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Uh-oh... Big snow on the way...
With VCU on Wednesday! :ahh:

"Snowfall Amounts By Late Monday Will Be 5 To 9 Inches."
Hopefully Richmond gets nothing, and we only have to trek 5 hours through the snow.

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As I live in the Greater Richmond area, we usually area part of the pocket that gets nothing :( it's depressing when every school around you is out, but your area has absolutely no snow, rain or anything falling. I think it'll be fine

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From the look of it, it'll be tonight and tomorrow, but even then, I don't think we'll see much.

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From the National Weather Service:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/forecas...&city=Richmond

So it shouldn't be too much snow down in Virginia. However, NWS says we could get up to a foot of snow in the Philly area....*twitch*

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Also would like to make note, in Virginia, whenever they call for massive amounts of snow (ie 5+ inches) we never get it

Example was back like 2-3 years they had a 100% guarentee of like 3 gajillion feet of snow, and we got 100% nothing :yikes:

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In the Rochester area we've had some of our worst storms in the first week of March and I was afraid that this would happen because not only is the storm a problem but the lake effect machine gets activated for days by the storm and keeps a fresh blanket of snow on the ground. Hopefully the storm will pass by Wednesday so teams can make it up here for Thursday.

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1. Well be in school tomorrow :(
2. Theres no problem about messing up VCU- or atleast in Richmond- those coming from Blacksburg might have a little bit of trouble tho.

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Just another reason to pick the Arizona RegionaL

Tue
Mar 01 Sunny 72°/44°

Wed
Mar 02 Sunny 74°/46°

Thu
Mar 03 Sunny 73°/49°

Fri
Mar 04 Sunny 78°/51°

Sat
Mar 05 Mostly Sunny 77°/53°

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That's just plain wrong.

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Id be glad to go to AZ- you want to pay for airfare?? :)

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We got 12" last night, and are probably around 20" total for the last 24 hours. Some places (hopefully here!!) could see 2-3 more feet by Tuesday morning!! :D

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From NWS, for the next few days

Tonight: Snow likely, mainly after 4am. Patchy fog between midnight and 4am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low near 20. East wind between 3 and 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Monday: Periods of snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 22. Northeast wind between 10 and 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 7 inches possible.

Monday Night: Periods of snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 15. Wind chill values between zero and 8. North northeast wind around 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 7 inches possible.

Tuesday: Periods of snow. High near 19. Wind chill values between -1 and 4. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

Tuesday Night: Snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 10. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

Wednesday: Snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high around 23. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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It's been my observation that the NWS always underestimates by 3"-4" per day ... probably because it's unusual if we *don't* get that much in a day!! The past few days, the weather forecasts on TV have been like, "Well ... it looks like it's going to snow a lot in certain places. We don't know how much or where, because the snowfall totals keep rising. Soooo ... if you're in the UP, there'll be a lot of snow. Some places will get a foot, some will get three ... umm, keep watching!" They've upped the snowfall from flurries, to 1-2", to 4-7" in the last 12 hours! :yikes:

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Uh oh, this snow can't possibly be a good thing. Team 836 leaves Wednesday morning to go to the BAE Systems regional in New Hampshire, but just one problem we are in Southern Maryland and that means we are flying, :ahh: :ahh: :ahh: I hope our flight gets off the ground on time or even gets off the ground at all.

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YEA.. Wednesday bus trip to Rochester. :ahh:

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Curse you AZ and you're cheery 70+ degree weather, I love wearing shorts!

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Here in DE tomorrow we are maybe going to get 6-10 inches starting between 8am - 10am and then 2-4 more inches from 6-12 pm. So far this year when they have predicted snow we have gotten it, so maybe they will be wrong this time.
I hope there is no snow near the regionals this week, and good luck to all this attending them.

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It may be nice now, but wait untill summer. I bet ya that their summers are HOT.

