow (that’s 46 cm), and it’s still falling fairly heavily. The temperature is 11ºF (that’s -12ºC), and traffic on sidestreets is nonexistent: they haven’t been plowed.
On my way home yesterday, it was already pretty deep:
These cars won’t get out unless somebody with a shovel puts in a bit of work (or, as I used to do, wait until it melts). Fortunately, Professor Ceiling Cat was savvy enough to put his car in the University parking garage Saturday night, so the CatMobile is dry and snowless.
The view from my crib late yesterday afternoon, looking north. You can usually see the skyline of Chicago from this window, but the visibility yesterday was about two blocks, and the flash illuminated the snowflakes:
The foyer of my building this morning. The only open space to the outside is some latticework above, but that and the wind were sufficient to blow a lot of snow inside. I rarely see any snow in there, and now there are drifts!
There’s no way traffic can move down these streets. Not only is the snow too deep, but cars have been actually abandoned in the middle of the road. You can see two here. I have no idea how they’ll plow with cars in the way.
My walk to work, in which I trudge through snow that was often up to my knees.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays Professor Ceiling Cat from the timely completion of his appointed duties:
Finally, Merlyn and his staff daveau report from the northwest suburbs:
A follow-up to yesterday from this morning. As you can see, we are still getting light lake-effect snow. The call at O’Hare is 17.5 inches so far. Merlyn was quite dismayed until I got the back shoveled.
Looks like a scene from the film “Day after Tomorrow”!
I love that film! I know it is nonsense but fimbulvinter is my idea of heaven! Reading John Christopher’s apocalyptical 1962 novel The World in Winter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_in_Winter
Roll on the Ice Age rather than the Thermageddon we are heading for due to global heating…
The weather report in Chicago is “Clear and Still”…
Clear up to your ass and still coming down.
Looks more like a scene from “The Shining “.
Now I remember why I left the “temperate” zone!
Yes, I always thought that word was misapplied. We’ve had an unusual run of storms the last few days here in Perth, with temperatures only up to 32 degrees (C). Some bushfires put out by rain, others started by lightning. That’s a temperate zone.
🙁 I miss snow!!! Its beautiful to me, but I never had to drive in it so I guess thats why I love it so much lol
Yes, shoveling it, driving through it every day, tracking the dirty slush into your garage every day, tracking glop into your home and office every day, for months on end.
It sort of loses its charm.
I loved Seattle: It almost never snowed in town; but you could drive to snow from Sept. through May. Perfect!
That sounds perfect! I visited Seattle over the summer and loved it. Hope I can visit for longer one day!
Same weather here as well but we got the snowfall later as the weather system moved east.
PCC needs snow shoes or cross country skis!
…or a nice pair of gaiters at least.
Linus is shaking the lint off his blanket.:-)
Love the photo of the snow-capped bicycles! I guess even mountain bikes must be useless in such weather.
Under those circumstances, I feel that you would have been perfectly justified staying in bed!
No! Out playing in the snow!!!
I’m in Columbus, OH preparing to drive back to Northwest PA. I hope to miss the snowfall and am trying to time it to reach I90 after it’s all passed through. I do not relish getting caught on the 90 during a white out. Wish I didn’t have to do the drive but the moggies and hubby are waiting for me.
Two below zero this morning in our area and in Omaha and just about every school is closed. Not as much snow as Chicago but it will do.
I grew up in Omaha! But it’s a sunny 45 degrees here in Dallas.
These pictures make me sing this German secular wintersong:
Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen,
wann kommst du geschneit?
Du wohnst in den Wolken,
dein Weg ist so weit.
Komm setz dich ans Fenster,
du lieblicher Stern,
malst Blumen und Blätter,
wir haben dich gern.
Schneeflöckchen, du deckst uns
die Blümelein zu,
dann schlafen sie sicher
in himmlischer Ruh’.
Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen,
komm zu uns ins Tal.
Dann bau’n wir den Schneemann
und werfen den Ball.
No snow here in Hamburg…
I think even with my little German that is comprehensible – it is charming – thanks! 🙂
My reaction exactly, thanks for sharing that! Danke schön!
Lovely, with the same “sclaf in himmlischer Ruh” as Stille Nacht/Silent Night:-)
Southern Ontario looks much the same as Chicago. Thankfully I don’t have to get anywhere today. Many cars stuck on our street and no plows in sight.
Beautiful pics! However, I’m glad there is only 2″ at my abode in Kansas!
I think you need to get a gulf stream does wonders for the weather, you get more rain but not too many extremes in temperature.
Meanwhile the sky is blue and the sun shining on an ice cold (-21 C) Sudbury. We have snow of course but seem to be in a low snow corridor. The towns around us always have more snowfall than we do. Maybe it is the heat from that smelter! Joke here.
So, is the question did the groundhog see its shadow, or is the question can anyone even see the groundhog? L
😀
The groundhog finally got sick of all the lies. There were shadows clearly visible in the background of the shot, and he knew it.
Professor, you look like a soldier! I suspect you secretly enjoy the snow— me too, if it is only once a year.
That Cat is funny.
Stay safe and be careful, don’t catch a cold — I caught a cold and it haven’t gone away after 10 days.
Thank you for the weather report! 🙂
Wow! That one (for once!) missed us in Minneapolis completely.
“or, as I used to do, wait until it melts”
That doesn’t work in Minneapolis!!! You’d be waiting until March! 🙂
looks very beautiful. It’s nice in Tucson NOW, but wait until June. All the fair weather snowbirds are gone, leaving only the hardcore natives. They say in Maine, “If you can’t take the winter, you don’t deserve the summer.” Reverse that for Tucson.
But, Happy Groundhog Day
My favourite holiday of the year!
I got a lot of dang shoveling to do. Might as well get to it…
Prof CC, this post cheered me up this morning. Trying to figure out why exactly, but thanks!
Wow…I’m happy to be in thick rain and 45 degrees in the Northwest. So far this winter, we’ve accumulated a whopping 3 inches or so. Keep the snow on the East coast and in the mid-west I say…and stay safe!
I do not envy you denizens of frostier climes. Not once have I ever had to shovel hot off of anything.
A little more north and a couple of lakes away, we didn’t quite get as much snow as you but it still took me 1 1/2 hours to get out of my neighbourhood. I got stuck a couple of times but thankfully I have friendly neighbours to help push me to safety. I probably should have stayed home today.
Once you Yanks have quite finished with your weather systems, they tend to end up here a few days later in the form of dull, claggy, wet, miserable drizzle.
Thanks a bundle. Fancy a swop? Can we have say 6″ of your snow in exchange for 3″ of our rain?
The snow is gorgeous now, but by next week it will be filthy and sloppy in Chicago. I don’t miss that.
It looks so amazing! I prefer that to unable to move.sleep and still be required to in high heat & humidity!
Here in San Diego temps are in the low 70s and the sun is shining. You snow birds have my sympathies. I lived in snow country for close to three decades before retiring. Don’t miss shoveling in the least.
Don’t bother to ask. I got no rooms to let.
About like that here, but we have drifts as high as the hoods of our cars.
Hope you didn’t have too far to walk through that–slogging through deep snow is exhausting! The architecture of your foyer is most grand looking! So much to like about big cities…
Our cold weather here (SW MI) is usually attributed to an “Alberta Clipper”–a nasty front sweeping down from that area. But this one they were calling a Saskatchewan Screamer.
Oh, what a boar, you must be feeling pretty soar… 😉