You gonna knock off a piece this weekend PGM?

Starting to hit South STL County.

Yeah he means Joplin, it's a nickname for the city.

Its been pretty blah so far, I went out and ran 4 miles this morning to get acclimated for Sunday. :D

I see your flight is already delayed 30 minutes...four hours before the scheduled departure. Crossing my fingers that you get here ok dude.

Lezak's latest forecast basically calls bullshit on this whole thing.

Your condescending attitude looks a bit reeruned here. MLK day is Monday, pretty sure quite a few folks aren't working anyway.

Sounds like they're now discussing the possibility of moving this thing to Monday.

Where did you hear this?

Link.

Or nut hooks.

Not looking forward to rush hour leaving work tonight

610. Chiefs say no change at this time but they are monitoring it and that fan safety is the priority.

Also this just went up at the weather channel. The guy explains what .5" of ice would do to the stadium. His line at the end is a bit telling as well, "I won't be surprised if they shake the scheduling up over this thing in the next day or so."

https://weather.com/forecast/regiona...piter-jan-2017

Is this on their website or something?

The weather channel is entertainment now. I would suggest you look elsewhere if you want actual weather.

Except for Kelly Cass. Rowr.

I'm going to be ****ing heated if they move this game (yeah, i know, selfish on my belhalf and people's safety is top priority) but i have to work 3-11pm on Monday.

**** this shitty weather.

Prep the Jones dome :D

Now they're calling for that shit up here. Not as much up to. 25 of an inch of ice and then a couple of inches of snow on top of it.

Not a chance.

Any details? So far he has been very skeptical on this ice storm being major

The system as a whole is moving slower than originally predicted. So by the time most of the moisture makes it to the KC metro area, the temps will be above freezing bringing primarily rain.

But

He says there will still be slicks spots in the morning from isolated cells before the temps can get above freezing.

Just heard him on 810 ranting about crappy meteorologists overhyping this. Says we'll be fine. Chance of some icing Sunday morning but could be dry. Game time seems to be when rain picks up.

Thanks...I just caught a few seconds of fb live he said mostly dry till like Sunday at 3am? Expect some slick like you said. Hoping this is the case

Nice! Thank you! Crazy I hope he's right

ROFL I heard that too. That was a great rant. He pretty much was telling people to stop being pussies.

At the station, leave in an hour. Starting to get some ice on untreated areas here in STL.

The national weather service, which is about the only weather I pay attention to, hasn't budged on their forecast. If anything, it's gotten worse in the past few days.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...6#.WHjo2hsrI2w

I think it's pretty clear at this point that we are going to get enough ice to make driving a bit sketchy and hazardous at the least to the point that you will need to drive slowly and carefully and probably not leave the house if you don't need to. Whether or not we get enough so that this leads to broken trees, power outages, and completely undrivable conditions seems to be the main question.

Yup, me too. If you can't trust the government, who can you trust? :)

doesn't the NWS have more to lose if they change it for the better and is wrong? I'm inclined to believe NWS as well but am hoping Lezak is right.

Exactly.

Lezak has some skin in the game.

There's not much "they" to NWS point forecasts. It's a constantly updating set of computer models.

They posted on FB that they are backing off on the amounts for KC:

Freezing rain/drizzle has developed across southern Missouri this morning and should expand north throughout the day. Hazardous travel conditions are possible for areas south of Highway 36 today, particularly during the evening commute. While we have trended ice totals back slightly through Sunday, the same impacts previously mentioned remain possible as a little ice goes a long way. We will provide updates here throughout the weekend to ensure you're kept up to date on the latest as the event unfolds.

Icemehgerrdon in Oklahoma has so far been a huge flop...

As expected with all of these doomsday forcasts...

Thousands of Chiefs fans are going to be pissed they gave up their tickets if this turns into a non-event.

Its raining in Joplin and doesn't look like its going to ever get cold enough for roads to freeze over.

It was 72 degrees here Wednesday and has been warm all week its going to take some time for the ground to get cold enough to ice over and it doesn't look to be cold long enough for that to happen.

I hope the same goes for KC.

Same here. The ground temp is too warm for anything to stick around here. Oh and we went from .75 to 1.25 here last night with chance of certain death to a trace to .25 if lucky...

Sensationalism drives ratings...

I don't fault the NFL. You know the risk as a fan. Either go or don't go. Up to you.

Exactly. And somewhere in a leather filled conference room Big Milk and Big Bread are lighting cigars.

The Weather Channel named this storm not the NWS. Evidently NWS has been trying to get The Weather Channel so stop doing that shit.

