"Snow-mageddon, NWS Birthday, Bobby's State of the Year

Posted by MTF at 2/9/2010 8:19 AM
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Good morning all,
   What a past week and current week of weather.  I know many of you did not have a booyah drive in today.  This pattern is literally unbelievable.  In my time working as a meteorologist I have never seen so much of the country get hit with snow, and heavy snow at that.  Two systems, one coming from central Canada and the other from the eastern Pacific off of California are phasing into one today across southern Illinois.  This system will bomb out tonight through tomorrow night, further hammering the Ohio River Valley and the ever populous, and confrontacious, northeast.  Another foot plus for DC, while Maryland will likely see 15 to 20 inches on their 15 to 40 they got last week!  That is mind-boggling.  Philly, New Jersey, NYC, and Bahston all in for a licking.  And to top this, even another storm may be brewing for the end of the week with eyes on Little Rock, AR to Atlanta, GA.

- Minnesota snowfall amounts
- Northern Illinois snowfall forecast

   Also, the current snow depth up here in Minneapolis is almost to 20 inches, and may be by the end of today.  The most I have ever seen was just after the January 2-3, 1999 snowstorm in Mendota when we got 21 inches.  The depth was right around 20 inches.  We may just surpass that.   We cannot get rid of this snow, nor can Iowa, which plays a significant role into why the flooding potential is so high this year for those areas.   In fact, Des Moines broke their all time record for consecutive days of 4+" on the ground.  It had been 54 days.  They are now at 62 and likely to go quite a while yet.  Big trouble brewing.

   By the way, on the Super Bowl note, when I was driving home this morning through the snow, I was listening to a little sports radio.  And as my drive was winding down, I was thinking to myself how the trustful 'Stang has had many ridicules in this northern climate, but yet it has plowed through fine the past few days and four years.  So I started yelling "WHO DAT?  WHO DAT?  WHO DAT SAY DEY GONNA STOP THAT 'STANG?!"  Not you Mother Nature.

   On this crazy weather day, the NWS celebrates 140 years from when President Ulysses S. Grant declared that weather observations be taken by the Signal Service Corps.  Back then, this new group of weather observers were named the Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce.  Even back then, the government did not believe in concise names!  Thank goodness the 20th Century acronyms came along.

   Last Friday afternoon I was off work and what was supposed to be an afternoon reading a book authored by one of you Breezers (the Truck), actually turned into reading dozens of e-mails by many of you Breezers.  In nearly a record showing, but a definite record occasion, the NIU and Michigan, and Mendota and Friends corporate e-mails got together in cyberspace, including a notable extra Scruffiness.  E-mails were flying every which way with a total of 140 sent in three hours.  The main topic stemmed from this being "The Year of....".  But far from the upcoming Chinese New Year, this dealt with either Bobby or Sparky, two goofs that have never met and I fear the end of civilization the day they do.  Anyway, here is an excerpt from Bobby's State of the Year Address for 2010 issued that day:

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Now I know that an administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself. But we are in the preliminary phase of one of the greatest battles in history (Bobby vs Sparky). We are in action at many other points-in Schaumburg, Chicago, and Lake County and we have to be prepared to storm into Mendota to finish off the Sparky. The email battle has ensued, and many preparations have to be made here to ensure a victory.

I say to the Parliament and haters out there as I said to the principal ministers who have joined this government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, booze, a sweet jump shot, hate for usc, and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many months of struggle (especially finding a female a month to ask out) and suffering to prove this point.

You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, air, phone, texting, email, and direct mail. War with all my might and with all the strength Tim Tebow has given me, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny of bs (MTF) never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalog of human crime. That is our policy.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival for the ‘Year Of Bobby.’

Let that be realized. No survival for the Year Of Sparky or MTF, no survival for all that the Year Of Sparky has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward my goal, ‘The Year Of Bobby.’

I take up my task in getting laid and drunk a ton and hope. I feel sure that my cause will not be suffered to fail among the men who have put their faith in me. I feel entitled at this juncture, at this time, to claim the aid of all and to say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength for the ‘Year Of Bobby!’’

I will speak to you again on April 1, 2010

Bobby Mengler – February 5, 2010

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Now that is the definition of ridiculous.  Somewhere within an office at Bay Valley Foods, this call for war has been accepted...over a cold one.

Otherwise, I know little.  The next two weeks will feel like college finals.

From the 'SNOWTA to the 'DOTA...
MTF
 

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