Well Jackalope is located in an extreme winter location.
Similar to him yesterday until 1800 hrs or so it was north of 60 degrees F. As I type right now, it is 12 degrees F. We received sleet and ice as the temperature dropped last night and then snow. All total we received 4" of snow and Ice as I measured it this morning at 0800 hrs.
Blowing 5-10 mph with some gusts to 18 mph.
The high today should be around 13 with -2 degrees by sunup Sunday.
As a side note: I didn't want to watch anything on TV so I turned on the HF radio and went to my new favorite band, 160 meters. I was spinning the dial and ran across a rag chew. Most of the stations were in western PA, WV one from the Buffalo area and one north of Niagara Falls in Canada. Anyway, as we chatted the folks in western PA started to see their temps fall and then report freezing rain. I was in the low 50's and no participation.
As the night and rag chew moved on the folks west of me signal started to fail. I assume ice was collecting on their antennas.
Well before I knew it a hour and a half had gone by so I Signed. Then I disconnected my radios from the antennas. Jackalope encourages me to do so when there is a storm. The reason being that any static electricity that builds up on the antenna will not hurt your radio.
My point in this long winded story is, amateur radio is great for monitoring approaching storms, during the storm, and post the storm. With a 12 volt deep cycle battery in the wings, you can receive and send with no interruption due to no electricity.