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Mar 2

Snow Shower
19°/12° 40%

Thu
Mar 3

Snow Shower
23°/17° 30%

Mar 4

Few Snow Showers
27°/20° 30%

Sat
Mar 5

Few Snow Showers
30°/24° 30%



for those coming to rochester make sure to bundle up and take it easy on the roads

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Bryan,

Try this....turn on your oven and put your head inside. That is how my wife describes 110 degrees. Yes, the summers are hot. In the past ten years none of my neighbors have had a heart attack from shoveling sun. I clearly remember many snowy days growing up in Ohio. I'll take Arizona! Besides, ever since Woody, Dave, and Dean invented the air conditioner, summers here are not all that bad.

Ken

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Southwest Michigan is expecting 10 to 20 inches by late Tuesday.
Thank goodness ship day was LAST Tuesday.

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS MORNING TO TUESDAY
EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WARNING.

SNOW WILL CONTINUE ON THE LIGHT SIDE TODAY AND THEN BECOME MODERATE
TO HEAVY TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE
EXPECTED TODAY AND ANOTHER 3 TO 5 INCHES TONIGHT. AS THE HEAVIER
LAKE EFFECT DEVELOPS LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY ADDITIONAL
ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED. STORM TOTAL
ACCUMULATIONS OF 10 TO 20 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BY LATE TUESDAY.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
IMMINENT OR HIGHLY LIKELY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA
FLASHLIGHT... FOOD...AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE YOU BECOME
STRANDED.

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I'm flying out of Logan Wednesday night to head home for Sacramento. I'm hoping the snow doesn't have an effect either. It seems like everytime I leave Boston I just beat out a big storm.

Looking at the 10 day forecast I get to come home to at least two days of rain. With a high of 68* I'll be burning up :D

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It's snowing in Richmond! We have about an inch right now and it's still coming down. It is supposed to turn to rain soon.

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Snow? .....hmmmmmmmmmmm...... can't find anything in the manual about it, and noone around here knows anything about it. Was it in the kit of parts? Anyone have the specs on it? From your descriptions, it's an unlimited quantity material but we can't seem to find any available locally.

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Baltimore to Boston, roundtrip about $125
Baltimore to Phoenix, roundtrip about $285

The price of sunshine: about $35 per day. :cool:

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Oh yeah, it's in section 3.8.4 it states:

So there you go....

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sounds like a plan to me- look out AZ- 617s coming next year!! :D

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Michigan got pounded. We had a recruitment event today at the school but our school cancelled. This is bad for all teams in the area because the teams can't meet and programmers are going to run out of time.

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Snow day! Sleading!!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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For my area of Connecticut...So far I think we have around 8 inches of snow or so... and it seems like it isn't going to stop any time soon. Oh well, I am glad because it was enough to get me a snow day!
Now I can relax and be on Chief Delphi without worrying that I should be doing something else right now...
(That is, if I don't get drafted into shoveling the driveway and our sidewalk...)

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Glad to hear you are coming, 617! We will save some sunshine for you.

Everyone else, plan early, fund raise like crazy, get all your tetras in a row. The Arizona Regional is a great FIRST event!

Ken

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I'm from just north of Manchester and usually we get alot of snow around this time, the airports in the area are always really good about keeping the runways clean. Chances are you'll get in. See you guys on Thursday morning.

-Pat

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If a team does not show up to a regional, what does first do with the bot? I thought someone from the team has to sign something to get it sent out or back to the team? would first just wave that and sent it anyway?

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Just so you know, we HOPE to come. As everyone knows, dreams can change. But I hope we make it there (whether I'm there or not :( ).

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Thanks, I don't think we will have problems down here at BWI so I think all is well. We are meeting at the school at 6:30 AM tomorrow, see you all in New Hampshire.

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It is coming down here in buckets. I feel a snow day coming on.
I am glad the Great Lakes Regional is not until next week. I hope the
regionals go well this weekend.

See you all soon.