That bad, hope I NEVER see another snowflake or frozen ice pellet the rest of my days. Any of you that pay money to travel, lodge, and to go play in that sh-it are out of your minds.
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White Death 2026 is coming!
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That bad, hope I NEVER see another snowflake or frozen ice pellet the rest of my days. Any of you that pay money to travel, lodge, and to go play in that sh-it are out of your minds.
Next big model runs will start coming in around 9:30 tonight. The GFS and NAM both have runs coming here in a few minutes but not as reliable as the ones coming in later. I'll give a shameless plug for my chase team. I think our guys do a pretty good job on posting updates when we get info in and we're on communication with Memphis and Jackson NWS offices plus MS Live Weather. We post all of our updates on FB.
I hope you are correct. We are going to pray my 2200 watt inverter generator can keep my fridge, upright freezer and WiFi router going for a few days.
Well. I have bad news. Just received notification that my generator that was supposed to be here tomorrow has been pushed to Tuesday. Now guaranteeing an even worse ice storm than 1994. Hope you have plenty of crackers, Vienna sausages, and beanie weenies.
Somebody was willing to pay double to the one they had in stock (yours) so you got pushed until thy got another one.
Everybody agrees there will be a big winter storm, but the details are different between Fox Weather, The Weather Channel, and all the local guys. I suppose they all have to put their spin on it. At any rate, about half of Mississippi seems to have a lot of freezing rain forecast.
Where I live in north central Alabama, at the moment some say snow, some say both snow and ice, and some say it might even just be rain.
Where I live in north central Alabama, at the moment some say snow, some say both snow and ice, and some say it might even just be rain.
Because each one of them uses different sets of models as their base forecast.
Well "white death" grocery shopping frenzy has officially reached as far south as Madison, Ms. . Some shelves already bare .
All comes down to the track of the low pressure. It's literally a case of a shift of 5 miles can determine who sees what. Right now there's models are in disagreement over that track. The euro is trying to shift it more north which is pushing the precip an cold temps north. GFS and Canadian keeping a more southern track.
I was at Madison Kroger earlier to grab some water, lines were already piling up.
you can pay around $1k for a portable generator and have a 240v outlet installed below your breaker panel on a breaker, assuming it is outdoors, and plug your generator directly into it and keep you comfortable in your home.
all you need to do is make sure you turn your main breaker off and turn the generator breaker on and itll run a blower on your heat if you use NG or LPG a burner on your stove, coffee maker, microwave, lights, wifi.
you just don't want to try to run your one burner on the stove and microwave at the same time. and make sure if your water heater is elec turn that breaker off and only turn in on when you need to take a shower. i did it for years and it is a cheap solution to be comfortable in your home.
For all of the jokes about bread and milk, it really is true. Bread shelves pretty thin too and zero bottled water. What a study in human behavior. Starkville Kroger milk case at 3 this afternoon.
It never fails that when I legit need bread and milk it’s around one of these times.
Very little snow in Mississippi...still gonna have significant possible icing over northern 3rd of the state. TEPA boss said tonight on Matt Laubahn's broadcast if power lines get over 1/2 inch of ice on them, they start having major concerns about line integrity. Roads, trees, and power lines are gonna be Mississippi's concern the next few days.
So.. the GFS says nothing but sleet from Friday night until mid day Sunday.
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Euro and Canada say we may not have a tree left standing... much less a power line.
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Model charts for USA (Significant Weather) | GFS (15 days)
GFS (15 days) - Current forecast valid for 01/24/2026, 01:00pm of parameter "Significant Weather", model chart for map "USA"
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Euro and Canada say we may not have a tree left standing... much less a power line.
Model charts for USA (Significant Weather) | ECMWF IFS HRES 0z/12z (15 days)
ECMWF IFS HRES 0z/12z (15 days) - Current forecast valid for 01/24/2026, 01:00pm of parameter "Significant Weather", model chart for map "USA"
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I got 4 propane tanks and a full tank of gas in the Tahoe. (kinda) No worries here. in the TN/AL border.
I drink it every day but I'll be damn if I'm going to the store for a month's worth of it because there two days of ice in the forecast. These folks are nuts.
In '94, after the ice storm, the bonus question on our materials test was:
Given: The tensile strength of ACSR (aluminum conductor steel reinforced.. the stuff power lines are made of), it's diameter and it's weight/foot.
Calculate: How much ice can form on the line before it snaps a 200 ft span.
Remember that it was an easy calculation.. What volume of a column of water at 8 lbs / gallon (minus the column of wire) would exceed the weight limit.
It wound up being something ridiculously minor.. something like a a column of ice 1/4 inch thick around the wire would turn your lights off.
If I’m interpreting this correctly, the models are basically saying ice accumulations in the red areas over a sustained period of time Saturday through Sunday afternoon could reach in the 2”+ range. Is that correct?So.. the GFS says nothing but sleet from Friday night until mid day Sunday.
Model charts for USA (Significant Weather) | GFS (15 days)
GFS (15 days) - Current forecast valid for 01/24/2026, 01:00pm of parameter "Significant Weather", model chart for map "USA"
Euro and Canada say we may not have a tree left standing... much less a power line.
Model charts for USA (Significant Weather) | ECMWF IFS HRES 0z/12z (15 days)
ECMWF IFS HRES 0z/12z (15 days) - Current forecast valid for 01/24/2026, 01:00pm of parameter "Significant Weather", model chart for map "USA"
Anyway you look at it, looks like cold temps from about midnight Friday, staying cold till about midnight Tuesday.
Below freezing. Near 82 and North.
Below freezing. Near 82 and North.
Just a note…she and her sister have a show on TLC. 1,000 lb sisters.
After hurricane Sally I contacted several friends that I knew in and around Orange beach and offered to bring generators. I had one, borrowed one and stopped in Columbus at Harbor Freight and bought four. I also loaded around eight five gallon jugs of gas all on a trailer. I meet the first friend at the Home Depot in Spanish Fort to drop off the first generator. The location was a mistake. We were way out in the parking lot but people saw the generators on the trailer and mobbed us. They were offering double what I’d just paid, literally begging. I had an extra generator but I was scared to let one person have it in that crowd. I quickly left and delivered the next one to a neighbor and got it set up for an older couple. I quickly left there and went to my next stop in a neighborhood and attracted another small crowd wanting to buy one. Why are people not prepared.
Back in the day some of my relatives ran a country store. When the weatherman predicted bad weather like this, the guy that delivered bread would get to it. I think he made commission on sales. And he would run that bread truck until he either couldnt get more bread to stock or the stores closed. Ice and snow be damned. He made the postal service look like amateurs.
Can one of you weather experts tell us if anything about this forecast has change since yesterday?