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    From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Wed Dec 17 10:55:00 2025
    Subject: WINTER STORM WARNING IN/KY


    Hi Daryl!

    2-4 inches of snow (started about a half-hour ago) -- if 'safe'
    I'll shovel the path for the mailman.
    I talked to a fellow ham radio operator in Gaithersburg,
    Maryland, and he said he had a tough time shoveling a sloped
    driveway, as there was snow on top of a layer of ice from
    freezing rain.

    Have that situation every so often here: ground is warm enough to melt
    the snow, so the snow melts on the driveway and sidewalks, then freezes
    from the coldness of the snow layer above. Ice layer becomes really
    slick with snow falling off the shovel while scooping!



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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Mike Powell on Sat Dec 13 07:48:00 2025
    Subject: WINTER STORM WARNING IN/KY


    Hi Mike!

    ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM
    EST FRIDAY...
    * WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations 3 to 5
    inches.
    * WHERE...Portions of south central Indiana and east central and
    north central Kentucky.

    As I was telling Daryl over in ChitChat I'm under a "First Alert
    Weekend" from Saturday morning until Monday morning. Currently 6o with
    a wind chill of -6o and that's going to be the highest temperature until
    it starts to warm back up around noon Monday. Sunday they're
    forecasting something like air temperatures down to -10o and wind chills possibly 30 to 40 below.

    2-4 inches of snow (started about a half-hour ago) -- if 'safe' I'll
    shovel the path for the mailman.

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  • From Mike Powell@454:3/105 to BARRY MARTIN on Mon Dec 15 09:02:30 2025
    As I was telling Daryl over in ChitChat I'm under a "First Alert
    Weekend" from Saturday morning until Monday morning. Currently 6. with
    a wind chill of -6. and that's going to be the highest temperature until
    it starts to warm back up around noon Monday. Sunday they're
    forecasting something like air temperatures down to -10. and wind chills possibly 30 to 40 below.

    2-4 inches of snow (started about a half-hour ago) -- if 'safe' I'll
    shovel the path for the mailman.

    We wound up under some sort of extreme cold advisory over the weekend, too.

    Our air temps started to tank Saturday night, and got down to 0F by this morning. Yesterday looked sunny and beautiful all day but the temps barely
    got above 10F. Supposed to rebound to ~32F today (Monday).

    Mike

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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Sun Dec 14 21:44:09 2025
    Subject: WINTER STORM WARNING IN/KY

    Barry,

    2-4 inches of snow (started about a half-hour ago) -- if 'safe'
    I'll shovel the path for the mailman.

    I talked to a fellow ham radio operator in Gaithersburg, Maryland,
    and he said he had a tough time shoveling a sloped driveway, as there
    was snow on top of a layer of ice from freezing rain.

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Mike Powell on Tue Dec 16 07:07:00 2025

    Hi Mike!

    As I was telling Daryl over in ChitChat I'm under a "First Alert
    Weekend" from Saturday morning until Monday morning. Currently 6. with
    a wind chill of -6. and that's going to be the highest temperature until
    it starts to warm back up around noon Monday. Sunday they're
    forecasting something like air temperatures down to -10. and wind chills possibly 30 to 40 below.

    2-4 inches of snow (started about a half-hour ago) -- if 'safe' I'll
    shovel the path for the mailman.

    Got about 2" of light fluffy snow. Did end up shovelling early
    afternoon: had stopped snowing. Ended up doing the whole job -- once
    get started.... Just as well: Sunday was windier and so a much colder
    wind chill.



    We wound up under some sort of extreme cold advisory over the
    weekend, too.
    Our air temps started to tank Saturday night, and got down to 0F
    by this morning. Yesterday looked sunny and beautiful all day
    but the temps barely got above 10F. Supposed to rebound to ~32F
    today (Monday).

    Yesterday (Monday) we got up to almost freezing; today and Wednesday
    just above; Thursday upper 40's! (Friday -- brrr!)


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  • From Mike Powell@454:3/105 to Barry Martin on Thu Dec 18 19:09:30 2025

    Yesterday (Monday) we got up to almost freezing; today and Wednesday
    just above; Thursday upper 40's! (Friday -- brrr!)


    We got close to 60F today. Tomorrow (Fri) the high will be at midnight. We might make it back to freezing sometime in the afternoon. ;)

    Mike
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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Mike Powell on Fri Dec 19 07:08:00 2025

    Hi Mike!

    Yesterday (Monday) we got up to almost freezing; today and Wednesday
    just above; Thursday upper 40's! (Friday -- brrr!)
    We got close to 60F today. Tomorrow (Fri) the high will be at
    midnight. We might make it back to freezing sometime in the
    afternoon. ;)

    Yesterday (Thursday) we had air temperature in the single digits and I
    forgot what the feels-like was but rather cold because we had sustained
    winds 20+ MPH and gusts to 40 and 45 MPH. Next week we're predicted to
    have near record-breaking highs!


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  • From Mike Powell@454:3/105 to BARRY MARTIN on Sun Dec 21 09:30:11 2025
    Yesterday (Thursday) we had air temperature in the single digits and I
    forgot what the feels-like was but rather cold because we had sustained
    winds 20+ MPH and gusts to 40 and 45 MPH. Next week we're predicted to
    have near record-breaking highs!

    Same. It will be a good week for holiday travel! ;)

    Mike


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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Mike Powell on Mon Dec 22 11:10:00 2025

    Hi Mike!

    Yesterday (Thursday) we had air temperature in the single digits and I forgot what the feels-like was but rather cold because we had sustained winds 20+ MPH and gusts to 40 and 45 MPH. Next week we're predicted to
    have near record-breaking highs!
    Same. It will be a good week for holiday travel! ;)

    The local TV station I usually watch for news and weather has
    occasionally added a map or chart with flight information: generic as in
    less than 15 minute delays at the Quad City International Airport (about
    five minutes east of me), Chicago/OHare, Detroit, Logan (Boston), etc.


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