Thursday, November 28, 2019
Even?
ZH clickbaits the widespread snowpocalypses and snowmageddons this week, which used to be called "winter".
There were even reports of blizzard-like conditions in Spokane, Washington, which on Tuesday, led to a massive pileup involving more than 100 cars.
Clearly the NYC boys who write ZH have never been west of the Hudson. Like all NYC, they think Spokain (rhymes with rain) is a rainy suburb of Seattle.
The pileup happened because a small unpredicted convective cell hit suddenly on an otherwise dry day. Spokane drivers can handle snow pretty well, but no driver can handle snow when it pops up unexpectedly. You're zooming along at 70, and then ICE!
The Weather Bureau here, never very good, is losing competence quickly. As it happens, this cell was right over the Bureau's office, so they should have SEEN it if not predicted it.
¶ 10:05 AM 
