November 2022 Forecasts and Discussions

[Radar]

Oh man... I was too tired last night to post. It took me almost 2 hours to get home from south surrey to fraser heights.

All the hills basically were closed. I had to go through a bunch of side streets to miss the main roads which were ice basically.

After reading all the reports and the issues and people trapped for hours. A few things are clear. 1. Maintenance crews did NOTHING at the most crucial points like hills. 176 St hill was not passable, nor 168 or 152.. Easily could have been prevented with constant plowing and salting and sanding. 2 Use SAND! 3. Incompetent people on the roads. 4. Peopled dont pay attention to the news or weather because coverage is so poor, which brings me too... EC. EC dropped the ball and I think is the main reason all of this happened. A snowfall warning should have been issues the day before at 4pm so EVERYONE including employers could have planned for the next day correctly and had people stay home or leave before the snow started. 5am snowfall warning is too late and most people who woke up had to go on with their day. So EC is at the top of the blame, because it is THEIR duty to inform all of us EARLY enough to get ready. 5. The media. Media is a joke. Nobody takes them serious because they run the same crap over and over with no true report on actual journalism. So all the news stories before the storm were either sensationalist or just pathetic write ups of no true value. 6. Once it was snowing, people should have stayed where they were over night, not end up trapped on the road for 8 to 10 hours. Get a hotel or whatever. Lastly, Metro Vancouver is NOT prepared for ANY kind of disaster, PERIOD. Earthquake? Will be far worse than last night!! People are in denial and believe in some fake form of security here... for the people trapped on the highways, like I've said before, there needs to be far more on and off raps on our highways because then this would not happen as people could get off the road, once they were on the highway they were trapped. Period. Idiotic planning, just like the posts we were talking about a few days ago.

End rant.

I think EC just heard you and put out it’s going to freeze tonight and the roads could have some ice on them. Lol

[PortKells]

And there is the big mistake common to younger people. “We know what our worth is”. Actually no you don’t because your worth is dependent on the skill set you have and what the market needs. So only an employer can tell you what you are worth. What you are worth and what you can get are two different things. Like they say, free market will decide. When construction and manufacturing are booming, people are taken to serve those industries. Those people make more money because it is per say crappier work. So there is a shortage of coffee servers. Should coffee servers get paid $30 to steal workers back? Well there you go with inflation. So it’s not about what you are worth.

I think 7 or 8 people requested this discussion be taken elsewhere.

[Hound]

We need electric snowmobiles?

Or heated roads?

[Hound]

I think EC just heard you and put out it’s going to freeze tonight and the roads could have some ice on them. Lol

Good! As they should!

Seriously, with all the advancement in computers and weather forecasting, we have not gained anything much better than we had in the 80's in terms of reliability.

And we sure could use a damn good radar station somewhere, because our current coverage is pure trash!

[Abby_wx]

Here are some photos I took this morning. No (or very little) rain fell here, thankfully.

Storm total was just under 11 cm, but had compacted down by the time I took the photo. 13 cm on the grass which includes what fell the other day.

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[Ovonucks]

And there is the big mistake common to younger people. “We know what our worth is”. Actually no you don’t because your worth is dependent on the skill set you have and what the market needs. So only an employer can tell you what you are worth. What you are worth and what you can get are two different things. Like they say, free market will decide. When construction and manufacturing are booming, people are taken to serve those industries. Those people make more money because it is per say crappier work. So there is a shortage of coffee servers. Should coffee servers get paid $30 to steal workers back? Well there you go with inflation. So it’s not about what you are worth.

Lol. Anyways I deleted my response cause people don't want it In this thread

[Typeing3]

Measurement this morning was 16cm
Current: +1.8
DP: 0

Snow melting off the trees.

You guys scored big! Measurement earlier this morning in the #BananaBelt was about 5-6cm. It's probably compacted/melted a bit more since then.

[Storm]

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[Weather101]

Lol. Anyways I deleted my response cause people don't want it In this thread

We can just laugh inside at that post don't worry haha

[Weather101]

I can hear the melting

[Hound]

You guys scored big! Measurement earlier this morning in the #BananaBelt was about 5-6cm. It's probably compacted/melted a bit more since then.

Well, always do. Guildford Mall area seems to do just slightly better, but out of all Surrey we seem to get the most snow in most cases. I'm not sure why, I've been trying to figure it out. Not sure if it has something to do do with the winds coming up out of the fraser river below us or winds coming from the pitt lake valley? Then colliding forcing a stronger precip rate? Abby Sr. used to live in this area, perhaps he has an idea.

[wetcoast91]

[VanCitySouth]

Pitt Meadows banana belt!

[Bonovox]

We did pretty well here too. Picked up 14cm.

[Weather101]