Any thoughts on the potential ice storm this weekend?

[Chromatic]

This site seems to predict chaos and 2 inches of ice but I hope it's wrong.

https://www.facebook.com/WxSynopsis/...type=3&theater

Hope it's just a few flurries.

I am very concerned when looking at the 12z EURO run from earlier today. Honestly I never seen max values being outputted on the EURO model before for Ice, so this is new to me. To say im concerned is an understatement. For anyone who understands icestorms and just how much can cause widespread impacts, all it takes is just .25 for power outages. If theres .50-.75 you are dealing with prolonged impacts, trees downed and extensive damage to power lines. Between 1.00-1.50 entire power grids become damaged. Widespread damage to trees. Roads impassable for days if not weeks. 1.50-2.00 power grids not only shut down but substations become damaged from the weight of ice accumulations building on transformers and pylons. Hard to imagine ice accumulating over 2inches. Once you get into these extreme values this is what you call a "catastrophic ice storm". Power grids can become damaged and take months to be fully repaired. So there is big time worries for central Oklahoma up to Ohio. We will be monitoring this potential and update when warranted. Anything can change, and if there is one forecast that I hope to god does not verify, this is the one.

[Archie F. Swin]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballBillay

Lezak?

No. I work in north Texas

[Rasputin]

Yeah power went off but back on again. This maybe a reoccurring thing for the night as the trees and power lines are covered in ice.


It's only been 32 or 33 degrees and light rain just kinda weird how this ice is clinging so much and my porch is quite slippery.

Be safe folks traveling home from the putrid football game.

[Rasputin]

It's actually gotten pretty shitty out and tree limbs and power limbs are bukkake with ice so potential for some hazardous damage around town & there are power lines down I've heard.

[Rasputin]

So this made a big noise crashing down on my place and landing outside my backdoor. There are even bigger more potentially dangerous limbs looming over my trailer house. It's pretty damn creepy too. I keep hearing limbs creaking or ice falls.

[Rasputin]