LMAO

The Weather Channel absolutely needs to cut this shit out.

Yep. I barely pay attention to the Weather Channel anymore. If you want to talk about sensationalism, THAT is where it's at these days.

This storm is actually giving me a good idea which local weathermen to pay attention to as well.

Gary Lezak has been the only rational one. Boomer Sooner!

I like it when common sense is used

This thread is confusing as ****

Same here in springfield. I've gotten about an inch and a half of rain in my gauge on the back.porch but it's 35 degrees.

Little ice on the grass and such, roads are fine.

its just started sprinkling here, its 24 here though. gonna get nasty quick if it gets worse

Tulsa didn't get shit and probably isn't gonna get shit. But boy did the supermarkets sell a lot of shit. :rolleyes: Travis Meyer and the Tulsa 6 News, brought to you by Reasors and Walmart Neighborhood Market.

My flight got delayed a bit. What time is this all starting? I land at 2. Want to take my kid to Dave and Busters and was hoping I had enough time before it starts.

:hmmm:

You on the north or south side? I heard that a tree fell into a power line in north Springfield (Kearney and Grant area), but don't know if it was necessarily weather related. I'm at work along Primrose, and there's been nothing but rain here. Traffic looks to be moving along just fine, what little traffic there is.

saturday night

You will be fine.

Rent a Hummer so you guys will be able to navigate the cataclysmic storm. Do not take this lightly, weather people don't play

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...2002/katie.png

But...... if you bought the tickets not expecting a catastrophic ice storm........ and then you can't sell them because nobody wants to buy them because it turns out there's going to be a catastrophic ice storm............?

The risk isn't the issue. It's about the NFL not accommodating the people who are shelling out absurd amounts of money for their product.

THE storm hits KC late Saturday night. Friday and Saturday are clear.

Pure rain now in JoMo. Temp 35F.

North east.

Yeah, the tree wasn't storm related I don't think.

Roads are fine here. I had to run to get donuts for my wild ass children

I was just coming here to say this. I'm planning to drive from Springfield to KC and was getting really worried by the forecast. But if it's going to be anything like this further north, we'll be totally fine.

Storm overblown.

It is still early and the storm for us going to the game Sunday starts Saturday night/Sunday morning, that is the one to watch.

This is the year we exercise the demons of 1995...

Bring on the fridged ice storm!

So you are going to teach the demons how to do squats and good mornings?

Well, we all know God is not a Chiefs fan, but for some reason I believe he has only rain in store for KC on Sunday at noon.

im in warsaw and its started to ice here...

not bad but definitely on the windshields.

Yeah, there's some here on the grass and such but the Temps were warmer than they thought it would be early, thankfully

25 years ago, SPS never would have canceled school until the morning of. This makes twice this year that I can recall school has been closed when it shouldn't have been.

Good luck! 80 degrees down here!

Haven't browsed the last few pages so I may be Q'ing here, but this might come in handy for a number of you....

http://traveler.modot.org/map/

and this

http://www.kandrive.org/kandrive/roa...7568/37.6669/7

honestly...... we will be fine imho

Looks like the weather is supposed to subside sometime Sunday afternoon. Why not just postpone the game to Sunday night?

Because it's not about the fans at the game... The NFL's main concern is TV numbers...

It isn't doing anything here yet thankfully.

:thumb:

I agree, but they need to make that decision like right now if they're going to do it with all the people making their way here from around the country.

I don't see any way it changes, it would have to go to Sunday Night since the Dallas game is in the afternoon.

Not Gonna Happen

A Missouri farmer dies and goes to hell.
After being there a couple days the Devil asks the farmer how he likes the heat? The farmer says to the Devil, "You don't understand, Devil. I'm from Missouri.
Haven't you ever been to Missouri in June?"

The Devil gets pissed and cranks up the heat the next day and asks the farmer what he thought about the heat now? The farmer said "You don't get it, Devil. I'm from Missouri .
Haven't you ever been to Missouri in July?"

The Devil gets even more pissed and cranks the heat up some more. He goes back to the farmer and says "now what do you think of this heat?" The farmer says "You sure are stupid. I told you, I'm from Missouri.
Haven't you ever been to Missouri in August?"

Now the Devil is irate and figures he will fix the farmer but good. So the Devil turns the AC up as high as it will go. Frost icicles are hanging all over the place, it's so cold.
The Devil asks the farmer, "well, now what do you think of this cold?"

The farmer says, "HOLY SHIT! The Chiefs won the Super Bowl!"

If you're still where you were I would say it's on the way.

26 here and raining pretty good